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IDA postpones vote on Middle Neck Rd. plan

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Cites need to address community concerns, discuss with developer BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Plans for a four-story mixeduse apartment project in Great Neck could be approved by the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency’s Board of Directors on March 31, oﬃcials said. The IDA’s agenda for last Thursday night’s meeting listed the project, developed by Gesher Center LLC, as subject for an approval resolution for its plans and proposed tax breaks. IDA Chairman Richard Kessel, during the meeting, said the board decided to table the resolution so that discussions could be held between the client and the village stakeholders. “I know that there are a lot of people in the village and throughout the Great Neck peninsula who are interested in the project,” Kessel said. Kessel said it is the board’s intention to address the application

during the March 31 meeting. The amount of the tax breaks was not clear. The project is a proposed four-story, mixed-use building at 733-41 Middle Neck Road in the Village of Great Neck that would stand 44 feet high and contain 60 homes – including 56 two-bedroom apartments and four onebedroom apartments – along with 93 below-grade parking spaces, a recreation center and a public art gallery. Five buildings riddled with chipped and faded paint currently occupy the space. In December 2019, the project started out as a 25-unit complex with 12 incentives later granted by the Board of Trustees in February 2020. Village oﬃcials later said that the original proposal was withdrawn by the developer, and plans for the 60-unit complex were taken directly to the village’s Board of Continued on Page 34

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The Parkville School had a crazy hat day to celebrate National Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2.

Plaza’s mayoral race headlines G.N. elections BY R OB E RT PELAEZ The Village of Great Neck Plaza’s mayoral race headlines the peninsula’s slate of elections that will take place on

Tuesday. Plaza Mayor Ted Rosen and the United Residents Party are running for re-election against mayoral challenger Leonard Katz and the Revive Great Neck Plaza Party.

Rosen, a practicing lawyer, was first appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1985 and served as the village’s deputy mayor before defeating Katz in the 2020 election. Rosen is Continued on Page 33

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G.N. doc pleads guilty N. Shore residents to $3M Medicare fraud aiding Ukrainians Morris Barnard billed for procedures never done Organizing drives to provide resources BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

A doctor practicing in Great Neck who was charged with billing Medicare for millions of dollars worth of procedures that were never conducted pleaded guilty to health care fraud in federal court on Monday, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York. Morris Barnard, 58, allegedly submitted billings for gastroenterological and colonoscopy procedures that were not performed to Medicare from October 2015 to February 2020, officials said. The total cost of the billings exceeded $3 million, of which Medicare reimbursed approximately $1.4 million worth of fraudulent claims, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office. Officials said a majority of the billings claimed that the procedures were rendered to individuals with various disabilities living in residential group homes. The guilty plea was announced by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District, Breon Peace, Special Agent-in-Charge of Health & Human Services Scott Lampert and FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael Driscoll. “With today’s guilty plea, Dr. Barnard admits to committing a multi-million dollar fraud on the Medicare program by billing for procedures he did not perform,” Peace said. “By claiming to render services to disabled and other vulnerable patients, Dr. Barnard not only pocketed taxpayer funds that were intended to help beneficiaries in need, he also betrayed his oath for profit.”

As Russia expands its invasion of Ukraine, North Shore residents have taken action to provide resources to Ukrainians through grassroots efforts. Russian forces, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, carried out missile and artillery attacks on major Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kiev, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee. As the war continues, two local activists discussed their efforts to aid the atrisk Ukrainians. Port Washington’s Jeff Stone and Kathy Levinson are the leaders of Project H.E.L.P. Long Island. While their local efforts provide Long Island families with education and awareness on mental health, they said the developments abroad compelled them to provide aid. Stone and Levinson also have connections with various Kiwanis organizations and said they are collecting funds to distribute to a variety of international organizations, including UNICEF, Save the Children and the International Committee of

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A doctor practicing in Great Neck pleaded guilty to health care fraud in federal court on Monday.

BY CLAIMING TO

RENDER SERVICES TO DISABLED AND OTHER VULNERABLE PATIENTS, DR. BARNARD NOT ONLY POCKETED TAXPAYER FUNDS THAT WERE INTENDED TO HELP BENEFICIARIES IN NEED, HE ALSO BETRAYED HIS OATH FOR PROFIT.

Breon Peace U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT

“Money that’s allocated for Medicare-approved services, and fraudulently paid out to providers who don’t actually perform these services, is a crime that’s ultimately paid for by taxpayers themselves. Our office is committed to rooting out this type of fraudulent activity and maintaining the integrity of our government-sponsored health care programs,” Driscoll said. “The defendant’s actions diverted scarce taxpayer funds from the Medicare program for personal enrichment while taking advantage of vulnerable individuals,” Lampert said. Efforts to reach Barnard’s attorney, Larry Krantz, for comment were unavailing. Officials said Barnard is to return to federal court in Central Islip on June 10 for sentencing.

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the Red Cross. The funds, Stone said, will be wired to those agencies to provide Ukrainian refugees with resources to survive. Stone also said he and Levinson, along with help from the community, collected baby strollers, onesies, coats, jackets and other clothes at the Presbyterian Church in Garden City for Ukrainian refugees. “We’re trying to circulate and create awareness on what is going on to hopefully motivate people to develop their own plan of action or to contribute with clothing,” Stone said in a phone interview. “We truly believe that one person can make a diﬀerence even though some people get so overwhelmed and ask ‘What can I do?’” Levinson said. “This is truly happening and unfolding right in front of our eyes in real time.” Adam Haber, a former Roslyn school board member and previous candidate for county executive, said he has volunteered with the organization All Hands All Hearts, which aids in repairing communities throughout the world that have been Continued on Page 33

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North Shore individuals have found ways to aid the Ukrainian population with various fundraisers and clothing drives.

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Animal League celebrates adoption

Port Washington-based operation launches 22nd annual ‘Tour For Life’ intiative

WE LOOK FOR ADOPTERS THAT

BY M AT T H E W DIDOMENICO

PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA

Adopters pose with a new cat during the North Shore Animal League America’s Tour For Life.

Since 1944, North Shore Animal League America has carried on its mission of saving the lives of animals nationwide. Based in Port Washington, it has grown into the largest no-kill rescue and adoption operation in the world. Its work results in nearly 20,000 animals being nurtured and cared for yearly. On Feb. 28, the league began its 22nd annual Tour For Life, an initiative on pet adoption. “For us, this is a national celebration of adoption … We’re pushing to find as many homes for these animals as we can,” said Anthony Angioletti, director of oﬀsite programs. The league collaborates on adoption events with several shelters across the country each week, encouraging people to take home a furry friend. “Fifty-three shelters across the country are participating, and we’re looking to have around 200 animals adopted each week,” he said. Angioletti, who has worked at the league for 23 years, said: “I started as a parttimer at 15 years old, loving pets, thinking it would be a great job on the weekends, and I’m still here … In any capacity that you’re working here, you’re doing something that benefits the lives of animals.” Even though the league is making a major push for adoption, its standards for

CAN GIVE A SIMILAR AMOUNT OF CARE AS OUR STAFF DO FOR THESE ANIMALS. WE WANT TO MAKE IT SO THAT THEY CAN PROVIDE A GOOD HOME FOR THEIR PETS.

Anthony Angioletti DIRECTOR OF OFFSITE PROGRAMS

adopters separate it from other organizations. The league conducts thorough background checks to find a suitable owner for each pet, to ensure ideal care past shelter life. “We look for adopters that can give a similar amount of care as our staﬀ do for these animals,” Angioletti said. “We want to make it so that they can provide a good home for their pets.” With over 2.5 million followers on Facebook, several sponsors and many collaborating shelters, North Shore Animal League America continues to spread its message on animal rescue and adoption. More information is available on the league’s website at https://www.animalleague.org/tour-forlife-2022/.

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Gun control advocate backs Zimmerman Linda Schulman a national figure from Roslyn who lost son in school shooting in Parkland, Fla. BY B R A N D ON DUFFY The campaign for longtime Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman announced the endorsement of Linda Beigel Schulman, a nationally recognized gun control advocate, as he bids for his party’s nomination in the 3rd Congressional District. Schulman, whose son Scott Beigel was killed ushering students to safety in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, said she believes that Zimmerman will make a diﬀerence for the district, state and country. “Robert is the type of person we need representing Long Island in Washington,” said Schulman, who was raised in the Roslyn area. “He is not a newcomer to the political arena and has a proven record of advocating, fighting for and delivering on the issues so deeply personal to me.” “Linda’s words and leadership have inspired a nation,” Zimmerman said. “It has brought to so many people hope and be-

lief that we can take the most unspeakable tragedy and turn it into positive action.” The endorsement came at a news conference in Dix Hills in front of Scott J. Beigel Way, renamed in 2018 after Beigel, who was a geography teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the school’s cross country coach, when he was killed. Zimmerman, 67, is co-president of ZE Creative Communications on Bond Street in Great Neck, a public relations firm he began 33 years ago with Ron Edelson. He is seeking the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who is running for governor. Since his announcement, Zimmerman’s campaign said it has raised over $500,000. If elected, Zimmerman would become the first gay member of Congress from Long Island and Queens. Other endorsements for Zimmerman’s campaign include former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Assemblyman

Charles Lavine and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. According to newly drawn lines, the 3rd Congressional District will include several areas in Westchester County and the Bronx along with Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck, Floral Park, and Whitestone, Queens, among other areas, and stretches to Kings Park in Suﬀolk County. Following the approval of new congressional maps by state legislators, a Republican-led group filed a lawsuit claiming the Democrats gerrymandered the districts to retain control of the House. Others running for the Democratic nomination in the district include former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, Oyster Bay’s Reema Rasool and Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington. The Democratic congressional primary is slated for June 28. George Santos and Kevin Surdi are seeking the Republican nomination.

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Gun control advocate Linda Biegel Schulman endorses Robert Zimmerman’s candidacy for the 3rd Congressional District during a press conference in Dix Hills.

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Schreiber trio leads team to state title bid Port Washington high school captures 1st county championship in track since 1982 BY M I C H A E L J . L E W I S With freshmen athletes, coaches never know exactly what they’re going to get. Sometimes rookies are complete blank slates, and you have to mold them into competitive performers. Other times, you take one look at them and you instantly know “here’s someone who’s going to be great.” For Schreiber High School girls track and field coach Jeremiah Pope, it was definitely the latter when he first got a glance at Ashley Carillo last fall. The ninth-grader came out for tryouts and Pope was immediately gobsmacked by something. “No matter what she ran, she ran the same speed at all times,” Pope recalled. “Didn’t slow down, ever. She just kept going and going and was really happy to do whatever I asked. I kinda thought then we might have something here.” Those instincts were proved very much correct, with Carillo and the rest of this year’s Vikings squad. In early February the Schreiber girls won the Nassau County championship in their division for the first time since Ronald Reagan was president (1982). Then on Feb. 17 at St. Anthony’s in Huntington, Carillo won the 1,000-meter run at the state sectional meet, while teammates Eve Siﬀ-Scherr (1,000 meters) and Bella Lucas (triple jump) also excelled enough to qualify for last weekend’s state championship meet on Staten Island. At the state meet, Carillo finished 21st in the 1,000-meter run, in a time

Left to right, Schreiber’s freshman Bella Lucas, sophomore Eve Siff-Scherr and freshman Ashley Carillo. of 3:09.50. Siﬀ-Scherr, competing in the 4×1,000 intersectional relay, ran her leg is 3:12.91, and her team finished seventh overall, earning all-Federation honors. And in the triple jump, Lucas placed 20th with a final leap total of 33-4. “This team is awesome and everyone is so supportive,” Carillo said. “We were so pumped to win [the county title] and for three of us to make states just made it so much better.” Carillo, a formr soccer player, said she’d always wanted to try track but the COVID-19 pandemic scotched her plans to try it in middle school. This year, she ran the 1,000, 1,500 and 3,000 while

putting up outstanding times that have her in the top 3 in the 1,000 all year. Her state-qualifying win was 3:06.92. Siff-Scherr, who reached the states in cross country in the fall, had a little more track experience coming into this season. She spent last school year at the prestigious sports-focused IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, before returning home to Port Washington. “It was pretty intense but I liked it,” said the sophomore. “And this year, running all the different distances, I feel like I got faster every time.” Siff-Scherr qualified for the states in the intersectional relay, which means

she ran with three other runners from Nassau County, trying to put up the best time as a team to qualify as an all-state athlete. Maybe the most surprised she was going to states was Lucas, a freshman who had never jumped in track in her life until this year. “She was tall and had been a volleyball player so we figured she should try it, and then she just took oﬀ,” Pope said with a smile. Lucas, who at 5-foot-9 clearly has the length to be a great jumper, said after her first triple jump at a meet this season she thought “that wasn’t too bad, I might be OK at this.” Still, she was stunned at her improvement at the state qualifier, leaping almost five feet farther than her previous high, to make states at 34 feet, 4.75 inches, the second-best jump at the meet. “When the ref told me what my jump was I was really surprised and ecstatic,” she said. “And then I’m putting my sneakers and sweats back on and I’m just like “oh my god, I made it to states! And I ran over to everyone and gave them a big thumbs-up.” Pope said his goal for all three is to not burn them out in these early years, and pace them so “they keep improving every year.” “We’ve got a great group right now, a lot of kids who are natural athletes and had been in other sports and excelled,” Pope said. “We’re going to gradually build them and hopefully build on this success we had. I’m proud of all of them.”

Manhasset name no help to Francesa’s colt BY B R A N D ON DUFFY High Oak, the three-yearold colt partly owned by radio legend Mike Francesa, placed 10th in the Fountain of Youth Stakes on Saturday in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The race is one of many leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May where horses can secure qualification if they accumulate enough points. Francesa, a Manhasset resident, bought the colt under the name JEH Racing Stable LLC in 2020. High Oak cost $70,000 and is trained by William I. Mott, who was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1998. High Oak came into the race as one of the favorites with 8-1 odds. On one of the final turns, the colt clipped heels with Galt, another horse trained by Mott. No serious injuries were reported.

