Great Neck 2019_02_01

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Friday, February 1, 2019

Vol. 94, No. 5

GUIDE TO VALENTINE’S DAY

LIBRARY BOARD REORGANIZES

BOSWORTH TOUTS NEW INITIATIVES

PAGES 33-40

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Lurvey of G.N. ascends to Town Board

DANCING IN THE NEW YEAR

North Shore Action founder, Temple Israel officer succeeds Anna Kaplan

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Veronica Lurvey officially succeeded Anna Kaplan as North Hempstead Town Board member at a town council meeting on Tuesday night, ending a month-long search following Kaplan’s successful bid for state Senate.

Lurvey, a Kensington resident, will represent District 4, which includes Kings Point, Great Neck, Kensington, Thomaston, Manhasset, North Hills, Roslyn Estates and Roslyn.

“I’ve gotten to know her,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said. “I believe she would be such a wonderful addition to this Town Board as we continue to all work together to serve the residents of North Hempstead.”

In addition to being the founder and co-president of North Shore Action, a community action organization started in 2017, Lurvey has been a vice president of Temple Israel of Great Neck since 2014. She has also been a member of the Village of Kens-

ington Zoning Board of Appeals since 2013.

Lurvey also served as an attorney and counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1994 to 2012. She secured her law degree from Georgetown University in 1998.

Town Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio said she first got to know Lurvey over breakfast, when the latter reached out to the board regarding the March for Our Lives rally last year.

“I was impressed by what a passionate, community-minded person you are,” De Giorgio said at the meeting.

Later, she added, the job of council member will probably be tough — but rewarding.

“I think you’ll find that being a councilperson is probably one of the hardest best things that you’ll do,” De Giorgio said.

“To have been considered for this position was a privilege. To have been elected unanimously was a true honor,” Lurvey said. “I am looking forward to working with my fellow Continued on Page 59

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A group of women perform “Dream into Shangri-la” as part of the Great Neck Chinese Association’s annual Lunar New Year celebration, which drew hundreds of people. See story on page 10.

VHB study outlines ideas for Middle Neck, East Shore

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N The Village of Great Neck’s consultant for the revitalization of Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road will present the results of its study in “layman’s terms” on Tuesday, outlining properties of interest and proposals to try boosting the areas.

The study by VHB aims to bring about di-

versified housing options like affordable housing and assisted living facilities, reduced commercial vacancies, a bigger tax base, improved property values, enhanced streetscapes, access to public spaces and improved pedestrian safety.

It does this by highlighting properties of interest, current shortcomings in the area, and suggesting zoning changes to provide incentives Continued on Page 20

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No action on Great Neck Library chief

New board postpones acceptance, appoints officers

Park district OKs new LED screen, boat restoration

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

Great Neck’s library board delayed the formal acceptance of Library Director Denise Corcoran’s resignation and the appointment of an interim director at a reorganizational board meeting Tuesday night.

The action pushed the matter to a future meeting.

Corcoran declined to comment and recommended speaking with newly inaugurated" board President Rebecca Miller, who said the board plans to act quickly and is taking the matter seriously.

She also did not comment on the reason for the resignation.

Marietta DiCamillo, a former trustee and board president attending the meeting, asked if it was “really just pro forma for the board to accept the resignation publicly.”

“From the standpoint of acceptance, it’s formality. It’s fait accompli,” DiCamillo said." “So I didn’t understand why the board wouldn’t just vote on it.”

Peter Fishbein, the attorney for the library board, said, “There were a number of questions that occurred from some board members and they’d like to get answers to those before they act on all that.”

“Mysterious,” said Naomi Penner, a frequent attendee at library board meetings.

“This board just sat, remember,” Miller said, to which Trustee Josie Pizer added that those questions “will be dealt with.”

Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar, a member of the 2017 director search committee that selected Corcoran, said after the meeting that Corcoran had “brought the promise of better times” and “worked tirelessly to undo the damage of recent years,” namely the “massive discard” of books following the Main Library reno-

The Great Neck Park District will upgrade from a blowup movie screen and projector, commissioners said on Thursday night, approving a $72,000 purchase of a mobile LED screen and trailer.

Park Superintendent Jason Marra said the new screen could not only be used year round, but be transported around the district.

Among its possibilities are showing movies at the pool, hosting outdoor video game events, using it for concerts and sporting events, and park district advertising, he said.

“The possibilities are endless,” Commissioner Tina Stellato commented.

The MAX mobile LED display trailer would be 15 feet by 8.5 feet wide. The purchase would include the screen, generator, Blu-ray player, satellite dish, speakers, spare parts, a screen cover and a two-year warranty,

PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN

President Rebecca Miller and Vice President Weihua Yan take notes at the Great Neck Library’s reorganizational meeting. vation.

“She moved the library forward technologically. She valued the library staff and treated it as a team,” Gilliar said. “But in the end she could not overcome the entrenched obstacles. Her decision to resign is too bad for Great Neck.”

Including Corcoran, there have been three hired directors and three interim directors at the Great Neck Library since 2009.

In reorganizational business, trustees voted 4-2 to name Weihua Yan vice president over Barry Smith, who was then selected to be secretary. Scott Sontag abstained from the vote. Pizer was appointed treasurer.

The new board consists of Miller, Pizer, Yan, Smith, Chelsea Sassouni, Liman Mimi Hu, and Sontag.

Sontag defeated Robert Schaufeld, the board president, last year, while Hu beat back a write-in challenge and Sassouni, who was appointed to fill a vacancy last year, won a contested race against David Zielenziger.

Yan and Smith were elected

in 2017 and took their seats in 2018, while Miller, who previously served as vice president, was elected in 2016 and began serving in 2017.

Pizer served two four-year terms before being appointed to fill a vacancy in 2017 – meaning she has spent more time on the board than all other members combined.

Schaufeld and Joel Marcus, who had declined to seek re-election, were presented commendations for their service. Outgoing Nominating Committee members DiCamillo, Howard Esterces and Donald Panetta also received commendations for their library service.

Board trustees also adopted a schedule of trustees meetings for 2019, with the last to take place on Dec. 17 at the Main Library and a reorganizational meeting to take place on Jan. 7, 2020, and discussed committees but took no action.

The next meeting will take place on Feb. 26 at the Main Library, with budget workshops to be held in March.

Marra said. Its expected life is around 10 years.

Commissioner Bob Lincoln said the blow-up screen was about $20,000 when first purchased and that the park district plans to auction it off to get some money back.

In unrelated business, commissioners also voted to approve the restoration of a 30-year-old Port 26 boat used at the marina at Steppingstone Park to take people from the dock to and from moored boats at a cost of $40,849.35.

Marra said the cost of getting a new boat would have been $130,000 and a used one would have been around $80,000.

“We’re rebuilding the old boat and making it new again,” Marra said.

Lincoln said the hull is in good shape and that the engine and transmission work, but the upper wooden structure would be replaced with fiberglass. As a public conveyance, it would need to be approved by the U.S. Continued on Page 69

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The Great Neck Park District approved the purchase of an LED screen and trailer on Thursday night, which official say could serve many purposes.

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An ‘indomitable spirit’ now rests in G.N. Several attend burial of Elizabeth Allen, a Great Neck activist and park district advocate

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Elizabeth Allen, 76, was many things to the two dozen people who stood in mud and rain to honor her at her burial at All Saints Episcopal Church’s cemetery: “Champion of the past.” “Multi-faceted.” Nature lover. Garden tender. Determined.

But she was one thing above all, they said: a force to be reckoned with.

“She was fierce on everything,” Diane Motchkavitz, who grew up a few doors down from her on Steamboat Road and whose family knew the Allens for decades, said on Thursday. “She never did anything halfway. She was always full on.”

Allen, a longtime activist and Park District advocate, was laid to rest on the Allen family plot at All Saints Episcopal Church on a rainy Thursday afternoon.

Among the attendees were neighbors, park commissioners, colleagues on the park district’s open space committees, and family and friends.

And there could have been more, her friend David Zielenziger said, noting that several people messaged him that “rain [and] ailments prevented [their] attendance.”

“It’s very touching, very touching,” her sister Patricia Allen Dreyfus said of the attendance. “And I do believe she’s looking down and smiling, saying, ‘good work.’”

Allen, a former attorney, was a frequent presence in the Great Neck News and board meetings of all kinds over the years. She pushed back against what she saw as a steady dripping of overdevelopment in Great Neck that threatened Great Neck’s charm and parks.

“Because she loved nature and the way things were, she was really upset about the overdevelopment in Great Neck and the infringement on parks, chipping away at pieces of the parks” Martin Markson, one of her colleagues on the Great Neck Park District’s Open Space Committee, said.

Mary Cunningham, another colleague on the committee, de-

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Several people braved rain to attend Elizabeth Allen’s burial. scribed Allen as a “multi-faceted” individual with a penchant for creating raspberry jam every Christmas – and overcoming more than a fair share of adversity.

“Every step she took was painful. She was in an auto accident years ago,” Cunningham said. “So she really overcame a lot, just even physically. She left her career, she was an entertain-

ment lawyer, she lost her husband.”

Alissa Desmaras, a neighbor of Allen’s, recalled how even a few weeks ago, Allen could be seen feeding her birds despite this.

“No matter how she felt or what condition she was in, she was out there,” Desmaras said, picking up sticks, crab apples and dragging her yard bin around.

“She was a very indomitable spirit.”

Allen had been a key player in a lawsuit against Kings Point, where she and three other plaintiffs sued the village to prevent the loss of acres of parkland for a public works facility.

Dan Capruso, one of the plaintiffs, said at her burial that it was Allen who had notified him about how “part of the park I live near was going to be destroyed” and without her, he wouldn’t have been able to fight back.

“She made the community a better place,” Capruso said, “and everybody is going to miss her like I am.”

Dreyfus said their father was born in 1898 and grew up in Great Neck, meaning the family had been there for 120 years. She and Allen grew up there too – but it would be Allen who decided to stay out of a love for the area and their house, Dreyfus said.

“Elizabeth was so active in the community and many people will say how she, because of her determination and her background as a lawyer, she was able to achieve, to preserve parks in Continued on Page 69

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Nicolello, GOP to assessor: resign Presiding officer, Nassau Legislature majority call on Moog to quit over assessment issues

BY J E D

HENDRIXSON

Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello and other Republican Nassau County legislators are calling for the resignation of County Assessor David Moog, citing “error after error” in the reassessment process.

“We do not take this action lightly and we understand how difficult a countywide reassessment is, especially in a county as large and diverse as Nassau,” Nicolello, of New Hyde Park, said. “However, the job is difficult does not change the fact that it must be done correctly.”

At a news conference on Monday, Nicolello, flanked by fellow Republican legislators, said that tens of thousands of errors like missed deadlines and misleading information have contributed to the legislators’ decision.

Moog and his office have been tasked with carrying out County Executive Laura Curran’s plan for the first countywide reassessment since former County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican, froze the tax roll in 2011.

In a statement, Curran said that the staffing levels and procedures at the department were decimated by Mangano’s administration, and Moog is hard at work tackling those issues as well as others.

PHOTO BY JED HENDRIXSON.

Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello, left, has called for the resignation of county Assessor David Moog.

“The Presiding Officer and the Legislative Majority’s demand to remove David Moog from his position is just an attempt to delay the reassessment process,” the statement read."

County residents, and Curran herself, according to Nicolello, have lost confidence in Moog’s performance. “[Curran] has recently taken the ex-

traordinary step of appointing a budget person to oversee the Department of Assessment, to ensure quality control,” Nicolello said. “Let’s be clear, that is the assessor’s job, he should be ensuring quality control in his department.”

Last Wednesday, Curran appointed Ana Sousa to direct a newly formed Quality Assurance Unit to" supervise the

implementation and creation of policies and procedures at the Department of Assessment, the Assessment Review Commission and the Small Claims Assessment Review unit.

In a statement, Curran said the new unit will provide “a meaningful and thorough internal review of policy and procedures that will ensure the best practices of our departments.”

Appointing Sousa and creating the quality assurance unit was equivalent to assigning Moog a babysitter, according to Nicolello.

Sousa’s appointment was established to provide guidelines and quality assurance after nearly a decade of a frozen assessment roll, according to Curran.

Nicolello called for Moog’s resignation or for Curran to remove him from his position.

Moog was not immediately available for comment.

Nicolello called out Moog for not hosting his own community meetings to discuss the reassessment process, which has been a controversial issue with residents in recent months.

He added that he and his majority delegation in the Legislature have hosted numerous assessment related hearings to answer residents’ questions.

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Bos touts ‘transformative’ initiatives Places cultural master plan, vet health care, N. Hempstead Beach redo at top of agenda

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth touted the town’s fiscal health and several initiatives that will continue into 2019 at the State of the Town address in Port Washington on Friday, ranging from a cultural master plan and expanding veterans healthcare to transforming North Hempstead Beach Park.

Bosworth said the town has retained its AAA bond rating from Moody’s, decreased debt by $31.4 million since 2014, and passed budgets within the state tax cap – all while expanding services and embracing new initiatives.

In delivering the speech, Bosworth unveiled a conceptual plan for North Hempstead Beach Park created by consultant Quennell Rothschild.

Describing it as “transformative,” Bosworth said the plan calls for sports courts, a sledding hill, a year-round restaurant and outdoor café, fields and a seasonal ice-skating rink – to name a few things.

“To move this project we will retain an engineering firm to undertake the detailed design work,

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North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth outlined the town’s 2018 accomplishments and plans for 2019 in the State of the Town address on Friday afternoon. as well as create a resiliency plan that addresses future climate change and sea level rise,” Bosworth said.

Bosworth said this followed several public meetings and work from the Visioning Committee in

2018.

Bosworth also praised the work of the Veterans Advisory Committee and federal representatives in securing a mobile care unit from the Northport Veteran Affairs Medical Center, which comes to Clinton

G. Martin Park three times a week.

“Now, instead of having to travel for hours to the Northport VA hospital, our veterans are served right here in their own backyard,” Bosworth said. “This mobile unit is a temporary measure until we get a

permanent community-based outpatient clinic.” " Bosworth touched on a number of laws introduced in 2018, like plans to simplify the building code, prevent recently paved roads from being ripped open by utility companies, and regulate leaf blowers with the help of an advisory committee.

In a 4-0 vote on Wednesday, the Town Board voted to ban gaspowered leaf blower operation on property in the unincorporated areas of the town between June and Sept. 15, while requiring that commercial landscapers obtain permits to work in the town. The law will go into effect in 2020.

“I believe that in the end, we have succeeded in writing a law that benefits our environment and our residents without overburdening the landscapers who depend on this business for their livelihood,” Bosworth said.

She also defended recently passed legislation to bar recreational marijuana sales and regulate where and how medical marijuana dispensaries could operate, describing it as a means to prevent such facilities from clustering in North Hempstead.

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Study eyes bringing Amtrak service to L.I.

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Travelers heading to Northeast cities may be able to start their nonstop trip from Long Island instead of Penn Station.

As part of a deal brokered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo between the Amtrak and MTA to construct four new Metro-North stations on the Amtrak’s Northeast corridor, the MTA agreed to jointly conduct a study for Amtrak

to extend service to Long Island.

A statement released by the governor said both rail! authorities will study “the feasibility of Amtrak running several trains daily from Long Island to Penn Station and continuing either north to Boston or south to Washington.”

Currently, Amtrak’s only presence on the island is in Sunnyside Yard, Queens, where train cars are cleaned and maintained.

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The North Hempstead Town Board passed a law regulating the use of gas leaf blowers at its meeting Tuesday evening.

The legislation bans the use of gaspowered leaf blowers on property within the unincorporated areas of the town between June 15 and Sept. 15. and requires that commercial landscapers obtain permits to work in the town.

It is intended to promote green landscaping practices, preserve public health and deter unlicensed landscapers, the law says.

The Town Board spent more than a year preparing the law. In March, it created an advisory committee that included landscapers, environmental activists and residents.

“I remember the first time this was brought up as a possibility and we had some very angry landscapers with us, but we promised that we would have a committee that would look at this from all the different angles,” Bosworth said.

Several people who had participated throughout the process thanked the council for its efforts Tuesday.

“You are helping to eliminate many public health problems,” said Dr. Bonnie Sager, who co-founded the Huntington Citizens Appeal for Leafblower Moderation advocacy group.

The law passed 4-0 with Councilwoman Dina DiGiorgio abstaining, citing the ethics code. She has relatives who are commercial landscapers who will be affected by the legislation, she said.

The law will not go into effect until the beginning of 2020.

The Town Board also unanimously passed a zoning change and an amendment to the housing, rehabilitation and property maintenance code.

The zoning code amendment modifies sections about parking and special use permits.

“Were hoping that by amending this that we’ll go a long way toward speeding up some of the permit processes,” Bosworth said.

The amendment also changes some definitions in the code, including that of attics, which “may be permitted to be constructed as, or converted into, habitable or occupiable space where the requirements of the district would permit a full story.”

One resident said he was concerned that would increase living space within homes to an additional floor.

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Child Victims Act passes in Albany Gives more time for victims of sexual abuse to file criminal charges and civil lawsuits

BY T E R I W EST New York’s Child Victims Act passed Monday, more than a decade after survivors of childhood sexual abuse and advocates began pushing for the legislation.

The law will allow survivors to file criminal charges until age 28 and civil charges until age 55.

The act also creates a one-year window for survivors to reintroduce claims that exceeded the statute of limitations.

“It has taken us a number of years to get here, but we got here because of you and your tenacity,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a room of survivors of child abuse and advocates for the cause Monday morning in Albany. “The delay, don’t take it personally.”

The act, which passed unanimously in the Senate and 130-3 in the Assembly, is among a flurry of legislation that has passed in recent weeks since the legislative session began in Albany with a newly Democratic Senate.

“I’m proud to co-sponsor the Child Victims Act, which gives survivors an opportunity to have

their day in court, confront their abusers, and hopefully find closure, because survivors deserve an opportunity for healing, and those who commit crimes against children must be held accountable,” state Sen. Anna Kaplan (DGreat Neck) said in a statement.

The Republican-held Senate spent years successfully blocking legislation like the Child Victims Act and the Reproductive Health Act, which passed Jan. 22 and codifies Roe v. Wade abortion provisions in state law.

Kaplan’s predecessor, Elaine Phillips, a Republican, took heat from advocates for holding back from supporting the Child Victims Act and later co-sponsoring a separate bill that would not expand the criminal statute of limitations.

“The justice system turned its back on victims in the state of New York … and today that’s going to change,” said Marci Hamilton, CEO of Child USA, at the Monday morning event to which the press was invited. “Republicans were the reason for blocking the legislation. It literally took a

to defend alleged conduct decades ago about which they have no knowledge.”

In 2009, a conference spokesman said, “We believe this bill is designed to bankrupt the Catholic Church,” according to The New York Times.

Cuomo said that he wasn’t against the Catholic Church on the issue, but instead against those within the church who maintained that political position.

“I think the bishops may have a different position than the pope, and I’m with the pope,” he said Monday.

The Catholic Church was also a vocal opponent of the Reproductive Health Act, with some WIKIMEDIA COMMONS leaders asking for Cuomo’s excommunication since its passing.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who spoke directly to survivors of The State Legislature passed gun legislation on Tuesday, inchildhood sexual abuse Monday morning before the Child cluding a ban on firearms on Victims Act passed. school property, unless carried blue wave to do the right thing by January 2018 testimony, the New by police or school security staff. victims in the state of New York.” York State Catholic Conference Another measure would allow The Catholic Church was argued that an extended window judges to take guns away from one of the most vocal lobbyists for survivors to retroactively file owners who are found to be menagainst the Child Victims Act. In! claims “would force institutions tally ill.

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Classics, new twists for Gold Coast Arts Center Lunar New Year event getting new president

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BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N

The Great Neck Chinese Association’s annual Lunar New Year celebration saw a full house and enthusiastic response on Sunday, as it embraced both Chinese classics and modern twists.

It was a bilingual affair, with stand-ups in Chinese and lengthy English explanations for the background of each performance. All age groups were present, from children reciting poetry to teens bopping to BTS – a South Korean boy band – to adults performing classical opera.

“We are very happy to sponsor the event. Without our hundred-plus hardworking volunteers, this event would not be possible,” Nathan Fong, president of the Great Neck Chinese Association, said.

Approximately 600 people attended the event in the Great Neck North Middle School auditorium, Fong said. Members of assorted dance troupes, presented by the Jennifer Zhu

Former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman is succeeding Michael Glickman as president of the Gold Coast Arts Center, the institution’s founder and executive director said in an email last week.

Kaiman and Glickman served as copresidents for a year as part of a transition.

Glickman, who is also president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which is New York’s Holocaust museum, has served on the board of the Gold Coast Arts Center’s for 12 years, five of them as president. He will remain on the board, but not as president.

Glickman said that his first experience with the Gold Coast Arts Center was when his two young children were enrolled in classes there. He then joined the center’s board in 2007 and has been on it since.

In staying on the board, he said he hopes to continue advocating for the institution, which he described as “an untapped resource” for much of the community.

“I want to make sure that they continue to get the exposure and support they need to support the incredible job they are doing every single day,” Glickman said. “They are a unique institution.”

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Children dance to the beat of K-Pop, or Korean pop.

Dance Company and New York Wealth, came together in a variety of performances meant as a display for the community.

“It was very Chinese,” said Kasey Wong, a firsttimer whose child was on stage. “And the quality standards of the performances were very good.”

The event incorporated not only household Chinese classics, including the Butterfly Lovers and a martial arts performance to the Once Upon a Time in China theme, but Western and Korean influences.

A drum dance was a

nod to the Korean ethnicity of China, a K-pop medley was a nod to the genre’s explosion in current generations, and the performance opened and closed with Strauss and “Swan Lake.”

“It’s incredible,” Donald Ashkenase, the vice president of the Great Neck school board, said. “Meeting the needs of all the children. Diversification in this community is our strength.”

On the lunar calendar, the coming New Year marks the beginning of the year of the pig. The date itself lands on Tuesday this year.

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Jon Kaiman, right, will be succeeding Michael Glickman as president of the Gold Coast Arts Center’s executive board.

Regina Gil, the executive director and founder of the Gold Coast Arts Center, said in an email to the staff that Glickman should be praised for his work with the center.

“He deserves all of our thanks for stepping up when he did and I hope that we will acknowledge that at our next big board meeting,” Gil wrote. “He has truly made a significant difference in the way we are perceived and in the professional standards to which we adhere.”

Gil also said that Kaiman, who currently works as deputy county executive in Suffolk County, agreed to take on the position of president.

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Fyre Festival exec grew up in Roslyn

BY T E R I W EST With dueling documentaries on Hulu and Netflix, Fyre Festival has been reintroduced into the pop culture bloodstream a year and a half after it was revealed to have been a grand bust.

One of the executives behind the festival who is depicted in the films grew up in Roslyn and was cited in a civil complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission alongside CEO Billy McFarland.

Grant Margolin, 26, was the festival’s chief marketing officer. He first began working with McFarland and his business partner rapper Ja Rule on an earlier venture, Magnises, which sold black credit cards touted as membership passes to exclusive events.

In reality, McFarland said in the “Fyre Fraud” documentary streaming on Hulu, the card was crafted by transferring the magnetic strip from one’s official credit card to one designed to look like the traditionally hard-to-get black cards. The exclusive events were in a townhouse from which McFarland was eventually evicted for disrepair.

“Grant was a Magnises member who called me one day yelling about 20 things we could improve on, and we said, ‘Why don’t you come fix it for us,’” McFarland said in “Fyre Fraud.” “And that was the start of the relationship.”

Margolin also worked alongside McFarland on the Fyre Media app, a platform marketed as a tool for booking artists.

