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Village OKs Franklin Ave. zoning change environmental and social benefits of the proposal significantly outweigh existing or potential A proposal to build an apart- determinants . . . This proposal ment complex at 137-147 S. is a significant investment in our Franklin Ave. was approved for community that will expand our final site development plan tax base without requiring addireview by the village’s Zoning tional village services” Board of Appeals on Sept. 27 As part of the during the regular n e g o t i at i o n s b e meeting of the board tween the CED team of trustees. The viland Rand, the devellage board voted oper agreed to unanimously to include a groundamend the zoning floor retail space, a map from a C-1 dissafer and more visitrict, a residential ble lobby entrance, and commercial and protective zone, to a CA-disscreening of the trict, or floating ground-floor parkzone. ing lot and utility coMMUNity The proposal by meters. t h e O y s t e r B ay - AND ecoNoMic As affirmed by based Rand L.I. LLC DeVelopMeNt Dominick Minerva, would raze the existattor ney for the i n g c o m m e r c i a l teAM developer, “The origbuildings on the inal building was on 16,300-square-foot property, near stilts similar to many office the Valley Stream Long Island buildings, so you would have, in Rail Road station, to make way fact, an open parking garage for a four-story, 35-unit apart- view at grade level, with a lobby ment complex comprising two- entrance in the middle of the bedroom units. parking garage. The applicant According to a statement of has now enclosed the first-floor recommendation made by the garage level, making for a more village’s Community and Eco- aesthetically pleasing design.” nomic Development team during At the same time, Minerva the meeting, “The economic, Continued on page 5

by JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com

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JoSeph VerrellA, A motor equipment operator for the village parks department, taking a turn on the Ventrack truck.

V.S. Public Works Department upgrades maintenance fleet

by JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com

Earlier this month, the Vill a g e o f Va l l e y S t r e a m revamped its fleet of essential highway and emergency vehicles to streamline the operations of the Department of Public Works.

The latest upg rades include two state-of-the-art vacuum street sweepers, a multipurpose tractor, and two new four-wheel-drive public safety and code and parking

enforcement cars.

The additions, with improved performance and added functionality, not only will replace outdated equipment, but also will “extend the life of other existing equipment so that [resources] aren’t taxed,” Mayor Edwin Fare said.

The two new vacuum street sweepers replaced two aging mechanical models that, according to village officials, have “far outlasted their life expectancy.” Within days

of their purchase, the new sweepers were out clearing dust and debris from the village streets during morning rounds, which begin at 4 a.m.

W h i l e t h e swe e p e r s ’ mechanical predecessors were each able to collect just over one and a half tons of debris a day, the new ones can each pick up three tons in the same time. The debris is sucked into the middle of the machine through the vacuContinued on page 9

his proposal is a significant investment in our community.

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U.s. sen. ChUCk Schumer stopped by Eisenhower Park on Saturday to endorse County Executive Laura Curran.

Schumer endorses Curran for county executive

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lent his support on Saturday to Laura Curran, a Democrat, as she runs for re-election as Nassau County executive.

Schumer joined New York State Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs in supporting Curran during a news conference Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. Jacobs introduced the two elected leader, calling Schumer a competent individual and Curran, of Baldwin, an authentic person.

“It’s my great pleasure to introduce our county executive, someone who has demonstrated courage, who is authentic.

The voters like her, the voters know her,” Jacobs said. “...We’ve got an important election coming up, and I have no greater confidence in anyone being able to win and win big as our great county executive and my friend, Laura Curran.”

Curran, who first became county executive in 2018 and was the first woman to hold that position, is running for her first re-election as county executive against Bruce Blakeman, who is a Town of Hempstead councilman representing the 3rd District, and who was the County Legislature’s presiding officer in the late 1990s.

“I do not take any support for granted, and I am especially grateful to have the support of Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer,” Curran said. “You have been an incredible partner to Nassau County for the last four years and before.”

Curran called Schumer’s office accessible and understanding of “the needs of our residents, of our families, of our working families and of our small businesses.”

“Senator Schumer has always delivered for our residents,” she continued.

“Right here behind us, you see the Boost Nassau Resource Center, and that is something that we were able to do because we’re using money from the federal government that Chuck Schumer got for us, and we’re pushing it out to our taxpayers,

we’re pushing it out in grants to our small businesses, we’re pushing it out to our non-profits that were not able to raise money…”

She noted how these funds also went to other areas of need such as helping the hungry and veterans get the mental health services they need.

“These funds, these resources put the money where it belongs, so I am incredibly grateful for your advocacy for us,” Curran said. “Not just for your advocacy but for understanding middle class concerns, working family concerns. Your endorsement for me today, again I do not take it for granted. I am very grateful for it, and I am looking forward to working together for the next four years.”

Schumer backed Curran when she first ran for the county executive position in 2017 after she had served as a county legislator in the 5th District “This is one endorsement that I didn’t have to wrestle over in any way,” Schumer said. “Not only do I endorse Laura Curran, but I do it enthusiastically, 100 percent, with no doubt whatsoever. She has done a great great job here, and you know her biography.”

Schumer spoke about how Curran is not originally from Nassau, but is instead from Canada, and how that has never stopped her from caring about the county.

“She came to Nassau County about 30 years ago and saw the wonder of this place and grew to love it and nurture it and grow with it and then serve it,” he said. “I am happy to do this.”

He credited Curran with using federal pandemic relief funding in the way it should have been allocated, making sure it went to small business owners, housing assistance programs, veteran mental health programs and schools.

“While my job is to get money for this county, you don’t feel good about it unless you know it’s going to be spent honestly, wisely and aimed at helping the working families,” he said. “That’s what Laura has done with the money.”

Election Day is Nov. 2.

‘Inhumane treatment” of Haitian migrants denounced

by RobeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

Community leaders and local elected officials held a press conference on Sept.

22 outside the Nassau County Legislature building to protest the “inhumane treatment” of Haitian migrants at the southern border of the United States.

“Please grant these people – children, mothers, fathers – the fairness that they deserve by stopping all deportations back to Haiti,” said Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages at the protest, addressing the Biden administration and agencies of the federal government. Thousands of Haitian migrants have arrived at the U.S.Mexico border in recent weeks seeking refuge from the island nation, which has faced multiple crises throughout the year.

Solages’ office sent a letter to President Biden and the Department of Homeland Security demanding a stop to the deportation of migrant back to Haiti, which is suffering from a series of recent crises, including the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the island nation in August and killed over 2,000 people, as well as the assassination in July of former president Jovenel Moise that created uncertainty about government leadership.

Indeed, four United Nations agencies this week deemed the on-the-ground situation in Haiti “dire” and “not conducive to forced returns.”

At the news conference, local leaders called for an end to “inhumane treatment” of migrants at the southern border. “We sent this letter to the president asking and demanding fair treatment for Haitian migrants,” Solages said before gesturing to photos of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback, whipping Haitian migrants.

“This must stop. This cruel, inhumane treatment must stop,” Solages said. “I’m asking all my fellow brothers and sisters,

Courtesy Office of Nassau County Leg. Carrie Solages

Nassau CouNty CaRRié Solages denounced the “racism” of U.S. foreign policy towards Haitian migrants.

Haitian or not, to please stand up and do something about this.” Solages called for a congressional investigation into the treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border by border agents.

“To see those images of fathers holding their babies up, I don’t know how you’re a human being if that doesn’t affect you,” Solages said. Solages urged community members to call their representatives in Congress and urge them to end the deportations of migrants back to Haiti due to unstable nature of the country.

New York State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, the first member of the state legislature of Haitian descent, stressed that U.S. immigration policy and messaging must change.

“We need to say clearly that we are the land, the nation of immigrants,” Solages said. “And not just for immigrants who

come from a certain region… all immigrants, all migrants, all asylum seekers, all refugees – all people.

Solages emphasized that Congress must act, along with President Biden, to implement immigration reform and crate a pathway to citizenship for Haitian migrants. “People of color are now the immigrants, and they want to deny the golden doors to us,” Solages said, “but we will not let that happen.”

The letter also called out United States foreign policy for “racism” and hypocrisy, pointing to other populations, such as Cuban-Americans, who, Leg. Solages said, have been granted a pathway to citizen by the U.S. “Because they’re black.”