The horses that placed first to fourth Saturday received 50, 20, 10 and five points toward their qualifications. Historically, horses that have earned at least 40 points tend to make the field for the Kentucky Derby, where 20 horses are featured. “The reason the victories are so sweet is because thoroughbred racing can be a very cruel game,” Francesa tweeted Sunday. “High Oak took the worst of it in the Fountain of Youth, but very happy to report the jockeys and horses involved in the spill are fine. We continue along the road to the Derby.” The last prep race for the Kentucky Derby is April 16 in Lexington, Kentucky. Days before the race, Francesa spoke about his horse’s namesake and its relation to the North Shore during the Barrett Sports Media Summit in New York City. Francesa and his former co-host on WFAN’s “Mike and

the Mad Dog” show, Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo, held a 30-minute conversation where Francesa shared High Oak’s connection to Manhasset. In a video tweeted by Zach Gelb, Francesa said throughout his involvement in horse racing, he saved the name High Oak until he had a horse capable of winning the Kentucky Derby. “I promised everybody that I would start a horse in the Kentucky Derby with a chance to win. He didn’t have to be the favorite but had a legitimate chance to win, I have that horse,” Francesa said. “When I bought my home in Manhasset, a lot of homes had old names on them and we had very big oak trees. There’s a big metal sign saying “High Oak” when you come in the driveway.” Francesa continued, saying he always wanted to name his horse High Oak, but knew immediately this was the chance

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READERS WRITE

Vote for Ted Rosen and running mates

ayor Ted Rosen knows how to listen to people. He is accessible and tries to solve their problems. Ted is my neighbor, and when we complained about the noise of gardeners’ leafblowers, he helped pass restrictions. I have run an annual poetry contest for the Village of Great Neck Plaza for the last twelve years. Ted has been a dedicated supporter of this program, as well as another, Poetry in the Plaza, which posts a poem each

month on signposts throughout the Village as well as in the LIRR waiting room. Ted is a caring, responsive village oﬃcial, the kind of person we need in local government. I urge the residents of Great Neck Plaza to vote for Ted Rosen for Mayor and for his running mates, Pam Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia, for trustee. Carolyn Raphael Great Neck

Rosen supports Plaza merchants

am a resident of Great Neck Plaza since 1990. I have also been the owner and manager of a chocolate retail store, which has been in business in Great Neck Plaza for more than 30 years. Recently, we decided to move to a larger location across the street in the Village, where we will expand the business. Great Neck Plaza is a village which supports its businesses and as a result, the Village has been and continues to be a great place for a retailer to do business. Our customers come from the homes on the Great Neck peninsula, the offices that line Great Neck Road, Cuttermill Road and our LIRR station as well as all over Long Island and Queens. I was one of the merchants who attended the workshops provided by the Village of Great Neck Plaza for Village merchants at no cost to the merchants. The workshops were taught by instructors from Hofstra University and covered important subjects needed for retail success in 2022, including social media marketing, email marketing, Google My Business, financial management and improving the overall customer experience. The workshops were excellent. I learned a great deal of valuable information that has been and will be very beneficial to me in running a retail business. The program providing

the workshops was started by Mayor Rosen with the support of Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid, Trustee Michael DeLuccia and the other members of the Village Board. This is a very creative program intended to help Plaza merchants continue to be successful in operating their businesses and remain in business. It is an example of one way Mayor Rosen and the trustees are coming up with practical solutions to help the Village’s merchants. I have also worked with Mayor Rosen and Deputy Mayor Marksheid with a group of local business people in attempting to informally recruit new businesses and restaurants to our Village. The foregoing programs show that Mayor Rosen and the members of the Village board have been and continue to be very committed and dedicated to finding and implementing practical solutions to improve business in our downtown rather than merely talk in non-specific generalities about helping Village businesses. I will vote to re-elect Great Neck Plaza Ted Rosen as mayor of our Village and Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia as Trustees and I ask other Village residents to do the same. Marnie Ives Great Neck

Vote Rosen for mayor

am happy to announce that I will be voting next Tuesday, March 15th for Great Neck Plaza Mayor Ted Rosen, Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia as Trustee in our village elections. The work of leading the Village of Great Neck Plaza is diﬃcult and takes an experienced hand. I have seen the eﬀorts Mayor Rosen and his slate have put into this work, organizing concert and outdoor dining events over the summer, as well as working actively to both attract new merchants and restau-

rants to the Village while continuing to support existing merchants. These eﬀorts have paid oﬀ as a number of new restaurants have opened over the last year while many local favorites continue to enjoy a steady stream of business. Likewise, the Mayor’s experience, formerly as a trustee and Deputy Mayor, have been put to good use during various projects aimed at improving the Village’s infrastructure. In particular, the Village have undertaken major renovation projects to improve local parking options in two village ga-

rages and have repaved a number of the village’s roads. The Mayor and his slate have also prioritized pedestrian and traffic safety, making traffic improvements in various areas. In hectic times we need local leaders who have experience in managing our municipal affairs. Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee DeLuccia are just that and I am supporting their reelection. Peter Fishkind Great Neck Plaza

Rosen is Plaza’s best choice

am voting for Ted Rosen for Mayor of the Village of Great Neck Plaza. I have known Ted, who is my neighbor, for more than forty years. On more than one occasion, I have heard Ted say that a village should be involved in many aspects of life and that of course, a village should perform well general municipal services, such as cleaning the streets, repairing the roads, collecting the garbage, etc. Under the leadership of Ted and his colleagues in village government, the Village of Great Neck Plaza has performed and continues to perform these municipal services well. It is part of the reason why my wife and I are happy to live here. It is part of the reason that homes and apartments in the Plaza are in high demand. But, I have heard Ted also say that he believes that a village should do

more than these municipal services – as important as they are — and Ted explains that is why Great Neck Plaza has provided such things as an annual poetry program and contest, a weekly schedule of summer concerts and art shows in the Village Hall. Ted is also a fair person. A number of years ago, the Village had to place a street sign on our street, on which there had not been any such street signs. Working with the Village’s Department of Public Works Department, Ted could have had the street sign placed on the lawn of any one of a number of homes on our street. Instead, knowing that none of the residents of the street wanted the sign on their lawn, Ted had the sign placed on his own lawn, where it is to this day. More recently, in the past several years, the Village has undertaken a

multi-year street repair project. Rather than select our street to be repaired in the first year of the project, Ted and his colleagues in village government had a professional engineering firm rank the village streets in the order of their condition, with the streets in most need of repair being repaired in year one of the project. Our street is scheduled to be repaired in the last year of the project, which is this year. Ted has the intelligence, work ethic, dedication and character required of a Mayor. For all of these reasons, I am voting for Ted Rosen for Mayor of the Village of Great Neck Plaza and his running mates, Pam Marksheid and Michael Deluccia, both of whom are very experienced in village governance, for trustee. Very truly yours, Lawrence Raphael

Rosen, slate keep their word I am the president of a co-op in Great Neck Plaza. Since Mayor Ted Rosen became mayor in 2020, I have seen him work hard to deliver on his commitments. One of his commitments was to complete the repaving of the Village’s streets. Under Ted’s leadership, the Village completed the repaving of nine Village streets this past year, including the street on which my co-op is located. Ted was hands on, not just a remote leader. I remember seeing him on the street before the repaving was scheduled to begin. He was there with members of the Village staﬀ and I believe a representative of the engineering firm supervising the repaving project, examining specific matters concerning the re-

paving project. Subsequently, Ted was on the scene of the repaving of my street and nearby streets in the early morning and at various times throughout the repaving. Ted has discussed with me that he is determined to recruit new businesses to our Village’s downtown. He is proud that since Jan. 1, 2021, approximately 35 new businesses have become established in our Village, many of them occupying previously vacant stores. Ted also discussed with me that the Plaza will be hiring a downtown advocate to actively recruit new merchants and restaurants into our downtown. One of Ted’s priorities as mayor is public safety. He has established a good working relation-

ship with the commanding officers and officers of the Nassau County Police Department’s Sixth Precinct and has indicated that the police have been very responsive when he has requested that they address certain specific issues. Recently the Village provided public safety seminars in which police officers spoke to residents about improving personal safety. The program was very informative. I will vote for the re-election of Ted Rosen as Mayor and Pamela Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia as Trustees. I ask my fellow Great Neck Plaza residents to join me in supporting them. Mike Menies Great Neck

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Rosen team answered Plaza traffic concerns

write this letter in support of the re-election of Mayor Ted Rosen, Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia. I am a member of the Board of Directors of a large co-op located close to the center of the downtown of Great Neck Plaza. Residents of my co-op and other residents on the street on which my

co-op is located were concerned about certain traffic safety issues, including speeding, traffic signage and a two-way traffic pattern at one end of the otherwise one-way street. We reached out to Mayor Rosen. In response, we found Mayor Rosen and the other members of the Village board, including Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid

and Trustee Michael DeLuccia, to be very responsive and receptive. They met with us several times on our street and listened to our concerns. As a result of these conversations and meetings, the Village retained a traﬃc engineer to review traﬃc conditions on the street and to recommend improvements. The Village held several public hearing sessions where input

from the community was actively sought by the mayor and the Village board. They listened to what the residents said. As a result of all of this, certain traﬃc safety changes and improvements have been implemented and others are in the process of being implemented. In my opinion, what I described above is an example of excellence in local government.

Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee DeLuccia listened to and acted upon the concerns of residents on an important issue. I will vote to re-elect Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia. Irving Rosenstein Great Neck

Vote United Residents Party Karen Siegel my

intend to vote for Ted Rosen to be re-elected as mayor of the Village of Great Neck Plaza. I have known Ted for approximately the past seven years. I have seen him work with others to address a variety of issues and problems. Ted is focused on finding the best solution. He is open to ideas and suggestions from all par-

ticipants. He has a practical orientation to try to solve the problem or issue with which he is dealing. Where there may be disagreement, Ted works to build a consensus. He is tough when he has to be, but I have always seen him treat everyone with respect and courtesy. He is an honorable person of high integrity.

Ted Rosen has the qualities we need in the mayor of Great Neck Plaza. I will vote to re-elect him and his running mates Pamela Marksheid and Michael Deluccia and I ask my fellow residents of Great Neck Plaza to do so as well. Michael Molk Great Neck

Re-elect Mayor Ted Rosen

write to urge the residents of Great Neck Plaza to vote to re-elect Ted Rosen as mayor of our village and to re-elect Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia as trustees. I met Ted more than 20 years ago. He and I were opposing counsel in what was initially a bitterly contested, commercial litigation between business partners. Ted is a very good lawyer and a tough adversary, but he was always honorable and a man of his word. It is a testament to Ted that after the litigation ended, we became friends which we remain to this day. Our friendship resumed some

time later, when I moved to the Plaza. I became active in the Village. I became the chairperson of the Great Neck Plaza Pedestrian and Traﬃc Safety Committee. In that capacity, I had the opportunity to work with Ted, who was also active on that committee as a representative of the Village government. I saw firsthand from that experience that Ted was hardworking and was keenly focused on finding ways to improve pedestrian and traﬃc safety in the Village. He welcomed the participation, opinions and ideas from myself and my fellow residents who were members of the committee. He was always receptive to new

ideas and new possible solutions to pedestrian and traﬃc issues. He sought to come up with solutions by building consensus if there were diﬀering views. Ted has the intelligence, skills and dedication that make him highly qualified to continue being our mayor. I am voting to re-elect Ted Rosen for mayor and to re-elect his running mates Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia as trustees. I ask all of my fellow residents to do the same. Daniel R. Wotman Village of Great Neck Plaza

Rosen supports condos

support Ted Rosen who is running for re-election as Mayor of the Village of Great Neck Plaza. I have known Ted Rosen for approximately 12 years. He is a person of high integrity and character. I know that he is hardworking and dedicated. He has been, and is, fully committed to making Great Neck Plaza the great place it is to live. Ted is creative and finds solutions to problems. He is someone who helps people who disagree reach an agreement. ery importantly, Ted treats everyone

with respect and courtesy. As a member of the Board of Managers of my condominium, I appreciate that Ted has a good sense of knowledge and awareness of the issues and challenges that condominiums and coops face today. As mayor of our village, he has been very receptive to the needs and concerns of those who live in coops and condominiums in the Village, as well as all of the residents of the Village. I know that Ted’s running mates, Deputy Mayor Pam

Marksheid and Trustee Michael Deluccia, who are both running for re-election as trustee, are the presidents of their coops. They also have a good understanding and knowledge of the needs and concerns of Village residents. I urge all Village of Great Neck Plaza residents to please vote to re-elect Ted Rosen as mayor and to re-elect Pam Marksheid and Michael Deluccia as trustee. Piret Mowlem Great Neck

pick for trustee

hankfully there are still good people willing to step up and serve in government. I have known Karen Siegel for over two decades, when I was in the state Assembly and now, as a fellow community activist. Karen has proved herself to be honest, forthright, and caring of her

community and the communityat-large. Karen is always ready to listen to and help meet the needs of others. I know she would serve as village trustee of Thomaston with integrity and grit. Michelle Schimel Port Washington