The documentaries depict him as part of McFarland’s reckless management, dutifully following orders even as the Fyre Festival’s prospects disintegrated.

McFarland settled with the SEC for $27.4 million in July and is spending six years in prison for fraud.

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Roslyn High School, which Grant Margolin attended.

Margolin agreed to a $35,000 fine and neither admitted to nor denied the charges. He cannot serve as an officer or director at a public company for seven years.

Efforts to reach Margolin were unavailing.

Margolin “negligently assisted” McFarland in creating a financial report, which allowed Fyre Media to mislead investors, according to the SEC’s complaint.

McFarland and the company’s chief technology officer sent Margolin conflicting financial reports, it says.

McFarland’s report said that artists had been booked through the platform at an average rate of $360,000 while his technology officer’s, generated from the website itself, had them recorded as

booked at just 2.3 percent of that amount.

Margolin merged the reports, which McFarland instructed him to do, according to the SEC. The reported total value of the website-generated bookings ballooned from $275,800 to $5.6 million.

McFarland continued to inflate the value and quantity of bookings in a memorandum developed for prospective investors, the SEC complaint said. McFarland also said the company had purchased land in the Bahamas for the Fyre Festival, which was a lie.

Margolin, according to the SEC, “acted at least negligently by unreasonably assisting McFarland in creating false or misleading statements concerning Fyre Media and Fyre Festival’s financial metrics, offers, and bookings, which McFar-

land provided to investors.”

“By failing to raise questions about the documents he drafted and revised, Margolin’s conduct was sloppy and ill-calculated, and he did not employ the degree of care and skill that a reasonable person of ordinary prudence and intelligence would be expected to exercise under the circumstances,” the complaint said.

Margolin is also a defendant in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Fyre Festival attendees.

The festival’s marketing campaign illustrated what festival goers thought they would get when they purchased tickets for thousands of dollars to a music festival on an isolated island in the Bahamas — a luxurious experience with private villas and immediate beach access.

Celebrities with millions of followers on Instagram, including Kendall Jenner and model Bella Hadid, were allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to post promotional material on their personal Instagram accounts.

Continued promotion and an unwillingness to call off the event culminated in thousands of people arriving to find emergency tents set up for them on a gravel lot.

Margolin graduated from Roslyn High School in 2010.

He attended Syracuse University’s music and entertainment program, according to the university’s newspaper.

In “Fyre Fraud,” a former Magnises employee compared McFarland and Margolin to characters from “The Office.”

“When Billy and Grant got connected it was like The Office except with no redeeming qualities,” the former employee, Emily Boehm, said. “Billy was Michael Scott. Grant was Dwight.”

Car accident drives home safety issues

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N A car accident on Beach Road by North High School in Great Neck left no one injured#on Wednesday morning but highlighted concerns about safety in the area.

Nassau County police said a car flipped over on Beach Road at 8:28 a.m., but there were no serious injuries.

Police did not give details about the number of occupants in the car.

Ruth Gebay, a Beach Road resident who witnessed the accident and has been a frequent critic of the proposed parking lot to be built nearby, said she saw a student speeding and texting before crashing and the car flipping. Emergency vehicles had trouble accessing the site, she said.

Gebay said she fears the parking lot could add “100 plus cars to the mix” and,

in light of the accident said that school board trustees should “halt this parking lot” and students should use the spacious Parkwood parking lot instead.

“My heart goes out to her and her family for prayers for a speedy recovery.

Hopefully she will be well,” Gebay said via email. “Can you imagine if the many students walking to school were injured by her?”

Photos show the car sitting on its hood and the air bags deployed.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, another resident of Beach Road, said the parking lot wouldn’t be the problem — instead, it would be a solution for students who for years have raced and competed for the few spots available for them, increasing the risk of accidents.

“If you add 90 spaces in the parking lot, there’s no competition anymore for that because the parking lot gives you

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A car accident on Beach Road near Great Neck North High School left a vehicle overturned, but no serious injuries. direct access to the school,” Wiesenfeld said.

He also noted most students driving need cars for jobs, asking students to walk half a mile in the cold is not realis-

tic, the school district plans to shield homeowners via landscaping and drainage plans, and the construction will clean up damage from recent microbursts and storms.

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Gold Coast to show Oscar Film documents civil shorts, free for fed workers rights history in town

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The Gold Coast International Film Festival, offered by the Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck Plaza, will showcase Oscar-nominated short films next month – and federal workers who suffered from the shutdown can get in free.

The move was announced last Thursday, when it was unclear how long the partial government shutdown – affecting 800,000 federal workers, more than 15,000 of whom were in Nassau County – would last.

“We recognize the hardship that our federal workers have had to endure since the beginning of the shutdown last month,” Caroline Sorokoff, the festival director of the Gold Coast International Film Festival, said.

“We hope that providing

affected workers with a few hours of free entertainment may in some way help ease their burden.”

On Sunday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m., the Gold Coast International Film Festival will present Oscar-nominated animated short films at Soundview Cinemas, 7 Soundview Marketplace, in Port Washington.

The nominated films are “Detainment,” “Fauve,” “Marguerite,” “Mother” and “Skin.”

Then on Wednesday, Feb. 13, the festival will offer the live-action Oscar-nominated short films at the Bow Tie Squire Cinemas at 115 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck at 7:30 p.m.

Following both screenings will be a Q&A session with Oscar-winning producer Mara Kassin and Alexandra Gil, a filmmaker and the Gold Coast International Film Festival short film coordinator.

Cost of admission for the general public is $15, and $10 for students.

Don Miller, a spokesman for the organizations, said that federal workers are still getting “back on their feet” after missing two pay cycles. Consequently, he said, federal workers can still call 516829-2570 to reserve a spot.

“Even though the shutdown is over, we’re not going to withdraw the offer,” Miller said.

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In the 1960s, Hazel Dukes, a black woman, applied for an apartment in a Roslyn Heights complex. She was told it was unavailable, Dukes said in a new documentary.

When Dukes told a white friend about her experience, that friend applied for an apartment and was offered three different spaces. So Dukes filed suit, eventually won and moved in.

Dukes’ story is just one illuminated in a film premiering in Manhasset this week about the civil rights era in the Town of North Hempstead.

“Defining Moments: The Civil Rights Movement in North Hempstead” was funded by a federal grant, and features interviews with activists who fought segregation on Long Island along with archival footage and insight from a historian.

Segregation on Long Island during that period was largely de facto, historian Alan J. Singer said in the film. Rather than dictated by law, segregation manifested through practices in local communities and institutions, largely surfacing as housing and educational discrimination.

Subjects in the film discuss topics such as redlining, or geographically limiting AfricanAmericans to certain neighborhoods, and the relationship between the Jewish and African-American communities here during the civil rights era.

“What this documentary will hopefully do is shed a light that sometimes just because by law there may not be as much racial discrimination … that doesn’t mean that doesn’t exist today,” said the film’s director, Alan Ginsburg. “By looking at

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Hazel Dukes in Mineola in 1968. this documentary, my only hope is for you to question things.”

The film’s production began as a project to document an oral history of residents who were involved in the civil rights movement in the town.

Rabbis and pastors spoke about interfaith efforts to fight racism and of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches in the town.

Activists spoke of their consistent attendance and vocal advocacy at school and community board meetings.

“We realized these stories were just so amazing, and each person could just have their own hour’s show because they’re that inspirational,” Ginsburg said.

So the production team decided to compile it all into a documentary.

It is the longest one Ginsburg has ever directed, he said.

“They literally took hours and hours and hours of interview,” Carole Trottere, the film’s producer and the town’s communications director, said.

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50 hours.”

Each subject’s interview will soon be publicly available as its own entity, Trottere said.

But combined, the interviews tell a story of subtle but powerful discrimination in North Hempstead and the faces behind the fight against it.

“It’s just a reminder that in light of the events that have taken place over the last few years that we can’t be complacent and think that our work is done because there’s still much to do,” said Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth.

The film premieres Thursday at the Manhasset Bow Tie Theater to an already sold-out crowd. It will have a second screening Feb. 7 at Westbury’s Yes We Can Community Center.

“It’s important to keep up the fight,” Bernice Sims, one of the film’s subjects, said in an interview with Blank Slate Media.

“It’s important to remember what has happened in the past, not live in the past, but remember what has happened so we can move forward.”

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Opinion

OUR VIEWS

Be careful for what you wish with cap

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ew York State is on the verge of making the 2 percent property tax cap on school districts and!municipalities permanent.

The new state Senate recently approved legislation to make the tax cap permanent and last week Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined a long list of business and government groups giving his support.

All that is needed now is state Assembly approval.

Cuomo said the tax cap has fulfilled its goal when first passed in 2011 – “to rein in out-of-control local taxes” – and has saved New Yorkers $25 billion since then.

The governor added that the need to control taxes was even more important this year following a tax cut plan backed by a Republican Congress and President Donald Trump that capped the deductibility of state and local taxes.

This, Cuomo correctly pointed out, effectively raises taxes on many New Yorkers.

Cuomo is also correct in saying that taxes in New York are high compared with most other states – with Long Island among the highest taxed places in New York.

But before rushing to embrace a permanent tax cap you might want to consider a few points.

Yes, New Yorkers do pay high taxes. But in return, they receive lots of services from! towns, villages and schools.

That, in part, was the point of the $10,000 limit on deductions placed on state and local taxes by Republicans in Congress and Trump. To reduce the size of

government in mainly blue states that had higher tax rates – and higher levels of public service.

To which a permanent 2 percent tax cap means mission accomplished.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen announced last week that she had directed all 28 town departments to begin identifying areas of discretionary spending that can be cut to offset $3.8 million worth of local municipal aid that may be removed from the state budget Cuomo has proposed.

Gillen said she would need to see cuts totaling 5 percent to offset the loss.

In North Hempstead, all but two of the town’s 29 villages would see decreases in the state’s Aid to Municipalities. The exceptions are Williston Park and Manorhaven.

The proposed cuts do not appear to be a direct result of the cap. Cuomo’s proposed budget also includes a $10.39 million increase in state aid to local school districts.

So the proposed budget may just be the governor’s expression of his preferences for where state!money goes. Or his understanding of the tax cap, which requires school districts to get 60 percent of the vote to exceed the tax cap but only a three-fifths vote of trustees or council members for towns and villages to exceed the tax cap.

But the proposed spending cuts may also be a glimpse of the future.

Another issue is the! matter of say that towns, villages and school districts have over how

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much they spend.

The tax cap takes at least part of the decision of how much local governments and school districts spend and gives it to the state Legislature and the governor.

This is fine if you believe state legislators do a better in making spending decisions for people on Long Island. But not so fine if you are a believer in more local control of spending decisions.

This is more like giving local government a learners permit rather than a license with the instruction to make sure you bring the car home by 10 p.m.

Some in local government seem OK with this. They seem to be saying, Stop me before I spend again.

Which, given our experience with Nassau County in the past, might not be a bad idea.

But consider that you are granting this control to the state government.

The state Legislature and the

governor have in recent weeks made some significant progress in terms of election laws, reproductive rights and the treatment of sexually abused children.

But this is still the New York State Legislature we’re talking about, which has not been in any stretch of the imagination a model of good governance.

Another concern is the impact on spending per student where some school districts – hello North Hempstead – spend thousands and thousands more per pupil than other school districts.

This is known as destiny by ZIP code where the playing field is tilted to children of more affluent parents.

You would think that we could at least design a system in which children with less!affluent parents would not be disadvantaged until they have at least graduated from kindergarten.

The tax cap imposed in 2012 essentially froze the dispar-

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ity in per-pupil spending between school districts by requiring those school districts seeking to narrow that disparity to get a supermajority of the vote.

It is true that school districts with lower spending per pupil do generally receive more state aid money. But not nearly enough to eliminate the gap or come anywhere close.

And making the tax cap permanent in all likelihood will make the disparity permanent. Unless the state Legislature grants an exemption to the tax cap to districts with spending per pupil below a certain threshold.

Or unless the state makes significant changes to the school funding formula to favor districts with lower spending per pupil more.

In that case, parents in districts with higher spending per pupil might not be quite as supportive of a 2 percent tax cap. But by then it will be too late.

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ON THE RIGHT

Cold Spring Harbor will survive Watson

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n Friday, Jan. 11, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced that it had rescinded various honors from its former president, the 1962 Nobel Prize winner, Dr. James Watson.

In a joint statement, the laboratory’s Chairperson and CEO, declared that they “unequivocally reject the unsubstantiated and reckless personal opinions Watson expressed on the subject of ethnicity and genetics during the PBS documentary… Watson’s statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science, and in no way represented the views of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory… The laboratory condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice.”

That the laboratory condemned Watson for suggesting that black people and females are genetically inferior is commendable. However, in earlier times the laboratory’s forefathers also misused science to promote eugenics.

Originally established in

1904 as the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor by the Carnegie Institution of Washington — and renamed the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics in 1921 — its first director was the Harvard-educated biologist and America’s leading eugenicist, Charles Davenport.

“Positive” eugenics holds that the evolution of the human race may be improved by programs of breeding which foster more desirable traits that nature alone may provide.

“Negative” eugenics would “purify” the gene pool by breeding out undesirable traits or by disposing of undesirable human beings: individuals, ethnic groups, or whole races.

Davenport made the ridiculous assumption that behavior was determined by one’s race or national identity. In “In the Name of Eugenics,” author Daniel Kevles, pointed out that Davenport “found the Poles independent and self-reliant though clannish; the Italians

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right tending to crimes of personal violence; and the Hebrews an intermediate between the slovenly Serbians and Greeks and the tidy Swedes, Germans and Bohemians and given to thieving through rarely to personal violence.”

Davenport hoped to promote procreation based on good stock. “He looked forward to a day when a woman would no more accept a man without knowing his biological-gene-

alogical history than a stock breeder would take a sire for his colts or calves… without pedigree.”

He also called for U.S. immigration policies that prevented people from entering the country who had an undesirable hereditary history. People with “imbecile, epileptic, insane, criminalistic, alcoholic, and sexually immoral tendencies,” Davenport argued, should be stopped at the border.

In a study of prostitutes, Davenport concluded it was caused by an “innate eroticism” not economics. This erotic energy “resulted not only in sexual licentiousness but in violent outbreaks of temper and derivative crimes.”

As for Americans, Davenport supported state sterilization laws for the “genetically defective.” He was prepared, Kevles has written, “to curtail other people’s rights in order to promote the race — to ensure common protoplasmic good.”

Impressed by Davenport,

Mary Harriman, mother of New York Gov. Averell Harriman, agreed to financially support his work. She funded the Eugenics Record Office and bought approximately 75 acres of land near the experimental station.

While separate from the station, Davenport headed both of them, and in essence, Edwin Black wrote in “War Against the Weak,” they “formed an interlocking eugenic directorate headquartered at Cold Spring Harbor.”

In the 1930s, Davenport established relationships with Nazi racial hygienists and he wrote several articles that were published in their eugenic journals.

Fortunately, one year after Davenport’s induced retirement in 1934, the Carnegie Institute reviewed the work of Eugenics Record Office and determined to stop its research. In 1939, funding was terminated and the office was permanently closed.

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A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

MTA’s proposed plans are off track

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ow that our national government is in business again, a State of the Union speech can’t be far behind.

It makes me wonder, how would I sum up the state of my own personal union?

Try: “Cranky!”

Ever since the end of the holidays and for the past several weeks, my husband and I have been passing a cold back and forth — like a badminton birdie, or a bowl of leftover Brussels sprouts that must be finished before we can have dessert.

“You first.”

“No, you.”

“No, after you — I insist!”

Sadly, a naturally sweet temper — such as mine — is the first thing to go when you’re feeling like death warmed over.

For example, take this conversation I had with my husband the other day. I had noticed him standing at the kitchen counter, hunched furtively over something.

“Whatever are you doing?”

I asked.

“Eating lunch,” he replied.

“I can see that,” I snapped, “but why like this? Admit you’re having a meal, put it on a plate, and sit at the table! You should eat like a human being — not a carriage horse!”

“You’re one to talk, Mrs. Hewon’t-know-I’m-eating-chocolate-if-I-do-it-in-the-kitchen.”

Ding! End of round one. We moved to the dining room table.

But first, I had to clear away some clutter so I could sit down.

My beloved was suddenly, inexplicably, furious.

“What are you doing?” he yelled.

I stared at him. “Eating lunch. I cleared a place for my plate.”

“But couldn’t you see it was taken?”

“By what? A pile of paper?”

“Yes. A pile of paper that it’s taken me all day to sort.

And what have you done? Put it right back on the other pile.

That’s the whole day wasted!”

“You’re crazy, you know that? You and your precious piles!”

“At least I don’t think that the papers around here will sort

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side themselves!”

I tried to think of a suitable reply, but started sneezing instead. “Pass me that tissue box, would you, please?”

My husband complied but as soon as he did, I sneezed again, harder. “What on earth is this?”

I asked him.

“It’s one of those tissuewith-lotion things. You said the others were scratchy, so I bought one of everything last week.”

“Well, these are horrible. I

think I’m allergic!” I walked to the kitchen so I could toss the box in the garbage.

“Judy! Don’t do that! Or you’ll have to go to the store — in the pouring rain.”

“Don’t you dare threaten me!” I was angry, now, so I started yelling. “We have plenty of tissues!”

“No, we only have two!”

“Two? Two boxes left!

That’s your idea of ‘almost out’?

For heaven’s sake, that’s hardly an emergency!”

“No! Not two boxes! Two Kleenex tissues, that’s all that’s left in the house!”

“Oh.” “Not counting the box you just threw away.”

“I couldn’t help myself,” I said. “There’s something about that box.” Somewhere deep in my groggy brain a thought was forming. “Did that box remind you of anything? Maybe someplace we’ve been…” My voice drifted off.

“Yes. Somewhere unpleasant,” my husband agreed.

“That place at Lake George…”

“That rainy July 4th weekend…”

“The very last room in the entire town!”

“Yeah, I remember! You said it was like trying to sleep inside a footlocker from camp. What did we call the place?”

We said it together: “The Mildew Museum!”

I laughed, or started to, but it came out a sneeze. And suddenly we had no Kleenex left at all.

“I’ll go,” I said.

And I’m glad I did. Because on the way home, waiting for the light at Northern Boulevard and Route 101, I was at just the right place and time to see the most spectacular rainbow of my entire life. It was so bright, it looked like a neon sign shooting up into the sky. Better than that — it had a double!

That’s how I knew, the day before it happened, that the government shutdown would soon be over. I also knew that our colds would soon be done with, and I would be able to say that the state of my personal union is, once again, strong.

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

What your driveway has to do with it

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t wasn’t that long ago when the waters around Long Island were in pretty bad shape.

Some would say they are still in rough shape, but certainly the situation has improved.

In the 1950s, people began to recognize the impact of human activity on the quality and state of the Long Island Sound.

Studies established the connection between industrial discharges into the Sound during the Industrial Revolution and a decrease in oxygen levels in the Sound.

In the 1970s, Long Island communities experienced fish kills as a result of low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water.

The 1980s brought congressional approval of the Long Island Sound Study. From that, Long Islanders learned that nitrogen pollution is at fault for low oxygen levels in the water and is considered the greatest threat to the Sound.

The 1990s brought a cleanup plan to address hypoxia, reduce toxic substances and pathogens, and restore natural habitats.

That plan is a multi-state effort involving Connecticut and New York agreeing to maximum daily loads of nitrogen discharge to the Sound in order to achieve a near 60 percent reduction in nitrogen levels.

Studies and clean-up efforts have continued over the last 20 years and now the Long Island Sound is in significantly better condition. It’s not perfect though, and that’s why we need to remain vigilant about what goes on the ground and will eventually make its way into the waters around Long Island.

Anything that is on the ground, whether it’s fertilizers put on our lawns, pesticides in our gardens, oil or gas from our cars, salt and sand on the roads or trash dropped on the sidewalk, can end up in the waters of Long Island, contaminating them physically and aesthetically.

Every time it rains or snows the resulting water picks up everything on the ground and carries it to our waters either directly or via sewer systems where it may be discharged into Long Island

LYNN CAPUANO Earth Matters waters. So what can be done to minimize this continuous threat?

Besides the obvious act of being careful about what you put on the ground, you can also make a difference by reducing the flow of water from rain and snow, also known as stormwater runoff.

One simple way of doing that is by making your driveway a more permeable surface that allows water to seep into the ground rather than run off the concrete, impermeable surface that most driveways are. Slowing

the flow of water means less pollutants are carried with the water into the sewers and into our local waters.

A permeable driveway can be as simple as using gravel for the tires to drive on and leaving strips of ground in between the gravel strips to absorb stormwater and melted snow. For those that want something more like a traditional concrete driveway, there is permeable concrete and asphalt.

In between these options are loose stone and gravel that allows water to seep in the cracks and into the ground rather than running into the street. There are also permeable pavers and paving strips. A number of options exist and all are generally comparably priced or cheaper than the more typical concrete or asphalt driveways.

It doesn’t need to stop at the end of your driveway either.

There are options for other surfaces as well that can dramatically reduce the amount of water runoff caused by impermeable surfaces in our communities.

Permeable concrete and per-

meable asphalt products have been used in parking lots, moderately trafficked roads, bike paths and walkways. Imagine if those three, four, and five-foot-wide puddles on every corner during a rainstorm were a thing of the past because all that water could seep into the ground instead.

Not only would we send less pollutants into the sewers and waters, but we’d also capture more water as recharge for our over-taxed aquifers. And, it would be much easier to cross the street during a rainstorm.

We’ve seen a lot of rain it seems this season and many communities are having to take steps to address significant street flooding problems.

Why not take some steps that take advantage of the earth’s capabilities and install some natural stormwater solutions like permeable surfaces? It seems like an easy choice especially when the costs are comparable and the broader benefits well documented. Maybe call your local legislator though just to make sure he or she gets it.

OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Immigration reform — 2 paths before us

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resident Trump announced more than a month ago that he would be proud to shut down our government if he did not get his wall.

Now, after the longest disruption in our nation’s history, it remains to be seen whether Trump has met his match in “The Art of the Duel” with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Our government has been reopened until Feb. 15. Pelosi achieved her goal of no policy votes until the government was functioning.

Comprehensive immigration reform could be achieved in 2019. But it will need to be accomplished over the resistance of the current President of the United States. He continues to repeat, falsely, that Democrats don’t care about border security.

Sure, there are legitimate questions about kinds of border security, and about how they will be developed in a larger context of international relations.

Because Trump has so regularly disparaged other countries

and other people, his narrow view of barricaded nationalism, like much of his other conduct, rests on distortions and outright lies.

When he announced the end of the shutdown on Friday, Trump’s overriding theme was to play the fear card. However, he said more about humanitarian issues than any time previously. If sincere, even this modest expansion of consciousness and language could open better negotiating and policy pathways.

In 2013, a bipartisan supermajority of U.S. senators voted for a comprehensive immigration reform bill. It was labeled “amnesty” by Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Then, it was blocked in the House by the so-called “Freedom Caucus” (contributing to John Boehner’s many distresses as Speaker for the GOP).

Immigration policies and practices have become increasingly complex. We should not underestimate the challenges of reaching common ground (which is harder than compromises).

Citizens and elected officials

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field must always be mindful of the huge physical size of our nation, its vast numbers, and our dramatic diversity (more than 150 ethnic nationality groups are in Queens County alone — the most diverse place in the world).

The narrow, barricade nationalism of Trump exacerbates “America first,” which he repeated persistently during his campaign. As many observers have noted, Trump’s sense of American history is “stupid” (that’s worse than “ignorant”).

In her recent book “These

Truths” (headed for a likely Pulitzer prize), Jill Lepore concludes that Trump and “nationalists who had few proposals for the future, gained power by telling fables about the greatness of the past.”

