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VGN village justice lone contested race Three villages in peninsula go to the polls June 15 BY R OB E RT PELAEZ The Village of Great Neck’s village justice election June 15 is the lone contested race throughout the peninsula. Incumbent Mark Birnbaum is seeking his third fouryear term as village justice, but is opposed by local attorney David Kirsch. After serving as a commissioner for the Great Neck Senior Housing Authority 30 years ago, Birnbaum became a member of the Village of Great Neck’s Zoning Board

for a number of years, eventually serving as chairman of the committee. In 2002, Birnbaum ran a successful campaign for a trustee position on the village’s Board of Trustees, where he would continue to serve until 2012. In the early stages of his trustee tenure, Birnbaum was appointed the liaison for the Nassau County Police Department, the village’s public safety commissioner and the Great Neck police commissioner. In 2013, Birnbaum shifted roles once again when he was elected as village justice, then

re-elected again in 2017. Kirsch attended Hofstra University for his undergraduate education before attending Touro College in 2003, where he received his juris doctorate in criminal law three years later. Prior to working at the Barton Law Group, located in Huntington Station, Kirsch served eight years as an associate attorney for Koehler and Isaacs LLP. Kirsch represented clients in criminal, labor and disciplinary cases. Continued on Page 44

Birnbaum, Kirsch tout need for fair trials in VGN Cite desire to serve community ahead of justice election PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK SCHOOL DISTRICT

North Middle School eighth-graders competed in a color war, featuring a variety of events throughout the day.

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The two candidates running for the Village of Great Neck’s Village Justice position both touted their desire to conduct fair trials for everyone who enters the courtroom and a passion for serving the community ahead of the June 15 elections.

Incumbent Mark Birnbaum is being challenged by David Kirsch, an attorney of the Barton Law Group focusing on criminal law and estate planning as well as labor and employment law. Kirsch attended Hofstra University for his undergraduate education before attending Touro College in 2003, where he received his

juris doctorate in criminal law three years later. Prior to working at the Barton Law Group, located in Huntington Station, Kirsch served eight years as an associate attorney for Koehler and Isaacs LLP. Kirsch represented clients in criminal, labor and disciplinary cases. Continued on Page 35

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G.N. schools increase Senators secure security protocols money for repairs Prendergast cites rising acts of hatred as reason BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

Great Neck School District’s superintendent, Teresa Prendergast, said heightened security measures have been enforced throughout the district after a myriad of attacks against the Asian-American and Jewish populations. During last week’s Board of Education meeting, Prendergast said that all schools throughout the district remain locked from the exterior and that the district does not permit any visitors to enter the building Prendergast also said the district’s security office is operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays, and that each school has assigned security guards. The Nassau County Police Department, she said, has also increased the presence of patrol cars throughout the district, and officers from the department’s Problem Oriented Police sector work closely with district officials to ensure the safety of students, staff and teachers at all times. ‘I think we all realize that there have been recent news stories about violence and discrimination against many people, and that certainly has heightened concerns within our community,” Prendergast said. In September, a letter circulated throughout the school district citing anti-Asian incidents that allegedly occurred on school grounds. The letter said younger Asian students were asked if they eat bats and were called “COVID-19 spreaders” by other students. The letter said the racial slurs and hateful comments have been directed primarily at “young, defenseless children ranging from elementary to high school age.”

$1M will be used to fix Harbor Hills Park BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

Schumer said. ““We have been fighting tooth and nail to build stronger and more resilient communities in the aftermath of Sandy by delivering federal dollars such as these.” Gillibrand said New York is still struggling with the aftermath of Sandy. “Almost a decade after Superstorm Sandy devastated New York communities, many towns are still recovering from one of the worst natural disasters in our state’s history,” she said. “This funding will support the Town of North Hempstead in repairing remaining storm damage in Harbor Hills Park, so that it can be fully restored and enjoyed by residents and visitors for years to come.” The town also received $847,000 for the Harbor Hills Park repairs caused by Sandy in August 2015. Those funds were also allocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In total, the town received more than $40 million from the federal agency to conduct repairs on more than 30 projects in response to the damages. Eﬀorts to reach a representative from the town for comment on the funds were unavailing.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) recently secured more than $1 million in funds to repair the Harbor Hills Park in Great Neck from damages caused by Superstorm Sandy nearly a decade ago. The two announced Tuesday that the Town of North Hempstead will receive $1,007,534 in federal funding allocated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. The fundPHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK SCHOOL DISTRICT ing, oﬃcials said, will be used to repair the damages as a result of Great Neck School District Superintendent Teresa PrendSuperstorm Sandy and protect ergast outlined increased security measures throughout the the park and its amenities from any future natural disasters. district last week. The park, which stretches Prendergast assured par- present the sensitive and very over 2.4 acres and features an ents that the incidents outlined complex history of the Middle outdoor pool, playground, tennis in the letter did not occur on East conflict in an unbiased facility and waterfront view of school grounds and pointed out manner,” Lando said. Little Neck Bay to the west, was Protests and demonstra- battered by flooding and high that the two middle schools and two high schools in the district tions, including one held in winds from Superstorm Sandy are recognized as “No Place for Times Square, came after mem- in 2012. bers of the Palestinian Islamic Hate” schools. “With these funds, North “The district remains un- organization Hamas stationed in Hempstead will be able to rewavering in our commitment to Gaza fired rockets towards Jeru- pair the park, a treasured neighprovide a safe and welcoming salem following clashes between borhood recreational space,” environment for our students Palestinian protesters and Israeli and staﬀ,” Prendergast said last police in mid-May. The Times Square demonweek. “Clearly there’s no place for any form of hatred or vio- stration led to 29-year-old Joseph Borgen, a Jewish resident lence within our schools.” On the elementary and mid- of Lawrence, being attacked by dle school levels, Prendergast a group of people in the nearby said, student programs centered Diamond District. Borgen told on social and emotional learning the Daily News that the attackhave also been implemented to ers punched, kicked, pepperensure that classrooms are safe sprayed and struck him with and enjoyable for all students. crutches and signs while shoutAssistant Superintendent of Cur- ing anti-Semitic slurs. Demonstrations were also riculum and Instruction Stephen Lando confirmed the district is held throughout the Great instructing students on various Neck peninsula over the past PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD present-day and historical con- few months combatting AsianAmerican hatred and supporting flicts in an unbiased manner. “The materials that we pro- Israel amid the ongoing conflict The Town of North Hempstead will receive more than $1 milvide teachers enable them to in the Middle East. lion to repair the Harbor Hills Park in Great Neck.

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Confusion over mask mandates in schools Cuomo clarifies state’s requirement of students wearing face coverings indoors BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z State health officials sparked confusion and controversy in New York school districts this week with shifting guidance on whether public school students and staff must continue wearing masks to stem the spread of COVID-19. A group of school leaders said Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration created “a colossal mess” for parents and administrators alike by making it unclear how local districts should go about changing their mask policies. The flap started last Friday, June 4, when state officials announced that the requirement to wear masks in schools would be tentatively lifted on Monday. State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker outlined planned new mask guidance for schools in a letter to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying masks would be “strongly encouraged but not required” for New York students, staff, and teachers who are not fully vaccinated. Masks would also not be required outdoors, and those who remained without a full inoculation series would be encouraged to wear them in “certain higher-risk” outdoor settings, Zucker said. But state officials later said the tentative plans outlined in Zucker’s letter were

ance for several weeks in New York State, we’re going to modify the CDC guidance and allow schools to choose no mask outside for children,” Cuomo said. “We’ll leave that up to the local school district and we spoke to the CDC, which has no objection. It’s very important that people understand the logic between these decisions and that they’re rational and based on the science and the data.” But the state’s Council of School Superintendents said Zucker’s letter to the CDC and the subsequent flip-flopping on mask mandates had caused headaches and uncertainty for administrators. “The release of this letter on a Friday afternoon, with no consultation or advance notice, is too typical of what we have all experienced throughout the pandemic,” the council said in a stateState officials announced on Sunday that school districts throughout New ment. “But it’s also worse, in creating exYork can determine whether or not masks are required for students, staff, pectations among parents for immediate and teachers in outdoor settings only. changes in district policies, without either contingent on a response from the CDC. that was sent to districts statewide on Sun- explicit legal authority for action or clarity in specific requirements that may need Officials said they wanted input from the day. Cuomo, a Democrat, tried to clarify the to be considered in making any changes.” federal agency on whether or not lifting The council also said the state had the restrictions would negatively affect the confusion in a Monday press conference, saying that students, staff and teachers not formally changed its mask requirehealth and safety of those in schools. “No changes have been, or will be, would be required to wear masks inside, ments even though news outlets reported made by the Executive until after Monday but that districts can decide whether or not Zucker’s letter as “an actual change in state requirements.” June 7 to afford the CDC an opportunity masks are required in outdoor settings. Nassau County Executive Laura Curto respond to the letter,” said a statement “We spoke with the CDC, and since Continued on Page 44 from the state’s Education Department they’re not going to change their guid-

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Calls for $50K to capture acid thrower Legislator Solages urges an increased reward for man who attacked Hofstra student BY R OB E RT PELAEZ A Nassau County legislator has called for an increase in the reward to find the person who threw acid on an Elmont native and Hofstra student in March. Legislator Carrie Solages (D-Valley Stream) described the attack against Nafiah Ikram, a 21-year-old Pakistani Hofstra student and Sewanhaka graduate, “horrific” and urged that the county’s Crime Stoppers reward for the assailant be increased from $20,000 to $50,000. “The assault on Nafiah Ikram is one of the most horrific crimes that our community has been confronted with in recent memory,” Solages said in a statement. “By significantly increasing the Crime Stoppers reward to $50,000, we can focus public attention on solving this case so that Ms. Ikram and her family receive the justice and closure they deserve.” Eﬀorts to reach a representative from the county’s police department on whether or not the reward will be increased were unavailing.

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Legislator Carrie Solages (D-Valley Stream) called for an increased reward for information on a man who allegedly attacked 21-year-old Nafiah Ikram with acid in March. Ikram and her mother parked their car outside their Arlington Avenue home on the night of March 17 and were about to walk inside when an unknown man ran up to her and threw acid on her face. Footage of the incident was caught on a neighboring house camera. Oﬃcials from the Nassau

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against Ikram was a hate crime. The acid caused Ikram to scream, which resulted in the liquid spreading to her mouth, according to a GoFundMe page to help fund the various medical procedures needed. Her tongue and throat were burned as a result of the attack, along with burns and scars on her face, ac-

cording to the page. Ikram ran into the house, where her parents attempted to help her, but the acid burned her parents’ arms and hands as well, the page said. The acid caused “severe burning” on Ikram’s eyes, chest and arms, according to the post. She was also wearing contact lenses, which were melted to her eyes as a result of the acid. Ikram said last month she is taking the recovery one day at a time, but appreciated the outpouring of support from the community, which has raised more than $530,000 on the GoFundMe page. “As I’m beginning to heal, I realize it’s going to be a very long and challenging journey,” Ikram said. “I’m going to need very complex medical care and surgeries. It’s not going to be easy, but I will continue to stay strong knowing that I have the world supporting and rooting for me.” Ikram’s mother, Sherina Mohammed, told CBS that her daughter is unable to eat solid foods as a result of the attack, Continued on Page 35

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5K in honor of cancer victim to return 11th annual ‘Run for Katie’ remembers Manhasset graduate, Flower Hill native Katie Oppo BY R O S E W E L D ON

A 5K run in memory of a Flower Hill woman who died of a rare kind of ovarian cancer will return this year following the COVID-19 pandemic. Katherine Rose “Katie” Oppo had graduated from Manhasset High School in 2009 and was preparing for her sophomore year at Johns Hopkins University when she was diagnosed with stage four small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type — an aggressive form of the disease. It was a “pretty horrific shock” to her family, Liz Oppo, her mother, said in a phone interview. “Katie, at that point, had just declared a major, and she was going to be pre-med,” Oppo said. Katie, 20, carried on with the help of her family and “the most remarkable group of friends,” who would stay with her and accompany her to treatments, Oppo said. “They were Manhasset High School students who had been together since kindergarten, and preschool,” Oppo said. “They just love each other so much. They were just a great group of boys and girls. And the whole time that she was battling, they were there for her. And we called them Team Katie.” But after emergency surgery and “several rounds of very, very aggressive che-

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Runners kick off the Katie Oppo Memorial 5K in Flower Hill in 2019. After going online due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the run is scheduled to return this weekend. motherapy,” Oppo said, Katie died in April 2011 at North Shore University Hospital — the same hospital where she had volunteered as a candy striper. Her supporters on Team Katie, however, were far from done with their mission. “My sons and I and the team, as we call them, realized pretty quickly we were going to have to do something,” Oppo said.

Less than two months after Katie’s death, the Katie Oppo Research Fund was formed and held its first 5K run to raise money for research into the cancer that took Katie’s life. The event returned every year until 2020, when it moved online due to COVID-19. In the years since its inception, the nonprofit has raised more than $300,000

for ovarian cancer research and has donated those funds to laboratories at Johns Hopkins University, NYU Langone Health, Northwell Health, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. One study funded by the organization even discovered the gene mutation that causes the cancer that Katie fought. “It was what Katie wanted all along,” Oppo said. “She had kept saying to her various doctors, ‘What do you mean, it’s a rare cancer that nobody’s ever heard of? We have to get to the bottom of this.’ And what’s incredible about that is mothers and young women with daughters who have have encountered this horrific disease have come to us and reached out to us.” Last year, Liz Oppo retired from her job to run the fund full-time, which she says is her true passion. “I loved her dearly,” Oppo said. “She was so kind-hearted and had a remarkable ability to bring people together. So I think the community came together for her.” The 11th annual Run for Katie 5K, held by the Katie Oppo Research Fund, will begin at 9 a.m. at Flower Hill Country Park on Bonnie Heights and Searingtown Road. Timed runners can register at events.elitefeats.com/oppo21 for $35, while untimed participants can register at charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/ runforkatie2021 for $30.

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Curran eyes more diversity in police Announces committee after Newsday article highlighting disparity in department hiring BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced the launch of a Police Diversity Committee last week after a Newsday article highlighted a disparity in the hiring of minority applicants for police departments throughout Long Island. Curran said the 10-member committee, comprised of various community, civic, civil rights and religious leaders would be tasked to aid in the improved diversity of the Nassau County Police Department. The committee, she said, would file recommendations on how diversity can be improved throughout the department ahead of the next police oﬃcer civil service exam sometime in 2022. “My administration is committed to increasing diversity in Nassau’s police force and will advocate for the changes we need to accomplish this goal,” Curran said. “I thank the members of the Nassau County Police Diversity Committee for their commitment to police reform.” On May 27, Newsday published the findings of its investigation into

the hiring process of the Nassau and Suffolk County’s police departments since 2012. The hiring process for the county’s 2,400-member police department includes a mix of written exams, physical fitness assessments, medical evaluations, psychological screenings and background reviews, according to the findings. The findings indicated that the Black and Hispanic people aspiring to become officers would be disqualified at a higher rate than white applicants throughout the hiring process. Newsday found that it has been three times as hard for Black applicants and twice as hard for Hispanic ones compared to fellow white applicants over the past nine-year study. Since 2012, the Nassau and Suffolk Police Departments hired just 67 out of the pool of 6,539 Black applicants, according to the findings. The number of Black applicants who choose to sit for Nassau County written exams fell from 2,055 in 2012 to 1,213 in 2018, according to the findings. From 2012 to 2018, according to Newsday, only 36 of the 2,508 total Black applicants were hired by the county’s

they don’t have a family history of law enforcement, they’re at a disadvantage starting off and we have to recognize it,” Ryder told Newsday. Ryder later apologized if the comments he made were offensive and said one of the goals of the police department is to actively try and improve the diversity throughout the force. “My intention in my responses was not to be hurtful to anyone but to show how we are continuing to improve recruitment efforts to increase diversity through community outreach and supporting applicants throughout the process,” Ryder said. Curran said she does not bePHOTO BY ROSE WELDON lieve that family make-up is tied to a lack of diversity in the police deNassau County Executive Laura Curran announced the partment but touted Ryder’s efforts establishment of a committee to promote and find ways to as police commissioner and said the calls for him to be removed from his increase diversity throughout the county’s police departpost from select voices throughout ment on Thursday. the county were “unfair”. “Part of the reason I selected police department. In the past 20 ments to Newsday addressing the years, the number of Black officers lack of diversity throughout the [Ryder] to be the police commissioner is because he has a commitin the county’s police department department. “A lot of these kids come from ment to community policing,” Curfell from 110 to 103, according to broken homes, these kids struggle ran said in a press conference two the findings. Nassau County Police Com- in their communities because they weeks ago. Continued on Page 39 missioner Patrick Ryder made com- don’t have both parents around,

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Dejana site hit with pollution concerns State officials claim company was discharging stormwater without proper permit BY N O A H M A N S K A R State officials have accused one of the North Shore’s largest municipal-services companies of violating rules meant to protect local waters from pollution, Blank Slate Media has learned. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Westbury-based Outworx Group flouted state regulations by letting potentially polluted stormwater run from its Manorhaven industrial property into wetlands adjacent to the site without the proper safeguards in place. The facility at 12 Manorhaven Blvd. is home to Dejana Industries, the maintenance and trash-hauling outfit that serves several North Shore municipalities as an Outworx subsidiary. State officials who inspected the Dejana site on Jan. 7 in response to a complaint found the facility was discharging stormwater without a so-called State Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit, which requires companies to take steps to prevent pollution from such runoff, the DEC said. The officials documented stormwater runoff that “may have been in contact with street cleaning debris,” a potential source of pollution, according to the DEC. “Stormwater coming into contact with industrial waste material can pick up pollutants and discharge into the lo-

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State officials raised pollution concerns about the Dejana Industries facility on Manorhaven Boulevard. cal waters,” the agency told Blank Slate Media in an email. “As such, permit coverage is needed along with a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan outlining best management practices to handle on-site stormwater.” In a brief statement, Outworx Chief Operating Oﬃcer Sal Napoli defended the company’s eﬀorts to follow environmental rules. “At Outworx Group, Dejana Industries, and all of our brands, we take the environment and green initiatives very seriously,” Napoli said. “We are and will continue to be in compliance with all local ordinances.”