I’m just disgusted by this blatant racism that we see,” Assemb. Solages said of the treatment of Haitian migrants at the border. “And I need to call it out. I did it

under President Trump, and now I’ll do it under President Biden,” she added. “We cannot stay silent.”

Pastor Edy Bichotte of Bethany French Baptist Church in Elmont appealed to the longstanding ties between Haiti and the United States, highlighting the fact that soldiers from the island nation joined forces with American revolutionaries during the 1770s in an effort to push British forces out of Savannah, Georgia.

“Small nation,” Bichotte said. “But a great one. Small nation, great heart,” he added.

Today, he said, Haitian migrants are seeking a better life in the United States, a country Haitians have long supported.

“They’re looking for a better life… they’re not here to bother no one,” Bichotte said.

Mimi Pierre-Johnson, president of the Elmont Cultural Center and longtime local activist and advocate for people of Haitian descent, said said she has spoken to people who have been deported back to Haiti and that they are seeking a new life in the United States.

“One man said yesterday said, ‘If I go back to Haiti, all I’m going to do is wake up each day and say, oh, I’m still alive,’” Pierre-Johnson recalled. “That’s the future of our young people,” she said, noting that proper education for children is one of many resources that is sparse in Haiti.

She said that mothers are fleeing to the United States to search for jobs that can provide their children with an education.

Sometimes, she added, they are deported back to Haiti and travel to Brazil and other countries, where they are subjected to low wages and prostitution.

“My heart goes out to these mothers, children and men. On behalf of the Haitian Diaspora we will not let you down,” Solages wrote in a Facebook post on Sept. 23.

VSFD volunteers respond to raging fire in Elmont

by RobeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

A house fire in Elmont was responded to by the Nassau County Police Department’s arson bomb squad early on Oct. 2.

Nassau County detectives said officers responded to a home on Marshall Street that was fully engulfed in flames at 6 a.m.

Three officers and a police medic administered life-saving measures upon arrival, immediately removing an 82-year-old male from the first floor. A 75-year-old woman was also rescued from a front window of the first floor.

When Elmont Fire Department personnel arrived, two fire fighters entered the home and rescued a 14-year-old female from the second floor. Two other occupants, a 17-year-old male and a 30-year-old male escaped through a second-floor window.

The fire left multiple victims wounded. The 14-year-old female is in critical

condition; the 82-year-old male in critical condition but currently stable. Two others were wounded but are in stable condition. Two victims who went into cardiac arrest after being removed from the house were successfully transported to local hospitals.

Multiple local firefighters from the Elmont, Valley Stream, Franklin Square, Malverne, Woodmere, South Floral Park and Stewart Manor fire departments worked to extinguish the fire.

Other occupants of the Marshall Street home in Elmont did not report any injuries and refused medical attention at the scene of the fire. Two Nassau County Police Department officers vare suffering from smoke inhalation and two fireman suffered minor face and body burns. All emergency personnel that responded to the fire were treated and released from local hospitals.

The fire remains under investigation.

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the fiRe, oN Marshall Street in Elmont, was responded to by police and fire personnel from multiple local communities.

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VS Color Guard Wins in Orange County

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

Valley Stream Engine 4, representing the Valley Stream Fire Department, took home top prize for best appearing out-ofcounty color guard in the Orange County Volunteer Firemen’s Parade on Sept. 25.

It all started roughly a decade ago when a member from the Valley Stream Fire Department befriended a fire fighter in Orange County, NY in the village of Montgomery. What began as a friendly invitation for the Valley Stream color guard to compete in the county-wide parade quickly turned into an annual tradition. This summer, the winning team consisted of a twelve-person color guard.

“We take the color guard very seriously in Valley Stream,” said Captain Mike Colucci. The color guard goes by the name of “The Elite,” a name, according to Colucci, that highlights the team’s dedicated standard of excellence as demonstrated in its grand slam year in 2009 when the entire Valley Stream Fire Department won the annual New York State Volunteer Firemen’s parade, the Southern New York Firemen’s Association parade, the Nassau County parade, and the 3rd Battalion parade.

“We killed it. We mopped the floor. We take pride in all the American flags,” said Colucci.

Judging criteria for the color guard includes coordination, unity, spacing, and presentation as stated by Colucci. “You’re judged on left to right, which means you have to be in the same formation as the person next to you, and in the same line... in step at the same time,’ “You also get judged on presentation,” explained Colucci. “Your uniform must be clean-pressed, no facial hair, no earrings, no talking. Shoes have to be shined.

Uniforms have to be straight.”

And yet until this year, the color guard had been on a losing streak during the Orange County parade, which they later discovered was caused by a discrepancy in judging.

“When we hold the flags, we hold the flags with one arm…with one hand upside down, and the other hand we swing across our chest. When your marching on the street and everybody’s arms and legs are moving at the same time, it looks so nice. But up there, they ______________

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thE COLOr gUArD for the Valley Stream Fire Department stand in full force.

don’t arm swing, and they thought we were out of step,” said Colucci.

Once they reached out to a judge for clarification, the judges no longer deducted points for their signature move, leading them to take the win.

“We don’t do it for us. We do it for the whole department. We want to make sure our chiefs look good. Not only are we great fireman, but we also know how to look nice and show the colors,” said Colucci.

thE COLOr gUArD Valley Stream Engine 4, representing the Valley Stream Fire Department, marches in the Orange County Volunteer Firemen’s Parade in the village of Montgomery.

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Zoning change clears way for apartments ■ Added a retail space of roughly 1,190 square feet.

■ Moved the lobby entrance, which was previously in the center of the parking lot, forward to the middle of the street line.

■ Eliminated the below-ground parking garage.

Plans for the complex call for energyefficient LED lighting, low-flow plumbing fixtures, energy-efficient heating systems and large windows to add natural lighting.

The developers would also provide a community benefit of $120,000, and further indicated that they would not seek a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, agreement, which would exempt the proposed project from property taxes in exchange for payments made to the village.

Since the proposed construction site is situated less than 500 feet from the Valley Stream Long Island Rail Road station to the west, concerns loomed over how the project would affect parking and traffic congestion.

Ethan Schukoske, project manager at Atlantic Traffic & Design Engineering LLC, who previously presented before the board a traffic and parking analysis, said that “based on the proposed residential demand, proximity to public transit, considering the parking demand research and reported parking data, we found that the

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The Village of Valley Stream approved a zoning change for a strip of commercial properties on South Franklin Avenue for the construction of a 35-unit apartment complex. current parking area would accommodate any” expected demand for parking at night.

The slight reductions in parking spots because of the project’s construction modifications would prove negligible. The study, he further noted, did not assess the expected parking demand during peak periods of transit and parking during the day.

Trustee Vincent Grasso probed Minerva on the question as to why the report characterized the two parking spaces-perunit requirement for the village as “conservative.” Minerva replied that requiring

two spaces of parking for each unit was considered high compared to the data from the Institute of Transportation Engineers and transit-oriented development demand.

Grasso rebutted that several people could live in a single unit, potentially bringing with them additional cars.

During the public-comment period, Ira Silverstein, of Valley Stream, echoed Grasso’s concern, saying, “You have no idea how many cars and people are coming in. The reason why I came from Brooklyn 27 years ago was to live in the suburbs, and Valley Stream, to me, is an oasis.”

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Resident Ronald Flemington voiced his support for the project, saying, “I’m all for this. That corner there, you’ve had empty stores . . . You run into the same problem with houses. You have four kids. Kids grow up, they get cars.” He further said that it would be the job of management to enforce the apartment’s rules to meet parking capacity.

Resident Mike Belfiore, posing an altogether different question, asked the board whether the applicant had received a density bonus for construction of the project, as per the Long Island Workforce Housing Act, to which Mayor Edwin Fare replied, “I believe not.”

The Long Island Workforce Housing Act requires housing projects that include five or more residential units either to set aside 10 percent of a project’s units for workforce or affordable housing — priced for families making 130 percent of the median income in the area or less — or construct affordable housing elsewhere in the municipality or pay a fee.

Previous notifications by the Planning Commission chairman, Marty Glennon, were made to the village to include how such developments would address affordable housing requirements. It was not the first time that the Planning Commission had requested affordable housing in an application. Commissioners had made similar requests for a 2019 proposal to build apartments at Roosevelt Avenue and Cochran Place.

