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Roslyn elections draw few residents Incumbents win uncontested races in four villages BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
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The children at Heights School attended the Math Magical assembly on March 5. Through magic, the children were taught the importance of math skills from addition and subtraction to fractions and probability.
The uncontested elections in four Roslyn villages brought few residents to the polls on Tuesday, with two villages registering single-digit vote totals for candidates. In Flower Hill, Mayor Robert McNamara received 54 votes. “I’m proud to have the support of the village,” he said. “Fifty-four votes is a lot for an uncontested race.” He said that turnout was low for that reason — there were no competitive races. Trustee Kate Hirsch received 49 votes,#Trustee Randall Rosenbaum received 48 and Gary Lewandowski received 48.
McNamara said that the fact that no one was challenging him or the trustees meant that residents were happy with the work the village was doing.
See election chart PAGE 71 “It shows that we have a good village and people aren’t particularly concerned about anything,” he said. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Flower Hill population in 2016 was 4,817. McNamara was appointed to the position in December 2016 after state Sen. Elaine Phillips was elected to fill the
7th District seat. In Roslyn Estates, Trustees Stephen Fox and Brian Feingold were re-elected with four votes each. Fox was elected as a writein candidate to replace Paul Peters when he transitioned to mayor last year. According to the Census Bureau, the Roslyn Estates population in 2016 was 1,245. In Roslyn Harbor, Trustees Sandy Quentzel and James Friscia were both re-elected with eight votes. Quentzel was appointed to replace# Cheryl Mora in 2012 and was elected in 2013. Friscia was elected in 2012 after spending a few years on the village’s planning board. Timothy O’Rourke, the forContinued on Page 71
Worst train service in 18 years: comptroller BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
mance in 18 years last year, according to a new report from the state comptroller’s office. More than 21,000 trains The Long Island Rail Road had its worst on-time perfor- were late, canceled or termi-
nated in 2017, the report says, and the on-time rate fell to 91.4 percent — a far cry from its 95.2 percent on-time rate in 2009. Millions of riders were adversely affected and nearly $75 million in productivity was lost, the report said. “In total, 21,362 trains
were late, canceled or terminated in 2017, nearly one-fifth more than in 2016,” the report said. “Performance was affected by an increase in Amtrak-related incidents (Amtrak owns and operates Pennsylvania Station), as well as an increase in incidents attributed to the LIRR.” The report noted that a commuter train is considered
“on time” by the LIRR if it arrives less than 6 minutes after its scheduled arrival, meaning only a small portion of LIRR trains were late or canceled. “However, many commuters had a different experience because of their route or time of travel,” the report said. The report said Amtrak was Continued on Page 59
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Eisenberg honored by National Merit Roslyn senior heading to Harvard BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
PHOTO BY REBECCA MELNITSKY
A rendering of the proposed pool at a home in the Roslyn Hillside District.
Roslyn trustees approve construction Resident requests pool in historic Hillside District BY R E B ECC A MELNITSKY The Roslyn Village Board of Trustees approved a resident’s plan for a pool at his home in the hillside protection district on Tuesday night. Resident Ryan Hiller needed to get permission from the board to add a pool to his backyard on 47 Davis Lane because it is within the Hillside Protection Overlay District of Roslyn, which is a protected slope area. The board has to insure that a pool would not compromise the steep hillside. The planned in-ground pool has dimensions of 31 by 16 feet, and will be five and a half feet deep. There is a four-foot spa section as well. Hiller’s representative, Craig Bonawandt from Haven Pools, said the land would be level and the pool will not be visible from the street. According to village At-
“I’ll just note for the record that at the time this application was denied in 1999, it required a 40-foot setback. And now it is a 20-foot setback.”
— John Gibbons VILLAGE ATTORNEY
torney John Gibbons, a 1999 request to build a pool on the property was denied because of a neighbor’s concerns about the pool being elevated higher than
the neighbor’s home. If the pool had leaked, it would have flooded the neighbor’s yard. “I’ll just note for the record that at the time this application was denied in 1999, it required a 40-foot setback,” said Gibbons. “And now it is a 20-foot setback.” Hiller said his neighbors had been notified and none had any feedback. The board approved the application unanimously. “We do allow pools,” said Mayor John Durkin. “It is within setbacks. It is attractively built and designed … it meets all the requirements. I see no reason to deny the application.” The village board also approved hiring two people, Jason Guichard and Lesvin Leiva Videz, as laborers for the Department of Public Works. “We need the extra guys on crews,” said Durkin. “The weather has been bad. We’ve had a rough winter. We need extra people.”
Roslyn senior Ella Eisenberg said she loves to learn. Eisenberg, 18, said she “likes things that make sense,” leaning toward math and science as her favorite subjects at Roslyn High School. A member of the Science Olympiad, Organization of Class Councils, math team, National Honors Society, Peer Leaders, Roslyn Marching Bulldogs, Model Government and ethics bowl team, Eisenberg was also recently honored as a National Merit Scholarship program finalist. During school and outside of it, Eisenberg said, she spends much of her time researching! subjects like neuropsychology and visual perception. “I love school,” Eisenberg said. “I spend a lot of time at school or at home doing schoolrelated things. I don’t mind that. I stopped being entertained by TV and things, so it’s a good way to pass the time.” One of the two most influential teachers in her life, Eisenberg said, is Allyson Weseley, who has helped her with researching throughout her career and served as Model Government adviser. Eisenberg said the other, Tanya Baptiste, has been more of a friend than a guidance counselor during her high school years. “[Baptiste] has made that whole ordeal very bearable at least in the school aspect,” Eisenberg said. “She’s also helped me with classes, family problems, everything. She’s been my best friend in school.” Eisenberg said science and language are two fascinating subjects because of the building blocks needed to keep learning. “You started at one point but every year, you add a little more, and suddenly, you’re at this point where you can look back and re-
PHOTO COURTESY OF ELLIE EISENBERG
Ella Eisenberg of Roslyn was one of two Roslyn High School students named a National Merit Scholarship program finalist. member a time when something now second nature to you was difficult,” Eisenberg said. Eisenberg, the daughter of Randi Rosenthal, will attend Harvard University in the fall and has considered majors in the neuropsychology, environmental engineering and environmental policy fields. “I am very fortunate to be in a very privileged area and that I was able to do everything I did and have resources available, but I’m excited to get to interact with kids from all kinds of backgrounds,” Eisenberg said.