The problem at the Manorhaven site isn’t new — and Outworx could face stiﬀ financial penalties for allegedly breaking the rules. The Dejana facility has been operating without the required stormwater discharge permit since about March 2018, according to a formal violation notice the DEC sent Outworx on March 19 of this year. The company could face a fine of up to $37,500 for each day it’s in violation of the state’s Environmental Conservation Law, the notice says. That adds up to a maximum penalty of more than $41.7 million for the roughly three-year period

that the site has lacked a permit. But it’s uncertain how much money, if any, Outworx will have to fork over to the state. Asked whether the company currently owes the DEC any fines, the agency said only that its enforcement investigation into the site is ongoing. It’s also unclear when that case might conclude. “DEC will be working to ensure the facility is compliant,” the agency said. To get into compliance, the Dejana site would have to file a notice of intent to get coverage under the required permit, along with a plan to prevent stormwater pollution and documentation that the practices laid out in such a plan are implemented, according to the DEC. The facility would also have to stop discharging “vehicle wash water,” the agency said. This isn’t the first time the DEC has raised environmental concerns at the Dejana Industries site. In 2013, the agency found a “small” amount of hydraulic oil and motor oil had spilled onto a gravel driveway there, some of which was seen leading to the stream in the adjacent Manorhaven Preserve. Outworx grew out of the business empire that Port Washington entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Dejana founded in 1962. It started with a landscaping outfit and expanded into a family of paving, Continued on Page 35

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Blank Slate columnists in virtual forum June 24 event to tackle issues ranging from mental health to teaching of history in schools BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Blank Slate Media will conduct a second virtual event with another group of the publication’s regular columnists on June 24 at 7 p.m. Judy Epstein, Michael D’Innocenzo, Dr. Tom Ferraro and Andrew Malekoﬀ will discuss some of the pressing issues facing Nassau County, Long Island and all of New York during the panel event moderated by Blank Slate Media’s editor and publisher, Steven Blank. After graduating from Yale with a degree in philosophy, Epstein worked for nearly two decades in TV news and documentaries, including two years with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer and a decade with Bill Moyers, concluding as producer, coordinating producer, and cowriter. Her work in television gained recognition from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild of America.

Once she moved to Long Island, Epstein created her humor column, “A Look On The Lighter Side,” which has appeared in Blank Slate Media’s six newspapers since 2013. Her columns have won a variety of local and statewide awards. Epstein has also turned some of her insights into stand-up comedy routines. Support local journalism by subscribing to your Blank Slate Media community newspaper for just $35 a year. D’Innocenzo has been involved with immigration, diversity and social responsibility and injustices throughout his life. He was the chairman of the United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, overseeing 600 chapters nationwide. In this role, he worked with physicians from all backgrounds to promote social responsibility. Additionally, in 1985, the International Association to Prevent Nuclear War recognized him during its acceptance speech when it received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Clockwise from top left: Blank Slate Media columnists Michael D’Innocenzo, Judy Epstein, Andrew Malekoff and Dr. Tom Ferraro. On a more local level, D’Innocenzo has served as a history professor at Hofstra University since 1960. In 2008, he received the American Historical Association Eugene Asher Award as the Outstanding College History Professor Award nationwide.

He was a candidate for Congress in 1984 and also ran for the North Hempstead Town Council. Ferraro is a world-renowned sport psychologist with a Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook, with more than 25 years of experience work-

ing with professional teams, coaches and Olympic athletes. He is unique in the world of sport psychology by being board certified as a psychoanalyst which allows him to properly diagnose and treat the symptoms the athlete brings to the office and also to help them understand the underlying reasons for selfdefeat. Ferraro publishes internationally and has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The London Times. Recently, he was the featured sport psychologist in a full length documentary film by director Robert Hoffman about the psychology of coaching. The issues Ferraro treats include anxiety, the yips, anger, slumps, loss of confidence, depression, injury recovery, concussion recovery, drug use, family and team problems. Malekoff is the the former executive director and CEO of the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center

in Roslyn Heights, where he has worked since 1977. Malekoff is the editorin-chief of Social Work with Groups: A Journal of Community and Clinical Practice, has taught as an adjunct professor at the Adelphi and New York University Schools of Social Work, and serves as a board member for the International Association for Social Work with Groups. He was named Social Work Community Practitioner of the Year by the New York State Social Work Education Association. Widely published, Malekoff has presented his work and facilitated workshops across the United States and Canada. Malekoff has also written hundreds of newspaper columns and oped pieces, including for Blank Slate Media’s six publications. The virtual event will be livestreamed on The Island Now YouTube page. Those interested can also join the panel on Zoom by following this link: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/81093929092.

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Kaplan-backed vaccination bill passes State Senate OKs legislation making fraudulent COVID-19 inoculation cards a crime BY R O S E W E L D ON

make the falsification of COVID-19 vaccination records illegal. The measure now The New York State Senate passed moves to the state Assembly. Partially prompted by an incident in legislation co-written by state Sen. Anna M. Kaplan (D-North Hills) that would which a Levittown man was charged with

stealing blank vaccination cards from his job at a CVS and planning to sell them to unvaccinated friends, it is the latest move in the state’s eﬀort to ensure that as many New Yorkers are vaccinated as possible.

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A bill making falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records a crime, backed by State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills) has passed in the State Senate.

The bill would make it a crime to create a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card by amending the legal definition of a “written instrument” to explicitly include a card provided to a person by a vaccine provider indicating the date the person received the shot against COVID-19 as well as the type of vaccine and its lot number. In addition to paper proof, the bill would make it illegal to make a fraudulent COVID-19 Vaccination Passport by amending the penal law to create a crime of intentionally altering computer material to indicate that a person received a vaccination against COVID-19. “We’re using vaccine cards and passports to make everything safer from baseball to Broadway, but the system relies on individuals being truthful about their vaccination status in order to keep everyone safe,” Kaplan said in a statement. “We’re already seeing anti-vaxxers spread tips online for how to create fake cards in order to get around vaccination mandates, and we need to put a stop to this eﬀort to defraud the public so that our recovery from the pandemic can keep moving forward.” The bill passed the State Senate by a vote of 47-16 and now goes to the state Assembly for consideration, where it will be introduced by the legislation’s cowriter, Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy (DAlbany).

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Sign honoring accused priest removed Williston Park officials switch to Dover Street formerly named after longtime St. Aidan pastor BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI Williston Park oﬃcials changed the name of a street honoring a late local priest after Long Island’s Catholic diocese revealed that he had been credibly accused of sexual assault. The village Board of Trustees voted unanimously last month to take down a sign marking Bermingham Place, which was named for Msgr. Charles Bermingham, the longtime pastor of the Church of St. Aidan. The road has since been renamed Dover Street. Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar said the decision was disappointing to the board, but the trustees felt it was an appropriate move without making a judgment on the allegations. “I mentioned to the board that this is America, and that you’re innocent until proven guilty,” Ehrbar said. “However, upon discussion with the board and the village attorney it was viewed as a credible accusation.” Bermingham, who died in December 2003, was among 101 Catholic clergy whom the Diocese of Rockville Centre said had been credibly accused of sexual abuse. The list — which the diocese made public in April as part of its bankruptcy case in Manhattan federal court — notes

for the firm Jeﬀ Anderson & Associates who represents survivors of abuse by priests across the state. Stoneking, a Manhasset resident, praised the village’s decision to take down the sign honoring Bermingham, saying it “shows a sign of respect for those people and what they’ve been through.” It also shows “support for the survivors of abuse and to acknowledge that this really happened and that we need to do better,” he said. The Diocese of Rockville Centre “defers to the decision of the village in this matter,” said Sean P. Dolan, a spokesman for the diocese. Previously there were no lawsuits filed alleging assault by Bermingham, potentially indicating private settlements in claims of abuse, according to Stoneking. The dicoese’s independent reconciliation and compensation program could be where such a claim would have been resolved, rather than in the public record, he said. PHOTO BY SAM PETRUCCELLI Though the sign’s removal was approved on May 10, Stoneking said he Williston Park officials voted to remove the Bermingham Pl. street sign, in thinks Bermingham’s eﬀect on Williston honor of Msgr. Bermingham, and replace it with Dover St. after credible al- Park is still present. legations of sexual assault made against the longtime pastor. “The reality is there’s still tons of people living in this community that are sufthat Bermingham allegedly committed “He wouldn’t be on that diocese list if fering with the scars of abuse by priests,” the abuse at St. Aidan, where he started they didn’t believe there was something Stoneking said. “It’s not just him. This list working in 1960. there,” said Patrick Stoneking, a lawyer had 101 priests on it.”

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Mineola, Williston street fairs a go

Chambers of commerce plan to resume annual events after COVID cancellations BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI Street fairs are back. Chambers of commerce and village officials in East Williston, Williston Park, New Hyde Park and Mineola have announced plans for their annual street fairs after a one-year hiatus. The Williston Day street fair is set for September 19 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a rain date of the following Sunday. The fair will occupy Hillside Avenue between Willis Avenue and the East Williston Long Island Rail Road station. “People that grew up here and moved out of state come back for it to meet their friends and family,” said Nancy Zolezzi, past president and current treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce of the Willistons. “Everybody looks forward to it and everybody really, really missed it last year.” Also slated for September is the village-hosted New Hyde Park street fair, starting at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18. Village officials announced the event following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement lifting health restrictions statewide and a continuous decrease of new COVID-19 cases. If village officials give their approval, the Mineola Chamber of Commerce ex-

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The 2019 Williston Day Street Fair saw thousands of attendees and is one of the chamber’s biggest events of the year. pects to host its street fair on Oct. 10 with a rain date of Oct. 17. The event would take up both sides of Jericho Turnpike between Mineola Boulevard and Nassau

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Boulevard. Citing coronavirus health precautions, the Williston Day Fair will exclude its traditional petting zoo and rides. All

other programming, including a presence by fire departments from East Williston and Williston Park and a booth representing the New York Islanders hockey team, will move forward. While the fair promotes businesses that belong to the chamber, Zolezzi said it is also valuable to local nonprofits, some of which face financial struggles even as health restrictions begin to relax. “It’s also a great day for the volunteer organizations — American Legion, the VFW, the fire department, the Little League, the nonprofits to get out there and let people know what they’re doing,” Zolezzi said. In Mineola, incoming chamber of commerce President Louis Panacciulli is excited to be leading the organization and anxious to get the show on the road. “I am just over the top,” Panacciulli said, enthusiastic about how the community will respond. “[To] get out in the fresh air, to see people without masks on their face, to spend their money and just have a good time.” Panacciulli, who is the currentdirector of the Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra, said residents can expect Mineola business to be attending in full force Continued on Page 34

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READERS WRITE

David Kirsch the right pick for VGN justice

’ve been an attorney for 40 years and I’ve had the honor of meeting David about 10 years ago asco-counsel on a case.

I can tell you without any reservation he is one of the most ethical, decent, intelligent and fairminded attorneys I’ve ever been as-

sociated with. He has the temperament that is perfect for a judge. After getting to know David I

now consider him a good friend. Great Neck would be lucky to have him as their town justice. I ask you to vote for him with-

out any reservation at all. Louis Albert New York

Re-elect G.N. Village Justice Mark Birnbaum

hope you are casting your vote on June 15, to re-elect the Hon. Mark Birnbaum as our village justice. Mark knows the job and he does the job well! Having served on various boards over

the years, Mark knows our village ‘inside and out” and is well able to take every precaution to ensure safe and happy lives for our residents and for the residents of the Great Neck peninsula as a whole.

Take the time to learn about this very honorable Hon. Mark Birnbaum and learn about all he has done in local government to enhance our lives. Read about all of the positions he has served for this vil-

lage over the span of over 25 years. And learn about all the ways Mark Birnbaum has served our village to help ensure the quality of life we have come to expect. Remember, when you cast

your vote for Village of Great Neck village justice, experience counts — and it counts a lot! Vote for Mark Birnbaum! Dr. Jill P. Karpel Village of Great Neck

VGN will be well served by David Kirsch

first came to admire David as a first-year law student. I observed him to be an eager and attentive student of justice. As a classmate, David demonstrated intellect, humility, and courtesy.

As a friend, David has proven to be patient, supportive and kind. All essential qualities of a jurist. David’s quick wit tempered by his deep compassion assures that David will be a prudent judge.

Not only does David have the character of a great judge, but he also has the experience to match the task. He has extensive litigation experience gained through public service. Not only does he have a deep under-

standing of the law, but he has also mastered courtroom skills. Moreover, David shows sincere interest in the welfare Great Neck. He is dedicated to keeping Great Neck a safe and thriving environment that meets the

needs of its diverse residents. With pride I endorse David Kirsch as Justice of Village of Great Neck. Moriah Adamo Lake Success

Kirsch offers outstanding legal background

have personally known David Kirsch for well over 15 years, most notably as an adversary, a colleague and as co-counsel at trials in various counties of the New York City Metropolitan area. His dedication to the law, the rights of all parties involved,

including victims, as well as to balancing justice with “the right thing to do,” has made him a great trial attorney, as well as a great judge of character. He’s not running like a politician seeking the next step in his career. The law is his career! He is a dedicated fam-

ily man, who’s daughters, wife, brothers, parents, friends all look to him when they have issues and how to best handle them. He’s not about locking up people accused of minor infractions of the law. He is about helping that person.