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Nassau D.A. candidates trade accusations

By James Bernstein and scott Brinton jbernstein@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com

The race for Nassau district attorney has quickly become one of the most hotly contested in the county, with Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, and Republican Anne Donnelly, of Garden City, trading blistering verbal barbs in a series of TV commercials.

The spots, running on CNN and other cable networks, began three weeks ago, when Donnelly, a 3 0 - ye a r c a r e e r prosecutor in the Nassau district attorney’s office, aired one featuring a Syracuse woman, identified in the commercial as Jennifer P. The woman, Jennifer Payne, said her daughter’s killer was released without bail because of the state’s bailreform law, which Kaminsky voted for in the Senate.

The State Legislature first passed the bailrefor m measure in 2019, restricting anne Donnelly, the the use of cash bail and pretrial detention in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. It did, though, give judges discretion to assign bail in almost all violent felony cases and certain nonviolent cases, such as witness tampering, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

In Donnelly’s commercial, Payne holds a framed photograph of her daughter, Sarah Tombs, who was 22 at the time that she died.

The man who allegedly shot her, Darien Shellman, then 24, a mall security guard who was a Navy veteran with no prior criminal record, was charged with second-degree (unintentional) manslaughter after, he claimed, his gun went

off when Tombs, his girlfriend at the time, grabbed the weapon and a bullet struck her in the head, killing her, according to Syracuse.com.

Shellman had been held in jail on $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond following Tombs’s death in April 2019, but was released on Jan. 9, 2020, under the new bail-reform law, eight days after it took e f f e c t , a c c o r d i n g t o S y r a c u s e. com and CNYCentral.com.

Under the original bail-reform law, unintentional manslaughter was among the alleged crimes for which defendants were automatically released. The Legislature amended the law in April 2020, a little more than three months after the measure took effect, to include a greater number of crimes fo r wh i ch b a i l could be assigned, including any alleged crimes in which someone had been killed, according to the Courtesy Anne Donnelly Brennan Center.

Although bail Republican candidate. could have been reassigned in this case, it never was, and Shellman recently accepted a plea agreement for which he will serve no prison time, according to Syracuse.com. Kaminsky noted that the district attorney who offered the plea deal is a Republican.

Kaminsky has repeatedly said he voted for the bail-reform bill, but was not a prime sponsor, and he did not write it, as Republicans, including Donnelly, have incorrectly claimed. He also emphasized that he voted for the amended law giving judges back the discretion to assign bail in crimes such as second-degree manslaughter.

Kaminsky recently rolled out a commercial of his own, saying Donnelly had

Courtesy Todd Kaminsky

toDD KaminsKy, the Democratic candidate for Nassau County district attorney. “botched” a case involving a woman accused of plotting to kill her husband, saying Donnelly had lied to the judge in the case.

At one point in the 2010 case against Susan Williams, a Garden City mother, a mistrial was declared after a taped phone conversation between Williams and her daughter was erroneously played for a jury. In the commercial, Kaminsky blamed Donnelly for the error, and said she had changed an agreement sent to the judge.

Williams was ultimately found guilty in the case, but Kaminsky stressed that there “was a mistrial. That’s a serious thing.”

Asked for a response, Donnelly wrote in an email, “It is no surprise that [Kaminsky] would lie about my unblemished record as a prosecutor. It is sad that Senator Kaminsky is embarrassing himself this way, and the voters always see through a politician’s lies.”

So far in the campaign, Kaminsky has emphasized his law-enforcement background. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, and worked for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney.

There he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section. He had been an assistant district attorney in the Queens County D.A.’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes.

Donnelly resigned from the Nassau County district attorney’s office to run for the top job, as she was required to do, but she has emphasized her extensive law-enforcement background. She was most recently deputy chief of the office’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau.

She was also liaison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility. She formerly oversaw public corruption trials as acting chief of the public corruption bureau, once served as the deputy chief of the economic crimes bureau and was a senior trial assistant in the rackets bureau, as well as a felony-screening supervisor.

In the most recent financial filing, Kaminsky said he had raised $1.7 million for his campaign. A spokesman for Donnelly said she had raised more than $386,000.

Both Kaminsky and Donnelly said they planned to run more TV commercials in the coming weeks.

Publication: Nassau is America’s safest county Nassau County has been named the “Safest Community in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year.

The publication’s ranking is based on crime, public safety capacity and injuries. Individual metrics on which counties were assessed included violent crime rate, property crime rate, vehicle crash fatality rate, the share of public safety professionals within a population, and per capita spending on health and emergency services.

Crime in Nassau has continued to decline to historic lows in recent years, down 10.5 percent over the past year and 36 percent over the past decade. Over the last 12 months, homicides have dropped 22.2 percent; bur-

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hile crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever.

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Nassau County executive glaries, 15 percent; and grand larcenies, 11 percent.

“While crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever,” County Execu-

tive Laura Curran, a Democrat who is up for re-election, said. “Nassau’s success in holding crime down shows that intelligence-led, community-oriented policing works. It also shows that Nassau has the finest Police Department in the nation.”

Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said, “The hard-working, dedicated men and women, both sworn and civilian, of this Police Department, along with our Intelligence-led Policing Model, have brought our crime rate to historically low levels over the past 10 years. A 31 percent drop in major crime over the past 10 years, combined with another 7.4 percent year-todate, is a true testament to the excellent work being done daily.”

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Wednesday, Oct. 13

at 7: 15 p.m. followed by the committee meeting starting at 8 p.m. at the auditorium of James A. Dever Elementary School.

District 24 Board of Trustees Business Meeting Valley Stream District 24 will hold its Board of Trustees Businees Meetiing at the William L. Buck School at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 3 District 24 Board of Education Business Meeting

LENA START Meeting The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library is having an outreach program provided by Adelphi Univeristy coming for parents and caregivers of children ages 0-3. The LENA START program is designed to engage families and help them learn how to increase conversation during the first few years of life. The event will start at 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the library.

Valley Stream District 24 Board of Education will hold its Work Session at 7:30 p.m. at the William L. Buck school.

Monday, Nov. 8 Board of Trustees Work Session The village will hold its Board of Trustees Work Session at the Valley Stream Village Hall auditorium from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 16 The Great Give Back The Henry Waldinger Library will be accepting get well cards from kids in the community to donate to the Little Saint Nick Foundation. The foundation will include the cards in gift bags donated to sick kids in various hospitals. From 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m kids can make their own at the library of drop cards off, all ages are welcome.

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Little Saint Nick Foundation Card Collecting The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library is accepting cards for sick kids in hospitals to be given to the Little Saint Nick foundation.

Monday, Oct. 18

Stream Village Hall auditorium from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Board of Trustees Regular Meeting

District 13 Board of Education Business Meeting

The village will hold its Board of Trustees Work Session at the Valley Stream Village Hall auditorium from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Architectural Review Board The village will hold its Architectural Review Board at the Valley Stream Village Hall auditorium from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19 Board of Zoning & Appeals Meeting The village will hold its Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting at the Valley

Valley Stream District 13 Board of Education Executive Sessions will start at 7: 15 p.m. followed by the Committee Meeting starting at 8 p.m. at the auditorium of James A. Dever Elementary School.

Tuesday, Oct. 21 American Legion Post 854 Meeting The Valley Stream American Legion Post 854 will hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. at 51 Roosevelt Ave. Valley Stream, NY 11582.

Friday, October 22 Halloween Movie Night - Adams Family (2019) The village will hold a halloween movie night starting at 8 p.m. at the Village Bandshell on the Village Green behind Village Hall. Rain date: 10/29.

Saturday, Oct. 23 Halloween Family Fun Day The Village of Valley Stream will hold fun halloween activties for kids at the mini-golf area of the Arthur J. Hendrickson park. Pumpkin painting for ages 6 & under will start from noon to 1:30 p.m. And for ages 7-12 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A costume contest will also be held for ages 5 and under

from 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. And for ages 6-12 from 4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Rain date: 10/30.

Monday, Oct. 25 District 30 Board of Education Business Meeting Valley Stream District 30 Board of Education Business Meeting will start at 8 p.m. virtually, the link can be found on the VS30 website.

Tuesday, Oct. 26 District 13 Board of Education Business Meeting Valley Stream District 13 Board of Education Executive Sessions will start

Veterans Day Salute For Veterans Day a salute and gathering will take place at Village Green Park from 12 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in honor of fallen soldiers.