Ted Rosen team see Plaza’s needs

write this letter in support of Ted Rosen for re-election as mayor of the Village of Great Neck Plaza. I have known Ted for more than thirty years. We are backyard neighbors. Ted is an ethical, honest and hardworking individual who has sought to make our Village a better place for our residents and to bring new businesses into our downtown. I am also supporting Ted’s running mates, Pam Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia, who are both running for re-election as trustees. Pam is a deputy mayor and trustee and is always trying a make the Village a better place in which to live. I have known Pam for many years, since our now adult sons were at Great Neck South together. Michael is a trustee and had previously served the Village for several years as the chairman of the Village’s Zoning Board of Appeals. I was moved to send this let-

ter after receiving a mailing from the individuals running against Ted, Pam, and Michael, which essentially urged that I vote for them because Ted and his team had been working on behalf of the Village for many years and that it was time for new blood. I respectfully disagree. I want my mayor and other elected representatives to fully understand the Village, how things work, and what to do when issues arise. I know how hard Ted and his running mates have worked to improve things in the Village of Great Neck Plaza and I look forward to having them leading our Village for years to come. I am voting for Ted Rosen, Pam Marksheid and Michael Deluccia and I ask my fellow residents of the Plaza to do the same. Susan Yellin Great Neck More Letters on Page 35

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Showing support for Ukraine here

he outpouring of support by Nassau County oﬃcials and residents for Ukraine is both welcome and war-

ranted. The courage of the Ukraine people and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the face of an unprovoked attack by Russia has inspired the world and set a new standard for leadership. We can only hope our elected oﬃcials will follow. We also applaud how Western nations, led by the United States, marshaled a stunning show of unity against Russia with unparalleled sanctions and penalties. Gov. Kathy Hochul rightly signed an executive order forbidding the state from doing business with Russia, including canceling its investments there. Hochul has also opened her arms to Ukrainian refugees in terms familiar to all Americans. “Just as the Statue of Liberty stands tall in our harbor, New York stands ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees. We remain engaged with the Biden administration and we will be prepared to accept and support those who seek shelter in our state,” Hochul said. Adam Haber, a former Roslyn school board member and unsuccessful candidate for county executive, has set a positive example for citizen engagement with his support of All Hands and Hearts, an organization that has deployed a team to Poland to transport orphans, children and families at riskfrom Ukraine. The group is also working with local partners, coordinating bodies and relief organizations to assess how best to increase our support within this rapidly changing land-

scape. We urge Nassau residents to support All Hands and Hearts and other groups like it. We wish we could be as supportive of Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who announced a gun drive last week for Ukrainian citizens that includes the collection of rifles, shotguns and AR 15 type weapons. We are fine with the collection of these firearms if for no other reason that getting them oﬀ the streets of Nassau County will make county residents safer. And Zelensky and his fellow Ukrainians have repeatedly pleaded for more arms and ammunition. But in announcing his campaign, Blakeman injected an unwarranted partisan message when he said, “We are doing our job here in Nassau County. I am asking President Biden to do his job and help get these weapons to Ukraine immediately to those who desperately need them.” Let’s set aside the fact that Blakeman was accompanied at the event by Nassau Police Commissioner Pat Ryder, making it appear as if Ryder shared his partisan message. If Blakeman is operating a campaign to collect weapons, we would expect he had a plan to deliver them and was not relying on Biden to deliver all weapons gathered by local governments across the country. Biden has had other concerns such as leading what George Bush’s secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, called a masterful job of pulling together the 20 NATO nations in a unified response. This includes an operation that The New York Times called “remi-

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niscent of the Berlin airlift of 194849, but far more complex” in which the United States and NATO in less than a week have pushed “more than 17,000 anti-tank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities.” What makes this slight especially outrageous is that Blakeman was the Nassau County Republican Party’s liaison to the Trump campaign — after President Donald Trump was impeached on charges of trying to extort Zelensky into providing dirt on Biden’s son in exchange for the delivery of Stinger missiles and anti-tank munitions. At a time, when Ukraine was already fighting the Russians in eastern Ukraine in a low-grade war. The week before Blakeman called for Biden to close the Killenworth estate, a compound in Glen Cove used by Russian diplomats to the United Nations. “President Biden, expel these Russians from Nassau County,” Blakeman said. “We don’t need them here and let’s get this prop-

erty back on the tax rolls so the people of Nassau County and Glen Cove don’t have to finance thugs and dictators and people who invade innocent countries.” Unsaid was whether Biden should also close the Russian consulate in Manhattan and the embassy in Washington, D.C. You know, to get the property back on the tax rolls. Also not addressed is what the United States would lose if the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was closed. It is widely agreed that the release of intelligence by the United States and the British before the Russians invaded Ukraine helped bring the NATO allies together. Blakeman was joined in Glen Cove by U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, who was endorsed last week by the state Republican Party as the party choice for governor. “The United States cannot let Putin’s people doing his bidding to live in tax-free compounds on Long Island,” he said. “President Biden must immediately close Russia’s Killenworth estate and send their diplomats packing today!” Is a time of war really the best time to send the Russian diplomats

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home? Aren’t they the people we would need to negotiate a peace agreement with if that was possible? Zeldin was also a strong Trump supporter during the presidential campaign and was one of 121 House Republicans to vote against certifying the presidential election results in both Arizona and Pennsylvania – after a mob incited by Trump assaulted the Capitol to overturn the election. Zeldin then became the lone dissenting vote in the Long Island congressional delegation on a bill to create a 9/11-type commission to investigate the most serious attack on our election system since the Civil War. Zeldin and Blakeman were not alone in calling for the expulsion of the Russian diplomats. Democrat Congressman Tom Suozzi, who is also running for governor, visited the estate to call on the United States to use “every tool in our arsenal” to oppose Russia’s invasion, including embargoes of Russian products, the seizure of oligarchs’ properties and the expulsion of Russian spies. Continued on Page 39

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Gov. Hochul’s budget embraces tax, spend

n the spring of 2021, thenGov. Andrew Cuomo approved a record-breaking $212 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that began on April 1. Spending all of the $12.2 billion, one-shot federal COVID revenue was not enough revenue to balance his budget. To meet that end, Cuomo deferred $3.5 billion in Medicaid payments into the next fiscal year and raised taxes. New York’s highest earners now pay a 10.9 percent state income tax. In addition, a 1 percent surtax was added to the state’s capital gains tax. Estate taxes jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent on estates valued over $10 million. The corporate franchise tax went from 6.5 percent to 7.25 percent. Cuomo’s budget, which increased by a staggering 10 percent in 2021, was twice the expense budget of Florida, which has 3 million more people than the Empire State. In 2021 and early 2020, additional revenues continued to flow into the state’s coﬀer. There were more federal pandemic

dollars, and thanks to an expanding economy, significantly more tax revenue. “Initially,” state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli noted in his recent analysis of the state’s fiscal year, “tax collections were expected to increase only 10.6%; however, year to date collections have increased 31.2 percent.” This was all good news for Gov. Kathy Hochul as she prepared an election year budget that appeases big government radicals in her party and state and municipal employees. Hochul recommended more spending even though there are ominous signs that the economy may slow down this year, and inflation is hitting levels New Yorkers have not witnessed since the early 1980s. The bloated budget Hochul presented to the state Legislature not only spends the excess revenues but includes another $5 billion in capital funding from President Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Hence, total spending is projected to increase to $217

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right billion. And that’s before insatiable legislators begin negotiating for more swag for their favorite interest groups. It should come as no surprise that the biggest spending increase is school aid. To placate teacher unions, the Executive Budget proposes $31.2 billion in aid, up 7.1 percent from the previous fiscal year. There is the proposal to move forward with the final phase-in of the so-called “middle class” tax cuts, but that’s a pittance—about $162 million in relief.

While the Hochul administration is boasting that her budget increases reserves in various “rainy day” funds, totals will still be relatively low. Reserves, projected to be $6.1 billion, are far below the permissible maximum level of $19.4 billion. And Hochul’s proposed reserve numbers are a bit deceptive. The state comptroller’s report states that the increase “disproportionately utilizes informal, unrestricted reserves by leaving resources in the General Fund with the administrative designation ‘reserve for economic uncertainties.’” Those funds are very fungible. They “could be obligated and spent at any time at the Department of Budget’s discretion, for any appropriate purpose,” the report says. How convenient. Furthermore, the comptroller notes, these “informal reserves have no obligation of being replenished. Accordingly, such funds do not have the same stabilizing value as formal, statutorily restricted revenues.” Then there’s the lack of budgetary transparency and ac-

countability. Like her predecessor’s budgets, Hochul’s financial plan “identifies billions of dollars allocated to broadly define purposes with no specificity.” In other words, billions in appropriations could be easily misused. Another Cuomo budget gimmick Hochul is adopting: the comptroller’s oversight authority to pre-review contracts for Medicare managed care contracts and competitive bidding requirements are slated to be eliminated. Thanks to the influx of windfall revenues, Hochul had an opportunity to repeal last year’s income tax increases and to truly replenish the state’ depleted reserve funds. Instead, Hochul chose to continue Cuomo’s tax-andspend policies. This may get her past the election in November, but come 2023, when the “free” money from Washington runs dry and the economy tanks, there will be dire consequences for New York taxpayers who will be the ones stuck paying the tab for Hochul’s largesse with even higher taxes.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

In spring, this woman’s fancy turns to clutter

t is almost time for spring cleaning — my least favorite time of year. Maybe that’s because on top of the dust it always raises — and to which I am allergic all year round — there is the additional threat of pollen from everything blooming outdoors. Yes, it’s all beautiful, until it triggers more allergies and the inevitable sinus infection. Thank God I have all these left-over N95 masks. Or maybe I just don’t like cleaning. Or neatening. Or — this much I know is true — getting rid of clutter. So many people ask me to do it. They even oﬀer help: “I can drag this to the curb for you, Judy.” I have received that oﬀer regarding everything from books to snow tires and every time my answer is the same: “If I wanted that at the curb, it would already be there.” Doesn’t everybody have a gently used poker-table-top in their garage? Waiting for someone to prop it up on a couple of milk crates and start a back-alley

game? Or a bag of old Legos and another of plastic dinosaurs, waiting patiently for a new owner? I could get all those things out of my jurisdiction pretty easily — they’re all bagged up and ready to go. Even with a bad back, I can place the phone call for a charity’s pick-up. That’s not the part I need help with. What I really need is someone to sit by my side, without sneering, while I weigh the relative merits of keeping a shopping-bag full of 20-year-old versions of my resume vs. letting them go. Especially when I know that the day after I let them go, I will need to fill out some government form asking for those two-decade-old start and end dates — dates that, thanks to the world’s infatuation with decluttering, I now have no way of knowing. So I keep the bag. And my worst problem — my Kryptonite, if you will — is all the random, miscellaneous

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A Look on the Lighter Side paper in boxes and shopping bags and plastic storage bins. If I had to spitball, I’d say it’s 1 percent personal letters; 49 percent notes for projects, or from longago PTA meetings; and a solid 50 percent junk mail: catalogs that have long since expired, credit card oﬀers that were never a good idea even on the day I got them, plus an indigestible clump of coupons for Bed Bath & Beyond.

Oh, and all our old bills. Worthless! All of it. Almost. And I just can’t pitch out a bag or a box without making sure that there isn’t part of that 1 percent hiding in between everything worthless. I tried the other day. It was mid-afternoon, and I’d finished cooking dinner ahead of schedule, so I sat down on the couch with one of the infamous shopping bags that I can’t seem to get rid of. And was instantly reduced to tears because there was a note from my first-born’s kindergarten teacher about how he is finally talking to the other kids. That has to stay. Then I got into a rhythm of pitching papers into the trash with both hands, when something else fell out. A hand-made holiday card, with a photo of my other child and a hand-lettered message around the frame: “I wish my brother a Happy New Year.” Except — wait a minute. What it actually says, in crooked

capital letters, is “I wish my BOTHER a Happy New Year.” This is the first time I noticed that. Intentional? Freudian? Either way hilarious! And obviously something that must be saved. Certainly not something I could ever let anyone “just take to the curb.” It’s late afternoon, the sun is sinking, and I’m rapidly running out of emotional strength to do this any longer. Besides I have to clear my workspace, also known as the dining room table. Quick! Shove it all back in the bag. And that, dear friend, is how my home got so cluttered. But now it is my children, begging me via text to at least make a dent in the clutter. So, with a heroic final burst of energy, I collect all the catalogs and coupons, with a smattering of expired “final notices” decorating the top and put it all at the curb. At last, I can send out the triumphant emails: “In your name, a bag of clutter has been demolished by Judy Epstein.”

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THE BACK ROAD

Once upon a time as a sports fan

ews of Major League Baseball canceling regular-season games amid deadlocked labor negotiations is a blow to the many millions of loyal fans, who were just starting to see some light at the end of the omicron tunnel. The National Football League ended with a bang in February. Four semi-final nailbiters led to a down-to-the-wire Superbowl. Fans celebrated the fierce competition, took a collective deep breath, tuned in to the Winter Olympics, and started pining for Opening Day. Actress Alyssa Milano captured a universal sentiment when she said: “Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no other place that I’d rather be than at a game.” Of course, diehard NBA and NHL fans are still in the thick of it. And, we have March Madness, men and women, March 13–April 4, to look forward to.

Me? I’m looking forward to the NCAA Wrestling Championships March 17-19. There’s a lot to choose from, but still no pitchers and catchers on the horizon. As spring arrives, the Masters is right around the corner, the week of April 4–10 at Augusta National Golf course in Georgia. I never played a round of golf in my life, only pitch and putt and mini-golf. A casual fan, I’ve watched professional golf on TV going back to the days of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. Naturally, Tiger Woods piqued my interest years later. I always tried to catch the last few holes of any tournament that he was in contention to win on a late Sunday afternoon. Tiger’s fall from grace after the 2009 sex scandal was mostly sad – a tarnished reputation and family in crisis. His imperfection laid bare an extraordinary ability to bounce back from scandal and repeated injuries has, ironically, made Tiger a more lovable folk

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hero; especially after he took the 2019 Masters, his first major win in 11 years. I’m aware of a few of the other marquee golfers during Tiger’s reign, chief among them Phil Mickelson, second only in PGA Tour earnings to Woods. Never an “inside-golf” guy, in recent weeks I learned through sports talk radio and the internet that Mickelson lent support to a startup Saudi Super League and

made some oﬀensive and selfserving comments which drew the ire of fans, critics and fellow PGA players. Of his new venture and strange bedfellows, Mickelson said of the Saudis that they are known violators of human rights. He went on to cite some of their atrocities, like executing people for being gay and assassinating Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. “Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it?” he asked and then answered: “Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.” He added that the tour was guilty of “obnoxious greed.” He has since apologized stating that his comments to a writer, who is working on an unauthorized biography about him, were oﬀ the record. The writer denies that. He then announced that he was going to take a break from the game.