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College of Osteopathic Medicine ceremony brings humanity to residency selections BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I I The room was filled with an excited energy as 275 future medical professionals waited to find out where they would spend their next years. New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic Medicine students were surrounded by friends and family for Match Day ceremony on Friday at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, each holding an envelope containing a residency assignment. Celebrated nationally, Match Day is when medical school graduates find out where they will complete their residency. For the Class of 2018, the Old Westbury-based college has a 99 percent match rate for its students, Dean Wolfgang Gilliar said. “This class, in my eyes, has gelled and become a cohesive social force that I have not seen in any class before,� Gilliar said. “This class is No. 1 in TOUCH points for social volunteer ac-
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Students from New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic Medicine waited anxiously Friday to find out their future residency assignments on Match Day.
tivities, and it tells me the commitment they have to humanity and society. They have coalesced as a supportive group because I have a feeling they just know they want to invent the future of medicine.� TOUCH points encourage students to be more involved in community service to grow the concept of treating the whole patient. Before the ceremony, Hillary Grainer of Port Washington sat with her parents, Dr. Steven and Dr. Holly Grainer, waiting for the envelopes to be distributed. As the daughter of two doctors and the granddaughter of another, Grainer said she felt the job was in her blood but still had to fight to get to Match Day. “I struggled a lot but I really persevered,� Grainer said. “It’s been hard, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.� After the envelopes were distributed, Gilliar asked the students to silently thank the familial support systems that helped them get to this moment. Continued on Page 60
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green Drive, Linden Lane, Steel Hill Road and Red Ground Road. “In my truck, I’m blowing tires,” Malatino said. “In our village trucks, we’ve blown two or three tires. Some of them aren’t potholes; they’re crevices you fall into.” Trustee Leslie Fastenberg said one of the worst potholes she has encountered is on the Long Island Expressway’s North Service Road that has been filled but has since opened up. Resident Cheryl Gimbel said she has also had problems with potholes on service roads past Glen Cove Road into East Hills. The service road is a Nassau Countyowned road, Malatino said, and could not be controlled by the village. “In 29 years here, this is the worst I’ve seen it,” Old Westbury Police Chief Robert Glaser said. “We have called [Nassau County] numerous times, and the county has responded, though it sometimes takes more than one phone call. They have filled in all the potholes on both service roads, but like Michael said, as soon as we get a freeze, they break up again.” In other business, the Board of Trustees as the Board of Assessors approved tax exemption applications for 13 institutions in the village — Lutheran Life Church, Catholic Cemeteries of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island University, Greater New York Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists, Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, Bethel United Pentecostal Church, Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation, Korean Woodside Presbyterian Church of New York, Community Services Support, Lubavitch of Old Westbury, Central Presbyterian Church of New York and Ban Suk United Methodist Church. Mayor Fred Carillo said the application from New York Institute of Technology would be continued. The board also approved Old Westbury Gardens’ calendar of events for 2018 except for Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns, which Carillo said will require a separate application.
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Phillips pressed on campaign cash Activists descend on state senator’s office, demanding clean up of ‘toxic’ contributions
BY R E B ECC A K L A R Union workers with a hazmatsuit-wearing balloon and a punk rock guitarist walk into a state senator’s office. What do they get? No response. At least not from state Sen. Elaine Phillips (R-Flower Hill). Members of the activist groups Clean Up Carl, Hedge Clippers and MAYDAY America, along with members of the Communications Workers of America — and a guitarist, Samoa Moriki — held a rally outside Phillips’ Mineola office on Thursday. “Clean Up Carl is traveling the country to take on the biggest corrupters and clean up their toxic mess,” said Chris Tallent, campaign director at MAYDAY America."“That is why we are here, that’s why we’re here at Senator Elaine Phillips office.” The group is calling on Phillips to come out in support of closing the carried interest tax loophole for state taxes. The Democrat-controlled state Assembly budget proposal, which was released Monday, includes a
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Members of Communications Workers of America attended Thursday’s rally at state Sen. Elaine Phillips’ office. measure to do so. The budget is scheduled to come up for a vote in two weeks. The group went into Phillips office and asked to speak with her to ask her position on closing the carried interest tax loophole. A member of her staff said Phillips was not around and he was not able to comment on her position. In a statement shared with
Blank Slate Media on Friday, Phillips said she strongly supports “transparency, accountability and stricter penalties for groups, organizations and individuals who violate election and campaign finance laws.” She did not comment directly on the carried interest tax loophole, which is not related to campaign finance laws. “‘Dark Money’ is another area
where transparency, as to who is paying for political content, must be addressed,” Phillips said. “Integrity in our election process is critical to having faith and confidence in our electoral system."I stand ready to work to ensure that all of these issues and more are addressed.” The carried interest tax loophole allows hedge fund managers to be taxed by the federal government at about 20 percent, rather than the ordinary maximum income tax of 37 percent. In some cases, hedge fund managers are being taxed at rates lower than their secretaries, said Billy Easton, executive director of Alliance for Quality Education. “Being a hedge fund manager is like running a scam operation,” Easton said. Hedge fund managers invest other people’s money and get a cut of the profit, Easton said. Their compensation is not considered income and is taxed as a capital gain, he said. “The pay I get at work is called my salary and I pay taxes on it,” Easton said. Those investors, are taking
their wealth to invest in politicians across the state for political influence, according to Tallent. The group is on a Toxic Tour, addressing five state senators. On Thursday, they also held a rally outside the office of state Sen. Carl Marcellino (R-Syosset). The other senators are Terrence Murphy (R-Bronxville), Sue Serino (R-Hyde Park) and Tom Croci (R-Bohemia.) Of the senators, Phillips is the biggest recipient of “Wall Street, hedge fund, toxic campaign cash,” Tallent said. Phillips received $2.6 million in hedge fund PAC donations since 2014, according to Tallent. Marcellino took in $900,000 in hedge fund PAC money, according to the activist groups. “In what world does it make sense that a state senator in Mineola, New York, is accepting $2.6 million to get elected?” Tallent said. “The only thing more unreasonable than that money? That these state senators think we know they are accepting it without expectations to give something back to those donors.”
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East Williston school officials dove into the pupil personnel services, technology and athletics portions of their $59.8 million budget proposal at a meeting last Wednesday, with costs expected to decrease overall in the three areas. Of the portions of the proposed budget reviewed, pupil personnel services, most of which goes toward special education costs, is the largest at about $2.2 million. The technology budget is $1.07 million and the athletics budget is $240,305, which is the only increase among the three items. Special education costs account for $2.19 million in the school district’s proposal, making up most of the"pupil personnel services budget. Overall this is about $300,000 lower than the $2.5 million for special education in the current budget, which makes up most of the $2.52 million" pupil personnel services budget. Lynn Mazza, the head of pupil personnel services, said the proposal would expand specific special classes at the Willets Road School in grade 6 and in the Wheatley School for 10th- and 11th-graders. This would be in addition to resource room, integrated co-teaching at all levels, special classes, adapted physical education and other items, Mazza said. The budget also projects that fewer students will use outside services, which are less expensive, and that two students will be transitioning into new district programs. But, Mazza also noted, 12 students with disabilities moved into the East Williston school district as classified by the Committee on Special Education last year and eight more have entered this year with an individualized education program. The rest of the" pupil personnel services budget goes toward a combination of speech and language services, English as a new language programming, as well as psychological and reading services. Overall, special education costs make
up about 5 percent of the school budget. The technology and innovation budget proposal calls for a decrease from $1.11 million to about $1.07 million, or $40,464. This year’s proposal calls for the introduction of a K-12 coding program, where students can code in all languages and create a portfolio, as well as the creation of a digital innovation lab at Willets Road School. The budget would also replace many of the school district’s current Chromebook laptops for students with ones that have touch screens and can act more like a tablet and begin to replace old SMART boards with interactive flat panels. Edward Kemnitzer, the director of technology, innovation and information services for the" school district, said there would also be decreases in supply costs due to needing fewer projector bulb replacements and printer supplies. Technology costs are about 2 percent of the overall budget. The athletics budget proposal calls for an increase from the current $216,988 budget to $240,305. The bulk of the increase comes through equipment costs, including new scoreboards, which would go up from $21,185 to $42,595. This budget supports more than two dozen sports, according to a presentation, like basketball, dance, wrestling and volleyball. Athletics accounts for less than half of 1 percent of the budget. The school board’s next budget meeting was to take place on Wednesday at the Wheatley School and focus specifically on North Side, Willets Road and the Wheatley School. The final budget meeting will take place on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in room 450 of the Wheatley School. School board trustees plan to adopt their final budget and property tax at that meeting. Voters will decide whether to approve the adopted budget on Tuesday, May 15, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Giving thanks from the top of her new heart Fleming was first patient to undergo procedure at North Shore University Hospital BY R E B ECC A K L A R Yvonne Fleming thanked North Shore University Hospital from the bottom of her heart. Actually, upon correction, she thanked the hospital from the very top of her new heart. “I am truly grateful. When I look down I couldn’t see my heart beat before,” Fleming said. “After the operation when I saw my heart go boom boom, that feeling was so … beautiful that I can’t describe it to you.” Fleming, a 63-year-old from Brooklyn, was the recipient of Long Island’s first heart transplant. Along with her team of doctors, Fleming explained the journey she went on – one that started with an unexpected heart attack in November and led her to a Northwell Health transplant team – during a news conference at the hospital on Thursday. Fleming’s team of doctors included Dr. Gerin Stevens, medical director of the transplant program, Dr. Brian Lima, surgical director of the transplant program, and Dr. Syed Hussain, the hospital’s lead heart procurement surgeon, who was responsible for removing and transporting the donor heart.