One famous person said, “look to how a society judges and treats its worst rather than how a society treats its best in order to judge that society.” David lives by that standard. As a candidate for local village justice in the town that he

lives in (and brags about a lot), that community would be beyond impressed with his enthusiasm, but more importantly, his balancing of the law and compassion. Paul London Attorney at Law

Why I deserve re-election as village justice

he position of Great Neck Village Justice is the only contested election on the Great Neck penninsula. I believe I deserve to be re-elected as Great Neck Village Justice. Thirty years ago I started my involvement with the village when I was appointed a commissioner of the Great Neck Senior Housing Authority, which is responsible for all aspects of managing the residential building located on the corner of Middle Neck Road and Arrandale Avenue. In this role I interacted with local and federal oﬃcials, advocating for the needs of the residents while considering the constraints of funding

sources. During this time I was appointed to the Board of Zoning and Appeals and served in both of these village roles until the Board of Trustees of the village found a qualified successor as commissioner. After some years as a member, I was appointed chairman of the BZA. After serving as chairman of the BZA for many years, in 2002 I was asked to run for Village Trustee. First elected in 2002, I was re-elected in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. In 2003 I was appointed by the mayor and Board of Trustees to be Nassau County Police Department liaison and Public Safety commissioner. In 2004 I was appointed to

also be the Great Neck Police Commissioner, serving in these roles until I decided to run for village justice in 2013 and I was re-elected in 2017. When I was first elected to be village justice I was motivated to change the perception of the court to be a place where every person who appeared was treated with respect and dignity and walked away with a feeling that they were treated fairly. I have insisted on that since the very first day, and believe that our residents and other who appear before me would agree. My background in serving in the various roles prior to becoming a judge had given me the knowledge and experience to understand and be able to

render fair decisions, with the safety of the community always in the forefront. Since becoming village judge, I have overhauled our court, and reduced waste and expenditures, resulting in cost reductions of 25 percent over the last seven years. Professionally I am a practicing attorney, with my oﬃces located in Great Neck and have served as the general counsel (a volunteer position) to the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce for over fifteen years. I am a member in good standing to the New York State Bar (admitted 1977) and the Florida Bar(admitted 1978). I, along with my wife Ellen Birnbaum have lived in the

Village of Great Neck for thirtyeight years. I am an active member of Temple Israel and have served in a variety of leadership positions over the years, including president of the couples club, chairman of the catering committee, trustee, vice president and first vice president. It has been an honor to serve the people of the Village of Great Neck for over 30 years and given the opportunity to continue to serve for another four years as the Village Justice. Please vote for me, Mark K. Birnbaum, for village justice on June 15, under the “Good Neighbor Party”. Mark Birnbaum Village of Great Neck

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Opinion

OUR VIEWS

The $3K solution to body cameras

he best paid county employee in New York State in 2020 was John Barrett, a Nassau police officer who received $319,915, according to See Through NY, a nonpartisan think-tank. The second best paid county employee in the state in 2020 was Vincent Papa, a Nassau police officer who received $311,355. The third best paid county employee was Stephen Fitzpatrick, a Nassau police officer who received $308,732. In fact, five of the top 10 best paid county employees in New York state in 2020 were members of the Nassau County Police Department. And about 445 made more than $200,000 in 2020. So Nassau County police are not doing bad in the pay department among county employees. Only Suffolk County comes close in compensation. And we are not even discussing the benefits received by Nassau police, current and retired, which are among the highest given to county employees in the state. To this compensation now add a $3,000 annual stipend for wearing body cameras if the PBA approves a new labor agreement with the county. Members of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association in December rejected a new labor agreement that would pay officers $3,000 annually to wear body cameras and provide raises of 25 percent over the 8-1/2-year pact. But the chance of approval now seems pretty good given Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s announcement that the county has purchased 2,500 body cameras for all county uniformed police officers and supervisors to wear as “a proven tool for accountability, safety and improved officer

performance.” The question is why pay wellcompensated officers already slated to get a 25 percent raise to wear body cameras in a post-George Floyd world? In 2021, that’s like paying police for a badge and a gun. So why the $3,000? Nassau County currently is one of three of the 50 largest police forces in the country that do not widely equip their officers with body cameras. The reason given for not requiring body cameras by county departments and elected officials is the cost of implementation. But this is—how shall we say it?—nonsense. The estimated cost to fully implement the police body-worn camera program by the end of the year is approximately $5 million in a county that spendsnearly $900 million for its Police Department and more than $153 million for its Sheriff ’s Department Not to mention the other police forces across the country — most in less affluent areas than Nassau – that have widely equipped their officers with body cameras. So perhaps the $3,000 is the cost of getting Nassau’s police to accept what almost every other force its size already does. That idea is further supported by the outsized political clout of police unions in Nassau politics and the fact that this is an election year for Curran and all the county legislators. At her press conference on May 27, Curran also announced the launch of a diversity committee for police hiring in response to a Newsday investigation that found Long Island’s police forces disqualified Black and Hispanic recruits at higher rates than white applicants. Curran said the new committee will be charged with examining

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three areas of police hiring: recruitment, testing and training. We suggest that the committee add a fourth area — how well county police officers reflect the people they serve. Another recent Newsday investigation of Nassau and Suffolk police also raised questions about whether the word of Suffolk and Nassau police could be trusted in arrest reports. In four cases in which the paper performed an in-depth investigation, it found a civilian video captured scenes involving police officers and the people they arrested that contradicted what the police officers wrote in their arrest records. “Based on the judgments of independent criminal justice experts, the findings include evidence that officers jailed citizens without cause and used unjustified force exposing taxpayers to lawsuit liabilities totaling more than $4.6 million so far,” Newsday reported. New York Attorney General Letitia James in May criticized Nassau County’s “failure to create meaningful checks on law enforcement” because county officials in a police reform plan did not propose a civilian review board to probe allegations of police misconduct. James later rejected a request

from Nassau Democrats for her office to provide some level of independent oversight over cops — an inspector general or a civilian complaint review board. James said she doesn’t have the funding to open an oﬃce in Nassau. She wrote that if Nassau wants true accountability, it should create a civilian complaint review board. That’s a good idea we support along with the body cameras. The body camera should be welcomed by police who say the vast majority of the men and women in blue are often unfairly blamed for a few bad apples. County Republicans joined a national campaign to support local police during the Black Lives Matter protests, citing among things harsh criticism of county police and New York City police living in Nassau. The cameras and an independent review board would seem the best way to prove that Nassau police are doing their jobs well and to get rid of what is said to be a few bad apples. In 2020, U.S. News & World Report supported the idea that Nassau is getting its money’s worth from the county police, ranking Nassau as the safest county in the country amid declining major crime figures and increased spending on police and fire protection.

REPORTERS Rose Weldon, Robert Pelaez

U.S. News awarded Nassau a score of100 in their “Healthiest Communities” rankingsbased on three categories. They included a violent crime rate of 133.8 per 100,000 residents compared to a national average of 231. They also gave points to the county for per capita spending annually on public safety of $1,148 compared to a national average of $359. Unmentioned by U.S. News & World Report is whether the county can aﬀord this. Nassau’s finances have been under state supervision since 2000 and have required financial bailouts and financial assistance as recently as this year. Federal and state COVID relief money — on top of the refinancing of county debt by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority — should kick the can down the road for the county for the next year or two. But NIFA has raised red flags for the years beyond. Paying $3,000 a year, every year, to already very well-paid police to wear body cameras does little to make us think the county’s financial fortunes will change anytime soon. Let’s hope the body cameras will at least increase the public’s trust in the county police.

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KREMER’S CORNER

Protect our elections. Stop red state steal

t has been five months since a gang of disaﬀected voters stormed the U.S. Capitol with the intention of stopping the certification of the presidential vote. They came with banners, nightsticks, flagpoles, bear repellant and other objects, determined not only to stop democracy in its tracks but to overthrow the government of the United States, One particular banner, “stop the steal” was meant to convey their unhappiness with the loss of the White House by Donald J. Trump. After watching the mischief in 21 Republican states and the stalling tactics from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his gang, it is clear now that the rowdy bunch from January was ahead of their time. The real “steal” is going on now all over America as Republican statehouses begin an aggressive campaign to steal the 2022 and 2024 elections from the Democratic Party. An examination of the

many laws either passed or pending in the red state legislatures shows clearly that their motives are aimed a keeping black and Hispanic voters from getting to the polls and depressing turnout in general. Having been a candidate for public oﬃce in 12 elections, I know a lot about voting patterns. I have frequently stood outside polling places at 9 P.M., just as the polls closed. Every presidential or congressional election always brings out a larger turnout than in so-called oﬀ years. During those even-year elections, large numbers of people show up at the polls after work and are willing to wait on long lines to exercise their right to vote. It is very common to see lines of voters outside the doors at 9 P.M. And the rule is if they are on line waiting to vote, you let them in to cast their ballot. The Georgia legislature knows voting patterns too. That’s why they have voted to

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close the polls at 5 P.M. It’s a simple way to keep working people from casting their ballots. There are many ways to encourage people to vote. One of them is to have official ballot boxes in various communities so that the elderly and poor people can drop oﬀ their ballots and avoid the long lines at public buildings. Georgia doesn’t want those boxes on the streets because it encourages participation and they might mean a few more

Democratic votes. Many states made dramatic changes in the law during the pandemic to accommodate people who were afraid to show up at a community building. That reform helped create a bigger turnout. The red-state oﬃcials assumed the turnout was more on the Democratic side so they have abolished drive in voting, the mailing of absentee ballot applications and even giving a water bottle to a voter in 100-degree weather. Every state in the nation has diﬀerent ways for voters to prove that they are the same person as the one in the enrollment books. Some require a witness on a mail-in ballot and others have their own ways of verification. The old way has been good enough throughout America for over 100 years, But the new way to stop minority voters is to insist on them getting a paid notary to certify the signature. Others want driver’s licenses, which stops a lot of

elderly people from voting if they never had a license to begin with. These dictator-type requirements are approved primarily to appease the former president. Mr. Trump has now spent four and a half months out of the limelight spending most of his time attacking any Republican who disagrees with his madness that the election was stolen. His brooding reached new heights when he has recently predicted that he will be restored to power in August through some magical process. But rather than focus on Mr. Trump as he wallows in self-pity, it is now time for the Democratic Party to buy up all the “stop the steal banners” and tailor their message to the upcoming 2022 and 2024 elections. Like it or not, Republican plans are moving along rapidly to steal both elections from the Democrats who are still basking in the glow of Joe Biden’s victory.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

I’m saying yes to ‘Yes Day’ after COVID

t’s a funny thing — or perhaps the word should be “odd” — but after enduring more than a year of doing almost nothing, for fear of a virus more deadly than anything I was brought up to fear (communists; herpes; the Cuban Missile crisis) …with all that behind me and the world opening up…I am not overwhelmed with joy! I am disappointed! I am downright cranky! And everything I’ve looked forward to feels kind of “meh.” All the foods I used to love, things I’ve craved for more than a year, have let me down. Take a freshly grilled steak with onion fries; it was probably cooked the same exact way as always, but now it’s just “OK.” Even with ketchup added! It reminds me of the way nothing tastes right when you’ve just brushed your teeth. Or the way nothing’s right after a bagful of Sour Patch worms, which I used one time to keep myself

awake on a drive back from Maryland. Nothing tasted right for 24 hours, including the 2 coffees I had when it was my turn to drive. Even the news is boring! Though to be fair, that was one of Joe Biden’s campaign promises, so I can’t really fault him for that. But maybe the problem is that my mind is simply worn out, the way my tongue was broken after too much of that sour flavor. Which would make the pandemic one giant sour-patch of a year. Come to think of it, that sounds about right. That’s why I spent the week seeking out things just because they were silly, or happy, or totally ridiculous. That’s what brought me to “Yes Day,” a Netflix movie starring Jennifer Garner as Allison Torres, a typical suburban Mom who, according to her three kids, says “No!” to everything. “You’re a fun-killer,” her children complain. “You don’t even know

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A Look on the Lighter Side me,” replies their mother. “I invented fun! I used to be the funn-est person I knew.” “So what happened?” “You happened!…It’s called Parenting.” But after presentations by her childrens’ teachers and the guidance counselor, Allison and her husband (played winningly by Edgar Ramirez) are persuaded to try a “Yes Day” — a day when “Yes!” must be the answer to anything their children ask (within legal and safety limits).

Of course, mayhem ensues. But it’s the kind you can watch with the whole family. Director Miguel Arteta chose lots of colorful, zany special effects, rather than allowing anything darker to infest the movie. Even so, the film made its points — namely, that parents sometimes need fun, too; and that eventually, children find out they’re actually glad to have adults setting some boundaries and keeping them safe. The movie was inspired by a children’s book of the same name by the late Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. Jennifer Garner’s children loved the book so much that she tried Yes Days with them, and after one of her Instagram posts about it went viral, well…who could say “No” to making a film of “Yes Day”? This film poses no threat to the world of serious cinema. But I enjoyed it. In fact, it reminded me of a time when I actually tried something like it (without the special effects

budget, of course). When one of my little boys was unusually stressed, and I was stressed as a consequence, a fellow mom reminded me to “Say ‘Yes’ whenever you can, ‘No’ only when you have to.” I ended up giving my little guy a piggy-back ride in the park, letting him do all the steering. It turned into a special afternoon for us both. For a longer-lasting dose of laughter and family dynamics, I recommend watching the ABC series “Modern Family,” now available in various formats as well as television reruns. It wrapped up its final season in April of 2020 — just as COVID took grip of America— and it’s right up there with “Monk” as my life-preserver through the pandemic. I’m still not sure what “normal” is going to look, feel, or even taste like, going forward. But maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe “funny” is good enough for now.

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THE BACK ROAD

The strange case of Dr. Aruna Khilanani

first read about psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani’s (Dr. K) violent, race-based fantasies in the New York Post, the modern-day incarnation of the old National Enquirer — a literary form of entertainment and titillation, at best. In the 1960s the Enquirer sucked readers in with stories of paranormal happenings, medical anomalies, freaks of nature, political scandal and celebrity gossip. The New York Post was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, who I imagine had a vastly diﬀerent vision than that of to Who can forget the 1983 classic, “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar?” Some consider it to be the greatest headline in New York newspaper history. After reading about Dr. K’s

speech to an audience of Yale medical students in the Post, I decided to look further for a more reliable source. I found a June 5 piece in Newsweek magazine that did confirm the Post’s reporting. In the Newsweek story, Dr. K was quoted as telling the aspiring doctors that, “I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a f***ing favor.” To be fair, I reached out to the good doctor on Twitter to get her comment on the matter. I tweeted, “As a fellow MH [mental health] professional, I’m trying 2 understand the purpose of you sharing your

ANDREW MALEKOFF The Back Road

homicidal fantasy. To express your rage? What good do you expect to come of it? I’m a white guy. I’ve been one for 70 years now. Would you like to unload a round into my head?” Although she has yet to respond, she posted a TikTok video on her Twitter account

(@arun_khilanani). In the video recording Dr. K complains about a disclaimer against violent hate speech that the Yale School of Medicine put out in which they stated “how violent my talk was.” Replying to her objection with Yale’s disclaimer, Minerva Doll @wasclywabit tweeted, “Something tells me she knows she is wrong to tweet about murdering people for their skin color.” JMP @soyismurder responded to Minerva, “She was just being dramatic. I chalk it up to frustration . . . diagnosing an entire race is psychopathic. This destroys any credibility she might have.” To which Minerva Doll tweeted back to JMP, “She is far worse than dramatic. She’s an arrogant psychopath who

thinks murdering whites is justified.” Does she think murdering whites is justified? Was she exaggerating for eﬀect? Was she using hyperbole to graphically describe her rage? Does what she said qualify as hate speech? Was she knowingly or unwittingly inciting violence? Does systemic racism exist? Most definitely. Did Dr. K have the right to share her fantasies with her audience? Of course. Do they constitute hate speech? It takes only simple common sense to know that publicly sharing such deranged fantasies constitutes hate speech and serves to lay a foundation for violence. Words do matter Dr. K. I suggest you choose them more wisely in the future.

E A R T H M AT T E R S

Breaking bread and finding solutions

eople have many areas to disagree about, and the environment and environmental protection are no exception. Recently the New York Times Nicholas Kristof wrote about one of these disputes and how it ended with the two sides, in a very unexpected way, sitting at a table together, eating and reaching a mutually agreeable solution. The disagreement involved loggers and environmentalists in a small town in eastern Oregon. Feelings of animosity ran deep on both sides. They did not trust each other and certainly did not socialize. Their conflict was over forest policy impacting the local sawmill. A Portland attorney’s lawsuit to protect certain species like woodpeckers and redband trout brought to a stop logging in local national forests. It also cut oﬀ the loggers’ livelihoods and threatened the existence of the small town they live in. Rather than pursuing the more typical path of name-calling, counter-suing, and public-bashing, the loggers invited the lawyer to visit the forest with them. They spent three days together, arguing about protecting trees and getting to know

one another. They learned that neither was evil and they could talk to each other; so they continued to do so. The attorney began to better understand the human cost of protecting the forests; people losing their jobs, becoming homeless and suffering in many ways as a result of the ripple effect of sawmills closing all over the region. She also understood the need for forest management to prevent destructive fires made more dangerous by drier and hotter conditions caused by climate change. She led other environmentalists in joining with the loggers to thin the forest and restore the traditional landscape under a 10year stewardship contract. As a result, the sawmill stayed open, the town survived and the forest was protected. If the two groups had not taken the time, (and it took a lot of time, effort and energy), to talk and learn more about the other’s situation and perspective, the story would have ended very differently. It didn’t come without its costs though. A supporting politician lost his next election, the attorney was ousted from an environmental organization and the sawmill operator is a pariah

LYNN CAPUANO Earth Matters within the logging community. But, there are already others following their example. Here on Long Island, we face several environmental issues, many of which engender strongly held positions on seemingly opposite sides of the issue. Our reliance on a sole source aquifer is a great example and one that has been discussed extensively in this column. The issue as I and other environmentalists see it is that water is not an endlessly renewable resource. The more we pump from the aquifer, the more we need to replace, but only so much water falls from the sky as rain and only so much of that rain can make its way to the ground and then to the aquifer.

The people on the other side include developers, golf course owners, and homeowners, to name a few. Developers want to convert open space, where rain can reach the ground and make its way to the aquifer as recharge, to homes, shopping centers, office buildings and parking lots. Golf courses want to maintain verdant greens for their customers’ enjoyment and so water frequently and extensively, placing a significant demand on the aquifers that provide all our water. Homeowners want perfect lawns and install sprinklers to ensure a consistent supply of water. Could we learn about each other and what underlies the decisions we make and policies we support related to water conservation and protection? By talking to each other could we arrive at a workable solution? Could golf courses learn about groundcover options that are less water-intensive and ways to increase the recharge ability of their acreage? Could developers incorporate more green infrastructure to oﬀset the loss of open space if they understood that long term they are putting themselves out of business with their practices? Could

homeowners come to understand that normal rainfall is adequate to maintain a green lawn? Currently, Port Washington is involved in a fight over a request for zoning waivers to enable a 7-Eleven to open. Manhasset residents already fought a 7-Eleven opening in that community and prevented it from happening. Development and density are regular issues in local news with communities legislating in many ways to try to control density and development with people arguing both for and against for environmental and economic reasons. If we learn anything from the loggers and environmentalists in eastern Oregon, it’s that the issues are not onedimensional, and the ripple eﬀects can be extensive. Opening a 7-Eleven is about much more than an increase in traffic. If the stakeholders sat around a table, maybe with some food as those in Oregon did, all sides would start to understand each other and, just maybe, establish enough mutual respect and trust to work out a solution. And then, maybe, that example could be brought to all our issues, environmental or otherwise.