Why do I need to know any of this? As much as it takes away from balls and strikes, it is almost impossible in the 21st century to avoid the business, politics and scandal of sports. I know; some sports fans will point out that I am being naïve, that there are critical issues of justice and equity that need to be addressed in sport (I agree) and that it is hardly a new phenomenon. Today more than ever, social media, tabloid journalism, and sports talk radio and television fuel the fire like never before. Long gone are the days when I was laser-focused on starting pitchers, lineups and box scores. Remember when being a fan was truly an escape, a respite from the day-to-day grind and bad news headlines? Often times the politics of sports leaves my head spinning like a mini-golf windmill in a nor’easter. Serenity now.

VIEW POINT

Inflated hysteria over inflation in the U.S.

epublicans are using inflated hysteria over inflation to justify reversing course on the most consequential policy of our time: the shift to clean, renewable energy that localizes production and breaks the dependency on brutal despots, cartels and oligopolies (Big Oil) alike. The cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline and now the spike in prices (gouging, anyone?) at the pump because of Russia’s war on Ukraine should make the danger clear. At the same time, the justified fear over Russia triggering a nuclear accident in its criminal attack on Ukraine’s nuclear power plants should also make clear that nuclear power, while emitting less climatechanging gases, poses a diﬀerent existential threat. At a rally in front of the Russian compound in Glen Cove in support of Ukraine, Congressman Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor, chided Biden for canceling the Keystone Pipeline project (finally!) and instead okaying Russia’s Nordstrom 2 pipeline to supply Germany. Zeldin made it sound like paying more at the pump was an unacceptable price to pay to stand up for democracy against autocracy. That just shows how oﬀ-track he and the Republicans are. (Talk about a Nanny

State! Whatever happened to “Freedom isn’t free”?) Zeldin betrays his willful ignorance of how gasoline prices are set (on the world market) and even less concern over what is triggering inflation: lingering eﬀects of COVID-19 and supply chain issues; explosion of pent-up demand and savings after a year locked-down; not to mention 7.4 million new jobs and wages up 5.5 percent, the first real increase since Reagan; and the fact that “inflation” is based on a year of non-activity. Note that on May 12, 2021, gas prices averaged $3 a gallon for the first time since 2014, to the point oil companies were paying to get rid of oil rather than pay to store it. And to put the hysteria into perspective: on June 8, 2008, $4 a gallon was seen for the first time but that is equivalent to $5.24 today; July 17, 2008 set the all-time record high of $4.103 per gallon, equivalent to $5.37 today. Gasbuddy is anticipating $4.25 a gallon by Memorial Day, still well below the “real” high of $5.37 in today’s money. Meanwhile, Big Oil isn’t suffering at all: BP profits soared to an eight-year high of $13 billion; Shell’s earnings skyrocketed to $19.3 billion; Chevron raked in $15.6 billion; Exxon Mobil reported $23 billion in profits, and CEO

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pay is rising along with profits. And yet Big Oil received $21 billion in subsidies in 2021 and spends millions of that lobbying against incentives to develop clean, renewable energy. Also, have you noticed that prices soar in the morning on news, but don’t retreat after whatever supply issue is resolved? The same is true for food and other sectors – companies are simply taking advantage, rewarding shareholders and CEOs. Fortunately, the Biden administration is also prosecuting price gouging. “The truth is people set prices, and 60 percent of the price increases that ordinary Americans are paying today are going directly to corporate profits – not to compensate for global supply issues or higher production costs. It’s price-

gouging, plain and simple,” writes Paul Constant of Civic Action. “While trickle-down politicians traditionally lowered inflation by raising interest rates, that hurts ordinary Americans because it slows the economy and shrinks the labor market.” Before the Ukraine crisis, Republicans were actually blaming rising wages for inflation. Indeed, the White House just released a U.S. Treasury report showing that corporate America has used its clout in the labor market to keep wages 20 percent lower than they should be. Now Republicans have a more convenient target, banking on the “misery index” to win back Congress. But as President Biden noted in his State of the Union address, “One way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poorer. I think I have a better idea to fight inflation: Lower your costs, not your wages. And, folks, that means make more cars and semiconductors in America, more infrastructure and innovation in America, more goods moving faster and cheaper in America, more jobs where you can earn a good living in America. Instead of relying on foreign supply chains, let’s make it in America.” Biden’s plan is to cut costs, par-

ticularly of necessities like prescription drugs (insulin at $35 instead of $1,000), child care (limited to 7 percent of income) and elder care, and, yes, energy expense. Also, to increase competition and break up the oligopolies like the four meatpacking plants which stiﬀ ranchers, and increase productivity and innovation through advanced manufacturing and technology (recovering 1.2 million manufacturing jobs lost in the pandemic). Also, implement Made in America/Buy American policies by the biggest consumer in America, the U.S. government, the essence of his popular COMPETES Act. (Will Senate Republicans block that too?) Biden’s historic Infrastructure Law makes billions of dollars in investments to transition to clean renewable energy, including building a network of charging stations so that EVs can in fact replace the gas guzzlers and save consumers money while ending our need to suck up to murderous dictators. Reducing demand for gasoline will reduce prices, hence de-inflation in a capitalist society. He also is confronting the supply chain issues head on, making improvements to ports and promoting investments in new manufacturing (highpaying jobs AND semiconductors made here!). Continued on Page 39

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

War in Ukraine connected to climate crisis

t the end of February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a sobering report entitled Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability warning “the science is clear. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable future.” This report highlights the injustice of the disproportionate impact that climate change has on the poor and the striking lack of investment in adaptation by wealthy nations which are most responsible for emissions. It also warns that we are not prepared to meet the irreversible changes ahead. UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared: “An atlas of human suﬀering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” He continued: “Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone — now. Many ecosystems are at the point of no return — now.” and he exclaimed “this application

of leadership is criminal.” A few days before the release of this report, Russia invaded Ukraine. The climate crisis and this war are connected by their shared origins in fossil fuel-based economies and unjust power dynamics. The violence in Ukraine against the backdrop of the ongoing war on nature is indeed a crime against humanity, symptomatic of the tormented and deeply troubled times we’re living in. Our reliance on fossil fuels has empowered dark forces – Putin’s regime is a harrowing example of that. We’re witnessing destructive forces at play, fueled by gas and oil. Guterres warned that “as current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises.” He added: “Fossil fuels are a dead end.” This war is the direct result of a colonial mindset, a false sense of ownership and greed. We cannot expect to experience sustained

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peace without first establishing justice. We’re far removed from lifesustaining principles in the overculture of extraction, oppression, depletion and pollution. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. singled out three poisons threatening our civilization’s well-being: the evil of racism, militarism and poverty. We must redesign our civilization to cure the current human predicament. There’s

no victory in sight unless we turn away from human supremacy and towards life-aﬃrming principles of ecological civilization and lifesustaining sanity Looking through the wider lens of history, I can’t help but wonder how we evolved to claim superiority and/or ownership over one another and land. Does nature have rights? Do we value life? The value system familiar to us in the West measures Gross Domestic Product as the means of success. Our overall societal wellbeing is restricted by the demand for continued economic growth, powered by the exhaustion of natural resources. If the million species expected to go extinct in this upcoming decade had a voice, they’d shout out that we must end ecocide. We are in the midst of a war on nature and we are both the victims and the perpetrators. Solving these enormous problems requires significant changes in behavior. We need to reimagine our societies and welcome nature

back into our cities. Locally sourced food eliminates supply chain problems. Repair, reuse and refill technologies together with a reduction in overall consumption will slow down depletion of natural resources. We need better public transportation and safer roads for bikes. Most importantly, we must protect what’s left of nature. On Long Island, this means expanding on natural surfaces and stopping all impermeable development at the shoreline. Instead we must recover our carbon sequestering ecosystems and natural buﬀers to storm surges. Wetlands will be our best allies in extreme weather events and act as sponges in flash flooding events. Imagine a world powered by local renewables. Regional and publicly-owned clean energy can eliminate our reliance on dirty power. Here at the heart of capitalism, it’s risky to mention degrowth as the means for sustainable systems change, and perhaps Continued on Page 39

OUR TOWN

Are you ready for World War III?

he biggest news of 2022 is that we’re on the brink of World War III. The recent attempt by Mother Russia to retake Ukraine is proof that mad authoritarian states are alive and well around the globe. Rigid control by authoritarian regimes has been in vogue for centuries and is still seen in nations like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Freedom and democracy are seen in only 50 percent of the world’s nations, including the United States, Japan, Australia, and most of Europe. According to the Freedom House report, there has been a 30-year global trend toward more authoritarian regimes due to growing feelings of widespread insecurity, anxiety, fear, instability, diversity and economic decline. The report suggests that people are attracted to authoritarian leaders during times of anxiety. This was exemplified with Donald Trump’s election victory, which was largely based upon his use of the Wall metaphor designed to keep all the chaos out as immigrants flooded the southern border. And it’s easy enough to blame Putin, oligarchs and authoritarian greed to explain why he invaded Ukraine, but let us explore the recent rise of authoritarian rule and why it remains as a dominant force in world politics and is the inevi-

table counterbalance to democracy and individual freedom. A theory that explains our current problems was developed by the Frenchman Emile Durkheim, the world’s first sociologist. He worked in the early 1900s and observed that as fast-paced modernism, emerging technology and the growth of science began to ascend, the former more solid and timehonored social systems like religion and nationalism began to disintegrate. In its place came what he called the Cult of Individualism and the wish for unbridled freedom, unreasonable gratifications and what he liked to call “froid moral,” or loose morals. Durkheim coined the term “anomie” to describe the end point of this psychological state, including aimlessness, lack of connection, depression and alienation. Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” is a perfect demonstration of this state. In this novel a man attends his mother’s funeral, feels no remorse, leaves the funeral home, gets involved in a senseless murder and is arrested. The prosecutor cannot understand why the man committed the murder and why he seems to have no feelings. Being a stranger in a strange land is what we mean by anomie and remains a remarkably common

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state in today’s world. Many of my patients complain of feelings that their life has no purpose and that they feel depressed and even suicidal about it. Today more than ever we live in a disconnected world where we increasingly interact with computers and not humans. Civic involvement has all but disappeared. This is unhealthy, unnerving and unsettling. To be human means to be

involved with oneself but also to be embedded in society. Rampant individualism cannot sustain a person forever. So, when people are caught in a whirlwind of change, feel disconnected, alone, anxious, stressed and depressed, anyone who oﬀers some structure and meaning will ascend to power. Thus, authoritarian rule becomes attractive and is why we have seen this trend both in European nations and even our own. COVID exacerbated our anomie with all the isolation that it caused. We saw the explosion of deviance, crime, social unrest, and unhappiness last summer as the discontented took to the streets in social protest. This same unrest and anomie are with us today and now it’s Russia’s turn to act out the misery with this insane attempt to take over a neighboring country. Anomie is caused by a lack of moral structure and a lack of

The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming.

boundaries. This strange state of confusion is perfectly demonstrated by Mother Russia. Emile Durkheim would tell us that we give up our traditional social institutions at our own peril. Progress is inevitable and we are all forced into change as a result. But as our former institutions disintegrate and as we fail to replace them with better holding environments, then people become anxious and confused and the world turns into an even more unpredictable and dangerous place. Around the time Durkheim was developing is theory of anomie, the American historian Henry Adams, a descendant of two presidents, wrote “A Law of Acceleration” in 1906. He worried that if science continued to develop too rapidly, mankind might not be ready to manage all the changes. This has now come to pass. Science has produced nuclear bombs and the internet and modernism and post-modernism have overwhelmed most of us to the point of confusion and frustration. And as COVID recedes from our lives, what comes into view now is a madman who has a nuclear arsenal of bombs and is ready to push the button. Who could have predicted all of this? Letters continued on Page 28

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND DINING

‘GODFATHER,’ AT 50, TIED TO G.N., HOFSTRA BY M I C H A E L J . LEWIS It sounds like a pretty ridiculous statement on its face. Francis Ford Coppola is a proud graduate of Great Neck North High School, class of 1955, who went on to Hofstra University and then an almost unparalleled career as a film director that has spanned more than five decades. His masterpiece, of course, came in 1972, with “The Godfather,” the story of Don Corleone, his son Michael and the dynamics of a Mafia family managing friends, family and business. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and is on just about every film critic’s list of Top 10, or at worst, Top 20, films of all time. It is currently being celebrated on its 50th birthday, with new screenings (it was the top box oﬃce film by location for the weekend of Feb. 25-27) and a wave of publicity. But according to a recent interview with the Nassau County native, Coppola said he had no idea what he was doing while making this classic. “You have to understand, as a filmmaker, I didn’t really know how to make ‘The Godfather,’” Coppola told The New York Times. “I learned how

to make ‘The Godfather’ by making it.” What? There’s no way an epic like that could’ve just happened, right? Well Rodney Hill, an associate professor of film studies at Hofstra, said Coppola has made similar comments in the past. Hill has met and interviewed the legendary director twice, including a 2018 Zoom session with his students at Hofstra. (Coppola could not be reached for

comment for this story.) “There’s a famous story which he confirmed that George Lucas had to convince Coppola to make ‘The Godfather,’” Hill said in an interview last week. “‘The Godfather’ is not the kind of film he wanted to be making, but Lucas told him it was a great opportunity.” Coppola has acknowledged how much his Hofstra experience shaped him, giving him the confidence

and freedom to become a director. Hill said Coppola told him he was first inspired to make movies by watching the 1927 film by Sergei Eisenstein “October (Ten Days that Shook The World)” while on campus. “He came here to study drama, and on a playwriting scholarship,” Hill recalled. “He was going to try to be a playwright like Arthur Miller. But then he got into directing some plays at Hofstra, and saw

the Eisenstein movie, and it lit a spark.” That spark turned into a career that led to “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now,” and the trilogy of “Godfather” movies. Asked why he thinks “The Godfather” endures, Hill pointed to the story and the acting. “He took a movie about family dynamics, and made it into a story about America, and power, and corruption, and

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It has been 50 years since Francis Ford Coppola, a Great Neck North High School graduate, directed “The Godfather.”

all those things are evergreen,” Hill said. “It’s not just a specific crime story, it takes on another level. “And when you look at the cast,” Hill continued, “Coppola’s ability to spot young talent is great. So many of the actors who were great in ‘The Godfather’ went on to great careers, because they did such great work in that movie.” One criticism of “The Godfather” is its slow pace, and its three-hour running time. Hill works with young college students who are often accused of having tiny attention spans, with multiple screens occupying their attention at once. So can today’s college students sit through the epic film and appreciate it? “I think they do!” Hill said. “Some of my recent students went and saw it, and last year a student told me he saw it for the first time and that the three hours flew by.” For Coppola, even though it has become his most famous and beloved work, making “The Godfather” was no fun task. “I was just glad I had survived the experience of ‘The Godfather’ and I wanted nothing more to do with it,” he said. Fifty years later, he’s still talking about it, as is the rest of the film-loving world.

