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Officials Say New Diesel Engines on PJ Line Will Set Back Electrification MTA: All Projects on Standby, All Contracts in Jeopardy Without Federal Aid

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM As the MTA prepares its budget for the next few years, potentially reducing a massive amount of service due to the pandemic, local officials are saying some of that money earmarked for the Port Jefferson Branch line can get put to better use. Though the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a $12 billion cash shortfall in its 2021 budget, its 2020-24 capital plan still includes plans to purchase new dual-mode (electric/diesel) trains for $150 million to replace older locomotives on several Long Island Rail Road lines, including Port Jeff. A representative of the MTA could not give any fresh updates on these new trains or other initiatives as all of them are on hold due to economic uncertainty, but whether or not the $16.7 billion annual-expenditure entity gets the aid it needs in time, officials are still against any new diesel trains without electrification first. For years, area officials from all levels of government have been promoting electrifying the Port Jeff rail line, transforming it into a system like that of Ronkonkoma for faster, greener public transport. That initiative has been ongoing for years. In March this year, the environmental advocacy group Sierra Club Long Island held a kickoff event for its green transportation

initiative, holding one of its events at the Stony Brook train station. Village, town and county officials have stood behind them at this and past events. Sierra Club Green Issues chair, Mayer Horn, is also a Dix Hills-based transportation consultant and has worked with Port Jefferson Village before. He said purchasing new diesel trains was “a very foolish thing to do.” Back in December of 2018, Horn published a report on behalf of Port Jefferson about the North Shore rail line which described a general lack of full-time direct service between Port Jeff and Penn Station, and how current dual-mode could be used to provide such service now. Village trustee Bruce Miller, who has also long advocated for electrifying the Port Jeff line, said replacing the diesel engines was “anathema” to what has long been proposed. It would effectively make it that much harder to argue for modern technology if the old line suddenly had new trains. Miller has often used the refrain that people all across the North Shore, even as far east as Calverton and as west as Greenlawn, take the longer drive to places like Ronkonkoma rather than catch the closer train, only because it is both less reliable and efficient. “Basically, you’re not entirely eliminating vehicles or cars when you have these two diesel lines on the North Shore and South Shore,” Miller said. “People aren’t factoring in pollution.”

The MTA has planned for additional diesel trains on the LIRR, including the Port Jeff line, but because of COVID, nothing is certain. File photo

On Sept. 17, the MTA put out a press release saying all its contracts are in jeopardy if it does not receive the $12 billion stimulus from the federal government. Some of these multibillion-dollar contracts are for companies that create and sell train and rail parts. The September 2019 presentation of the LIRR’s capital improvement plan had included 160 new electric cars, nearly 20 coach cars and over 10 new locomotives. Plans have changed due to the pandemic, as the MTA looks to close a $5.8 billion budget gap for 2021. Rail lines like Port Jefferson to Huntington will still run hourly at peak periods, but others with lower ridership will not likely be so lucky. Fares are also expected

to increase beyond the anticipated 4% for 2021 through 2024, and riders who are taking trips to the city will feel it in their wallets the most. Yet the new diesel engines remain on the docket, making local advocates and officials severely question if they are still coming when so much service is getting cut. In the MTA’s July preliminary budget presentation, it stated that a reduction or delay in the 2020-24 capital program will have a limited impact on the operating budget because, for one, the MTA’s portion is back ended, having already been funded from several tax sources. Using those sources to DIESEL ENGINES CONTINUED ON A6

