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Weapons arrests near Americana for Queens men

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Cops say two men, one juvenile were charged with criminal possession

BY R O S E W E L D ON Two Queens men and an unnamed juvenile were arrested last Thursday afternoon on weapons charges in Manhasset, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

According to detectives, officers were on patrol in the vicinity of the Americana Manhasset at 1980 Northern Blvd. around 4:29 p.m on Thursday. Officers said they observed Brian Muy-Saquipella, 18, of 5530 99th Street, Corona, littering outside a vehicle.

“Officers approached [MuySaquipella] and asked for identification, at which point the defendant refused to be cooperative and started to fight with the officers,” officers said in a statement.

“While attempting to place [him] under arrest officers could see a gun bulging from a fanny pack on the defendant’s waist. After a brief struggle, [Muy-Saquipella] was placed under arrest.”

During the struggle, a male juvenile, unnamed by police, fled Muy-Saquipella’s vehicle and was located in close proximity to the vehicle with Davon Caldwell, 19, of 16427 109th Drive, Jamaica.

Police said they recovered a handgun from the juvenile, and both were placed under arrest without incident.

All three are charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, as well as criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds and criminal possession of a firearm, and Muy-Saquipella is additionally charged with resisting arrest and littering.

Muy-Saquipella, represented

by Syosset attorney Joseph Terino, and Caldwell, represented by Kew Gardens attorney Scott Bookstein, were arraigned Friday and were scheduled to return to court Tuesday. No information was available as to the representation of the juvenile.

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Talks continue in F. Hill on fate of Planning Board

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trustees.

The law in question, which The Village of Flower Hill has been proposed but not votBoard of Trustees continued ed on, would abolish the Plana public hearing on Monday ning Board in an addendum to night on transferring the pow- an action taken last year.

Over Zoom, residents and ers of its Planning Board to the

trustees participated in a second public hearing after one that took place last month, considering what could happen if the board is officially abolished.

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Diocese files for bankruptcy Cites Child Victims Act lawsuits as reason

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Two men discovered at the Americana Manhasset were later arrested for narcotics, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

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Facing scores of sexual abuse lawsuits, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bishop John O. Barres announced.

“We know that this will be difficult news for people across the diocese to hear, especially for many people of Long Island, Catholic and nonCatholic alike, who depend on the church in so many ways,” Barres said in a video posted to the diocese’s website last Thursday.

The bishop cited lawsuits filed as a result of the Child Victims Act, which opened a “look back period” that increases the amount of time during which perpetrators of child abuse may be held criminally accountable and allows victims of these crimes to commence a civil lawsuit at any time before they reach 55 years of age, among other things.

“In the year since the passage of the Child Victims Act, more than 200 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse have been filed against the Diocese of

Rockville Centre,” Barres said.

“What became clear is that the diocese could not continue to carry out its spiritual, charitable and educational missions while also having to shoulder the increasingly heavy burden of litigation expenses associated with these cases.“ He added in an accompanying letter, also posted on the diocese’s website, that filing for bankruptcy was “the only way for the diocese to ensure a fair and equitable outcome for everyone involved.”

“That is because the bankruptcy court will centralize all litigation and oversee a settlement that ensures that no survivor is left out or gets unfair compensation at the expense of another survivor,” Barres wrote.

The bishop went on to say that most operations and ministries of the diocese would continue “without interruption.”

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Suffolk men found with heroin, cocaine: police

BY R O S E W E L D ON Two Suffolk County men at the Americana Manhasset were arrested for possession of narcotics last Thursday evening, the Nassau County Police Department reported.

According to detectives, while on an investigation at the Americana on Northern Boulevard, officers discovered two men, Jihad Giles, 22, of 5 Duck Hill Road, Coram, and Tyreke Nottingham, 22, of 12 Croyden Road, Amityville, enter a run-

ning vehicle “that had a strong odor of marijuana.”

“Further investigation discovered the defendants were in possession of multiple narcotics, including a powdery substance believed to be heroin and a white substance believed to be cocaine,” police said in a statement. “Both subjects were taken into custody without incident.”

Giles and Nottingham were charged with five total counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and were arraigned Friday in Mineola. Giles

is represented by Syosset-based attorney Joseph M. Terino and was scheduled to return to court on Tuesday, while no representation was filed for Nottingham, who is scheduled to return to court on Nov. 16.

“The efforts of the NCPD to ensure that our community remains safe for everyone, including all Americana visitors and employees, is greatly appreciated,” a spokesperson for the Americana said when reached for comment.

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The Diocese of Rockville Centre has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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Manhasset native honored at alma mater Over $50,000 raised in memory of teacher, coach Frank Bice, says Siena College

BY R O S E W E L D ON The late Francis “Frank” Bice, a Manhasset native, coach, teacher, author, foundation head and Catholic deacon, was honored over the weekend by his alma mater, Siena College, after fellow alumni, friends and family donated over $50,000 to a fund in his name.

Bice, who died in January at age 60, was a student at the school on Oct. 4, 1980, when he was injured in a football game against St. John Fisher College, leaving him paralyzed for the rest of his life.

Undeterred, he graduated from Siena in 1982 and went on to teach theology and coach sports at institutions like the coeducational Canterbury School in Connecticut, where he attended high school, and the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead, while receiving master’s degrees from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington and Yale Divinity School. At the time he died he was living in South Bend, Indiana, and working as a

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The grotto at Siena College was lit up in memory of alumnus and Manhasset native Frank Bice on Oct. 4, the feast day of his namesake St. Francis and the 40th anniversary of the football accident that left him paralyzed for the rest of his life. tour guide in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.

As part of a project to honor Bice, Siena College organized the lighting of all the candles in

its grotto on Sunday, whose date marked the feast of St. Francis in the Roman Catholic Church and the 40th anniversary of Bice’s injury.

The project also funded a

memorial bench in Bice’s name at the grotto and an endowed scholarship in his name at Siena College in the amount of $25,000, which the school says will be given “in perpetuity.”

“Thank you to this true Siena Saint for setting an example of faith for us all to follow,” the college said in a statement.

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Proposed code to be presented Oct. 22

Suggested changes to Port’s BW zone will be brought before Town Board

BY R O S E W E L D ON The proposed changes to the town code affecting businesses on the Port Washington coastline will be presented to the North Hempstead Town Board on Oct. 22, Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte said Tuesday night.

Conducted over Zoom with dozens of audience members watching from home, the meeting saw Dalimonte and town Planning Commissioner Michael Levine explain and take questions on the proposed changes.

The changes would affect the designated waterfront business (BW) district, which covers the private commercial properties extending from Sunset Park to Manhasset Bay Yacht Club and the area south of the Town Dock.

Since 2017, a building moratorium has been in place in order for the Steering Committee, made up of representatives of numerous residential and business organizations, to discuss proposed changes to the town’s code.

After three years and six extensions, three of which took

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The Knickerbocker Hotel along Manhasset Bay, a stretch of waterfront that is under the BW moratorium. place during the COVID-19 pandemic, the moratorium was scheduled to end on Sept. 14, but was extended to further prepare code changes to be brought before the Town Board.

Dalimonte noted in the meeting’s opening minutes that the Steering Committee had

“sacrificed many evenings away from their families and their personal lives to participate on the committee and to ensure that the proposed code preserves our precious waterfront and strikes an appropriate balance between the various interests involved.”

“Given all of the effort they

have put into this process, I feel strongly that the community owes it to them to carefully examine the contents of the proposed code and to fairly evaluate its merits,” Dalimonte said.

In roughly six months of meetings, the councilwoman said, the committee came to a

consensus on numerous code revisions.

The proposed code calls for parking requirements to increase from one parking stall per dwelling unit to two parking stalls; the allowable amount of impervious surfaces has been decreased by 10 percent, in an effort to improve stormwater management and flood mitigation; density has been capped at 20 units per acre for all types of residential housing; and 40 percent of all units in a residential structure are for seniors and the remaining 60 percent of the units are unrestricted, among other things.

At least 80 percent of dwelling units must be one-bedroom or studios, a change that Dalimonte attributed to “an effort to prevent excess or new school enrollments in our crowded school district.”

Building height will be a maximum of 35 feet to still allow three-story buildings, but now the area of the third floor is reduced to 50 percent of the second floor, which Dalimonte said was “an effort to help preserve Continued on Page 34

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G. Head man accused of embezzlement Nassau County DA says Rand Heckler ran $1M Ponzi scheme on friends, neighbors

BY R O S E W E L D ON A former investment banker and Glen Head resident allegedly swindled friends and neighbors out of more than $1 million in a Ponzi scheme, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced.

Rand Heckler, 55, was arraigned last Wednesday before Judge Karen Moroney in Nassau District Court on counts of grand larceny in the second degree, grand larceny in the third degree and scheming to defraud in the first degree. If convicted of the top count, the district attorney’s office said, he will face a maximum of five to 15 years in prison.

Singas said that beginning in 2015, Heckler recommended to his friend and friend’s son that they invest in a hedge fund of stocks and securities that he was managing. The offer was only to be for Heckler’s closest 15 to 20 friends and associates.

The office said that between December 2015 and January 2020, the victims wrote Heckler a total of 24 checks, amounting

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A Glen Head man is due back in Nassau County’s First District Court next month after allegedly running a $1 million Ponzi scheme. to $755,159. During that time, he allegedly showed them statements with the names of the stocks and the hedge fund ac-

count’s current value. He also alIn January 2020, the friend’s father’s account, part of which legedly showed them false trade son, who has power of attorney was for his children’s trust fund. confirmations as proof that the for his father, allegedly asked In February, after several weeks stock had been purchased.

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U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee initially ordered the release of defendant Baimadajie Angwang on a $1 million bond Friday before ruling that a hearing would be held to determine the severity of a possible sentence if he is convicted and if deportation would be required, according to reports.

Angwang, 33, a native of Tibet, supplied information on Tibetans living in the United States to Chinese officials, according to a criminal complaint.

Angwang was also charged with committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding, according to the Justice Department. Last month he was ordered detained by U.S. Magistrate Roanne Mann in federal court in Brooklyn, according to Newsday.

Efforts to reach the federal court in Brooklyn regarding Angwang’s court appearance were unavailing.

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The facts on absentee, early voting How to know if you’re qualified for an at-home ballot plus polling sites before Election Day

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HOW TO VOTE WITH AN ABSENTEE BALLOT With the COVID-19 pandemic leading some to worry about social distancing and virus transmission at the polls for the general election on Nov. 3, some North Shore residents may find it best to apply for an absentee ballot.

Can I cast an absentee ballot?

Voters can cast an absentee ballot if they are: Absent from their home county.

Unable to appear at the polls due to temporary or permanent illness or disability (temporary illness includes being unable to appear due to risk of contracting or spreading a communicable disease like COVID-19).

Unable to appear because they are the primary caregiver of one or more individuals who are ill or physically disabled.

A resident or patient of a Veterans Health Administration hospital.

Detained in jail awaiting grand jury action or confined in prison after conviction for an offense other than a felony.

When is the deadline to apply?

Voters must apply online, postmark, email or fax a completed application or letter request for the general election ab-

a postmark no later than Nov. 3.

Take it to the county Board of Elections Office no later than Nov. 3.

Take it to an early voting poll site between Oct. 24 and Nov. 1.

Take it to a poll site on Nov. 3.

sentee ballot no later than Oct. 27, seven days before the election, and may apply in person up to the day before the election.

Voters may also file an application at any time before the deadlines, but ballots will be mailed out beginning on or about Sept. 18.

How do I apply for an absentee ballot?

Voters may send a mail, email or fax request, or go in person, to the Nassau County Board of Elections with a filled out version of the New York State absentee ballot application form, available at elections.ny.gov/votingabsentee.html or vote.org/absentee-ballot/.

Once it is filled out, where can I return my ballot?

After a voter receives and marks his or her ballot, the ballot can be returned by a number of ways: Put it in the mail, ensuring it receives

HOW & WHEN TO VOTE EARLY Nassau County’s Board of Elections has announced 15 locations for early voting, open to all registered voters in the county one week before the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

All early polling places will be open from Saturday, Oct. 24, to Sunday, Nov. 1, with times varying by day and listed below.

Locations in the Town of North Hempstead include the Gayle Community Center at 53 Orchard St. in Roslyn Heights, the Floral Park Recreation Center at 124 Stewart St., the Yes We Can Center at 141 Garden St. in Westbury, and the Nassau County Board of Elections at 240 Old Country Road in Mineola.

Locations in the Town of Hempstead include Brierley Park at 65 Dartmouth St. in Hempstead, the Elmont Public Library at 700 Hempstead Turnpike, the Freeport Recreation Center at 130 East Merrick Road, the Recreation Complex at St. Paul’s Field House at 295 Stewart Ave. in

Garden City, the Lawrence Country Club at 101 Causeway, St. Markella Greek Orthodox Church at 1960 Jones Ave. in Wantagh, the West Hempstead Library at 500 Hempstead Ave., and North Merrick Public Library at 1691 Meadowbrook Road.

The other three, located in Levittown Hall at 201 Levittown Parkway in Hicksville, Mid-Island Y JCC at 45 Manetto Hill Road in Plainview, and Town Hall South 977 Hicksville Road in Massapequa; are in the Town of Oyster Bay. Registered voters can cast ballots at any early voting location, but on Nov. 3 will be required to go to their regularly assigned polling spot.

Early polling places will be open on the following days and at the following times: Saturday, Oct. 24, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 29, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Mineola location will have differing times on Monday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Experts call for government reforms Panel at Blank Slate Media forum says financial impact of COVID-19 demands action

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Financial experts weighed in on the current and future state of local governments in Nassau County due to the coronavirus pandemic and offered potential solutions during a panel discussion hosted by Blank Slate Media last week.

The panel consisted of Christopher Wright, a board member for the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, Michael Imber, a managing director at Conway MacKenzie and a leader in the government, municipal and education practice, and Adam Haber, a former director for the finance authority and former deputy chief of staff of economic development and government efficiency for the Town of Hempstead who is a principal of SKB Real Estate.

Blank Slate Media Editor and Publisher Steven Blank facilitated the event on Thursday evening and posed questions for the panelists.

Nassau County is facing a 2020 midyear deficit of $385 million as a result of the coronavirus

pandemic, according to officials.

Before the pandemic, Wright said, the county’s financial state was “balanced with room to spare,” referring to the more than $50 million in surplus funds.

“Because the county is as dependent as it is on sales tax ... the county finds itself quite a bit short as sales tax revenue growth is negative,” Wright said.

The county’s newly proposed $3.3 billion budget calls for the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, which has overseen the county’s finances for the past two decades, to restructure $360 million in debt from the county and the finance authority, according to a county news release.

Of the debt, $240 million comes from finance authority bonds while the remaining $120 million comes from county bonds.

The county, according to the news release, will save $285 million in 2021 and $150 million in 2022 by refinancing the debt.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said the uncertainty that has lingered throughout the year due to the pandemic was the reason for the proposed restructuring

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Panelists Chris Wright, Michael Imber, and Adam Haber discussed the state of local Long Island governments in a forum hosted by Blank Slate Media. of debt.

“Restructuring bonds would not be necessary or justifiable in an ordinary year. Extraordinary times as these, however, call for this extraordinary, yet targeted and appropriate, measures,” Curran said.

Haber bluntly said that the county is “screwed” due to the pandemic, but more hyperlocal governments such as the Town of Hempstead and villages throughout Nassau could be in better shape since their revenue is more focused around property taxes. “[The county] can only raise

revenue outside of taxes, but they have to cut expenses,” Haber said.

“The [Town of Hempstead] was given a lifeline because of a quirk in the tax law … They didn’t deserve it; they are in no more need than North Hempstead or any other of the 10 towns on the island.”

