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Serving New Hyde Park, Floral Park, Garden City Park, North Hills, Manhasset Hills and North New Hyde Park

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Friday, April 12, 2019

Vol. 68, No. 15

N E W H Y D E PA R K

BLANK SLATE MEDIA April 12, 2019

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SCHNIRMAN FINDS LAX COUNTY ETHICS BOARD PAGE 6

Covert Ave. set to close for at least 6 months Third track construction work to move ahead with elimination of grade crossing BY M AY L A N L . STUDART

PHOTO BY MAYLAN STUDART

Ongoing construction where Covert Ave. will close less than half a mile north from the road’s busy shopping strip.

New Hyde Park residents and business owners are bracing for chaos when Covert Avenue closes on Monday to accommodate construction of a third track on the main line of the Long Island Rail Road. The LIRR Expansion Project will add a 9.8-mile track from Floral Park to Hicksville to reduce train and automobile congestion and delays. The project includes the elimination of seven grade crossings like the one on Covert Avenue, new parking facilities, upgrades to railroad infrastructure and stations and

other improvements. But ahead of the improvements comes the organized chaos. Covert Avenue will be closed for approximately six months between 1st Avenue and 5th Avenue starting Monday, leaving local business owners and managers feeling resigned and ignored. “Of course we’re worried, but there isn’t something we can do,” said Jeffrey Chen, owner of a Carvel ice cream store at 80 Covert Ave. Covert will close half a mile north of Chen’s business at a critical time for his seasonal ice cream business. “I’ve just got to dig in and hang in Continued on Page 56

MovieWorld takes over Bow Tie theater in G.N. BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

mas in Douglaston, the shows must go on – and in this case, they’ll be in the Great Neck movie theater on For Russell Levinson, a manag- Middle Neck Road. MovieWorld took over Great ing partner of MovieWorld Cine-

Neck’s Squire Theatre in Great Neck Plaza on April 1, the company announced on Facebook last week, a space once operated by Bow Tie Cinemas. MovieWorld had been searching for a location since July, when a Lowes home improvement store took over the Douglaston location. Levinson said Bow Tie Cinemas seemed eager to get

out, and MovieWorld has forged a new lease with the building owner. Now, Levinson said his goal is to attract people back to the Great Neck theater. “Our vision is we need to bring more people in, we need to get more people to come, we need to bring people who used to come but don’t come anymore to come back, and we realize there needs to be

some improvements here,” Levinson said. The development follows news late last year that the Bow Tie theaters in Manhasset and Roslyn were sold to Cinemas GMC LCC, a single-use company formed just for the purchase of the theaters. Their future is unclear. Among the most important imContinued on Page 55

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