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Bart’s Barber Shop to close after 86 years Ave., to another barber. That way, he said, he could still go back once or twice a week to cut Since Bartolomeo Mazzeo hair when he wants to. His wife, opened it in 1934, Bart’s Barber Diane, said she could never see Shop has been a fixture in Sea him leaving the shop behind. Cliff. For decades, “ To m y h u s Sea Cliffians who band,” she said, “it’s have walked past the the place that’s his shop, in the heart of home, and where the village’s downhe’s the most comtown, on Sea Cliff fortable.” Avenue, have seen His father, Joe Bartolomeo or his said, emigrated from son, Joe, cutting the a small town in the hair of generations Benevento province of North Shore resiof Italy with his dents. family in 1926, when N ow, a f t e r 8 6 he was 11. When he years, Bart’s will be reached adulthood, closing, because Joe, he began working at its owner, says it is Bowman’s, a Sea time for him to Cliff barbershop on retire. He is now 78, Sea Cliff Avenue, has worked in the JOE MAzzEO next to what is now shop since the early the Stenson MemoriOwner, 1960s and has run it al Children’s since 1977. When the Bart’s Barber Shop Library, where he coronavirus panlearned to cut hair. demic forced him to close tempo- He took over the business in rarily in March, Mazzeo said, he 1934, and renamed it Bart’s. He got a taste of retirement before purchased the 272 Sea Cliff Ave. reopening in the summer. At his property in 1962. age, he said, making the closure After Bart was diagnosed permanent is something that with throat cancer in 1977, Joe feels right. said, he became the sole owner Mazzeo said he would only sell the space, at 272 Sea Cliff Continued on page 8
By MIkE CONN
mconn@liherald.com
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Courtesy Rosemarie Cartagine
JOANNA COMMANDER, lEFT, made it her mission to help generations of high school athletes, both male and female, starting with the women’s basketball team at Elmont Memorial High School in 1976.
Coach, teacher, athletic director, and now she’s a Hall of Famer By MIkE CONN mconn@liherald.com
Joanna Commander, of Glen Head, who was the Sea Clif f/Glen Head Herald Gazette’s first-ever Person of the Year in 2017, has been inducted into the Nassau County High School Sports Hall of Fame. Commander’s decades of excellence as a teacher, coach and athletic
director made her the ideal candidate for its 2020 class, Hall of Fame officials said. “I feel very blessed,” Commander said. “I feel very acknowledged . . . I love what I do, and to be acknowledged by your peers is just a very, very special thing, so I’m very appreciative of the honor.” Commander, 72, who lives in Glen Head with her wife, Rosemarie Cartagine, said
she pursued a teaching career in health and phys. ed. because she grew up when girls had few chances to succeed in sports. She loved playing any sports she could growing up, especially basketball, softball and field hockey. She was quite good at them, she said, noting her older brother always chose her first for neighborhood pickup Continued on page 3
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