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l Engine 4 Fire Department won best appearing county color guard in the Volunteer Firemen’s Parade. l Money Magazine ranked Valley Stream as “the best place to live in New York” for 2017. l Cyndi Lauper lived on the west side of Valley Stream before becoming famous. l Valley Stream’s YouTube channel has a series called “Road Show” about hidden village treasures. l The 1990 horror/comedy “Frankenhooker” was filmed in part in Valley Stream.

Village upgrades its fleet of aging vehicles

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we were able to go to senior residents’ homes when loved ones couldn’t get in touch with them,” said Vincent Cusumano, the public safety director. “And we went with a cell phone, so at least they could talk to them, make sure everything was all right. We also drop off water and different supplies.”

The new fleet is part of the village’s commitment to an improved form of equipment maintenance and man-

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agement, moving away from the once obsolete approach of using the equipment until it hits the tipping point of inevitable disuse to now having an organized rotation and inspection of equipment, officials said.

“I’m proud of our exceptional work force and the members of our staff who have worked very hard to bring this new, innovative fleet program to Valley Stream for the benefit of our residents,” Fare said.

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The Village of Valley Stream recently upgraded a variety of vehicles in its highway fleet.

From far left, with one of the village’s new vacuum street sweepers, were Billy Grace, Safety Committee director; Brian Howley, highway general supervisor; Steven Acquavella, Public Works Department supervisor; and Vincent Cusumano, public safety director.

continued from front page um, which then shoots it against the backdoor and compacts everything for disposal.

“The [vacuum power] is so strong it can actually suck up a brick,” said Steven Acquavella, the Public Works Department supervisor.

Additional features include a remote-controlled weedcutter able to better target hard-to-reach weeds sprouting on road curbs. The machines are also fitted with the latest pedestrian and driver safety features, including a 180-degree camera view, a pressurized, air-conditioned cabin that prevents dust from seeping, and a “sweeper mode” that permits the vehicle to drive no more than 5 mph while sweeping with little noise.

“So residents can’t complain that the tractor just swept their street, and the driver was doing 40 miles an hour—impossible,” said Brian Howley, the highway general supervisor.

Then there are the Ventrac tractors, which come with a series of attachments, including a snowplow, snow brush, plow brush and snow blower, which can be attached and re-attached to the vehicle. These heavy-duty compact tractors will fully replace six machines that were sold at auction and will be used for tasks ranging from cleaning the median strip on Sunrise Highway to clearing out stream beds of debris during a storm to plowing snow at the train station.

Rounding out the fleet enhancements are new public safety, code and parking enforcement cars. With fourwheel steering, the vehicles are better able to brave and maneuver through storm conditions to provide important services to residents in need.

“We learned during the storms that we need a highaxle vehicle to get our vehicles moving to help residents,” Fare said.

“During the last hurricane, [because of these cars],

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Girls Soccer: Mepham at Wantagh........................4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Malverne/ER at Elmont....................4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: V.S. South at Calhoun ......................4:45 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Sewanhaka at Lawrence ..................4:45 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Oceanside at Uniondale ....................... 5 p.m.

Football: Port Washington at Oceanside..................... 6 p.m.

Football: Massapequa at Freeport ............................. 6 p.m.

Football: Manhasset at Hewlett ...................................... 6 p.m.

Girls Soccer: South Side at Massapequa .................6:30 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Lawrence at Seaford................................. 7 p.m.

Football: Sewanhaka at Glen Cove ................................. 7 p.m.

Football: Carey at MacArthur........................................... 7 p.m.

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Football: Plainview at East Meadow .......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Mepham at Baldwin ................................... 2 p.m.

Football: V.S. Central at Garden City ............................... 2 p.m.

Football: South Side at Wantagh .................................... 2 p.m.

Football: V.S. North at Kennedy....................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Clarke at Seaford.............................................. 2 p.m.

Football: North Shore at East Rockaway......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Malverne at Lawrence ...................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Calhoun at New Hyde Park .............................. 2 p.m.

Football: Lynbrook at Mineola ........................................ 2 p.m.

Hewlett’s boys’ soccer team needed some semblance of momentum or positive traction going into last Friday’s match on the road against Valley Stream North.

Entering the match with a losing record, some shift or alteration was needed in order to salvage the season. One pivotal tweak to the starting lineup was a central catalyst in ensuring the Bulldogs’ 3-1 victory.

“Our record was 1-4-1,” Hewlett coach Nick Lacetera said following the game. “It was time to shake things up a little bit.

Right now, it looked like it worked.”

The shaking things up referred to giving senior goalkeeper Avikar Khakh his first career start. He played admirably in what was more or less his debut, as before this outing he had only entered a game as a substitute. He was an instrumental element in holding Valley Stream North to a single goal. He tallied 9 saves on the afternoon, including a pair in the second half from point-blank range to protect the tenuous lead.

The stout goalkeeping and defense was far from the only factor in dictating Hewlett’s success. The Bulldogs did an impressive job of applying pressure for the entirety of the 80-minute match.

Their initial goal was a lengthy strike from defender David Lamour, his third tally of the season.

The Bulldogs maintained a one-goal lead into the second half, until Fernando Alvarado scored a beautiful goal on a volley from Max Mariasch. Valley Stream North did manage to respond shortly with a goal, but Hewlett kept the Spartans off the board off the board for the remainder of the match. Osmar Marcos scored on a nifty grounded ball with two minutes left to seal the outcome.

The Bulldogs will look to utilize the momentum garnered from this match in their upcoming contests and improve 2-4-1 record.

For Valley Stream North, its inability to capitalize on numerous opportunities throughout the course of the match was its main pitfall. It had opportunities to score in both halves and never stopped working.

“I feel like we were juts kind off

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Valley stReaM NoRth’s Nickolas Pagan, left, moved the ball upfield with Hewlett’s Ian Panzarella on his heels during the Spartans’ 3-1 defeat at home.

unlucky” Valley Stream North coach Dave Aguado stated. “Their goalie made some nice saves, and we didn’t help by shooting them right at him.”

In the first half, North’s offensive struggles mainly came from corners, as it had two corners that resulted in shots on goal yet couldn’t sneak one through.

The hosts finally did manage to get on the scoresheet around 10 minutes into the second half, when freshman forward Felipe Rojas outleaped a defender and headed

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Rojas almost scored another from well beyond the box but missed the top corner by a matter of inches. North then had two shots 1 on 1 with the goalie, but the aforementioned Khakh managed to neutralize the scoring opportunities and keep them out of the net.

The Spartans will look to rebound this Saturday when they host Roosevelt.

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By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller from 2002 to 2009 who was known for challenging establishment politics through the power of the audit during this time in office, died Sept. 27 of a rare blood disorder called amyloidosis. He was 75.

Born in Brooklyn in 1945, Weitzman was known as a loving husband to his wife of 52 years, Suzanne, and father to their daughter, Catherine Diamond, and sons Peter and Matthew Weitzman.

Howard Weitzman was raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and later Laurelton, Queens. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and went on to graduate from Queens Colle ge with a de g ree in accounting, becoming a certified public accountant.

Weitzman was said to have “reveled” in his role as “Nassau’s fiscal watchdog” when he was comptroller. He was also known for his personal approach to politics, holding town hall meetings in houses of worship and schools to meet with constituents from across Nassau to hear their concerns. His local approach to county politics stemmed color from his time version

as a trustee and mayor of Great Neck with eliminating special districts] are Estates from 1989 to 1995. He and his not large when divided by each home . . . wife had lived there for 35 years before in these times of extreme fiscal pressure on Nassau County taxpayers, all moving to Roslyn in 2013.

As comptroller, Weitzman was relent- savings are worth pursuing. The outdatless in pursuing investigations of Nas- ed patchwork quilt of special districts is no longer viable in this day sau’s many special districts, and age when they cost resiincluding sanitation and dents money without providwater districts. In all, Nasing any benefit.” sau has more than 200 such Weitzman was first electdistricts, and Weitzman said ed comptroller in 2001 on a he was convinced they were ticket with Tom Suozzi, then key to helping rein in govan up-and-coming political ernment overspending. leader who had previously “Nassau residents can served as the Glen Cove pay two or three times as mayor and is now a U.S. conmuch for the same service gressman representing the depending on the district in 3rd District. They were which they live,” Weitzman Howard Weitzman swept into office following said in a published report in years of fiscal mismanage2010. “Our audits unveiled millions of dollars of waste by some ment at the county level, with a clear mandate to eliminate waste and abuse. special districts, and a general lack of Weitzman lost the comptroller’s post accountability, transparency and overto Republican George Maragos in 2009. sight.”