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Full Speed Ahead on Hauppauge’s New Innovation Park BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Hauppauge’s new mixed-use complex will cater to young professionals working in and near the industrial park as businesses in the park evolve and change. The Hauppauge Industrial Association of Long Island rebranded the former Hauppauge Industrial Park’s name to Long Island Innovation Park last year with plans to give it a modern facelift. It is not only the second largest industrial park in the country after Silicon Valley, but it also employs more than 55,000 people across Long Island. Part of HIA-LI’s new vision was to add mixedused developments to the area surrounding the park, with hopes to bring young, bright and career-driven people to work. The plan will blend housing and commercial real estate, making it an easy one-stop shop for college graduates to live, work and play all near their job. Town of Smithtown spokeswoman Nicole Garguilo said plans for Long Island Innovation Park are heading toward a groundbreaking, but with no site planned construction as of yet. It will obviously take a few more years to be completely finalized. But it has been a long process, beginning a little over three years ago, when James Lima Planning + Development strategists surveyed how the development could impact the area and economy. The proposal was published in 2019. According to the report, the park already

accounts for 8.2% of Long Island’s gross domestic product and houses 1,350 companies. The district encompasses about 1,400 acres of land and generates over $19 million in annual tax revenue for the town. Garguilo said last month the overlay district was approved, which cites 13 potential properties that fit within those parameters. “The buffer had to be 1,000 square feet between residential and commercial property,” she said. “It has to be far enough away from residential area, so we don’t interrupt the quality of life in the Hauppauge industrial zone.” The overlay also must be on a vacant lot or property. As the park has aged over the years, so have its occupying companies, Garguilo said. “Commerce and economic trends have changed, leading to vacant properties, which was becoming visibly apparent when driving through the park,” she said. So came the facelift. “HIA in trying to reimagine what the park could be in the century we’re living in, came up with a master plan for the park to plan for the next 50 years,” Garguilo said. “Obviously industry has changed, you no longer have big warehouses, we’re seeing high tech, pharmaceutical, laboratories. … The park — if it’s going to survive and continue to produce the taxes to support the school districts — they need to evolve their park and what the parks going to look like.” The report said the park supports the

Hauppauge school district with approximately $44 million in annual tax revenue. In building the mixed-use complex, it would “be able to attract the right high-end companies to the park,” she said, with many of the companies offering discounted housing as part of their benefits package. “Sixty-eight percent of Long Islanders from 18 to 34 years of age planned to leave the region within the next five years,” Town of Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) said at a press conference last month. “Smithtown is especially vulnerable to this exodus of young people, which would decimate the local economy, leaving behind an aging population incapable of filling local jobs.” Garguilo said from the beginning, this project was nonpartisan, gaining support from politicians from both sides of the political spectrum. “Everybody was instrumental in piecing it together from town, to the county and to the state with support from the Long Island Builders Association and Suffolk County IDA.” However, some local residents claim it will cause more harm than good, saying it will cause an increase of traffic and an influx of new students to the district. “During the one opportunity the community had to voice their opinion, people were adamantly against it,” James Bouklas, president of the We Are Smithtown civic group, said. “The only ones supportive were the developers and politicians.” Garguilo noted the study claims otherwise, mentioning that young people will stay in the same

A drone shot of Long Island Innovation Park in Hauppauge. Photo from Town of Smithtown

vicinity where everything they need is available. “This vicinity is not impacting traffic,” she said. “[The Lima study] shows a slight uptick in traffic on weekends, but for the most part they want to be able do all of that and then walk home.” She also said they are not expecting families to move into these workforce apartments, but rather use it as a stepping-stone for future homeownership. “Statistically when a person moves to a town into an apartment or otherwise, when they’re ready to settle down they’re twice as more likely to stay in the town where they started their roots,” she said.