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Yvonne Fleming, a 63-year-old from Brooklyn, shared her experience as the recipient of the first heart transplant on Long Island at a news conference on Thursday. She thanked North Shore University Hospital. Fleming first met Stevens in January, when Fleming was admitted to the Cardiac Care Unit at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
Fleming was able to go home on Feb. 9 after three weeks at Lenox Hill. A few days after discharge, Fleming went back for an appointment at Stevens’
office and still was not feeling well, Stevens said. That’s when Fleming went to the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital. “When I met Dr. Lima and Dr. Stevens, the first day I met them they asked what I wanted, I looked at them both in their eyes and I said I want a heart,” Fleming said. Not all patients are candidates for heart transplants, Stevens explained. Patients like Fleming, who aren’t tolerating usual medications well, can be put on LVADs, left ventricular assist devices, Stevens said. LVADs are often used as a transition before a transplant. In Fleming’s case, though, she had many favorable characteristics to go straight to transplant, Stevens said. Characteristics that are considered include height, blood type and other factors, Stevens said. At North Shore, Stevens and Lima told Fleming she was a candidate for the first heart transplant surgery to be performed at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital. The Manhasset-based hospital was approved in June by New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to open the transplant program.
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North Hempstead is honoring four women from the Mineola area who have given back to their communities. Their backgrounds and charitable work vary, but they all share one thing in common – surprise in being recognized. “I’m really very honored to have this distinction. I do volunteer work but I don’t expect this type of stuff,” said Mona Ng. “I do it because I do it, that’s just it. Just to give back.” Ng is a resident of Albertson, where she has lived for almost 30 years. Her volunteer work spans a few organizations, including the Chinese Center on Long Island, North Shore University Hospital and the AARP. Another Albertson resident, Paula Groothuis, is also being honored. As are two women from Mineola, Helene Harris and Lillian Barnola. The women are four of 12 the town is recognizing on the 25th Annual May W. Newburger Women’s Roll of Honor. The women will be honored at a breakfast next Wednesday at the Clubhouse at Harbor Links in Port Washington at 8 a.m. Ng, who worked at a Fortune 100 company for 35 years and decided to retire early because of the long commute and to spend more time with her children, said volunteer-
ing is a way to give back. She currently serves on the board of the Chinese Center on Long Island, and served as president from 2013 to 2015. “It’s about community brotherhood and solidarity, so more people understand about the Chinese culture and there’s less discrimination and embarrassment of any kind, of any culture,” Ng said. “The more you understand, the more you’re open to it.” In 2013 Ng received the Nassau County Asian Pacific American of Distinction award, she said. Ng is also an outreach lead volunteer for the AARP. She also volunteers at North Shore University Hospital, where she does arts and crafts with patients. “I get a lot of satisfaction when I’m at the hospital and working with a patient and talking to them and see their faces light up… nothing replaces that, it just makes you feel good,” Ng said. Groothuis is a speech therapist, children’s book author and self-described “rhymer.” “In this world today, I just want to get out all good feelings,” Groothuis said on the goal of her work. She first got involved in the local community when she saw North Hempstead Continued on Page 69
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Ticket police for exceeding pay limit
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hy are Nassau County’s taxes so high but it is always short of money? A large part of that answer can be found on a website, which lists the salaries of all county employees in the state of New York. The site, seethroughny.net, shows that the 11 highest paid county employees in the state of New York in 2017, starting with Thomas Karp at $333,345, had one thing! in common – they worked for the Nassau County Police Department. And after a Suffolk County Police Department employee!comes in at the No. 12 spot, Nassau County Police Department employees are shown as the 13th to 24th highest paid employees. The lowest paid of the employees to crack the top 25, Kenneth J. Strigaro, received $267,573. In fact, Nassau County police dominate the lists of top earners of all county employees in New York with more than 400 making more than $200,000 a year. The only other county that comes close is Suffolk, whose police contracts take the lead from Nassau. Not a single employee of Westchester County even cracks the top 100. And the costs listed on the website do not even include the benefit package for Nassau police, which is among the most generous for police departments in the state. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran submitted a revised county budget last week with $54.7 million in spending reductions and revenue hikes after the county’s financial control board
imposed nearly $18 million in budget cuts. But none of the cuts were related to the cost of county police. For a good reason: police! pay is governed by contracts signed by the county. But, going forward county police pay should be on the table. Why? For starters, there is that control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, that ordered the $18 million in budget cuts for the first time in its 17-year history. Yes, 17-year history. NIFA was created after the county, one of the wealthiest in New York State, was unable to cover its costs and asked the state of New York for a bailout. The county got the bailout with several strings attached. One of them was NIFA. It’s time for the state to take off the training wheels and let the county manage its own finances. But first, the county must prove that it can. Which gets to the second point: how. When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously said, “That’s where the money is.” County police account for a relatively small but meaningful part of the county budget. And their contracts set precedents for all the other county unions. Do the police earn their!salaries? It is true that Nassau County police do an excellent job performing a sometimes very dangerous service. Crime is down and people feel safe. But is what they do worth so much more than every other county in the state of New York? At a
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time when taxes are universally considered too high and the county can’t even balance its budget? The truth is that police salaries in Nassau County are not based on public safety or performance but politics. Newsday recently published an exhaustive study of Long Island’s scandal-plagued political system that showed how Republican officials in the late 1960s began awarding public employee unions led by the police generous contracts in return for political support. That system, which goes a long way to explaining Nassau’s near-financial death experience in 2000, continues to this day. When he was county executive, Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, at-
tempted to rein in the number of police, their pay and their benefits. Suozzi had mixed success in his efforts to contain spending on police and engendered the political opposition of the police unions that continues to this day. On two occasions, Suozzi proposed that an outside consultant assess the police department’s staffing, management and operation needs. Both times the county Legislature rejected the idea. Hopefully, the legislators have learned their lesson. Following Curran’s election, the Republican majority in the Legislature joined with Democrats in approving the creation of an independent inspector general position to oversee all county contracts. Curran followed by appoint-
ing a five-member bipartisan committee to select the first inspector general. We urge Curran and the Legislature to take a similar approach with the police. Either take Suozzi’s idea of hiring a consultant or establish a bipartisan committee to study the salaries, benefits and staffing levels of the county Police Department. Elected officials in Nassau often talk the talk of financial restraint, lamenting the high cost of living and promising to bring down spending. Let’s see them now walk the walk. Forego politics and begin a process to bring the county’s labor costs – and taxes – in line with the rest of the counties in the state.