Eliminating many of the special dis- Illness was said to have hindered tricts, Weitzman contended, could save Weitzman’s campaign. He then chaltaxpayers tens of millions of dollars lenged Maragos in 2013 and was again defeated. annually.

In 2016, Weitzman was appointed to Speaking with the Herald in 2008, he the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a said, “While the savings [associated under

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Weitzman had also been a board member of the American Jewish Committee, a treasurer of Temple Israel of Great Neck and a board member of the United Community Fund of Great Neck.

An avid adventurer, he traveled the world with his family, with he and his wife taking trips to Cambodia, Australia and Italy when their children were grown. He was also an avid boater who was a member of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club.

In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by a sister, Leslie Kornfeld, and her husband, Edward; four grandchildren, Leo, Max, Morris and Ema, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

A funeral service was held last Thursday at Temple Israel of Great Neck, with burial following at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Riverside-Nassau North Chapels made the arrangements.

Herald Inside LI Webinar fights fears with facts Keeping our loved ones healthy and out of harm’s way— especially the senior members of our communities — has always been a priority, but perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this unprecedented time we’ve faced new challenges, constant changes and a perpetual wave of questions. So the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” brought together a panel of local experts on Sept. 30 to help find answers.

The webinar was produced by RichnerLIVE and sponsored by Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Emerge, Harbor House, Oyster Bay Manor and Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health.

Dr. John Colletta, Dr. Usman Khan, Madeleine Moritz, Melissa Schumacher and Erika Weber gathered virtually to share their insights and expertise on topics ranging from safety protocols in hospitals and emergency departments to special precautions for patients with dementia in skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers.

“We understand that it causes a lot of anxiety for people to come” to the emergency department, Colletta, the Glen Cove Hospital Emergency Department chair.

“What we have seen is people are holding off on their medical care. They’re just not going.”

No one should put off a trip to the emergency room, or even a regular doctor’s visit

and physical therapy and rehabilitation, he said.

“A lot of families have put off coming to the skilled nursing facility after a stay at the hospital for fear that the nursing home has exposure and their loved one now, who was in the hospital, may be better off going home,” added Moritz, administrator at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Schumacher, director of business development at the Oyster Bay Senior Campus, noted that such fears have also extended to the assisted living world. At the height of the pandemic, she said, “unless there was a true crisis, families were holding off because of the fear of contracting Covid . . . in congregant living, but also the inability to visit their loved ones.”

As the panelists reviewed the protocols in place at each of their facilities—whether they be for handling unvaccinated patients or those who have Covid, ensuring safe visits from family members, cleaning processes for high-touch surfaces, adapting social experiences for those in assisted living—the clearest takeaway was the importance of communication — of knowing where to go for the most current information and finding the right experts to ask.

A replay of the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” is available now. You can find it at http:// www.richnerlive.com/insideli/.

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Hofstra’s first woman president is inaugurated

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

Hofstra University inaugurated its ninth — and first woman — president on Oct. 1 in grand fashion. Dr. Susan Poser now leads the institution — she first assumed her duties on Aug. 1.

This is Poser’s first foray into guiding a university as a president. She was previously the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, a Carnegie Research One university with 16 colleges, including seven health science colleges and more than 35,000 students, from 2016 to 2021.

Poser joins a tighter-knit community at Hofstra, with roughly 10,000 students.

Poser succeeds Stuart Rabinowitz, who retired this year after serving as president for 20 years. Under his lead, the university grew to include schools of medicine, nursing and physician studies, engineering and government, putting Hofstra on the map as an internationally competitive institution.

Celebrations leading up to the inauguration were held throughout the week in the form of symposia that looked toward the future of education at Hofstra. From “Building and Bridging Our Future Together” to “Innovative Experiential Learning Opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science,” each featured experts in their respective fields lending their advice to fellow professionals and students alike. A keynote address by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Charles Blow kicked off the week.

Throughout her two months at her post so far, Poser has also made her presence known on campus. She has often been seen touring around, stopping to chat with groups of students.

After the singing of the Hofstra alma mater “Blue and Gold” by the Inauguration Vocal Ensemble, as well as welcomes from several of the university’s student and faculty leaders, Poser was congratulated by three close friends and colleagues.

“To me and many others, [Poser] has always been a light from which many have been lit — a shining light that no one would dare, or could, dim,” said Daniel Dawes, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of law, policy and management.

Dawes is one of Poser’s former students. As a first-generation immigrant student at the University of Nebraska, Poser, then a professor, took Dawes under her wing, he said. He was a young, anxious student who was 1,400 miles from home, but felt welcomed and accepted by Poser in the intimidating environment of law school.

“I, for one, am frankly jealous of you all, because you get to bask in the warm glow of her light,” Dawes said. “But I’m also immensely excited to watch Hofstra shine brighter than ever before.”

Barbara Wilson began a new position at the University of Illinois around the same time that Poser did, and their careers flourished together. In 2016, Wilson became the executive vice president for academic affairs, and the two worked

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hand in hand over five years on academic affairs. This year, Wilson was named the president of the University of Iowa a short five months after Poser received her promotion at Hofstra.

“During the time we were in these positions, we navigated some sticky state politics; we managed a financial crisis in the state of Illinois that underfunded higher education pretty significantly; we managed the onslaught of Covid-19 and the challenging racial and equity issues, particularly after the murder of George Floyd,” Wilson said. “It was not an easy time.

“Everyone that worked with Susan could see that she was destined to be a president,” Wilson said.

“There is no shortage of persons who want to be the president of a university,” said Harvey Perlman, a professor of law and former chancellor at the University of Nebraska. “My experience, however, tells me there is a much smaller number of persons who want to do president of a university.

“You have chosen wisely,” Perlman told the Hofstra community. “You have a new president who wants to do president, not just be one.”

In her address, Poser reflected on Hofstra’s history of independence and innovations in education and student relations.

“What a time we are living in, and what a time for higher education,” Poser said. “The pleasure of our renewed togetherness is real, but it cannot mask the challenges ahead.”

Before Covid, the challenges were already apparent, she said: There were fewer high school graduation expectancies, skepticism about the value of a college education and new world of students who have always lived in a digital environment. “How we address these changes over the coming years will determine Hofstra’s future and the future of our students,” Poser said.

“The idea of the pandemic as a portal or gateway serves as a useful metaphor to frame the challenges that we in higher education have before us,” Poser added.

“If the pandemic is a portal, how will Hof-

DR. SuSAN PoSER was inaugurated as the ninth and first female president of Hofstra University on Oct. 1.

CloSE CollEAGuES of Poser’s spoke at the inauguration, including Harvey Perlman, former chancellor and law professor at the University of Nebraska.

stra walk through it? What will we take, and what will we leave behind? What world are we ready to fight for? What kind of university and community do we want to imagine on the other side?”

At UIC, Poser oversaw many accomplishments, including the acquisition of the John Marshall Law School as the first and only public law school in Chicago.

She also focused on supporting faculty and enhancing diversity through several initiatives, including the creation of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus, one focused on Arab American students and another on students with disabilities.

Before becoming provost at UIC, Poser was the dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska from 2010 to 2016, the associate to the chancellor from 2007 to 2010 and a law professor for more than 15 years. While dean, the College of Law moved up 35 points in the “U.S. News & World Report” rankings.

Poser grew up in New York City and majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned a law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before starting her academic career, she clerked for the Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia and served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Poser is also a recently appointed member of the Long Island Association Board of Directors, which will allow her to further engage with the Long Island community.

Poser is married to Dr. Stephen DiMagno, an organic medicinal chemist, and they have two adult daughters.

“I am so optimistic that if we come together, with pride and purpose,” Poser said, “we can do these things. Hofstra is beautifully positioned as a university — small enough to offer every student the opportunity to know their professors, participate in a wide variety of activities and influence their surroundings, and large enough to offer an array of academic and career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. If we have the commitment, the discipline and the energy, we will prosper as never before.”