Suffolk Unveils Part of 2021 Operating Budget, Showing Significant Reductions BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM After weeks of warnings and missives about an upcoming budget shortfall, Suffolk officials finally published this upcoming year’s budget, one that has to take into consideration an apparent $437 million deficit over the next two years. Cuts won’t be instituted until the middle of 2021. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) revealed a 2021 recommended operating budget of $3.197 billion, representing $33 million less than the current year’s budget. It is a reaction to a total revenue shortfall of $325 million in 2020. In a proposed budget released Oct. 9, the county would be letting go 500 full-time employees. The county exec said it would also mean a reduction in health care and mental health services, the loss of two full classes of trainees at the police academy and the elimination of 19 bus routes. Most cuts will be implemented July 1, 2021. County officials said this gives time in case

some federal aid is received in the future. “We have submitted a COVID-19 budget with cuts that would have been unimaginable just a short time ago,” Bellone said on a call with reporters Oct. 13. “These cuts should not happen, these are cuts that are devastating in many ways and would in effect undermine our recovery.” The budget accounts for a sales tax loss from 2019 to 2020 of an estimated $131.7 million. The anticipated sales tax for 2021 is still $102.5 million less than 2019’s figures. Among other losses across the board, the one increase seems to be property taxes from a real estate boom on Long Island. Suffolk County received $4 million more than last year, and anticipates $18.6 million more in 2021 than this current year. In expenditures, contractual expenses and employee benefits are also set to marginally increase. The county expects a negative fund balance for 2021 of about $176.98 million. Overall, Bellone said Suffolk could be looking at a cumulative $460 million deficit within the next year.

This year’s budget was originally set to roll in back in September, but it has since been delayed until the start of this month. The projected budget also may be another general cry for help to the federal government. Suffolk officials also decry the withholding of state aid to the tune of $1.9 billion to local municipalities. Cutting employees would save about $25 million next year. The bus route cuts, along with reductions to the Suffolk County Accessible Transportation bus service affecting a total of 2,500 riders of both systems, will save $18 million. The police class cuts will save approximately $20 million, while a 50% cut across the board for contract agencies, which include substance abuse clinics, mental health providers, domestic violence shelters and gang prevention programs, would save another $8 million in 2021 and annualized savings of $16 million. The budget also shows an overall 1.9% increase in taxes for the police district, though that remains under the New York State tax cap. Bellone has constantly reiterated Suffolk’s

need for federal funds over the past few months, holding press conference after press conference to reiterate loss of services because of COVID19-induced budget shortfalls. Republicans in the Legislature, however, have consistently attacked the executive for what they have called fiscal mismanagement over the past few years, citing Suffolk’s bond downgrades and a report from Tom DiNapoli (D), the New York State comptroller, saying Suffolk was the most fiscally stressed county in the state in 2019. Bellone, on the other hand, claimed he inherited in 2012 a $500 million deficit but that the County finished 2019 with a surplus. He added the county would have been on track for $50 million surplus in 2020 that would have wiped out the accumulated deficit prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Suffolk did receive $257 million in CARES Act funding in April, as well as an additional $26.6 million for public transportation. Officials have said most or all that funding has been spent or earmarked, and it does not help cover overall losses.

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State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) has long been a proponent of electrification. As the chair of the Assembly environmental conservation committee, he said he, along with his state Senate counterpart Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Centre), met with Phil Eng, the head of the LIRR, late last year to talk about these new trains. “Quite frankly, he was not able to give us any assurance he was going to do anything but plow ahead,” Englebright said. “That was a couple months before COVID crisis basically created a whole new set of distractions.” New York State, in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, has set the lofty goal to limit statewide greenhouse gases to 40% of 1990 levels by 2030, and 85% by 2050. “It looks to me like LIRR is basically telling us that they are going to proceed as if exempt from CLCPA, which is outrageous,” the local assemblyman said. He added these trains could have a lifespan of 50 years. In a letter sent to Englebright in March 2019, MTA president, Patrick Foye, said that the LIRR had been reviewing proposals for a $4 million study on Port Jeff electrification and other projects, and that it could be awarding a contract for the electrification study in early summer 2019. That study has not yet materialized and, with the MTA saying it has no updates, it’s likely it won’t any time soon.