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VIEW POINT

Guns again and again and again

n National Gun Violence Awareness Day, Friday, June 4, U.S. federal judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s 32-yearold ban on assault weapons, declaring, “This case is about what should be a muscular constitutional right and whether a state can force a gun policy choice that impinges on that right with a 30-year-old failed experiment.” Benitez added, “Like the Swiss army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.” Tell that to the TSA which considers the Swiss Army knife dangerous enough to take down a 747. And nobody uses an AR15, a weapon of war used in the Tree of Life and Aurora massacres and a favorite for mass murderers, for home defense. On that same day, three were shot dead and multiple people injured at a graduation party in Miami-Dade and two were shot dead in Austin; WearOrange weekend to remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to gun violence, 43 were shot, five killed in Chicago and a 10-year old boy was killed in a Queens shooting that was believed to be connected to a parking dispute. In less than 200 days of 2021, there have already been more than 200 mass shootings. Perhaps you noticed New York landmarks in orange but it is hard to pay attention or even keep track – gun violence has become ubiquitous, a public health

epidemic. Was that Atlanta? Boulder? San Jose? Miami? Chicago? I’m sick of awareness. Demand action. Despite managing to enact some of the strongest gun safety laws in the country since the Sandy Hook massacre of six-yearolds and their teachers, New York state and communities across the country have seen an increase in gun violence since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as statewide total reported crime remained near historically low levels in 2020. Experts have cited a confluence of factors: unemployment, closure of schools and other essential programs, and isolation from family, friends and support systems, as well as social unrest in communities. But I would suggest it is because guns are everywhere – easier to get than a mail-in-ballot, even in states like New York with tough gun control laws. Americans are gorging on gun sales – 1 million background checks in a single week this spring, with estimates of some 400 million in civilian hands, the New York Times reported – a figure that becomes scarier with the rise of White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis calling for “Second Amendment solutions.” “Gun violence is a uniquely American tragedy: Americans are killed by guns at a rate 25 times higher than that of other high-income countries, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware) said. More than 14,000 people are murdered each

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year; 23,000 more commit suicide –guns are so much more efficient killing machines than pills. None of the gun safety measures that are being proposed violate anyone’s Constitutional rights – but voting and reproductive rights are also in the Constitution and these gun nuts have no problem legislating against both. Reminder: the first “inalienable’ right is to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” – not to have life stolen just by going to work, the mall, the movies, school or church or driving on the highway. My head explodes when after every one of these shootings, there is the quest to uncover a “motive” or get into the mind of the killer. The only common denominator is the ease and availability of guns and ammunition. And even as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gleefully signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, denying women their constitutional right of self-deter-

mination and is salivating to sign the most restrictive voter suppression laws in the country, denying the constitutional right to vote, he has just signed a bill allowing anybody to carry a concealed handgun, without registration, license, or training. Tally the cost of “Guns Everywhere” policy: schools, workplaces, religious places, shopping malls must spend millions of dollars for security that is impossible to provide; millions of dollars to investigate, prosecute murder and mayhem, billions on funerals and injury, lost productivity and lifelong misery and suﬀering. Everytown estimates the annual cost of gun violence at $214 billion. And for what? Guns everywhere also play a role in police shootings because police assume a suspect has a gun and shoots first. “Thoughts and prayers are not enough — we need to respond to these tragedies with action,” Coons said. Common-sense gun safety legislation such as the NICS Denial Notification Act and Background Check Expansion Act is supported by 93% of Americans. But though Republicans have blocked even this sensible gun safety regulation, it’s not enough. Buying a gun should be at least as hard as getting an abortion or voting. This is what is needed: • The federal government should use its power of the purse to require gun manufacturers make Smart Guns – guns that can only be fired by the registered

owner – for all guns purchased for the military and law enforcement. Require manufacturers to incorporate microstamp technology so guns used in crime can be more easily traced.• Universal background checks; end the three-day maximum after which the purchase can be made (arbitrarily imposed by George W. Bush’s Attorney General Ashcroft)• Ban assault weapons, high-capacity ammo, bump stocks.• Tax the purchase of guns and ammunition to establish a Victim’s Fund and to repay municipalities for using tax revenues to provide security to schools, houses of worship, shopping malls, concert venues; public meetings• Require gun owners to purchase special liability insurance.• Require proper security of guns in the home; make parents, guardians liable for criminal prosecution (negligent homicide, reckless indiﬀerence) if a minor uses the gun to commit injure themselves or others.• Require gun owners to be licensed, certified to have gone through training and registered.• End online purchase of guns and ammunition; require all purchases to go through licensed and regulated dealers that are regularly audited and only allowed to operate in permitted areas.• Make creating or possessing ghost guns a felony.• End immunity for gun manufacturers that market guns for “sport” and “hunting” when they are designed solely to kill human beings. EndtheFilibuster

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OUR TOWN

Woes of Naomi Osaka, the shy super star

hen shy and sensitive tennis superstar Naomi Osaka walked out of the French Open last week after refusing to handle media questions, she posed an interesting question for the media to ponder. Her sudden withdrawal from this major forced sports journalists to handle the question of what is their role in the world of sports. Television and print media is the bridge between the public and the athlete but how best to define their role? Are they there to report, inform, sensationalize, investigate, confront, applaud or develop interesting story narratives? The power of the print media has grown in importance over time. Back in the 19th century, Victor Hugo understood the way print can influence the public and wrote “The Hunchback of NotreDame” largely to awaken the public to the decayed state of NotreDame. Hugo saved Notre Dame from destruction because of his novel. One hundred years later we have Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two beat writers for the Washington Post, responsible for the downfall of the Nixon administration through their investigative journalism of the Watergate break-in. Since then all politicians know that the media can make you or break you.

Fred DeMatteis was a real estate mogul, philanthropist and friend of mine and he always liked to joke “you should never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” Trump won his election by figuring out how to make an end run around the media through tweeting, thereby creating and controlling his own narrative. You can gain real insight into the power of the media by reading the two classic dystopian novels of the 20th century, “Brave New World” and “1984.” Both Orwell and Huxley were amazingly prescient and described a future whereby the media was the ulti-

There is an unholy marriage between the athlete and the press and Naomi Osaka tells us why.

DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town

mate tool of government to control the thoughts and attitudes of the public. Recently, the documentary film “The Social Dilemma” revealed the addictive nature of social media, and how its profoundly and negatively impacted social life, politics, culture and emotional well-being. The film is the real-life expression of what Orwell and Huxley predicted. The overuse of social media outlets like Facebook, Google, Twitter and YouTube has been shown to have a linkage to suicide rates, depression and hospitalizations especially in young women. Which takes us back to the beginning of our story and the emotional collapse of Naomi Osaka. She, like most of the world’s superstars, has an ambivalent relationship with the media. They understand that media exposure means ‘clicks,’ all of

which are quantified and this persuades sponsors to aﬃliate with the star. Money earned by the star athlete is often far in excess of what they make on the playing field. When one faces the media after a loss or a win, the athlete is invariably in a state of utter exhaustion, depletion and all they want to do is go home and sleep. But instead, they must endure tedious unimaginative questions and at times questions that do instill doubt as Osaka mentioned as one of the primary reasons for wanting to avoid them. In fact, it takes a great and disciplined mind to manage all of this. Rory McIlroy refuses to listen to any television during a tournament because he knows in can instill doubt which could spell death to one’s self-confidence. When I work with athletes who are exposed to media questions I always do my best to counsel and prepare them for the questions. The best celebrity mind I knew was Ronald Reagan who was trained to handle any question thrown at him by essentially ignoring it and expressing the narrative chosen by his team for that day. Tiger Woods was a master at handling the media and was trained extensively by experts. When I interviewed him after his U.S. Open win at Bethpage I was struck by how bright and focused

and confident he was, despite it being 9 p.m. at night after a long grueling Sunday. Tiger Woods understood what Naomi Osaka has yet to learn and that is that the media is a two-headed monster. When it loves you it will take you into heavenly bliss but if it turns on you, it will devour you and spit you out without hesitation. There is a debate now that her move of walking away from tennis will teach the media to change its ways and somehow be kinder or perhaps ask more incisive or interesting questions. I guarantee you this will not happen. In 1919, Henry Adams wrote the classic essay “A Law of Acceleration” in which he described the unstoppable power and inevitable growth of technological advances. In it he wrote “A law of acceleration, definite and constant as any law of mechanics, cannot be supposed to relax its energy to suit the convenience of man.” This is a truism and Ms. Osaka would be advised to read this essay, hire a media expert and get herself to a qualified psychoanalyst where she can ventilate her anxieties, her anger and or despair in the proper setting. It’s that or her brilliant career will be greatly foreshortened and nobody wants that. She is the shining light in the game of tennis and the world wants her back asap.

READERS WRITE

Must Nassau taxpayers be ripped off more?

recent Newsday story told us that the Nassau County and the Suffolk County Police Departments on Long Island were among the last large police departments in the country, whose police officers didn’t already wear body cameras. I can’t tell you how this issue now rests in Suffolk County, but the Newsday story told us that the Nassau legislature has already agreed to purchase body cameras for the Nassau County police and to pay every police officer who wears a camera, $3,000. a year, every year,

forever, for wearing the camera. The Port Washington Times story (June 4, Page 9) about these cameras for the Nassau police labels the $3,000. a year payment a stipend, not wages, but it does not explain what a stipend is. A stipend is taxable income but is not compensation subject to tax withholding deductions for Social Security and for Medicare. Although the Nassau County legislature has approved of the body cameras being adopted in this county, the Police Benevolent Association, the police union here,

has not yet finally approved of the cameras being adopted. It’s anticipated, however, that the police union will approve of the body cameras soon. I certainly approve of Long Island’s two excellent police departments catching up with the rest of the country. However, I do not agree, at all, that our police personnel should be paid something extra for wearing the cameras and that they should be paid that something extra, forever. The number of Nassau County policemen and women who may

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wear a body camera is 2,500. 2,500 X $3,000.00 each = $7.5 million a year. I can think of no reason why you, your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, and who knows after them, should be paying $7.5 million more in taxes every year than they should be paying because Nassau police are wearing a small body camera that weighs just about a quarter of a pound. Newsday stated that the weight of the camera is 5 ounces. Our police are already carrying a loaded pistol that weighs between 2 ½ — 3 pounds, with two extra loaded clips for that pistol that weigh at least a 1/2 pound together. In addition to that, our Nassau police are already carrying a taser, a knife, handcuﬀs, a portable radio, an emergency kit and other paraphernalia, all of which add up

to a significant weight that I cannot even guess at. So, why must our Nassau police now be paid $3,000 a year each, forever, for wearing a very light-weight piece of police equipment, that all other police are already wearing, without conditions? And why are our Nassau County legislators so anxious to further burden taxpayers here, beyond the very heavy tax burdens that they already carry? I urge you to contact your Nassau County legislator and to tell that legislator, enough. I shouldn’t have to pay my police to wear a small body camera, which has become standard equipment across the nation. Joel Katz Port Washington Letters Continued on Page 28

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On the street where Birnbaum’s knowledge Falconer Florist lives READERS WRITE

needed by Village of G.N.

ote for Mark Birnbaum! I stick by my strong belief that prior experience is crucial to any job, but particularly for anyone attempting to start a career in public oﬃce. Mark has held several village positions: trustee, member and chairman of several village boards and now village justice. He understands the complex business of village, town, county and state laws. He has inroads into all aspects of “what goes on behind the scenes” at each level of government. In order to legally and fairly adjudicate any issue, a judge must understand the laws and rules that govern each level of government as he makes his decisions. Over 30 years of heading the mast-

head of a local Great Neck newspaper, I came to know all of the players at every level. I have long admired Mark’s honesty, his thorough bank of information concerning every defendant, and the tough yet fair manner in which he put his indelible mark on the Village of Great Neck’s courtroom. Mark Birnbaum has the knowledge and the heartfelt desire to ensure fair and decent judgments in his court. A very decent and caring man, Mark has the right to stand up and ask for your vote. Vote for Mark Birnbaum for village justice and ensure the right for each one of us to deserve fairness and justice in our court. Wendy Kreitzman Great Neck

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BY R O S E W E L D ON Scott Frederick Falconer Jr. may have been one of the shortest attendees at a ceremony that saw his family’s multigenerational flower shop receive an honorary street name, but by the end of the event on Saturday he stood tall as the day’s surprise hero. When a string pulled by his grandfather and shop owner Fred Falconer and North Hempstead Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte failed to reveal the new street sign, young Scott was hoisted into service by his father, Scott Sr., and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and tore the paper from S.F. Falconer’s Way, unveiling the sign to an appreciative and applauding audience. Founded by Fred Falconer’s grandfather, Simon Frederick, S.F. Falconer Florist Inc. originated as a greenhouse at the Harry Guggenheim estate. It has served Port Washington and its surrounding areas for over three generations and 100 years, having celebrated the milestone last year. “That greenhouse is a testament to his family’s long history and enduring connection to the Port Washington community,” Dalimonte said in her remarks at the ceremony. “Fred has continued with the legacies of his father and grandfather and

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Scott Falconer, Jr. reveals the new street name in honor of his grandfather Fred’s flower shop in Port Washington over the weekend, with a lift from his father Scott Sr. and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove). made them his own.” The ceremony was co-sponsored by Continued on Page 35

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BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI After a year away from his Long Island basketball camp, Gus Alfieri is ready to get back on the court — where he teaches much more than just a game. Alfieri considers himself a career educator with a contagious passion for his All American Basketball Camp, which is returning to Glen Head this summer after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it into a yearlong timeout.

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Gus Alfieri’s ‘legendary’ basketball camp returned for it’s 52nd anniversary.

Besides teaching the sport, Alfieri takes the time to talk with his campers about attitude and substance abuse — something he says parents thank him for. “If I save three kids from smoking and five kids from becoming alcoholics and seven kids from becoming drug addicts, I’m going to have a hell of a mansion up in heaven,” Alfieri said. “Because I’ve done something that no camp director does.” Since picking up the game at 10 years old, Alfieri has earned four degrees and written two books in addition to serving as director of his camp since it started in 1969, according to the camp’s website. This summer marks the 52nd anniversary of the program’s founding — and for Alfieri, upholding a high standard is what makes a camp stand the test of time. “We are legendary on Long Island,” Alfieri said. “If there was a word association game and my name came up it would be associated with basketball.” “There’s such a lack of proper fundamental teaching in basketball in particular,” he said. “There’s a lot of youth-level organizations that really don’t teach.” Though Alfieri holds a spot as one of St. John’s University’s top 50 all-time players, he was first taught basketball and discipline by religious teachers at St. Cecilia School in Brooklyn. Continued on Page 36

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A bill proposed by State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages (DElmont) and State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills), pictured, that would make extorting one’s immigration status illegal has passed the State Legislature. protect these individuals and their families from having their immigration status used as leverage against them.” In a statement, Kaplan said, “For an undocumented immigrant who fled danger in Continued on Page 39

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NORTHWELL NURSES EARN ‘GOLDEN BUZZER’ BY R O S E W E L D ON A choir of Northwell Health nurses advanced in the popular amateur TV contest “America’s Got Talent” last week, earning a golden buzzer and sending them to the show’s Hollywood finals later this summer. For Julieta Hernandez, a nurse at Cohen’s Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, singing in the choir has enabled her to pull postponed dreams out of her back pocket and celebrate the resilience that her nursing colleagues around the world showed throughout the pandemic. “I immigrated from Argentina and I wanted to be a nurse my entire life,” Hernandez said in a phone interview during a shift at Cohen’s. “But I was a DACA recipient, so I couldn’t pursue it right out of high school. And then when I had my daughter, she actually had to stay in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit [at Cohen’s Children’s Hospital] for a couple of days. And when I saw the nurses and how well they treated her and how they treated her like a family, that’s when I really said, ‘I have to do this. This is my calling.'” Following studies at Adelphi University, Hernandez got her job at the hospital two years ago, working in the same unit that cared for her daughter. Last November, in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, she heard that the Northwell system was seeking nurses to sing for a Nurse Heroes Live event. She auditioned and joined a choir of over 300, and was picked as

one of a chosen few from that group to form the choir that would audition for “America’s Got Talent.” “We all met for the first time in March,” Hernandez said. “At first, it was really scary. It was the first time all of us had taken our masks oﬀ in front of people. We actually all had to get vaccinated to be part of the choir, which we were so excited about doing. We were still getting frequent testing, but to be able to be yourself in front of people again and to not be alone anymore was so wonderful.” Hernandez has sung most of her life, even attending the

Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens for vocal performance in high school, but turned to nursing as a practical way of work. She says the situation is similar with many of her fellow nurses in the choir. “A lot of us kind of put our dreams in our back pockets,” Hernandez said. “And this was just like such a wonderful opportunity to revisit that and so late in life be able to pursue like our dreams. And I think that’s what ‘America’s Got Talent’ does for everybody. It just gives everybody a platform to be able to reach for the stars. And it’s so amazing to be living it.”