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Following a mandate issued by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August requiring all medical staff in New York state to receive at least on dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by Sept. 27, hospitals have been bracing for potential staff shortages.

Valley Stream Long Island Jewish Hospital, a Northwell Health institution, issued the following statement: “We have begun a process to exit all unvaccinated

team members using a carefully planned approach that both maintains continuity of care at all of our facilities and ensures the safety of all of our patients. Northwell regrets losing any employee under such circumstances, but as health care professionals and members of the largest health care provider in the state, we understand our unique responsibility to protect the health of our patients and each other. We owe it to our staff, our patients and the communities we serve to be 100 percent vaccinated against Covid-19.”

Youth Basketball Program at Hendrickson Park

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The Va l l e y Stream’s basketball courts at A. J. Hendrickson Park played host to last week’s “Change Direction Youth Basketball” back to school day of practices and clinics for young basketball Courtesy: Barbara DeGrace enthusiasts in the area. During the clin- Change DireCtion playerS and coaches play in the park’s ics, the young people basketball court. engaged in drills and about the importance of sharpening their practices and were treated to motivational speeches delivered skills in sports as in life,” said Deputy

by Coach Larry Smith, Coach Eugene, Mayor Thomas. “These dedicated parents Coach Caesar and CJ Parish, a Valley and coaches give their time and talents to Stream North High School alumnus, who reinforcing the values that team sports spoke to the students about the impor- can play in the real world.”

“Engaging with children through orgatance of education and practice.

Deputy Mayor Dermond Thomas and nized sports, and teaching lessons of Village Trustee John Tufarelli joined the teamwork and personal discipline reinyoung athletes, parents, and coaches at the force the habits needed to be successful in first of what they hope to be many more the classroom and into adulthood,” commented Trustee Tufarelli. “I want to pubevents. “‘Change Direction Youth Basketball’ licly thank all those who made this great is a great way to bring awareness to kids day possible.”

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Herald Community Newspapers, with a readership of roughly 200,000, is among the largest and most respected community news groups in New York State, covering 26 communities on Nassau’s South and North Shores.

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The Comeback Tale of LIJV and its patient jlasso@liherald.com/kkovac@liherald.com

The Valley Stream Long Island Jewish hospital didn’t always have the best reputation. Arlene Macchio, a reoccurring patient at the hospital, said her husband and sister nearly talked her out of going there for her third back surgery.

But her expectations were dramatically turned upside down for the better. “I couldn’t believe it. From the time of admitting to the time I left there, the nurses couldn’t be more helpful. You would think I was a part of their family…They were there for me every minute…They held my hand when they knew I was scared.”

LIJV is now one of the first hospitals in the Northeast to receive the Joint Commission Advanced Certification for orthopedics, becoming one of the top orthopedic hospitals on Long Island. Chair of Orthopedics, Dr. James Germano, says the award is given out because of the hospitals “above-standard of care.” In 2018, Germano came on as chief of osteoplasty service, working continuously with administration and other surgeons to bring in new patients and reach a new level in orthopedic treatment. To receive the award, the hospital had to apply and wait for a surveyor from the Joint Commission to come view them over the course of two to three days.

There, they tracked the patients, and the surveyor found that the hospital not only met but exceeded their standards.

Doctors and patients alike point to the dedication of the staff and the new resources made available when the hospital was bought by Northwell, leading to a one-eighty change in reputation and quality of treatment. Dr. Germano says when he came to the LIJV the goal of becoming a great orthopedic hospital was in the works. He explains how the switch in ownership made that possible.

Photos courtesy Lee Weissman, Senior Multimedia Producer/Photography, Northwell Health

“Initially, this was a small community hospital with not a lot of resources…

Since Northwell took it over, it brought in new surgeons including the joint and spine surgeons as well as the sport surgeons who came in with the orthopedic group to work at the hospital. The latest goal to become an orthopedic center of excellence really changed the dynamic.

This isn’t just for surgeons, but rather the entire team.”

“You couldn’t get a better team of nurses,” said Macchio. “When the case worker came up when I was leaving, she wanted to make sure I had all my medicine. If there was a problem with my medicine, she made sure I got it. They called to see if I was ‘okay’. They were great. It’s like being part of your family… If you ever get sick, that second floor is where you go.”

Macchio had her third and most recent surgery on August 27. All three of

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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF MATAWIN VENTURES TRUST SERIES 2017-3, Plaintiff -againstMINOL MOISE, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated March 12, 2020 and entered on March 16, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on November 8, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being at Valley Stream, Town of Hempstead, County of

Nassau and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the northerly side of Buscher Avenue, where the same is intersected by the westerly end of a curve having a radius of 20 feet which curve connects the northerly side of Buscher Avenue and the westerly side of Cohill Road; RUNNING THENCE North West, 77.47 feet; THENCE North East 52.47 feet; THENCE South East, 102.98 feet; THENCE along the westerly side of Cohill Road South 22 degrees 50 minutes 50 seconds West, 27.06 feet to the northerly end of a curve having a radius of 20 feet; THENCE southwesterly along the arc of said curve a distant of 36.16 feet to the northerly side of Buscher Avenue.

SBL # 37-646-25 All bidders must wear a face mask/shield at all times and social distancing must be observed by all bidders at all times.

Bidders who do not comply with the face mask and/or the social distancing mandate will be removed from the auction.

Said premises known as 261 BUSCHER AVENUE, VALLEY STREAM, NY Approximate amount of lien $666,327.51 plus interest & costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

Index Number 10522/2014.

SCOTT F. GUARDINO, ESQ., Referee McGovern & Amodio, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 2 William Street, Suite 306, White Plains, NY

10601 {* VAL STRM H*} 127704

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Leading from Within, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 8/8/21.

NY Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to: 24 Malverne Avenue, Malverne, NY 11565 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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her surgeries have been performed by Dr. Alfred Faust, the Chair of Spine Surgery.

“I’m dealing with it; every day is a better day… God willing this will be it,” said Macchio.

Faust believes that the most rewarding aspect of his practice is getting patients to resume their daily lives and enjoying their recreational activities with less pain. “They can’t go dr. ALfred fAUSt, the Chair of Spine Surgery, enjoys helpback to work, can’t ing patients and sorting through the diversity and complexity sleep at night or enjoy of problems. a weeding, a christento the success of the hospital. The new ing, or a birthday party because they have a pinched nerve. enthusiastic staff mixed with older qualiIt’s gratifying to know that by the time the ty staff has brought the orthopedic wing surgery is done, the odds are they’re to new heights. “To have this program going to feel great.” and to get this spine certification, I Germano attributes quality service, thought was a great honor for the hospital dedication, and a patient-first mentality and staff,” said Germano.

Two men arraigned for Valley Stream mall shooting tered.

A subsequent investigation that followed led police Two men from Queens, to ar rest the 20-year-old Jaheim White and Javon White on Sept. 7. Upon furBadal, were arraigned last ther investigation, Badal, Friday at the Nassau County also 20, was later arrested for First District Court in conthe same incident on Sept. nection with a shooting that 30. occurred on Aug. 21 at the T h e d e f e n d a n t s we r e Green Acres Mall in Valley charged with three counts of Jaheim White Stream. The defendants, Nassecond-de g ree attempted sau County said, fired murder, first-degree reckless numerous shots into the Macy’s store endangerment, second-degree criminal entrance filled with people. No one was possession of a weapon and first-degree injured, but two glass doors were shat- criminal use of a firearm.

By kAriNA kOvAc kkovac@liherald.com

VALLEY STREAM HERALD — October 7, 2021

Left tO right, back row Stephanie Manta, RN nurse manager, Lorraine Morris, CNA, Jessy Mathew, RN, Marie Saret, CNA, front row, left to right, Selvi Abraham, RN, Nimfa London, RN, Renni Philip,RN , Georgette BrownLewis, unit secretary.

LIJ nurses dedicated to patients’ comfort and care bring a reputation of quality to the hospital.

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Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job, an inspector showed up and stopped it, saying we needed a permit.

I hired an architect, he made a plan and we filled in the permit. Now the plans have been rejected because, according to the inspector, they have to show fireproof walls and roof. That’s crazy! Nobody has that, so why am I being made to do this? It’s expensive, and I shouldn’t have to do it. I think they’re making me pay for starting with no permit, right?