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Far Beyond COVID

In 2016, Stony Brook University rebranded itself to a new campaign called Far Beyond. The idea behind the campaign was to highlight the wide range of programs and activities the school offered, since everyone normally acknowledges the university for its medicine, science and technology specialties. But this year in 2020, the institution proved that it indeed has gone “far beyond” with protecting public health. Dr. Deborah Birx, head of the White House’s coronavirus task force, visited SBU last week, a stop in a several-month-long tour of different colleges and universities across the United States. But her visit to the local university was different, and she made that clear. During her press conference, she spoke highly of how Stony Brook has handled the COVID-19 crisis. She said from the start, it was going, well, “far beyond” what other schools, and even hospitals, were doing. She said that back in March when the university shut down and patients with the virus were filling the rooms, Stony Brook did something different from other institutions — it actually collected data, while continuing to take care of the patients. “I was listening to the research activities that they started from day one,” she said during the press conference. “And it thrilled my heart to hear from them that their number one thing was collecting data and collecting information in real time.” It’s right to give credit where its due, and Stony Brook, both on the medical and campus side, has done good work in keeping the number of cases down. The university’s COVID dashboard reports just two students, one university employee and four Stony Brook Medicine employees have currently tested positive as of Oct. 11. Better yet, the school has been upfront in where those cases are located and how it is handling them. This is compared to places like SUNY Oneonta, which had to close back in August after hundreds of students tested positive after a large super-spreader party. The Oneonta dashboard reports 712 confirmed cases among students since the start of the fall semester. It’s also not to say that SBU has not made stumbles, especially in communicating with students. Right off the bat during the start of the pandemic, students were rightfully upset at how the university handled the virus. In March, dorming students were shocked when each received an email saying they needed to move out, go home or find shelter elsewhere because the campus was officially closed. Students said they felt rushed, and felt the university wasn’t being truthful or transparent with everything being so abrupt. Some international students couldn’t even go home since their countries were in lockdown. But the students are back, and cases remain low. Is it because of the incentives the university has taken with social distancing guidelines, removing of sports and recreational activities, hybrid learning and sanitizing stations? Or is it just because Stony Brook is not a “party school” and the students there really don’t congregate as at some of the schools upstate, like Oneonta. It’s also important to note the number of students living on campus has fallen from 39% in 2019 to 17% this fall. With a new president installed at SBU, Maurie McInnis, we think that communication with students has improved. Every person, every institution has been impacted by the pandemic. The students, who feel they are paying a lot for what at times must feel like a mostly online education, need that person-on-person interaction to let their voices be heard, even if it’s behind a clear plastic barrier. Nonetheless, Stony Brook gets high praise from both us and those involved in the national response to COVID-19, as well as Birx, for going “far beyond.” We kindly ask that the university keeps it up, for the sake of both your students and the wider community.

Letters to the Editor

Police and Trade Unions for Zeldin There was a time being part of a blue collar family meant virtually everyone voted Democrat. They were teamsters, skilled tradesmen, factory workers, laborers, mechanics and members of law enforcement. Most belonged to unions, earned a pretty good living doing difficult jobs, and figured they owed that party their loyalty. But, increasingly troubled by the Democrat’s move towards policies no longer in the best interests of their family’s slice of the middle class, they began casting ballots for Republicans. That blue collar exit grew into a movement that helped elect President Donald Trump (R). This year, Dem congressional leaders are distancing themselves even further from what used to be their base. They’re demanding our nation adopt the kind of failed policies ruining the very cities currently being run by their extremist, ideological soulmates. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris hail from a blighted, anything goes