Due to the population threshold of 500,000 to apply to the federal aid program, Hempstead was the only town in Nassau County to receive funding, obtaining $133 million from the federal government in May. The county received $103 million in federal aid.

Haber said each school district in the county may differ from others due to the dependency on property taxes. If state aid was not provided to districts as a result of the virus, Haber said, traditional class sizes and programs would be at risk.

“A school [district] like Roslyn gets 5 or 6 percent of their funding from the state. The rest is pretty much from homes and real estate so they’re not in horrible shape,” Haber said. “But districts like Hempstead, Roosevelt, Westbury, a large chunk of their funding comes from state revenue and they can’t plan for this.”

Imber said consolidating the school districts would “absolutely” save money in the long run, but the difficulty of getting all of the hyperlocal municipalities, villages, hamlets and towns to find common ground may impede them from doing so.

“It’s not that hard to fathom considering we have the Los Angeles Unified School District. If they can have one school district, why can’t Nassau County,” Imber said.

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Criticism, no charges for Schnirman Singas says comptroller acted with ‘incompentence and negligence’ in Long Beach

BY R O S E WELDON

After an investigation into payouts in the City of Long Beach made when Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman served as city manager, District Attorney Madeline Singas declined to bring criminal charges against Schnirman and other city officials, but said they had acted with “incompetence and negligence.”

The office’s public corruption unit began the investigation in 2018 after Long Beach did not pass a $2.1 million bond to cover separation payments for a number of employees. That sum included a $108,000 separation payment to Schnirman, a Democrat, before he left to serve as county comptroller.

“My office has completed our investigation into payouts for accrued vacation and sick leave time made to certain former employees of the City of Long Beach,” Singas said in a statement last Wednesday. “As [state] Comptroller [Thomas] DiNapoli’s audit found, these payments

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Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, left, and former Long Beach city manager and current Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman. were excessive and inconsistent with the applicable law. Our exhaustive investigation found that these payments were the result of shocking ignorance of the Long Beach laws and ordinances, the incompetence and negligence of the officials charged with executing them, and a total abdication of oversight by the prior City Council.”

Among the office’s findings, Singas said, were most city em-

ployees saying they were unaware of the existence of the Personnel Code, which sets limits for separation payouts; officials charged with following and enforcing provisions of the Personnel Code and other codified laws and rules, claiming to have no familiarity with their contents, instead relying on past practices; and one high-level employee claiming that the city’s Code of Ordinances was merely

a set of advisory guidelines and that the city was not obligated to abide by it.

“The City Council showed an inexplicable deference to unelected appointees, even when they acted in open defiance of the council,” Singas said. “Audits by the New York State Comptroller in 1992 and 1997 highlighted deficiencies in city policies regarding leave payouts but the City Council took no meaningful action to correct them. Several city councilmembers told investigators that they had no familiarity with the Personnel Code, even after improper payments received widespread attention.”

She added that while her office “found the justifications offered for these payments to be incredible and inconsistent with the plain language of the applicable laws and contracts, we found no evidence suggesting the leave balances were unearned, nor did we find evidence of the criminal intent necessary to bring criminal charges.”

In September 2019, Schnirman said he had returned $52,780 in overpayments he had

received.

“During Mr. Schnirman’s tenure as City Manager, he allowed millions of dollars in improper payments to be made, personally accepted a payment much more generous than provided-for by the plain language of his contract, and waited more than a year to return that payout while under state and federal investigation,” Singas said.

“The taxpayers of Long Beach deserved better.”

In response, Schnirman’s spokesman, Brett Spielberg, said in a statement to Blank Slate Media, “The closure of the investigation confirms what the comptroller has said all along — he deferred to the city’s legal counsel on all personnel questions, including termination pay, and is the only person to voluntarily return the portion of the payment that was called into question by the audit that examined decades worth of practices long predating his tenure in Long Beach.

Jack is focused on the work Nassau County residents elected him to do as Comptroller.”

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Floral Park area raises $37K after fire

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Fundraisers sponsored by Floral Park community leaders and the village’s Chamber of Commerce have raised more than $37,000 for businesses damaged by a fire in late September.

“We are a business family. We will support those affected, and we will ensure that all donations will be fully funded to each business,” the GoFundMe page says.

Officials said Floral Park police responded to reports of a building fire at the Park Place Bar and Grill at 41 Covert Ave. on the morning of Sept. 27. Upon arriving, officers observed fire and smoke from the building that extended to at least 11 adjacent storefronts, according to a news release from the county Police Department.

Firefighters from the Floral Park Fire Department along with the ManhassetLakeville Fire Department, Great Neck Vigilant Fire Company, the New Hyde Park Fire Department and almost 20 others were represented at the scene throughout the day.

Nassau County Assistant Chief Fire Marshal Michael Uttaro said it took firefighters more than four hours to control the fire. Six businesses sustained major damage or were destroyed, while four others were damaged by smoke, Uttaro said. A private residence also had smoke damage, officials said.

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Floral Park community members have raised more than $37,000 to support businesses that were damaged in a Sept. 27 fire.

Two members of the New Hyde Park Fire Department were transported to a nearby hospital, where they were treated for exhaustion and an elevated heart

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Adult Continuing Education to restart Residents of the Roslyn, Herricks, and East Williston school districts are invited to participate in virtual tours of New York City or explore various art exhibitions in the Zoom Art Museum series this fall with Roslyn Adult Education. These virtual trips allow you to take various tours and learn interesting facts from the comfort of your home.

The Presentations of New York City, guided by Art Zuckerman, consists of three virtual sessions, each with three different topics that are designed to give information, anecdotes and tidbits that would normally be presented on a tour. The first session includes the topics “I Didn’t Know That;” “Women of New York;” and “Rich and Famous.” The second session’s topics are “Brooklyn;” “Hamilton;” and “Central Park.” The third session includes “Medical New York;” “Murder, Mayhem and Scandals in New York;” and “Foods of New York.” Participants can sign up for one, two or all three sessions with a discount if you sign up for all three. Details are in the Adult Education catalog.

Art historian Lauren Kaplan will be leading the Zoom Art Museum Tour series which includes lectures based on ongoing

exhibitions in or around New York, or themes relevant to the present moment.

These interactive classes include time for conversation and questions before and after the featured content. There are two sessions, the first consists of five classes and the second consists of three classes.

You can sign up for one session or both for a discounted fee.

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rate, according to officials. One Elmont firefighter also suffered exhaustion, officials said.

Village of Floral Park Mayor Domi-

nick Longobardi praised the work of the local fire departments and emergency responders.

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Release delayed for accused W. Park spy Continued from Page 6 been killed during periods of martial law and repression throughout the region, according to the documents.

Angwang, according to court documents, was assigned to the 111th Precinct in Queens and served as a patrol officer and a member of the precinct’s crime prevention team. He was also employed by the U.S. Army Reserve as a staff sergeant stationed in Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Angwang allegedly used his position in the Police Department to provide the Chinese consulates access to senior police officials through invitations to official NYPD events, according to the documents.

Deck said neither of the activities fell within the scope of Angwang’s duties and responsibilities for either the

NYPD or the U.S. Army Reserve.

“Had background investigators been aware of the full extent of Angwang’s contact with foreign government officials, Angwang would not have maintained his secret security clearance with the Department of Defense,” the complaint read.

Angwang also allegedly lied by denying he had contacts with foreign government officials or consulates on an electronically submitted background investigation form.

“As alleged in this federal complaint, Baimadajie Angwang violated every oath he took in this country,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “One to the United States, another to the U.S. Army, and a third to this Police Department.”

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Belmont Park arena nabs Northwell

Medical system enters 10-year sponsorship deal with New York Islanders’ new home

BY R O S E W E L D ON Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider and private employer, announced on Tuesday that it would enter into a 10-year founding sponsorship deal with the New York Islanders hockey team and its home under construction in Belmont Park, UBS Arena.

The deal is the latest extension of a decadeslong relationship between the Islanders and Northwell, which has served as the official health care sponsor for the team and title sponsor for the team’s East Meadow practice facility.

As part of the agreement, Northwell Health, UBS Arena and the New York Islanders will develop community-based wellness programming, with the efforts projected to span key pillars of health, nutrition and physical activity, according to Michael Dowling, Northwell’s president and CEO. “We are proud to align ourselves with New York’s newest premier sports and entertainment venue,” Dowling said in a statement. “New York, and especially Long Island, is home to thousands of our patients as well as our employees. With 25,000 employees living near UBS Arena alone, this partnership allows us to reinforce our commitment to serving the community and we look forward to developing future health and wellness programming with UBS Arena and the New York Islanders.”

“Northwell has been an invaluable supporter of the New York Islanders for nearly 20 years and we couldn’t be more excited for them to strengthen their partnership with the team through the new UBS Arena project,” said Jon Ledecky, co-owner of the New York Islanders.

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New York Islanders star Matthew Barzal carries the puck. Northwell Health has signed a sponsorship agreement with the New York Islanders and the in-construction UBS Arena.

The arena, whose naming rights were bought for 20 years by the United Bank of Switzerland in July, is scheduled to open in time for the 2021-22 NHL season, according to Tim Leiweke, CEO of the entertainment company Oak View Group and leader of the arena project. He said the arena would take precautions to keep fans safe.

“UBS Arena will be ready to welcome fans back to arenas, ensuring an unrivaled, distinctive live entertainment experience

that is reflective of our commitment to unmatched service, safety and sanitization,” Leiweke said in a statement. “Planned top-ofthe-line sanitization efforts from medical grade HEPA filtration, to UV light systems, and disinfecting solutions that have proven safe and effective in large-scale public spaces will ensure future guests peace of mind.”

Construction on the 19,000seat arena to house the Islanders, 350,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, a hotel containing

250 rooms and parking on 43 acres of vacant state-owned property broke ground last September.

Also being built with the project is the first new full-time LIRR station in 50 years.

Amenities in facility will include a 23,000-square-foot locker room and training area and a sports bar decked out with memorabilia and a standing-room section with views of the ice.

The coronavirus pandemic caused construction on the arena to halt on March 27 before con-

tinuing two months later.

Officials and residents of the Village of Floral Park, which neighbors the area, have expressed various grievances throughout the process.

In May, a state Supreme Court justice denied an application submitted by the village and local civic groups in an attempt to overturn state approvals granted for the development of the arena.

Robert Pelaez contributed reporting.

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Plan for the worst, hope for the best

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e know that Nassau County faces an estimated $749 million deficit over the next 18 months, thanks to a pandemic that could cost $400 million in sales tax revenue and has reduced income from fees like red-light violations and mortgage and tax map recordings.

We also know that school districts face a 20 percent reduction in state aid as New York grapples with a loss of $14.5 billion in revenue for the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced the state would not withhold 20 percent of the aid to schools for September after aid payments came in at 80 percent of what was budgeted in July and August. But this may just be short term.

Cuomo has said the state would be forced to cut state aid across the board by 20 percent unless the federal government provided assistance to offset revenue losses in New York as well as in states, municipalities and school districts across the country.

It would normally be hard to believe the federal government will not provide aid to state and local governments. But these are not normal times.

House Democrats recently passed a $2.2 trillion plan to aid those affected by the pandemic, including state governments. The Republican-controlled Senate responded with a $1.4 trillion plan that included aid to schools but no aid to states and local municipalities.

Hours after the Federal Reserve chair warned that the economy could see “tragic” results without robust government support, President Donald Trump abruptly cut off stimulus talks until after the

election.

But after the stock market dropped, Trump in a series of tweets late Tuesday urged both houses of Congress to “IMMEDIATELY”revive a lapsed loan program for small businesses and to approve funds for airlines and another round ofstimulus checks.

We also don’t know when there will be a vaccine for COVID-19, how long it will take to distribute when it is approved, whether people will get the vaccine when it is available and whether we face a second wave of infection for a virus that has already claimed the lives of 210,000 Americans and infected more than 7.4 million.

President Trump has claimed there could be a vaccine by Election Day, but then again he said in March that the virus would just disappear in the spring. Most scientists believe a vaccine is more likely by the end of the year or the beginning of next year with distribution and the actual administration of shots taking us later into 2021.

So what should Nassau County, school districts and local governments do to keep their financial houses in order?

Blank Slate Media asked that question last week of an expert panel of financial experts with years of experience in local government finances during a virtual town hall it hosted.

The panel included Chris Wright, a longtime member of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state agency which has been overseeing the county’s finances since 2000; Michel Imber, a partner in Conway MacKenzie, a financial consulting firm, who helped develop a financial plan for NIFA in 2011; and Adam Haber, a former Roslyn school board trustee, former NIFA director and former deputy chief of staff for economic develop-

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ment and government efficiency in the Town of Hempstead.

The panelists’ short answer to the question of what to do in the face of this bleak financial picture was that local governments could do a lot to both raise revenues and cut expenses.

This included the consolidation of county departments, creating a single county water department, sale or leasing of government land, installation of solar panels on the roofs of government buildings, greater use of the latest technology and increasing county taxes by the 2 percent limit permitted under the state tax cap.

They also called for centralizing the building approval process and even permitting contractors to selfcertify to help increase economic activity in Nassau and create jobs.

But the problem, the panelists agreed, was the political will.

An example of that is in the study Imber helped author in 2011.

“Nassau County faces extraordinary fiscal challenges over the next several years,” the executive summary of what is known as the Grant Thornton study said. “The size and dimensions of the forecasted budget deficits will require the best efforts of the County’s elected leaders, management and employees to prioritize the essential missions of county government that best serve the interests of its citizens.”

The study was written 11 years after Nassau County – one of the wealthiest counties in New York – received a bailout from the state.

But, according to Imber, few if any of the report’s very detailed proposals to make county government more efficient were adopted.

Wright, who has served on the NIFA board since its inception, said county lawmakers, particularly Republicans, have chafed over the past 20 years about having unelected appointees oversee Nassau’s finances.

He said he agreed. But county legislators had failed to come up with suggestions that would balance the county budget and eliminate the need for NIFA. This included refusing to raise county taxes by 2 percent each year.

This, he said, by itself would have balanced the county’s budget.

Instead, county Republicans used not raising taxes as a battle cry to win re-election.

Haber has repeatedly documented how the Town of Hempstead had failed to refinance bonds at lower rates that would have saved the residents millions of dollars and rebid contracts every three years to ensure better rates.

But, he noted, the Hempstead Town Board also had failed to even replace electric typewriters in the town clerk’s office with computers.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran in recent years was mak-

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ing progress toward balancing the county budget. Annual budgets had been as much as $150 million in the red less than a decade ago, and the county finished 2019 with a surplus.

And then the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

With a projected deficit of $749 millionover the next 18 months, Imber, Wright and Haber say the county and school districts may not have a choice but to raise revenues and cut expenses.

Cuts in school aid would require school districts to reduce or eliminate programs such as sports and the arts and consider increasing class sizes.

County, towns and villages would need to reduce services.

The time is long past for local governments to decide between “must have” vs. “nice to have” in services, Imber said.

Perhaps the federal government will provide states and local governments money lost as a result of the pandemic. Perhaps there will be no second wave and the rate of infection will allow business to resume more or less as it had been.

But the odds, at the moment, are very long against all that happening.

A better plan is to plan for the worst and hope for the best. And the time to do it is now – before the floodwaters rise too high.

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ON THE RIGHT

New York State’s Medicaid program failing

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ime and again Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pledged to root out structural waste and inefficiencies in state government in general and, in particular, Medicaid.