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‘Songs I Wrote … Songs I Wish I Wrote’ concert On Sunday, March 13 at 3:00 p.m., Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will oﬀer a virtual concert, “Songs I Wrote … Songs I Wish I Wrote,” featuring composer and pianist Jimmy Roberts. Jimmy Roberts is an entertainer who has delighted audiences with his wit and his special way with a song. Recent engagements include Merkin Concert Hall, the Time Warner Center, the 92nd Street Y, Steinway Hall, and the National Arts Club. For seven years he was featured pianist at the Drake Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The award-winning co-author of the

second-longest-running Oﬀ Broadway musical in history, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” takes stock of his huge repertoire and, with themes that include Relationships, World Travel and that great metropolis of New York, hand picks the best of the Great American Songbook and expands it with his own notable contributions. The result? — a musical journey through recent history, lingering on the fashions that change and the aspects of life and love that never do and never will. Jimmy Roberts’ eclectic program includes the music and/or words of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammer-

stein II, Stephen Sondheim, Noël Coward, plus Jimmy’s own theater songs and those of his distinguished contemporaries, Alan Menken and John Bucchino. Jimmy has a new show that is Broadway-bound. It’s called Welcome to the Big Dipper, and he will treat us to a first hearing of some of its powerful and evocative musical moments. Why are songs so important anyway? Lyricist E. Y. Harburg (Over the Rainbow) expresses it this way: “Songs are the pulse of a nation’s heart,a fever chart of its health. Are we at peace? Are we in trouble? Do we feel beautiful? Do we feel ugly? Listen to our songs.” I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change opened in 1996 and received the Drama Desk nomination as Best Musical. Since then it has been produced around the world in languages as diverse as French, Spanish, German, Finnish, Mandarin and Cantonese. Jimmy’s second Oﬀ Broadway show The Thing About Men,

won the New York Outer Critics Circle award for Best Musical. A graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with noted pianist, Constance Keene, Jimmy is also a published poet, and several of his poems have appeared in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. A New York Times review stated: “Jimmy Roberts showed how such songs should be done. A rhythmically perceptive voice, and a brilliant performance of a plaintively powerful song.” This concert is funded by Dorothy D’Amato in memory of George D’Amato. Registration for this virtual event is $10. The show is available for viewing through April 1st. For further information, to register and purchase a ticket online, go to: https://www.scwculturalarts.org/ sunday-series Call 516.482.5701 to purchase a ticket after March 13th at 2:00 p.m., or, if you have any questions.

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Author Dara Horn to speak Comedy murder mystery show at Temple Beth Sholom Prolific author Dr. Dara Horn will join Rabbi Alan B. Lucas in a conversation about her works at Temple Beth Sholom on Thursday, March 24 at 7:45 p.m. A two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Horn is the author of six books: ”In the Image,” “The World to Come,” “All Other Nights,” “A Guide for the Perplexed,” “Eternal Life,” and “People Love Dead Jews.” One of Granta Magazine’s “Best Young American Novelists,” Horn is a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature and has a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University, and Yeshiva University, and has lectured on Jewish literature in over 200 universities and cultural institutions. Lucas will interview Horn about her works, including her latest book, “People Love Dead Jews,” a collection of incisive essays that constitutes a searing investigation of modern-day antisemitism. This event will kick oﬀ the temple’s new Rabbi Alan B. Lucas Lecture Series, founded to honor Rabbi Lucas’s dedication to education, community enrichment, and personal growth. Rabbi Lucas is retiring in June. Sisterhood has contributed in his honor towards the cost of the event. The event is open to the community. Tickets are $36 for a reserved seat at the lecture. Become a Gold Event Sponsor and choose one of these packages: • $100 for one ticket to the lecture, a light dinner with the author at 6:30 PM prior to the lecture, and a signed book• $180 for two tickets to the lecture, two

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tickets to the dinner, and a signed book. Tickets may be purchased on the Temple’s website at: tinyurl.com/y8f3nu54You may also preorder Dara Horn’s latest book, People Love Dead Jews, on the event page. Temple Beth Sholom is located at 401 Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Heights, NY 11577. For further information, contact the Temple oﬃce at mainoﬃce@tbsroslyn.org or call 516-621-2288.

Renowned author Dara Horn will speak at Temple Beth Sholom of Roslyn Heights on March 24.

March 1, 2022. The Killing Kompany®, New York’s leading comedy murder mystery dinner theater company, returns with new live performances in New York and New Jersey: Friday March 4 at 8:00pm, DEATH AT THE DISCO, a comedy murder mystery dinner show at G’S CLUB, 157 Hempstead Ave, West Hempstead, NY 11552 ($65 pp*) (516) 318-2992 Saturday March 12 at 8:00pm, THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY MURDER, a comedy murder mystery dinner show at LA BUENA VIDA, 714 Montauk Hwy, Moriches, NY ($65 pp*) (631) 909-1985 Thursday March 24 at 7:30pm, MOB MURDERS, a comedy murder mystery dinner show at PALMER’S AMERICAN GRILLE, 123 Fulton St, Farmingdale, NY ($65 pp*) (516) 420-0609 Thursday April 7 at 7:30pm, MURDER ON PSYCHIC NIGHT, a comedy murder mystery dinner show at PALMER’S AMERICAN GRILLE, 123 Fulton St, Farmingdale, NY ($65 pp*) (516) 420-0609 Seating is limited and all ticket sales are final. The price includes a dinner and of course the show. After you purchase your tickets, if you would like a person from your party to be made a “guest suspect”, contact The Killing Kompany® at killing@killingkompany.com THE KILLING KOMPANY® — Mystery Dinner Theatre ShowsE mail: killingkompany@killingkompany. comWeb: www.killingkompany.com Phone 212 772-2590 or 1 888 SHOOT-EM Fax 212 202-6495

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Temple Isaiah will present the final installment of its three-part series Jewish Masters of 20th Century Art on Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 p.m.. Titled “Lissitzky, Chagall and the Russian Revolution,” the program will focus on two artists who rose to international prominence as a result of the Russian revolution. The program will be presented by art historian Dr. Dennis Raverty, Associate Professor at New Jersey City University, where he teaches 19th and 20th century art history, including the art of West Af-

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aving made it to their golden years, seniors enjoy not only the privilege of earned wisdom, but also a few perks that come with aging. Many adults who have reached a certain age are entitled to an array of discounts, which take into consideration seniors’ fixed retirement

incomes. Discounts are available on various services, including many travel options. Seniors have a lot of time to devote to recreational pursuits. This list of available travel discounts can help seniors get the most bang for their vacation bucks.

Airline tickets

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Before booking a flight, it is worth investigating if a particular airline carrier offers senior discounts. The global pandemic has changed how some airlines do business, and many have faced significant adversity since early 2020. Airlines may offer more affordable flights to drum up business. In the past, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, British Airlines, and United Airlines have offered various discounts for people ages 65 and older.

Dining out

Many restaurants, and national chains in particular, offer senior discounts with or without AARP membership. Applebee’s offers 10 to 15 percent off to those age 60 or older. Brick House Tap & Tavern, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Denny’s, IHOP, Outback Steakhouse, and many others provide discounts or special senior pricing.

Ground travel

Flying isn’t the only mode of travel available. AARP partners with various car rental companies to offer senior discounts. Seniors also may be entitled to discounts of 5 percent or more on tickets from Greyhound, Amtrak, and Trailways. Seniors who live in metropolitan areas also may get reduced fares on public buses and trains through providers like New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Re-elect Ehrbar team for Williston Park

aul Ehrbar: Paul Ehrbar has decided to seek re-election for mayor of the Village of Williston Park. Paul, his wife Doreen, a former mayor, and three children moved to Williston Park in 1975. Over the past 12 years, as mayor working with a dedicated board, many positive improvements have been put in place on all levels throughout the Village to benefit our residents. His vision for the future is ongoing and this will continue if reelected mayor. “As mayor, I have been available to residents seven days a week, 24 hours a day. I am in the oﬃce daily, Monday through Friday, having an open-door policy. I have been available nights and weekends whenever needed. I have worked with both Village committees and community groups beginning in 1977. I have been dedicated to working with all seniors whenever possible and will continue to do so. I have been accessible in person and by cell phone (516-941-8463) throughout my term as mayor. I, with the support of the Board, have worked hard to keep taxes low, while improving services throughout the

Village and will continue to do so.” Kevin Rynne: Kevin Rynne, current deputy mayor, is seeking re-election as Village trustee. Kevin, his wife Marianne and three children have been longtime residents of Williston Park. Kevin, prior to election as Village trustee, has been dedicated to our valued youth with Williston Park Little League, St. Aidan’s sport teams and Herricks sport team. He brings a positive attitude in all that he has been involved with. Since becoming a trustee 12 years ago, he has left his mark on all aspects of the Village. “As deputy mayor I have worked closely with both the mayor and board to help make improvements for this great Village, we all call home. I have worked extremely hard to assist wherever and whenever I have been able. I remain accessible to all residents.” Bill O’Brien: Bill O’Brien is seeking re-election for Village Trustee as part of the Integrity Team Party ticket along with Mayor Paul Ehrbar, Deputy Mayor Kevin Rynne and Village Justice Kevin Kiley. Bill, his wife Colleen and their four children have been residents of Williston Park for 24 years. Bill has been an ac-

tive member of the community. He was a Special Education Religion teacher for almost 10 years. He coached girls’ volleyball and boys’ basketball for Saint Aidan’s CYO. He was a part of Cub Scout Troop. He is currently the Vice President of the Williston Park Little League. “I believe that continuing as a trustee is an opportunity to help the current board continue their outstanding work in making Williston Park one of the best places to live on Long Island. I believe that eﬀective communication skills, the ability to make informed decisions and respect for the residents of Williston Park will go a long way in helping the current Board improve the quality of life and maintain fiscal strength for all residents of Williston Park.” Kevin Kiley: Kevin Kiley is seeking re-election as Village justice. Kevin and his wife Nancy have resided in Williston Park for 32 years. They have three grown children, Meghan Kiley Metcalf, M.D., Kevin, Jr., and Michael, and three grandchildren. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and St. John’s University School of Law. He has served as Village justice since 2007 and is the

immediate past president of the Nassau County Magistrates Association after having served as a director and oﬃcer since 2012. Kevin has also been an active volunteer for both the Williston Park community and St. Aidan’s Parish since moving to Williston Park, having served on the Village Recreation Committee, as the Village prosecutor and as a Little League, PAL and CYO coach. Kevin currently serves as a trustee of St. Aidan Parish and as president of the St. Aidan CYO. He is also the president of the Board of Directors of the CYO of Nassau and Suffolk. During his tenure as Village justice Kevin has secured funding grants from NYS of over $25,000, which have been used to improve the court facilities and functions. He is a hard working, dedicated individual who has proven to be a great asset to the residents of Williston Park. Paul Ehrbar, mayor Williston Park Letters continued on Page 30