San Francisco, while Chuck Schumer stands mute regarding an historic, deadly leap in New York City crime. How many, common sense, working class folks would want pols representing these badly mismanaged towns, now hemorrhaging residents, spreading those schemes throughout our the nation? If you’re living in Congressional District 1 you may be happy to learn, as of this writing, some 35 unions, representing thousands of members and their families are not buying what Democrat coastal elites are peddling. They are “proudly” endorsing Congressman Lee Zeldin . The endorsements run the gamut. A quick look finds Lee receiving thumbs-up from operating engineers, heavy construction laborers, masters, mates & pilots, plumbers, carpenters, boilermakers, sheet metal workers, steamfitters, electrical workers, fire officers, and transportation workers. In addition to those trades people there is now a stunning total of 16 unions affiliated

with law enforcement urging you to vote for Zeldin. Given current circumstances this level of support is completely justifiable. They know Lee has their back. These men and women also know his opponent is joined at the hip with a political party taking dangerous, radical positions on policing. For months Dems ignored looting in rioting. Cong. Nadler called Portland’s 100 days of mayhem a “myth.” Worse still, as crime spiked nationally, Democrats demanded and got the early release of prisoners, cashless bail, defunding of police (Minneapolis) and a dramatic slashing of monies for cops in NYC. With so much at stake in this election, CD 1 residents might do well to follow the lead of the police and trade unions, who’ve looked at the facts, reviewed the data, checked with their working class peers, and concluded they’ll support Congressman Lee Zeldin. Jim Soviero East Setauket

LIRR Service Cuts Would Conflict with Commitments MTA Chairman Pat Foye and Long Island Rail Road President Phil Eng have a serious problem when it comes to keeping promises for new Long Island Rail Road service. The MTA threated a 50% reduction in LIRR service if they don’t receive a second $12 billion federal CARE COVID-19 bailout. These proposed service cuts conflict with previous commitments of new service on the Hempstead branch for the Elmont

LIRR Station (the first new station to open in 50 years) to serve the Islanders Belmont Arena in October 2022; 40% increase in rush hour service upon completion of the $2.6 billion Main Line Third Track (which runs between Hicksville and Floral Park serving the Huntington, Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay and Ronkonkoma branches) and 24 trains hourly (anticipated to serve all nine branches) during am and pm peak supporting the $11.2 billion East Side

Access to Grand Central Terminal, both in December 2022 There is also reverse peak service increases on all LIRR branches in December 2022. They are all 12 to 24 months away from promised first day of service dates. Commuters, taxpayers, transit advocates, Islander fans and elected officials are all waiting for some answers today, not next year. Larry Penner Great Neck

A Lifelong Republican’s Hard Decision I have just become aware that the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has, for the first time in its 104 year history, came out for the removal of a president. The gist of their opinion article is that, with regard to COVID-19, President Donald Trump (R) is a danger to the American people.

I agree. I believe it isn’t that President Trump doesn’t know what is going on but, like a petulant child, he doesn’t really care. For this reason I, a lifelong Republican, am having to decide whether to abstain from voting for president or to vote against the re-election of Donald J. Trump.

It is my hope that my friends and neighbors can, as I have done, separate the antics of our president from the dedication of most others who are running for office. As usual, that is just one man’s opinion. What is yours? Francis G. Gibbons Sr. Terryville

Editor’s note … As a rule, next’s week issue of The Times of Smithtown will be the last edition before the election that we will publish letters supporting a candidate. The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper.

OCTOBER 15, 2020 • TIMES OF SMITHTOWN • PAGE A19

Opinion My Lunch at CSHL With a Future Nobel Prize Winner

hree years and a different world ago, I attended a scientiﬁc conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on a gene editing technique called CRISPR, or more technically CRISPR-cas9. I rubbed elbows with some of the many talented scientists at an internationally renowned institution. In a casual atmosphere ﬁlled with high-powered talks from people who speak the language of science with accents from all over the world, the grounds at CSHL, with its D. None winding roads and of the above personalized parking BY DANIEL DUNAIEF spaces, offers a treelined backdrop for new collaborations and discoveries. Back then, I invited one of the conference