In 2019, two paths lie before us. Trump’s approach reinforces a distorted and negative view of immigrants and of our nation’s history and principles. Trump’s constant theme has been to stoke fear of newcomers — with falsehoods, and (until very recently) with total lack of attention to America’s “civil religion” and the humanity of refugees and newcomers.

In these regards, he has the perfect partner for xenophobia with his White House aide Steven Miller. These two men seem solely obsessed with the southern U.S. border. Have you ever heard Trump or Miller indicate that half of the unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. did not cross the Mexican border?

They came as students, on travel or work visas — and then stayed. That is a part of our chal-

lenge beyond the hostility directed at Latinos.

Confronted by a new Democratic House majority, Trump expanded his “border crisis” beyond “national security” to include occasional “humanitarian” references.

If this is more than a verbal fig leaf, the Democratic House majority along with thoughtful Republican legislators in both Houses can open an alternative path to immigration policies and practices.

The second path involves more complex negotiations, but, with good faith and common sense compromises, this path can affirm our nation’s distinctive history.

It can encompass empathy for other peoples based on what Lincoln and many great leaders celebrated as America’s “beacons” of liberty, equality, inclusion, rule of law, and justice (all central themes for Lepore, emanating from “The American Experiment” of our nation’s founding).

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VIEW POINT

Village of Great Neck’s rezoning plan

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he January 15 Village of Great Neck trustees meeting was uncharacteristically filled because people expected to hear a more fleshed out plan for the plan to “revitalize” Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road corridors using “incentive” zoning to spur “diverse housing options” including senior housing, assisted living and affordable housing.

But there wasn’t a presentation, even though the agenda called for the board to “accept” the November 2018 report and recommendations provided by its consultant VHB, and to “accept” the Draft Environmental Impact Statement.

November? As far as anyone knew, there was no December presentation that was supposed to provide greater detail from VHB than the woefully sketchy September presentation. Yet the language of the two resolutions emphasized multiple times “robust public engagement process.”

Instead of reviewing the November 2018 report and recommendations, Mayor Bral chastised residents for “fear-mongering” falsities.

Instead of trying to bring people on board and allay concerns

– as every other village that has undertaken substantial redevelopment projects has done – this village has done its darnedest to make the village residents feel that something is happening to them by trustees who are shaping the incentive zoning based on conversations with developers. After all, the basis for the “incentivized zoning” is that the 2013 attempt apparently failed to bring in new development, and that the impetus for this new stab was a petition with 500 signatures from 18 months ago.

The board seems to have specific projects in mind like assisted living.

Mayor Bral dismissed the fact that there are two assisted living buildings in Great Neck Plaza already, saying, “Many people who want to visit on Shabbat and don’t drive, want to live next to their family,” adding, “We need to allow certain growth – this is a benefit to the community.”

Bral lectured on the need for increased development (density) in order to keep tax rates down (a bigger property tax pie) – but that ignores the reality that these new developments will likely get tax abatements and may impose new costs on the village. There was no

KAREN RUBIN View Point

attempt to show a before or after projection so people could visualize.

People appeared to be most concerned about the increase in traffic congestion greater density on the main arteries, Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road, would produce. Mayor Bral replied that the new buildings would be limited in the amount of parking they could provide (as opposed to limiting density based on a code requiring two parking spots per unit), so the developers would be forced to offer shuttle service or zip cars (actually an idea I support).

My issue isn’t so much the in-

creased density or attempt at revitalization which this village sorely needs. It is the way the village is going about it and how it would manage it. There is no overarching plan or vision to actually revitalize Middle Neck Road, to beautify and make this dangerous artery safer for pedestrians and cyclists – more liveable, walkable – or encourage shopping and communing in a cohesive, planned way, or for the village to do anything at all.

The plan seems to be for individual developers, as a condition of being allowed to build to four or five stories, to have street setbacks and improve that portion of Middle Neck Road in front of their property. So far it seems there are three projects being contemplated (but a bunch of POIs, properties of interest); at that rate, it will take 20 years or so before there is actually a “revitalized” Middle Neck Road.

And yet, we are told Nassau County is about to undertake a once-in-a-generation repaving of Middle Neck Road. Instead of adopting “Complete Streets” principles (and the sage advice of an actual consultant who argues for traffic calming and converting Middle Neck Road to one lane

with separation from parked cars), there is no cohesive “vision” at all.

This village is one of the few in the entire county that doesn’t bother attending Vision Long Island’s highly respected “Smart Growth” and “Complete Streets” conferences where they would hear success stories of Downtown Revitalization from other villages (Baldwin, Westbury), how they were able to get substantial grants from state agencies ($10 million apiece; $100 million available this year) as well as the Department of Transportation which provides funding for Complete Streets and traffic calming projects (Great Neck Plaza) and Long Island Regional Development Council ($10 million available for each region) and enlist public-private partnerships.

The Generic Draft Environmental Impact Statement, required by state law, basically reads as if it were paid for by developers rather than the village board being the lead agency responsible for looking out for its citizens. It pooh-poohs concerns about traffic and parking with a “nothing to see here” dismissal. It is filled with language like this: “there is no significant impact due to changes in Continued on Page 55

KIDS F IRST

Talking about racism with your kids

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n Friday, Jan. 18, a group of high school students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School were captured in what has become a viral video, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The focal point of the video was high school student Nick Sandman facing off with Omaha elder Nathan Phillips. Phillips was in the U.S. Capital for first Indigenous People’s March. The boys were there to attend the March for Life, an annual anti-abortion rally.

The video generated the iconic photo of the white teenage boy, wearing red Make America Great Again hat and appearing to be smirking at the tribal elder, who was beating a drum and singing.

The video and photo have been interpreted and re-interpreted through a variety of personal and political lenses, all with deep racial overtones.

Although there is no physical threat suggested in the photo of the boy and the elder, as poet

and art critic Mark Strand once remarked about another set of images, “The shadow of dark hangs over them, making whatever narratives we construct around them seem sentimental and beside the point.”

In today’s environment, when divisions of all sorts seem to be increasing in our culture, it’s more important than ever to be conscious of raising children who learn about racism and who are committed to equality for all.

We need to encourage discussions about race and racism not as taboo, but as a normal part of growing up. It’s misguided to think that, by talking about race, you will make your kids notice race more or make them racist.

My Guidance Center colleague Regina Barros-Rivera says that parents’ behavior is extremely important in how children form their opinions.

She recommends that, if your child or teen makes a racist comment in front of their friends and

ANDREW MALEKOFF Kids First

you hear it, wait until you are alone with them to point out the problem.

“You don’t want to embarrass them, but you must let them know it’s not acceptable to make jokes or the comments that are racist or degrading to anyone,” she says.

“Have a conversation with them and explain your feelings, rather than scolding them.”

One study# determined that

a parent’s communications with their child — both explicitly and through the transmission of stereotypes and beliefs that they may not even be aware they have — is one of the largest factors in determining their offspring’s attitudes about race.

It is often the everyday fleeting indignities, consciously expressed or not, that communicate racial slights and insults toward people of color. It is the cumulative impact of these messages or ‘micro-aggressions’ that can produce the greatest and most lasting damage.

Sociologist Margaret Hagerman in#an article in#Time#magazine stated:##“How white children learn about racism in America does not only happen during the interactions they have at school.

Everyday behaviors of white parents also matter: when to lock the car doors, what conversations to have at the dinner table, how to react to news headlines, who to invite over for summer cookouts,

when to roll one’s eyes, what media to consume, how to respond to overtly racist remarks made at a family dinner.”

I wonder what kinds of discussions occur at the smirking boy’s dinner table and what, if any, conversation his parents had with him after they discovered that their son went viral last Friday.

For resources on how to have meaningful discussions with your children,# visit this website# from the Center for Racial Justice in Education: http://centerracialjustice.org/resources/resources-fortalking-about-race-racism-and-racialized-violence-with-kids/ To get involved on a local level,# visit Erase Racism at: http:// www.eraseracismny.org/ Andrew Malekoff is the executive director of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, which provides comprehensive mental health services for children from birth through 24 and their families. To find out more, visit#www. northshorechildguidance.org.

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READERS WRITE

The truth about socialism in America

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ocialism doesn’t mean taking wealth from those who work hard and giving it to those who don’t. You’re thinking of capital-

ism. from the Occupy movement.

As a university undergraduate, I began to wonder why America, unlike other industrialized Western nations, never had a socialist party that won presidential elections.

I did learn that Scandinavian countries as well as England, Australia and New Zealand has had socialist parties which ran those countries. It’s been said that people in Denmark are the happiest in the world. The explanation is simple.

They have a $20 minimum wage, a 33 hour work week, free child-care, free health care and free university education.

The next question is “why doesn’t the U.S. do what the Danes do?”

The most common answer is that Sweden, Finland and Denmark are small homogeneous countries, and America with its diversity cannot replicate the

Scandinavian experience.

One might ask why this discussion is relevant. Since the United States is the most successful, powerful country in the world and has a booming economy, isn’t this all moot? It might be if it weren’t for the following.

“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health for all?”

These are the words of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont who calls himself a “democratic socialist.”

The insertion of the word “democratic” is key because it invalidates the argument made by conservatives that socialism gave us Russia, Red China, Cuba and Nicaragua which are despotic.

Democratic socialists believe that you can have governmental practices such as free elections alongside a social welfare

program in the economic sphere. There are other reasons why it can be argued that we need to rethink our attitudes.

Sen. Sanders has pointed out that one in four corporations pay no income tax. The Government Accountability Office goes even further pointing out that two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no taxes in 2005.

Finally, Fact Tank states that 52 percent of Americans think that taxes on corporations and large businesses should be raised.

We live in a country where tax laws are written to favor the rich and shameless.

We live in a country where millionaires like the Kennedys, the Bushes and the Trumps find it easy to get the nomination of their party. We live in a land where money can buy the best lawyers and accountants who can make the system work for them.

Thinking about the unfairness of our tax policy, one is reminded of Warren Buffett’s famous statement that he is in the

same tax bracket as his secretary. I also recall that many years ago my accountant told me if I owned a jet, he could get me a refund.

Americans are not ideological. Maybe this explains the failure of socialism in this country. We experienced democratization during the Jacksonian era; we saw the rise of labor unions in the mid to late 1800s; we flirted with socialism during the populist days of the 1880s, but it never took hold.

Collectivism never captured our imagination.

Maybe if we read Karl Marx and understood him, we would be more openminded. In the coming weeks, I hope to discuss famous American socialists like Eugene V. Debs, Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington.

I will then share the current thinking of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren.

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

Final farewell to beloved G.N. resident

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n Thursday, Jan. 24 at 2 p.m., a respectable crowd of familiar faces gathered at All Saints Church to say good-bye to Great Neck’s fiercest community advocate, Elizabeth Allen. !To say that it was raining would be a serious understatement. !

On a day that will be forever marked by wind gusts of angry rain uncommon for January, Allen’s estranged older sister, Patricia Dreyfuss, seemed to soften with the warm sentiments expressed by those willing to stand, soaked, on muddy church grounds to pay their respects.

For 20 minutes, while the Merchant Marine Academy’s! Chaplain delivered his eulogy, which included Psalm 23, the heavens held back, as if to honor Allen as well. !And when Dreyfuss spon-

No living thing was too small to gartaneously recited her sister’s beloved childhood bedtime prayer, those in at- ner her attention. She was passionate tendance recognized that, in fact, an ex- about her personal garden where she grew wild raspberries and currents. She quisite miracle had occurred.!

One sister who was estranged from made her own jam and stored them in the other — for 30 years — appeared to mason jars, she prepared herself.! She have a breakthrough moment. ! It was fed the birds daily. !

And in her lifetime, Allen enjoyed unmistakable.

Funeral attendees stood transfixed the companionship of a dog, Bailey, as Dreyfuss recited the words: “Now, I and, more recently, a devoted cat. We lay me down to sleep, I pray thee Lord, learned that she had adored adventure my soul to take.! If I should die before I and sailing.! What was not said was that wake, I pray thee Lord, my soul to take.” !!!she was a devotee of Wickham’s Fruit At the completion of the formal eulo- Farm in Cutchogue — they had the best gy, the!Chaplain inquired if friends and peaches she would often tell me.

Allen, all agreed, was a brilliant, decades-long neighbors had thoughts to express. What was easily agreed upon, learned woman who could easily conwas that Allen fought hard to preserve verse on any number of topics.! It would and protect nature and all living things.! be safe to say, that if you interacted with

her, you came away a more informed, enlightened individual, possibly inspired to fight for the good of your community. This, I think, would please her very much.

The Elizabeth Anne Allen I knew was not an easy woman to know, but she inspired me greatly and, for this, I will be forever grateful.! Sadly, she is gone too soon. ! There was so much more I wanted to learn. “ Tag, you’re it, Elizabeth.”! Rest in peace and rest assured, the community you loved and inspired will do you proud.! You can count on it.

Judy Rosenthal Great Neck

Sentence for police assault a crime

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am appalled over the decision by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Shillingford who gave a gangbanger with what amounts to a slap on the wrist for permanently leaving a police officer with brain damage.

New York City Police Detective Dalsh

Veve was left brain damaged by Justin Murrell, a 15 year old at the time who was driving a stolen Honda and was dragging a police officer for three blocks.

Murell had a lengthy record . He should have been convicted of attempted murder but was convicted with a lesser charge. As

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said, “The judge spit on every shield on every chest in the city.”

I totally agree. This egregious decision by the judge is a insult to Veve and to his family who only wanted justice. This is a travesty and a insult to police officers every-

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Estates’ BNB Bank relocating to Plaza

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N BNB Bank in Great Neck Estates is moving from its 200 Middle Neck Road location to 98 Cutter Mill Road in Great Neck Plaza, the company announced on Friday.

According to Jim Manseau, the chief retail banking officer, the move will improve services to the Great Neck community. Denine Shedrick will stay on as branch manager and Jacqueline Shirian will continue serving customers as a private banker in the new full-service branch.

“This location improves our ability to provide comprehensive banking services to the Great Neck community,” Manseau said in a news release. “We are fortunate to have Denine and Jackie, talented bankers with a passion for helping our customers

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BNB Bank is taking over the former home of Sterling National Bank in Great Neck Plaza.

succeed and for building relationships in the Great Neck area.”

Great Neck Plaza trustees had cleared the bank’s move to the former location of Sterling National Bank at their Jan. 2 meeting.

Shedrick began her banking career in 1999 as a customer service representative with Commerce Bank, "before joining National Community Bank and becoming the sales and service manager of its Great Neck branch. BNB then acquired CNB. Shirian spent most of her 15-year banking career at Sterling Bank. The BNB Bank move marks a return to the office she once occupied.

The Great Neck Plaza location is one of BNB Bank’s 39 retail branch locations in the New York metropolitan area.

Revitalization report outlines suggestions Continued from Page 1 for developments the Board of Trustees considers in the public interest.

“With amended zoning in place, the Village would be able to achieve its plan to create a more vibrant, active and accommodating community,” the study says.

Origins The study builds on the 2013 Corridor Study, which featured an updated land use plan for Middle Neck Road and Steamboat Road. It pushed for more active mixed-use development and multifamily housing bookending commercial uses.

This led to the development of the Middle Neck Road Multifamily Incentive Overlay District and Steamboat Road Townhome Redevelopment Incentive District in 2014 and 2015 — but did not bring the results the Board of Trustees wanted.

“Four years since the adoption of the zoning amendments, there has been little if any development of the type initially intended by the Village,” the study says.

Among the ongoing issues are “several vacant commercial buildings and vacant spaces within buildings,” a shortage of residential development to support current commercial developments, a lack of cohesive identity, and some underutilized parking lots and “inefficient use of land,” the report says.

Mayor Pedram Bral has said that a petition with at least 400 signers was a spark for the “revitalization” initiative.

At the time it was presented, he said he hoped the study by VHB would offer recommendations to help “develop the village in a proper way” and create a “corridor commercial area” that won’t adversely impact the area.

Trustees had expanded the scope of a study by VHB in November 2017 at a cost to not exceed $100,000 to study the corridors. The formation of a citizens advisory committee was then announced in March to aid the study.

Its responsibilities included gathering input from the community and serving as a liaison to the Board of Trustees to help “in the visioning component” of the project.

Suggestions VHB’s report suggests allowing ground floor commercial uses, privately owned assisted living facilities, and affordable housing as community benefits.

VHB also recommends incentivizing developers by allowing them an extra floor of building height — up to four stories for ground floor commercial developments and five stories for housing.

Privately owned assisted living facilities “should be permitted at a higher density” than a typical multi-family use, VHB says, as assisted living facilities require less parking.

It also recommends allowing for a relaxation of parking requirements on a “case-to-case basis.” VHB notes, however, that developments in the East Shore Road corridor would be unlikely to get these relaxations due to fewer parking issues there.

Developments there should be eligible for “incentive bonuses” too though, VHB says, if they do projects that offer “general community benefits” like improving public access to the waterfront, traffic calming, parks, sidewalks and benches, as well as mixed-use development and affordable housing.

Suggestions from the Great Neck Citizens Advisory Committee are also highlighted in the study. Among them are encouraging outdoor dining and use of open spaces, simplifying the plan approval process, increasing evening and weekend programming, creating a better walking environment, and the provision of “diverse housing options.”

“It is the hope of the GNCAC that its established goals aid in making the Village a vibrant destination for residents and visitors to live, work, and thrive,” the study says. “The GNCAC’s vision, goals and recommendations have been incorporated into this Study and, where feasi-

ble, incorporated into the recommended land use and zoning amendments.”

Properties of Interest According to VHB, the village has identified 16 “properties of interest” along Middle Neck Road and seven along East Shore Road. This means that they are either under development or have “development potential” of interest to the village, the study says.

In the study, VHB recommends expanding the Middle Neck Road-Multifamily Incentive Overlay District to blanket the properties of interest, many of which are" close together.

Among the properties of interest are 794-802 and 804-812 Middle Neck Road, which is home to a two-story 40unit rental complex. The study specifically points to a vacant lot adjacent to north and single-family residents to the west.

It also calls for moving the current Department of Public Works facility, located at 765, 777, 781 Middle Neck Road and 2 Guthell Lane, to 265 East Shore Road and 53 Vista Hill Road. The study says the 2.62-acre Middle Neck Road property is “an out-of-place industrialtype use,” while the East Shore Road location is currently undeveloped.

The village is in the process of acquiring a portion of 53 Vista Hill Road, which touches the rear of the 265 East Shore Road property.

The citizens advisory committee says that with the existing public works site, the board should require the developer to provide a 40-by-200-foot pedestrian space, mixed-use development, “moderately priced” units, retail space “occupied within six months of closing” or “the landlord to reduce rents to percentage rates only for the retail shops.”

Other East Shore Road properties of interest include 310 East Shore Road, 300 East Shore Road, a vehicle storage facility, 280 East Shore Road, another automobile storage area but with no buildings on site, a BMV service center with surface parking at 266 East Shore Road, the Avalon Great Neck building at

240 East Shore Road and 236 East Shore Road, which is home to the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District and the village’s wastewater treatment plant.

In its study, VHB describes 697-705 Middle Neck Road and 12 Hicks Lane as a “one-to-three-story commercial retail and office building with several vacancies” that wraps around the street corner.

A separate two-story retail-office building is on the southern part of the site.

An assisted living facility was first pitched for the site in August 2017. If that were to come to fruition, the committee said"the developer should provide 12 to 20 feet of frontage to the village for expanding the sidewalk or road at the corner, ensure deliveries are only at the rear of the building and set back the upper floor from the building footprint.

The study also highlights 756 Middle Neck Road, which is a vacant 0.24-acre site, and a 1.14-acre public parking lot in the rear that’s set back behind a vacant parcel. It is a potential site for a new village hall, the committee says in the study.

“Moving to [the] center of downtown will show presence as an epicenter of planned growth on Middle Neck Road,” the recommendation says.

700 Middle Neck Road, home to a four-story 74-unit Village of Great Neck Housing Authority senior citizen apartment building, and a 62-unit rental apartment building at 720 Middle Neck Road and 7 Arrandale Avenue are also noted.

Further to the South is the “wedding cake building,” or 435-451 Middle Neck Road, which is mostly vacant save for HVAC Inc. and 429 Middle Neck Road, which is home to a one-story synagogue but also “a partially vacant commercial use.”

The Millbrook Court apartment complex, located at 240-250 Middle Neck Road, is currently under development.

The Old Mill II development, to be located on 3.2 acres of property mostly in the village of Great Neck, is also in the works.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Silverstein hosts values workshop

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Kira Nurieli hosts an interactive workshop focusing on values.

Silverstein Hebrew Academy (SHA), in partnership with Chabad of Great Neck and Lake Success Chabad, recently sponsored a community workshop for local parents featuring Columbia University psychologist and mediator, Kira Nurieli.

More than twenty parents attended the interactive program, which focused on defining and refreshing values and how parents can best convey their values to their children.

“Everyone in attendance greatly benefitted from Kira discussing the challenges we all face as parents in trying to teach values to our children,”said Shireen Butman, the head of school at SHA. “As Kira so clearly explained, it starts with our own self-reflection and defining what our own values are and understanding how our everyday actions either do or don’t convey those values to our children.”

“At Silverstein Hebrew Academy, we pride ourselves in educating the individual inside and outside of the classroom, Butmann continued. “Ensuring that we raise individuals who exemplify values is critical to us. Kira has offered fantastic advice to our parents to help them overcome everyday challenges and communicate with their children more effectively.”

Chanie Geisinsky , the associate head of school, noted, “Teaching values is so very much a part of what we are dedicated to at Silverstein. Teaching with an open mind and an open heart truly means teaching not only academics and our Judaic traditions, but the values we hold dear as parents and educators; both our Jewish values and our responsibilities to our Jewish community and the

values we cherish as members of a global society. When we as educators can align and partner with our parents in what we are trying to impart to our children, the possibilities are limitless.”

Parents at the workshop participated in an open discussion, while Nurieli offered techniques to assist parents in defining and discussing values with their significant other and their children. The workshop also focused on family dynamics, such as how to deal with and express anxiety and stress both personally and in front of children.

Kira Nurieli is a New York certified mediator with a Master of Arts degree in organizational psychology from Columbia University. Her work centers around working with groups to create innovative solutions to corporate, community, family, and school challenges. Her coaching, workshops, and consulting empower clients with greater awareness of dialogue patterns, socio-cultural schemas, and power dynamics to enhance and energize individual and group performance.

Personally, Nurieli applies her conflict management experience in raising her five children to be resilient, mindful, and well-adjusted.

Silverstein Hebrew Academy, Chabad of Great Neck and Lake Success Chabad acknowledge the graciousness and hospitality of Natalie and Uri Pinchasov for hosting the workshop in their home.

For more information about the Silverstein Hebrew Academy, visit www. shagn.org or call the school at 516-4668522.

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BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON In the first full week of witness testimony in the retrial of former County Executive Edward Mangano on federal corruption charges, prosecutors have seemingly changed their strategy.

According to Newsday, while in the first trial restaurateur Harendra Singh was the prosecution’s first and most prominent witness, he has not yet appeared in court.

Several witnesses who were not called to testify in the first trial have testified this time, possibly in an effort to establish credibility for Singh’s testimony later.

Mangano once again faces charges of extortion, conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice, totaling seven counts. His wife, Linda Mangano, is facing five counts of obstruction of justice and false statements.

Singh has previously pleaded guilty, and his sentencing has been delayed on several occasions, according to court filings, possibly to take into consideration his testimony in the retrial.

Businessman Anthony Gulino, who has pleaded guilty to income tax offenses, testified Tuesday that he gave Edward Mangano $3,6000 cash in an envelope after doing home repair work for him, according to Newsday.