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Rosen hears bus What Rosen’s bookshelves say noise complaints I

am writing this letter in support of there-election of Mayor Ted Rosen. I live in a co-op in Great Neck Plaza near the train station. Residents of my co-op have had constant problems regarding various issues, including noise, traffic and parking. Mayor Rosen, whom I have known for over a decade, has met and spoken with residents of my co-op and has listened to their concerns. He has sought to resolve the noise issues that directly affect residents of my coop by working with the management of NYCE Buses to reduce noise — which is constantly emanating from the buses, even during Village quiet hours, when the bus drivers break our local laws by idling right outside my window, often as early as 4:45 a.m. They also have loudspeakers outside the buses to declare that the bus is going to move or turn — and those are frequently very loud, all day long. Mayor Rosen has also sought to reduce traffic congestion in the area resulting from customers double parking in front of nearby stores. He has assured me he is working on plans to provide additional parking spaces for residents in the immediate vicinity of my co-op. I have found Mayor Rosen to be committed to finding solutions to make Great Neck Plaza a better place to live for all of the residents of our Village, unlike some other local politicians

who seem to be more concerned about local businesses than residents. And every time I leave a message with one of my concerns, Mayor Rosen always contacts me back within about three days — after he has had time to look into the issue, possible solutions, and any diﬃculties we need to overcome before my concerns can be resolved. In other words, he doesn’t just get back to me the same day with empty promises. He does his homework first, and calls me when options are ready to be discussed. And he has never once rushed me oﬀ the phone. He answers me patiently and with facts, not platitudes or promises. And not with excuses, either. I’m not saying he has been able to fix everything I want fixed, but that is life. Change happens, and in the past 25 years I have seen change for both the better and unfortunately sometimes for the worse, right outside my home. Mayor Rosen was responsive to my concerns when he was deputy mayor and continues to respond to me today. I hope any local residents who care about their quality of life will vote to re-elect Ted Rosen as mayor and his running mates, Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia as trustees. David A. Reich Great Neck

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s Mr. Ted Rosen, the current part-time mayor of Great Neck Plaza, overwhelmed with excessive responsibilities beyond his job as a mayor? It seems that it might be the case. Does/can he handle his highly demanding job as a mayor with the proper dedication? I watched the two ZOOM debates (in 2020 and 2022, approximately 1.5 years apart) between Ted Rosen (currently the incumbent mayor) and Leonard Katz (contender for mayor position). In the 2020 debate, Mr. Rosen acknowledged that in addition to running for mayor of Great Neck Plaza, he concurrently had (at least) 5 other positions/jobs. For anyone who watched, it was hard to miss Mr. Rosen’s disorganized bookshelves in the background during both of the ZOOM debates. I took screenshots from both events (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKfgREXIUF4andhttps:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytu6XuIVkm4). Remarkably, the positions of the disorganized books had not changed even by a bit from 2020 to 2022. Nothing was straightened, moved or reorganized during the 1.5 years. The only noticeable change in the background was a chair filled with clutter (on the right side of the screen and left of Mr. Rosen). The very fact that Mr. Rosen did not bother to organize at least the books on his bookshelves, even minimally, in 1.5 years, is quite alarming.

While having the ZOOM meetings, he can see what is going on in the four ZOOM screens. He is aware of the noticeable messy background behind him. He could at least have spent 15 minutes organizing the bookshelves prior to the second meeting. Probably he is too busy with many responsibilities which he has acknowledged (litigator, arbitrator, professor, involvements in various organizations) doesn’t allow him to spend 15 minutes in 1.5 years to organize his bookshelves. Or, maybe he has diﬃculty with getting things organized. The traﬃc in Great Neck Plaza is the same way as Mr. Rosen’s bookshelves, chaotic, vehicles in cockeyed positions while crossing the lines to pass double-parked vehicles. The incidents of pedestrian accidents in Great Neck Plaza are the highest in the entire Nassau County. We deserve better than that. We need people with more organizational skills and decisions than Mr. Rosen. I know Leonard Katz quite well. He is a very responsible individual. He is very dedicated to the tasks that he gets involved in. I am certain that the trustees he has chosen are highly competent. Vote on March 15 for Leonard Katz (mayor), Jason Hertz (trustee), and Ruomei Hu (trustee). Robert Farajollah Village of Great Neck Plaza

Vote for Revive G.N. Plaza

arry Truman once said “the reward of suffering is experience.” Notably, our current mayor in Great Neck Plaza, Ted Rosen, is asking Great Neck Plaza residents to accept his experience as the justification for his re-election. In truth, the opposite is more befitting: “suffering is the reward for the experience.” When Mr. Rosen referred to “experience” as the slogan for his campaign, he was referring to his own “experience” and not the village residents’ experiences while he has been the mayor. The residents of no villages on the Great Neck peninsula, other than Great Neck Plaza, had “experienced” a tax hike of 5.5% in a single year. The exorbitant 5.5% tax hike only occurred during one year of Mr. Rosen’s mayoral term. How is it that the residents of the Old Village (Village of Great Neck) practically did not experience any tax hikes in 6 years? The traffic in Great Neck Plaza has been another “suffering experience” for the residents. The traffic lights are not properly sequenced. The police are not ticketing the double-parkers. Instead, their focus has been on expired meters. Moreover, the sidewalks in Great Neck Plaza

are in a dangerous state and the residents’ experiences have been neglected. According to the published statistics by Nassau County, countywide, the risk of getting hit or killed by a car while crossing the street is highest in Great Neck Plaza. Why? Are Mr. Rosen and the incumbent team deserving of our votes in the upcoming election? The team that is challenging the incumbents on March 15 consists of Leonard Katz, Jason Hertz, and Ruomei (Margaret) Hu. They are competent and have the proper backgrounds for the issues at hand. Leonard Katz is an expert in budgeting and financial expenditure. Jason Hertz, P.E., MBA, is a licensed engineer and has a highly technical background. He would be instrumental in resolving the Great Neck Plaza’s infrastructure issues such as traﬃc, roads, sidewalks and bridges. Ruomei Hu, MBA, has an extensive background in finance and accounting. They all will be major assets for Great Neck Plaza. Please vote for the team with competence. The incumbents have had their chance and they have not been up to the task. Dr. Mitchell Wolfson Great Neck Plaza

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Ukraine’s impact on housing market

he variable that no one is talking about is what impact if any the invasion of Ukraine will have on our housing market. We are now into the 11th day of the conflict and intrusion on Ukrainian soil by Putin and his Russian Army. I am quite sure the majority of his soldiers don’t even know why they are invading the country. However, as this unprecedented and deathly invasion continues, it reminds me ofSept 1, 1939, as Hitler started his invasion of Poland, and there began the start ofWWII. But now we have not only Russia to deal with but its new partner in crime, China, which has yet to come out and condemn or condone the senseless move into a sovereign, democratic and free country. The Russian military action is a threat to not only other countries nearby, but to the rest of the world. Fortunately, NATO has never been so connected and solidified indirectly and maybe soon will directly fight the aggressive actions of Russia. This unconscionable event just may have an eﬀect on our strong housing activity, as the volatile stock

market has been shaky with its ups and downs due to the war. But I hope this won’t be looked at as business as usual and things go back to normal. The retaliatory moves against the Russians have been globally supported and even protests in Russia, where thousands have been arrested, and elsewhere have shown strong solidarity for Ukraine and its people. In the United States, inflation is at a 40-year high, while gas prices have been climbing to a historic level not seen since 2008. Moreover, food and energy, e.g. oil and natural gas, have been increasing to levels that are putting tremendous pressure on so many budgets, potentially setting the stage for another recession. If you are going to be selling and/or purchasing, I would suggest not waiting and devising a plan of action to take advantage of the still high demand and low-interest rates so that you can either downsize, move up or purchase your first primary residence. FYI, there are programs that first-time buyers can avail themselves of through Nassau, Suﬀolk, and Queens counties to be able to get on their lists to

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secure $30,000 of grant money, based on income and other factors. If you’ve lived in that home for at least 10 years, you will not have to pay the money back. You can Google, grant money for first-time buyers and if you need any assistance whatsoever, just call me. The only thing left is the psychology of our current environment which might be the final straw to cast a net over our current “hot market.” Normal supply and demand economics generally has been the rule of thumb and for the most part for all of our commodities unless, as we know, some phony, creative, and sometimes illegal

things are concocted to cause a market to go up or decline. But some may surmise that due to the lowest inventory and historically lowest interest rates anyone can remember, this amazing run can’t or won’t stop until one or both of those factors increase to a level that will slow our current insatiable trend. It could happen. That being said, I truly hope that we are not at a critical and crucial turning point for housing demand to change. I wish us to be in a more normal and balanced position. I am quite concerned, but still keeping a positive attitude and hope and pray that the Ukrainian situation will be settled and come to a more beneficial result for the people and the rest of the global community so that we can eliminate the risk of an escalation into an unfathomable WWIII. You can donate what you can to the following organization: donate.iom.int The International Organization for Migration:IOM is scaling up its humanitarian operations in Ukraine and neighboring countries, providing

emergency services in health, shelter, winter supplies, and protection. I would appreciate (and anyone’s volunteering to help me) with any donation that could be provided, if not money, then canned or boxed food, powdered baby food, toiletries, blankets, first aid kits, clothing, toothpaste, toothbrushes, Tylenol, etc. or any commodities that we can send there to ease the stress and issues of those citizens who are in a desperate situation. You could bring them to my oﬃce, noted below, but call me in advance to make sure someone will be there! Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 40+ 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 (C.I.P.S). 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

17 Birch Street, Great Neck

73 Colgate Road, Great Neck

5 bd, 4 ba, 3,379 sqft, Sold On: 1/26/22, Sold Price: $1,998,888 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

3 bd, 3 ba, Sold On: 2/7/22, Sold Price: $1,140,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

5 Sussex Road, Great Neck

13 Dale Carnegie Court, Great Neck

5 bd, 5 ba, Sold On: 1/25/22, Sold Price: $2,300,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

5 bd, 3 ba, Sold On: 1/19/22, Sold Price: $1,950,000 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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Plaza mayoral election headlines G.N. races Continued from Page 1 running on the United Residents Party line with Deputy Mayor Pamela Marksheid and Trustee Michael Deluccia. Rosen reflected on his mayoral tenure in a press release announcing the launch of the party’s re-election campaign. “We have made tremendous progress in addressing major issues and challenges faced by local government today,” Rosen said. “We have focused on improving the downtown vitality of our Village by taking significant steps to attract new businesses to our Village and to provide important support to the existing businesses to help them succeed and continue in business.” Katz, a Great Neck resident since 1971, is running for mayor under the Revive Great Neck Plaza Party banner along with Jason Hertz and Ruomei Hu for trustee positions. Katz said he has become “disillusioned with the results of the policies” that have been implemented by the current administration and stressed the need to have new faces and fresh ideas in the village government. “There needs to be a new

energy that comes with new people involved in government because we live in a dynamic society and new times require new, fresh, innovative, and creative ideas,” Katz said. “Our campaign is absolutely set on addressing the issue of term limits, too. We have had administration oﬃcials in oﬃce, seemingly in perpetuity, for far too long.” The election will take place at Village Hall, Gussack Plaza, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Village of Thomaston Trustees To-On Pang and James Sharkey are not running for re-election, with four residents seeking to fill those two seats on the board. Village residents Nick Toumbekis and Karen Lynne Siegel are running on the Good Neighbors Party line. They are running in an at-large election against Aaron S. Halpern and Jay W. Chagrin, who are running on the Honest Neighbors Party line. “I pledge to work for responsive and respectful governance, balancing the needs and aspirations of our village community with fiscal and social priorities; while enhancing Thomaston’s exceptional quality of life for all

IF ELECTED, I PLEDGE TO LISTEN TO THE VOICES AND INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY, AND STAND UP TO THOSE WHO SEEK TO UNDERMINE THE COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT THAT WE ALL VALUE AND ENJOY.

Aaron S. Halpern PHOTOS COURTESY OF HI TECH STUDIOS AND MARC KATZ

Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Ted Rosen (left) is running for re-election against village resident Leonard Katz (right) in the March elections. our residents,” Siegel said in a statement. “If elected, I pledge to listen to the voices and interests of the community, and stand up to those who seek to undermine the community and environment that we all value and enjoy,” Halpern said in a letter to Blank Slate Media. “I will also work to enhance the quality of life of our residents and community while exercising fiscal

responsibility.” “I feel that I will bring a unique vision to the Board of Trustees,” Chagrin said in a letter. “Serving the Public’s interest will always be paramount. I will now have the time to devote to Public Service which is something I have wanted to do for many years.” No statement was available from Toumbekis. The election will take place

at the Manhasset-Lakeville Firehouse, 25 Prospect St., from noon to 9 p.m. Village of Russell Gardens Trustees Lawrence Chaleﬀ and Matthew Ellis are running unopposed for re-election to their seats for four-year terms. Village Justice Edward Goodman is running unopposed for reelection, also for a four-year term. The election will take place at Village Hall, 6 Train Drive, from noon to 9 p.m. The villages of Great Neck Estates and Saddle Rock are not holding elections this year, while the villages of Great Neck, Kings Point and Lake Success hold their elections in June.

N. Shore aids Ukrainians Continued from Page 2 struck by disasters. Haber said the organization deployed a team to Poland to help the at-risk population impacted by the invasion. The group is taking donations through a link on its website, https://give.allhandsandhearts. org/give/394859/#!/donation/ checkout, where people can help fund the resources being provided by the ground team aiding adults, children, orphans and others whose lives are at risk. A group of Manhasset students has raised nearly $50,000 to provide everyday resources such as cleaning products, blankets, mattresses and clothing to the atrisk Ukrainian population. Junior Max Majewski and senior Alex Mlotkowski created a GoFundMe on Feb. 28 that outlined the eﬀorts they and others have made to aid Ukrainian families that crossed the Polish border. The donations, they said, will be split between a group of 40 women and children that arrived in Poland and other not-for-profit organizations to enhance refugee eﬀorts.

“The long-term goal is to set the kids up in school and oﬀer assistance to help find work,” the GoFundMe read. “All donations raised will be used to purchase necessities locally, we will have direct contact and impact on these families, and we’ll be able to view their progress.” The Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center in East Hills hosted a “Curb Your Mitzvah” drive on Sunday, collecting clothing, boots and necessities for babies. Oﬃcials said the community support resulted in a U-Haul truck being filled to capacity with donations along with two vans being filled with medical supplies. “Thank you to everyone who donated needed supplies for the people of Ukraine yesterday and all of our volunteers who helped in sorting donations,” a post from the JCC’s Facebook page said. Last week, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced a gun drive for Ukrainian citizens and called on President Joe Biden to help provide weapons to citizens fighting for their lives.