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Information overload is killing us all
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any years ago, I heard the expression “information overload” but I never associated it with anything other than the daily flow of e-mails, telephone calls and media stuff. Recently I concluded that none of us has enough time to absorb all of available communications forums that exist between social networking, television, radio, cell phones, computers and every other outlet for the happenings around us. On a typical day, a client will call and ask if I saw a show on Netflix. That is followed up by a call that I must see a series on Amazon Prime. The day is capped off with some politician asking me if I saw a story on CNN that had been announced only two minutes earlier. When I get home my wife, who is busy with her own daily challenges, tells me she has fin-
ished watching a Netflix production that had 46 episodes. Because my life is steeped in politics I have my own list of must do and must-reads every day and that is longer than you could imagine. For example, by the end of the business day, I will have read portions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, New York Post, Washington Post and watched portions of MSNBC, Bloomberg News, Fox, CNN, Huffington Post, The Hill and six other outlets. It never fails that during the course of a dinner with clients or friends I am asked if I saw some particular item or news segment that for some obvious reason slipped by me. The dilemma that we face today is that even if you are a certified billionaire, no one has the time to see all of the various media streams that are out there. And that leaves out the daily television shows on the
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major networks. By accident last week I was channel surfing and stopped at the “Bachelor” show. In less than two minutes, I became totally disgusted watching some racecar driver ditch his chosen woman for another contestant. As the father of four daughters, I found the whole incident totally demeaning and won-
dered why the “Me Too” movement hasn’t protested that awful network show. During my relax time on weekends I try to see a set schedule of shows to keep me up on the world’s events. I catch “Meet the Press,” Jake Tapper and Fareed Zakaria on CNN, occasionally watch Fox to see what the other world is saying and then look for some sporting event if there are any at this time of year. In the interim, I read the entire New York Times and check out Newsday on my cell phone. By 7 p.m. I look for “60 Minutes” and then have to see “Homeland.” I fill in the gap time with conversations with my wife or family, if any time is left. By mid-Monday, I have had at least six calls asking me if I saw a long list of other talk shows, news reports, reality shows and special one-time-only presentations. The assault on our senses is
maddening and there is no way to carve out sufficient time to keep up with these challenges. And much to my amazement, the various networks are continuing to announce that they will invest millions of dollars in new productions. If you have a big personal staff, you can cope with the demand for information by having a daily news summary brought to your desk. It helps you learn quickly what is important for you to be up to date. There is a rumor that President Trump gets these summaries but never takes the time to read them. I wish we could get a bunch of neighbors together to hire someone to watch all those television shows, read our newspapers, watch the talking political heads and help us keep up with the information overload. But until some new Internet app comes along, we will have to suffer in silence.
A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
About that ‘Lean In’ Stuff – let’s not!
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efore we leave Women’s History Month, I’d like to deal with Sheryl Sandberg and her two books, “Lean In” and “Option B.” I’ve waited several years to write about “Lean In” — because, to be honest, I had very little patience for either Ms. Sandberg or her book, and couldn’t figure out how to stay polite about either one. Never mind Sandberg’s perfect hair, perfect teeth, perfect job (perfect career, really, from Radcliffe and Harvard Business School to Google and Facebook)…or her perfect family. My biggest problem was her message, which seemed to be that, sure, there’s a lot of sexism in the working world, but we women should just buckle down and behave more like men, to overcome it all. The problem with that advice is that, if we were truly going to behave like men, we would simply assume that what we’re doing is fine. We’d never take advice from somebody’s book — especially not a book that presumes to tell us that we
are the ones who must change! In short — like a certain trick question I once encountered on the logic portion of the Philosophy Graduate Record Exam — the book seemed completely self-invalidating. Then, something horrible happened. Sandberg’s husband dropped dead of a massive heart attack while the two of them were vacationing in Mexico, and Sheryl had to fly home alone to break the news to her two young children that their father was gone. Complaining at that point about either Sandberg or her writing felt, to me, like piling on. But soon enough she published “Option B,” about what she learned from her grief. One of the first things I heard Sandberg say, in a radio interview about “Option B,” was how important it became to spend more time with her family. At which point I rolled my eyes and said, “Instead of rushing to write and market this book, perhaps?” The second thing I heard her say was a confession of how
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A Look on the Lighter Side little she had appreciated the difficulties of single-parenting until she’d had to do it herself; and how facile and clueless her earlier advice to “make your partner a real partner” must have seemed. Yes, indeedy. But so now, must we be treated to a new book for every step in Sheryl Sandberg’s life? If so, watch out for such soon-to-be-published masterpieces as “How hard it is to write a book about how hard it is to write a book,” “How hard it is to keep your teens off Facebook when the job that puts
food on your table is getting everyone else in the world addicted to Facebook,” and “Gosh, I never realized just how hard it is to make a chunky peanut butter and jelly sandwich when the bread is too soft”? In fairness, “Option B” is actually a decent book, especially if you want strategies to get yourself or someone you love through a trauma; it contains many helpful suggestions. (For example, try adding just one word when greeting someone in distress. It is apparently much easier to answer the question, “How are you doing today?”) But even Sandberg’s epiphanies in “Option B” lead me back to my biggest problem with her work. In her very first story in “Lean In,” Sandberg tells how she didn’t realize Google should set aside parking near the building for pregnant women until she was one, herself. And all through both books, she remains oblivious to problems until she experiences them, herself. The trouble is, her only solution is just that more women
should reach the top — so that, eventually, “half our institutions are run by women and half our homes are run by men.” She doesn’t seem to see that, even if that unlikely world should arrive, it would still be oblivious to the needs of other, minority men and women; anyone gay, lesbian, transsexual, or otherwise gender “non-conforming”; immigrants; people with various handicaps; and on and on. We can’t leave things to the empathy of strangers. We need laws that can really stop sexual harassment. We need regulations about equal representation in every workplace. And yes, we need to finish passing that Equal Rights Amendment. Sheryl, you are one of the most powerful people on the planet; people clamor for your Ted Talks; and you’re worth, by some estimates, more than a billion dollars. You need to do better than this. You should put your weight behind something much stronger. If not you, who? If not now, when?