The choir was then invited to formally audition for “America’s Got Talent” in April, and took the opportunity. Before judges Heidi Klum, Sofia Vergara, Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel, the group then sang a medley of Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” and Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me,” with Hernandez’ impressive vocal run near the song’s end complimented by Klum. The nurses were greeted by rapturous applause and a standing ovation from the four judges and host Terry Crews, and following appreciative words from Klum, Vergara and

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The Northwell Health Nurse Choir poses with “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel, who used his Golden Buzzer option to advance them to the show’s Hollywood rounds.

Cowell, Mandel used his “golden buzzer” option to advance the choir to the show’s finals in Hollywood. “I honestly think I blacked out,” Hernandez said. “And then the next thing I remember is the confetti falling in slow motion. It was so surreal. I look back on it, and it’s like, I wasn’t even there. Like I’m watching somebody else on TV. But we’re so happy. And we love Howie, he’s our favorite person in the world!” The choir wasn’t allowed to tell their families or friends the results of the audition and had to save their excitement for a Northwell-hosted watch party at CitiField, where they found out the news. “Watching them watch us get it was almost better than living it ourselves,” Hernandez said. For now, the Northwell nurse choir is back at work and will film live Hollywood episodes of the show in August. Hernandez says the response has been thrilling. “We’re getting all ofthese texts and calls from not only from our friends and family, but from nurses around the world that feel inspired by what we did,” Hernandez said. “And they’re thanking us for representing them. And that was always the original message that we just wanted to send out resilience and hope to the nurses that are still struggling and all of America that’s still struggling with COVID. And and to feel that we accomplished that even a little bit, it’s just so gratifying.”

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O. Westbury Gardens County summer to host Garden Days entertainment series Old Westbury Gardens will hold its inaugural Garden Days event on June 11, 12, and 13, 2021 at 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. This is a ticketed event. Visitors can purchase tickets in advance here (https://www.oldwestburygardens.org/ garden-days). Tickets for June 13th are already sold out. “Old Westbury Gardens is thrilled to be hosting this first-of-its-kind, in-person live event against the backdrop of our elegant and historic Westbury House and grounds,” said Maura McGoldrick-Brush, director of Horticulture at Old Westbury Gardens. “While there are similar wellknown annual garden shows in the region, this is the first major garden event of its kind and scale on Long Island. Visitors will have a truly unique experience, learning about and purchasing a wide range of topquality horticultural materials.” This first-time event for Old Westbury Gardens will feature an exclusive wideranging collection of garden specialty businesses and vendors from across the country, including expert topiary growers from Atlock Farms in New Jersey, lavender product producers from Star Bright Farm in Maryland, designers of workspaces for cooks and gardeners (from greenhouses to cabinetry) for indoor or outdoor spaces from Hoﬀman & Woodward in Pennsylvania, and creators of nature-inspired jewelry from Janet Mavec, among other vendors. The setting in Westbury will feature anything a garden enthusiast can imagine: beautiful outdoor seat cushions, antique textiles, botanicals, the most useful homewares from France, garden planters cast from estate originals, modern agricultural items, and more. As an added bonus, garden book author, Christopher Spitzmiller, will be speaking and signing his new book: Year at Clove Brook Farm: Gardening, Tending Flocks, Keeping Bees, Collecting Antiques, and Entertaining Friends. Tickets for Sunday, June 13th are sold out, but activities for that day include an exclusive private home garden tours in the Locust Valley area. Organizers are hoping to make this

an annual event in the future. Ticketed visitors will be able to view, learn about, and purchase a wide range of rare upscale quality gardening products that include hard-to-find perennials and annuals, unusual exotics, container specialties, decorative garden furniture, urns, statuary, specialty plants, garden ornaments, and antique architectural treasures, among other horticultural curiosities. This will also be an opportunity for the region’s garden enthusiasts to gather and discover innovative trends in horticulture and ornamental gardening. One of the businesses participating in the Garden Days event is Pennoyer Newman, LLC, which creates distinctive garden pots that have been cast from historic estate originals. The company is based in Manhattan and has been in the business of casting antique planters for 32 years. Pennoyer Newman’s mission is to preserve and protect old planters for today’s consumers to enjoy, since so many of the historic garden objects of past centuries have gone to ruin. Pennoyer Newman has worked with Old Westbury Gardens for nearly three decades to restore and preserve the old planters on the grounds of the historic Phipps family estate. “We are looking forward to joining the best-in-class garden product producers. Vendors are coming from as far away as Maine to Kentucky to showcase their wares at Old Westbury Gardens, which is the most beautiful backdrop to any garden event one could ever imagine,” said Virginia Newman Yocum, partner of Pennoyer Newman, LLC. “Old Westbury Gardens is one of Long Island’s greatest garden jewels, with a magnificent mansion and over 200 acres of gardens to tour—both formal and informal gardens that will inspire visitors, and more. Their history in Nassau County and their staﬀ—who are steeped in horticulture and history—make this weekend one not to miss.” For more information, list of vendors, event schedule and ticket details, please visit https://www.oldwestburygardens. org/garden-days

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is proud to announce a full slate of free events this summer, starting with a lineup of rockin’ summer concerts at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park. The Saturday night concert series, sponsored by Jovia Financial Credit Union and presented by GnR Events, is part of the County’s free summer entertainment series which features dozens of free outdoor concerts, movies, and special events being held at parks across the County. “Nassau’s robust vaccination program has been key to reopening our County and we are all looking forward to going back to the activities we enjoy. I am proud to announce that summer is back in Nassau starting with a full slate of events including concerts and movies for all ages to enjoy. Thank you to Jovia Financial Credit Union for partnering with us to bring a great Saturday Night Concert series lineup to Lakeside Theatre at Eisenhower,” said County Executive Laura Curran. “At Jovia Financial Credit Union, we are committed to supporting our community and we’re passionate about bringing people together. Sponsoring this free concert series at Eisenhower Park, in the heart of Nassau County, is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the summer with friends and family while enjoying great music and in-person performances,” said Renu Dalessandro, chief marketing officer, Jovia Financial Credit Union. Beginning in June, the County will be offering dozens of concerts and movies for the whole family to enjoy. Kicking off the summer fun is Jovia Financial Credit Union Eisenhower Park Concert Series, which will begin on June 26 at 8 pm at the Lakeside Theatre at Eisenhower Park (Field 6). While all concerts are free, advanced tickets are required. To reserve a ticket, please visit nassaucountyny.gov/parks. Nassau’s lineup of summer movies and concerts include: Jovia Financial Credit Union Eisenhower Park Concert Series Eisenhower Park, Lakeside Theatre, 8 p.m. June 26—Roots Foundation – Bob Marley Tribute July 3—Anyway You Want It – Journey Tribute July 10—Half Step – Grateful Dead Tribute July 17— Almost Bros. – Allman Bros. Tribute July 24—Sir Paul – Beatles Tribute July 31—Petty Rumours – Tom Petty/Fleetwood Mac Tribute August 7—Janis Joplin Experience August 14—Misty Mountain – Led Zeppelin Tribute August 21—Strange Magic – Electric Light Orchestra Tribute

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Noontime Concerts, Eisenhower Park, Field 11, 2 p.m. July 14-Bobby Doo Wop July 21 — Johnny Avino July 28 — Vinny Pizzo August 11 — Tangerine August 18 — Tommy Sullivan August 25 — Fran & Frank Pop-up Concerts Christopher Morley Park July 20 – Ragdoll/Four Seasons Tribute – 7 pm North Woodmere Park August 2 – Forever Plaid by Plaza Theatrical – 7 pm Mitchel Athletic Complex August 8 – John King – 8 pm Grant Park August 30 – Gathering Time – 7 pm Chelsea Mansion Concerts July 6 – Young Classical Artists in Concert – 7 pm July 14 – L.I.Concert Orchestra – 7 pm August 11 – Swingtime Big Band – 7 pm Family Movie Nights Eisenhower Park, Lakeside Theatre July 8 – The Secret Life of Pets – 2, 8:28 p.m. July 15 – Trolls: World Tour, 8:25 p.m. July 22 — The Crood’s: A New Age, 8:20 p.m. July 29 – Abominable, 8:14 p.m. August 5 – The War with Grandpa, 8:06 p.m. August 12 — Playing with Fire, 7:57 p.m. August 19 — My Spy, 7:48 p.m. August 26 — Dora and the Lost City of Gold, 7:37 p.m. Tuesday Night Movies – Cedar Creek Park/N. Woodmere Park July 13 – Coco – Cedar Creek, 8:25 p.m. July 20 – Inside Out – N. Woodmere, 8:21 p.m. July 27 –– Spy’s in Disguise — Cedar Creek, 8:15 p.m. August 3 – UP — N. Woodmere, 8:08 p.m. August 10 – The Greatest Showman – Cedar Creek, 8:00 p.m. August 17 – Hocus Pocus – N. Woodmere, 7:50 p.m. Movies on the Beach, Nickerson Beach Fridays – East Terrace July 9 – Book of Life, 8:27 p.m. July 30 – Angry Birds, 8:12 p.m. August 20 – High School Musical, 7:46 p.m. Sundays – West Terrace July 18 – Ferdinand, 8:22 p.m. August 15 – Angry Birds 2, 7:53 p.m. August 29 – Camp Rock, 7:32 p.m.

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Emanuel virtual concert, ‘These 3 Tenors’ On Sunday, June 13 at 3:00 p.m., Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present a virtual concert, “These Three Tenors,” featuring Bruno Ridicio, Rinaldo Toglia and Thomas Stallone. After more than 15 years of performances in a wide variety of venues — at major arts festivals, with symphony orchestras, and on international cruises — These Three Tenors, Bruno Ridicio, Rinaldo Toglia and Thomas Stallone, are recognized around the world for presenting one of the most exciting and entertaining shows on the musical scene today. Their overwhelming success is often attributed to their commitment to providing “something for everyone” — from Opera and the Italian classics to

current Broadway and popular favorites, not to mention those much loved songs that date back to the Golden Age of musicals. Never at the sacrifice of artistic discipline, (the rigor of their operatic experience shines through), they bring humor and camaraderie, (the kind that breaks through barriers), to a performance that is both elegant (as a formal concert) and exciting (as a staged production). Their unique skill—an ability to collaborate while highlighting each singer’s stylistic qualities—comes through in their wonderful medleys: tributes to Sinatra, America, the romantic strains of Italian Pop, and Broadway—then and now. Recent and return engagements

include Lincoln Center, Westbury Music Fair, PNC Bank Arts Center, Westchester Broadway Theatre and Festa Italia in Milwaukee. Their appearances as the premier act on Holland America Cruise Lines led to engagements in Washington D.C., Pittsburgh and an extended 28 performance tour of Arizona. CD recordings include These Three Tenors Live, and These Three Tenors—The Lighter Side. This concert is funded by Leslie & Lawrence Sarf and Family. Registration for this virtual event is $10.For further information, to register and purchase a ticket, go to: https://www.scwculturalarts.org/ sunday-series Call 516.482.5701 if you have questions.

Bruno Ridicio, Thomas Stallone (seated), Rinaldo Toglia

NSTV airs ROA guest Rep. Grace Meng Reach Out America President Patty Katz presents the Webinar filmed on May 26 with Congresswoman Grace Meng, 6th District, the first and only Asian American Member of Congress from New York State, is in her fifth term serving the Sixth District of Queens. A member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and vice chair of its subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, she also sits on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies and on the House Ethics Committee. Grace has become a

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ne can judge a person’s character by the company they keep. Did you receive an invitation to Gov. Cuomo’s latest campaign fundraiser to be held in New York City on June 29? Tickets are only $10,000 or

two for $15,000. You can enjoy rubbing shoulders with New York State’s 1 percent, favorite Pay to Play and Democratic Party elite. Cuomo already has $16.8 million in cash on hand to run for a fourth term. Like most

ordinary New Yorkers, I can’t aﬀord the price. I am willing to park limousines, bus tables, mix drinks, or check coats in exchange for admission. Cuomo is currently under investigation for potential scandals related to nursing home

deaths, sexual harassment and his multi-million dollar book deal. He has hired outside legal counsel at the cost of $2.5 million at government expense. Why not use some of the proceeds from his upcoming

fundraiser and current campaign kitty to pay for his legal representation rather than pick the pockets of taxpayers to foot the bill? Larry Penner Great Neck

COVID-19: A weapon of mass destruction

our own government, along with mainstream media and corporate America, has declared war

on you. An oligarchy of corrupt, treasonous, lawless megalomaniacs high on power has bullied, threatened, and coerced you into submission and you were the enablers. They weaponized your tolerance, a self-inflicted wound, to push their own socialist global agenda. They labeled and pummeled you on a daily basis as being racists, homophobes, and terrorists. While you were working, paying a mortgage and raising a family, they were working behind the scenes to transform this country from a constitutional republic to a communist dictatorship and they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams thanks to COVID-19, a bio-weapon engineered in the Wuhan labs in China. Don’t be fooled into thinking that this metamorphosis that your country is going through happened by chance. Your own government was complicit with China in setting the stage for the current pandemic. Using millions of your tax dollars, the NIH (National Institute of Health) under Dr. Fauci has been funding bat coronavirus research and experiments at major American universities with the assistance of the Chinese for quite a few years, as well as, funding nonprofits that were engaging in the same research. The viruses were being worked on for “gain of function,” “modifying the virus to make it deadlier and more transmissible.” In essence, “creating a pathogenic virus that can infect and replicate within human cells and cause disease.” When people in the scientific community sounded the alarm on the dangers of these experiments, a

temporary moratorium was issued on most of these experiments. The experiments, along with the funding, then went from American college campuses to the Wuhan labs in China where “gain of function” continued. When China blames America for the virus, they are partially correct. The powers that be want you to believe that the virus jumped from animals (bats) to humans, or that the virus happened in nature. That is the current party line. The truth is that your government, through academia and with the assistance of the Chinese, genetically modified a virus and turned it into a bio-weapon that caused the present pandemic. Whether the virus escaped from a lab or was let out on purpose, is yet to be determined. The rest is history. Of course, the big pharmaceutical companies depend on and support these “gain of function” experiments in order to create their money generating vaccines based on the information. Your own government has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths because they denied people access to anti-viral drugs, like hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and remdesivir during the height of the pandemic citing safety concerns. They played God and prevented sick people from receiving these life-saving treatments. Hyroxychloroquine has been around since 1955 and used to treat autoimmune diseases, as well as, inhibiting SARS virus replication. Starting in 1981, ivermectin has been used to treat RNA viruses and SARS-COV2. Remdesivir treats respiratory viruses and has been in the pipeline since 2009. It stops viruses from spreading in the body. In October of 2020 (too little, too late), the FDA finally approved

remdesivir for hospital use only, based on controllable clinical trials. Of course, all these anti-viral drugs were labeled as taboo both in the mainstream media and the government medical bureaucracy. They kept insisting that these anti-viral drugs weren’t safe and didn’t work even though they were proven safe and effective through the years. Uganda is a good example. With a population of 43 million, they have had only 347 deaths because they use hyroxychloroquine as a protocol to treat malaria. These low numbers show that it is effective against COVID-19. In India, where COVID has devastated a large portion of the country, COVID cases are plummeting after the government started promoting hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. The real reason these anti-viral drugs were not allowed to be used is due the incestuous relationship between your government bureaucracies and Big Pharma. Not enough money could be made on inexpensive drugs that have been in the pipeline for years. Also, anti-virals could have shortened the life of the pandemic, but the powers that be wanted it to continue indefinitely so that it would have a calamitous effect on your country’s political and economic future, which it has. The coupe de grace was when Trump touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the virus. The government bureaucrats, with their hatred of Trump, could never allow that. The actions that your government took to prevent people from accessing these proven antiviral drugs borders on criminality and they should be held accountable. Did you know that COVID-19 vaccines have not been approved

by the FDA, and none have gone through a complete controlled clinical trial like the FDA required from remdesivir before being given to the public? As a matter of fact, remdesivir is the only treatment approved by the FDA for COVID-19. The FDA allowed the vaccines to be administered under emergency use authorization only. Due to COVID-19, you have unwittingly become part of one of the biggest scientific experiments ever. You are the guinea pigs for Big Pharma and their clinical trials. You have become more expendable than lab animals. This should worry you since the long-term eﬀects of these vaccines are unknown and no one is allowed to question their eﬃcacy. As a matter of fact, anyone questioning the vaccine, the science behind it, or steps taken to prevent the spread is immediately censored and banned in the media. There is no discourse allowed, even from renowned scientists who do not agree with Big Brother and Big Pharma. As a matter of fact, there are thousands of deaths and illnesses from the vaccines, but they are not being reported for fear that more people will resist taking them. Did you know that half of all FDA and CDC employees have refused the vaccine? What do they know that you don’t? The CDC reported that flu cases were minimal last year. That is because practically every virus and death regardless of cause was attributed to COVID. This was a boon to hospitals. Did you know that hospitals received $13,000 for each COVID admission and $39,000 for each patient placed on a ventilator? No wonder Cuomo wanted thousands of ventilators that he

didn’t need. It was payback to his hospital donors. That is also why he sent Covid patients back to nursing homes, again payback to his nursing home donors. The CDC now admits that COVID cases were hugely overcounted. The testing, itself, is suspect. PCR over-cycling of DNA samples led to the big number of cases. As soon as the government and media propaganda machines accomplished their desired results, instilling fear and getting rid of Trump, the testing parameters suddenly changed and DNA samples were being cycled at lower rates which resulted in fewer cases. Covid testing was yet another financial windfall, especially for failing hospitals. As you can see, there is a symbiotic relationship between politicians and the gargantuan medical establishment. They have again shown that quid pro quo is alive and well because of your largesse. Unfortunately, everyone is profiting from the pandemic except, you, the taxpayer, who will be stuck with the bills for years to come. Of course, the substance of this article will be declared false by mainstream media because no one is allowed to question the scientific community which, itself, has been compromised. This is much more than about dangerous experiments or the pandemic. It is being used a means of control through the use of face masks, lockdowns, mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports. More importantly, it is being used to deny you your rights and freedoms under the constitution. How and when does this end? That’s up to you. Have you had enough yet?