“Just watching the Ukrainian residents making Molotov cocktails in a brewery out of beer bottles shows they’re in a desperate flight and we can’t stand by and do nothing,” Blakeman said at a news conference. “We are doing our job here in Nassau County, I am asking President Biden to do his job and help get these weapons to Ukraine immediately to those who desperately need them.” Blakeman, along with U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), Assemblyman Charles Lavine (DGlen Cove), U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and Glen Cove Mayor Pam Panzenbeck previously pledged support for Ukraine after the invasion, with some urging Biden to close the Killenworth estate, a compound in Glen Cove used by Russian diplomats to the United Nations. In 2016, President Barack Obama’s administration ordered a Russian-owned mansion in Brookville, which was described by the U.S. government as a “recreational compound,” to be closed in late December due to Russia’s interference in the presidential

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North Shore individuals have found ways to aid the Ukrainian population with various fundraisers and clothing drives. election. Since then, 35 diplomats were expelled while the Killenworth estate itself was unaﬀected. It remains a Russian property that does not pay property taxes. “President Biden, expel these Russians from Nassau County,” Blakeman said. “We don’t need them here and let’s get this property back on the tax rolls so the people of Nassau County and Glen Cove don’t have to finance thugs and dictators and people who invade innocent countries.” It is unclear if the U.S. government has legal grounds to act on Blakeman’s wishes. Lavine also announced he will join the Ukrainian Americans of Long Island for a humanitarian

collection drive for the at-risk population, saying that items such as clothing, dental floss, toothpaste, mouthwash, soap, hand sanitizer, female hygienic products, shampoo, razors and toilet paper are some of the most-needed items. “I am in awe of the courage the Ukrainian civilians have shown in protecting their country and defending it from tyranny. It is now time for us as Americans to do our part to support them,” Lavine said. Donations can be dropped oﬀ at Lavine’s district oﬃce at 1 School Street #303-B in Glen Cove from Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

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IDA postpones vote on Middle Neck Rd. Agency cites need to address communityconcerns, further discuss with developer Continued from Page 1 Zoning Appeals later that year. With the expansion of the proposal, the project overlapped with the village’s Residence C and Residence E, or apartment, zones. According to Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral, the project was resubmitted to the zoning board rather than the Board of Trustees due to the zoning approvals that the Board of Trustees could not grant the developer. “Changing zones is not within the scope of the Board of Trustees and only the Zoning Board of Appeals is able to make those changes,” Bral said in a September interview with Blank Slate Media. Because the plans were changed, the incentives initially granted by the Board of Trustees became null and void, Bral said. In March 2021, the village’s Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously approved the site plan for the updated proposal, which also included a meeting room, two recreation rooms and a storage unit on the sub-level floors. The Board of Trustees approved updated architectural and facade plans for the proposed complex in May. Updates featured French balconies, a more compartmentalized appearance and ornamental lighting on the building’s exterior. Residents expressed their concerns about the proposed structure to IDA oﬃcials during a September meeting at Village Hall. Some spoke about their displeasure with the project and advocated that the developer not be granted any tax breaks

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The Nassau County IDA’s Board of Directors postponed vote on proposal on 733-41 Middle Neck Road. in the form of payments in lieu of taxes, also known as PILOT relief. “Simply put, we cannot afford to further excuse developers from contributing to that which makes any town viable and attractive,” village resident Karen Bardash said. “We need to have money coming in, we need money in the way of taxes. If builders cannot aﬀord to build without incentives, they should not build.” “At some point, I want to know why the rest of us, who own private homes, have to take up the slack for the reductions in taxes to people who are only making a profit,” village resident Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar said. “Either you want to put up a 60unit building and you’re willing to pay for it, or you’re not.” A week after their meeting at Village Hall, the IDA board addressed the proposal and the various resolutions packaged

AT SOME POINT, I WANT TO KNOW WHY THE REST OF US, WHO OWN PRIVATE HOMES, HAVE TO TAKE UP THE SLACK FOR THE REDUCTIONS IN TAXES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ONLY MAKING A PROFIT.

Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar VILLAGE RESIDENT

with it during a public board meeting. The resolutions included a 22-year tax break package, approval for the project under state environmental law and an overall approving resolution. John Farrell, a lawyer for the project’s developer, Gesher Center LLC, said he and the

developer were aware of the residents’ concerns during the board’s Sept. 21 meeting. “I’m familiar with the residents’ comments and concerns,” said Farrell, who works with the law firm of Sahn, Ward, Braﬀ, Koblenz PLLC. “This is something that the village wants. We would not be here right now if the village wasn’t supportive of this project.” Farrell also acknowledged concerns about the proposed first-floor art gallery and assured members of the IDA board that it would not be used for any religious services or alternative operations. Farrell said this project has the ability to “kickstart the redevelopment along Middle Neck Road.” Carrie-Anne Tondo of Ingerman Smith LLP, representing the Great Neck school district, spoke during the Sept. 21 meeting about the lack of concrete information presented by the devel-

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oper on how schools would be aﬀected by the building. “The payments to the district from the applicant are significantly less than if that property were put onto the tax roll as an approved project,” Tondo said. “Additional analysis concerning costs for projected school-age children was also absent in any of the documents that were submitted.” Farrell told the IDA board that the project does not anticipate more than seven children living in the building. Tondo said that if the building had 10 school-age children, the annual PILOT payments would not cover the cost of those students until 14 years into the PILOT relief the developer seeks. The IDA’s March 31 meeting is scheduled to take place at 6:45 p.m. in the ceremonial chambers of the county’s Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building.

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n a somber Zoom meeting of the Thomaston Board of Trustees on Feb 24th, the Tower Ford building was finally Landmarked. This was the culmination of almost two years of secretive dealings by the owner and Mayor Weinberg followed by an intense battle forged by the community. Along the way, it revealed how fragile our local government is; how it relies on the integrity of just five people; and how easily the process can be corrupted to the detriment of our town. Outgoing Trustee Pang once said, “this Village is only as strong as its residents’ involvement.”

We’ve been too wrapped up in our own lives, leaving the job of ‘governing’ to a group of people unchecked by community oversight. Getting to this realization has taken an unnecessary lawsuit costing tens of thousands of dollars collected from incensed Thomaston residents. For those who want to understand the history and evidence behind the lawsuit can educate themselves at savegreatneck.org/ the-lawsuit. Despite overwhelming objection from his Thomaston constituency, Mayor Weinberg refused to resign, or at least recuse himself

from the matter. One of his own Trustees submitted a sworn statement confirming that the board had been misled when they passed a development law for the benefit of one builder. Getting the landmarking status for the Tower Ford building is a great victory for Thomaston. But we should not be taking a victory lap yet. It’s vitally important that we learn from this ordeal by ensuring our local government is accurately representing the will and benefits of the community. This can only be done by voting onto the board people we can trust. We have that opportunity now because two of

the five Board of Trustees seats are opening up. Let’s elect members to the board that will be honest to the people of Thomaston. Aaron Halpern and Jay Chagrin would be outstanding Trustees, starting with the fact that they are unconnected to this mayor. They were instrumental in the fight for Tower Ford on the streets and in the courts. They would sit at the Village Board table to provide sorely needed oversight. This is going to be a heavily contested election. With Trustees Pang and Sharkey leaving, the mayor is busy campaigning for his candidates. We must show up for this election in numbers so great

that it becomes a referendum on the existing leadership. Thomaston’s Mayor and his team have lost the trust of their constituents. This past year has created a great deal of anguish for so many. Unless we take action, we’ll be in for more of the same. The only sensible path forward is to improve the oversight and transparency of our local government. We need all of you to come out to vote for Aaron Halpern and Jay Chagrin. Aaron and Jay all the way! David Pinsley Thomaston

Why you should vote for me as Plaza mayor

f we haven’t met, let me introduce myself. My name us Leonard Katz. I am running for the mayor position in The Village of Great Neck Plaza. I’ve lived in Great Neck since 1971, raised my three children. Great Neck was a wonderful place for me to raise my family, but today when I look around, I see a diﬀerent trend, the continuous downhill slide of our village. While using “experience” as the campaign slogan, the present set of incumbents has no real record of accomplishment. Well, looking around, we all can clearly see what their “experience” had brought us. Fiscal responsibility and transparency are the vital concern for me and my team for

preserving a bright future for our village. The village taxes have significantly increased, more that any surrounding villages on the peninsula. The financial statements of Great Neck Plaza are not available on line. It shall be my priority to post all financial statements online for the public. The infrastructure in Great Neck Plaza is in need of repairs and upgrades. Flooding streets during storms, the uneven sidewalks, loose bricks and crumbling curbsides, and the bridges’ safety are the leading issues to get fixed. The traﬃc and safety in our village are of fundamental concerns. By far, we have the worst traﬃc connections on the peninsula. Unfortunately, we have

the worst pedestrian accidents in Nassau County. Instead of ticketing double-parking, our current administration has fundamentally focused on expired meters.The traﬃc lights are not adequately sequenced. Regulations forbid valet parking and only because of the COVID-19 issue has the board acquiesced to a six-months “trial” period of allowing restaurants to use an outside delivery service, such as Grub Hub and Uber Eats. There are 26 vacant storefronts. The entrepreneurial spirit has been suﬀocated by unpredictable, micromanaged over-regulations, e.g., petty issues like the typeface on storefront awnings displeases a board member to the extent that a store owner needs

to go through several cycles of back-to-the-drawing-board for redesigns to exhaustion and give up, while the original designs had met all the requirements of the village code. I’ve assembled a terrific team to work with me on the board to assure that changes will be made. Jason Hertz is a licensed civil engineer with an MBA degree. He certainly is a unique talent and clearly a major asset in the evaluation of our infrastructure issues. Ruomei (Margaret) Hu is an experienced accountant who has worked for not-for-profit organizations and could help the village. She undoubtedly is an asset to our campaign and hopefully, if elected, an “asset keeper” for our village.

If I get the honor of getting your vote of confidence, I shall be serving you to the best of my ability to upgrade our village and preserve our wealth. The incumbent party has been in control of our village for over two decades and look where we are now. The time for a change is long overdue. Vote for the Revive Great Neck Plaza slate to revitalize Great Neck Plaza. Candidates: Leonard Katz, Mayor; Jason Hertz, Trustee; Ruomei Hu, Trustee Vote on Tuesday, March 15, 9 a.m. — 9 p.m. at the Village Hall, 2 Gussack Plaza. Leonard N. Katz Village of Great Neck Plaza

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homaston residents, please don’t be misled. In the contested election on March 15, the candidates to vote for are Nick Toumbekis and Karen Siegel. The opposition has distributed fliers and gone on social media, repeating eye-catching allegations of fraud and dishon-

esty. They have named their party “Honest Neighbors,” clearly implying that the current village mayor and government is dishonest. None of this is true. I fear it reflects what we are seeing in the country at large: vigorous disinformation campaigns spread in print and social media to “take

out” political opponents. We don’t have to stand for it in Thomaston. Having been involved for decades in Village government and having chaired the Landmarks Commission that recently designated the old Tower Ford building as a landmark, I know the mayor and our trustees to be dedicated and honest,

receptive to the viewpoints of others. They all work without compensation of any kind as they have done for years. We have a high level of services, Village taxes haven’t risen in a decade, and we enjoy a friendly and helpful atmosphere in the Village Hall and on our streets.

Vote on March 15 to reject disinformation and to prevent people from bringing divisive and mean-spirited tactics to our Village government. Things are good now, and we need to vote to keep them that way. Donald Stern Great Neck

Siegel best for Thomaston

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aving served as the Supervisor of the Town of North Hempstead, I know: We need leaders we can trust to do the right thing. We need leaders with integrity,

commitment and love of community. We need leaders who will listen to the needs of their community. Karen Siegel is that person. She would serve the Village of Thomaston with honor and

distinction. Judi Bosworth Town of North Hempstead More Letters on Page 45

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Showing support for Ukraine Continued from Page 14 It is unclear if Suozzi considers the diplomats to be spies, but we assume the Biden administration wouldn’t need a reminder to toss people committing espionage out of the country as occurred this past week. To Suozzi’s credit, he co-sponsored legislation Monday that would ban the import of Russian oil into the United States, although European countries much more dependent on foreign oil would need to stop their purchases for it to be effective. We would like to think that there is more our local officials can do to honor the sacrifice of Ukrainians risking their lives in the defense of democracy and support their cause. The first thing they can do is echo Hochul’s invitation to accept every Ukrainian who wants to come here. Virtually every European country and Canada have offered unlimited access to the refugees. Poland has already accepted more than

700,000 and the European Union has extended asylum for all refugees for three years accompanied by housing, clothing and food. So should we. This is no small thing in Nassau County, which is among the least inviting counties in the metropolitan area to outsiders. Nassau has the second-highest rate of single-family housing, just behind Suffolk County, and a recent plan by Hochul to allow additional housing units in single-family homes was withdrawn following a storm of criticism. Would Nassau relent to aid Ukrainian immigrants? We would like to think so. Or would the county allow the Glen Cove estate used by Russians to be turned into affordable housing for Ukrainian refugees if the federal government takes it over? The second way local officials can honor Ukrainians is to demonstrate their support of democracy in the United States. In Congress, that means back-

ing voting rights legislation blocked by Republicans to prevent state laws intended to suppress and subvert the vote. In New York and Nassau that would include the elimination of gerrymandering in redrawing congressional, state Senate, Assembly, Nassau County and town districts. Sadly, Democrats in the state Legislature recently violated the spirit of legislation passed in 2014 to make redistricting nonpartisan. In the Town of North Hempstead, it was also business as usual when Democrats voted to give themselves control of the redistricting process. And we now await how Nassau County will approach redistricting in a process in the hands of Blakeman and the Republican-controlled Legislature. At a time when Ukrainians are dying in the streets andon the battlefield for democracy, we hope that town and country oﬃcials will forego political advantage to make our local elections as fair as possible.