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A VET’S VIEW
Capturing key moment in Vietnam War
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ver the past two years on my book tour for “Heroes to the End,” I met many Vietnam veterans who told me “I don’t have to read about it; I lived it.” Maybe since I was only under fire twice during my 197172 tour, and seemed to lead a charmed life, I’ve read every book on Vietnam I could get my hands on to see what others went through. The latest is “Hue 1968” by Mark Bowden. I feel Bowden’s book on the bloodiest and most pivotal battle of the war is a marvelous combination of painstaking research over a four-year period and superior writing. It will go on the top shelf of my office bookcase next to Neil Sheehan’s “A Bright Shining Lie” and Frank Snepp’s “Decent Interval.” I rate it ahead of other classics such as Seymour Hersh’s “My Lai 4,” Michael Herr’s “Dispatches,” Philip Caputo’s “A Rumor of War,” Harold G. Moore’s “We Were Soldiers Once…and Young,” Col. David H. Hackworth’s “Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts,” David Maraniss’ “They Marched Into Sunlight” and Al Santoli’s “Everything We Had.” Bowden interviewed 112
Americans and 43 Vietnamese survivors. They provided vivid descriptions of bloody, chaotic house-tohouse fighting – which American troops had not participated in since the Korean War. “Most of the marines were amazed to find themselves in a city,” Bowden quotes the New York Times’ Gene Roberts as writing. “All they had seen of Vietnam were air bases, rice paddies and jungle. Here were tall buildings, wide paved streets, cars and trucks parked against curbs, parks, bars, restaurants, fine and spacious homes.” While American commander William Westmoreland was preoccupied with what he felt would be a Dien Bien Phu-style attack on the mountaintop base Khe Sahn, some 10,000 North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers instead quietly occupied the historic and walled city of Hue on the central coast in the middle of the night on Jan. 31, 1968, the first day of Tet, the Lunar New Year celebrated by all Vietnamese. It was one of a series of coordinated attacks around the country. “The surprise achieved in Hue was complete,” Bowden writes. “It was not a case of simply being caught off guard. It was so unexpected it triggered not
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just alarm but disbelief – deadly disbelief…Many young Americans would die or be severely maimed over the weeks it took for the truth to sink in.” Underestimating the size of the enemy force, American commanders ordered several platoons of marines into a slaughter pen. They were cut down in courtyards by NVA snipers and machine gunners from second story windows. It took the Marines 25 days to dislodge the Communists in fighting that sometimes was hand-to-hand and took the lives of 250 Americans, 450 ARVN soldiers, 2,400 enemy, more than 800 civilians and resulted in the
execution by the Communists of 2,800 South Vietnamese. Westmoreland estimated the enemy force in the Citadel to be 500; he was off by a factor of 20. The marines and First Cavalry Division Army troops involved in retaking the city were used to being supported by artillery and tactical air power but commanders initially held off on using those assets due to the city’s historic nature. It was modeled after China’s Forbidden City with thick walls and a royal palace. The Americans were loath to destroy it. Our troops paid the bloody price. “One second they were there,” Bowden writes of a mortar attack, “living and breathing and thinking and maybe swearing or even praying…and in the next second [they]…had been turned into a plume of fine pink mist – tiny bits of blood, bone, tissue, flesh and brain – that rose and drifted and settled over everyone and everything nearby it.” Other vignettes Bowden recounts include: a wounded soldier waking up in a zipped body bag to protest that he wasn’t dead; a marine caught in a mortar barrage while defecating into a bucket; the death of Alfred Gonzalez, who would posthu-
mously receive the Medal of Honor; marines using flamethrowers to burn stacks of enemy dead; the stench from mass graves; the bravery of troops under fire who wiped out defenders, lowered an NVA flag and raised ours. But the book’s theme is a sense of loss. “No matter who died,” Bowden writes, “there was no time to grieve…There was also something shameful about violent, shattering death. It wasn’t rational. How you were killed was rarely your fault, but part of the horror was the humiliating display – bodies ruptured, insides horribly spilled. No matter how dignified or admired or liked a man had been in life, here he was very suddenly and publicly dead.” Based on body count, the Tet Offensive was hailed by the brass as a huge American victory. But the world press felt America was embarrassed, the anti-war movement was re-energized, Walter Cronkite painted a gloomy picture, and a month later, President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek a second term. Fifty years ago, after Hue and Tet, the question became not when we would win but how we would exit an unpopular and costly war.
VIEW POINT
Cuomo fills void in election protection
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t a fascinating dialogue at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, two foreign policy experts – Malcolm Nance, a renowned counter terrorism and intelligence consultant, and four-star Admiral James Stavridis who was the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO – made the startling pronouncements that democracy is under assault globally and even domestically with the ascent of authoritarian rulers, using various versions of populist (neoNazi) nationalism. “Russia is buying every conservative, neo-Nazi group in Europe – owned, lock, stock and barrel by Moscow,” Nance said. “Democracy as an ideology is now under attack, every day.” (On the other hand, “ISIS is not coming to Great Neck.”) Indeed, as we have learned over the past year, Russia directly interfered with the 2016 election
with an elaborate and extremely effective propaganda/fake news/ disinformation campaign meant to sow divisions, resentment and populist anger, and undermine confidence in democratic institutions including elections. And now we learn that the Trump campaign was doing the same thing as the Russians – whether in direct collusion or not (the jury is still out). The intersection was at the social media platforms – Facebook and Twitter and such – that have proved so dominant in shaping political views in society. Russianoriginated bogus ads on Facebook, alone, reached 159 million Americans, and now we learn that 50 million Facebook users were “harvested” by Cambridge Analytica, the “psychographic voter targeting” agency owned largely by Robert Mercer, a major donor to Trump, and directed by Steven Bannon who became campaign
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manager (brought to the Trump campaign by Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner). The social media operation, run by Brad Parscale (who was tied to Cambridge Analytica and is the newly named manager of Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign) boasted to Bloomberg in 2016 that his campaign was
aimed at suppressing turnout by “women, blacks and liberals.” Despite every one of our intelligence agencies warning that Russia is still actively engaged in meddling in our elections (and why do you need Russia? Cambridge Analytica and its ilk have the algorithms to mount their own disinformation/voter suppression campaigns), Republicans have taken deliberate actions not to protect our system, and have instead shielded Trump. They have not pushed for Homeland Security to spend the $120 million appropriated to shore up election systems against attacks that are sure to come (Russia penetrated 21 states’ voter rolls; next time they could flip a few switches to steal districts or at least sow doubt in election results in order to spark challenges, sure to come from Republicans if they lose). They have not even pushed
for this administration to protect us from Russia’s cyber attacks on our power plants and critical systems – Russia at any moment could trigger an outage that impacts the electrical grid, water supply, air traffic control, transport systems, and banking systems, triggering panic. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has proposed legislation to mandate transparency in political advertising, require online platforms to maintain an archive of political ads, that can be investigated by journalists and Good Government entities, and protect elections from foreign influence. But Republicans are unlikely to allow it to advance, just as they consistently blocked the Disclose Act and efforts to rein in campaign finance abuses. “Disclosure is critical,” Klobuchar said in a press call with Gov. Cuomo, “otherwise you see 10,000 Continued on Page 56
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OUT OF LEFT FIELD
History celebrated with day at Hofstra
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hat is History Day? Why is it at Hofstra each year? Some say that it is common sense to recognize (as Thomas Paine did) that without perspectives from the past we are all doomed to be prisoners of the present. Without a sense of our individual personal past, we would have no identity. All of us can better gain a coherent sense of self by striving to make sense of what we’ve done, what’s happened to us, and how we have been affected by our past. “Amnesia” is a term for people who have lost a sense of memory, and as students are quick to note: memory is a synonym for history. Without history we literally cannot know ourselves (or, indeed, know our nation’s identity). It is no accident that Jefferson replaced religion with history when he was the pioneer of America’s first public schools Jefferson argued that history would serve two purposes: 1. it could “shake off the dead hand of the past” by helping citizens to recognize, and prevent, tyranny and abuse of societal norms; 2. it could also foster enthusiasm as people tried to follow the affirmative examples of those who preceded
them and served the public good. Significantly, sculpture was Jefferson’s favorite art form because it gave life-like, enduring public recognition to those who exhibited benevolence in their lives and who were models for others in a democracy. History Day at Hofstra continues to serve Jefferson’s ideals of energizing and educating individuals for responsible, caring and thoughtful citizenship. Each March, for more than four decades, students from Nassau and Suffolk counties come to the university to participate in the major regional History Day in New York State. From Hofstra, our top students go to Cooperstown for statewide historical endeavors, and from Cooperstown, “the brightest geniuses – the natural aristocracy,” (as Jefferson characterized them) go on to National History Day at the University of Maryland. We Long Islanders (especially from North Shore Schools) have good reasons to be proud of what our students did at the Sunday, March 18 Hofstra Regional History Day, and what they have been doing for decades. Why is Hofstra the host of History Day?
MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field Simply because Hofstra alumnus Richard Marks (I am proud to note that he was my student) proposed our university as the regional center when he was a beginning teacher. Early on, the program was modest (a few schools, 50 students); almost all the event judges were members of the Hofstra History Department. On March 18, 43 middle and high schools participated; there were 103 judges, with more than a dozen leadership coordinators, led by Hofstra VP Melissa Connolly. More than 800 students, teachers and parents were expected at the awards ceremony. As a member of the Hofstra
community since 1960, I am enormously proud of what my university has done working with Long Island teachers and students to foster love and knowledge of history. I am especially impressed by what our Long island students demonstrate, from grades 6 through 12, by their research, their sense of inquiry, and their critical analysis. We in Nassau and Suffolk are spurring the development of future leaders – youth who have been challenged to seek reliable data as paths to informed judgments. At this Sunday’s History Day, I observed high levels of historical investigation by several junior high school students who participated in the group performance category. Two students portrayed conflicting sides of the Vietnam War. One was a veteran who had a leg amputated in combat; the other had been a college protestor. They reviewed their past friendship, each claiming to be the “patriot” who upheld American values. Their performance dialogue reflected a depth of knowledge about the youth conflicts and the political disputes of the era. Many parts of their discourse were intense, emotional – and dramatic. As these two performers in-
teracted, they came to a common ground conclusion about the conduct of the war (one worthy of the recent series by Ken Burns). They concluded by forming a bond from shared, revelatory historical perspectives. In another group performance, three North Shore Junior High School students showed what the integration of Little Rock High School was like for the nine “Negroes” who were harried, abused and spat upon from their first day on. One of the youngsters also showed the racist resistance by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. After each point of brutality and racist horrors, the three girls linked arms and chanted in unison: “But we endured.” They completed their performance with a rapid-fire listing of racial progress since 1957, and a clarion call for continued attention to racial reckoning, and to enhancing respect for our nation’s ethnic diversity. In future columns, I plan to say more about the exceptional civic engagement of our Long Island students, with some special focus on those who represent us in New York and National History Days.
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Time to focus on the state’s expenses
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ver the last decade, I have owned three different top-notch restaurants, two in the city, and one, Aldea, received a Michelin Star several years in a row. With that experience I am uniquely qualified to share the secret of making $1 million dollars in the restaurant business. Just start with $2 million! All joking aside, turning a profit in this business, and others#is a real challenge. Competition is fierce, margins are razor thin, and it’s difficult to raise prices. To turn a profit you must keep a close eye on expenses, because every dollar saved goes directly to the bottom line. For example, instead of regularly purchasing fresh flowers I installed beautiful dried flower arrangements. I shopped insurance premiums yearly and constantly tried to pay invoices to vendors quickly in order to receive a small, pre-negotiated discount. Through measures like these,
the goal was to save $50,000 a year in expenses. In the restaurant business, that is roughly the same as the profit from selling 12,000 additional martinis. That’s a lot of martinis. I use the same mindset for every government entity and nonprofit charity I have been involved with. As a trustee on the Roslyn School Board, we refinanced our debt, and utilized energy performance contracts to save electricity. In addition, we regularly push for at least three bids every time we go out to purchase goods and services. As a director on the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, I advocated for accountability on legal fees and made sure all county RFPs and bids were added to the New York State Contract Reporter, to encourage greater participation and transparency in the procurement process. As a board member of All Hands and Hearts, an international disaster relief agency, we relent-
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All Things Political lessly discuss how to drive down costs, so we have more money to provide services. I bring all this up because New York State budget season is here. And, instead of engaging in meaningful dialog about how to run state government more efficiently, the discussion is centered around busting the self-imposed 2 percent tax cap on a $163 billion spending plan. Taxpayers need to know their
hard earned money is being used efficiently. Recently I read about the scandals from the 1980’s, when the U.S. Government routinely grossly overpaid for commodity type items, such as the $37 screw, $640 toilet seat, and the $7,600 coffee maker. As I remain involved in the public sector I am seeing first hand, nothing much has changed. New York State desperately needs to put together a department by department task force on cost control. I am fully aware the governor has encouraged local governments to share services to drive down costs. I applaud this! Still, the question remains, what can New York State do in its own house? Why don’t the state Assembly and Senate have specific committees on government efficiency? I suggest each branch of government encourage New York State government employees to make recommendations on costsaving efficiencies.
If an employee idea is used that employee should be awarded an extra vacation day. With more than 300,000 New York State government employees there would be endless suggestions on creative ways to save. Each New York State division of government should bring in consultants to examine operations and make the findings public. Grant Thornton did that almost seven years ago for Nassau County, but somehow none of this thorough and lengthy report’s suggestions have been implemented. Politicians are reactive by nature. Why speak up about a problem if it’s not in the public consciousness? I can assure you, as budgets continue to get squeezed, and the economy starts to slow down, we will hear about inefficiencies in New York State Government that will take our breath away. Then, elected officials will be forced to call for an investigation, but it will already be too late.