CORRECTION Last week, Larry Penner’s letter ran with the wrong headline. The correct headline was “Ask Cuomo for state troopers to also help fight subway crime.”

Margaret Guddat Manhasset

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Father’s Day Note Pass parole justice reform to My Family I apologize for being the way I am. I apologize for being so often mistaken, also for the times I lacked patience, and for what I overlooked or brushed aside. For some reason it seemed necessary at the time, but please don’t ask me to explain. Excuse my ignorance. Pardon my laughing from time to time at your expense, others for asking too many questions— I didn’t mean to be provocative. Forgive me for not bringing flowers to our disagreements: I was wrong, it was inappropriate, I didn’t take things seriously, also you deserved more credit. My apologies for answering perfectly good questions with simple answers, I didn’t pay attention. I apologize for all my transgressions, I fostered many. My muses are few and fickle, they don’t exactly line up behind me or always seem to have best intentions. Then my dreams are not as grand as they should be. Thank you for putting up with me, you deserved better. I understand Love cannot solve every problem, that Love is an open question, but it works well enough for much. You don’t owe me anything, I should have been better. And there is still space within for so much more. Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

n August 2019, the longestserving woman in New York State prison, Valerie Gaiter, died of cancer at age 61 after 40 years in prison. She had become a mentor to young women who were struggling with hopelessness, trained service dogs for wounded veterans, ran the photography program, facilitated the prison’s anger management program and earned multiple degrees. Her applications for medical clemency were denied though she was in and out of the hospital. She would not be eligible for parole for another decade. Ms. Gaiter is one of thousands of imprisoned people who have transformed their lives and paid their debts to society but who face a virtual death sentence because of New York State parole laws, and unhealthy, adverse prison conditions with no access to health care. Elder Parole and Fair &

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Ethics and unemployment

Support parole E reform in N.Y. ew York has a moral and fiscal crisis of people aging and dying in prisons due to decades of extremely harsh sentencing and a raciallybased parole system that values endless punishment above redemption and personal transformation. For those serving long sentences, the Parole Board repeatedly denies parole based on one unchangeable factor, the nature of a person’s crime, not a person’s age, many accomplishments in prison, personal transformation, support network and less than 1 percent risk to the public for this age group. Two bills that must be passed this legislative session would begin to end death-byincarceration due to old age,

Timely Parole (Big push to pass bills in legislature, 5/30) would have given her and eligible persons over the age of 55, meaningful opportunities for parole release, based on their record of accomplishments. The recidivism rate for this age group is 1 percent or lower. The cost savings for New York taxpayers would be about $522 million annually. Support local journal-

ism by subscribing to your Blank Slate Media community newspaper for just $35 a year. Our criminal justice system is biased against women and systemically racist. Most women in prison are victims of physical or sexual abuse and black women are incarcerated at twice the rate of white women. PJR is one step on the long road to ending mass incarceration and correcting a punitive and vengeful system. Yes, we punish the criminals, but (make sure) that the punishment fits the crime,” Senate Majority Leader, Stewart-Cousins agrees. “And that you don’t continue to pay for the crime long after you’ve done the time.”

reunite families and reduce the cost of complex health care for elderly persons. Elder Parole (S15/A3475) will allow for a parole hearing for people aged 55 (considered elderly by the Dept. of Corrections) and older who have served at least 15 consecutive years in prison. Fair and Timely Parole (S1415/A4231) will ensure that parole consideration is based on who people are today, their many accomplishments in prison and very low risk for recidivism. Please Contact state Sen. Anna Kaplan and urge her to support these bills. Kaplan@ nysenate.gov before June 12th. Shelley Sherman Great Neck

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mployee turnover in the public and private sector is a way of life. Itis to be expected. But should a job performed with integrity and applied ethics, a job well-done (by an experienced, dedicated village Building Department employee) be rewarded with forced retirement? Perhaps, the recent retirements in your village or town require investigation. Paraded around town and the local press as retirement by choice – retirement by free will — instead of what it truly represents — ethics and integrity lose yet another battle. Score another notch for the developers. Score another notch for loosey-goosey law enforcement in local government. Former Village of Great Neck Building Superintendent, Len Baron, and former Building Inspector, Dennis Fromigia, are recently, departed by the way. Like it or not, on more than one occasion, building department employees with decades of village law and plan review experience, folks who not only respect residents but respect their role in upholding daily village laws and necessary standards (including those for public safety), have, of

late, been known to quietly disappear from the village payroll. For appearance’s sake, the public is advised that so and so in the building department has retired. He/she has found a lucrative position closer to home. How often is the above statement a convenient cover-up and code for: Long-term government employee, a resident favorite, is ousted because he got in a certain developer’s way, slowed down a million-dollar job and was costing a developer untold lost revenue? If you think this isn’t happening in your upscale community — think again. The fine men and women who looked out for you and protected you from illegal construction and new development encroachment where you live couldn’t fight back – couldn’t fight the system. They have been known to leave quietly. They have their livelihood and professional reputation to consider. This is what happens when suburban government leaders, not under anyone’s jurisdiction, not under scrutiny,make a conscious decision (with a wink and a smile) to look away from local law. And they have untold power to do so. Are these actions to be accepted by the tax-paying public?

Local law should first and foremost be enforceable law — despite the “wish list” of certain developers. Let’s face it — single-minded developers and their complicit attorneys only want what they want. And what they want is for the outspoken, oppositional Zoom public or in-person public to disappear. Not long ago, a developer’s attorney demonstrated the ingenious strategic tactic of requiring advance online registration for a public meeting as a means of minimizing attendance and participation. Elected leaders who greenlight all proposed construction and new development – appropriate or inappropriate for the location – are selling out the community. The question is: Who will be left to protect your biggest investment – your single-family home — when all the truly decent, hard-working, ethical, government employees are gone? “Mysteriously retired” so to speak? Wake up Long Island. This is real and this is happening under the code words “revitalization and new development.” Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

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Taxes missing in column on federal deficit

important. When the Bush administration drove the economy into a ditch with a combination of repeated tax cuts, poor fiscal policy and banking deregulation, Barack Obama walked into the first days of his administration facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression. Amazingly, the Republicans then refused to go along with the borrowing he felt necessary to climb out of the crisis, wringing their hands about the deficit. Virtually every reputable economist agrees, in hindsight, that underfunding the recovery made the crisis last longer than necessary. To address the headline of Haber’s column: Can federal deficit spending go on forever? Probably not. But where was this column during the most recent tax cuts? The result of those tax cuts (even before the pandemic) was record-setting deficits — then, and projected into the future. Haber is right to worry about other unexpected disasters, and what they might do

dam Haber’s column regarding the coming federal budget deficits caused by the Biden Administration’s proposed budget addresses the legitimate worry as to how it’s going to be paid for, and he rightly shows that the math just doesn’t seem to work, given the history of deficits and interest rates. While Haber says that everyone loves government spending- I’d refine that to say the everyone loves government spending on what they think is best for them, in their district, and for what their personal priorities are for spending in this country — otherwise, not so much. What’s Haber is missing is … and the alternative is? Dick Cheney famously said in response to the mounting costs of the Iraq war — with oﬀ-budget accounting tricks — that deficits don’t matter. Of course, what he meant is that they don’t matter when you’re spending borrowed money on things that he thought were

to the ballooning deficits, but that doesn’t mean that the things Biden is proposing are unnecessary. In fact, much of it is desperately needed. Fresh oﬀ of the four years of a Republican presidency, and despite all the problems plaguing this country, while controlling all branches of government for the first two years, it’s revealing that their only piece of successful legislation was more tax cuts. That was the only thing that the Republicans could agree upon amongst themselves for two years. Trump talked about a grand infrastructure plan that would be revealed “in a few weeks”- for four years. All Republicans had to do was look at the price tag of all of that and you know where that conversation was going to go because they knew it would have to be paid for somehow (except of course for Mitch McConnell, who managed to corral hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure funds for Kentucky).

Is it any wonder that Joe Biden has embraced the crisis of Infrastructure repair with no less sense of alarm as the financial crisis that Obama walked into? And, politics being what it is, for the Democratic Party to try to bolt on social programs and loosely define them as part of the solution to the Infrastructure problem? Biden’s justification is that it will build a better, stronger, more competitive America. I have no idea whether his plan will result in increased tax revenues as a result of the investment, or if it will work out the way he says it will, but at least it sounds like a plan. Bill Clinton’s budgets raised taxes and balanced the budget by the end of his terms in oﬃce. Obama’s financial stewardship mostly succeeded despite Republican eﬀorts to sabotage it for eight years. Underfunding infrastructure will have the same result as underfunding the financial recovery- but missing this opportunity may mean that we may never climb out. This is a

bold response to a monumental problem. Republicans have, for years, been invited to bring their own legitimate plan (not a cynical replica thereof) to the table as a viable alternativeand they’re always saying that they’re working on it; that it’ll be revealed soon. It’s not politics to criticize the statement that the math doesn’t work. Alternative ideas are hard not just because their formulation requires deliberate thought, but because they will be subject to scrutiny themselves. But not providing a plan, or an alternative is a sure way to make sure that the Infrastructure problem will never be solved. This is the choice we face- a budget deficit, or an ever-expanding infrastructure deficit. It’s that simple, and the math of that is coming at us whether we’re ready with a plan or not. Marty Adickman Great Neck

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Have you done your plantings yet?

s I have been driving around the last few weeks I have noticed that there are those homeowners that have done some gorgeous plantings of annuals and other types of shrubbery and bushes. The color has lit up those properties to make them stand out above others on their block. However, I have seen so many others that have not done so, even some that have for sale signs. This doesn’t highlight and make the outside of those homes pop, so anyone doing a drive-by might not consider stopping by and just might pass by without considering the property. Many concentrate so much on the inside that they many times forget about the curb appeal that purchasers look for. As an example, a few years ago my son was looking for a vacation home out in the North Fork of Long Island and had passed by a home a few years ago and because the outside was not very appealing, he and his wife passed on it. Lo and behold a year plus later we saw the house again

when he told me he had seen it already. I asked him if he went in and he said no because they didn’t like the exterior. Isaid don’t judge a book by its cover, so we went in and they ended up purchasing. Many may not give a home a second look as my son did, due to the lack of curb appeal. It’s much to your advantage to always add spring/summer color to the landscape of your home, especially if you are selling or considering selling. The outside is as important as the inside and there are times that it could make or break a deal. Buyers will consider the extra dollars that they will have to spend to upgrade the property, no more than what they might have to do to the interior. Upgrading and sprucing up the property is surely much less than a kitchen or bathroom, right? Impatiens are the most popular annuals to plant. It is critical to know how much shade and/or sun will be in the area to be planted. Some annuals need more shade than sun and visa-versa with those that need much more exposure to the sun and

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

less shade. Some of my favorites are Variegated Periwinkle, Red flash Caladium, Giant Snowflake, Black-Eyed Susan, etc. Others I like are Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle Vine, Dahlias(Marble Ball and Pulp Fiction varieties), Roses of Sharon, BegoniasandMay Night Salvia, etc. There is such a huge choice in varieties, I would suggest that you go to a nursery either nearby or plan a day trip and go out to the growers on the North or South Fork to see varieties that you probably won’t experience at the large box garden centers. As far as shrubs and other

types of perennials, you can choose azaleas, although they have bloomed already, Rhododendrons, which are in bloom. American or Korean Dogwood trees are another flowering tree and they come in an assortment of colors. Plant shade trees where grass will not grow but keep far enough away from the foundation of your home so future damage will not occur. Look for deep-rooted trees without surface roots. Profusion Crabapple, Flowering Cherry, Japanese Maple are good examples.Cypress, Hemlock, or Thuja Green Giant Arborvitaes are excellent for screening and privacy. Whatever your decisions are to add or upgrade your landscape make sure you follow the planting directions especially when digging the holes and spacing theplantings for future growth, so in five years they do not crowd eachother out. Also important is to provide adequate amounts of water to your annuals as needed. Also, root feeding your trees and shrubs will go a long way in keeping them healthy and

growing taller and thicker each year. Also, do some periodical granular fertilization to your other plantings with either Osmocote smart release plant food or Miracle-Gro slow release.Remember you don’t get a second chance at a first impression. So light up that front yard and get out there this weekend and do some plantings. You don’t want those serious buyers to just do a driveby, but you want them to stop and revel in how beautiful you have maintained your property. Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave. Ste 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist. For a free 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email:Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in

Great Neck

59 Tanners Road, Great Neck

1 Rutland Road, Great Neck

3 bd, 3 ba, Sold On: 5/28/21, Sold Price: $1,230,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

4 bd, 4 ba, 2,650 sqft, Sold On: 3/31/21, Sold Price: $1,150,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

28 Jeffrey Lane, Great Neck

5 Paddock Lane, Great Neck

5 bd, 4 ba, Sold On: 5/3/21, Sold Price: $1,310,000, Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

6 bd, 6 ba, 5,300 sqft, Sold On: 4/20/21, Sold Price: $2,100,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based 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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MTA Chairman Foye to leave agency BY R O S E W E L D ON After more than four years as chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Patrick Foye of Sands Point will leave his positions to serve as interim president and CEO of the Empire State Development Corporation beginning July 30, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday. Foye will be succeeded in his role as board chairman by Sarah Feinberg, current interim president of New York City Transit and the first woman to serve in the position. In his role as CEO of the transit agency, he will be replaced by the current president of MTA Construction and Development, Janno Lieber. “Sarah, Janno and Pat are not only fiercely dedicated public servants, but proven leaders who kept the Metropolitan Region’s transportation network operating eﬃciently through the worst public health crisis in a generation, and thanks to their tireless eﬀorts, our essential workers were able to get to their destinations and help save lives,”Cuomo said in a statement. “Moreover, they oversaw and pushed through historic change and construction progress across the MTA, giving the system the upgrades that will better serve riders for generations. On behalf of all New Yorkers, I thank all

PHOTO BY ROBERT PELAEZ

Patrick Foye of Sands Point will leave his roles as chair and CEO of the MTA to lead the Empire State Development Corporation. three of them for their ongoing service and have full confidence they will continue to work their hearts out in their new roles.” Foye has served as chairman and CEO of the MTA for more than four years, overseeing North America’s largest transit agency and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.He also led

eﬀorts to stabilize the MTA’s finances by securing over $14 billion in critically needed funding from Congress, developing a national coalition of transportation agencies that secured more than $32 billion in emergency federal funds for transit agencies across the country.

Prior to joining the MTA, Foye led the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as executive director from November 2011 to August 2017 where he oversaw some of the nation’s most significant transactions, including the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport and the building of a new Goethals Bridge as well as the development and adoption of the agency’s 10-year, $32.2 billion capital plan. Foye also served as deputy secretary for Economic Development for Cuomo, and vice chair and board member of the Long Island Power Authority, following a career in law and real estate as a Mergers & Acquisition partner at Skadden Arps and executive vice president of AIMCO, a leading multi-family REIT. Steven M. Cohen currently chairs Empire State Development and welcomed Foye in a statement. “Throughout the COVID crisis, the incredible team of public servants at Empire State Development led by Eric Gertler was at the forefront, making sure hospitals and first responders across New York had the resources they needed to serve the people and making sure the economy of the state weathered the unprecedented storm,” Cohen said. “As New York makes its comeback, under Eric’s guidance

we have started seeking out the opportunities that will jumpstart regional economies and to reimagine how best to invest in New York’s future. We anticipate and welcome incoming Interim President Pat Foye into our ESD family. Pat is a tested leader who guided the MTA through its reform and through the worst days of the pandemic.”Foye issued a statement on the role of the MTA in the pandemic. “I am proud of the way the MTA prepared for and responded to the pandemic, and the way our heroic employees — heroes moving heroes — carried first responders and essential workers to the front lines to do their jobs,” Foye said. “I am also proud and grateful for the extraordinary amount of federal COVID funding we advocated for and received to support a stronger MTA, building on the fiscal efficiencies we implemented and the successful approval of Central Business District Tolling. I know the strong gains we have made will continue under Sarah and Janno’s watch. I look forward to serving as interim president and CEO of Empire State Development and working with Chairman Steve Cohen to continue innovating in support of New York’s post-pandemic economic recovery.”

