The Roslyn Times, Friday, March 31, 2017
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Howard Blankman, PR fixture, dies at 91 BY ST E P H E N ROMANO Howard M. Blankman, a fixture among public relations professionals, who wrote and produced a television show starring Johnny Carson and composed music for off-Broadway productions, died in his home in Port Washington on March 17. He was 91. Donna Blankman, his wife of 50 years, said he died of natural causes. Blankman was the CEO and founder of the Blankman Group, a public relations and marketing firm based on Long Island, working with the Long Island Rail Road, the Archdiocese of Rockville Centre, Cablevision and others. In 2004, he sold the firm, which he started out of his living room in 1968. “He has always been full of ideas,” Donna Blankman said. “He was always busy and always coming up with something. He never stopped thinking or planning. That was his nature.”
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Mayors along LIRR split over 3rd track BY N O A H MANSKAR
Howard M. Blankman Following his divorce from Daisy Adams, Blankman married Donna Blankman on Oct. 22, 1966. After writing the music for the off-Broadway production “By Hex,” which was being performed near Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Blankman met Donna, who auditioned to be a dancer in the show. Continued on Page 75
Eight elected officials from along the Long Island Rail Road’s Main Line backed the railroad’s proposed third track project on Friday, but several of their colleagues remain critical. Two village mayors — including Scott Strauss of Mineola — joined state, Nassau County and local town officials in endorsing the $2 billion plan, which has met mostly with hot opposition locally. The officials endorsing the project represent Mineola, Westbury and Hicksville, the eastern half of the 9.8-mile project corridor that stretches west to Floral Park. “The third track has a controversial history in Mineola — but with the governor’s latest effort, we were invited to the table to help shape the plan in a way that benefits the village,” Strauss said in a statement. But another slate of officials
PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR
Mayor Robert Lofaro of New Hyde Park speaks at a press conference opposing the Long Island Rail Road’s third track project last Friday. restated their opposition to the should be revisited. plan Friday, maintaining their The mayors of New Hyde claims that the LIRR’s envi- Park, Floral Park and Garden Continued on Page 64 ronmental study is flawed and
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