During examination by defense attorney Kevin Keating, Gulino said that he had won county contracts before allegedly bribing Mangano and did lose contracts thereafter, according to Newsday.

Aside from Gulino’s testimony, the prosecution has brought witnesses to the stand over the bread and rolls contract awarded to Singh following superstorm Sandy.

The contract, prosecutors say, is one of the favors Singh received from Edward

Mangano in exchange for gifts and a “noshow job” for Linda Mangano, according to Newsday.

Laura Munafo, who previously worked under"Chief Deputy County Executive Rob Walker and then Mangano, and John Morrissey of the state Department of Health, who both did not testify at the first trial, spoke Monday about circumstances surrounding the contract’s awarding to Singh, according to Newsday.

Munafo testified that the contracts for police and the Office of Emergency Management, after a dispute between Walker and Mangano in 2010, went to the county executive for decision, according to Newsday.

Munafo also said that Singh appeared at the office and asked to speak with Mangano, according to Newsday.

Morrissey testified that while working at the OEM after the storm struck, he noticed unsanitary conditions in which he saw jail inmates washing utensils in the men’s bathroom, and that after a conversation with Health Commissioner Lawrence Eisenstein, there was an immediate improvement to the food being served, according to Newsday.

During questioning by the prosecution, Morrissey said that the former county executive had a favorite vendor he liked to use, referring to but not naming Singh, and that vendor was eventually awarded the contract, according to Newsday.

Keating pointed out in cross-examination that the new vendor was three minutes away from the OEM rather than a half-hour away, which Morrissey agreed made sense from an operational position, according to Newsday.

Also on Monday, one juror was replaced with an alternate, according to court filings. No reason for the switch was given.

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Nassau opioid prescriptions drop

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Celebrating the four seasons with concerts The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, located on the Gold Coast of Long Island, will present four magical concerts on Feb. 2, April 6, July 13 and Oct. 5, followed by themed dinners, in four stunning locations across the Preserve.

The former Guggenheim Estate’s historic mansions and waterfront grounds are the backdrop. Each concert is a unique program of chamber music and poetry, inspired by themes throughout the year.

The new series offers the distinguished Lark Quartet’s final concerts this year in collaboration with brilliant, internationally renowned musicians and spoken word artists including Todd Reynolds and Rebecca Fischer (violin), Alberto Parrini and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello), James Martin (baritone), Yousif Sheronick (percussion) and Nathan Koci (accordion).

The series will present captivating, thought-provoking performances with repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to today’s culturally diverse composers. The series is designed for adults, but children age 8 and over are welcome.

The concerts, all scheduled from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., are as follows: Concert I Winter Love: An Evening of String Quartet, Baritone and Percussion in Hempstead House’s Winter Living Room, Sands Point Preserve on Saturday, Feb. 2. The artists will include: Deborah Buck and Basia Danilow, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Alberto Parrini, cello; James Martin, baritone

and poetry reader; and Yousif Sheronick, percussion. The program will feature music by J.S.Bach, John Patitucci, William Bolcom, Yousif Sheronick, Ljova, W.A. Mozart, Kenji Bunch and George Gershwin.

Concert II Riotous Spring: An Evening of String Quartet, Clarinet and Percussion in Castle Gould’s Great Hall, Sands Point Preserve on"Saturday, April 6. The artists will include Deborah Buck and Basia Danilow, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Yousif Sheronick, percussion; and Andrew Waggoner, poetry reader. The program will feature music by J.S. Bach, Enzo Rao Camimi, W.A. Mozart and Anna Weesner.

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ning of Strings, Accordion and Percussion in the Hempstead House and Rose Garden on Saturday, July 13. The artists will include Todd Reynolds, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Nathan Koci, accordion; and Yousif Sheronick, percussion. " The program will feature music

by J.S.Bach, Zhao Ji-Ping, W.A. Mozart, Yousif Sheronick, Shirish Korde and Guy Klucevsek Concert IV Autumn Leaves: An Evening of String Quartet and Percussion (location to be determined) on Saturday, Oct. 5. The artists will include"Rebecca Fischer and Basia Danilow, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Jeffrey Zeigler, cello; and Yousif Sheronick, percussion.

The program will feature music by J.S Bach, Kenji Bunch, W. A. Mozart, Gershwin, Philip Glass and Giovanni Sollima.

In her new venture as artistic director, violist Lockwood uses her more than 25 years of chamber music experience to create unique and inspiring programming. Formerly a member of Pacifica Quartet, and currently a member of Lark and duoJalal, Lockwood has performed worldwide on the chamber music stage.

The New York-based Lark Quartet has contributed 34 years to the chamber music scene in America. The allfemale quartet is acknowledged for its distinguished contribution to the string chamber music repertoire, commissioning over 30 new works from some of America’s most celebrated composers.

They are currently recording their final album together on Bridge Records with multi-Grammy winning producer, Judith Sherman. This album includes four commissions by American composers Kenji Bunch, John Harbison, Andrew Waggoner and Anna Weesner. The album is scheduled for release in the fall.

Each concert will be preceded by cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and followed by dinner and dessert at 8 p.m. The seasonal dinner menus will be created by master chef Nicola Zanghi and prepared

by Philip Stone Catering.

Tickets to the concert are $100 per adult and $50 youth (8-18) for Sands Point Preserve Conservancy Members, and $115 per adult and $60 youth (818) for non-members.

Tickets are available online at www. sandspointpreserve.org or by calling the ticket line at 516-304-5076.

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Best OF THE North Shore WINNER

Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m.

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America, the rock band that brought us classic hits including “Horse With No Name,” “Sister Golden Hair,” “I Need You,” “Ventura Highway,” and “Lonely People,” will celebrate performing 50 years together along at this concert along with special guest Adam Ezra.

Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info & Tickets: 631-673-7300 • paramountny.com

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Hops and Props Craft Beer Festival

Saturday, Feb. 9, 7 to 10 p.m.

What goes great with beer? More beer! Sample the best from craft breweries, enjoy tasty food, and have a great time at this annual festival where there will be more than 100 beers to sample. Parking is free. Everyone who attends gets a free souvenir tasting glass.

Where: Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Garden City Info & Tickets: 516-572-4111 • cradleofaviation.org

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m.

Experience the finest musicians in jazz music today, led by world-renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis.

Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: 516-299-3100 • tillescenter.org

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Smithtown PAC Presents ‘An Act of God’

Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. (ongoing performances through March 3)

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The One with the first and last word on everything has finally arrived to set the record straight. After many millennia, and in just 90 minutes, God (assisted by His devoted angels) answers some of the deepest questions that have plagued mankind since Creation.

Where: Smithtown Performing Arts Center, 2 East Main St., Smithtown Info & Tickets: 631-724-3700 • smithtownpac.org

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Easy to Love: A Swingtime Big Band Valentine

Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m.

Back for a seventh consecutive Valentine’s Day celebration at Madison Theatre, Long Island’s premier swing-era band presents a new program of classic hits from the Great American Songbook.

Where: Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info & Tickets: 516-323-4444 • madisontheatreny.org

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Masters of Illusion — Live!

Sunday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.

The largest magical touring show in the world, the CW’s hit TV show hosted by Dean Cain is hitting the road for its sixth season with their mesmerizing show. Audiences will marvel as they see grand illusions, levitating women, appearances, vanishes, escapes, comedy magic and sleight of hand all on one stage.

Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: 516-247-5211 • thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Dennis Quaid & The Sharks

Thursday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m.

Hearts will be racing on Valentine’s Day when actor-turnedrocker Dennis Quaid takes the stage as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Quaid and The Sharks. The band has received rave reviews for their original music and “rockand-roll and country soul”... they may even sneak in a Jerry Lee Lewis song or two that harkens back to Quaid’s leading role as the iconic performer in the film “Great Balls of Fire!”

Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info & Tickets: 631-673-7300 • paramountny.com

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THE TOP EVENTS FOR KIDS FOR THE COMING WEEK

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mily Brown and the Thing Friday, Feb. 8, 12 p.m.

Parents and children the world over recognize the many excuses a child can give to keep the light on and a parent in the room at bedtime.

This story has a gentle message that there’s really no need to be scared of “things” in the night.

Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville | Info & Tickets: 516-299-3100 or tillescenter.org

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Saturday, Feb. 9, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Children can make a unique and beautiful valentine out of recycled paper. Materials are included with the price of museum admission.

Where: Garvies Point Museum & Preserve, 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove Info: 516-571-8010 or garviespointmuseum.com

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ew York Tennis Expo

Saturday, Feb. 9, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

New York Tennis Expo, the free and familyfriendly event for all things tennis, includes: exhibits; guest speakers; on-court tennis activities; an Entertainment Zone with live music; a Kids’ Zone with a bouncy house, face-painting, and 10 and under tennis courts; a fashion show featuring the latest in tennis apparel; and pro player Ryan Harrison, who will sign autographs and take part in a meet & greet session.

Where: NYCB Live, Home of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale Info & Tickets: 516-231-4848 or 800-745-3000 or nycblive.com

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Saturday, Feb. 9 and Sunday, Feb. 10, 1 to 3 p.m.

Kids are invited to decorate a clay pot and plant it with a beautiful flowering plant. Cost: $10 per child. Reservations are not required — stop by anytime during these two-hour windows.

Where: Hicks Nurseries, 100 Jericho Turnpike, Westbury Info: 516-334-0066 or hicksnurseries.com

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Saturday, Feb. 9 at 11 a.m. and Sunday, Feb. 10 at 12 p.m. (additional weekend performances through Feb. 19)

All of the ingredients that have made this story a perennial favorite are here, including a zany Fairy Godmother, a trip to the Royal Ball and, of course, a glass slipper. Reserved seating tickets: $12.

Where: The Showplace at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore Info & Tickets: 516-599-6870 or plazatheatrical.com

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All Kids Fair returns Commemorating to Long Island in April D-Day on L.I. in 2019 The 9th annual All Kids Fair will take place on Sunday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hilton Long Island in Huntington.

This year promises to be its biggest event yet, with expanded space to accommodate the huge turnout.!In addition to the Grand Ballroom and Gateway areas, the main level of the Savoy Room will be used as well, expanding the event to “25,000 square feet of fun,” according to Barbara Kaplan, director of the expo.

Every year, the children’s expo has much to offer Long Island families, including more than 80 vendors and kidcentered classes, such as music, cooking, art, dance, sports, book readings and yoga.

Attendee Paola Jarvis of Islip Terrace summed up her experience, saying, “We had a blast at (the) event. !We’ve been going for the past several years, and it gets better and better.”

There will be special guest visits by Miss Long Island Teen 2019, Geanna Koulouris, and International United Miss Jr. Preteen 2018-19, Adrianna Aloni.

Additional activities and attractions for children this year include a bounce house, petting zoo, candy bar and comic

book room, with cosplay and various artists.

In addition, The Butterfly Experience will return this year. Children and adults will be able to watch the beautiful, multi-colored butterflies flying around in a huge tent or, for a small fee, enter the tent with a feeding stick and have the butterflies come to them.

Jennifer Keegan of Your Local Kids Source, a multi-year sponsor and exhibitor, said last April that she “had a great time at the All Kids Fair, meeting tons of Long Island parents and enjoyed all the smiling faces on all the happy kids.”

The fun-filled event will also offer educational and leisure activities to interest kids and their families, with options for toddlers through high schoolers, including kids who have special needs or who are gifted. There will be information about schools, camps, afterschool activities, birthday party ideas, and college planning.

A charity drive to benefit The Book Fairies, a 501c3 that provides books to those in need, will return this year.

Sponsors for this year’s All Kids Fair to date include Long Island Parent Magazine, Your Local Kids Source, Blank Slate Media and PSEG LI.

The Museum of American Armor, located within Nassau County’s Old Bethpage Village Restoration, has declared 2019 “The Year of D-Day’s Legacy.”

To coincide with this announcement, the museum will host many educational programs, displays and operational exhibits for the visiting public to study the historic lessons of the Allied invasion of Europe that took place 75 years ago, on June 6, 1944.

“There are two stark facts.! ! The teaching of history is no longer a priority in many of our classrooms; and World War II, the seminal conflict that shaped the last 75 years of geopolitical events around the globe, is not understood by the vast majority of students currently in public schools,” Museum President and Founder Lawrence Kadish said. !“As we approach the 75th!anniversary of that hard-won assault on the Normandy beaches of France, the Museum of American Armor will strongly advocate to make this chapter in history an essential part of the academic curriculum.”

The museum features many of the operational tanks and artillery that came ashore that June morning to confront the Nazi Third Reich. Throughout the year, it creates a variety of realistic tactical scenarios in cooperation with the Long Island Living History Association for the purpose of keeping alive the heritage of those Americans who have served in the military.

The museum’s 2019 focus on D-Day secured praise from Dr. Libby O’Connell, chief historian emeritus of the History Channel.

“It is a sad but an inexorable fact of life that we are losing the veterans who came ashore at Normandy beach,” O’Connell said. “It is up to institutions such as the Museum of American Armor to ensure we understand the legacy that was left to us by these men and why it still very much matters. Declaring 2019 ‘The Year of D-Day’s Legacy’ creates an appropriate 75th!anniversary model for others to embrace because we cannot allow this battle to fade into the barely recalled past.”

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran has endorsed the museum’s yearlong commitment to recognizing the enormous impact of D-Day on American and world history.

“This spring, Old Bethpage Village Restoration will work in cooperation with the museum and its corps of living historians to host a daylong field trip for high school students across Long Island that will introduce them to this crucial chapter in history,” said Curran. “It is part of our ongoing recognition that we have an obligation to keep faith with those who safeguarded civilization, and the many veterans who came home after securing the peace, to settle in Nassau County.”!

Gloria Sesso, president of the Long Island Council for Social Studies, congratulated the armor museum and the Nassau County Departments of Parks, Recreation and Museums for creating a program that engages literally every school district on Long Island.

“Unfortunately, not every district will take advantage of this program, and parents should ask `Why not?’ for understanding history is the cornerstone for understanding the world around us,” Sesso said. “On the 75th!anniversary of D-Day we have a solemn responsibility to ensure that a new generation appreciates its importance in creating the world they now inhabit.”

Among the efforts scheduled by the Museum of American Armor during the landmark anniversary year of D-Day is the creation of an age-appropriate series of graphic history lessons, symposiums with leading military scholars, and field displays with Allied and enemy armor vehicles that simulate combat tactics used along French country lanes after the Allied landings.

Opened in cooperation with Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums, The Museum of American Armor is a living tribute to every veteran who has served our country and those who continue to defend our nation today. !It is open Wednesdays through Sundays between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Requested admission donations to the museum are $14 for adults, $7 for seniors, volunteer firefighters, veterans and children ages 5 to 12 (children under 5 are free).

For more information, go to! www. museumofamericanarmor.org! or like the museum on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MilitaryHistoryAlive/?ref=boo kmarks.

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The Alfred Van Loen Gallery at the South Huntington Library will host a solo exhibit of watercolor paintings

by Riccarda de Eccher. The gallery will present large watercolor paintings focusing on the Dolomite Mountain range in Northern Italy where the artist grew up. !The exhibit will run from Saturday, Feb. 2 to Feb. 27.

The series of paintings are intimate mountain views, focal points of interest — complex, yet delicate paintings of pale colors with subtle color changes. ! De Eccher’s experiences as a hiker and mountaineer filter through to her paintings. !For anyone who has walked, hiked or lived in a mountainous setting, these paintings will evoke meditative association.

De Eccher’s interest in mountains stems from growing up in the Dolomites, a mountain range that forms a southern extension of the Alps. !Learning to hike and climb, de Eccher became an avid mountaineer. !Eventually she would go on to climb several of the world’s most prominent peaks, including Mount Everest in 1980.

De Eccher began painting later in life out of curiosity to learn more about the flowers and plants she would pass while climbing mountains.

“So I brought a box of watercolors, the ones that children in kindergarten get, with the round pans,” she said. “It

came with a brush that I would not touch with a 10-foot pole now. I started to paint the flowers and I had a love at first sight. ! I just enjoyed the feeling of the brush on the paper, of the transparency, of the light going through it.”

De Eccher’s paintings are a reminder of how deeply engaging the landscape genre can be. This is something Cezanne and Turner both embraced.

“I understood that watercolor was very complicated,” De Eccher went on to say. ! “It was drawing, it was composition, it was the water, the color. I said to myself, ‘I better go one step back and start with a drawing class.’ Drawing is something that is actually still in my practice. When I work on an image and do not get out of my painting what I want, I always take a step back and do one, or more than one drawing. I draw to understand about the structure of the image.”

De Eccher was born in Bolzano and grew up in Udine, Italy. !Her work has been featured at the Casa Cavazzini Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Udine; Galleria d’Arte Moderna Enrico de Cillia, Treppo, Carnico, Italy; Gallery ArtCube, Paris, France; and the Sala delle Esposizioni, Bolzano, Italy. ! She lives and works on Long Island.

The Alfred Van Loen Gallery at the South Huntington Library is at!145 Pidgeon Hill Road in Huntington Station.

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34 Valentine’s Dining & Gift Guide • Blank Slate Media Newspapers, Friday, February 1, 2019

6 reasons to dine out this Valentine’s Day V alentine’s Day is celebrated in various ways throughout the world.

One of the more popular methods of spending time with a romantic partner is over a delicious meal at a nice restaurant.

Statistics Brain says that 34.6 percent of Valentine’s Day celebrants in the United States dine outside of the home, making this day dedicated to couples one of the most popular days to dine out all year.

Dining out on Valentine’s Day helps to make the day more special, and the following are a number of additional reasons why couples should enjoy a meal out on the town this February 14.

1. Embrace the chance to try new foods. Dining out gives individuals the opportunity to try new cuisine they may not attempt at home. This is a chance to expand flavor profiles and give something new a chance.

2. Enjoy creative plating.

Many restaurants expend extra effort on presentation on Valentine’s Day, dressing the

plates with special garnish or with a unique presentation of the foods. Valentine’s Day meals are often as beautiful to look at as they are delicious to eat. Experiencing such visual masterpieces can add to the enjoyment of the night out.

3. Enjoy a night off from cooking. One of the biggest benefits of dining out on Valentine’s Day is enjoying an evening away from the kitchen. Heading out for a restaurant meal means no stressing over what to cook for dinner,

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4. Learn something new.

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wine pairings on Valentine’s Day than they might when dining out on less popular nights.

5. Beat the winter blues.

For much of the country, Valentine’s Day occurs during a time of year when winter is at its most harsh. Wintertime can be isolating as many people spend increased hours indoors to avoid inclement weather. Dining out gives couples the opportunity to get some fresh air and dine in a social environment that can help buoy spirits.

6. Jump start other activities. Dining at a restaurant may be the precursor to other things to come on Valentine’s Day. While out, couples may opt to head to a movie, enjoy some local live theater or stroll through a museum gallery. A good meal can make for the perfect starter to a memorable Valentine’s Day. Dining out on Valentine’s Day is a tradition that can benefit couples in various ways and make an already special holiday that much more memorable.

Breakfast celebration Who says Valentine’s Day love and affection is restricted to the evening? Make use of your time by tinkering with the schedule so that you can enjoy one-onone moments in the morning or afternoon while children are in school or at daycare.

Enjoy a couple’s breakfast or brunch, followed by a massage.

Meet for lunch If you can’t spare a day off from work, make a point to meet for lunch at a place

halfway between your offices. This is yet another kid-free opportunity to enjoy meaningful conversation and time spent as a couple.

Let the kids help Enlist the kids to give you the night off from dinner, or have them select the perfect take-out menu for a Valentine’s Day dinner. Children do not always have the opportunity to give back to their parents, and on February 14 they can step up their game. Move up bed times a little so the kids are tucked in early enough to allow you to cuddle on the couch.

Catch up on family time Children are a shining example of their parents’ love for one another. Use Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to skip other obligations, including extracurricular activities, and have a family day. Watch a movie together and enjoy a picnic.

On Valentine’s Day, there are many workarounds if the babysitter is unavailable.

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Valentine’s gifts for your No. 1 guy

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s Valentine’s Day approaches, the pressure is on to find ideal gifts for a special sweetheart. The National Retail Federation indicates shoppers spent around $19.6 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts in 2018, a dramatic increase from the year prior.

When gifting the men in their lives, others may be hard pressed to find an ideal gift for the guy who seems to have it all. Even though a small study published in Psychology Today determined that gifting men is seemingly easier than gifting women - regardless of who is doing the buying - there’s a prevailing stereotype that men are hard to buy for.

That said, these suggestions for men’s gifts may get the creative gifting juices flowing. · Leather gloves: Leaving home when the weather is frightful can be a challenge. But warm, stylish gloves may help the process along. Look for gloves that also have touchscreen compatible tips, so that he doesn’t have to remove the gloves to send that “I (heart) you” text. · Pixel heart mug: This heat-changing mug is ideal for gamers who realize you need full health, or hearts, to make it through game play - or the workday.

The heart illustration turns red when it’s filled with a hot beverage. This mug is available from Kikkerland on Amazon. · Luxury shave kit: More men are realizing that indulging in quality groom-

ing items does not require checking manliness at the door. In fact, it is quite trendy for men to use products entirely geared toward their skin and hair types, with more masculine scents to boot. · Portable record player: If he’s a music buff and has collected vintage albums through the years, give him a modern way to play them. A wireless, Bluetoothenabled turntable can be a heartfelt and practical gift. · Whiskey-inspired gifts: From whiskey barrel-faced watches to jumbo ice wedges to chill without watering drinks down, whiskey gifts are definitely trending upward. Of course, a good bottle of single-malt is certainly a winning go-to gift as well. · Ticket stub organizer: Whether he’s a sports fan, a concert-goer, or collects stubs to other events and outings, provide an organized way to preserve those memories. · Wireless phone charger: Tame that cord clutter with a gizmo that can quickly charge his phone and have him ready to take your calls or receive your texts. · Noise-cancelling headphones: Remove ambient sounds from his day, especially when commuting, traveling or working in his cubicle. · Stub Hub gift card: Gift him with the perfect way to catch up on live games.

Gifting guys is a little easier with some Valentine’s inspiration.

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s the clock ticks down to Valentine’s Day, the pressure is on to find the ideal gift. While some sweethearts may provided some clues to help with Valentine’s Day shopping, many gift-givers are on their own.

The National Retail Federation predicts that, in 2019, shoppers may match Valentine’s Day spending from a year ago, when lovebirds spent a total $18.2 billion on gifts for their sweethearts.

With so much money invested, shoppers no doubt want to find the best gifts possible. When shopping for Valentine’s Day, try to avoid these common mistakes and choose gifts that are creative and heartfelt. · Skip the gas station flowers, candy or last-minute gifts. Valentine’s Day is a time to show you care. If you’ve left gifting to the last minute, you may make the situation worse by giving something impersonal you picked up on an errand.

If you forgot or ran out of time, simply admit you goofed or time got away from you. Then ask your sweetheart what he or she wants and go shopping together. · Avoid attention-getter antics. Sure it may seem like a good idea to send 20 helium balloons and a boatload of flowers to a sweetheart’s office. But what if he or she really doesn’t like being in the limelight? Are you gifting this way for the

attention you’ll receive rather than doing so to make your sweetheart happy? · Eschew overly personal gifts. If your relationship is in its infancy and you haven’t both mutually expressed interest to take it to the next level, avoid gifts that suggest moving in together (appliances), personal fragrances, couples massages, or other intimate activities.