Singas named to state’s top court Fairs a go BY R O S E W E L D ON Following hearings early this week, former Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas has been confirmed by the state Senate to the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. Singas, a Manhasset resident, will fill a vacancy left by Judge Leslie Stein, who retired last week, and will take a 14-year term on the court. She will be succeeded by Joyce Smith, a longtime Nassau County assistant district attorney and special victims prosecutor, who will become the county’s first black DA. Singas’ confirmation came after a longer-than-expected 90 minutes of questioning in the Senate Tuesday and was preceded by a joint statement from five progressive Democratic senators who objected to her status as the latest prosecutor nominated to the court, which is largely led by former prosecutors. “The minute I am confirmed, my prosecutor’s hat comes oﬀ and stays oﬀ,” Singas said in response to their questions. Following questioning, the senate

PHOTO COURTESY OF MADELINE SINGAS

Former Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, a resident of Manhasset, has officially been approved to serve on the New York State Court of Appeals.

voted 37-26 to install Singas. A native of Astoria, Queens, and the daughter of Greek immigrants, Singas obtained a B.A. in political science from Barnard College at Columbia University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School before serving as an assistant district attorney in Queens from 1991 to 2006 in multiple roles. She later served as the chief assistant district attorney of Nassau County and head of its first Special Victims Bureau before being appointed to succeed now-U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City). She was elected in 2015 and was re-elected in 2019. Smith of Hempstead is the executive assistant DA for the Nassau DA’s Community Relations Division. Smith is scheduled to be sworn into her position as acting district attorney by Singas on Wednesday afternoon, with the position eﬀective immediately. Since Singas left oﬃce over 90 days before the next general election, the state will hold a special election to replace her, the date and candidates have not yet been annoucned.

Continued from Page 12 “putting the tables out, handing out things and welcoming everybody back to the community.” Mineola has not yet decided on whether to let carnival rides operate but will follow health guidance in the weeks leading up to the fair. New Hyde Park Mayor Christopher Devane hopes his village’s fair is an indication of future events that recapture the vitality of the community. He was able to announce the fair shortly after the governor’s decision to adopt the federal government’s relaxed mask-wearing guidance in mid-May. “I hope people come and enjoy the day and hope this is the first of many events that we can re-engage and come together as a community to enjoy each other’s company,” Devane said in an earlier interview with Blank Slate Media. “We just want people to know that we’re open again.” Additional reporting contributed by Robert Pelaez.

The Great Neck News, Friday, June 11, 2021

On the street where Falconer Florist lives Continued from Page 19 the Town of North Hempstead and the Port Washington Fire Department, of which Fred Falconer and his father were longtime members. In brief comments to the gathered audience, the owner thanked the community and his shop’s employees.

“Today, to have the street named in honor of my family is very special for myself and for my family,” Fred Falconer said. “I know my grandfather and father are looking down and are very, very proud of their legacy and this great honor.” The morning’s events concluded with a program by members of the Red

Stocking Revue, a fundraiser which Fred Falconer had supported for many years. Members of the troupe performed their version of “Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Back Seat)” by Paul Evans, and a parody of the title song from the musical “Little Shop of Horrors,” with lyrics touting S.F. Falconer’s products and services.

After the ceremony and posing for pictures with Dalimonte, Suozzi and other elected oﬃcials, the most senior Falconer and his son changed from summer blazers into their signature green polos, ready to head back to work at the shop. “Time to get back to business,” Falconer said with a smile.

Birnbaum, Kirsch tout need for fairness in court Continued from Page 1 Kirsch said his first job out of school as an attorney was working at the Bronx District Attorney’s Oﬃce, where he served as an assistant to former D,A, Robert Johnson. Kirsch handled crimes ranging from narcotics to violent felonies. “We sort of ran the gamut there because I was there for quite some time as a prosecutor,” Kirsch said in a phone interview with Blank Slate Media. Running the gamut is nothing new to Birnbaum either. He graduated from Hofstra University’s law school in 1977 and has practiced law in Great Neck for nearly two decades, focusing on commercial business and real estate cases. Birnbaum was appointed to a commissioner position on the Great Neck Senior Housing Authority 30 years ago. He said his roles included interacting with oﬃcials on the local and federal levels, advocating for residents’ needs and maintaining fiscal responsibility in this position. Birnbaum then transitioned into a spot on the Village of Great Neck’s Zoning Board for a number of years, eventually serving as chairman of the committee. In 2002, Birnbaum ran a successful campaign for a trustee position on the village’s Board of Trustees, where he would continue to serve until 2012. In the early stages of his trustee tenure, Birnbaum was appointed the liaison for the Nassau County Police

Department, the village’s public safety commissioner and the Great Neck police commissioner. In 2013, Birnbaum shifted roles once again when he was elected as village justice, then re-elected again in 2017. In a phone interview with Blank Slate Media, Birnbaum, who is running on the Good Neighbor party line, said the role he serves in the village means too great a deal to him to simply not run again. “I have too much affection for the village to just walk away,” Birnbaum said. “Just because somebody filed [a challenging] petition doesn’t mean I should.” Birnbaum said his days in the courtroom consist mainly of traffic, parking, moving and direct village code violations. Kirsch, despite having less experience in village government than Birnbaum, said the justice’s routine offenses are well within his realm of expertise. “I’ve been dealing with this every day for 15 years,” Kirsch said. “I have dealt with both sides of the aisle as a prosecutor and I’ve dealt with it as a defense attorney. I feel that my qualifications spea for themselves.” Birnbaum spoke about some of the other aspects that he believes a village justice should incorporate into their tenure. Over the past eight years, he said he has reduced waste and expenditures throughout the court by more than 25 percent, touting the importance of having an ef-

PHOTOS COURTESY OF BOTH CANDIDATES

Village of Great Neck Village Justice Mark Birnbaum (left) is running for another four-year term against challenger David Kirsch (right). ficient and fiscally responsible court system. Birnbaum also said he takes pride in reducing some of the stress the traditional courtroom experience creates for offenders.k“Going to court is a stressful situation for anybody,” Birnbaum said. “Even to me, as an attorney, there’s still a little bit of stress when you go before a judge and you’re approaching the bench. And I feel very strongly that people need to be as comfortable as possible during their time in the village court.” The more youthful offenders, Birnbaum said, are typically present in court with a parent for some traffic or moving violation. He said these situations are a way to apply fair sentences that he believes instill a sense of reasonable accountability for a younger offender. Kirsch also touted the need

to have the courtroom be a fair and impartial an experience for every party involved. Working as both a prosecuting and defense attorney, he said, the need for a fair trial is a paramount concern for him if elected. “I would hope that everybody that comes before me and I know everyone that comes before me would be treated fairly and impartially, irrespective of their background,” Kirsch said. “I definitely value the concept of being fair and impartial in a courtroom.” Both Birnbaum and Kirsch have worked with various groups and organizations throughout the community, and both cited their desire to continue serving the village as reasons for running. Kirsch said he has served as the vice president of security for Young Israel of Great Neck

for the past several years, along with being a member of the synagogue’s Executive Board. Serving in those positions, he said, involved trying to secure federal grant packages to help make the building more secure. Kirsch said he went on to expand his efforts to various other houses of worship to partake in securing those grants as well. “I pretty much have a coalition of many [houses of worship] that have joined me and we meet with local, state, and federal representatives monthly for the purpose of making our places more secure,” Kirsch said. Birnbaum said he is an active member of Temple Israel, serving in a variety of positions in the synagogue over the years, including as president of the Couples Club, chairman of the Catering Committee, a trustee, vice president, and first vice president on the board. He has also volunteered his services as general counsel to the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce for more than 15 years. “It has been an honor to serve the people of the Village of Great Neck for over 30 years and, given the opportunity, to continue to serve for another four years as the Village Justice,” Birnbaum said. The village justice race is the lone contested election in the village and the winner will serve a four-year term. Voters can cast their ballot at the Village Hall on 61 Baker Hill Road from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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fearing for her long-term health. She and her daughter said they fear the attacker, who remains at-large nearly three months after the attack, will not be caught. “It’s two months down the

line and she cannot eat, and it keeps getting worse and worse and she lost like 30-something pounds,” Mohammed told CBS. “She has to suﬀer like this and this person is looking at her laughing that I did this to you and they didn’t catch me yet. That’s ridiculous.”

Continued from Page 8 street-sweeping, trash-hauling and other businesses, including Aero Snow Removal, which serves airports and commercial sites across the country. Dejana Industries and Aero are now part of Outworx Group, which rebranded under its current name in April 2020, a little more than two years after Manhattan-based private equity firm

Mill Point Capital took a stake in Dejana’s business. A Dejana spokeswoman told Blank Slate Media in January 2018 that Dejana had sold his eponymous company. But a December 2017 press release announcing the deal with Mill Point said Dejana would “retain a significant ownership stake” in the business.

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‘Legendary’ camp returns Continued from Page 20 “If you have a bad attitude when you’re 10 or 11 or 12, it’s not going to help you when you get to be an adult,” Alfieri said. “With discipline you can accomplish any goals.” Alfieri compares the curriculum of summer sports camps by considering the quality of teaching and transparency presented to parents. His program “encourages” anyone to view practices unannounced. “A lot of times camps will not let parents come in and watch them coach,” Alfieri said. “To me that’s telling a parent that they’re hiding something, they don’t trust the quality of their camp.” Alfieri drew a comparison between coaching and working in education, noting how oversight aﬀects the behavior of his staﬀ. “A lot of teachers would get very concerned when the department head comes in and watches the teacher teach,” Alfieri said. “To me when parents come on the grounds and they watch us teach, they make the camp better because the coaches are going to work just a little harder.” In addition to having parents come and watch, Alfieri has a hiring process to bring coaches from a wide range of perspectives, but with an equal passion. For the past 40 years, he’s brought every hired coach to sit in his living room to talk for over an hour in search of a set of characteristics. “Enthusiasm and the other is willingness to learn — if you have those two qualities you can be a good coach at a camp,” Alfieri said. Alfieri said he understands how others may think he’s “the best thing since sliced bread.” “But you know what? I back it up,” he said. “Everything I said we do, and if you don’t believe me come to my camp unannounced.” “I’m very fortunate god gave me an opportunity do to things that I like,” Alfieri said. “And I’m doing them at a pretty vintage age.” “I enjoy what I’m doing, so I’m going to keep doing it until they carry me out.” Blank Slate Media welcomes your submissions. Please e-mail them to news@theislandnow.com

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Diversity of the Nassau police Continued from Page 7 “I think as a result of those words, they did hurt a lot of people,” First Baptist Cathedral of Westbury Bishop Lionel Harvey said about Ryder’s comments. “And I think he knows that and I think he realizes it now and I think that he’ll be better for it.” The 10 members of the newly established committee include Harvey, who will chair the committee, Urban League of Long Island President The-

resa Sanders, Nassau County Community College President Jermaine Williams, Westbury NAACP President Leslie Davis, Hempstead Hispanic Civic Association Executive Director George Siberón, Asian American Affairs and Indian American Association Council member Jay Singh, Toufique Harun of Muslims for Progress, Gabriela Castillo of the county’s Oﬃce of Legislative Aﬀairs, Nassau County Civil Service Executive Director Martha Krisel, and Nassau County Po-

lice Department Community Aﬀairs member Oﬃcer Shajarah Williams. “This is a great opportunity for the county to take a concentrated look at the hiring practices of the Nassau County Police Department,” Harvey said. “I am committed and proud to take a leadership role in helping shape the diversity of our police in all aspects, including recruitment, training, testing and the all-important mentorship of young recruits of color.”

Immigrant bill passes Legislature Continued from Page 20 their home country, being reported to ICE can be a death sentence. Yet sadly, far too many people are willing to take advantage of our more vulnerable neighbors by threatening to reveal their immigration status in order to exploit them in some way.” She went on to say, “By passing this long-overdue measure, we’re updating the laws on extortion and coercion to ensure that immigrant New York-

ers aren’t left vulnerable to such vile threats.” Extortion and coercion involve compelling a person to turn over property, or to engage, or refrain from engaging, in other conduct by intimidation, including threatening to cause criminal charges to be instituted against them. The legislation amends the Penal Law definitions of “extortion” and “coercion” to also include making threats for such purposes as to cause deporta-

tion proceedings to be brought against an individual, thereby making it a criminal oﬀense to coerce or extort an individual through threats of deportation. The bill passed the state Senate by a vote of 48-14, following passage in the state Assembly where it succeeded by a vote of 106-41. It will now be sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for consideration and should he sign the bill into law, it will take eﬀect 30 days after enactment.

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Helpful tips to navigate exams School is almost out, but before students hit the finish line, there is one more hurdle: final exams. In a year where many navigated remote learning, preparing for finals can seem particularly challenging. But Dr. Michael Green, associate medical director of Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care offers these helpful tips to navigate through examinations with ease. “COVID-19 and online learning have required additional focus from students this past year. As they wrap up the school year and invest in their studies, they will also find that putting time in their wellness will present great payoffs,” said Dr. Green. “Commit to your education, but most importantly, commit to your wellbeing.” A well-balanced diet, full-night’s sleep, regular exercise, nature walks and screen breaks provide valuable resets nearing the end of the semester. When fatigued and stressed, the human immune system may suffer. For students feeling under the weather, it is recommended to contact a healthcare provider. The best part is, now, with the same technology that enables remote learning, students can connect with healthcare providers virtually. Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care treats patients anywhere in New York State with Virtual Visits

so students can receive care without leaving their campus or homes. “Finals week can take its toll on students who may get rundown in the process. A Northwell HealthGoHealth Urgent Care provider can diagnose and treat ailments when needed most — virtually,” said Green. In addition to their physical health, it’s equally important for students to pay attention to their mental health during finals. Student resource centers can provide fun, stress-relieving events that run concurrently with finals week and provide a respite

from the stress of studying. “Keep perspective. Finals week is short-lived, and with the right strategy, students can put their best foot forward,” said Green. Most Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care centers are open extended hours from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on weekends for in-person and Virtual Visit patients. New Yorkers can Save a Spot through the center’s online reservation service, or schedule a Virtual Visit. For more information, visit gohealthuc.com/ny.

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Town joins fight against Asian hate Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, the Town Board and North Hempstead’s Asian American Advisory Committee have announced that the town will be distributing free “Not In Our Town” lawn signs for residents in North Hempstead. The signs will be available at facilities across the Town. “With input from our residents, we put a new spin on North Hempstead’s ‘Not In Our Town’ initiative by creating signs that feature a message of unity in diﬀerent languages,” said Bosworth. “We believe that these lawn signs are a small way to bring everyone together and show that we can join to stop hate together. North Hempstead is an extremely diverse and welcoming community, and we are proud to celebrate all that makes us unique and special.” The town joined with its Asian American Advisory Committee to develop the signs. They were designed to help increase the dialogue with the community in an effort to promote kindness and compassion. The lawn signs feature the “Not In Our Town” ini-

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Residents of three Great Neck villages will go to the polls on June 15. a representative to the Manhasset Bay Protection Committee. Hope, a property manager at Park Row South Realty, has served on the board since 2017. Hope has been a coach, trustee and soccer commissioner at Great Neck PAL for more than 10 years. He is also the former president of the Brotherhood of Temple Beth El, where the group undertook various community initiatives that raised money for groups, including the St. Aloysius food pantry. All of the trustee positions are two-year terms. Voters can cast their ballot at the Village Hall located at 61 Baker Hill Road from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. In the Village of Lake Success, Trustees Lawrence Farkas and Gene Kaplan are running unopposed in their quest for another two-year term on the board. Marian Lee, who has served on the village’s Planning Board and Parks & Recreation Board, is running unopposed for a spot previously held by David Milner, whom Lee beat in the village’s primary election earlier. Voters can cast their ballots at the Community Building located at 318 Lakeville Road from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. In the Village of Kings Point, incumbent Trustees Hooshang Nematzadeh, Kouros Torkan and Ira S. Nesenoﬀ are running unopposed for re-election. Village Justice Randa Maher is also running unopposed for another four-year term. Voters can cast their ballots at Village Hall located at 32 Steppingstone Lane from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Masked in confusion Continued from Page 3 ran initially touted the decision by state oﬃcials on Friday to leave districts in charge of whether or not masks will be enforced indoors, but later said the state’s communications had caused problems. “The conflicting messages coming from the state regarding masks in schools are causing confusion for school oﬃcials and parents,” Curran, a Democrat, said in a statement Sunday. “This decision must be put in the hands of the educators and parents who know their children and particular circumstances best.” Cuomo announced this week that “most” of the remaining restrictions will be lifted throughout the state once a minimum of 70 percent of New Yorkers have

received at least one vaccination dose. “With numbers trending at record lows, it is clear that the vaccine is eﬀective and that it is an invaluable tool against the virus,” he said. “While we have come so far it is still imperative that those who have not received the vaccine do so, so that they may enjoy the state’s reimagined reopening to the fullest extent possible.” As of Wednesday, nearly 69 percent of New Yorkers had received at least one inoculation. In Nassau County, more than 849,000 residents had received at least one vaccination, with more than 743,000 completing their full series as of Wednesday, according to state figures.