In his 2010 book, “The New N.Y. Agenda: A Plan for Action,” Cuomo noted in a section titled “Make Medicaid More Efficient”: “New York will spend almost $52 billion on Medicaid in 2010-11, including federal, state and local funding. State operating funds spending on Medicaid is projected to grow by another $1.8 billion in the 2011-12 fiscal year. New York must find a way to bring its Medicaid costs more in line with that of other states if we are to control overall state spending. New York state spends 69 percent more per beneficiary than the national average. New York’s Medicaid program suffers from spiraling costs, inadequate outcomes and widespread inefficiency.”

He added: “We need fundamental restructuring of Medicaid that looks to achieve long-term efficiencies and focuses on services that actually improve the

health outcomes of New Yorkers.”

After 10 years in office, however, it doesn’t appear the governor has made much progress in taming the Medicaid leviathan.

In 2011, with 6 percent of the nation’s population, New York consumed 23 percent of the nation’s Medicaid spending. “By 2016,” Bill Hammond of the Empire Center for Public Policy, has reported, “New York had surged to 40 percent — and its spending has more than doubled since then.”

Total Medicaid spending for the state’s 2020-2021 fiscal year is projected to hit $80.3 billion.

That’s up 63 percent since 2010, well above the rate of inflation.

Granted, some of the growth is due to the COVID pandemic.

However, hair-raising audits released by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office in September, indicate there is plenty of mismanagement, fraud and inefficiencies.

The DiNapoli audits found more than $700 million in unnecessary costs and overpayments.

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Here’s a summary of the findings: The state’s Department of Health has not developed “sufficient controls and oversight to ensure the most effective delivery of pharmacy services under managed care.” The DOH failed to procure the lowest net cost drugs. By failing to establish proper procedures, the auditors estimated that between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2019, $605 million was squandered on unnecessary drug costs.

Due to the failure to track Medicaid recipients who had multiple Client Identification

Numbers (CIN) assigned to them, there were duplication of payments. The audit “found DOH made $47.8 million in improper payments on behalf of recipients with multiple CINs for the period Jan. 1, 2014 through March 31, 2019.”

The transmission of inaccurate or incompetent enrollment information “resulted in $11.7 million in improper payments on behalf of 1,096 recipients who had terminated coverage and another $4.9 million in improper and questionable payments was identified for 319 recipients who died.”

As for reimbursement payments to various Medicaid providers, the audit discovered improper payments to the tune of $15.4 million.

Auditors identified “$29 million in improper Medicaid payments for drugs dispensed after they had been removed from the market for safety or commercial reasons.”

Over $700 million of taxpayers’ dollars misspent. And there might be a lot more that was wasted because auditors only

perform sampling tests. For example, they do not review every one of the 244 million claims for payments that were filed with the DOH between March 2019 and September 2019.

In other words, the inappropriate disbursements and overpayments that the auditors discovered may be only the tip of the Medicaid “iceberg.”

In releasing his Medicaid audit findings, DiNapoli declared “The state is facing budget gaps of billions of dollars because of the COVID-19 crisis and needs to find cost savings wherever it can. Hundreds of millions of dollars could be saved with better financial and management controls over the state’s Medicaid program.”

And before Albany Democrats impose tax increases on struggling New Yorkers to pay for the damage caused by Cuomo’s shutdown of the economy, they should heed DiNapoli’s “cri de coeur” and clean out incompetent and corrupt bureaucrats and right-size New York’s bloated government and failing Medicaid system.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

It takes a pandemic to clear out the junk

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t some point near the start of this pandemic, somebody on television made the observation that “there are two kinds of people in the world: those who get a ton of stuff done like cleaning out closets while they’re stuck at home… and those who want to but don’t.”

But that’s just two possibilities. There are also the people who are LYING about getting a ton of stuff done. Because who’s going to come over and check?

“So you say you cleared out your clutter, Judy? Let’s see that bottom dresser drawer… No, pull it all the way out. Now, let’s look under the bed. Mm-hmm, lots of dust kitties. And what’s that at the top of the hall closet? Aha! Clutter!”

Thanks to coronavirus, none of those nosy parkers can come over anymore.

And then there are the people who are lying about wanting to get anything done in the first place.

That would be me.

I had no bigger ambitions at

the start of this thing than just surviving. Which seemed unlikely enough. I was sufficiently challenged just getting through each day without running down the street, screaming about the stress and tearing my (increasingly gray) hair out.

But as the days and weeks and months wore on and I was still here, I got…well, bored.

I got so bored, in fact, that I started tidying the place up.

I started small: I sorted out all the keys in the “key cup” on top of a dresser, figuring out which were duplicates, labeling all the ones I could, and putting all the “mystery keys” in another container.

This made no sense at all since I was not going anywhere that would require keys for the indefinite future. It was just something to do.

The next month, I got a bit more ambitious and decided to straighten out the huge welter of store coupons that sat mocking me from a big messy basket next to the hibernating car keys.

I spent an hour or more listening to music while I faced

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side them all the same way. Only then did I realize that they were all from Bed, Bath & Beyond, and that it had been years since the store had upgraded their “$5 off ” coupons to “$10 off .” But we’re all sorted out now. If that store and I both survive the pandemic, I’ll be ready for them!

A quest for flashlight batteries led me to the drawer for obsolete camcorder formats…which, needing a bigger home, led me to totally reorganize the gloves and

scarves drawer…which in turn forced me to reappraise my need for sunscreen and bug repellent.

Those I downsized.

But the big push came when one and then the other son announced plans to visit. I had 14 days, while they were quarantining somewhere else, to get the house ready.

It became my own “Project Warp Speed.”I pulled boxes out of closets that hadn’t been touched since Noah’s flood. “Why am I keeping “Overdrawn” bank statements from 20 years ago?” I asked my husband.

“I’ve been afraid to ask you that for 20 years.”

“I mean, it’s not like anybody cares, is it? The bank? They went out of business! Am I going to have to pass an audit at the Pearly Gates? Is St. Peter — or, I don’t know, Elijah — going to quiz me, asking ‘Just why did you think you needed a seventh leather purse when you didn’t use the first six?”

“It’s a good question,” was all my life’s partner would say.

“Well, what do you think I should do with them?”

“Toss them!” he said.

And I finally did.

Somehow, being unable to leave the house has forced me to change and flipped some kind of switch in my soul. I’m still very OCD and I still have all the instincts of a hoarder. But I finally realized that I need the extra space inside this house for my family to use more than I need to hold onto obvious junk.

It was the start of a monstrous purge that didn’t end until I pulled the last box off the tippy top shelf of the back room closet.

“Family secrets — Don’t open!” the box label said. It was sealed all around with packing tape.

“Wo ho! What is this?” my husband exclaimed. “The Mummy’s Curse? The Raiders’ Lost Ark? Your wedding dress?”

We opened it up.

It was canceled checks and overdraft bank statements …not 20 years old, but 30!

They are all finally gone.

Turns out it takes a pandemic!

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Fight climate crisis by regenerating soil

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his summer my family spent time at the Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm.

Nothing goes to waste at the farm, especially food waste that is composted efficiently.

Soothed by Ben & Jerry’s clear blue skies with fluffy white clouds overhead, health and wellness seemed to surround us, until we found out that they also have problems with polluted waterways in Vermont.

We learned that the purity of Vermont’s crown jewel, Lake Champlain, is compromised with high phosphorus levels causing at times toxic algal blooms. This is perhaps not surprising given decades of agricultural runoff from chemically charged industrial farming methods. Progressive Vermont farmers are increasingly aware of the importance of best practices, such as eliminating chemical fertilizers and pesticides and restoring soil health with perennial polycultures of native plants and trees, cover crops and no-till techniques in order to reduce runoff into the lake.

There’s a lot of talk about reducing fossil fuel emissions, but not enough focus on soil health and soil-assisted carbon capture.

We must return carbon back into the ground where it came from and the good news is soil could be optimized for carbon storage. The

bad news is humans rely on food systems that systematically disrupt the soil while emitting greenhouse gasses. From farming to fracking and fossil fuel extraction we mechanically disrupt the soil oxidizing carbon in the process. Earth is exhausted, depleted after hundreds of years of extractive, degenerative farming. Our waters are sour and the air is polluted. When hiking in pristine wilderness, you better bring your own drink as you can’t trust the quality of mountain streams anymore.

For most of human history CO2 levels stayed rather stable at roughly 280 ppm, but recently we’ve passed alarming thresholds measuring record highs of 415 ppm. We must act fast. We must act now. We must capture carbon to prevent the catastrophic collapse of our world’s ecosystems.

Unless we turn towards regenerative practices we are pushing the limits of our own existence.

Regeneration in biology refers to the process of renewal, restoration and growth that makes cells, living beings and ecosystems resilient to damage. In terms of agriculture, regenerative methods aim to return nutrients to the ground without disrupting the carbon cycle. The plant kingdom is our trusted ally in cleaning the air and always has been.

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Progressive farmers Caroline and Jessie McDougall manage Studio Hill Farm in Vermont.

As fourth-generation farmers mourning the loss of a dear family member to cancer, they stopped spraying chemicals, abandoned pesticides and fertilizers and realized that the ecosystem didn’t rebound as they had expected.

Their soil without chemical assistance was dead! They joined the regenerative revolution, including thoughtful grazing practices where ruminants help restore soil health and enable natural carbon sequestration with the promise to reverse climate change.

Jessie and Caroline pioneered legislative change in proposing a bill to the Vermont Senate titled

“The Vermont’s Regenerative Agriculture Certification Program.” Regenerative agriculture is rooted in chemical-free topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving water sheds and repairing the broken carbon cycle. It can be thought of as a rehabilitation approach for food and farming systems, with the benefit of purifying the air.

People assume livestock and agriculture lead to environmental destruction, but it doesn’t have to be that way. To build more resilient food systems there must be political and public interest in supporting that change. It will take both education and activism to advocate for this systemic change and at Soil4Climate you’ll find soil restoration activists fighting for global soil health.

Kirstin Ohlson explains in her book “The Soil Will Save Us” how restoring the right relationship with Earth will help combat climate change and preserve the planet to produce food for future generations.

To learn more about this exciting regenerative movement please enjoy a star-studded documentary film “Kiss the Ground” (2020) that is now available on Netflix.

You, too, can participate in the soil health movement by composting your food scraps and yard waste. If you’re not sure where to

begin, join us at the Science Museum of Long Island, Plandome, Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. where members of Transition Town Port Washington will share with you techniques and methods to compost your organic waste. Email me at hildur@sol.center to schedule a Covid19 safe appointment with us.

Finally, please leave the leaves. If you absolutely need to clear your lawn, raking the leaves to the side of your yard provides excellent physical activity with no emission costs. Composting leaves support healthy soil.

This fall do these four things that’ll help repair the broken carbon cycle:Learn how to compost.

Don’t bag your leaves, let them be or compost them.Support local, regenerative and organic farms.Vote for politicians who care about soil health.

“If you’ve never heard about the amazing potential of regenerative agriculture and land use practices to naturally sequester a critical mass of CO2 in the soil and forests, you’re not alone. One of the best-kept secrets in the world today is that the solution to global warming and the climate crisis (as well as poverty and deteriorating public health) lies right under our feet, and at the end of our knives and forks.”-Ronnie Cummin

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Sports professionals miss cheering crowds

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y dermatologist is a big sports fan and as I was enduring my monthly dermatology exam he remarked how surprised he was to see choking during the finals of this year’s U.S. Open in tennis at Flushing Meadows. We had been discussing the effect of playing to an empty stadium and he felt that the lack of crowds ought to lessen the stress levels and prevent choking, not increase them. And he was right to notice all this. Stefanos Ts-

Do athletes need a crowd to play in front of?

itsipos choked in an embarrassing manner in the men’s finals.How or why would a player tighten up so badly despite playing in front of an empty stadium? Well, to answer this we need to explore the crowd’s impact on a player’s performance. I work with many elite and professional athletes and I have listened to what they have said. The excitement of viewing a major golf, tennis or baseball event has diminished notably and this has put a greater burden on television color commentary to liven things up. They have thus far failed badly on this score, which is a testament to the irreplaceable value of 50,000 screaming fans roaring at the skills displayed by the athletes under duress. Tsitsipos is by no means the only athlete to have choked in recent days. The golfing world watched as Tommy Fleetwood, one of the top players in Europe, missed three foot putts on #16 and then in the sudden death playoff. All this took place at the Scottish Open with no crowds to watch. It is interesting to wonder

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if crowds could have helped both Tsitsipos and Fleetwood. My guess is they would have for the following reason. When an athlete is surrounded by noise, large numbers of people and applause, this energy helps him to focus and avoid irrelevant thoughts from within.

This is the reason so many writers like to write in cafes. The energy, noise and distraction experienced in cafés help the writer to focus on the theme of the article being written and this prevents the mind from wandering off. I have

worked with more than one baseball player who has had trouble throwing during practice when the pressure is least but have no problem whatsoever during game time. The noise and energy of the crowd during the game seems to help them shut out inner doubts and they play much better. When there are no crowds, they are left to dwell upon inner doubts, which enter their conscious mind and which then tighten up the body and destroy fluid motion. In these cases, the athletes are using the crowd energy to help their inner defenses fight off inner doubt. In other cases, especially with PGA tour players they uniformly complain about the lack of energy during play because they are so used to converting the crowd energy into their bodies and use it to keep on going and fight off fatigue. A third benefit of crowds during play in golf and tennis is that the general etiquette and good manners elicited by these two sports produce verbal support for almost all of the players as they walk

by. Crowd jeering is fairly rare in these sports though it does happen, especially to a few players who are systematically and largely unfairly targeted. Crowds jeering is far more common in the world of baseball, hockey, basketball and football, but in these cases the noise volume is so loud that often the players are spared from actually hearing the verbal abuse. As we stumble along in this COVID world of ours, we learn more and more of the value and the power of the crowd. It should not be a surprise to learn that elite athletes for the most part enjoy and benefit from the presence, the cheers, the applause and the admiration of the fans who come to watch them play. The gestalt of sports includes players, a field to play upon, a round ball and a stick, but this gestalt also requires all those spectators on the sideline who rouse them on to victory and offer solace in defeat. I long for the days of cheering crowds and so do the athletes I work with.

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VIEW POINT

Biden would replace Trump’s original sin

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olumbus Day presents a useful reminder that unless you are a member of an indigenous tribe, you are an immigrant to the United States of America. This includes Donald Trump’s own grandparents, who under his own policies, would have been immediately deported (his grandfather was a draft dodger from Germany and died of Spanish flu, which actually began in the United States and was exported to Spain, Europe and the globe by World War I Doughboys.

This includes refugee children from the Holocaust.

Indeed, Trump’s intention under his own Heinrich Himmler, Stephen Miller, is to cancel all immigration, illegal (a branding that he creates by effectively shutting down legal entry) as well as legal (except for his own near relations,

like Melania’s parents, or those who pay $1.8 million to buy into businesses under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program).

Immigration policy is Trump’s original sin of this fascistic dictator wannabe sociopath, the first and ongoing violation of his oath to follow the Constitution and laws of the land, who scapegoats immigrants as alien vermin invaders with the same hateful language used in Nazi Germany. To carry out illegal policies that violate U.S. law, including asylum law, the Constitution (due process, cruel and inhuman punishment), and international law (human rights, asylum), he has installed henchmen Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, who are occupying their offices illegally, without Senate confirmation (not to mention corrupt conflicts of interest and clearly no

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moral center).

But on Columbus Day, leading up to Election Day, let’s be reminded what Trump’s “immigration” policies have done: An unprecedented 69,550 migrant children have been held in U.S. government custody over the

past year (apnews.com/015702af db4d4fbf85cf5070cd2c6824) More than 5,400 children “separated” (kidnapped) from their family for the cynical purpose of “dissuading” families from fleeing violence in their home country to the “safety” of the USA; hundreds effectively orphaned and likely suffering permanent debilitating trauma. (www.nbcnews. com/news/us-news/more-5400children-split-border-accordingnew-count-n1071791) Some 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children have been kicked out of the United States without court hearings under the Trump administration’s fabricated coronavirus restrictions at the border (cnn.com).