Wait until the relationship has reached certain milestones before getting too personal with gifts. · Stop trying to be helpful. If your sweetheart has expressed a desire to make certain lifestyle changes, you may think a gym membership or a subscription to a new wardrobe mail service makes a great gift. But such gifts may send the wrong message, inadvertently, and even falsely, indicating that you don’t like your partner the way he or she is. · Pass up practical gifts. Valentine’s Day is a time to cater to fantasies and wishes more so than necessities. Even if your sweetheart needs that new electric shaver or a snow scraper for the car, go for something more special on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s gifters should focus on presents that will be meaningful to the recipient and something he or she may see as an indulgence.

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Top Valentine’s Day Candy by State

BY C L A I R R OB I N S Valentine's Day is a spendy holiday.

People buy indulgences and gifts like jewelry and flowers, and candy is one of the top ones. Candy sales are expected to exceed $1.8 Billion this year.

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mance and spending money to demonstrate them. Last year, the National Retail Federation predicted a slight drop off in in Valentine’s Day spending in all but one category. You guessed it: candy.

As Valentine’s indulgences go, candy is a relatively inexpensive one. It’s also become a tradition to give, share and eat

candy on Valentine’s Day. That could be why people are expected to spend over $1.8 Billion this year.

Using sales data from the past 11 years from our online bulk candy store and industry partners, CandyStore.com has compiled sales data to determine the most popular Valentine’s Day candy. The

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Few people may know that the color of a rose is meant to convey a certain message. As a result, even the most head-over-heels-in-love man or woman may not be saying what they mean to say when giving roses. If that special someone has a favorite color of rose, then it might be wise to give that color regardless of what tradition suggests. But when sweethearts have no such preferences, it might be best to keep this guide, courtesy of ProFlowers®, in mind. · Red: Red roses say “I love you.” Red is symbolic of love, especially romantic love. Red also symbolizes beauty, courage and respect. · Pink: Pink is a popular color on Valentine’s Day, but sweethearts should know that pink roses say “Thank you,” which makes them a better choice for friends than lovers. · White: White roses say “I am the

one for you.” White symbolizes true love, purity, innocence, reverence, humility, youthfulness, and charm. · Yellow: Yellow roses say “We’re friends and I care about you.” Joy, gladness, friendship, delight, and remembrance are just a few of the sentiments yellow conveys. · Yellow with red tip: Yellow roses may be best for friends, but yellow roses with red tips say “I’m falling in love with you.” · Orange/coral: Another awe-inspiring color, orange/coral roses say “I want you in my life.” This color indicates desire, enthusiasm and fascination. · Red and white together: A mixed bouquet of red and white roses says “We are a great match.” · Peach: Peach symbolizes intimacy, telling a lover, “Let’s make this a memorable Valentine’s Day.” Different color roses say different things, meaning Valentine’s Day celebrants can find a rose to convey any message they hope to send this February 14.

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Unique ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day

Eco-friendly Valentine’s Day gift ideas

Red may be the color most often associated with Valentine's Day, but those who want environmentally friendly ways to celebrate this day of love can tint the occasion with a little green. This list of earth-conscious Valentine's Day gifts can provide inspiration for loving couples.

than exchanging a stuffed animal on Valentine's Day that will only take up space on a shelf or bed, consider saving the life of a real animal. Conservation agencies can always use helping hands. Donations can be used to feed and shelter pets or to restore habitats for wild animals.

· Give organic chocolate. Eco-conscious chocolate connoisseurs will appreciate indulgent fine chocolates crafted with the planet in mind. Some of the world's best chocolate is produced from small cacao farms that do not employ fungicide or insecticide in their farming practices. Choose chocolate artisans that produce their chocolate from responsibly-sourced ingredients for a sweet Valentine's Day treat.

· Give living plants. Flowers can express all types of emotions, but those cut blooms will begin to fade after a few days, especially when some flowers are flown in from all over the world. Gifting a potted plant from a local nursery is a more eco-friendly idea, and one that can last for many years to come.

· Plant a live gift. A living gift can be a symbol of enduring love and one that gives back to the environment. Couples can explore their options at local nurseries and plant a shade tree, shrubbery or even a fruit tree. This is certainly a gift that can give every year.

Valentine's Day is an opportunity for couples to celebrate their love for each other, whether their relationship is relatively new or has endured through many years.

The National Retail Federation estimates that Americans are expected to spend close to $20 billion on Valentine's Day this year. While chocolates and champagne are high on the list of mostpurchased items for February 14th, couples should not feel beholden to tradition on Valentine's Day. This year may be the perfect time to try something new, even if it's out of couples' comfort zones.

Here are some novel ideas for couple's looking to set their celebrations apart. · Paint and sip: Couples can take part in a growing trend this Valentine's Day. At paint-and-sip events, people are guided step-by-step through the process of painting their own masterpieces.

Breaks are provided through the evening to indulge in beverages and snacks of choice. Couples can bring along a bottle or two of wine and a platter of cheeses, chocolates or other Valentine's Day fare. Those interested can inquire at their nearest paint and sip location, such as Pinot's Palette, for Valentine's Day specials. · Activity night: Couples who are naturally competitive or devoted sports

fans can enjoy the evening by engaging in some healthy competition. Some restaurants host trivia nights, or couples can head to the nearest arcade and battle it out. Panic and escape rooms are cropping up in towns across the country.

These employ 60-minute real-life experiences in which participants must solve clues to escape the room. This can be a great bonding experience for fun-loving couples. · Chef lessons: Although some couples may dine out on Valentine's Day, men and women who like to dabble in culinary arts can prepare their own meals from the comforts of their own kitchens. Others may want to enroll in classes that provide expert instruction from area chefs or culinary instructors.

Cooking classes can be an ideal way to spend time together learning skills that can be put to use again and again. · Adventures: Couples who like to push the envelope can explore the possibilities of thrill-seeking activities. Some may include bungee-jumping, hot-air balloon rides, taking laps at the racetrack, or hitting the ski slopes.

Valentine's Day might be a time for romance, but couples should not hesitate to buck tradition and spend the day together engaging in activities that accommodate their interests.

· Write it down. Love notes are a simple, heartfelt gift. Choose to scribble down sentiments on recycled paper with nontoxic inks. Give that love note even more traction by framing it for a lasting gift. · Adopt an animal. Animal lovers crusade for their favorite mammals, reptiles and amphibians every day. Rather

· Create a free-range, organic meal.

Homemade food can be a nice gesture, especially when cooks select fair-trade, organic and free-range products. Don't forget to extend the specialized shopping to include wine or other beverages that are locally sourced. · Give gifts of sustainable comfort.

Practical but luxurious linens and clothing made from sustainable materials are great eco-friendly gifts. Bamboo bedding or organic cotton shirts offer comfort and promote environmental stewardship.

Gifting green for Valentine's Day is easier than one may think. Eco-conscious gifts are a smart idea for anyone who wants to impart minimal impact on the planet this February and beyond.

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Youth Orchestra finalists to perform The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York will present the top 16 finalists — out of 74 applicants — of the 2018-19 Concerto and Vocal Competition in a concert on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.

The concert is free, open to the public, and will take place at the Congregational Church of Huntington at 30 Washington Drive in Centerport.

The featured performers are all Long Island-based musicians and Metropolitan Youth Orchestra members, including: Instrumental Finalists Division I (grades 4 to 8): Emma Hong, violin, age 12, South Woods Middle School; Theresa Jiao, violin, age 13, P. J. Gelinas Junior High School; Carolyn Lau, flute, age 13, Herricks Middle School; and Alice Wang, viola, age 13, West Hollow Middle School.

Vocal Finalists Division I (grades 4 to 8): Natalie Ceonzo, soprano, age 12, Trinity Regional School; Maria Gaztanaga, soprano, age 12, Garden City Middle School; Jade Silverstein, soprano, age 13, Harbor Country Day School; and Avani Schwartz, soprano, age 13, Manhasset Middle School.

Instrumental Finalists Division II (grades 9 to 12): Aaron Ichel, violin, age 16, Half Hollow Hills High School East; Rebecca Nelsen, oboe, age 16, Eastport South Manor Jr/Sr High School; Donald Schweikert, bassoon, age 17, Sayville High School; and Ju Young Yee, clarinet, age 17, Herricks High School.

Vocal Finalists Division II (grades 9 to 12):!Maria Leonardi, soprano, age 17, Massapequa High School; Isabella Panag, soprano, age 14, Mount Sinai High School;

Rachel Schlesinger, soprano, age 16, North Shore Hebrew Academy; and Kayla Sorensen, soprano, age 17, North Shore High School.

The winners will be chosen by an esteemed jury, including: Dr. David Fryling, director of choral studies at Hofstra University; Professor Maureen Hynes, director of orchestra and string studies at LIU Post; and North Merrick School music teacher!Margaret Rakas.

The first place winners of the competition, one instrumentalist and one vocalist from each of the divisions, will win a cash award in the amount of $500 each and will be eligible to perform as a soloist with their Metropolitan Youth Orchestra ensemble during the spring or fall 2019 concerts.

There will also be cash awards for the second ($200) and third ($100) place winners in each of the instrumental and vocal categories.

The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York is committed to fostering a community of talented young musicians from Long Island and providing them with an opportunity to rehearse and perform choral and orchestral masterworks at the highest possible level with recognized leaders in music education and performance.

Founded in the fall of 1993 by John McNeur, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra has grown from one orchestra of 15 members to seven orchestras and seven choral ensembles, serving almost 1,000 young musicians between the ages of 8 and 18.

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‘Lowbrow’ art sought Biegel, South Shore for new exhibition Symphony at Molloy The Huntington Arts Council is currently inviting local artists to participate in the upcoming exhibit, Bright Colors, Bold Strokes: Creations of Lowbrow Art.!The deadline for submissions is Feb. 25 and the exhibit will be on display from March 29 to May 4.

Lowbrow started as an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, punk music, tiki culture, and hot-rod cultures of the street. It is also often known by the name pop-surrealism. It continues its rich history with such publications as Juxtopose, HiFuctose, and Carpazine. Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor — sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment.

The Arts Council urges artists to be influenced as many of the creators of lowbrow art are, by acid house flyers, advertising, animated cartoons, circus and sideshow culture, graffiti and street art, kitsch, kustom kulture, mail

art, pop culture, psychedelic art, retro illustration, pulp magazine art, adult toys, and vinyl figurines, among other things.

The juror of the exhibit, Benjamin Owens, has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of interdisciplinary projects. He has been featured in Juxtopose and received numerous awards, including from Mark Ryden, Robert Williams and Jonathan Levine.

Owens is a former gilding specialist for the world famous Sotheby’s auction house. He is an established illustrator who has done work for Zoo York Skateboards, Blue Point Brewery, Mickey Hart and others. He has worked as creative director who designed packaging for many of America’s favorite craft breweries. Owens is currently employed as a vice president of marketing, creating carious advertising.

For more details and instructions, go to! https://huntingtonartscouncil. submittable.com/submit/132245/ juried-exhibition-bright-colors-boldstrokes-creations-of-lowbrow-art-juror.

The South Shore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Scott Jackson Wiley, will perform at the Madison Theatre at Molloy College on Saturday, Feb. 9.

The performance will feature 2019 Grammy-nominated Jeffrey Biegel and a program that includes Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto, Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 and Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.

Biegel is one of today’s most respected artists, having created a multi-faceted career as a pianist, recording artist, composer and arranger. His electrifying technique and mesmerizing touch has received critical acclaim worldwide.

Biegel studied at the Juilliard School and made his New York orchestral debut

performing with the Juilliard Philharmonia in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

He is currently on the piano faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College.

On Feb. 22, 2015, Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Biegel, for his achievements as a world-renowned pianist, recording artist, chamber music collaborator, and champion of new piano music, composer, arranger and educator.

The South Shore Symphony Orchestra is an associate of the Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone or at the door.

For further information, contact 516-3234444 or visit www.madisontheatreny.org.

Baroque Ensemble’s upcoming concerts The Long Island Baroque Ensemble’s next set of concerts is entitled “Spanish Gold: Musical Jewels of Old and New Worlds.”

The performances will take place on Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 30 Brooksite Drive in Smithtown, and on Sunday, Feb. 10, 3 p.m., at Christ Church, 61 East Main St. in Oyster Bay. !

Tickets are $30 general admission, $20 for those in their

20s, $15 for students, and free for children under the age of 13. They may be purchased at the door or in advance by going to www.libaroque.org.

The Long Island Baroque Ensemble series is made possible with public funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Suffolk County and the generosity of additional supporters.

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Butts to speak in honor of Black History Month In celebration of Black History Month, St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church of Great Neck, under the leadership of Reverend Kathey Edwards, pastor, is proud to present guest speaker Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, one of America’s foremost spiritual leaders and educators.

Butts will offer a talk at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3:30 p.m.

Co-Sponsoring organizations include: Chinese Center on Long Island, Long Island Muslim Society, Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Tzu Chi Foundation, Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Saint Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, and Cellini Lodge #2206, OSIA, New Hyde Park.

Butts is president of State University of New York College at Old Westbury and Pastor of the nationally renowned Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York. He is widely known for his accomplishments on behalf of social justice, civil rights, economic development, and education.

As president of The College at Old Westbury, Butts works continuously to create an invigorating environment dedicated to academic excellence and the development of leadership qualities in students.

Through its broad multidisciplinary liberal arts programs, the College confers degrees in 65 majors leading to Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Professional Studies, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Science degrees.

Since being named Old Westbury’s President in September 1999, Dr. Butts has reinvigorated what is among the most diverse public college campuses in America. He is

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In every effort, his leadership has had a pervasive impact on such wide-ranging community development initiatives as education, homelessness, senior citizen and youth empowerment, cultural awareness and ecumenical outreach.

Butts earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., a Master of Divinity Degree in Church History from the Union Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry in Church and Public Policy from Drew University.

Temple Emanuel is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck. For further information, please call 516.482.5701.

All members of the community are invited to attend. Admission is free.

each year, is hosting a onenight performance of the off-Broadway play “Trial” at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on"Thursday, March 28 at 7 p.m.

“Trial” features Ashley Griffin (“The Greatest Showman,” “Hamlet”) and is directed by Lori Petty (“Orange is the New Black,” “Gotham”).

Proceeds from the performance will be used to support local survivors of sexual assault. The production will be followed by a cocktail party and private talkback for VIP ticketholders.

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Lipinsky ‘freezin’ for a reason’

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Great Neck South Middle School students Arthur Zhang, Richard Oh, and Ivan Xu are photographed with their certificates and trophies from the regional Future City Competition on Jan. 19.

South Middle places in contest Great Neck South Middle School science competition club members Arthur Zhang, Richard Oh, and Ivan Xu earned fifth place at the regional Future City Competition held in Manhattan on Jan. 19.

Future City encourages students to work collaboratively to find solutions to authentic citywide sustainability issues. The theme of this year’s competition was “Powering Our Future,” and participants were challenged to design a resilient power grid that can withstand and quickly recover from a natural disaster.

The students from South Middle designed their future city to survive a hurricane, the most pressing natural disaster on Long Island. To demonstrate their plan, students

created a simulated city using a computer-aided design program and constructed a threedimensional model using recycled materials.

During the New York City regional competition on Jan. 19, students presented the features of their future city followed by a question and answer period by the judges.

The students were led by South Middle science competition club advisor Doris Stanick.

Future City is a projectbased science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) program that encourages students in grades 6-8 to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. The Future City Competition includes more than 40,000 middle school participants from around the world.

Kaiman to be arts center president Continued from Page 10 She said that without his decision to have North Hempstead enter a partnership with the Gold Coast Arts Center, “we would still be struggling to raise the $100,000+” the center needed just to stay afloat.

“His commitment to the

Arts Center and to the cultural arts is of longstanding; he has observed, understands and appreciates the contribution we make to the Town of North Hempstead and to the greater region beyond,” Gil said via email.

Kaiman could not be reached for comment.

Once again, Great Neck resident Erin Lipinsky will be “Freezin’ for a Reason” at the 15th Annual Town of North Hempstead Polar Plunge.

Last year, Lipinsky raised over $14,000, making him the top fundraiser of the event. This year, Lipinsky plans to break that record.

The event will take place on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington.

The “Freezin’ for a Reason” polar plunge raises money for the athletes of Special Olympics New York.

Lipinsky has been a longtime member of the Great Neck Spirits Basketball Team for Special Olympics.

Lipinsky’s fundraising page is up and he has already raised over $2000. To make a donation, please visit: http://events.nyso.org/ goto/erinsplunge For many years, the Great Neck Alert Fire Company has been an ardent supporter of Lipinsky.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALERT FIRE COMPANY

At last year’s plunge, Lipinsky is flanked by Associate Director of Development for Special Olympics, New York for the Long Island Region Rebecca Strickland and members of the Great Neck Alert Fire Company, Alert Junior Firefighters, family members, coaches and friends.

Alert installs 2019 officers

PHOTO BY JOE VIRGILIO

Great Neck Alert Fire Company swore in new officers.

The Great Neck Alert Fire Company is pleased to announce the installation of its new officers for 2019. During a special ceremony at the Company’s Annual Dinner, the new officers were sworn in by Kevin Petersen, a former chief of the Alerts.

Pictured in the top row are"Recording Secretary John Baumann, Trustee Ronald Campbell, Treasurer Irving Munda, Trustees Zack Lobodzic, William McGirr, and Michael Lang, Chairman of the Board Michael Green, President Aloysius Hoey, and Vice President Michael Zalesky.

Pictured in the bottom row are 1st Lieutenant Raymond Hoey, Jr., 2nd Assistant Chief

Carlos Gallo, Chief James Neubert, 1st Assistant Chief John Purcell, Captain Frank Valladares, and 2nd Lieutenant Roger Beltran.

Missing from the photo is Financial Secretary Bradley Meier.

The Alert Fire Company has been providing volunteer service to the community for over 100 years. The members of the Alert Fire department proudly provide fire protection and rescue services to the residents of Great Neck.

The Great Neck Alert Fire Co. is always looking for new members. Please stop by Alert Headquarters at 555 Middle Neck Rd or call 516-4871057 for more information.

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Trump criticizes Bosworth attends MLK Curran’s ICE move Jr. interfaith service COMMUNITY NEWS

BY J ES S I C A PA R K S

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced on Monday that she will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remain at its current location at the County Correctional Center while the agency seeks a new location.

She attributed the change of heart to a conversation she had with ICE personnel.

“With the federal government reopened, I was able to speak with ICE personnel today about their plan for a more permanent location,” she said in a statement. “We agreed that personnel will remain at their current location in the trailer at the jail, pending their proposal for a new trailer away from the visitors’ center.”

Her prior decision to require the ICE liaison to move from the correctional facility’s premises was criticized by President Donald Trump, who released a video on the issue.

“You have to thank all of the border agents and the ICE agents. I see in Long Island they don’t want ICE, the radical Democrats don’t want ICE there because they’re too good, they’re doing too good a job,” Trump said in the video. “I always talk about Long Island that’s one of the real hotbeds for the MS-13 gangs and I just see this morning where the really radical Democrats don’t want them, because they don’t want anything to disturb MS-13. When you think about it, MS-13 is about the most violent gang.”

In response, Curran said on Twitter before the government’s reopening that Trump “should focus on opening the government instead of creating fake news distractions about us.”

Trump’s comments were welcomed by James McDermott, president of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, who said in a statement:

Supervisor Judi Bosworth attended the St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church’s annual Interfaith Service held on Jan. 13 at the St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Neck. The event featured Rev. Andrew Branch Sr., the pastor for the

Naomi A.M.E. Zion Church in Roosevelt, and brought together spiritual leaders from throughout the area to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Also in attendance was New York state Sen. Anna Kaplan.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran “I wanted to personally thank President Trump for weighing in on this very important issue and calling out those who want to interfere with the Police cooperation of ICE while fighting the violent gang MS-13.”

Curran’s call for the relocation of the agency from its current location in East Meadow came after a recent court decision that prohibits local law enforcement agencies from holding those detained by ICE or an administrative warrant at their facilities.

“The law is the law, and we will follow it,” Curran said in a statement.

“Removing ICE from the trailer gives us an opportunity to eliminate confusion in the immigrant community and demonstrate that inmates are there for crimes.”

Curran’s prior announcement that she would allow the! agency to move its facilities to the Nassau University Medical Center down the road from the correctional facility station came after hundreds of members of law enforcement protested her decision in Mineola last Tuesday.

However, the decision was met with criticism from protesters gathering in the lobby of Curran’s office last Thursday.

Angela Papalia, a so-

cial worker with! Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, told Newsday: “We have concerns that women, children and families will not receive lifesaving care due to the fear that has arisen by the news that was released yesterday.”

Curran said in a statement, “Let me make this clear to our immigrant communities in Nassau County: I will not allow anything or anyone to interfere with access to medical care at the hospital.”

Members of the Republican majority in the county Legislature previously asked Curran to delay her decision to remove the agency.

Nassau County Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said with the presence of MS-13 in the area he was concerned about the effect of ending the relationship between ICE and the Nassau County Police Department.

“I ask the county to delay the removal of the ICE liaison until we can ensure the safety of Nassau County residents moving forward,” he said in a statement.

The removal of ICE from the Nassau County Correctional Center would end the agency’s 20-year tenure at the facility.

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Local students making college news New York Institute of Technology Celina Zapiti of Mineola and"Swapnil Barot of New Hyde Park were"finalists in a biomedical engineering competition to create assistive technology to aid people with disabilities.

Zapiti’s team, “Zipper,” tackled a project to help people with dexterity issues open and close zippers. Team “Zipper” came second in the competition, with team members sharing a $500 prize. Zapiti is pursuing an MS in occupational therapy.

Barot’s team, “Ear Plugs,” tackled a project to build an electromechanical system to allow people with developmental disabilities to work in manufacturing.

This team came third in the competition and shared a prize of $250. Barot is pursuing a BS in electrical and computer engineering.

SUNY Oneonta The following students earned Dean’s List honors for the fall 2018 semester:" Lauren Bascelli, Jillian Clark, Andrea Grebinger" and" Olivia Boniello of Williston Park;" Benjamin Carbone, Margaret Giacinto, Christopher Lockwood and Christen Patalano of Mine-

ola;"Katherine Dorman and Katie Keyes of Albertson;" Siria Castillo and" Ana Zelaya of Port Washington;" Jessica Sorkin and" Samuel Sundick of Great Neck; and" Benjamin Cradin," Casey Hayes,"Irene Isaac,"Andrew Kraus,"Jennifer Li," Caitlyn Pereira," Jason Priest and"Jalissa Sanchez of New Hyde Park.

SUNY Cortland Alexa Nicole Raffo of Williston Park was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester.

SUNY Oswego Laura Dumpson of Mineola completed a bachelor of arts degree in psychology in fall 2018.

Adam Taxier of Port Washington completed a bachelor of arts degree in public relations in fall 2018.

Emerson College The following students have been named to Emerson College’s Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester:"Gemma Fasciano and"Emma Goldman of Port Washington;"Jonathan Goodman of East Williston; and"Sabrina Harris and"Elizabeth Zarb of Roslyn.

Muhlenberg College The following students were named

Roll of Honor nominations North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Town Clerk Wayne Wink are calling for nominations for the 2019 May W. Newburger Women’s Roll of Honor now until Friday, Feb. 22. Anyone interested in submitting a name for consideration can call North Hempstead’s 311 Call Center or visit the Town’s website (http://www.northhempsteadny.gov/roll-of-honor) and download the application form.

The 26th Annual Women’s Roll of Honor Breakfast will be held on Wednesday, March 27 at the Clubhouse at Harbor Links in Port Washington from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m.

“The outstanding women who volunteer their time and talents to our community truly help to make our Town such an extraordinary place to live,” said Bosworth. “The

Women’s Roll of Honor is a wonderful way to say thank you and give recognition to these deserving women.”

Event chairperson Wink added,"“I am proud we have the opportunity to honor outstanding women for their great contributions to North Hempstead. The women that are recognized at this event are what make up the fabric of the North Hempstead community.”