organizers, Jennifer Doudna (pronounced Dowd nuh), who is a Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, to lunch. After a talk she gave to a packed Grace Auditorium, she and I strolled to the cafeteria to discuss a gene editing tool that has the potential to change the world. Indeed, even today, labs around the world are using a technique based on the way bacteria recognize and ﬁght off viruses to combat the effect of SARS-CoV-2, or the virus that causes COVID-19. During that sunny July day in 2017, however, we were blissfully unaware of the challenges to come in 2020. We sat down at a central table outside, with people passing, nodding and acknowledging my tall and talented lunch guest. While she responded to an appreciative crowd of casually dressed researchers, she was present and focused on the many questions I’d prepared for an upcoming Power of 3 column (see page B9 for another look at that column). Like many revolutionary technologies and inventions such as splitting the atom, CRISPR is

neither all good nor all bad. Editing genes creates opportunities to cure or prevent diseases and to disarm a range of miniature invaders. At the same time, gene editing puts the power of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into the hands of scientists or doctors, offering the kind of tool that requires careful ethical considerations. Indeed, just last year, a Chinese court sentenced a researcher to three years in prison for using gene editing in unborn babies. Doudna, who moved to Hawaii when she was seven and is a passionate gardener, is in the third year of a four-year $65 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which monitors security concerns for the intentional or accidental misuse of the technology. Eating with Doudna on a breezy, bright summer day, I appreciated how ready she was to tailor the conversation to my level of understanding of this technology, offering details about gene editing and making sure I understood her. While she was impressive and articulate, she certainly didn’t seem as if she were speaking to me from on high. She shared a deliberate and

A Benefit Amid Pandemic Problems: Binging

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turn off the TV until the series had ended. I guess that was the tip off to my plot-addicted personality. The reveal is that I love stories, and like the monarch lover of Scheherazade, Persian King Shahryar, in “One Thousand and One Nights,” I cannot leave a tale in the middle when I have the opportunity to see how it ends, regardless of my fatigue. So on a recommendation, I started watching “The Crown,” and you guessed it. This marvelous series, a historical drama about Elizabeth II, the Windsors, and some of the events that have marked her reign, captivated me. The first season starts with the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, to the end of her sister Margaret’s involvement with Group Captain Peter Townsend in 1955. After dinner each night, I turned on the television and watched all the stories filmed to this point until I fell asleep in my chair. I eagerly await the start of the fourth season, which I believe will happen Nov. 15 and include Margaret Thatcher’s premiership and more on Lady Diana Spencer. The fifth and sixth seasons are to cover the years in the 21st

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Both couples, forced to recognize their advanced years, deal with physical limitations, retirement issues, health insurance frustrations, bigoted elderly parents, interracial relationships, sexual needs and computer challenges. Both couples have adult children, who bring into the plots some of the pain and satisfactions of the twenty-somethings: raising young children, not wanting children, addiction, being able to afford buying a home, and worrying how to take care of older parents who don’t want to acknowledge aging. It is primarily the story, though, of two women, Grace and Frankie, who could not be more different. They cannot stand to be in the same room with each other at the start, yet we see how they slowly come together in trying to deal with their mutually altered circumstances. The characters are well drawn by the authors and actors, and they ultimately reveal much about the value of supportive friendships between women. Can Grace and Frankie, two women in their 70s, survive being outcasts? The answer is a resounding YES! Be assured, there are already 78 episodes with more on the way, enough for a great binge.

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W E L CO M E H O M E TO YO U R S T Y L E O F L I V I N G Experience a 55+ luxury lifestyle rental community featuring open floor plans, upscale interior design, and resort-style amenities. Indulge in the heated outdoor pool, spend mornings on the walking trail, or visit the on-site dog park. Plus, enjoy a robust social calendar designed by a dedicated event coordinator, join friends at the clubhouse sports bar, and train in our state-of-the-art fitness center and yoga studio. It’s all here – all we need is you! 170828

SCHEDULE A TOUR TODAY! 300 Sutton Court, Mount Sinai, NY 11766 631.239.7090 | suttonlanding.com

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