Inflated hysteria over inflation Continued from Page 16 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul also has solutions to reduce inflation pressures that don’t abandon climate actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. As just one example, she just announced $25 million through the Clean Energy Initiative to create 1,500 energy-eﬃcient, climate-friendly aﬀordable homes in existing multifamily buildings — part of her plan to curb building emissions and achieve two million climate-friendly, electrified, or

electrification-ready homes by 2030. (The magic word is “aﬀordable.” ) I don’t want the administration to be releasing oil reserves to lower the price at the pump, drill or frack more, build more pipelines or pause gas taxes – Americans only conserve when prices are high. Indeed, the Ukraine crisis has drowned out the other headline: the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported the pace of climate change is rapidly outstripping humanity’s capacity to deal with it. As Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry,

told an energy conference, the crisis in Ukraine is going to be a “defining moment” for this century, saying the stakes “could not be higher,” even if the world has to live with higher energy costs for a time. “You already see what’s happening with global temperatures up 1.2 degrees [Celsius] you’re already seeing climate refugees,” Kerry said. Indeed, the numbers of climate refugees will dwarf the 1.5 million – heading to 5 million – Ukrainians escaping Russia’s atrocities.

War in Ukraine, climate crisis Continued from Page 17 it’s a mistake to think about these as competing ideologies. Guided by nature’s principles, we can namely recover a sense of stable, circular economy. We must embrace what we are, beings inseparable from the rest

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Support Marksheid for trustee

t is really important that the residents of Great Neck Plaza vote in the Village election on March 15. I urge you to support the current team, especially Pamela Marksheid. I have lived in the Plaza for over 21 years and like you have seen many changes. But I have also seen how devoted Pam Marksheid is to bringing back a healthy downtown. She is involved in hiring a downtown recruiter that will attract high-end stores, was instrumental in keeping our library branch in the shopping center and with the current board has reached out to many supermarkets to try to convince

them to come to our village. There are countless other projects the Board of Trustees are working on, too numerous to list. I also know how many meetings Pam attends with other officials, whether they are from the county, town or other elected officials on the peninsula. We cannot live in the past and ignore the effect that online shopping and big box stores have had on our mom-and-pop businesses. To help our current business owners, the Village has embarked on numerous programs to help those current places stay in business as well as recruit new types of

stores and restaurants to come to the Plaza. Our residents have a responsibility as well to frequent our stores and take advantage of what they have to oﬀer. Pam has served our village for many years and does not need to learn on the job as the other candidates will have to do. We cannot allow our village to have inexperienced people in oﬃce, without knowing how to keep the improvements coming. Please support Pam Marksheid. Remember to vote on March 15. Adele Spickler Great Neck

Support re-election of Rosen, Marksheid and DeLuccia

have lived in Great Neck my entire life, first in the old village and the last 30 years in Great Neck Plaza. I strongly urge you to vote and support the re-elections of the current Mayor Ted Rosen, Trustees Pamela Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia. I have volunteered my time and effort to support different committees of the village including the Historic Preservation Commission and currently, I am serving on the Zoning Board of Appeals. Therefore, I have first-hand knowledge of the dedication and hard work that Rosen, Marksheid and Deluccia put into making the Plaza a great place to live and work. I have attended many village meetings, most recently on zoom, where residents can comment on any items on the agenda and voice any concerns they may have. These meetings are open to the public and are very transparent to what your village government is doing. There are many responsibilities that go into being an elected official, many of which are not easily known by the public. There are countless meetings held in addition to the regularly scheduled board meetings, including those with other officials of other villages, meeting with town and county representatives as well as attending Nassau County Village Officials meetings. I know personally that Pam at-

tends all of those so that she remains knowledgeable to what issues are important to our Village as well as to the other villages in Nassau County. I know how dedicated Pam Marksheid is serving as trustee. When the Station Branch Library was about to locate to another village, she attended countless library meetings, spoke out and got hundreds of signatures to oppose their move. With her efforts, they stayed here. I served with her on the Historic Preservation Commission and also saw how she transformed her coop while serving as President of their Board of Directors. I also worked with Michael DeLuccia as a member of the Zoning Board where he was the chairperson. He was always dedicated and worked hard to always be fair and reach a consensus on the issues presented. Mayor Rosen has been working with social workers and police to address the few homeless people in our neighborhood. He recently held three separate safety meetings with the police officers of the POP squad, open to all residents in the Village. The mayor and trustees have also improved the safety of our streets with the traffic calming projects and are having constant dialogue with the 6th precinct about speeding and illegal u-turns. Mr. Katz attacks the current administration for the dangerous road condi-

tions but he should be aware that we do not have our own police department and cannot issue violations for these infractions. He also wrongly claims that we have crumbling infrastructure where almost all streets and handicapped curb cuts have already been repaired. He comes up with these sound bites that sound good but are all untrue. The biggest one is about our downtown. The Plaza has many new stores and restaurants that already opened up this last year and have several programs in place to improve the downtown. I know that some people will vote for change without realizing that it can have a negative impact. I know this personally since my father was mayor of Great Neck. Someone ran against him on the “reform and change” slogan. The new government turned out to be a disaster and was swiftly voted out of oﬃce. Change for change sake is not always the best thing to do. We have a great village with hardworking, honest representatives. I urge all of the Great Neck Plaza residents to get out and vote to keep our village strong and eﬃcient. Vote for Ted Rosen, Pam Marksheid and Michael Deluccia, an experienced, and honest team. Eileen Falk Great Neck More Letters on Page 47

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Halpern, Chagrin clear picks

ear Village of Thomaston Residents, March 15 is a very important date in our Village – it is when the election for two seats on the Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees will occur. Aaron Halpern and Jay Chagrin are your only choices for the Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees if you want transparency, honesty, community awareness and involvement, accountability, and a fresh perspective on the Board. It is critical to vote in local elections. Don’t assume that our local oﬃcials have the best interest of the people, community, and society in mind. If there’s anything we have learned during the past 8+ months, it is that not participating in local government or voting in local elections can have dire consequences. Village of Thomaston Mayor Weinberg and his four Board of Trustees ran unopposed in prior elections and were elected with 24 votes each. The residents weren’t paying attention and just assumed that the Mayor and his Board would represent our interests and just do the right thing. Well, we were wrong. In July 2021, these five individuals unanimously passed an “Incentive Law” that applied only to the Tower Ford Property. This law was drafted by the developer and would have enabled the demolition of the Tower Ford Building and allow a 75 unit, 5-story, tax-exempt, luxury rental apartment building to be built in its place. During the July 12, 2021 Board of Trustees meeting, the Mayor misled his Board into believing that the Incentive Law was “generic” and applied to any commercial property in the Village of Thomaston. This was false because it applied only to the Tower Ford Property. The current Board members either did not read the law that they were about to pass or didn’t understand what the law meant. Nor did Mayor Weinberg disclose to his Board that since April 2020, he had private discussions and negotiations with the developer or that in an email dated June 9, 2021, he had already “agreed” with the developer’s plans. One can only wonder why things had to be so secret. These documents are available on www.saveg-

reatneck.org and were included in the lawsuit that was filed by residents against the Village. The Mayor told the community that it would have a chance to be “heard” with regard to the developer’s application. It is worth noting however that regardless of what the community wanted and how much its members protested, the Incentive Law gave the Mayor and his Board “sole and unfettered discretion” to approve the developer’s application. Despite overflowing Village Hall at the Aug. 16 public hearing on the developer’s application, the community was never heard. In fact, on Aug. 16 the Mayor adjourned the public hearing and directed that the residents leave Village Hall. The hearing was repeatedly adjourned and never rescheduled. Rather, to be “heard” the residents had no choice but to file a lawsuit costing tens of thousands of dollars. In response to this lawsuit and strong community opposition, the application was withdrawn and the law repealed. The community advocated for landmarking, hired its own consultant, and convinced the Mayor and the Board of Trustees to designate the Tower Ford Building as a landmark (this is same Board who had previously passed a law that would permit the Tower Ford Building to be destroyed). Aaron and Jay led these eﬀorts. It’s astounding what you find once you open your eyes. We can go to meetings, post on social media, complain in letters to the newspaper, and file lawsuits, BUT THE REAL WAY TO EFFECTUATE CHANGE IS TO VOTE! And that opportunity is NOW! Every vote counts. The Mayor and Trustees won by a 24-vote margin last time. The Thomaston residents woke up, and they will never snooze again. Now it is time to put the trust back into “trustee” by voting for Aaron and Jay who are honest, caring, and intelligent people who will try to undo all the bad and put the community’s interest first — always. On March 15, please vote for Aaron and Jay all the way! Wendy Halpern Thomaston

Aaron Halpern for trustee

ear fellow residents of the Village of Thomaston, I seek your support of my candidacy for a Trustee Position on the Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees at the upcoming March 15 Village Election. My wife Wendy and I have been Thomaston residents for more than 16 years, and we and our two children are proud and active members of the Village of Thomaston and Great Neck Communities. I believe that my background as a lawyer and my experience of advocating for people and our community make me uniquely qualified for this position. If elected, I promise to be an active and involved Trustee who at all times will demonstrate, emphasize, and advocate for transparency, fairness, financial responsibility, and community awareness and participation. I graduated from McGill University

with distinction and earned a law degree from Tulane University School of Law. As a practicing attorney for nearly 20 years, including at my current role as a partner at the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm in New York City and previously at the Long Island law firms of Farrell Fritz and Nixon Peabody, I advocate for individuals and small businesses while always demonstrating strong ethics and morals. To that end, I am one of the community leaders who investigated and opposed the underlying dealings by the Mayor which led to the enactment of the “Incentive Law” and the related application for the now withdrawn Tower Ford project. I supported the lawsuit that was commenced by several Village residents to rescind the “Incentive Law,” and was a strong supporter and advocate for Landmark Designation for the Tower Ford Building. Since August 2021,

I have attended and spoke on behalf of the community at nearly every Village Board of Trustees meeting and hearing, and have become very knowledgeable of the Village Code and other Village operations. If elected, I pledge to listen to the voices and interests of the community, and stand up to those who seek to undermine the community and environment that we all value and enjoy. I will also work to enhance the quality of life of our residents and community while exercising fiscal responsibility. Please contact me at 516993-7383 or via email at aaron. halpern@yahoo.com if you have any questions or would like to discuss my candidacy. I look forward to receiving your support on March 15. Thank you. Aaron Halpern Thomaston

Why pick me for Thomaston trustee

ear fellow residents of the Village of Thomaston, My name is Jay W. Chagrin. My wife and I have been residents of the Village of Thomaston for over 24 years. We moved to the Village for its smalltown feel and walkability. During our time here, I have witnessed many changes within our community. While some of the changes have been positive, some are not. I am disappointed by the lack of transparency from our local leaders. As an example, when we first moved into Thomaston we received regular notices about changes within our Village. Now, we are not informed of changes in the same way. If you don’t have a computer you will not know about the updates. I was also very disturbed about the lack of transparency when the zoning incentive law created for the owner/developer of Tower Ford was quietly passed without the knowledge of the community. By way of background, I grew up in eastern Queens. I graduated from John Jay College of Criminal

Justice and earned both a B.A. in Criminal Justice and a Master of Public Administration. I recently retired from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. after a 35 — year career in commercial banking, including government, and client financial management. Prior to this position, I worked for RKO Century Warner Theatres as a manager and I was an Adjunct College Professor at The Academy of Aeronautics. I believe that my financial background and knowledge will be a great asset to the Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees. I feel that I will bring a unique vision to the Board of Trustees. Serving the Public’s interest will always be paramount. I will now have the time to devote to Public Service which is something I have wanted to do for many years. Please do not hesitate to contact me via email at jwchagrin@gmail. com if you have any questions or would like to discuss my candidacy. I appreciate your support. Thank you. Jay Chagrin Thomaston

A former opponent backs Rosen team

wo years ago, I initially ran for trustee against Ted Rosen and his running mates Pamela Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia. Subsequently, I had the opportunity to meet and work with these Village oﬃcials on certain projects. I came to learn how dedicated and hardworking Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia are and how committed they are to making our Village better for our residents and merchants. Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee Michael DeLuccia have come up with specific ideas and plans to help merchants and residents. One new project that was started by Mayor Rosen is a project with Hofstra University in which Great Neck Plaza merchants could take a series of six monthly workshops taught by Hofstra University instructors on topics that are very helpful to retail business today, including marketing, social media marketing and financial management. These workshops were provided by the Village to the merchants at no cost to the merchants. I worked with Mayor Rosen on this project and helped recruit Village merchants to regis-

ter for the workshops. Mayor Rosen and Deputy Mayor Marksheid also started a Residents Group whose members organize and present educational, cultural and entertaining programs for our residents and help foster a sense of community in our Village. These are some specific ways that illustrate how Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee DeLuccia have come up with innovative, new programs to make our Village even better for all of our residents and merchants. I have been named to become a member of the Village Board of Trustees to succeed Deputy Mayor Gerald Schneiderman, who will be retiring from the Board on a date to be determined. I look forward to working with Mayor Rosen, Deputy Mayor Marksheid and Trustee DeLuccia and to help continue their work in finding creative, new programs to help make Great Neck Plaza even better. I will vote for the re-election of Ted Rosen as Mayor and Pamela Marksheid and Michael DeLuccia as Trustees. I ask my fellow Great Neck Plaza residents to join me in supporting them. Siu Long (Alex) Au Great Neck

48 The Great Neck News, Friday, March 11, 2022

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