Since 1994, North Hempstead has held the Women’s Roll of Honor breakfast to honor women who reside in the Town who have made a contribution to their community, or have accomplished a significant achievement through public or private efforts in a volunteer capacity.

For more information, call 311 or (516) 869-6311 from outside the town."

to the fall 2018 Dean’s List:" Olivia Agate,"Daliah Bernstein,"James Dalimonte and" Jonathan Greenblatt of Port Washington;" Danielle Chaluts," Christine Cimpian," Daniel Doreste," Allie Mirsky," Jason Sender and" Dustin Stern of Great Neck;"Nathaniel Levy of Williston Park;"Jordan Curtis of Roslyn;"Benjamin Katz of Old Westbury;" Jacob Sonnenklar of Roslyn Heights; and"David Liu of Manhasset.

Siena College John Harvey and" Jason Padilla of New Hyde Park were" named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester."

University of Scranton The following students were named to the fall 2018 Dean’s List:" Nicholas D’Alonzo of Port Washington;" Thomas Cotumaccio," Nathalie Cespedes," Margaret Donnelly and" Elizabeth Hessler of New Hyde Park; and" John Russo of Albertson.

University at Albany The following students made the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester:"Jeana Lee of Great Neck;"Ayman Salloum of Manhasset; and"Molly Donelan and"Ankeith Illiparambil of Mineola.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kyle Harding of Port Washington, a member of the class of 2021 majoring in bioinformatics and computational biology, was named to the university’s Dean’s List for academic excellence for the fall 2018 semester.

Carleton College Walter Stackler of Plandome has enrolled at Carleton College as a member of the Class of 2022.

McDaniel College Michael Cozzi of Manhasset has been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the fall 2018 Dean’s List with honors.

Wilkes University Sarah Weynand of Albertson, N.Y. was named to the Dean’s List at Wilkes University for the fall 2018 semester."

Stonehill College Danielle Villano from Port Washington and a member of the Class of 2019 has been named to the fall 2018 Dean’s List.

Wheaton College Joseph Hur of Roslyn was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester.

Grievance workshop in E.H. Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan presents a tax grievance workshop at the East Hills village hall theater building in Roslyn. During this workshop, taxpayers who disagree with the assessed value of their property

can ask an expert guest presenter questions and learn how to navigate the grievance process and dispute their assessment.

For more information or to RSVP, contact Legislator Lafazan’s office at 516-571-6218 or

jlafazan@nassaucountyny.gov.

When: Feb. 6 Time: 7-9 p.m.

Where: East Hills Village Hall Theater Building, 209 Harbor Hill Road

Daffodil sale fundraiser Regarded as the symbol of hope for cancer patients as well as the first sign of spring, The American Cancer Society Daffodil Days campaign is accepting orders for fresh cut daffodil bouquets now through Feb. 14."

The community is urged to call the American Cancer Society today at 631.300.3457."""

A bouquet of ten daffodil blossoms is $10; a potted daffodil plant is a $15 donation."

Gift of Hope, bouquets of golden-colored daffodils delivered anonymously to a cancer patient undergoing treatment in a local hospital or health care facility, is available for a $25 donation."""""""""

Businesses and organizations are also encouraged to order bulk bouquets of daffodils.

Fifty bouquets of daffodils can be purchased for $500.

Credit card orders are being accepted. Orders can be picked up at the American Cancer Society L.I. office at 75 David Street, Hauppauge the week of March 18, 2019. Orders over $250 can be delivered.

Contributions from Daffodil Days make a significant difference for cancer patients, survivors and caregivers through groundbreaking research, patient services and lifesaving programs in our community.

To learn more please contact Alyssa Patrone, senior community manager, at 631-3003457 or via email at Alyssa. patrone@cancer.org.

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Dems propose law The MTA’s proposed for ‘revenge porn’ READERS WRITE

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plans are off track

as revenge porn and under the proposal, violators could face up to a year in jail as New legislation has been proposed well as a $1,000 fine if convicted. here are fatal flaws in Gov. AnThe legislation is co-sponsored by to the Nassau County Legislature that drew Cuomo’s announcement of would effectively penalize those who Legislators Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview) new Metro North service from post intimate images of another individu- and Debra Mulé (D-Freeport), who jointWestchester and East Bronx via ly held a news conference on Tuesday. al as an act of revenge. the Hell Gate Bridge and Sunnyside to This action is commonly referred to Continued on Page 68 Penn Station, which could impact LIRR riders.!

There is only $695 million currently available toward the $1.5 billion needed to fully fund this project.! The MTA will have to find $805 million under the next Five Year 2020-2024 Capital Program for completion of work.!

Service implementation is dependent upon the LIRR giving up Penn Station rush hour track space. What about the need for midday storage at either the LIRR West Side or Amtrak/NJ Transit Sunnyside Yards?!

Currently no such agreements exist for either arrangement.! Cuomo has promised many other new commuter rail services besides the Metro North Penn Station Access project that are PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS competing for the same non existent Penn Station capacity.!

Metro North also has future plans Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder announced his support ($200 million) to run additional service of a bill to criminalize revenge porn. from Poughkeepsie via Amtrak Empire Corridor Hudson Line down the Manhattan West Side. !

The LIRR invested $450 million to complete double tracking on the Ronkonkoma! branch. Once the Main Line Third Track is completed at a cost of $2.6 billion, the LIRR! has plans to expand Ronkonkoma!branch rush hour Penn Station service.!

There are also promised increased to identify the best ways to use them,” Bo- reverse commuter rush hour service for Continued from Page 6 all eight LIRR branches.! Cuomo wants Bosworth said that in 2019, the town sworth said, noting that surveys were being frequent direct LIRR!service on the Port distributed throughout the town. will work to capture runoff water from the Bosworth said her favorite accomplish- Washington branch between Penn StaHarbor Links Golf Course and capped landment for the town was the opening of Clin- tion, Grand Central Terminal and Mets fills behind the Solid Waste Management Willets!Point station to support his $1.5 Authority’s facility, funnel it into retention ton G. Martin Pool, which was only closed for billion LaGuardia!Air Train. one season and became “state-of-art.”! ponds, and use it to irrigate the golf course.

This will require six trains per hour Other projects she highlighted were a This could lead to 35 million to 75 milin each direction to support ten minute new dock at North Hempstead Beach Park, lion gallons of water being saved annually, a partnership with C.L.I.M.B. to create five head ways.! It is needed to fulfill his she said. promised 30 minute travel time from Bosworth also promised to fight the miles of mountain bike and hiking trails, 25 LaGaurdia Airport to midtown Manhatopening of Jamaica wells, which could draw new sunscreen dispensers courtesy of NYU tan.!

Winthrop, using ADA compliant beach mats, tens of millions of gallons of water from aquiCuomo!wants a “one-seat ride” from fers, and monitor a U.S. Army Corps of Engi- and adding historical markets in Monfort Penn Station and Grand Central TermiCemetery and two locations in New Cassel. neers study that could lead to the creation of Also in New Cassel, the North Hemp- nal to Kennedy Airport.! Also needed is floodgates at the Throgs Neck Bridge – and stead Housing Authority has broken ground LIRR establishment of frequent service possibly flood Long Island’s coastal commuon 77 units of affordable senior housing, from Penn Station to the new Belmont nities.

“Up until now the focus has primarily Bosworth said, which was once home to the Park Islanders Arena by 2021 to coincide with the facility opening.! been on New York and New Jersey Harbors Grand Street School.

Some!Queens residents want restoBosworth also noted that the Superviand not on Long Island shorelines,” Bosworth said. “As the study is still in the preliminary sor’s Chamber of Commerce Roundtable, ration of LIRR!service on the old Rockastages, it’s important for us to be vigilant formed last year, is working on finding ways way! Beach branch, which suspended service in 1962. (Today NYC Transit about the potential impact to our communi- to address challenges the downtowns face.

“Shop local, shop small, let’s support our runs the A subway along a significant ties.” portion of the old LIRR!right of way.)!

Bosworth said the town’s cultural master local businesses,” Bosworth said.

Amtrak (Northeast Corridor beAdditionally, Bosworth highlighted the plan is also underway with the help of a grant ongoing success of Project Independence in tween Washington and Boston along and CivicMoxie, a cultural planning team. !

“The plan is an opportunity to weave providing free and reduced taxi rides, medi- with Empire Service north to Albany together the cultural, historical and busi- cal staff and weekly programs for seniors so and Buffalo) and NJ Transit have future Penn Station service expansion plans. ness assets that exist within the Town, and they can continue living in their homes.

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Neither the $29 billion Hudson River Gateway Tunnel (two additional tracks connecting New Jersey to Penn Station) and $1.6 billion Moynihan!Station Train Hall projects add any new additional Penn Station tracks or platforms. This results in no capacity increase for any additional rush hour Amtrak, NJ Transit, LIRR or Metro North Penn Station service.

The LIRR! may begin access into Grand Central Terminal in December 2022.! Much of the promised 24-peakhour train! service will be either new trains or those which previously terminated at Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn.

Few will be diverted from Penn Station.

There is no commitment by the LIRR to give up any current! peak hour service train slots at Penn Station, when expanding operations into Grand Central Terminal.!!

Amtrak continues to delay the decades overdue major repairs to the four East River tunnels, until after the LIRR begins service into Grand Central Terminal in December 2022.!!Delaying the start of work by six years from 2019 to 2025 will increase costs by 300 percent to $1 billion.!

Continued deterioration of the East River tunnels over this time period could result in an increased scope of work and accompanying service disruptions.! Only one of four East River tunnels can be taken out of service at a time for reconstruction.!

It will take one to two years to finish work on each tunnel.! As a result, this project may not be completed until 2032. Until this work is over, the LIRR will be canceling and combining rush hour trains.! It will be impossible to increase rush hour Penn Station capacity during this time period.!!

There will continue to be a three way competition between Amtrak, LIRR! and NJ Transit for rush hour access to Penn Station. Metro North will also be looking for rush hour access resulting in a four-way competition. There may be no changes to level of Penn Station rush hour service until 2032.!

No other transit operator is prepared to give up rush hour slots to accommodate any new Penn Station Metro North service. We will all have to wait and see the new Amtrak, LIRR, New Jersey Transit Penn Station operating agreement to see what capacity Metro North will be offered.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner!is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked in 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.!

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Medicare for all on the state level

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survey earlier this year by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post found that 51 percent of Americans would support a national health plan while 43 percent opposed it.

Susan Jaffe, writing in The Lancet on Sept. 1 of this year, said that leading health-care providers, drug makers and insurance groups may have also noticed this movement for a single-payer-run system, and have formed a Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future.

This partnership is aimed at preserving Medicare and Medicaid and strengthening employer-sponsored health insurance among other things. I have spoken to a physician who is very aware of what is happening and I asked him directly how does a single-payer system affect physicians. His answer was that the doctors he meets from other countries where this single-payer is in effect seem to be working with no serious

problems for the providers, but we are talking about different culture and government structures in place.

Hundreds of millions of Americans “have affordable coverage they value and they get the care they need when they need it – from the best doctors and hospitals in the world,” said Kristin Grow, vice president for communications at America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group representing health insurance companies.

Grow said, “We need to improve what is working and fix what is not so that every American has affordable coverage, access to high-quality care, and control over their health care choices… Solutions will come from both private and public sectors.”

Now that the elections are over and we can actually direct our attention to a subject that came up in the last presidential election, Medicare for All. This is a national healthcare plan.

Seema Verma, the Medicare

and Medicaid administrator, a Trump appointee, slammed the plan, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ idea currently, saying it would turn into a “Medicare for None.”

Sanders is saying that Verma is trying to “throw” millions of people off their health insurance during the Trump administration’s “failed” effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Seema, in turn, denounced what she called the “drumbeat” for government-run socialized healthcare.” She said, “You are giving the government complete control over decisions pertaining to your care, or whether you receive care at all.”

Sanders said that “Medicare is, by far, the most cost-effective, efficient and popular healthcare program in America.” He added that “Medicare has worked extremely well for our nation’s seniors and will work equally well for all Americans.”

The Sanders proposal would add benefits for Medicare beneficiaries, coverage for eyeglasses, most dental care,

and hearing aids. It would also eliminate deductibles and copayments that Medicare and private insurance plans currently require.

The Universal Medicare Program or UMP provider payments would be based on a feebased schedule developed using methodology modeled after the current Medicare program. The Federal Government would negotiate prices directly with drug manufacturers, medical assistance equipment and supplies.

Now comes the difficult part. The money the federal government spends on the various health programs incorporated under the UMP would be generated by raising the income tax paid by Americans who earn more that $250,000 and also from a payroll tax similar to what employers contribute to subsidize employee health expenses.

But when researchers at the Urban Institute examined a similar Medicare for All proposal Sanders offered during his 2016

campaign, they concluded that the plan would cause a net increase in health-care spending of $6.6 trillion over a decade, assuming there would be significant cuts in provider payments.

“People will get free healthcare, their health will improve, and there are a lot of good things about it,” said John Holahan, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. I think it would be a monumental undertaking to make it work.

Variations of federal legislation have been introduced in some 14 state legislatures. In New York, the assembly passed it but was not able to get it through the Senate. California is also divided.

Either way, the states need permission from the federal government, the CMS, to implement a single-payer plan. A Trump official has already said no on a waiver request.

Bertram Drachtman Great Neck

Dejana request, Time to build G.N. North lot legal questions M

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he Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals must wake up, read the zoning laws, and ask for written proof before allowing Peter Dejana, local businessman and developer, to build his “out of code,” three-story apartment building on Manhasset Isle, a two-story community.

The board must require Dejana, a millionaire, to show proof: 1. that he cannot realize a reasonable rate of return on the property by building according to code; 2. that the nonconformity proposed is not too great compared to the lawful dimensions allowed by the zoning law; 3. that the plight of the owner is due to some unique circumstance; 4. that the development will not alter the character of the neighborhood; and 5. further explain why this is not a self-created difficulty.

Dejana seeks a “special use” permit for a mixed usedevelopment in the E-1 (Enterprise) zoning district in accord

with section 155-24 (A) 22 of the Manorhaven Village Code.

The applicable laws are readily available for the Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals to read and learn on the New York Department of State online Zoning Law publication: Https://www. dos.ny.gov/lg/publications/ Zoning_Board_of_Appeals.pdf.

The Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals must listen to the overwhelming objections of residents, apply common sense, and follow their sworn duty to obey the law.

Too often our board is informal to the point where its actions may be invalid, thus allowing courts to uphold legal challenges via Article 78, a redress of grievances for citizens against a governmental action, which helps protect the rights and welfare of the community.

Caroline DuBois Acting Secretary, Manorhaven Action Committee Manorhaven

y wife and I continue to see the exceptional congestion as students arrive and depart on our corner at Beach Road and Polo Road.

This burdensome predicament continues to make “escape” from my home to Friday business meetings frustratingly difficult unless I track the opposite direction via Bayview Avenue. It’s akin to going to midtown Manhattan via the Bronx.

The storage of Great Neck North working students’ cars is long overdue and necessary — and we are building a lot here, not a new school.

I write today because I see that my neighbors, in “prima facie” recognition of this need after frustrating delays, hearings and the like — more suitable to the development of an entire school rather than a simple parking lot — are writing about a school roof leak which resulted from failure by the contractor to cover his work for the day, prior to a rainstorm. They also write about their desire to be informed regarding the drainage plan for the new lot.

I agree on multiple counts: 1. Let’s get a move on with

this forever-to-pave lot and get these cars off the street in a more timely manner with more storage and vehicular movement — morning and afternoon — at Polo and Beach Roads.

2. Contractors generally do, and should be made to pay, for damage incurred through negligence, such as from un-tarped, continuing roof work.

3. School officials should share the drainage plan for the new lot with Beach Road residents.

One of my neighbors endearingly and belatedly inquires in his letter about the lot construction (may it commence and conclude soon) in relation to the school roof with some continued desire to derail the project.

We know, we know — you don’t want the lot. That train has departed the station. We want relief from these impassable streets.

(Another neighbor rehashes issues spoon-fed by another and contends that the lot — necessary to the school’s functioning in this community is somehow a “theft” of STEM funds — just ridiculous obfuscations).

One issue is unrelated to the other. Countless public projects

have defects, overruns and the like. All must result in making compensation to the public entity and hence, the taxpayers.

A roof repair and paving of a lot are unrelated issues. Both should be addressed and as with the new roof — let’s get going.

I would conclude acknowledging that I purchased my home 20 years ago with the knowledge that I was five houses from a high school.

All of us on this street did so, same as someone on Cuttermill or Great Neck Roads knows that they have the LIRR rumbling outside their kitchen window, same as Arrandale Road residents know that many hundreds of pool-goers pass their house in the summer, same as Old Mill Road residents must accept “street freezes” on high holidays, etc., but we on Beach Road are at least offered some relief from some cars circulating for parking and delaying us.

Again — let’s get moving on this lot which has already taken twice the creation time of the Empire State Building.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

Old white men Thanks to G.N. fire, police (and women) I

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hile older white men tend to be in the GOP and are in power, the average age of the entire Congress is around 60. I’d like to point out that Pelosi is 78, Warren is 69, Waters is 80 and Feinstein being 85.

If Biden chooses to run in 2020, he’ll be 78. The darling liberal on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is 85 years of age. This will change and evolve as more younger people run and are elected in either party whether white, black, Latino, Native American or LGBTQ. Age is really not the issue, but rather what they stand for.

I’d rather have an 80-year-

old seasoned, knowledgeable MD or GOP congressperson or senator represent me than a liberal neophyte who seems to know very little about the United States, economics and life in general.

The U.S. Constitution was designed by the old white men of their time — average age around 44 — who envisioned the possible excesses of government and designed a system of checks and balances that allows all to participate in the democratic process.

This made America great and continues to do so.

Victor Oliveri Williston Park

Trump’s wall would save lives

would be remiss if I, a 91-year-old refugee from the 20 Chapel Place fire on Wednesday evening, Jan. 16, did not comment on the actions and performance of the police and fire departments in our time of need.

All residents were evacuated from our co-op due to excessive smoke coming from an unoccupied 3rd floor apartment just renovated at about 8:30 on a extremely cold night and offered a warm and comfortable place to stay across the street in the lobby of a coop at 21 Chapel Place, where residents offered us bathroom facilities, water, cookies and

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warmth and skill in arranging alternate housing at local hotels. The officer who accompanied me made me feel special and comforted at 2 a.m. in the morning. I was overwhelmed when he called me the next night to see how I had fared.

I’m in awe of the dedication and professionalism shown as Great Neck continues to be a community of care and responsibility where neighbors can count on neighbors and the strong municipal forces that protect us.

Alyce Drabkin Great Neck Plaza

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Great Neck’s rezoning plan Continued from Page 17

wonder how long it will be before Pelosi, Schumer and other Democrats approve Trump’s wall after one of their family members is murdered by an illegal criminal immigrant?

Just asking.

John Messina East Williston

kindness.

The compassion, information and warmth offered by frequent updates by both the chief officers of the fire and police departments showed their caring and professionalism, and after 3 1/2 hours, we learned about the damage to the building.

Most residents from the south side of the building were allowed back at about 1 a.m. with an appropriate police escort. Some of us, from the north side, had to find places to stay the night because of possible danger.

This is where the Red Cross demonstrated their

land use under the proposed zoning amendments conditions, and no mitigation is warranted.”

But the analysis of impact on the school district – and therefore property tax (60-65% of the property tax bill) – is illustrative (and from what we could discern, prepared without actual input from the School District): The report projects 82 additional children being “absorbed”

over a 10-year period. How do you absorb children? But if the district had to enroll 82 new students, the study projects, that would amount to $2,281,076 in additional property taxes. That amounts to about 1% of the school budget or half of what is allowed as an increase under the state’s tax cap.

Their cavalier analysis of absorbing children does not take into account the important district policy of low-class size so that even

one or two more students in a grade or subject could result in the need to form a new class.

Residents (and not just Village residents are affected) will supposedly have a chance to hear a full presentation of the “report” and “recommendations” at the February 5 hearing, before a February 19 vote to adopt. The proposal (237 pages) is online (see http://www. greatneckvillage.org/document_ center/DGEIS_20190115.pdf)

ON THE RIGHT

Cold Spring Harbor lab will survive Watson Continued from Page 15 After World War II, the Eugenics Record Office building was sold and its records were disposed. Some still reside at the laboratory for research purposes; most wound up in Phila-

delphia’s American Philosophical Society “which now holds the largest consolidated eugenic collection anywhere.”

With its dark history behind it, the Carnegie Institute of Washington merged the De-

partment of Genetics with the adjacent Biological Laboratory and named it the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Today, with an annual budget of $150 million and a staff of 1,200, the laboratory performs

research on cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, and quantitative biology. Eight of its scientists have received the Nobel Prize.

While Watson’s racist views have embarrassed Cold Spring

Harbor Laboratory, and have brought back memories of its checkered origins — no doubt it will maintain its current reputation as the leading research institution in molecular biology in the world.

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Immigration reform — two paths lie before us Continued from Page 16 Of course, every nation has a duty to provide security for its citizens. That important matter can be addressed without Trump’s resort to denunciations

of people with genuine and serious asylum requests. It can also proceed without accepting the Trump/Miller goal of large reductions in legal immigration.

We need leaders from both

parties who recognize that immigration and refugee matters are urgent and persistent global issues (see Time cover story (Feb. 4/11): “Beyond Walls: Why Forces of Global Migration Can’t Be

Stopped.”)

Consultations, cooperation and coordination with other nations will help to provide constructive paths forward. This year, the U.S. can still be a bea-

con for democratic leadership, as well as helping to make the world a safer and more just place.

(My next column will offer a list of proposals that could garner bipartisan support.)

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What’s up with real estate this winter Now that the government is open again for business, maybe temporarily, as the ultimatum that was provided will give us until February 15 until it shuts down once again and 800,000 federal workers will be pained and out of work and most importantly out a paycheck, once again!

Can the two parties get their heads together and make it happen? Only time will tell if at least a compromise or logical and pragmatic solution can be devised and agreed upon.

But, so far this winter, in our local towns, real estate has been plugging along and properties are still selling at a fairly fast clip if they are priced at market value. What is market value you ask?

The value that someone is willing to pay based comparable sales, from today and looking back over the last six months; no different than when a bank comes in to appraise a property.

Simply, the buyers should ask their agents to do a comparative market analysis to show them what is available, under contract, sold, withdrawn and expired to ascertain and determine what a fair

offer should be, on a property that they are interested in purchasing. Unless your agent is exclusively working for you as a buyer’s agent, whereby they provide the following six fiduciary duties, eg. reasonable care, confidentiality, undivided loyalty, obedience, duty to account and full disclosure (we call it CCLOAD for short, that we were all taught and were supposed to learn in the beginning of our real estate licensing classes); they may not be following the true meaning of what representing a purchaser is all about, with respect to what agency law means in real estate.

If you as a buyer, ask your agent to perform and provide the analysis, he or she can do this for you. However, unless they are working specifically and exclusively for you, they cannot provide you a specific price of what they think you should offer as a starting point in the negotiations.

You, as the buyer, need to look at the market analysis and then determine what your offer should be. Many agents sometimes forget who they are legally representing when showing and/or negotiating, due to the rapport and rela-

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

tionships that they have developed over the days, weeks and months with the purchasers and sellers. When possible, representing a buyer, is the best route to take, as long as a commission is available to be paid or that the purchaser is willing to pay a fee, specifically when it is exclusive from another office; because, as a buyer, going directly to a listing agent is absolutely not going to provide you a better deal; since that listing agent is exclusively representing and the fiduciary duties are to the seller and not to you as the buyer (unless they have an agreement as a dual agent agreed by seller and buyer).