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READERS WRITE
Vasa right choice for Port library board
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am writing to encourage all registered voters in the Port Washington Library District to support Sima Vasa in the upcoming Library Board election on April 10. Sima is a person of honesty, intelligence, and compassion. She also has a keen business sense that has been honed over 20 years of professional experience, including as president of the NPD Group
and at IBM, where she began her career. More recently, Sima has been an entrepreneur and investor in digital technology start-up companies. Sima owns a business in Port Washington that has, thanks to her technological expertise, a global reach.! She also serves as a director on the Boards of three organi-
zations and has been recognized nationally as an expert in technology trends and market research Sima and husband have made Port Washington their home for over 15 years.! The mother of two daughters, she is known in Port Washington as a Girl Scout leader for more than eight years and as the co-chair of Sousa Elementary School’s Green Committee for
more than seven years. On a personal note, Sima and her remarkable family were among my first friends in Port Washington.! My children and Sima’s younger daughter attend Sousa together. Over the years, morning conversations at the bus stop have made me aware of her devotion to our public library and her desire to be a guardian for this precious
resource in our wonderful, diverse, community. I believe strongly that Sima’s business acumen and technological expertise will help maintain our library’s tradition of excellence and help it to grow in the digital age Bill Bodkin Port Washington
Residents for Better Munsey Park cross line
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am writing to express my dismay about a residentsforbettermunseypark@gmail.com! email blast sent on March 12!regarding the March 20 Munsey Park election. I will be voting for my friend John Turano for village justice and it is no secret that I also intend to vote for Brian Dunning and Nathy Yakaitis for election to the Munsey Park Board of Trustees. We certainly have no problem with the fact that the March
12! email was used to forward letters supporting the candidacy of Jen Noone and Anthony Sabino, !though it is disappointing that Rita and I who have lived in Munsey Park for 32 years have been excluded from the residentsforbettermunseypark@gmail.com email group by those in charge. What is most disappointing, however, is that those responsible for the email group saw fit to write the following warning in the email: “Warning, these letters
are from your neighbors (not former village officials), the message is positive and addresses the candidate’s accomplishments, experience and fitness for office.”! So now those of us who served the Village of Munsey Park are no longer considered neighbors? What kind of nonsense is this? Between 1994 and 2006 I spent countless hours serving the Village as a Trustee and Deputy Mayor.
Rita also volunteered her time on the tree committee and other projects including the Waldmann and Copley parks and the Hunt Lane walkway. We volunteered our time not for any personal gain or ego gratification, but because we were Munsey Park residents and your neighbors. We are all neighbors, including those of us who have volunteered valuable time to serve on Village committees and, yes, even
as trustees. A frank and open discussion of the issues is not a bad thing and there will always be disagreements. Regardless of the outcome of the election, we should all work together for a better community. So I say Shame On You residentsforbettermunseypark@ gmail.com. Vince Syracuse Munsey Park
Punish criminals, not legit firearms owners
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ver the last several years there have been many senseless mass shootings. This is tragic every time it happens, and I grieve with all of the parents and siblings who have lost loved ones in these senseless acts of violence. However, in so many of those shootings, the signs were present well in advance. After the fact, most people, especially those who have no factual knowledge regarding details of the shooting read the sensationalized reports in the newspapers “reporters” misrepresent so many of the facts regarding firearms, and this appears to be due to both a lack of factual knowledge about firearms, and a desire to shout “fire” in a crowd by spreading false information. In so many of these cases, we’ve been bombarded with terms that are as foreign to the so-called experts who write these stories and preach about the danger of firearms with no basis in fact. They bandy terms like “military-style assault weapons”, “automatic weapons,” and other technical terms that they don’t understand the fundamental meaning of. They report that in the shooting, the shooter used an “auto-
matic military-type assault weapon,” and often it turns out that it was a semiautomatic pistol. This does not reduce the impact of the tragic event, but the cry suddenly goes out to ban all guns. This is not the solution, and any sane person must admit that if they banned all guns, only the criminals would have them. That I will leave as fodder for another time. Now I’d like to ask you, the reader, to test your knowledge of firearms using the two pictures in this letter. You see two rifles numbered 1 and 2. Q: Which rifle is more lethal? A: Neither. Both use the same bullets, both have the same barrel length and muzzle velocity of the
bullet when it exits the barrel. Q: Which one is an assault rifle? If you said No. 2, you are incorrect. A: Neither is an assault rifle. With the exception of appearance, these are essentially the same rifle. They both are semi-automatic firing, both use .22 Caliber bullets, both will hold up to 10 bullets in New York State if you are obeying the NY SAFE ACT signed into law after a knee-jerk reaction to the Sandy Hook tragedy. I’m going to guess that most of you probably answered incorrectly to both questions. That is, of course, unless you are among the millions of legal, law-abiding gun owners and gun
enthusiasts in this country. Most of us who have had military or rifle team training understand these details intimately. We also know the danger of firearms in the wrong hands. Yes, I get it! None of us wants another unthinkable tragedy. And, to be as honest as is possible, nobody hates war and killing more than the soldier. Yet, I belong to several veterans’ organizations, and practically all of us own firearms. Many of us go hunting during the appropriate seasons and bring home food for consumption. There is no ‘killing for fun’ among hunters. I don’t hunt because killing an animal unnecessarily is distasteful to me.
But many of us enjoy a trip to the range to hone our skills – there is as much satisfaction and pride in accuracy as there is pride for a mathematician solving a complex theoretical equation. You can’t rationalize it, and it just is. There are millions of legal, legitimate gun owners living among us, most anonymously. They should not be hamstrung by the reactionary politicians and naysayers among us. Instead, how about requiring the FBI, ATF, Homeland Security and all of the police forces to share their information in a timely manner, act on it in accordance with the plethora of existing gun laws, something that may very well have avoided these many tragic shooting events. Don’t bash the NRA- they promote only safe ownership and handling of firearms. And did you notice – I use the word “firearms,” “guns” or “rifles” throughout my letter. These are not weapons in the hands of legal gun owners. Only the criminal or the deranged individual makes them “weapons!” Eric Spinner New Hyde Park Letters Continued on Page 53
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USMMA alums inspire future women mariners BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N U.S. Merchant Marine Academy alums called for women to embrace their strengths and unconventional careers, and to take advantage of “the Kings Point network” at the academy’s “High Tea” event on Thursday, in commemoration of Women’s History Month and the academy’s 75th anniversary. The celebration recognized both the Kings Point-based academy’s 75 years of existence and 40 years of having women graduates. The first women graduated in 1978. It also showcased the accomplishments of some of these women, who have gone to do everything from being leaders in the maritime industry to founding their own legal firms. Susan Winfree, who graduated from the academy in 1985, said the academy gave her the tools to pursue an unconventional career. But only 867 women have graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point in its history, she said, which is something that should change. “Your challenge that I’m giving to you is to spread the word about Kings Point to women,” Winfree, the vice president of workforce development at the New York Shipping Association, said. “I am so tired of being in a male-dominated industry.” Winfree also challenged students to talk with other young women about pursuing nonconventional careers and support Kings Point as alumni. Jeanne-Marie Van Hemmen, a 1986 graduate who founded her own maritime
law firm, said that sometimes people’s feedback can be discouraging. But, she said, women should focus on what they see as their “finest attributes” and find a “platform to stand on.” “You can’t be all things to all people, but if you are true to yourself, my experience is that you find your way,” Van Hemmen said. Margaret Gordon, a 1985 alum, attributed many of her career successes to Kings Point. She worked as a director for environmental and quality assurance for Marine Transport Lines for many years, before returning ashore to work for a handful of other companies. But Gordon ultimately returned to the maritime industry, she said, and became the director of safety and security for the Staten Island Ferry in 2004 – a job she still holds. “It’s fun, it’s exciting, no two days are the same,” Gordon said. “It’s an awesome industry that isn’t boring and there’s so many great stories to always tell about a job in the maritime industry.” Gordon also encouraged women to take advantage of “the Kings Point network” and their experience. “I think when you get out of Kings Point, as Susan said, sometimes there’s memories here that you just go, ‘I’m never going back, I’m never giving them money, I’m never going to be a part of this network,'” Gordon said. “Well, you kind of get over it. And you do because you see how powerful it is.” Capt. Jack Buono, the former president and CEO of SeaRiver Maritime Continued on Page 60
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Jewish population seen through synagogues BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Ira Poliakoff said he was searching for a good project following his kidney transplant and retirement when he noticed that nobody had ever really assembled a comprehensive history of Long Island’s Jewish population. So, he said, he sought to fix that by telling it through a different lens and writing a book: “Synagogues of Long Island.” “What I hope they get out of reading the book is that they learn the history of their people on Long Island, that they learn their demographics change … and realize that things may change, even in Great Neck or the Five Towns,” Poliakoff, a former Long Island resident now residing in Pennsylvania, said. “Synagogues of Long Island,” a 224-page book – the 72-yearold former businessman’s first – published by The History Press in December, features a trove of historical documents, photos and biographies of congregations, some being born as the early 1900s like Temple Beth-El of Great Neck in 1920. “I came up with over 250 synagogues, counting the many that
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Ira Poliokoff, a retired small businessman from Long Island, said he felt compelled to document a comprehensive history of his former home’s Jewish population.