Tens of thousands are cramped into dangerous, unsanitary camps outside the U.S.

under deals extorted Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, prey to criminals, gangs, rapists, and disease. (www.hrw.org/ news/2020/04/02/us-covid-19policies-risk-asylum-seekerslives) Conditions are not much better for the 50,000 immigrants held in DHS (for-profit) detention facilities on an average day (www.statista.com/chart/17977/ number-of-detainees-in-facilitiesof-dhs-immigration).

At least 24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during Trump’s occupation (that we know of). (www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-atadult-detention-centers).

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Supreme Court justices are aristocrats for life

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lose observers of American democracy are always attuned to the first Monday in October, when the Supreme Court begins its new session.

This year, in addition to several important cases on the docket, the court has been referred to as “the October Surprise” of the 2020 presidential election (at least prior to the hospitalization of the president). The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg created a vacancy nearer to a presidential election than at any time in recent American history.

How should each party proceed? Will the actions regarding the Supreme Court be a deciding factor in this most important election of our lives (many say it is the most important election in American history)?

Whatever transpires before Nov. 3 or in the Lame Duck Congress (looking more likely, given that two of the members of the Judiciary Committee – present at Trump’s super-spreader event — have contracted the virus), controversies sparked by this year’s court appointment could finally spur reforms regarding all lifetime federal justices and judges. These are the public officials who the perspicacious French analyst Alexis De Tocqueville portrayed as “the Aristocracy of the Robe.”

As a student of Columbia Professor Henry Steele Commager, I was impressed, more than a half century ago, when he devoted

an entire semester to examining Tocqueville’s significant commentaries in his book, “Democracy in America” (originally entitled “Equality in America”).

Remaining relevant is Toqueville’s attention to the contradiction that the most advanced democracy in the world gave such vast power to officials appointed (not elected) for life, while the nation celebrated “the people as the constituent power.”

Once they were appointed, members of the federal judiciary could serve for decades, even until they died, while presidential and congressional elections were regularly conducted. There was no legal way to hold lifetime federal judges accountable to the voters or to the president who nominated them and the Senate that approved their confirmation.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden gave a reasoned response to the debate over how to proceed with a replacement for Justice Ginsburg, although his views received sparse media attention. He did not challenge Trump’s assertion that as president he had the legal “responsibility” to nominate a replacement. Biden also did not challenge the right of the Senate to proceed with hearings and a confirmation vote prior to Nov. 3.

Biden was correct to disavow arguments by others that such actions would create a “constitutional crisis.” He recognized that Trump and the Senate had the legal power to act with any time-

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field table they selected. His key contention was whether both should demonstrate statesperson-type judgment and exercise restraint, declining to use legal powers at a time when the presidential election was so near.

Public opinion polls support Biden’s reasoned view to wait until voters have spoken before naming a most significant lifetime appointment. Many others are charging Republican senators and Trump with rank hypocrisy, an indictment they richly deserve because of the way they responded to Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 (Amy Coney Barrett is also on the record opposing Obama’s nominee in 2016 ). At the front of the hypocrites (not surprising) stands Trump. He is documented on visual recordings, saying Obama’s nomination was too close to our citizens’ selection of a new President, a mere “nine months

away.”

Now, Trump and Senate Republicans are undeterred when a presidential election is less than a month away, and, unlike in 2016, tens of thousands of Americans have already cast early voting ballots in their states. GOP hypocrisy is soundly denounced. Still, Biden has been consistent in recognizing that in both 2016 and 2020, the timing rests with those who have the current power. Republicans have grown fond of quoting Obama’s “elections have consequences.”

This year Republicans have added a power argument that builds on Obama: When the Senate and presidency are held by the same party, they are entitled to act in any time frame they choose.

That is legally correct, but what of the view by Biden and many others that restraint can serve higher purposes of democracy?

Waiting until a new president is elected gives citizens the chance to show their preference for the person who can be on the High Court for 30 or 40 years.

In choosing Coney Barrett, age 48, Trump has strikingly sent the message that his nominee, if confirmed, could be on the Supreme Court until 2060 or beyond, if she reaches or exceeds Ginsburg’s age at her death.

Coney Barrett has a clear conservative record, similar to Scalia, for whom she clerked. Yet opposing her will not be easy; she has outstanding academic creden-

tials and, as a mother of seven children, she is impressive when presented with her family. She is also a devout Catholic, raising concerns about whether attacks on her could risk losing an important share of the Catholic vote.

Several Democrats are working to block Republicans from getting the 51 votes needed to confirm Coney Barrett before Nov. 3.

Other strategists are urging Biden to keep his eyes on the prize: winning the presidency. Their view is that it is a wasted effort to try to get Republican senators to abandon Trump and that attacking Coney Barrett, especially for her religious views, will have a backlash.

This approach involves highlighting only Coney Barrett’s past positions as a threat to women’s issues and to Obama’s Affordable Care Act, especially during this pandemic, when health insurance continues to be a huge concern.

For Democrats, the challenge is what to do if Coney Barrett is confirmed now or in the post-Nov. 3 lame duck session and if the predicted Blue Tsumani comes to pass?

A Biden presidency, with an expanded Democratic House and regained control of the Senate, will have time and options to address — what he and his running mate have been careful NOT to address prior to the election – reforms to the size of the Supreme Court and the duration of its terms, echoing Tocqueville’s challenges to “the Aristocracy of the Robe.”

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THE BACK ROAD

Five words: ‘stand back and stand by’

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n the first presidential debate on Sept. 29 in Cleveland, Ohio, President Donald Trump stoked white supremacist violent aggression by telling hate groups to be on the ready for orders from the commander-in-chief.

He didn’t say that in so many words, rather in these five words – “stand back and stand by.” This was his response after Fox News debate moderator Chris Wallace asked him if he would denounce such groups.

One such group known as the Proud Boys, openly celebrated as if all they ever dreamed and hoped for came true.

Elon University professor Megan Squire who monitors online extremism said that those five words satisfied a long-awaited fantasy for white

supremacist groups. She told NBC News that, “They were proTrump before this shout-out, and they are absolutely over the moon now”.

The Proud Boys are a violent, nationalistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and misogynistic hate group, according to the Anti-Defamation League who track extremist groups in the U.S. In a video clip that I discovered on Twitter, Gavin McInness described the group he founded this way: “We will kill you — that’s the Proud Boys in a nutshell.” Furthermore, he added, “We need more violence from the Trump people.”

In response to the president’s dog whistle/call to action, a number of people who identify themselves with the

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Proud Boys posted this response to Trump on their social media pages: “Standing down and standing by sir”. This is in spite of the fact that Trump later claimed not to know who they are.

Trump apologists like Re-

publican Tim Scott, the first African-American senator to be elected from the deep South since 1881, tried to walk back Trump’s signal to radical right hate groups by claiming that he misspoke.

What any person who has not been brainwashed knows, is that the President did not misspeak. His message was clear, concise and consistent with past statements he has made that have emboldened and animated white supremacist groups. It was not a misstatement. It was an order and an echo of Charlottesville.

As a result of these five words, it is likely that U.S. intelligence personnel have now been activated to assume overtime shifts to guard against an escalation in organized white

supremacist violence.

Especially in the wake of the coming election that the president has repeatedly stated is likely to be rigged if he loses, despite all evidence to the contrary according to FBI Director Chris Wray in his recent testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee.

Wray also testified that “racially motivated violent extremism” by white supremacist groups represent most of the domestic terrorism threats we face in the United States.

“Stand back and stand by” was no idle threat. It was a call to arms.

Please be vigilant, my fellow Americans.

Andrew Malekoff is a New York State licensed clinical social worker

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Water co. must abandon changes to project

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ver the summer, New York State implemented stringent new regulations that lowered the acceptable amount of perfluorooctane sulfonatein potable water. To ensure compliance with this statewide mandate, New York American Water began the process of building a water treatment facility at their Roslyn Drive property in Glen Head.

This is a serious issue that we have a legal and moral obligation to address. However, it must not be used as a cover for wasteful backroom deals that provide little benefit to ratepayers.

Like water providers throughout the state, New York American Water is on the front lines of efforts to remove this dangerous carcinogen from our water supply.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned that exposure to PFOS over certain levels can result in serious health problems, such as developmental effects to fetuses during pregnancy or to breast-fed infants; cancer; and negative im-

pacts upon the liver, thyroid and immune system.

Although I have not agreed with or liked many of the things that NYAW has done in our community, when they reached out in January on this issue, I felt compelled to be of assistance.

As part of the approval process with the Town of Oyster Bay’s Zoning Board of Appeals, New York American Water was advised to conduct public outreach.

To ensure that immediately impacted residents would have an opportunity to review plans for this $3.5-million facility and pose questions to NYAW officials, I agreed to host a public meeting at the North Shore High School on March 16.

However, as the emerging COVID-19 pandemic began to wreak havoc upon our region, the public forum was postponed.

Now, let’s fast-forward three months to mid-June, when I received a call from New York American Water. I believed they were finally ready to re-schedule the meeting and were calling to

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coordinate with me.

Instead, I was floored to learn on that call that the Zoning Board had already approved NYAW’s zoning application — and the project they approved was $1 million more than when the proposal was last presented to me. It turns out that, under cover of the pandemic, NYAW’s original plan to use landscaping to conceal the treatment facility’s four tanks from public view — a common, economical practice successfully utilized by countless water dis-

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tricts — was dramatically altered without the input of elected officials, rate payers or key stakeholders.

Instead, in my opinion, NYAW went behind our backs to meet with a ‘civic group’ and replaced landscaping with a totally unnecessary $1 million ‘building.’ The ‘civic group’ they met with does not have any fiduciary responsibilities to their constituents, has no mandate to speak for the community, and in my view its members do not live in close proximity to the site of the treatment facility.

I believe the leader of this group was likely not aware of the fiscal impact of the design changes he advocated for.

I made it clear that I was furious about their lack of transparency. To make matters even worse, because NYAW is a private company, it is not eligible for any state funding. As I calculate it, if the cost is kept to the Sea Cliff Water District, their customers will be stuck with an additional bill of approximately $200 per ratepayer.

At a time when many of our constituents are grappling with COVID-19 related financial hardships above and beyond what I regard as their already exorbitant water bills, we have an ethical responsibility to ensure that this essential project is completed in a transparent, collaborative man-

ner that yields the maximum public health and quality of life benefits at the lowest cost possible.

I spoke to Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, who was also concerned about the costs.

He said that if New York American Water re-submitted its application without the costly $1-million structure, the Town of Oyster Bay would do what it could to have a new hearing as soon as possible.

Not surprisingly, my pleas to NYAW to make this right have been ignored thus far. In my opinion, New York American Water’s track record clearly illustrates that, in its dealings with this community, it will not do the right thing without being publicly — and loudly — shamed.

There is still time for New York American Water to change course, though. Call New York American Water at 1-877-4266999 to respectfully — but emphatically — make your opposition to this million-dollar boondoggle known and tell them that they have an obligation to serve all their ratepayers — not just the select few.

Delia DeRiggi-Whitton, of Glen Cove, was first elected to the Nassau County Legislature in 2011.

She currently represents the 11th Legislative District in the Nassau County Legislature.

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If we learned one thing from the 2016 presidential election, it is that the only poll that matters is the one taken on Election Day. The outcome of presidential elections often has a dramatic impact on our financial affairs and so an unpredictable election makes important financial decisions difficult.

Many experts now predict that the currently attractive environment for tax, gift and estate planning will change for the worse, regardless of which party wins the upcoming election. The logic here is straightforward: the recent rapid expansion of government borrowing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous pressure on the government to maintain or increase tax revenues.

This makes it unlikely that either party will do anything that may have the short-term effect of reducing tax revenue.

The window is likely closing quickly. An effective way to reduce the estate tax bill for your family is to transfer wealth to your beneficiaries while you are alive.

However, when you transfer wealth, you use up part of your lifetime gift and estate tax exemption. Right now, that gift exemption stands at an all-time high of $11.58 million ($23.16 million for married couples). This high exemption amount was a direct result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which took effect on January 1, 2018.

Prior to that the lifetime gift and estate tax exemption amount was $5.49 million per individual so the exemption was effectively doubled! Unfortunately, this legislation “sunsets” by the end of 2025 which means that unless Congress acts, the exemption will go back to $5.49 million per individual.

You may lose your large exemption opportunity. In the case where Congress does decide to act before 2025, it may reduce this exemption even sooner, possibly acting to reduce the exemption amount retroactively to Jan of 2021.

Those not taking advantage of the high exemption amount while it is in place, risk permanently losing their opportunity, making it a “use it or lose it” period between now and the end of this year.

What can you do? With the Federal Reserve Bank lowering interest rates in

response to the Pandemic-induced economic slowdown, it turns out that these low rates favor a type of estate planning strategy called a Grantor Retained Annuity Trust, or GRAT for short.

A typical GRAT strategy may do a good job at tax-free wealth transfer if you use an illiquid, cash-generating asset like commercial real estate, a closely held business or a highly concentrated stock position. A more flexible version, called a Structured GRAT, allows you to take advantage of this wealth transfer strategy even if your wealth is primarily in liquid investments like cash or short-term investments.

Seek out professional advice. Even though the upcoming election and a lowinterest rate environment make this a good time for Estate Planning, these issues can be complex and should only be addressed with the help of professionals.

Families with a desire for transferring wealth to heirs to lower the future burden of estate taxes should seek the professional advice of a Financial Advisor, Estate Planner, Trust & Estate Attorney and/or a Tax Accountant.

Even if your family is not directly impacted by potential changes in the Gift and Estate Tax exemptions, it is still a good idea to give some thought toward planning around this issue. Regardless of what the November election outcome is, or how interest rates change in the future, you should seriously consider Estate Planning now because the current levels of the gift and estate tax exemption may be much less attractive or simply not available at all.

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Medicare open enrollment begins Oct. 15

BY ST E P H E N J .

SILVERBERG The annual open enrollment period for Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans, and Part D prescription drug coverage begins on Oct. 15 and ends on Dec. 7, 2020.

This is the only time during the year an individual can change their Medicare coverage. Whatever decisions seniors make will be set in stone for a full calendar year.

Mistakes are costly, especially for people who require multiple prescriptions. If seniors do not enroll in Medicare when they are eligible, there is a 10% increase in premiums for every year they failed to enroll (i.e., if they enroll in Part B or D three years late, the annual premium is increased by 30% for the rest of their lives).

“It’s very tempting to shrug your shoulders and go with the same plan you had last year. Don’t. Plans change, networks change, and doctor’s participation in networks change,” said Stephen J. Silverberg. “The plan you had last year might not work this year.”

Changes that can be made during the open enrollment period include switching from original Medicare, Part A (hospital costs), and Part B (medical coverage) to a private Medicare Advantage plan. Seniors can change from one Medicare Advantage plan to a different one. They can join or switch a prescription drug plan under Medicare Part D.

Medicare is challenging to navigate.

Over the years, the attorneys at the law office of Stephen J. Silverberg have made a point of speaking with clients about their Medicare plan during meetings in the enrollment season. In recent years, they have noted that it has become even more complicated. This especially true of Medicare Part D. Currently, there are over thirty different Part D plans available on Long Island.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service, the federal agency which runs the programs, introduced the Medicare Plan Finder to assist seniors in August 2019.

Unfortunately, the Finder had numerous

technical glitches and incorrect information; many seniors could not access the Finder.