Agency law can be a bit

confusing to most agents and even Brokers and understandably so; because in other states in the U.S. transaction agency is practiced where you don’t represent any specific party, except the transaction in consummating a sale.

Of the eight states that ban dual agency outright, four allow designated agency(Alaska, Colorado, Maryland and Texas), three allow transaction brokerage (Florida, Kansas and Oklahoma), and three allow both (Alaska, Colorado and Texas).

Subagency: The listing broker represents the seller in an agency relationship.

I do apologize for going off on a tangent, but there are times, I need to provide explanations that I think are pertinent at the moment. Now back to the current topic of how the real estate market is progressing this winter. Inventory is ticking up ever so slightly, due to the still excessive demand in purchasing homes, home associations, condos and co-ops, keeping those styles of properties at historic lows; as well as interest rates actually being down a bit since the previous government shut down from December 22, 2018 through

Jan. 25,# which due to fear and uncertainty, closed certain government offices providing FHA and other types of loans, slowed down the demand for mortgages and their accompanying applications.

Although increases in market values have been trending down to more “normal” levels, and the fact that the demand is still there (more so, for homes less than $1,000,000 in and around the Gold Coast of the North Shore and with reasonable real estate taxes in and around $10,000-$13,000, due to the maximum S.A.L.T. deduction of $10,000).

However, as mentioned in previous columns, the higher end homes, especially on new construction with excessive real estate taxes and higher mortgage rates, have been taking as much as a year or more to sell and are being greatly affected by those issues. I am not convinced things will get better and in fact, might get worse on the pricier homes, especially in NYC, if any new interest rate increases occur in 2019.

Maybe Amazon will provide a little balance in Long Island City and New York City or possibly out here in Long Island for families who want superior schools as opposed to paying for private ones. I have a wait and see attitude and we’ll cross that bridge, when we come to it!

Philp A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 Great Neck NY 11021-2415.

He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist.

Receive regular “FREE” updates of sold homes in your area and what your home would sell for in today’s market or search on: WWW.Li-RealEstate.Com He can be reached by email, at: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com, or by cell: (516) 647-4289.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in Great Neck Great Neck Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $818,000 Demographics near Great Neck, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 10,143 7,535 38 3 81,778 39,915

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

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40 Radnor Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $950,000 Date: 12/14/2018 6 beds, 4 Full baths Style: Exp Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 80x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $17,338 MLS# 3059016

25 Old Colony Lane, Great Neck Sold Price: $872,000 Date: 12/20/2018 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 84x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $10,288 MLS# 3051888

26 Clark Drive, Great Neck Sold Price: $860,000 Date: 12/01/2018 4 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x110 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $9,698 MLS# 3060908

32 Arrandale Avenue, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,681,000 Date: 12/11/2018 5 beds, 4 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x234 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $21,869 MLS# 3050819

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in Great Neck and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Legal Notice Great Neck Park District Nassau County, New York NOTICE TO BIDDERS ORGANIC TURF MANAGEMENT SUPPLIES Please take notice that the Board of Commissioners of the Great Neck Park District will receive sealed bids at the District office, Five Beach Road, Great Neck, New York, 11023, until 12:30 p.m. Thursday, February 28, 2019 for the Great Neck Park District Organic Turf Management Suplies as set forth in the detailed specifications.

At the above time and location, the bid will be publicly open and read. The form of the proposal and specifications will be available at the Park District Office where copies thereof may be obtained by qualified bidders during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Board of Commissioners reserves the right, to reject any and all bids and accept the bid which it deems to be in the best interest of the Park District. For more information, call the Great Neck Park District at (516) 487-7665.

Dated: Great Neck, New York January 25, 2019 Board of Commissioners Great Neck Park District Robert A. Lincoln, Jr Frank S. Cilluffo Tina M. Stellato GNN #150273 1x 2/1/2 019 #150273

INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF GREAT NECK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 32 CARY ROAD- SECTION 2, BLOCK 174, LOT 221 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Great Neck shall hold a public hearing on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 7:30PM at Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023, to hear the application of Jessica Kniesley, owner, represented by Rudolph Shatarah, architect, for the premises at 32 Cary Road in Great Neck.

The applicants are seeking the following variance(s) from the Village Zoning Codes: 321-9 Habitable space.

A. (1) Habitable space shall have a minimum ceiling height of seven feet six inches over 50% of the floor area. The floor area where the ceiling height is less than five feet shall not be considered in computing floor area.

The maid’s room has an existing ceiling height of 6’-9”, where 7’-6” is required.The premises also known as Section 2, Block 174, Lot 221 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, and are located in the Residence B Zoning District. A copy of the application material is available for review in the Village of Great Neck Building Department, Village Hall, during regular business hours.

If anyone needs special accommodations for a disability, such person should contact the Village Clerk at least 5 days prior to the hearing. At said hearing, all parties and interests will be given an opportunity to be heard.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE VILLAGE OF GREAT NECK DENNIS GROSSMAN, CHAIRMAN Dated: 1/23/2019 GNN #150244 1x 2/1/2019 #150244

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held at the office of the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District, 236 East Shore Road, Great Neck, New York on February 14, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., for the purpose of the consideration of the adoption of an Ordinance amending and adding to Section 4 of the Ordinances of the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District, which addresses connection permits, and substituting revised Ordinances in their place.

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS GREAT NECK WATER POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT GNN #150249 1x 2/1/2019 #150249

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Russell Gardens on February 6, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. at Village Hall, 6 Tain Drive, Great Neck, New York, to consider the applications of: Ming Chan, 243 Northern Boulevard, Russell Gardens, described as Section 2, Block 241, Lot 327,328, for a variance of Section 60-48 of the Village Code for a proposed car dealership with insufficient required off-street parking for proposed use.

Barbara Cheung, 22 Carlton Road, Russell Gardens, described as Section 2, Block 236, Lot12 for a variance of Section 60-22C for insufficient aggregate width of side yards.

Application is on file in Village Hall and may be inspected 9:30AM 12:30PM, Monday through Friday. All interested parties should appear and will be given an opportunity to be heard at such public hearing.

BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS, INC. RUSSELL GARDENS Arthur Anderman Chairman GNN #150248 1x 2/1/2019 #150248

LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF KINGS POINT TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Assessor of the Village of Kings Point has completed the tentative assessment roll of all real properties within the Village of Kings Point for the fiscal year June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020 and it has been filed with the Village Clerk and may be examined by all interested person or persons during regular business hours between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., beginning February 1st, 2019, until February 15th, 2019, at the Village Hall, 32 Steppingstone Lane, Kings Point, New York 11024.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Assessment Review will sit at the Village Hall on February 19th, 2019, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 4:00 p.m. for the purpose of hearing complaints in relation to said assessments on application of any person considering himself or herself aggrieved thereby.

Complaints must be filed with the Village Clerk at the Village Hall on or before February 19th, 2019, by 4:00 p.m.; a statement, under oath, on forms specified; with respect in which the assessment complained of is incorrect.

Gomie Persaud Village Clerk-Treasurer Village of Kings Point Dated: Kings Point, NY January 28, 2019 GNN #150082 1x 2/1/2019 #150082

LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF KINGS POINT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a meeting will be held by the Board of Appeals of the Village of Kings Point at the Village Hall, 32 Steppingstone Lane, Kings Point, New York 11024, on 26th February 2019 at 7:00 p.m. The Board will immediately adjourn for advice of counsel and, at 7:30 p.m., the Board will commence public hearings for the consideration of the following applications and such other matters as may come before the Board: CASE NO. PRBZA20190042 Application of Shahram Hedvat, as an owner, with regard to the premises at 10 Bancroft Lane, Kings Point, New York, for variances from the following sections of the Code of the Village of Kings Point to permit a tennis court and its fencing to be located partially in a front yard without the required screening: 1. 161-39, which prohibits a tennis court and its fencing in a front yard, to permit a legal nonconforming tennis court, including its fencing, in a front yard to remain after the demolition of the existing dwelling as an accessory structure to a proposed a new dwelling; and 2. 161-41, to permit a tennis court without the required living screen of coniferous trees.

The premises are shown on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map as Section 1, Block 148, Lots 48, 49, 50 & 51, and are located in a Residence A2 zoning district of the Village of Kings Point.

CASE NO. PRBZA20190043 Application of Michael & Shadi Ohebshalom, as owners, with regard to the premises at 16 Shore Drive, Kings Point, New York, for a variance from the following section of the Code of the Village of Kings Point for a proposed pergola: 161-23(A)(2), which requires that all such structures be located in a rear yard not less than 10 feet farther back from the front street line than the rearmost portion of the main building, to permit a pergola to be located partially in a side yard and partially in a rear yard, less than 10 feet farther back from the front street line than the rearmost portion of the main building.

The premises are shown on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map as Section 1, Block 42, Lots 143 & 145, and are located in a Residence A2 zoning district of the Village of Kings Point.

The application and accompanying exhibits are on file in the office of the Village Clerk and may be inspected during normal business hours.

At said hearings, all parties in interest will be given an opportunity to be heard.

In the event that anyone needs a special accommodation for a disability, such person is requested to contact the Village Clerk at least five days before the hearing.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE VILLAGE OF KINGS POINT Mike M. Nassimi, Chairman Dated: Kings Point, NY 31ST JANUARY 2019 GNN #150247 1x 2/1/2 019 #150247

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North Hempstead— Board of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town will meet at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, on Wednesday, February 13, 2019, to consider any matters that may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #20669—Kimberly & Jason Mayer, variances 70-29.B and 70-31.A to construct additions exceeding the permitted floor area, within a required side yard setback and with insufficient aggregate side yards; W/side 40 Devon Rd., 100’ S/of Picadilly Rd., Great Neck, Sec. 1, Blk. 31, Lot 24, R-A District.

The full list of cases for this calendar may be obtained at www. northhempsteadny.gov. All interested persons should appear and will be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting and/or hearing.

DAVID MAMMINA, R.A., Chairman; Board of Zoning Appeals GNN #150196 1x 2/1/2 019 #150196

NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Great Neck Union Free School District in the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau, (in accordance with Section 103 of Article 5-1 of the General Municipal Law) hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for: SURPLUS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES 2018-2019-01 Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m. prevailing time on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 in the Purchasing Office, Phipps Administration Building, 345 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, NY, 11020. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained online (www.greatneck.k12. ny.us/surplus) or from the Purchasing Office (516-441-4070).

The Board reserves the right to waive any informality in the bids, or to reject all bids, or to accept any bid that it deems to be in the best interest of the School District.

Board of Education, Great Neck Union Free School District, Great Neck, NY By: Jason Martin Purchasing Agent GNN #150205 1x 2/1/2 019 #150205

PUBLIC NOTICE OF NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER’S SALE OF TAX LIENS ON REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby given that commencing on February 19th, 2019, will sell at public on-line auction the tax liens on certain real estate, unless the owner, mortgagee, occupant of or any other party in interest in such real estate shall have paid to the County Treasurer by February 14th, 2019 the total amount of such unpaid taxes or assessments with the interest, penalties and other expenses and charges against the property.

Such tax liens will be sold at the lowest rate of interest, not exceeding 10 percent per sixmonth period, for which any person or persons shall offer to take the total amount of such unpaid taxes as defined in Section 5-37.0 of the Nassau County Administrative Code.

Effective with the February 2019 lien sale Ordinance No. 175-2015 requires a $175.00

per day registration fee for each person who intends to bid at the tax lien sale. Ordinance No. 175-2015 also requires that upon the issuance of the Lien Certificate there is due from the lien buyer a Tax Certificate Issue Fee of $20.00 per lien purchased. Pursuant to the provisions of the Nassau County Administrative Code at the discretion of the Nassau County Treasurer the auction will be conducted online. Further information concerning the procedures for the auction is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: https: / / www.nassaucountyny. gov/526/County-Treasurer Should the Treasurer determine that an in-person auction shall be held, same will commence on the 19th day of February 2019 at the Office of The County Treasurer 1 West Street, Mineola or at some other location to be determined by the Treasurer.

A list of all real estate in Nassau County on which tax liens are to be sold is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: http: / / www.nassaucountyny. gov / DocumentCenter / View / 17674 A list of local properties upon which tax liens are to be sold will be advertised in this publication on or before February 14, 2019.

Nassau County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to or access to, or treatment or employment in, its services, programs, or activities. Upon request, accommodations such as those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in all services, programs, activities and public hearings and events conducted by the Treasurer’s Office. Upon request, information can be made available in Braille, large print, audio-tape or other alternative formats. For additional information, please call (516) 571-2090 ext. 1-3715.

Dated: January 18, 2019 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, New York TERMS OF SALE Such tax liens shall be sold subject to any and all superior tax liens of sovereignties and other municipalities and to all claims of record which the County may have thereon and subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts.

However, such tax liens shall have priority over the County’s Differential Interest Lien, representing the excess, if any, of the interest and penalty borne at the maximum rate over the interest and penalty borne at the rate at which the lien is purchased.

The Purchaser acknowledges that the tax lien(s) sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale may be subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or may become subject to such proceedings which may be commenced during the period in which a tax lien is held by a successful bidder or the assignee of same, which may modify a Purchaser’s rights with respect to the lien(s) and the property securing same. Such bankruptcy proceedings shall not affect the validity of the tax lien. In addition to being subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts, said purchaser’s right of foreclosure may be affected by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act(FIRREA),12 U.S.C. ss 1811 et.seq., with regard to real property under Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)

receivership.

The County Treasurer reserves the right, without further notice and at any time, to withdraw from sale any of the parcels of land or premises herein listed.

The Nassau County Treasurer reserves the right to intervene in any bankruptcy case/litigation where the property affected by the tax liens sold by the Treasurer is part of the bankruptcy estate. However, it is the sole responsibility of all tax lien purchasers to protect their legal interests in any bankruptcy case affecting their purchased tax lien, including but not limited to the filing of a proof of claim on their behalf, covering their investment in said tax lien. The Nassau County Treasurer and Nassau County and its agencies, assumes no responsibility for any legal representation of any tax lien purchaser in any legal proceeding including but not limited to a bankruptcy case where the purchased tax lien is at risk.

The rate of interest and penalty at which any person purchases the tax lien shall be established by his bid. Each purchaser, immediately after the sale thereof, shall pay to the County Treasurer ten per cent of the amount for which the tax liens have been sold and the remaining ninety per cent within thirty days after such sale. If the purchaser at the tax sale shall fail to pay the remaining ninety per cent within ten days after he has been notified by the County Treasurer that the certificates of sale are ready for delivery, then all amounts deposited with the County Treasurer including but not limited to the ten per cent theretofore paid by him shall, without further notice or demand, be irrevocably forfeited by the purchaser and shall be retained by the County Treasurer as liquidated damages and the agreement to purchase shall be of no further effect.

Time is of the essence in this sale. This sale is held pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code and interested parties are referred to such Code for additional information as to terms of the sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale.

Furthermore, as to the bidding, 1. The bidder(s) agree that they will not work with any other bidder(s) to increase, maintain or stabilize interest rates or collaborate with any other bidder(s) to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the random number generator in the event of a tie bid(s) on a tax certificate. Bidder(s) further agree not to employ any bidding strategy designed to create an unfair competitive advantage in the tiebreaking process in the upcoming tax sale nor work with any other bidder(s) to engage in any bidding strategy that will result in a rotational award of tax certificates.

2. The tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) bid, will be arrived at independently and without direct or indirect consultation, communication or agreement with any other bidder and that the tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) to be bid, have not been disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder, and will not be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder prior to the close of bidding. No attempt has been made or will be made to, directly or indirectly, induce any other bidder to refrain from bidding on any tax certificate, to submit complementary bids, or to submit bids at specific interest rates.

3. The bids to be placed by the Bidder will be made in good faith and not pursuant to any direct or indirect, agreement

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or discussion with, or inducement from, any other bidder to submit a complementary or other noncompetitive bid.

4. If it is determined that the bidder(s) have violated any of these bid requirements then their bid shall be voided and if they were the successful bidder the lien and any deposits made in connection with said bid shall be forfeited.

THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Dated: January 18, 2019 Mineola, New York GNN #150126 2x 2/1, 2/8/2 019 #150126

PUBLIC NOTICE The Grand Rehabilitation & Nursing at Great Neck is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability (in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act) with respect to employment opportunities.

GNN #150202 1x 2/1/2 019 #150202

TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLL INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF LAKE SUCCESS NEW YORK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Assessor of the Incorporated Village of Lake Success, Nassau County, New York, has prepared the Tentative Assessment Roll of said Village for the fiscal year beginning June 1st, 2019 and ending May 31st, 2020. A copy thereof has been filed with the Village Clerk at the Village Office, 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success, New York, in said Village, where it may be seen and examined by any person at all times during the business hours, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, from February 1st, 2019 until February 15th, 2019. On Tuesday, February 19th, 2019, in said Village, the Board of Review will meet between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the purpose of hearing complaints in relation thereto on the application of any person considering him /herself aggrieved thereby.

Complaints must be filed with the Village Clerk on or before the 19th of February 2019, a statement, under oath, specifying the respect in which the assessment complained of is incorrect, which statement must be made by the person whose property is assessed, or by some person authorized to made such statement and who has knowledge of the facts stated therein.

Patrick E. Farrell Village Administrator/ Treasurer Dated: February 1st, 2019 February 8th, 2019 February 15th, 2019 Lake Success, NY GNN #150087 3x 2/1, 2/8, 2/15/ 2019 #150087

PLACE A LEGAL NOTICE

IN ONE OF BLANK SLATE MEDIA’S 6 WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS CALL: 516.307.1045X201 OR EMAIL US AT legals@theislandnow.com

VILLAGE OF GREAT NECK PROPOSED LOCAL LAW Notice is hereby given that The Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck will hold a public hearing at 7:45 P.M. on Tuesday February 5, 2019, at Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, NY, with respect to a proposed local law to authorize the Board to exceed the property tax cap imposed under General Municipal Law ß 3-c in connection with the adoption of the 2019-2020 annual budget.

Persons who may suffer from a disability, which would prevent them from participating in said hearing, should notify Joe Gill, Village Clerk-Treasurer, at (516) 482-0019, in sufficient time to permit arrangements to be made to enable such persons to participate in said hearing.

Joe Gill Clerk-Treasurer Village of Great Neck January 29, 2019 GNN #150271 1x 2/1/2 019 #150271

VILLAGE OF GREAT NECK TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Assessor of the Village of Great Neck, Nassau County, New York, has completed and verified the Tentative Assessment Roll of the Village for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2019 and ending May 31, 2020. A copy of the aforementioned roll has been filed with the Clerk-Treasurer at his office, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, New York, where it may be seen and examined by any person during business hours, 8:30am to 4:30pm, Mondays through Fridays, until April 1, 2019.

Joe Gill Clerk-Treasurer Village of Great Neck January 29, 2019 GNN #150272 1x 2/1/2 019 #150272

Village of Great Neck Proposed Local Law Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck at Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, NY, on February 19, 2019, at 8:00 P.M., upon the proposed Corridor Incentive Overlay District amendment to the Village’s Zoning Code. Copies of the proposed legislation are available in the Village Clerk’s Office. Persons who may suffer from a disability, which would prevent them from participating in said hearing, should notify Joe Gill, Village Clerk-Treasurer, at (516) 482-0019, in sufficient time to permit arrangements to be made to enable such persons to participate in said hearing.

GNN #150282 1x 2/1/2019 #150282

Village of Great Neck Proposed Moratorium Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck at Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, NY, on February 19, 2019, at 8:00 P.M., upon the proposed Residential Subdivision Moratorium. Copies of the proposed legislation are available in the Village Clerk’s Office. Persons who may suffer from a disability, which would prevent them from participating in said hearing, should notify Joe Gill, Village Clerk-Treasurer, at (516) 4820019, in sufficient time to permit arrangements to be made to enable such persons to participate in said hearing.

GNN #150283 1x 2/1/2019 #150283

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LIU admin ‘in a bubble’: union

BY T E R I W EST The Long Island University faculty union condemned the university’s self-congratulations for a recent credit upgrade as evidence the administration is “operating in a bubble” in an email sent to colleagues as well as Blank Slate Media.

Union President Michael Soupios and Vice President Willia Hiatt wrote that announcements such as the progression from a BBB to a BBB+ Standard & Poor’s credit rating ignore what faculty are seeing: “empty classrooms, crippling cuts, and disinvestment.”

Such complaints come as enrollment has dropped in recent years.

LIU’s enrollment went from 2009 in 21,682 to 16,079 in 2017, according to Newsday.

There was a 7.35 percent enrollment decline nationwide from the fall of 2012 to fall 2017, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center statistics.

Christopher Fevola, the university’s vice president for finance and treasurer, disputed claims made by Soupios that the administration is distant and unresponsive.

He said LIU’s improving financial indicators, particularly in a time when universities nationwide are struggling, are indicators of real progress.

“Despite a small group that has a very loud voice, particularly in certain parts of the campus as far as the strategic direction of the university, the fact of the matter is that the great strides we’ve made financially have really come at a time when our industry has been subject to a lot of scrutiny,” Fevola said.

One factor considered in the S&P’s rating process was the endowment, which grew from $80 million to $230 million in the last five years, he said.

The endowment has primarily been growing because the adminis-

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The student union on the LIU Brooklyn campus. tration has cut the university’s operating budget, according to Soupios.

Fevola disputed that and said fundraising, market returns and operating performance have all “had a notable contribution to the growth in the endowment.”

While enrollment has dropped, the average SAT score of students has increased along with retention rates, Fevola said.

“If we don’t keep the high academic standard we wind up recruiting and enrolling students that are unable to complete their education on time,” he said. “They often run into financial difficulties when their financial aid runs out. They leave without being able to get a transcript.”

Soupios’ and Hiatt’s letter said that the administration has not shared test score data with the faculty and argued that such academic performance should not be considered a success when overall enrollment is down.

Another dent in enrollment has resulted from the university’s decision to move LIU Post athletics from NCAA’s Division II Northeast Conference to Division I this coming fall, Soupios said.

While student athletes did not lose scholarships, many lost the opportunity to play, he said.

Soupios, a political science professor, said he signed off on six to eight transfer passes last semester.

The faculty union has told the administration it would be happy to open a dialogue but has found the university uninterested in doing so diplomatically, he said.

“Their idea of a discussion is a complete one-way street,” Soupios said. “Their idea of a discussion is you give 100 percent on your end and we give you in response absolutely nothing.”

Still, the union will continue pointing out holes it notices, he said.

“We’re not going to stop pointing out truth in this matter,” Soupios said. “The truth is the truth.”

Fevola said the administration has met with about 300 faculty members since the beginning of December “where we’ve had very constructive dialogue.”

Faculty members have also been key consultants as the university moves to introduce new academic programs and are on board of trustee subcommittees, he said.

Lurvey ascends to town board Continued from Page 1 council members and Supervisor Bosworth and their respective staffs and, most importantly, to representing the residents of the district.”

John Ryan, the chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Commitee, said it was her community experience — following her decision to leave her job to focus on raising her children — that won interviewers over.

“I think she’s wonderful,” Ryan said in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “I think she will be a tremendous asset to both the supervisor and the Town Board and she will truly represent all the people in the district fairly.”

PHOTO BY TERI WEST

North Shore Action co-President and founder Veronica Lurvey during her appointment Tuesday evening.

Lurvey will face an election in November. De Giorgio and Councilman Peter Zuckerman are also up for re-election.

“I think she’s going to be a tremendous asset and in a relatively short period of time she’s become a true community leader in Great Neck,” Steve Markowitz, a vice chairman of the Nassau County Democratic Committee and president of the Great Neck Democratic Club, said on Tuesday. “She’s done an outstanding job at Temple Israel as an officer there. She has the ability to inspire and lead people and that’s what we need on the town council.”