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Happening at the Great Neck Library Online Programs are held live on Zoom unless specified. Open to all. No Zoom account required. You may join Zoom events by going to join.zoom.us, and enter the program’s Meeting ID and Password. You can also dial in at 1 (646) 558-8656 or find your local number at zoom.us/zoomconference. Some events have links you can click on in the Library’s event listings at greatnecklibrary.org. For certain events that require registration, any further meeting info will be released by the date of the event for registered users. Check your email before the event. Library phone: (516) 466-8055. Saturday, June 12 8:00 — 9:30 p.m.Improv Live! Teens in grades 7+. Play crazy live theatre games on Zoom.bweil@greatnecklibrary.org 9:30 — 11:00 p.m. Jackbox Games. Play fun games. mmeehan@greatnecklibrary.org Sunday, June 13 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Paper Shredding at the Great Neck Library Main Parking Lot. All shredding is on site while you wait. Paper only (Personal papers, old tax returns, bank statements, documents, mail, etc.) 4 box limit per car. DO NOT BRING newspapers, magazines, binders, flammable items, plastic or metal items. They will not be accepted. Monday, June 14 4:30 — 5:30 p.m. Manga Drawing Workshop. Teens in grades 7+. Grab your art materials and learn how to draw manga characters. lsweeney@greatnecklibrary.org 6:00 — 7:30 p.m. Career Development Series — Boosting Your Career with a Winning Resume facilitated by Nakita Vanstory. Strategies and methods behind creating a winning resume. Learn fundamentals and avoid common pitfalls. July 12 — Crafting Your Cover Letter. August 9 — Understand and Perfect the Interview. Meeting ID: 974 4000 6497 Passcode: 161226 7:00 — 8:00 p.m. Junicorn Arts & Crafts Workshop. Teens in grades 7+. Create your own unicorn. lsweeney@greatnecklibrary.org

7:00 — 8:30 p.m. Courageous Parenting Workshop for Parents of Teens. Join Certified Parenting Coach, Caryn Azemoun, as you reclaim the joy in parenting. Share parenting tools, participate in experiential activities and work together to achieve your goals. cgreenblatt@greatnecklibrary.org Tuesday, June 15 9:30 — 10:30 a.m. Yoga Flow facilitated by Carolyn Carpentiere. Learn yoga postures, breathing practices and meditation techniques to bring balance, equilibrium and good health to your body and mind. Meeting ID: 940 6593 0214 Passcode: 133212 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. History of Exploitation Film in American Culture with Keith Crocker. Defined as intended to attract an audience by means of its sensationalist or controversial content. Although they featured lurid subject matter, exploitation films of the 1920s, 30s and 40s evaded the strict censorship and scrutiny of the era by claiming to be educational. Note: This program is intended for adult audiences only. Meeting ID: 968 2882 6116 Passcode: 079761 2:00 — 3:00 p.m. Managing Depression During a Worldwide Pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has exasperated existing mental health challenges for many, with isolation, loneliness, inactivity, fear, and hopelessness becoming all too familiar. Obtain valuable knowledge, insight, and most importantly, foster hope that there is a way out of depression for yourself and/or those you care about. Meeting ID: 937 2968 7981 Passcode: 514799 7:00 — 8:30 p.m. Journey to True Self: Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group. Join us for Part 2 of the book discussion of Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar Ph.D. Led by Librarian Mimi Rabizadeh. Meeting ID: 931 7876 5275 Passcode: 587935 mrabizadeh@greatnecklibrary. org Wednesday, June 16 11:00 AM – 12:00 p.m. Juneteenth —

History to the Present with Dr. Claude Mongum. Focus on the history and significance of Juneteenth and the various ways in which it is celebrated throughout the country. Meeting ID: 930 0822 9152 Passcode: 377232 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Jazz and Sketch Night. Teens in grades 7+. Two Jazz musicians are overviewed. Listen to jazz, pick a “jazzy” piece of your own, and sketch ideas/scenes to it (using colored pencils.) 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Audit Committee Meeting via Zoom. Meeting ID: 975 1551 2002 Passcode: 966140 Dial In — 1 929 205 6099 7:00 — 8:00 p.m. Policy and Bylaws Committee Meeting at the Main Library. Held in person at the Main Library, 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, 11023 in the Large Multipurpose Room, 34. 7:00 — 8:30 p.m. Writer Within facilitated by Lynda Aron. Email wrtrwthn@yahoo. com for Zoom room. Access your authentic voice and explore the power of imagination, self-expression and storytelling. New writers, professionals and everyone in between are welcome. Sharing is encouraged but not required. Thursday, June 17 2:00 — 3:00 p.m. Brain Fitness. Join the Long Island Alzheimer’s and Dementia Center’s Justin Bayoneto in this fun and engaging brain fitness program. Series includes brain games, word and memory recall, trivia, and other forms of cognitive stimulation, to help promote a healthy brain and body. Meeting ID: 954 6335 9719 Passcode: 855282 2:00 — 3:30 p.m. Philip Guston — Lecture with Thomas Germano. Remote visual lecture on the art, life and times of Philip Guston, one of America’s great modern painters, a WPA muralist, leading figurative artist of the 1930’s and 40’s. He created prescient works that continue to haunt our uneasiness and unresolved American history. Meeting ID: 992 0657 5323 Passcode: 630730

4:30 — 5:30 p.m. Manga Drawing Workshop. Teens in grades 7+. Grab your art materials and learn how to draw manga characters. lsweeney@greatnecklibrary.org 6:30 — 7:30 p.m. Yoga Flow facilitated by Sharon Epstein. Learn yoga postures, breathing practices and meditation techniques to bring balance, equilibrium and good health to your body and mind. Meeting ID: 956 9380 0407 Passcode: 998134 Friday, June 18 10:00 — 11:00 a.m. Learn to Use Instagram. Adults, Parents, Seniors. Learn the basics of Instagram, a free app and website that lets you share photos. How to create an account, how to make posts, how to view content. Meeting ID: 960 0586 4033 Passcode: Instagram STEMLab@greatnecklibrary.org 12:00 — 1:00 p.m. Friday Film Discussion. Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort (2012) 1 hr., 12 min., Documentary, History. Kutsher’s Country Club is the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher’s has been family-owned and operated for over 100 years. The Last Resort (2018) 1 hr., 10 min., Documentary, History. An uncannily revealing portrait of American photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe and the vibrant community of Jewish retirees they obsessively focused their camera’s lens on in the sunburned paradise of 1970s Miami Beach. Watch Welcome to Kutsher’s and/or The Last Resort at your leisure. Join the media staﬀ and fellow patrons in a Zoom discussion of the film. Both are streaming free with your Great Neck Library card on Kanopy, and The Last Resort with a subscription on Netflix. Meeting ID: 992 1795 4993 Passcode: films cdipietro@greatnecklibrary.org 8:00 — 9:30 p.m. Jeopardy Live! Teens in grades 7+. Show oﬀ your knowledge in all kinds of subjects, and answer in the form of a question. bweil@greatnecklibrary.org

Great Neck Troop 10 does a good turn for vets BY M I C H A E L R OW L ES This Memorial Day weekend I had the privilege of watching youth from Great Neck’s local Scouts BSA unit, Troop 10, return to AllSaints Church to honor the veterans laid to rest on the church’s ground. Scouts endeavored to clean up each grave marker and place a new 50-state American flag, replacing any stained or worn flags present. The Memorial Day Good Turn tradition is one of the oldest and largest ongoing service projects the Boy Scouts of America conducts. The tradition has endured for more than seven decades pausing only in times of caution such as during the height of last year’s COVID-19. “Our Scouts learn the importance of duty to country and of honoring the people who served it through the values outlined in the Scout Oath and Law,” said Boy Scouts of America Chief Scout Executive Roger Mosby, a U.S. Navy veteran. “It is our privilege to show our gratitude to fallen service members who otherwise may not receive the attention they deserve during this trying time for our country.” Representing area leadership, Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum and American Legion Post 160 Commander Louise McCann were in attendance. “I profoundly ap-

preciate the eﬀorts of our local Scouts who participate in this annual meaningful ceremony, and am thankful for their commitment to honoring our hometown heroes by placing flags at their gravesides,” said Birnbaum. During the event, vivid storytelling was used to pay homage to some of the well-known veterans resting on the grounds. When asked what his greatest takeaway from participating in the event Don Panetta, one of the troop’s Scouter’s, said, “Every year somebody I don’t know places a flag on my father’s grave marker. It feels good doing something for someone I don’t know. It’s my way of saying thanks to that person.” Using BSA’s four-step EDGE method to educate attendees on proper flag placement and care, experienced Scouters Explained the steps involved with gravesite and flag etiquette. These steps were then Demonstrated to the Scouts who were then Guided to properly do it themselves. Finally, the Scouts’ development was completed by Enabling them to go about the business of honoring the resting veterans by themselves. Regarding the windy, cold, and rainy event Senior Patrol Leader Thomas Lo described how “All scouts showed astounding resilience during the flag placement and one of the major phras-

es that was said that day was, “What would the soldiers do in the bad weather? They would tough it out rain or shine.”” Thomas became the senior Scout in the unit in 2020 through a youth election process where Scouts chose their leaders. “It was an honor to be the Senior Scout in charge. We devised an organized plan in advance that led to a successful flag placing ceremony despite the rainy weather. It felt rewarding knowing that the scouts all gained something valuable from this experience. As an adult Scouter, Kings Point professor and US Navy veteran myself, I was asked to take part by educating the Scouts on the significance of various adornments at gravesites including the popular placement of coins and rocks on markers. After three decades in uniform performing the duties these young men are honoring, I am warmed by the knowledge that this generation will remember my brothers-in-arms when we commit to our eternal rest. These Scouts become empowered with the knowledge and experience they gain from doing these service projects and the Scouting Movement as a whole. Later this year all recovered flags will respectfully accompany the troop on their annual

summer pilgrimage held upstate at Onteora Scout Reservation in Livingston Manor. There, during an evening program, the flags will be ceremoniously retired in the camp’s fire bowl. The flag decommissioning will be recorded for posterity. This and images of Troop 10’s Memorial Day gravesite flag rehabilitation will be posted online to the unit’s website. To view these memories and learn more about the flag code and care, please visit this website, www. troop10greatneck.org. Troop 10 meets at the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department on 25 Prospect Street on Mondays at 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm on school days. If you are interested in joining Troop 10, please contact Dr. Dwight J Rosenstein at djrosenstein@gmail.com.

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The Great Neck News, Friday, June 11, 2021

COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Happening at the Great Neck School District North High students honored as finalists for Roger Rees Awards Two North High School students have been honored by The Broadway Education Alliance as finalists for the first annual New Faces Award, part of the Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance. Senior Ashley Schlusselberg and sophomore Maverick Williams were nominated by their school and advanced as finalists in the vocal performance category of the competition. Ashley and Maverick are both active in vocal music programs and theatre productions at North High. Each nominee submitted a three-minute vocal performance audition video that was reviewed by a panel of professional Broadway casting directors, and a total of 24 high school students from the Greater New York area were announced as finalists. Finalists were invited to participate in virtual pre-award program activities in May, including coaching sessions and panel discussions with professionals from various areas of the performing arts industry. The New Faces Award is a new program that recognizes excellence in solo student performance in vocal, acting, and/or dance performance. The Broadway Education Alliance, presenter of the Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance, is a non-profit organization that supports theatre arts education and enrichment programs. NCTE Promising Young Writers Six eighth graders from North Middle and South Middle schools have been honored in the 2021 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Promising Young Writers program. Certificates of Recognition were awarded to Aybriel Schnatz, Kattie Huang, and Jacob Levine at North Middle; and Adreen Hossain and Laura Zhang at South Middle. Only nine students in New York State

earned this honor. Additionally, a Certificate of Participation was presented to Evelyn Won at South Middle. Each student submitted two pieces of writing—best and themed—that were evaluated by national judges. Papers were judged on content, purpose, audience, tone, word choice, organization, development, and style. Students worked with their English teachers and department heads to review and prepare their submissions. Their English teachers are Daniel Del Ferraro and Joseph O’Connor at North Middle, and Kristin Klein and Joanne Kostopoulos at South Middle. English department heads are Dr. Theresa Walter at North Middle and Gabe Carras at South Middle. The Promising Young Writers Competition is a premiere creative writing contest that emphasizes the importance of writing skills and recognizes the talents of eighthgrade students across the country. North High artist featured in county display Ava Muntner, a sophomore at North High School, is one of 35 students across Nassau County whose artwork was selected for display as part of the Nassau County Youth CouncilMental Health Awareness Month Arts Contest. The Youth Council conducted this art contest in recognition of the mental health challenges youth face, particularly during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic years. Student artwork was on display at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola for a culminating ceremony on May 28. Baker fifth-graders plant Legacy Garden The entrance at E.M. Baker School features a new 3D-printed Legacy Garden, designed and “planted” by the Baker Class of 2021. Fifth-grade students worked collaboratively to create flowers with embedded

messages to inspire student growth at Baker. The flowers were printed in the school’s technology lab with assistance from Lisa Malfi, technology staﬀ developer, and Nicholas Letterel, technology teaching assistant GNPS/TV June programs Current programming on Great Neck Public Schools Television (GNPS/TV) includes recent musical productions and cultural celebrations from North High School and South High School. GNPS/TV programs are available on demand, 24/7, on the school district website at www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/tv. Programs can also be viewed in the incorporated villages of Great Neck on Optimum Channel 75 and on Verizon Fios Channel 32. Airing times in program descriptions below are for Optimum and Verizon viewing. South High Musical, A Chorus Line: High School Edition Tune in to GNPS/TV to watch behindthe-scenes footage and highlights from South High’s musical production, A Chorus Line: High School Edition. This virtual musical performance was a mammoth collaboration between Theatre South and GNPS/ TV.Each cast member recorded their own part for each song and scene from September 2020 through January 2021, and the video footage was edited together to present a cohesive virtual production that was presented to an online audience in April. A Chorus Line: High School Edition airs at 8 a.m., 1 and 6 p.m. North High International Night International Night is an annual event sponsored by the North High Multicultural Club that celebrates the diverse cultures of the school community. This year’s event was presented as a recorded video hosted by the Multicultural Club co-presidents, featuring music performances, dances, and cooking demonstrations by individual students and various school clubs. As part of the virtual

Juneteenth: From the start to the present Join us for a program about Juneteenth, its history to the present, presented by Martin H. Levinson online via Zoom, a Great Neck Library program on Wednesday, June 16, at 11:00 a.m. Meeting ID: 930 0822 9152 Passcode: 377232 Juneteenth (June 19) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. This presentation will focus on the history and significance of Juneteenth and the various ways in which it is celebrated throughout the country. Martin H. Levinson has written and lectured extensively on topics of historical interest. He holds a PhD from NYU.

celebration, the Multicultural Club also collected recipes and compiled a digital cookbook of international dishes that was shared with faculty and students. North High International Night airs 9 a.m., 2 and 7 p.m. North High Musical, The Pirates of Penzance This spring, the North High Junior Players presented a virtual performance of ThePiratesofPenzance, a comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. The musical production was rehearsed and recorded over Zoom, and the students’ individual performances were edited together for an online audience. Tune in to GNPS/TV to enjoy the full-length presentation of this musical production. The Pirates of Penzance airs at 10 a.m., 3 and 8 p.m. South High Cultural Heritage Celebration South High’s annualCultural Heritage Celebrationwas presented as a virtual event organized by the school’sInternational Club. The program features informative and entertaining presentations by students representing the Asian Culture Club, Hebrew Culture Club, and South Asian Culture Club. Performances include the Chinese Lion Dance, Chinese Ribbon Dance, Chinese YoYo, Korean Fan, Korean Drums, Korean Techno, J-Dance, Martial Arts, and more. South High Cultural Heritage Celebration airs at 11:30, 4:30 and 9:30 p.m. GNPS/TV Programming GNPS/TV programming reflects the offerings of the Great Neck Public Schools and the achievements of its students and staﬀ. Programs are student-produced. For further information, please contact Robert Zahn, director of educational television and broadcast media, by e-mail at rzahn@greatneck.k12.ny.us, and by phone at (516) 441-4676.

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