It proved a hardship to seniors. There were reports of Inflated costs and higher premiums. Complaints came from Medicare enrollees, consumer advocates, U.S. Senators, state insurance commissioners, and even the insurance brokers who sell these plans.

“We are attorneys. We are not an insurance agency or broker and sell no product.

Our review is impartial,” explained Mr. Silverberg. “We want to help seniors avoid mistakes. Medicare is confusing, and we are pleased to help.”

Three important points for seniors: 1 – Know your plan. Look for a piece of mail from Medicare, “Annual Notice of Change.” This letter will have information about changes to coverage and costs, including premiums, deductibles, and co-pays. If you do not participate in Medicare, you will not receive the letter.

2 – Gather up all of your medical expenses from the last year and a list of the doctors you see regularly and the medications you take. If you use a single pharmacy, they will gladly give you a printed list. You’ll need that to figure out which one will be best for you in 2021.

3 – Your modified adjusted gross income (“MAGI”) from two years ago determines your premiums for Medicare Part B. MAGI includes capital gains, Social Security, and required minimum distributions from retirement funds and 401(k) plans. Your 2019 income determines the premium you will pay in 2021. It is too late to do much about that now, but if you can curtail income in 2020, you may reduce Medicare costs.

We invite you to call our office and request a free consultation to discuss your Medicare coverage. Call our office at 516307-1236.

To help seniors in making an informed decision about their Medicare coverage, the Law Office of Stephen J. Silverberg, PC is offering complimentary consultations by phone, video conference, or in office.

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Experts call for government reforms Continued from Page 9 that is the level of trouble we’re looking at right now.”

While the finance authority has no jurisdiction over what services may be cut by the county until county officials fail to balance the budget on three occasions, Wright said, consolidating some services and utilizing bulk purchases for materials are some of the immediate ways the county can cut spending. “[The county] is required to deliver police, social services, health and welfare … in many cases some of the transportation improvements can be federally funded as well,” Wright said.

Wright also said the county could consider halting the mailings it sends to most residents on a weekly basis.

In terms of raising sales tax revenue, an area that the county’s financial state thrives on, Imber suggested utilizing “raw land.”

“Governments hold onto raw tracts of land that probably can’t really be developed,” Imber said. “One of the ideas I’ve been kicking around for a couple of

years is creating a solar farm. Through a public-private partnership, take this fallow land and give a long-term lease to a utility company that will install solar cells.”

Imber also mentioned another untapped market for a potential revenue is air rights above buildings to install 5G technology and relinquishing property that may prove obsolete down the road.

“There is going to be a whole wave of installation related to the support of 5G technology and they’re going to need air above the buildings,” Imber said. “The automobile is going to be less of a personal item in 15-20 years … it’s kind of far out in the future, but if there was ever a time to sell government-owned parking garages, it might be right now.”

Haber suggested the county look into a wide array of “creative” solutions to create a revenue stream ranging from smart meters for parking to utilizing county landmarks and scenery for filming purposes.

“The Village of Valley Stream spends about $600,000 a year on people to col-

lect meters, and they generate about $600,000 on meters,” Haber said. “You charge people to shop in your stores, but you don’t make money. If they switch to smart meters, they’ll not only raise more money but they’ll save money from having to have the employees there and deploy them to other parts of the government when people retire.”

Wright stressed that now is the time for politicians to find common ground when it comes to potential solutions to dig the county and local governments on the island out of any holes they may be in.

“If not now, for elected officials to find the political will to do something difficult, when,” Wright said. “They have political cover to do things that are difficult. You have a number of elected officials who have railed against the existence of NIFA but done nothing including easy things to make it go away by simply balancing their budget.”

All three panelists agreed that one of the most important tasks for elected officials throughout the county is to think of long-term, substantial revenue streams for Nassau.

Singas declines to charge Schnirman Continued from Page 10 At the time he returned the money, Schnirman said, “I now understand that the methods Long Beach has been using to calculate payout amounts for at least the last 25 years are different than the stricter formula originally set out in the City Code.”

The district attorney said that investigators interviewed more than 30 current and former Long Beach employees and reviewed thousands of pages of records, but that the investigation was delayed by “the refusal of some critical witnesses to cooperate, and questions of privilege relating to certain records.”

“I strongly endorse Comptroller DiNapoli’s audit recommendations and I am

encouraged that the new City Council has appointed an experienced City Manager and proposed structural changes to transfer more authority — and responsibility — to the elected government,” Singas said. “Additionally, I commend them for conducting their own internal audit and taking steps to recoup overpayments.”

As for the City Council, Singas recommended that it “establish and codify clear policies governing payments for accrued vacation and sick time, and review City operations to identify any other areas where antiquated opinions from former officials or unquestioned longstanding procedures have led to governing and administrative practices inconsistent with laws and ordinances.”

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Chrysalis Chrysalis For Koustantina You gave me the secret in your heart long ago. I have continued to grow by it.

Love does not dissolve in air, or turn to ash and dust— unless, of course, we carelessly let it.

How the years multiply through decades, turning my white bones toward sleep.

But we are still here, our magic proliferates, the touch of love and magic made us complete— even the way you say my name proclaims it.

Once I was a space that needed to be filled— beginnings are beginnings, I never imagined there was such strength in beauty until lifted by the lightest touch of wings.

Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

Tiger Swallowtail by Janice Annunziata

Keep Holocaust from politics talk

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re you kidding me? Another attempt to equate the Holocaust to current national events? In the Oct. 2 “The Back Road” section of Great Neck News, Andrew Malekoff launches into yet another familiar hyper-partisan tirade that begins with Nazi evil and culminates with unwarranted attacks on President Trump.

Mr. Malekoff uses rhetorically linking catchwords throughout (“gassing,” “following orders,” “ripping children,” “brownshirts” etc.) in his quest to demonize the president. He consistently presents glaring inaccuracies in his convoluted piece, while neglecting to mention the organized terror, violence, looting, and arson perpetrated by supporters of VP Biden and his radical left base in many American cities.

Irving Rosenstein Village of Great Neck Plaza

Weprin will be NYC comptroller

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hile I do respect a significant number of the weekly letters Larry Penner contributes to the Great Neck News, it seems that his Sept. 19 letter about state Assemblyman David Weprin, may be based on a personal vendetta.

The letter, which contains many misleading opinions, was published in a publication that doesn’t impact New York City voting at all. Even though we cannot vote for Assemblyman Weprin in Long Island, I felt compelled to answer that letter.

Throughout his life as New York City Council Finance Chair, New York State Assemblymember, lifelong Queens resident, husband, father, and grandfather, David Weprin has devoted his life to making New York City a better place to live, work and raise a family. Now, Assemblyman Weprin is running for New York City Comptroller to continue this lifelong mission.

In the letter published on Sept. 19

by Larry Penner, he mentioned that this is not David Weprin’s first run for comptroller, but what else does that prove besides his passion for the job and his commitment to making New York a strong and prosperous city? Assemblyman Weprin is a New Yorker through and through.

He is the child of a mother who was a Cuban immigrant schoolteacher and a father who was a lifelong public servant who rose to serve as Speaker of the New York State Assembly.

David Weprin understands the

challenges faced by working families every day, challenges that have only been exacerbated by the deadly pandemic that has strangled our economy, and the traumatic implications of our nation’s most polarized election year in recent history.

Assemblyman Weprin’s entire life has been devoted to public service – he has more experience than any candidate in the race, not to mention he’s the only candidate with public finance experience.

The next comptroller needs to be someone with public finance experience and the know-how to manage the City’s budget, especially in times of crisis. With the pandemic still raging through our city and winter approaching, threatening the re-closure of small businesses, New York is going to need someone who knows how to get our economy back on track. David Weprin is the only candidate who can get the job done.

Assemblyman Weprin’s extensive record of accomplishments in public office cannot be overlooked. As the New York City Council’s Finance Committee Chair for eight years, he balanced the City’s budget, allocated millions of dollars for non-profit organizations, and made sure that funding was available to accomplish the City’s most important legislative priorities.

In the face of the financial crisis, David Weprin is no novice. Amid the devastating financial crisis of 2008, Assemblyman Weprin worked to secure $2.5 billion to make sure that

retired New Yorkers would receive quality health care for years to come.

He worked alongside Mayor Bloomberg to help homeowners reduce their tax burden by allocating more than $1 billion back into the pockets of the middle-class. These accomplishments are no small feat, and while they may have been hard decisions to make, David Weprin is someone who never backs down when it comes to doing the right thing for New Yorkers – that characteristic is at the heart of everything he does.

Of all the candidates in this race, Assemblyman Weprin leads the pack on fighting for New Yorkers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, he successfully fought for the reopening of partial indoor dining in order to help our City’s small, independent restaurants.

David Weprin’s decades of service, above all else, are proof of his ability to lead and his constituents’ approval of his leadership. From his role as Deputy Superintendent of Banks and Secretary of the Banking Board of New York State, to his years in the City Council and the State Assembly, to his Queens roots and diverse background, Assemblyman Weprin’s experience speaks for itself.

With everything going on in our city, we need leadership with proven experience to get the job done – David Weprin is the candidate who brings that experience to the table.

Dr. Paul Brody Great Neck Estates

Living a better life in tough times

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on’t get it twisted. Most people have racism inside of them. The best of us keep this very deep inside of our souls. Unfortunately, way too many people claim they have zero racist tendencies.

The simple truth is, that happens to be utter nonsense. People, you can’t claim to have friends from other religions, races or backgrounds. And ever speak a racist word. That erases all Goodwill and yes makes you a racist person. Even Pillow Talk is wrong.

Our vernacular needs to change. We need to live in an individualistic society. Treat others how you wish to be treated. Don’t hold the sins of others against the person in front of you. It is not okay to use derogatory terms at all. All lives matter, all of them!

One of the first thoughts we should have when we awake is how can I help someone. Hold the door open for them, bring a co-

worker a cup of coffee, drop a dollar bill in a tip cup. No matter how small or big the gesture, it can truly go a long way to brightening up someone’s day. Simply be more courteous.

Whether you’re rich or poor you always have something that you can do for others. If we start and make an extra few thank yous and smiles happen. We could begin changing The Narrative of being a selfish Society. If you’re already doing this, then do more.

A wonderful man. Jim Valvano, who coached the North Carolina State men’s basketball team once said,” there are three things we should do every day.

Number one, laugh. Number two, think. Number three, have your emotions brought to tears. That’s a full day that’s a heck of a day” he also said ” don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”

Soon after this speech was given, while receiving the Arthur

Ashe award at the ESPYs in 1993, he lost his life to cancer. He died less than two months after the speech.To anybody watching this try to enrich another person’s life.

No matter what don’t give up, don’t ever give up.

One last thing he said. Now keep in mind, this speech had a lot to do with cancer. I’m going to change his words a bit.

Don’t let racism take away all my physical abilities. Remember, it cannot touch my mind, it’s not touching my heart and it cannot touch my soul. Those three things are going to carry on forever.

Education, privilege and wealth shouldn’t mold you into the person you are. Your parents, family and community are where your core values need to come from. Progress and prosper. Progress and prosper people.

Steve Cohen Great Neck

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Wallace failed in his job as debate moderator

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ike Wallace, one of our nation’s legendary journalists must be spinning in his grave at how low his son Chris Wallace has sunk with his total failas the moderator

of the first debate of this crucial campaign.

He allowed the ‘current occupant of the White House’ (or as I refer to this clown, the C.O.) to flagrantly walk all

over him, and the agreed-upon debate rules.

The whole affair was allowed to degenerate into little more than a shouting call to arms for the racist white national-

ist horde. SHAME on you Chris Wallace, you dishonor your father’s memory. Sad! Eric Cashdan Sands Point

Narcissist-in-chief doesn’t care about you

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he letter writer who chose to compliment Mr. Trump on his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has bad timing. The narrative will read “refused to wear mask — got Cov-

id.” Choosing quotes from Trump’s interview series with Bob Woodward is revisionist history. The pandemic has been a political nuisance. His behavior towards it typifies his incompetence.

Some 207,000 People have died.

Had Trump worn a mask, who knows how many lives could’ve been saved.

His Sunday “victory tour” around Walter Reed put his Secret Service staff

and others at risk. The Narcissist-in-Chief could care less.

Rob Stevens Great Neck

Biden agenda offers no answers to future

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recent poster stated: “Definition of Insanity-voting for anyone that’s been in Washington for 40+ years and believing they are going to fix things now.”

As an Independent I always try to examine all the views presented at Presidential debates. I listened to the Cleveland debate and was hoping to see clearly Mr. Biden’s agenda for the Presidency.

I was disappointed because I wanted to hear his views on the Green New Deal,

the Obama/Biden Affordable Care Act, the expansion of the Supreme Court and the future of the filibuster in Congress.

Mr. Biden did state that the Green New Deal is not his plan but his campaign page states otherwise that it is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges. Which view is it? Mr. Biden espouses bringing jobs back to the U.S. while he voted for the NAFTA trade deal that decimated our jobs.

A major concern for Americans is the

future of the Affordable Care Act that was quickly passed 10 years ago with little oversight and while assuring us that our doctors could be kept.

Sadly, many people were unable to keep their doctors as was promised. Currently, there are millions of people not covered by this health-care program.

If a coherent and affordable healthcare program for all had been approved there would be no need for its viability to be discussed at the Supreme Court in the

current court term.

Sadly, Congress has failed us. The talk of expanding the Supreme Court is troubling because most Americans want to see less governmental bureaucracy. Mr. Biden must make his views clear on his campaign page and in future debates. Health care, jobs and climate change must be clearly addressed to the electorate.

Joseph Campbell Port Washington

Put an end to North Hempstead’s crime wave

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espite the addition of the 6th Precinct, it appears crime is still completely out of control in the Town of North Hempstead. In the past couple of years, the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been picking up lawyers, hedge fund operators, C-suite executives and real estate investors by the bushel for larcenies that are the equivalent of knocking over oh, about 20,265 7-Elevens in a single transaction.

Note that all of the perpetrators have one thing in common: not only do they all live in the Town of North Hempstead, but their nefarious activities of crime are confined to the area north of Route 25A. My friends, we have uncovered a nest

of vipers.

We must do something to get this rampant criminality under control.

Therefore, I am calling on two courageous advocates of justice, fair play and the rule of law, our town supervisor and county executive, to demand a compulsory forensic tax audit of every resident in the Town who lives north of Northern Boulevard.

Given the sheer number of convicts and suspects arrested so far in this tiny geographic area, it would appear that law enforcement has only scratched the surface, and it should be easy for even an amateur detective to deduce there must be dozens more who simply haven’t been caught yet.

Apparently, they are all around us. They stand behind you in the bakery. They rum-

mage through men’s shirts in local department stores. They’re filling their cars at local gas stations, plotting their next move.

These perpetrators have a deadly advantage: they blend into the neighborhood so well, law enforcement can’t even profile them. How can you pick out well dressed old white men and women getting away with these crimes when they’re all driving identical Mercedes-Benzes? It’s the old story, my friends: they all look alike.

This poses a unique challenge to our efforts to secure our community from this crime wave of epic proportions. Millions of dollars in personal fortunes are at stake here.

I urge our guardians of decency, especially those tough, truncheon swinging,

“law and order” peckerwoods in the Nassau County Legislature, to ramp up the same level of public fear, hate and paranoia they reserve for people who live south of the highway, and turn their attention to people who can steal more than $45 at a time.

I know that some of them will miss the campaign contributions they get from some of the perpetrators. But public service has always called for sacrifices. Just ask Gerard Terry, Ed Mangano, Sheldon Silver, or Dean Skelos. They’ll tell you.

Fellow citizens, won’t you stand with me and demand an end to this crime wave?

And let our rallying cry ring out: “Not in OUR Town!”