A. Not exactly, but you have to look at the big picture. You may feel like you’re getting burned, but the building code is actually named The Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Fire prevention is a primary reason that the building laws exist.

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In many cases, building departments allow onte eeper existing garages to have minor repairs without a permit, but only for things like replacing a garage door, a rotted section of wall base plate, shingles or siding, although you should always verify before starting. You described a near-complete rebuild, only saving the roof part of the garage, and your building official has determined that, beyond 50 percent change, the code for new buildings applies. Even though your zoning code allows a free-standing accessory structure to be 2 feet to 4 feet from a property line, depending on your community, garages that are closer than 5 feet to a property line must have materials that are rated to prevent flame spread for an hour.

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As for cost, aluminum siding, which actually still exists, may cost less, can be painted to match the house and lasts an average of 35 years. Fiber cement siding also does the job, but costs more.

Other choices include stucco over cement board and steel panels, all more costly. Aluminum or cement board eaves, gutters and roofing are also required, and even though most of the home construction industry doesn’t read or know the regulations, the requirements still exist, and cost the most when they aren’t adhered to and the work has to be done twice.

So don’t feel like you’re being singled out or being held to the fire. The rules exist for all of us.

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ctober is a unique month. It’s time for apple picking, watching the trees change color and, if the weather permits, taking long car trips to interesting places.

Depending on where you live, it’s also the time for candidates for public office to make their final arguments as to why you should vote for them on Nov. 2.

And if you live in Nassau County and are a registered voter, you’re seeing that lastminute blitz to make sure you show up on Election Day. JERRY Unlike years when we elect a KREMER president, in politics this is considered an off year, with most of the campaigns involving candidates for local office. The biggest races in our county are for county executive, district attorney and comptroller.

County Executive Laura Curran is favored to be re-elected, due to her professionalism and support from both political parties. That leaves the contests for district attorney and comptroller.

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The hottest competition will be for the office of district attorney. Mailboxes all over the county are being flooded with materials promoting the candidacy of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Anne Donnelly, a Republican and an assistant D.A. This one campaign could wind up costing the candidates as much as $6 million, and possibly more.

Having once represented the South Shore of Nassau County in the State Assembly, I have gotten to know Todd Kaminsky, and have watched his political career rise rapidly. Our career paths are somewhat alike. I started out as a city attorney in Long Beach, and he started out as a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted local slumlords, and as a federal prosecutor he was given the opportunity to prosecute high-profile criminals. In my late 20s, I got a chance to run for the State Assembly, and he got his opening to run for the State Senate.

To the benefit of Long Island taxpayers, Kaminsky has been a hard-working legislator who has been a leader on criminal and environmental issues. He was the principal sponsor of a law to take pen-

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sions away from corrupt elected officials.

He has gotten tougher drunken-driving laws and battled opioid manufacturers and doctors who dispense drugs too freely.

During my time in Albany, I passed many laws in similar areas, and like Kaminsky was the leader of the Long Island legislative delegation in Albany.

I applauded his decision to run for district attorney, because he has been a strong voice on so many issues of concern to the public. The State Senate leaders turn to him for advice on criminal and environmental law issues. He is responsible for the $3 billion environmental cleanup bond that will be on the ballot in 2022. Donnelly, who claims that Kaminsky was the “author” of the bailreform law, has criticized him. I know for a fact that he was not its author, and he has battled his own party on this issue.

Politics is a tough and unforgiving business. If you stay in one elected position for a long period of time, you are accused of being part of the “establishment.” If you run for higher office a few years after getting elected to a different job, you are accused of being too “ambi-

eciding who leads Nassau County is a great reason to go to the polls next month.

tious.” I had the chance to run for statewide office twice, but a family tragedy prevented that from happening. I know Kaminsky’s opponent to be a long-term veteran of the D.A.’s office. In the end, it will be up to the voters to decide whom they want for district attorney.

There is another countywide contest on the ballot, for the important job of county comptroller. While the public focus has been on the D.A.’s race, the job of keeping an eye on taxpayers’ money is also crucial. Former Republican State Sen. Elaine Phillips is challenging Democrat Ryan Cronin for that position. I have worked with Phillips, and found her to be an excellent public official.

This will be another important choice for Nassau County voters. I hope they won’t decide to skip this year’s election, because any election, whether for dogcatcher or president, is important. If you stay home on Election Day, you get the kind of government you deserve.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column?

JKremer@liherald.com.

Really, what’s up with the whole world?

ave you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.Nothing at all is exactly as it was before the pandemic overwhelmed the United States. In small ways and profound ways, cultural and political forces are impeding the ordinary progression of life in America.

But then, what’s ordinary? Most of us have given up RANDI on the concept of KREISS going back to “normal,” and what passes for normal these days is disquieting.

It isn’t just the pandemic, as if one could write off a highly infectious novel virus that swept around the world, killing 700,000 people here at home. It is how the pandemic was handled from the time it was discovered, then covered up, then ignored, then addressed with inoculation and medical efforts that ranged from inadequate to state-of-the-art medicine. I just checked in to the CDC website and

saw that they have now broken-down categories of information into: What We Know and What We Are Still Learning.

That’s good. The fact that there is a learning curve in science seems to have challenged the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines, which by any reasonable account have been remarkably successful in saving lives.

We are in a world where scientists are vilified for not having all the answers, the president is begging and bribing folks to take a shot that will keep them out of the hospital, and large swaths of people are bonding online and deciding that it is safer to throw away our protective masks, refuse the vaccine and embrace bizarre and debunked remedies for this deadly disease. With some few exceptions, there is no excuse for refusing a mask and a vaccine. Using horse de-wormer instead of monoclonal antibodies? It’s kind of like what Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography: I know crazy when I see it.

The problem is that those of us who have followed the science and had the vaccine, and perhaps the booster, by now can feel safe, but not completely safe. If we have young children or grandchildren, we

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see those who refuse the vaccine as a direct threat to the health of our family.

As we re-emerge into the world, the places we go are all changed. How did the “office” disappear in two years? Transportation is different from what it was, with some mask rules and some vaccine requirements on planes and trains. Some travel, like cruises, requires not just the time and money, but a willing suspension of disbelief.

If you can’t bear cooking one more meal at home and venture out, chances are the server and possibly the chef are new hires. The workforce is sliced and diced, and not many people are fully trained for the jobs they are doing.

If you talk to a friend of the heart for more than hi-and-how-are-you, chances are you’ll get into your mutual stress levels and anxiety. The psychiatrists don’t have enough hours for the people who need help, because we all need some help right now.

If you live in a community or apartment building of some kind, then you know about improvement projects being delayed because the painter shows up but there’s no paint. My son finally got his

he places we go are all changed. How did the ‘office’ disappear in two years?

new roof, but the roofer had no gutters to install. Costco is out of toilet paper again.

There are people who don’t have enough food, who can’t get to work, who have no health care and who don’t have proper shelter. We are living in a country that desperately needs new bridges and tunnels and roads. There is a good a plan to rebuild and, at this moment, it may not get passed by Congress. Not because we don’t need it. Not because most Americans don’t support it. But because the government is paralyzed by partisanship and ignorance and fear.

This morning I read in The Washington Post that in Anchorage, Alaska, people attended a public hearing on mask wearing with yellow Stars of David on their arms, equating the mask requirement to Nazi-era restrictions on Jews in Germany that led to the Holocaust and the death of some 6 million people.

I am worried for us.

Most disturbing is the elevation of lies for personal and political gain. For me, there is some comfort in bearing witness to this time. We must keep talking and writing, acknowledging the losses and summoning the strength to tighten the floor joists and secure the roof.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ispanics are Nassau County’s fastest-growing ethnic population, County Executive Laura Curran noted in mid-September, the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year since 1988, and before that as Hispanic Heritage Week, beginning in 1968.

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we recognize the many rich cultural and economic contributions of Hispanic people to the United States. The celebration was first signed into law as a week by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, and expanded to a month by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.

In 2016, the Herald explored Hispanic immigration to our region in a series, “The Changing Face of Long Island,” and we wrote this in a December editorial that year: “There is much talk about how Long Islanders are leaving for elsewhere because of the high cost of living. The Island, however, actually saw a net gain in population because of immigration. Suffolk’s population remained largely unchanged between 2000 and 2012, while Nassau’s increased by roughly 78,500 people, according to census data.