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SCHOOL & CAMP DIRECTORY ADVERTORIAL

Tour Long Island’s Top Arts High School Long Island High School for the Arts to Host Open House, Saturday, April 28 Long Island High School for the Arts (LIHSA) & Summer Arts Academy invites all Nassau & Suffolk County students with artistic talent, passion and ambitions to an Open House on Saturday, April 13 from 11 am 2 pm. Prospective students from across Long Island are welcome to tour the campus at 239 Cold Spring Road in Syosset with LIHSA Principal Dr. Chris Rogutsky Bleecker and staff to experience classes focused on each area of the visual and performing arts.

Attendees can join a theater improvisation skit, sketch in an art class, take a dance class, listen to a jazz performance and participate in much more to get better acquainted with LIHSA. During the Open House, parents of prospective students will also

have the opportunity to speak with faculty, guidance, current parents and students.

There will also be information about our Summer Arts Academy, which will be run as part of Hofstra Summer Camps.

Established in 1973, LIHSA is part of the public education system and is paid for by local school districts. It offers specialized training and instruction to students interested in pursuing careers in dance, drama, musical theatre, filmmaking, special effects, instrumental and vocal music, digital music, fine arts and digital media. The half-day program enables students to complete their core academclasses in their home high school and receive two and a

half hours of intensive training in their field of study. As part of their professionallevel training, students regularly receive one-onone access to experienced professionals working in their chosen fields.

“We are incredibly proud of the instruction and experiences offered at the Long Island High School for the Arts,” said Dr. Robert Dillon, District Superintendent of Nassau BOCES. “Each year, we look forward to our Open Houses to showcase the programs and talent our students possess. We encourage all students interested in pursuing the arts to come down and take advantage of this

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Town home help programs The Town of North Hempstead’s innovative senior initiative, Project Independence, is reminding members that there are two crucial home help programs available to members.! Project Independence’s partnership with Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. and the Rehabilitation Institute Help at Home Program is just one of the many ways the Project Independence program works to help North Hempstead’s senior residents stay in their homes as they age.

“Our partnership with these wonderful organizations means so much to our Project Independence members,” said Supervisor Bosworth. “No one likes to feel dependent on friends and family for small home improvements, or routine maintenance around the house. With Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc.

and the Rehabilitation Institute Help at Home Program it’s like having a handy man at your fingertips.”

Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. is a program to repair and rehabilitate the homes of low income, elderly and disabled homeowners. The program works to build ramps, grab bars, railings and do small repairs at homes of Project Independence members at no cost.! All repairs performed by Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. are completed by retired volunteers.! This is an income based program. RTLI gives extra preference to veterans and handicapped individuals.

The TRI Help at Home Program-TRI Supported Employment/Maintenance Training Program is designed to prepare individuals with disabilities to work in entry-level employment.!

Each student is trained to

be proficient in Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations. Help at Home will be provided by TRI workers, supervised by their job coaches, to Town residents age 60 and over.! There is no charge for the service, but the homeowner/renter must pay for or provide any supplies needed.

Here’s what some Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. and the Rehabilitation Institute Help at Home Program clients had to say about the services they received: “The service was excellent.! The gentleman regularly updated us with the delivery and construction dates.! They were prompt, polite, respectful, knowledgeable, efficient and very well skilled.! My mother now has easier access in and out of our home and allows her to maintain her independence and pride,”

said a child of Project Independence members who had a ramp built through the Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. “(He was) very pleasant and he and his helpers worked efficiently, leaving no mess behind.! I very much appreciate the help provided and hope to be able to take advantage of the service again,” said a Project Independence member who use TRI for gutter cleaning.

Created in 2006 as an aging-in-place program for the Town’s nearly 60,000 residents over 60, PI has assisted aging residents in remaining in their own homes and familiar surroundings.! For more information about Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc., TRI’s Help at Home Program and Project Independence, call 311 or 516869-6311 from outside the Town.

Town announces 2019 S.T.O.P. Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board have announced the dates for the 2019 Stop Throwing Out Pollutants events.!

The first S.T.O.P event will be held on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at North Hempstead Beach Park’s North Lot. The S.T.O.P. program offers Town of North Hempstead residents the opportunity to dispose of dangerous and chemical wastes that are too dangerous to dispose of with routine curbside pickups.

Residents can return items such as aerosols, household chemicals, pesticides, disinfectants, fertilizers, bulbs, thermostats, rechargeable and lithium batteries, TVs and computers.! Latex and waterbased paints, once dried out (usually 24-36 hours after the lid is removed) can be placed in a trash bag and thrown out with your regular household garbage.! Latex and water-based paints will not be accepted at the S.T.O.P. collection site.! Oil-based paints, on the other hand, are considered hazardous,

and will be accepted at any S.T.O.P. program.

Residents may also bring their sensitive documents to the S.T.O.P. event for proper shredding and destruction to prevent identity theft. Any documents brought will be shredded on site by a document shredding company and then transported to a pulping mill for recycling. There is a limit of six “Bankers Box” sized boxes or bags of paper per car, per day. Once the documents are shredded, they will be placed into containers and sent directly to pulping mills.! For every 2,000 pounds of paper the Town recycles equates to 17 trees saved.

The Town will no longer be accepting pharmaceuticals at the S.T.O.P program. This is due to a change in policy by the Nassau County Police Department. To dispose of unwanted medicines, please drop them off at your local police precinct.!

The S.T.O.P. events will also have a clothing donation area thanks to North Hempstead’s partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters. Representatives of

Big Brothers Big Sisters will be collecting gently used and working clothes, stuffed animals, electronics, toys, sporting equipment, shoes, books, small area rugs, bikes, scooters, luggage, picture frames, table lamps, bolts of fabric, silverware, glassware, dishes, and cosmetics.

Each resident will receive a receipt for their donation for income tax purposes.

“The Town is pleased to be able to continue to offer a convenient and environmentally responsible way for our residents to dispose of hazardous and sensitive waste,” said Bosworth.

Participants must be residents of North Hempstead (no commercial vehicles will allowed) and

need to show a driver’s license or other valid proof of residency. Only potentially hazardous household products and ewaste will be accepted. For safety reasons, residents also must remain in their vehicle while event staff removes items to be discarded. Please also leave pets at home so staff can safely remove items from your vehicle.

Additional S.T.O.P programs will be held at North Hempstead Beach Park on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20.! All S.T.O.P events are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.!! For more information on the S.T.O.P. program, call 311 or 516869-6311 or visit northhempsteadny.gov/stopprogram.

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Deep genius of George Balanchine I was invited to the New York City Ballet this weekend to review “Serenade” by George Balanchine. This ballet is a milestone in the history of dance and was the first original ballet he created for America.

The ballet is set to Tschaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings” and was created in 1935 as a lesson in stage technique for his young students. Part of the uniqueness of this piece is that he incorporated a number of unexpected events that occurred during the rehearsal process such as a dancer falling or coming late to rehearsal.

But that does not explain in any way the sheer majesty and profound depth and beauty this piece contains and why it’s considered one of the great balletic masterpieces. I was sitting in the press section during the show and seated immediately in front of me was a well-known choreographer. After the seventh curtain call and all the ovations concluded he remarked to his partner, “This is by far my favorite ballet, so lush, so beautiful, and so perfect.”

He is not alone in his admi-

ration of this ballet. When it first premiered, Martha Graham was seated in the front row. The ballet begins as a dance lesson and when the corps goes into first position it was done so simply and beautifully that Graham immediately began to cry.

I think this ballet is considered a masterpiece for a number of reasons that reach deeply into our culture’s unconscious. It is as if somehow at this moment in history Balanchine was given permission to channel God. The following are six levels of depth that this dance piece possesses.

1. In 1935, Balanchine was already a master choreographer and inspired Lincoln Kirstein to support his vision of dance in America. With Kirstein’s backing, Balanchine developed a world-class ballet company by enlisting Jerome Robbins.

Balanchine remarked that “New York is the only place in the world where we could have built this company.” In time he would inspire Phillip Johnson to create the buildings that are now Lincoln Center and inspire Nelson Rockefeller to back the effort.

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2. Balanchine was musically trained in Russia and his selection of “Serenade for Strings” by Tschaikovsky was inspired. The piece is elegiac, mournful and a sorrowful lament. Very few actually know about the history of this ballet’s creation and what the lament is all about. Serenade was created in 1934 and Hitler was on the rise in Nazi Germany.

Balanchine was aware of the evil that was about to unfold there and this ballet was his direct response. He explained to his naïve young American students that there was an “evil man with a moustache in Germany and that his followers

would raise their right arm in the Nazi salute”.

And so as the curtain rises on the ballet you hear the mournful strings and you gaze at the 16 beautiful ballerinas standing at attention with their right hand raised stiffly as if in salute.

But then the right hand slowly bends, the arm folds overhead, the heads bow down and they enter first and the second position.

This is when Martha Graham began to weep as do most of the audience when they see this. Balanchine now offers an artistic response to the damage that was unfolding in Germany and throughout Europe.

3. I am certain Balanchine was highly mathematically gifted and if he ever had to take the SATs he would have gotten 800 in the math section. His use of geometric lines like diagonals and circles are exquisite. The math and the music ability is found in the right cortex and I am sure his was full and overflowing.

4. He must have adored women greatly because he managed to pick all these tall, slender beauties with long flowing hair and perfect bodies and he always featured them above the men.

5. This ballet also contains most of Balanchine’s core values including cooperation, inclusion, whimsy, charm and sweetness as well.

Joy, fun and wit always seems to pop up. Many of the movements remind you of nature as if the dancers are flowers opening up or waves falling on the beach.

6. I alluded to Balanchine’s ability to channel the culture’s

deepest pain. He did this in “Serenade” at a time when the world was at its darkest. World War II was about to break out and Hitler was in the process of exterminating all those he was most afraid of. He was the most dangerous paranoid that the world had ever witnessed.

Melanie Klein was a famous psychoanalyst who developed the theory that artists do the work of reparation for the culture. They tap into the major pain in the world and then attempt to heal the damaged paranoid parts.

Balanchine was unquestionably a great artist and he did just that in the last two minutes of the piece. You first see one woman who is dying and her blind lover who is led off by the angel of death.

You then see six ballerinas on point, and the three men, lift the dead ballerina into the air and carry her off as she looks heavenward and opens her arms to receive God and his absolution. This end is so sad and so beautiful that the audience first sits there in stunned silence and then gets to its feet and offers a five-minute standing ovation.

This is dance at its very finest and at its deepest and shows why humans need art in order to heal. Balanchine was the man who introduced ballet to America and has kept in alive ever since.

It will be a long time until we see another genius like Balanchine and we are very lucky indeed to be able to see his work right here in New York so close to home. Bravo to New York City Ballet, its beautiful dancers and to Peter Martins for having the courage to step into Balanchine’s shoes.

Legislators propose criminalizing ‘revenge porn’ Continued from Page 53 “While the internet has placed the world’s knowledge at our fingertips, it also allows malicious individuals to cause tremendous harm at ease,” Drucker said. “By creating the legal tools to punish perpetrators of revenge porn, we give victims of this heinous act the voice they deserve under the law.”

Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas

announced their support of the proposal at the news conference.

“The Nassau County Police Department supports the enactment of any law that will protect individuals from harassment, coercion or bullying through the dissemination of intimate images,” Ryder said.

Singas said prosecutors# frequently “have to work with survivors who are being threatened with having their pictures sent to their job, family or posted on so-

cial media.”

“Domestic violence cases involve power, control and manipulation, and abusers regularly use revenge pornography to target their intimate partners,” she said.

She said the state does not have a statute that “adequately addresses revenge pornography.”

A bill that would make revenge porn illegal on the state level was put off in June and is expected to#be voted on this year.

Laws like that proposed by

Mulé and Drucker are in effect in New York City and Suffolk#County.

Elizabeth Osowiecki, an education coordinator at The Safe Center Long Island, told the story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, a victim of revenge porn in California.

When Pott was unconscious, boys who she thought were her friends allegedly raped her and then shared the images online and around their school.

Eight days after the incident,

Pott committed suicide.

“As a social worker and mother of young adult daughters, I am keenly aware of the havoc that is unleashed when intimate images are maliciously distributed,” Mulé said. “Enacting a revenge porn ban will empower Nassau County to immediately protect residents from this horrific invasion of privacy and ensure those who engage in this disturbing practice face meaningful consequences.”

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A scientific tale of love, labs, ambition

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREA ROTHMAN

The DNA of You and Me, Great Neck resident Andrea Rothman’s debut novel, will be on the shelves on March 12.

In penning a tale of scientific discovery, ambition and love, Great Neck resident Andrea Rothman had a lot to draw from.

She was a research scientist on four continents studying the sense of smell, after all, before pursuing her other calling: writing.

“I realized that people don’t really know a lot about how a research lab works, how science works, the people who are involved in it, their inner lives,” Rothman said of her inspiration in a Friday afternoon interview. “People have this stereotypical view of scientists and it’s not like that at all.”

The result is “The DNA of You and Me,” her inaugural novel set to be released on March 12. It is published by William Morrow HarperCollins.

The three-part retrospective story follows Emily, a driven scientist who becomes unsettled by her competitor and colleague Aeden. The two end up in a relationship – with different ideas of where it should go – that is pitted against ambition.

“Thematically, it’s about choice: choices we make and how we live either to regret them or not,” Rothman said.

Rothman said the novel is particularly relevant as the general public becomes more connected to science through things like 23 and Me DNA testing. It also comes amid a social movement in 2017, she said, that is trying to get women into more science, technology and mathematics fields.

“There are very few women in high positions in science research,” Rothman said, noting that there are “many reasons” for this. “I like the fact that I had a strong female

character that’s a scientist in the novel.”

In writing the book, Rothman said she painted a picture of how scientific research unfolds – going to the point of creating a believable experiment. It also involved translating the “very complicated” issue of smell into something understandable, she said.

“We can smell thousands of odors,” Rothman said.

“Imagine the complexities in our brain that allow us to do that.”

In reading the book, Rothman said she hopes readers come away with a “new sense of place” and an understanding of the characters.

While the story has heightened relevance today, Rothman said the spark for the book came more than a decade ago. She began writing it 10 years ago, “not knowing where I was going yet,” until dedicating herself more fully to it five years ago. She even went back to college, getting an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

“I realized that this was the novel I wanted to write 15 years ago,” Rothman said.

“It’s like seeing a peak up in the mountains,” Rothman said of the journey between where she was and what she wanted.

Rothman said that in working as a scientist, it was difficult to balance her career and motherhood. Now she believes balancing her career and being a mother can work – and she’s already forging a second novel.

“It’s something totally different,” Rothman said, noting herself as a “romantic at heart.”

“The DNA of You and Me” is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the HarperCollins website.

Park district approves screen purchase Continued from Page 2 Coast Guard.

There would be a 10-year warranty on the work, Lincoln said, and it’s expected that the district could get another 25 years out of the boat.

“It’s a lot of money, but it’s a lot less money than a new boat and we’re very comfortable with this as a good investment,” Lincoln said.

In other park district business, park officials discussed the progress of Buzz, their shared shuttle service

pilot program geared toward commuters.

Marra said there has been “all positive feedback” and that of their 13 original customers, 11 returned.

In the second week they gained 10 users, he said, essentially doubling the use. One person said the walk to their stop was too far, according to Marra.

Marty Markson, a member of the park district’s open space committee, suggested possibly posting the median walking distance so people can better gauge whether or not to use the service.

“It still is a work in progress,” Marra said, also not-

ing that pickup locations change from week to week.

Commissioners also approved the engineering services of Sound Control in Selden for $2,400 to conduct a formal study in response to a Wood Road resident expressing concerns about the levels of noise from the Parkwood area.

Marra said the park district did its own surveys and found the levels to be reasonable, but that it should engage professional services as well.

“We have been responsive, but it has not satisfied them,” Lincoln said.

An ‘indomitable spirit’ now rests Continued from Page 3 Great Neck,” Dreyfus said. “She was able to really make a difference to keep the community not the way it was – things change – but more the way it was than it would have been without her.”

Judy Rosenthal, a Great Neck resident who attended the burial, suggested that the best way for anyone “touched or affected by” Allen would be to attend a meeting.

“There will never be another [Elizabeth Allen], so we may need a few hundred [people] to replace her,” Rosenthal said. “That would be a great tribute to her, to show up. She would be happy and honored to hear that.”

CORRECTION A Jan. 25 article about Jesuits accused of sexual abuse misstated the conditions for impeded Jesuits. They have no access to minors, not limited access to minors.

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Sports LIU Post women’s basketball rises Overcomes 10-0 deficit to end losing streak at home with strong defensive effort

BY I DA Y N N E R LAGERQVIST On Wednesday, Jan. 23, the LIU Post women’s basketball team managed to turn over their losing streak by beating University of Bridgeport at home with a score of 80-74.

LIU Post 80 U. of Bridgeport 74 Loud music streamed from the gym 40 minutes before the game.

With five consecutive losses this season, the team hankered for a victory.

“We were really desperate to win,” LIU Post junior guard Asia Turner said.

Despite the team’s eagerness, the Pioneers had a rough start.

Midway through the first quarter, Bridgeport’s Purple Knights had a 10-0 lead. Bridgeport continued to pressure the Pioneers, and in the middle of the second quarter, they had a lead with as many as 14 points.

Just when it looked like the Pioneers’ losing streak would continue, they turned the game in their favor.

“We became more focused on stopping them from scoring and actually putting the ball in the basket,” junior forward Mikaiya Moore said. With stronger defense and offense, the Pioneers took their first lead of the

evening with 42 seconds left in the second quarter (33-31). “Basketball isn’t a five-minute game. You got to keep on playing and that’s what we did and we managed to come back and take the lead,” Turner said.

After a close battle in the third quarter, the Pioneers took command and walked in to the fourth quarter with a 58-49 lead. They did not slow their pace and, with seven minutes remaining in the game, they expanded their lead to 14 points (6753). The Purple Knights made an effort to come back in the game and reduced the Pioneers’ lead to five points with two minutes left, but they never managed to catch up.

With seven seconds left in the game, redshirt junior Taylah Hudson threw the last ball in to the basket, finalizing the score at 80-74. The players were excited to add their first victory in five games to their now 12-6 record. “It felt like it was a championship game,” Moore said.

“But now we are on to the next one and we want to win the next game again.”

On Saturday, Jan. 26, the Pioneers travel to Dobbs Ferry to take on Mercy College. The team’s next home game will take place on Saturday, Feb. 2 against Queens College.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the awardwinning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Upcoming at the Great Neck Park District SUNDAY@ 3: PATRICIA GORDON TRIO The Patricia Gordon Trio will perform at Great Neck House on Sunday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. They will play a mix of jazz, gospel and show tunes. A park card is required for admission.

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink on Sunday, Feb. 10 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Free admission for residents wearing RED (must present park card at entrance). Enjoy arts & crafts, on-ice performances, Chinese drum playing, family choir and flute presentation.

The Great Neck Galaxy Synchro Team will also perform.

Don’t miss the giveaways including delicious treats. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Non-resident fee applies. Skate rental is $5 per person.

INDOOR SOCCER PROGRAM

Children ages 3-10 years old can register for the Park District’s new UK Elite indoor soccer program, held at Great Neck South Middle School gym on Saturdays, beginning Jan. 26 (dates include Feb. 2, 9 and March 2, 9 and 16). Little Kickers, ages 3-4, meet from 2 to 3 p.m.; Middies, ages 5-6, from 3 to 4 p.m. and Super Strikers, ages 7-10, from 4 to 5 p.m.

Price for residents is $155/nonresidents $185. If interested, call 516-482-0355 or register online at www.gnparks.org.

THERAPEUTIC SKATING AND ACCESSIBLE ART CLASSES Program Coordinator Cindy Zubli has developed two programs for children and young adults with disabilities.

Both are taught by special education instructors with extra special tender loving care.

Therapeutic Skating at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink runs Sundays through March 17, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. All

ages are welcome. Skate rental is included. Residents: $195; non-residents: $225. Call 516487-2975, Ext. 114 for more information. Accessible Art at Great Neck House allows children and young adults with disabilities the opportunity to explore the love of art with few limitations. Various art media explored in the field of art/ crafts in a caring environment.

Mondays (ages 18+) 6:30-8

p.m. Residents: $337.50; nonResidents: $372.50 Thursdays (ages 7-13) 5:15-6:15 p.m.

Residents: $225; non-Residents: $260. Call Great Neck House at 516-482-0355 for more information.

SKATE SCHOOL AND BRUINS HOCKEY REGISTRATION Register for the skate school’s second session, which runs through March, at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink.

New students welcome. Call 516-487-2976, Ext. 114. Bruins Fun-damental Hockey program is also welcoming children (ages 5-12) for session II, which runs through April. For more information call Rob at 516-726-1136, Ext. 1206.

N A T U R E PROGRAM:! OUR PURE WATER Concerned about our water? On Friday, Feb. 8 at 10 a.m., join Great Neck’s Water Pollution Control, 236 East Shore Road (next to Santelli

Garden Center). This facility will demonstrate what they do to keep our water pure.

Important to register by 2/1.

Held rain or shine (80 percent indoors). Register as soon as possible online at GNParks.org or call 516-482-0355. Children under age 16 are not permitted to attend.

WEEKEND MOVIE AT GREAT NECK HOUSE “The Rider” (2018), directed by Chloé Zhao, will be shown at Great Neck House on Friday, Feb. 1 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Starring Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau, this film is based on a true story. A once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose. It is rated R and runs 1 hour 44 minutes.

Admission with park card.

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Dozens of students hoped to inspire their younger counterparts to become involved in music in the northern half of the Great Neck school district.

Instrumental musicians from Great Neck North High School presented the 28th annual Young Peoples Concert for an audience of elementary and middle school students on Dec. 20.

This year’s program focused on music by French composers and featured selections by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Cesar Franck, Maurice Ravel, and Camille Saint Saëns. The concert concluded with a rousing rendition of “Mambo” from “West Side Story.” This finale has become a tradition at the Young Peoples Concert, with young students singing the refrain while their teachers perform a conga line through the auditorium.

The Young Peoples Concert was created in 1991 to inspire young musicians and increase the

number of students participating in the secondary instrumental music program. The audience is traditionally comprised of fifth graders from elementary schools that “feed into” North Middle and North High––E. M. Baker, John F. Kennedy, and Saddle Rock schools. This year’s audience also included approximately 50 students from North Middle School.

Since its inception, the Young Peoples Concert has been organized by Joseph Rutkowski, instrumental music teacher at North High. For the inaugural performance, the North High band had 29 members and the orchestra had 16 members; the band and orchestra now boast enrollments of more than 80 students each.

The Great Neck Public Schools is currently undertaking the annual process of residency re-verification for all students entering ninthgrade in September 2019. This is done to collect documentation that will assist in assembling students’ records for high school, and to verify that all students who enter the district high schools are residents of the district and thus entitled to attend.

Parents/legal guardians of all current eighth-grade students were recently sent a mailing that explains the documentation required and the method for submission. Additional information may be obtained by phoning your child’s middle school (441-4500 for North Middle, or 441-4600 for South Middle), or by visiting the district website at great-

neck.k12.ny.us/registration and clicking on “Ninth Grade Re-Verification” on left hand column.

Re-verification must be completed before a current eighth-grade student will be admitted to high school. Early submission of the necessary documents will facilitate this process. Therefore, all families with a current eighth-grader are urged to submit the required documents before Thursday, Feb. 28.

The Board of Education considers residency to be an important component in confronting the district’s fiscal challenges. Re-verification is one tool to insure that every child who is being educated in the district’s schools is entitled to that education.

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