Donald Davret Roslyn

Kudos to the East Williston Village Library

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just wanted to express a big thank you to our East Williston Village’s Library supervisors (both Ms. Jamie Cutinella and Ms. Erin Urkiel) and their entire staff for everything they have done…and continue to do both before AND after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Although the hurdles have been

monumental at times, each of our wonderful Library supervisors and staff members have gone above and beyond the call of duty to extend our library’s welcoming offerings to all community members throughout very challenging times.

Ms. Stephanie Keys’ (“Ms. Steph”)

Story Time on our Village Green has been a welcoming haven for our village’s youngins.’ Itis a heartfelt return to the socialization benefits of early childhood group-reading activities.

As a member of our East Williston community for 40 years, I am grateful to have such caring and helpful individu-

als working at our extremely great East Williston Public Library… the smallest library in our Nassau Library System.

Thank you again for all you do. You are all the truly the best!

Kathy Rittel East Williston

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Sillitti has earned her stripes for Assembly

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ollowing the retirement of state Assemblyman Tony D’Urso, voters in New York’s 16th Assembly District, which covers Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset and portions of Roslyn and New Hyde Park, will head to the polls this fall to determine his successor.

I’ll be voting for Gina Sillitti because she will be ready to step into the job on day one, utilizing her prior experiences working in various levels of government, something that is especially needed now as we rely on our public servants to help our community confront

the various crises caused by the pandemic. Her strength as a candidate has been well recognized already, receiving the endorsements of local elected officials like North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and important constituencies such as the working women and men of organized labor.

Throughout her candidacy, Gina has been paying attention to several issues central to our district. Those include providing tax relief to manage the high cost of living in our communities, protecting our environment, and promoting economic development. Addi-

tionally, she’s promised to be active in delivering reforms to our voting system and increasing government transparency.

In raising the issue of voting reform, Gina has made an issue of something that has only grown in prominence these past few months. Gina supports a variety of measures to make voting easier, seeking to build off the steps the state took just last year when voters could early vote for the first time. Specifically, Gina believes that New Yorkers should not need an excuse to vote absentee, and that voters should be automatical-

ly registered, unless they wish to opt out, when they visit the DMV or another state agency.

Related to her desire to make voting a more straightforward process is Gina’s support for offering voters more transparency and accountability from their elected officials. Gina has made this a focus of her campaign, promising to take feedback from her constituents and turn it into action. While such a promise may seem basic, it serves as an avenue to address local concerns and ensure that our representative is able to deliver for those she represents. The im-

portance of such has only become more important lately, as the government has played a large role in helping individuals and businesses navigate the tumult of the past few months during the pandemic.

Every level of public service is crucially important and ensuring we elect a capable representative in the 16th Assembly District is vital. Gina Sillitti is the best choice for us, and I encourage the readers of this letter to support her this fall.

Peter Fishkind Great Neck

Kaplan wrong on criminal justice reform

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tate Sen. Anna Kaplan should be ashamed of herself for having the audacity to distribute a mailing filled with one misleading statement after another when it comes to her record on public safety.

Evidently, she must believe that her constituents in the 7th Senate district have a very short memory or are complete idiots.

Whichever it is, it is abundantly clear that she has no respect for the people she claims to represent in Albany.

The flyer contends that Kaplan “Successfully fought to fix the bail

law to keep violent criminals and repeat offenders off the streets.”

What she is withholding is the fact that the law she fought to fix is the very law that she and every other democrat in the state senate voted for in 2019 and Governor Cuomo signed into law.

Known as the 2019 Criminal Justice Reform Act, it eliminated cash bail for a majority of offenders without taking into account their past criminal history, their likelihood to show up for their next court appearance or the danger they pose to the public.

To add to the absurdity, the law was written with zero input

from law enforcement executives, district attorneys or judges across the state. When it came to bail requirements, judges had their discretion completely removed.

The Criminal Justice Reform Act that Kaplan voted for resulted in a revolving door in and out of the system. Criminals are not deterred knowing they can burglarize your house on Friday and if arrested, will be out by Saturday night.

Time and time again New Yorkers are seeing stories of offenders who should be behind bars out committing the same crimes against new victims. Earlier this year we saw Tiffany Harris arrest-

ed not once, not twice but an astounding three times in one week for assaulting Jewish women in Brooklyn.

She walked free after each arrest under the state’s ludicrous 2020 soft-on-crime law. The “fixes” to the original bail reform bill that Sen. Kaplan refers to in her mailing do very little to give judges the full discretion they need against offenders charged with weapons possession, certain burglaries and other disturbing crimes.

Senator Kaplan would like you to read the flyer and believe that she has the safety of all of us is mind when in fact nothing can be

further from the truth.

In 2019, the senator jumped on board the democrat’s bandwagon and blindly voted along party lines to make each and every New Yorker less safe! Senator Kaplan’s blatantly misleading flyer not only proves she lacks the ability to admit she was wrong on this important issue but also that evidently, she takes us all for fools. To me, honesty goes a long way when deciding on who to vote for.

Senator Kaplan does not deserve to be re-elected.

Timothy Kelly East Williston

Charlottesville comments taken out of context

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et me address your commentary about hate and Charlottesville from your oped of 9/25/20.

The city of Charlottesville Virginia had voted to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a local park.

Some people wanted to keep the statue and many had gathered at the Park to make their wants known.

On Aug. 12, 2017 a Unite the Right Rally was organized that included White Supremacists, NeoNazis and a small militia group.

They were met by counter-protestors and Civil Rights Activists.

Fighting occurred between the groups that was eventually quelled by police. There were peaceful protestors marching in addition to the extremist groups and, at some point, one of the White Supremacists backed his car up at a high speed down the street through the peaceful protestors killing one person and injuring 19.

At 3 pm., President Trump

made a statement.

“We condemn in the strongest, possible terms the egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, many sides. It’s been going on for a long time” (not entire quote, can be read online).

In ensuing interviews in the next two days, he said there “Were good people on both sides” and later explained that he was talking about the peaceful protestors that were also marching to protest. He condemned the White Supremacists and the Neo-Nazis and has done it over and over again (all on videos that I have seen).

Trump was chastised everywhere for not, initially, calling out these groups by name and he explained that he did not have all the facts about what happened on August 12th and wanted to be sure of the scenario. Joe Biden continues to lie about this event and at the debate this past week, Chris Wallace, a biased plant if there ever was one, had the chutzpah to

ask Trump if he denounces these groups as if he doesn’t remember he asked the same question in 2016 and got the same answer then.

He added Proud Boys, out of nowhere, and pressured Trump to denounce them, he didn’t even know who they were. I didn’t either. They have been inconsequential in the violence since George Floyd’s death. Did he ask Biden to call out Antifa or BLM, the terrorist groups that are currently destroying this country’s cities? Not on his biased life.

Now we have two hate groups, BLM and Antifa traveling all over the country spewing hate , looting, committing acts of arson, murder, beatings, bomb throwing, and are they called out by name? Are there white supremacists and Neo-Nazis that cause trouble? Yes, but not in this mayhem.

They are wearing shirts, hats and carrying the signs of BLM. They are chanting, spitting in the faces of police, cursing and acting like de-

generates and encouraging death to cops and actually shooting them.

Talk about hypocrisy. Then there is Antifa, all in black cowardly faces covered, running around with their bats looking for a head to slam.

They also have flags very visible on video.

Joe Biden denies they are organized, they are just an “idea.”

I have news for you Joe, ideas do not show up with pickup trucks loaded with bricks in the back and have them promptly removed and stashed (on video), trucks whose backs are opened and lead pipes and frozen water bottles removed along with bats and other projectiles. That takes organization and money. These are not spontaneous actions.

Divisiveness in America, you say? What could ever cause that?

Trump again?. Racism against whites is occurring right under your nose and what do you say about it? Nothing. Now it is ‘white privilege”, “white guilt,” racial sen-

sitivity training to tell us how bad and racist we are, mobs demanding whites kneel and and raise their fists in restaurants, people being pulled from their cars by mobs, even elderly whites being knocked to the ground and beaten. Whites being attacked by white mobs, all captured on video for all to see.

Who is to blame? It is not Trump.

These groups are being supported financially by people with money to spare, a hatred for this country and a wish to destroy all that is good about it.

Democratic leadership is allowing the mayhem to go on. More to come next week.

Gayle Palmer Editors Note: FBI Director Chris Wray recently testified before a House committee that Antifa was more an ideology, not an organized group. He also testified that Black Lives Matter was not being investigated as a terror group.

Letters Continued on Page 38

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Business&RealEstate How to hire a mortgage broker In my 38 years doing real estate as an investor and Broker, I have had the pleasure of working with a few professional mortgage brokers. I have also had a few disastrous situations whereby one particular mortgage person, whom I originally thought was an upstanding individual in his field, did something unconscionable and totally unacceptable by scamming one of my most important clients by overcharging for his fees.

I believe in earning a living, but not gouging people. When you do that, you may make a onetime score, but what are the consequences for future referrals and maximizing one’s earnings? Many so-called professionals in all fields make every attempt at maximizing their earnings today, but truly miss the mark because of what they are doing to their future business and contacts. When you create an environment of building excellent rapport leading to long-term relationships by “doing the right thing” from start to the finish, you can become very successful. All those hours that are sacrificed and provided with “expert service before, during and after the sale” go a long way in building and increasing your future referrals.

Just imagine a funnel that is constantly being filled with referrals and new business when you continually perform and provide professional, expert, and transparent services at an optimum level for your clients. It does require maximum efforts, disciplined actions and the sacrifice of one’s valuable time in order to succeed and maximize one’s income in this low inventory market that we all are currently experiencing. Unfortunately, due to the Corona-19 virus, as hundreds of thousands have fled and exited New York City for Long Island, Westchester and other states near and far, your real estate or mortgage funnel can surely be filled with quality leads very quickly.

However, if you have a substantial social media advertising footprint, it will also be a contributing factor in growing your business and brand. One of my slogans that I have expounded in the past is what I call Phil’s 6 P’s: proper planning prevents piss poor performance! Many do not practice this and that is why the average income of a realtor today is around $43,200, but then again the majority of people in our industry are part-timers who do real estate as an adjunct to their current “salaried or wage per hour” job. Those full time seasoned Realtors and professional mortgage brokers are

subject to the exact same market condition. They have to perform in pretty much the identical way in order to succeed in scaling their businesses to a level to create and maximize their incomes.

One must realize that interviewing a mortgage person is exactly the same as when interviewing and receiving a listing presentation from a real estate broker.

Similar questions that are asked are as follows: 1.) What are your fees if I hire you? (the same question asked of a real estate broker)2.) How long will it take to receive the mortgage written commitment? (how long is the listing agreement?)3.) How long will it take to go to contract and then close the transaction after there is a “clear to close” from the bank attorneys? (What is the timeline in setting up a contract to the closing?)4.) Who have you provided a successful mortgage commitment to? (For who have you sold homes, condos or coops in the town or surrounding areas?)5.)

What makes you different as a mortgage broker than everyone else in your industry? (the same question asked of a professional Realtor during their listing presentation?)6.) How many banks and lenders do you work with and how competitive are they in gaining the lowest interest rates with the least amount of fees? (How

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will you attract the greatest number of eyeballs leading to maximizing our showings and leading to a contract on our home?)7.) If we were to hire you, how often do you follow up and stay in touch with us? (same question asked by homeowners during a listing presentation by the broker?)

As you can see many questions that are asked share similarities whether a mortgage broker or a real estate broker. The complete package of services and the most crucial and required follow-up that is supposed to be provided is somewhat identical and in the same way that one should present their program to a prospect. Developing that initial spark leading to a bonding connection with that client and the building of rapport and a

growing relationship occurs when a successfully written mortgage approval is attained and can lead to the most important relationship.

We all strive to gain that final acceptance, which in turn will extend that relationship far into the future, providing one stays in touch, as studies show. However, the majority of people in sales and/ or consulting, whether a mortgage broker, realtor, car salesperson, or do not keep those relationships because there is no follow-up after the sale over the long term. The greatest improvement will only occur when a plan is devised to stay in touch with your clients on a regular basis year in and year out.

This will return tremendous financial benefits and personal rewards, potentially gaining new friends and pay you back for the fruits of your labor and time spent.

The desire and need to earn an above-average income will always correlate with the quality of time and efforts that you sacrifice and you put into your business.

The question is how many actually “step up to the plate” who continue to swing, connect and hit that home run into the bleachers? The percentage of those earning greater incomes know what I am talking about and what must be done every day. But the majority are actually clueless, just plain lazy, or possibly their sales/consult-

ing position is not comfortable for them if they are not willing to work and build their business brand. We call the old adage that if you keep doing what you have always done and expect something miraculously to change and improve “business insanity.” What I have found over 38 years is that your return on investment from your business is determined and directly related to so many interconnected factors and must be learned, absorbed, practiced, applied, and honed over time to become the most proficient at your trade. There are no real short cuts and what you get of your business is related to what you put into it.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck.

He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email, and cell number and he will call or email you back. For a “free” 15 minutes consultation, he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com to answer any of your questions or concerns.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in

Manhasset

107 Eakins Road, Manhasset

34 Sutton Crest, Manhasset

5 bd, 6 ba 3,880 sqft, Sold on: 7/29/20, Sold Price: $2,298,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Manhasset

4 bd, 7 ba, 4,000 sqft, Sold on: 7/30/20, Sold Price: $3,200,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Manhasset

7 Aldgate Drive West, Manhasset

103 Plandome Court, Manhasset

5 bd, 4 ba, 4,000 sqft, Sold on: 6/3/20, Sold Price: $1,680,000 Type: Condo, Schools: Manhasset

3 bd, 3 ba, 1,988 sqft, Sold on: 5/20/20, Sold Price: $1,298,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Manhasset

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Manhasset 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 Manhasset and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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G. Head man accused of embezzling $1M Continued from Page 5 of delay, he received the $100,000 via a wire to his bank account and was allegedly told the money was from the sale of shares in the hedge fund.

However, the DA’s office discovered in May, after receiving the case from the Securities and Exchange Commission, that the money was allegedly wired directly from another victim in February.

That victim, the defendant’s neighbor, allegedly went to the bank with Heckler in February believing she was wiring a $100,000 life insurance payment from her deceased husband to the hedge fund, but she was wiring the money directly to the first victim’s son.

As this was going on, the neighbor believed she would receive monthly dividend payments from her investment and did not know there was a problem until investigators from the DA’s office contacted her.

During the investigation, at least two other victims were discovered to have

been allegedly defrauded by Heckler in a similar manner. He is also alleged to have solicited additional victims by coldcalling people in other states and getting them to agree to invest.

Heckler allegedly spent the money on his mortgage, a country club membership, credit card payments and daily expenses like dry cleaning and phone bills.

In total, he stands accused of stealing $1,004,159 from four victims.

“Rand Heckler allegedly duped friends, neighbors, and complete strangers into investing their savings in a Ponzi scheme that fueled his extravagant lifestyle,” Singas said in a statement. “The defendant allegedly used his clients’ money – more than $1 million – to pay for his mortgage, country club membership, and other expenses. Investment brokers have a responsibility to their clients, but based on these allegations, Rand Heckler cared only about his bottom line.”

The district attorney’s office said it

intends to charge his corporation Rand Heckler Inc. at a later date.

Senior Investigative Counsel Betty Rodriguez of Singas’ Financial Crime Bureau and Rebecca Winer of the Civil Forfeiture Bureau are prosecuting this case.

Michael Finkelstein of Hempstead-based Jacoby & Meyers LLP represents the defendant.

