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Vol. 33 No. 4
JANUARY 20 - 26, 2022
LIJ hospital officials talk Covid surge edited and condensed.
By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
Herald: How should a person
As Covid-19 hospitalization know when it’s time to go to the rates have increased dramatical- hospital? ly since the start of Pardo: If you have the new year, Valley Covid-19 or are expeStream and neighriencing symptoms boring communities of Covid and you are reeling from a can’t breathe, have virus that continues an altered mental to hold a tight grip status or feel your on Long Island. Publife is at risk or in lic health officials, danger, come to the who have fought this hospital. You should fight since day one, not come to the hosare urging residents pital to test to see to ride out the surge whether or not you by following the have Covid. If you’re most reputable, upsymptomatic with a to-date health guidef e ve r, c o u g h o r lines and recommens c r at chy t h ro at , dations. assume you may The Herald spoke have Covid, seek a with Dr. Salvatore test elsewhere and Pardo, chairman of come to the hospital emergency services, only if your life is in and Dr. Viktoria DR. VIKToRIA danger or if you’re Toth, director of ToTH unsure if you’re OK. psychiatry, at NorthDirector, well Long Island Herald: Is maskJ e w i s h Va l l e y LIJ psychiatry wearing effective Stream Medical Cenagainst preventing ter to give us an onthe spread of the the-ground perspective of the omicron variant? hospital and answer readers’ Pardo: From the very beginning, questions and concerns about we’ve encouraged mask-wearing Covid-19. The interview has been Continued on page 11
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THe MooRe FUNeRAl Home, at 54 W. Jamaica Ave., occupies 20,000 square feet of land where a multi-family complex apartment is proposed.
Village to hear comments on apartment complex plan By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
The village board will hold a public hearing Feb. 28 to potentially amend the village’s zoning map and move a particular parcel of land, at 68 W. Jamaica Ave., from a C-1 to a C-A zone, or “floating multiple dwelling district.” Changing the zone to floating multiple dwelling would enable a 5,000-square-foot parcel of residential property to be added to a 20,000-square-
foot property to make way for construction of a high-density, multi-family apartment complex at the southeast corner of South Corona and West Jamaica avenues. More details will be made clear next month at the public hearing in the Village Hall auditorium, at which residents can voice their thoughts to help inform the board’s decision whether the project should move to final site development plan review by the village’s Zoning Board of
Appeals. Last June 21, the village board voted unanimously to change the 20,000-square-foot parcel of land in a multi-family residential and commercial district. Originally, the change was meant to pave the way for construction of the new apartment building at 54 W. Jamaica Ave. But plans were halted and revised by the developer to accommodate the addition of Continued on page 14
hen you’re exposed to this incessant focus on the pandemic, there is absolutely this level of demoralization and hopelessness.