“Immigrants have been arriving on Long Island for more than six decades, but the pace of immigration has accelerated within the last 10 years, with an average of 20,000 Long Island immigrants annually receiving citizenship.

“Immigrants, it appears, are bypassing the big cities and settling in the suburbs.

That’s a good thing for Long Island.”

We should now add this: There is a false impression that most Hispanics are immigrants. While that might have once been true, it no longer is. Most Hispanics in the

United States were born here and are American citizens, having become deeply ingrained in the fabric of American society.

According to the New American Economy Research Fund, a bipartisan, nonprofit immigration advocacy group, there are 58.8 million Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Just over two-thirds of them — or 39.2 million — were born here, while 19.6 million were born outside the country.

Combined, Hispanic immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics now comprise 18.1 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to double, to 106 million, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

In 2017, Hispanic households earned more than $1 trillion and paid some $252.2 billion in taxes, including $165.9 billion in federal income taxes and $86.3 billion in state and local taxes, the NEA Research Fund found.

At the same time, today’s most recently arrived Hispanic immigrants are better educated than those who landed here only a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2010, only 15.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants held a bachelor’s degree. Between 2012 and 2017, 28.5 percent did, roughly in line with the overall U.S. population.

Despite all of this, Hispanics are frequent targets of discrimination. A recent report by the Hispanic Marketing Council noted, “Fifty-five percent (but only 15 percent of non-Hispanics) said Latinos encounter frequent discrimination, while 67 percent of Hispanics strongly or somewhat agree that as a group they are discriminated against more than other ethnic minorities.”

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letters HealNY brings needed funding To the Editor: I recently began a statewide “HealNY” tour of the state as we begin delivering the first funding from a $1.5 billion pool to combat the opioid epidemic. The funding — which will go to all 10 regions of the state — comes from different settlements that the state attorney general’s office negotiated following a March 2019 lawsuit against the various manufacturers and distributors responsible for the opioid crisis.

While the tour will stop in dozens of counties throughout October, all 62 counties across the state will receive funds from the various settlements.

For more than two decades, New Yorkers have experienced the dire and deadly effects of opioids. As we embark on this tour, we are ensuring every county gets financial help to recover from the devastation that opioids have

America’s Hispanic population is not monolithic — it is diverse, with a variety of cultures according to people’s countries of origin. A Mexican American, an Argentine American and a Dominican American might share the same Spanish language, but their cultures of origin are very different.

We saw the issue recently play out in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of his Broadway sensation “In the Heights,” a musical that speaks to the hopes and dreams of Hispanic people living in the close-knit New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River, in view of the George Washington Bridge.

The film, released on HBO Max, was widely praised for its artistry, but criticized because it failed to include darkskinned Afro-Latinos, who comprise a significant portion of Washington Heights’s actual population, among the film’s leading characters. That is, the film treated Hispanics as members of a single culture.

Miranda took to Twitter to acknowledge the psychic pain the film may have caused, writing, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback … Without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short.”

There is a lesson here that all of us can take away: We must see Hispanic Americans as individuals, each with his or her own heritage that contributes to the American landscape, including here in Nassau County, one of the most diverse places in the nation.

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lthough I was raised in the United States as a Hispanic immigrant, born to immigrant parents, I have long been blasé about Hispanic Heritage Month. As a kid, I would stare curiously at the school calendar marking this month-long celebration and shrug it off as just another quirky, throwaway American holiday, like Groundhog Day or National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Interesting to some, peculiar to many, and something that I didn’t particularly care for.

JUAn Perhaps it was the odd proposiLAsso tion that somehow, some way, you could condense the cultures and national histories of more than 600 million people under a catchall term like “Hispanic heritage.”

It’s true that there is some measure of shared experience, some invisible thread linking us Hispanics (for lack of a better term) together in this country we call home. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend the better part of my young adult life standing shoulder to shoulder with a diverse crowd of Hispanic community leaders and intellectuals, including academics, student leaders, attorneys and a

legislator. Each of these movers and shakers, with his or her own story and cultural identity, is proudly committed to improving the lives of fellow Hispanic Americans.

So you would think that, over the years, I would have shed my small-minded childhood indifference and come to have a deeper appreciation, even love, for this time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans.

But I haven’t. I still don’t relish this special month.

I don’t have anything against Hispanic Heritage Month. I simply don’t understand the meaning of the term “Hispanic heritage.”

The conventional definition of “Hispanic” is broad enough to encompass people who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, when there were issues with the U.S. census, and Hispanic organizations and leaders sought a term to identify the growing minority residing coast to coast. Hispanic was chosen as an imperfect but useful messenger to signal to those in the halls of power, and to neighborhoods across the U.S., that we were here, too, we mattered, and we were here to stay.

So this celebration, too, was a push for such visibility and inclusion. The month

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he term leaves the misguided impression that we have a fully integrated history.

Letters inflicted on them. The funds we are infusing into New York today and going forward will be used to invest in prevention, treatment and recovery. While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths or the countless families torn apart by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing future devastation.

Opioid manufacturers and distributors were responsible for heavily marketing opioids to doctors, hospitals, health-care systems and others, which led to the over-prescription of the drugs across New York and the rest of the nation over the last two decades. The manufacturers included in our state lawsuit include Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, as well as members of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue) and the trusts they control; Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates (including its parent company, Johnson & Johnson); Mallinckrodt LLC and its affiliates; Endo Health Solutions and its affiliates; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates; and Allergan Finance LLC and its affiliates. The distributors named in the complaint were McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation

was intended to validate the reality that we Hispanic Americans have, since the beginning of America’s founding, added to the rich and diverse tapestry of the democratic experiment, anchoring us as members of the American popular concept of “the people.”

As President Lyndon Johnson declared, “The people of Hispanic descent are the heirs of missionaries, captains, soldiers and farmers who were motivated by a young spirit of adventure, and a desire to settle freely in a free land … This heritage is ours.”

And yes, that much is true. Hispanics have fought and continue to fight in the nation’s wars, contribute to its art and culture, and sit in the highest offices of political power as proud citizens and servants. But when examined more closely, the term “Hispanic heritage” brings with it a mess of ambiguity and confusion.

The term leaves the misguided impression that Latin America has a single, fully integrated history tracing its beginnings to Spanish and European colonialism.

Using this as the starting point for our story overshadows the bigger picture.

Multitudes of people from Europe, Africa and Asia collided with multitudes of others from pre-Columbian societies, not knowing that they would be caught in a

whirlwind of encounters, battles and unions that would dynamically entangle different people from vastly different regions and histories. This, in turn, sowed the seeds for cultural innovation and diffusion that would sprout into modern-day countries and societies unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Latin America, therefore, has no definitive maker’s mark etched into its diverse past, no single heritage.

For the sake of becoming a distinct, recognizable cohort in American demographics, we have regrettably traded away a part of reality we so-called “Hispanics” understand all too well but often fail to articulate. We are not one singular, panethnic group. According to Pew Research, most Hispanics prefer to use their country of origin to identify themselves.

Yet despite my serious qualms, I do now see the wisdom in devoting a monthlong celebration to exploring the unique complexity of our Latin American identities, and celebrating Hispanics who have and continue to serve the U.S. as one nation, one people, yet with feet still firmly planted in the pride and love of their distinct cultural histories.

All that I’d recommend is that if Americans are to get the most out of this month-long celebration, they start to think of us beyond the term “Hispanic.”

Juan Lasso is editor of the Valley Stream Herald.

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LETITIA JAMES State attorney general

Is congestion pricing the answer?

To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s proposed congestion price tolling is politically sensitive. Congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police officers, firefighters, teachers, low-income workers, outerborough New York City residents, seniors, the physically disabled, small commercial delivery drivers, users of electric vehicles or other special niches.

These discounts or exemptions will likely be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2021 or 2022. You can’t capture five years of toll revenues, estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support of MTA’s $51

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billion 2020-24 five-year capital plan), when you implement the program three years or more after 2020.

The late start for implementation, a downturn in the economy, more people telecommuting full- and part-time, and a series of discounts and exemptions to tolls could result in billions of lost

anticipated revenue.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

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