A 2019 report from the Sonn Law Firm, which represents consumers and victims of investor fraud, claims that over the course of his career Heckler worked for four firms that had been expelled from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and that he had been accused by clients of unsuitable and unauthorized trading, among other things, in 2002, 2004 and 2007. The law firm also claims that FINRA barred Heckler in June 2019 after he did not respond to an investigation following a customer filing a complaint alleging unsuitable recommendations, misrepresentations and possible misappropriation

Heckler was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court on Nov. 13.

The Glen Head resident is the latest North Shore resident to be charged or sentenced for financial crimes, following Frankie Russo of Roslyn, one in a group charged with attempting to defraud lottery winners of over $107 million; Daniel Kamensky of Roslyn, a hedge fund founder charged with creating an alleged scheme to profit off the bankruptcy of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus; Michael Kohn of Sands Point, a former lawyer charged with stealing $150,000 from three of his clients; Leslie Scharf of Roslyn, who pleaded guilty to grand larceny for stealing $6 million from retail company Shoplet, for which he served as general counsel and senior vice president of business development; and Paul Rinfret, formerly of Manhasset, who was sentenced to 63 years in prison for organizing a $19 million Ponzi scheme.

Diocese of Rockville Centre files for bankruptcy Continued from Page 2 cess,” Barres wrote. “Our employees will be paid their normal wages. Benefit programs will continue, uninterrupted. Our vendors will be paid for all goods and services after filing, and ordinary operations will continue as before.”

Barres also stressed that parishes and schools of the diocese, being separate legal entities, would not be included in the Chapter 11 filing.

“We know that most people experience the life of the church through their parish, so it is important to note that the good work of our parishes and Catholic schools is expected to continue as normal,” Barres wrote. “But it is also the case that after Chapter 11, the Diocese will have fewer financial resources to help struggling schools and parishes.”

Hours after the diocese’s announcement, attorney Jeff Anderson of Jeff Anderson & Associates, a New York Citybased law firm that filed 73 lawsuits against the diocese under the Child Victims Act, said at a news conference that the filing “changed the dynamics” of the

cases brought against the diocese, accusing the diocese of using the bankruptcy code to halt survivors’ efforts.

“To the rest of the public and to the people, it’s important to know that when this bishop filed this petition, it doesn’t mean they are bankrupt, it means they are using the bankruptcy code to file for reorganization so the bishop and its related entities can stop the survivors and slow the survivors in their quest for truth, transparency and accountability,” Anderson said. “But it will not, and it has not.”

He said that the filing was the “the 27th petition like this that has been fled across the country” by a Catholic diocese, and the fourth in the state of New York, following the dioceses of Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse.

“Why did Rockville Centre really file?” Anderson said. “We think there’s something different than what they’re telling the public, the people, the parishioners and survivors. The real reasons, we believe, based on our experiences in Rockville Centre and across the country, are to obstruct the process the survivors

have been given by reason of the Child Victims Act.” Anderson noted that due to the filing, all of the cases would be taken out of state court and put into bankruptcy court.

“Why do we think the bishop made this decision?” Anderson said. “Because the survivors were winning.”

He added that the diocese had put up various “roadblocks,” beginning with a claim that the statute that gave survivors more time was unconstitutional, which was dismissed, and a fight over the anonymity of the survivors who were suing.

In May, State Supreme Court Judge Steven Jaeger of Nassau County rejected a bid by the diocese to dismiss 44 lawsuits filed against it under the act.

“To the survivors, do not despair,” Anderson said. “This is just a detour that changes the path but does not slow us in our common resolve and rigor to make sure there is a full measure of accountability, required transparency, and there will be a reckoning.”

Over 1,700 lawsuits have been filed in New York state since the act was passed.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo twice extended the act, most recently in August, when it was given a new end date of Aug. 14, 2021.

Places in the Diocese of Rockville Centre named in the lawsuits against the diocese include Chaminade High School in Mineola, Our Lady of Fatima in Manorhaven, St. Mary’s Church and St. Ignatius Retreat House in Manhasset, St. Agnes Cathedral High School in Rockville Centre, St. Hyacinth Parish and All Saints Regional Catholic School in Glen Head, Good Shepherd Parish and Church in Holbrook, Holy Trinity High School in Hicksville, St. Andrew’s Parish and Elementary School in Sag Harbor, St. Barnabas Parish and Church in Bellmore, St. Joseph’s Parish and Church in Babylon, St. Lawrence Parochial School in Sayville, St. Patrick’s Parish and School in Bay Shore, St. Philip and St. James Church in St. James, Camp Alvernia in Centerport, Holy Family School in Hicksville, St. Hugh’s in Huntington Station, St. Ignatius Loyola in Hicksville, St. John of God in Central Islip, St. John’s Hospital in Smithtown and St. Rosalie’s in Hampton Bays.

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Community raises $37K for fire damages Continued from Page 12 “Our Floral Park Fire Department valiantly fought this rapidly spreading fire with mutual aid from a large number of our neighboring departments,” Longobardi said. “The Floral Park and Nassau County Police Departments played key roles in protecting the many pedestrians and drivers who converged on the Village. The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s staff was on the scene to survey the damages and determine the fire’s probable cause.”

Neighboring stores to Park Place affected by the fire included Villager’s Perk,

Shin’s Tae Kwon Do, Luna Eyelash, Capo Ristorante, Covert Nail & Spa, Covert Barber Shop, Original V.I. Pizza, Covert Optical and K. Hunter Boutique.

Longobardi said the damaged stores remained closed as the damage continued to be assessed and the water, gas and electricity were shut off in “most or all of the businesses” affected by the fire.

“In the coming days and weeks, the causes of the fire will be determined as well as the future of the building structures, especially those most severely damaged and destroyed,” he said.

Longobardi also encouraged resi-

dents to contribute to the GoFundMe campaign, which has raised $14,000 in addition to an earlier campaign that surpassed $23,000 in funds to support businesses affected by the fire.

“In the meantime, please continue to SHOP, DINE, AND TAKE OUT LOCAL to honor our local businesses,” Longobardi said in a letter to the community. “We wish all of our beloved Covert Avenue businesses well, and look forward to a speedy return to business in our Village for all of you affected by the fire.”

On Sept. 27, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said on Twitter, “My

F. Hill continues Planning Board talks Continued from Page 1 Aren Tung of the village’s Port Washington area called for seeking residents with relevant experience and asking them to join the Planning Board instead of folding its powers into the Board of Trustees.

“When you call upon people on the planning committee to give you an external approach on whatever topic it is you’re discussing, it’s another pair of ears,” Tung said. “And I think you need to take all those points into consideration and put the Planning Board back on. You have a very robust community and people who have experience who could add to the board. Reach out to the community, and put people on the board that have an architectural background, people who will have planning backgrounds, people who have been in real estate. If you wanted to have a Planning Board that had some experience in it, you could reach out to the community to do that. There’s

no reason to abolish it.”

Rhoda Becker, a former Planning Board member who previously served as planning commissioner for the Town of North Hempstead, said that the need for the board could arise again.

“A planning board is, no matter what, an advisory group, so there’s no danger in taking over,” Becker said. “But there is a need for planning, things come up and they are needed. So I should like to see this get continued.”

Trustee Gary Lewandowski said he appreciated the comments made at both public hearings.

“I do think there is some activity that needs to be supported by people who can be committed to the idea of local planning,” Lewandowski said. “How that happens and what forum doesn’t matter to me, but I do stress the importance that if it’s something that needs to be done, it should be done actively and not reac-

tively.”

Trustee Jay Beber concurred with Lewandowski.

“Potentially, there are going to be situations that require a level of expertise that might require us to search outside the board. Since the ultimate decision lies with the Board of Trustees, no matter what, I think that we should be open to the possibility that when a project comes up, or as Gary said, with maybe some foresight as to what might be coming up, you might want to enlist the community’s help in special projects,” Beber said. “I don’t necessarily think it has to be a formal planning board. But I do think that getting input from the community, and the resources this community has might be a good idea as well.”

Mayor Brian Herrington acknowledged that if the Planning Board were to be reinstated, its duties would have to be listed clearly and the board given a regu-

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The Village of Flower Hill is considering dismantling its Planning Board and giving its powers to the Board of Trustees.

heart breaks for the small businesses along Covert Avenue in [Floral Park] that were devastated by today’s fire. Thank you to [the Nassau County fire marshal] and all of our brave volunteer fire departments and first responders across Nassau for coming together to bring the flames under control.”

Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin called the event “heartbreaking” and said the town “is ready to assist these businesses in any way possible during the rebuilding process.”

lar routine.

“One of the criticisms previously was that [the Planning Board] was not an active board or committee and, so, therefore, if we are going to reinstitute it, if there is a push for that, then I think there needs to be a definitive plan of what the duties are and how those duties should be met in a regular routine basis,” Herrington said.

The trustees ultimately chose to continue the public hearing in the future.

During the reorganization portion of the meeting, resident Claire Dorfman of the village’s Manhasset area was officially appointed as a trustee, taking the seat won by the late Mayor Robert McNamara in the September elections.

Flower Hill’s Board of Trustees will next meet on Monday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m., with no information on live streaming yet provided.

Proposed BW changes to be presented Oct. 22 Continued from Page 4 views of the bay.”

Lot coverage has been reduced to 50 percent of lot size in what the councilwoman said was “an effort to preserve view corridors and open space.”

Front yard setbacks will be required for buildings taller than 20 feet, and a rear yard of 20 feet would now be required from the property line.

“This change will help preserve open space and water views and provide an area for developers to later construct a continuous walkway along the water should they choose to,” Dalimonte said.

The councilwoman invited those with any further comments to reach her at her office before the town council meeting, which will be live-streamed online on Oct. 22.

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The raids and deportations have not been mounted against actual criminals but people who have resided in the United States for decades, who have roots in the community and even have American-citizen children, but who are lowhanging fruit for roundups intended to inspire terror in immigrant communities – so much so that people don’t report criminal assaults or activity, domestic violence or rape and don’t seek care for COVID-19.

Ken Cuccinelli, his illegally acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration, even mocked Emma Lazarus’ poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, when justifying weaponizing the public charge rule, saying, “Give me your tired, your poor who can stand on their own 2 feet.”

Now Trump is attacking Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who came to the U.S. at the age of 8 as a refugee from Somalia’s civil war. “Lock her up,” his rabid crowd of deplorables shriek, spreading COVID-19 with every chant.

This was the same Minnesota rally where Trump complimented his all-white rally-goers for having “good genes.”

Let’s be clear: there has not been a functioning legal immigration system since President Reagan, which is why there are in an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in shadows (yet still paying billions of taxes and more than Trump has paid in taxes in 15 years). Trump has gone further to criminalize asylum-seekers, refugees, and branded those who are undocumented as “illegal aliens” as if they were invaders from Mars, forcing them to live in constant terror.

Cruelty isn’t the “bug,” it is the feature.

Biden would restore rationality, morality, humanity and, frankly, American values to immigration policy.

Biden’s immigration plan starts with undoing all the harm that Trump has done: Biden would immediately end family separation, detrimental asylum policies and mismanagement of the asylum system. He would bring humanitarian resources to the border and foster public-private initiatives; end prolonged detention and reinvest in case management; reverse the public charge rule; end the fraudulent “national emergency” which Trump used to siphon federal money from the Defense Department to build his border wall; protect Dreamers and their families; rescind the un-American (and unconstitutional) travel and refugee (“Muslim”) bans; order an immediate review of Temporary Protected Status for vulnerable populations threatened by violence or disaster; insure ICE and Customs & Border Protection are held accountable for inhumane acts; protect and expand opportunities for people who join the military (a contract that Trump invalidated); restore and defend the naturalization process for green card holders; and revitalize the Task Force on New Americans who boost the economy through entrepreneurship.

Biden proposes to modernize America’s immigration system: create a roadmap to citizenship (or at least legal status) for the 11 million undocumented; reform visa programs; reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees; tackle the root causes of irregular migration and implement effective border screening. (See Biden’s full plan: https://joebiden.com/immigration/#) And, oh yes, he picked Kamala Harris as his running mate – born in California of immigrants from India and Jamaica.

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hairman Dennis Grossman, Village of Great Neck Zoning Board, solemnly stated that the outcome of the Oct. 21 public hearing would determine the village’s future. By evening’s end, a decision would be made in favor of saving a Long Island suburb for future generations – or not.

Ultimately, Chairman Grossman’s green-light stomped on suburban life, opting for urbanization of the Village of Great Neck. (Transcripts are available at Village Hall). It is anticipated that this approval will trigger an adverse cumulative effect, as Great Neck mayors have approved multi-story apartment complexes for Middle Neck Road without coordination or consideration for each other.

Local law does not require it.

Bottom Line: There seems little attempt at striking a balance between time spent protecting taxpayers’ quality-of-life issues vs. the intense hourly demand of reviewing simultaneous and complex new construction blueprints.

Who will protect residents from the devaluation of their critical investment – their single-family

homes?

History: Weeks earlier, Ron Poons (member of VGN Zoning Board) publicly condemned the construction of 733-741 MNR for its potential “coffin-like” sub-cellar, raising issues of public safety and accessibility in the event of fire. This will be the only apartment complex in Great Neck built with a basement and sub-basement. What about water table issues?

Public Hearing Highlights (733-741 MNR): Noteworthy objections included “too large for the location” (Charles Siegel, board member) and fire-safety access concerns (Ron Poons, former firefighter and board member). This four-story, 60-unit, luxury rental behemoth was approved despite 12 rental buildings (past two years) already approved throughout various Great Neck villages.

Seemingly on steroids, 733741 MNR loomed larger with every revised blueprint. The developer was quietly amassing additional property in Residential Zones of North Road and Hicks Lane. Should a commercial developer be allowed to extend

his reach into clearly designated Residential Zones to advance his project? Chairman Grossman’s approval will surely set precedent for future too large for location, aggressive development.

How can this village go forth and multiply when standards for village life have been slipping for four years? Village insiders and outsiders have long recognized this is a village where “anything goes” and village codes are routinely broken.

The severely under-staffed Building Department is visibly straining under demands to uphold existing village code as well as New York State law (serious suburban quality-of-life issues).

What about Building Department personnel who lack sufficient knowledge of village code? How can they protect law-abiding, taxpaying residents if they aren’t up to speed on their job description?

Building Department turnover remains a thorny issue.

We already have newcomers in our village who cut their gas lines because they “don’t feel like paying National Grid” and they “don’t feel like telling the village

they are taking construction matters into their own hands.” What about threats of physical violence against neighbors? These ugly tell-tale symptoms of urbanization and overcrowding exist in our village today — even before any new construction commences.

Don’t forget the summer of 2019 (BOT meeting) and the revelation that physical threats of violence were made against a resident who prioritized public safety at the expense of new construction. What kind of circus is the village running behind closed doors?

In a related matter, isn’t it a rite of passage for young people to grow up and grow out of their parents’ homes and childhood neighborhoods? Traditionally, young married couples relocating from Long Island to Midwood or Kew Gardens are applauded for their independence.

Welcome to the wacky, new world of arrogance and entitlement in the Village of Great Neck.

People of privilege, the new millennials, are voicing unreasonable demands on local government (for their personal benefit) to the overall community’s detriment.

When these young people grow up, they don’t wish to move away.

They don’t wish to live more than a few blocks from their parents, their childhood friends and their temples. Millennials are demanding more and more multi-story housing to accommodate their wish list. Sadly, Great Neck leaders are tossing out their integrity, voting against their better judgment and selling us out — by giving into “it’s all about Me Generation.”

Let’s agree that stagnating vacant storefronts on Middle Neck Road are an eyesore, but there are endless possibilities that would ensure the future of suburban life rather than favoring a mini metroplex.

Suggested Action: If you are dissatisfied with the direction Great Neck is taking, voice your opinion immediately before Long Island suburban life is a distant memory.

Email: bosworthj@northhempsteadny.gov, samet@nysenate.gov, lurvey@northhempsteadny.gov. and ebirnbaum@nassaucountyny. gov Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

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ichmond County residents continue to be losers within New York City when it comes to MTA transportation capital capacity improvement projects. Both MTA North and West Shore Bus Rapid Transit projects for Staten Island commuters, just like our Nassau Hub transportation project, haven’t made any significant progress in years, if not decades.

The MTA’s $51 billion 20202024 Five Year Capital Plan has been on hold for months due to unforeseen financial revenue shortfalls in the billions. Prior to the outbreak, funding assumptions were never realistic. Due to the economic recession as a result of COVID-19, billions anticipated from congestion pricing, real estate transfer, internet sales, along with other taxes, have disappeared. NYC’s forgotten fifth borough of Staten Island continues to be forgotten.

The NYC Transit North Shore Bus Rapid Transit estimated cost is $600 million. This project is in the planning and environmental review process with a shortfall of $590 million in funding. Once there was rail

service along this same corridor until it was terminated in 1953.

It provided a direct connection to the St. George Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Riders transferred to the Staten Island Ferry.

They arrive at the Whitehall Street Manhattan Ferry Terminal in 25 minutes.

The NYC Transit West Shore Bus Rapid Transit is estimated to cost $1.5 billion. A planning study is under way with a shortfall of $1.485 million in funding. One alternative is to provide a connection for Staten Island residents to the New Jersey Transit Hudson Bergen Light Rail 8th Street Station. Transferring at the HBLRT Hoboken station provides connections to both the Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) subway and ferries offering commuters access to Manhattan.

Richmond County is the only one of the five boroughs which has no direct connection to the NYC Transit subway system. Commuters from Staten Island use either the Staten Island Ferry or NYC Transit express buses to Manhattan or NYC Transit local buses to Bay Ridge,

Brooklyn, for connections to the NYCT subway system.

Both projects need additional funding for final design and engineering, land acquisition, business relocation, purchase of vehicles, construction and a possible vehicle maintenance and storage facility.

An MTA spokesman recently noted that all capital projects have been thrown into limbo as the agency seeks a federal bailout.

“This is a yet another stark example highlighting why it’s critical that the federal government provide $12 billion in emergency aid to keep the MTA running through the end of 2021,” said Shams Tarek, a spokeman for the MTA in a statement. According to The City, Tarek failed to acknowledge that there was never any funding programmed to begin with as part of the MTA’s $51 billion five-year plan to advance either project beyond planning or environmental review. MTA officials previously promised that additional funding could be found at a later date to be added to the existing $51 billion capital plan

to pay for advancing the North Shore Bus Rapid Transit project.

The West Shore Staten Island Bus Rapid Transit project is still in the planning stage and has not yet begun a formal environmental review. The MTA request for an additional $12 billion in CARE COVID-19 funding has nothing to do with paying for construction of either Staten Island Bus Rapid Transit project. It deals with covering unforeseen revenue and operating costs as a result of COVID-19.

Receipt of the $12 billion would also help preserve the $51 billion five-year plan from further cuts.

The MTA could consider requesting the Federal Transit Administration for permission to enter these two projects into the national competitive New Starts and or Bus Discretionary programs to pay for either project.

The MTA will not enter either Staten Island project into the FTA New Starts program. This is because they would not want to compete against themselves.

The MTA $6.9 billion Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 is looking for a FTA Full Funding Grant

Agreement up to $3 billion from the same funding source.

The next opportunity for funding is the next MTA 2025 — 2029 Five Year Capital Plan. As a result, both the North and West Shore Staten Island Bus Rapid Transit projects may not be completed until 2030 or later.

If the MTA can find $6.9 billion for Second Avenue Subway Phase Two, perhaps some small change can fall off the table to finance Staten Island transportation projects.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked 31 years for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office. This included the development, review, approval and oversight for billions in capital projects and programs for the MTA, NYC Transit bus, subway, Staten Island Rail, NYC Department of Transportation Staten Island Ferry along with 30 other transit agencies in NY & NJ).

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READERS WRITE

Protect our communities from plastic pollution

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n Sept. 24, New Jersey passed the country’s strongest bill to reduce plastic waste, prohibiting the sale of single-use plastic bags and polystyrene and limiting the availability of plastic straws. If we’re New York Tough, we should up the ante.

Plastic pollution is a major

public health threat in both our states: a 2016 report found nearly 166 million pieces of microplastics, known to contain chemicals harmful to marine and human health, floating in our waterways.

Highly toxic PFAS chemicals, used in plastic manufacturing, were discovered in drinking water sites across Long Island just last

year. The production and burning of plastic also contribute significantly to our climate crisis.

We can’t recycle our way out of this problem; less than 10 percent of plastic in the US is effectively recycled after disposal.

Thankfully, New York has taken initiative by banning polystyrene and plastic bags. But we can,

and should, do more. The Break Free From Plastic Act of 2020 would establish better recycling standards, require producers to take responsibility for waste, phase out a variety of single-use plastics, and pause permits for manufacturing facilities that haven’t complied with pollution regulations.

Long Island’s Congressional

Delegation and Senators Schumer and Gillibrand should support and sponsor the Break Free From Plastic Act (H.R. 5845 and S. 3263) to protect our communities and environment today.

Emily Sanders Port Washington

Why G.N. villages are seeing spike in COVID cases

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n answer to Steven Markowitz’s question. Why is Great Neck Village a hot spot for COVID-19?

The answer is simple. We have too many arrogant, selfish, disrespectful, unmasked people walking our village streets, holding large gatherings and rabbis holding services in many backyards.

Plus the summer so called day

camps held in private houses and no these are not family members.

You don’t charge $25-$50 a day to family!

At the beginning of early summer, I approached Mayor (Pedram) Bral as I watched our figures rise each week, we are now well over 300. His response was, don’t believe it. It’s fake, the numbers are not true

(his words). So now the middle of September he quotes “this is something we need to take extremely seriously (too little too late),” so he set up a robo-call to remind residents to abide by the safety precautions.

I didn’t get one nor did many residents I spoke to. Was it just a select few? It is this select few who refuse to wear masks, who go to

Steppingstone and give our wonderful gate attendants a hard time.

The ones who walk Hicks Lane, Arrandale, Steamboat and Middle Neck Road with no masks, but make fun of people who do. You cannot shame them, Steven.

But I find it even more troubling that Mayor Bral while cautioning everyone to abide by the safety precau-

tions, holds a village trustee meeting on September 15th without a mask (see photo).

Thank you, Steven, for speaking up but I think it will take a lot more of us to push our mayor into taking serious action now not later before our village goes into lockdown.

Jean Pierce Village of Great Neck

Left by the political right. Vote for Democrats

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’m a middle-of-the-road guy watching too much of this nation take an offramp.I’m a middle-class, middle-aged, unaffiliated independent voter: a white, college-educated suburbanite dad; a Suffolk-raised Nassau resident who lived in New York City for a few years in between.

I’ve voted in each election since I turned 18 and I’ve supported Republicans and Democrats alike. I should be uncertain about election day, but it’s not even close.

Change is good but it needs to be managed. My amateur reading of Burke and Kirk has steeled my hesitations about unintended consequences.

Yet, the call to work towards a

more perfect union resounds deep in my bones as a citizen. Political protesting is an absolute right; violence and vandalism is a crime.

President Trump’s calls for change are all oriented toward codifying the worst attitudes polluting this nation from its beginning. The change he wants is the freedom to celebrate everything the rest of us have been trying to atone for.National office calls for extraordinary skills with an ordinary instinct. Elitism is a poor fit for leaders. They need to be connected to common concerns.

This doesn’t mean, however, that anyone can do the job. The number of incalculably complex issues that cross the Resolute Desk

insurmountably excludes anybody who is merely ordinary.

President Trump’s much-documented reliance on “gut-instincts” is a proud declaration of his refusal to learn or even try to grasp the intellectual rigor of the job. With a president who has been so catastrophically wrong on so many critical issues, public support of this man needs to end.The oval office needs to be bigger than the man.

So much of the presidency comes down to us through history as a steady accumulation of norms: the Constitution’s description of the office is really quite slim.

Leading from George Washington through Barack Obama, those norms of decency, decorum,

and deliberation are all we have.

Mr. Trump’s insistence on ignoring these customs is an insult. He’s pissing in the pool of our republic and I’m sick of it.Fitness for any office is the ability to rise above partisanship. Congressional Republicans who condone or passively allow the president to act the way he does are betraying the public trust.

And even beyond that complicity, forcing through a Supreme Court nominee after denying the Garland nomination is a bodyblow to our Constitution and a sign that party power trumps civic responsibility. Not one officeholder supporting this move deserves reelection. The needs of the nation

have to be a unanimous priority.

These are all needs. They’re not political opinions. I’m not calling for one policy or another: that’s what good people duly acting in good faith have to work out.

This crisis is about our existence as a nation. Bad people acting in bad faith are threatening that existence.I can’t be middleof-the-road when one lane takes such a sharp right turn. I’ll keep going straight, but this time it’ll be a straight ticket on the Democratic Party line. That’s the only way to address what the United States of America needs.

Douglas Parker Port Washington

Democrats embrace voter fraud to win

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e may be only weeks away from the presidential election, but Democrats have been busy for months perfecting what they’ve already elevated to an art form over decades of practice: Voter Fraud.

To them, it’s not about the economy or domestic or foreign policy, but rather about removing President Trump from office because he has succeeded in exposing “The Swamp’s” systemic depravity, corruption, and treason; the Democrats’ America-Last policies; the leftist bias of the bought-and-paid-for media; Democrat racism that has kept blacks with broken families, mal-educated, imprisoned, and impoverished for decades on end; and the craven deals that made our country dependent on foreign oil by––POOF!––making America

completely energy independent.

We’ve all witnessed the ploys Democrats use to rig elections: enlisting the votes of illegal aliens, absentee voters who simply don’t exist and, of course, dead voters.

Another method of voting fraud is Ballot Harvesting, in which anyone––campaign workers, minors, illegals, et al––go door to door to “help” people fill out ballots that strangely favor Democrats, and refuse to collect ballots from anyone they suspect of voting the “wrong” way. They even pay them to vote the “right way.” Today, 26 states allow this fraudulence.

The following is a tiny example of the vote-rigging methods used exclusively by Democrats: In a Florida primary, more than 35,000 mail-in ballots rejected; in California over 100,000 ballots

rejected.More than 534,000 mail ballots rejected during primaries across 23 states this year — nearly a quarter in key battlegrounds for the fall.In June 2019, New York Democrats signed a law giving driver’s licenses to the state’s 725,000 illegal aliens, which could enable them to vote illegally.FBI Finds Discarded Military Mail-in Ballots Cast for Trump (see below picture).

Election Watchdog Finds 350,000 Dead Registrants on Voter Rolls in 42 States.Pathological sore loser Hillary Clinton: Biden “should not concede under any circumstances.”

According to a Google whistleblower in Breitbar News correspondent Allum Bokhari’s new book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, “When voters find out what Big Tech companies

have done to meddle in the coming election, they’ll be rightly furious” at the attempts of Google, Facebook, Twitter…to sway the coming election in Biden’s favor.

Author and columnist Linda Goudsmit sees the election as another “sinister leftist, Islamist, globalist attack on America…their survival is at stake because if POTUS is re-elected, he will take down the Deep State and expose them all.

They know it and Trump knows it.”

Indeed, with a Trump victory, you can be sure that over the next few months, both Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham will be handing out indictments to the many criminals from Barack Obama’s FBI, DOJ, CIA, Homeland Security, State Department, even our military, in which he implanted his hate-America

agents to commit both sedition and treason to actualize a genuine coup d’état against a sitting president and America the Beautiful itself.

It must be incomprehensible to them––with all their prestigious college degrees, high IQs, impeccable credentials, fancy job titles, and positions in the highest reaches of the American government––that every ploy they used in the past, every arch machination, every exquisitely formulated plan of action, all resulted in four years of crashing failures.

Now they are hoping that “Jim Crow Joe” (https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=jPUFwmZN9eo) will save the day.

Get out the popcorn!

Joan Swirsky Great Neck

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Safety advice for Fire Pieces of peace at Prevention Week Herricks Middle The Nancy Morris State Farm Agency in Manhasset is helping everyone stay safe – especially during Fire Prevention Safety Week, October 4-10, 2020.

This year’s theme is “Serve Up Safety in the Kitchen,” focusing on cooking fire safety. Fires that start in the kitchen are responsible for almost half of all home fires.

The Agency donated crafts and activities, including magnets, coloring books and stickers to the Manhasset-Lakeville Volunteer Fire Department located on Bayview Avenue in Manhasset.

For more information, contact Nancy Morris State Farm 516-365-2525.

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Herricks Middle School is glowing with kindness, compassion and hope thanks to a peace wall mural that was created in honor of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. This annual observance takes place on Sept. 21 and this year’s theme was “Shaping Peace Together.”

In a collective effort, students and staff members took on the mission to spread positive messages despite the current challenges presented by the pandemic. Herricks Middle School As-

sistant Principal Gina Horton introduced International Day of Peace with morning announcements about its purpose. She discussed the positive impacts of leaders such as Gandhi and Helen Keller.

The mural was assembled on HMS letters constructed by art teacher Kim Friedman, and featured paper peace sign cutouts decorated by students. Some worked on their design in school, and remote students had opportunities to print out a template and drop off or scan in their finished products for inclusion.

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Nancy Morris of the State Farm Nancy Morris Agency and Michael Weigand of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department kick off Fire Prevention Week.

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From left: Mikayla Gaudiuso, Dane Saji and Rheya Chaudhri.

New technology for Port student, artist Manhasset students nabs Merit Award Students at Manhasset Secondary School have the opportunity to use 3D printers in the classroom. Two 3D printers were included in the district’s budget for this year. They are being used in the new art elective, 3D Design and Production.

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Manhasset Secondary School students view their designs in the slicing software to prepare for 3D printing.

Paul D. Schreiber High School senior Abby Hurt was named a recipient of the Merit Award for Visual Arts by the Long Island Scholar-Artist Program. Abby was one of 20 student-artists on Long Island selected for her proficiency in visual arts and academics.

The Scholar-Artist program, a collaboration between Long Island Arts Alliance and Newsday, was designed to recognize the “best of the best” student artists on Long Island. Seniors are nominated by their school districts, and ten from both counties receive the program’s highest honor.

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Premiere Properties Powerful Presence

Under Contract | Last List $6,498,000

Under Contract | Last List $1,848,000

Under Contract | Last List $1,775,000

83 Brookside Drive, Plandome

14 A Bonnie Heights Road, Flower Hill

16 Ride Drive West, Roslyn

Sold | Last List $4,798,000

Sold | Last List $3,898,000

Sold | Last List $3,375,000

260 Elderfields Road, Flower Hill

53 Cow Neck Road, Sands Point

495 Manhasset Woods Road, Flower Hill

Sold | Last List $3,248,000

Sold At Asking | Last List $1,898,000

Sold Over Asking | Last List $1,898,000

34 Sutton Crest, Strathmore

282 Chapel Road, Strathmore

17 Middle Drive, Plandome

Sold Over Asking | Last List $1,875,000

Sold Over Asking | Last List $1,598,000

Sold | Last List $1,398,000

623 Park Avenue, Munsey Park

18 Oxford Road, Manhasset

108 Irma Avenue, Port Washington

Traci Conway Clinton Lic. R.E. Salesperson O 516.627.6626 | M 516.857.0987 traci.clinton@elliman.com

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by Real Trends and Tom Ferry, 2020

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