have disappeared, that have existed in the county,” Poliakoff said. Among the more than 80 pictures and reproductions of historical documents were comparisons of Temple Beth-El of Patchogue’s 50th anniversary program and its 100th anniversary, as well as copies of the original charters of the island’s oldest synagogues. There are also pictures of the recently developed Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian synagogues in Great Neck, Poliakoff said, with the populations having essentially “built their own synagogues from scratch.” But when researching the book, Poliakoff said, the shifts in the Jewish population stood out to him in particular. In 1939, for example, there were only about 30,000 Jews across Long Island, but after World War II, the number ballooned to 330,000. One could also look to present day Long Island’s Jewish population, which has decreased by 100,000 in the last 20 years but is growing in places like Great Neck and Port Washington. “I think that the thing that surprised me the most is the tremendous shifts taking place of the Jewish population of Long
Island,” Poliakoff said. Ultimately, Poliakoff said, he hopes this is a book his granddaughter could read – especially since her questions about a synagogue turned condo building during a Philadelphia stroll helped spark his decision to write a history book. “I think that I wrote the book so that she could read it,” Poliakoff said, “and she’ll know how to answer if she’s in the same situation 50 years from now, with her granddaughter down the street walking past a building like that.” Poliakoff will visit Congregation Tifereth Israel of Greenport, Long Island’s second-oldest active synagogue, for a lecture on April 22 at 2 p.m. and the Oceanside Jewish Center at 7 p.m., where he served as a youth adviser over 50 years ago. Poliakoff will also stop at Temple Adas Israel, Long Island’s longest serving synagogue, in Sag Harbor on May 7 at 7 p.m., and lecture at the Great Neck Library’s main building on May 9 at 7 p.m. He said he is also working on two other books: one focuses on the synagogues of Philadelphia, while the other examines the history of Conservative Judaism.
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Roslyn student wins silver at World Rowing contest Lindsay Rust, student at Roslyn High School and member of the Port Rowing Varsity Women’s Team, rises in the ranks at the World Rowing Indoor Championships. Rust brought home a silver medal for junior lightweight women, beating out rowers from US and abroad. This was the first time that FISA, the World Rowing governing body, made this competition an official world championship. Last year, Rust took a bronze medal. This year’s outstanding finish places Rust as the second fastest 15- to 18-year-old lightweight women in the world. Rust was joined by fellow teammates from the Port Rowing varsity teams at the World Rowing Indoor Champs. The two sets of siblings — Brooke and Brett Bossé from Manhasset and Graham and Witt Holmes from Port Washington — competed in separate age
brackets. Graham earned a respectable spot in the top half of his field while boat-mates on the water Witt and Brett went head to head and placed fifth and sixth in the men’s U17 lightweight event. With 3.2 seconds between them, they beat out field of nearly 80 competitors in their category. “I am very proud on the achievements of our rowers at the World Indoor Championships,” Michiel Bartman, director of rowing and head men’s coach at Port Rowing said of the rowers. “The result of Lindsey’s is very special as she repeated a medal performance for the second year in a row. The races of Witt Holmes and Brett Bossé show that we have 2 guys who are very competitive with each other and finish in the top 6. “As for the preparation we have been working towards this event for weeks. With
special workouts, test pieces, rest, race strategies, mental preparation, etc. The 2K on the rowing ergometer is one of the hardest physical test you can do.” The competition held in Alexandria, Virginia, drew over 2,000 competitors from 266 clubs worldwide, including 33 different countries. Once the Port Rowers completed their races, they travelled farther south to join fellow Port Rowing Varsity teammates for a weeklong training camp in Jacksonville, Florida. The training in warm water conditions marked the unofficial start of the spring sprint season. Both High School and Middle School teams will participate in the annual Row for Autism Regatta, a home regatta hosted by Friends of Port Rowing on April 15 at North Hempstead Beach Park. To learn more about Port Rowing, visit portrowing.com.
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LIRR officials outline improvement plan BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
Long Island Rail Road officials presented nearly 60 actions they plan to take to improve the railroad’s performance at an MTA LIRR committee meeting and news release on Monday, focusing on improving infrastructure, staff and communication. The plan, which builds on ideas LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski offered at previous MTA board meetings, comes after a state comptroller’s report#that the LIRR had its worst yearly on-time performance in nearly two decades. Among the infrastructure upgrades would be upgrading the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in Brooklyn and ties in Queens at high-speed crossovers, strengthening PSEG utility poles near tracks and installing flexible delineators at certain railroad crossings to prevent unauthorized track access. The plan also calls for an increase in both the quality and quantity of rail inspections, as well as installing monitoring systems at key points and adding more crews to better implement repairs. Additionally, the plan also attempts to protect the LIRR from weather extremes and slippery rails.
Year-round improvements include adding signal personnel, nighttime track emergency crews, better lightning protection for the signal systems and new drainage systems. Specifically during the winter, the LIRR is also eyeing switch snow covers, more third rail heaters and improving special trains to combat ice. Autumn improvements would include more train handling training and making sure the Arch Street device called a truer that grinds wheels to keep them perfectly round is always online while the West Side Yard wheel truer comes to fruition. Nowakowski had previously mentioned slippery rails, which can flatten wheels, and other weather extremes as causes of poorer service in December and early January. “This plan lays out the steps toward doing everything we can to prevent incidents that can impact service and when incidents do occur, to recover service faster by improving our response times to the issues impacting us and our customers,” Nowakowski said. The improvement plan also calls for creating a chief customer advocate, encouraging MTA staff to be more “proactive,” and a host of technical upgrades. Continued on Page 69
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Herricks musicians perform at music fest
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Herricks Middle School students performed at the Long Island String Festival Association’s Elementary Festival, along with students from the district’s elementary schools. From March 2-4, the Long Island String Festival Association sponsored its annual Elementary Festival. After many hours of rehearsal with prominent conductors, Herricks’ students in grades 5-8 performed at Uniondale High School among Nassau County’s finest
string musicians. The musicians were from Center Street, Denton Avenue, Searingtown and Herricks Middle School. From Center Street School had Eason Chiu, grade five, performed the cello. From Denton Avenue El-
ementary School the following students performed: Amanda Cui, grade five, on cello, Albert Kuo, grade five, on cello, Andrew Simons, grade five, on violin. From Searingtown Elementary School the following students performed: Justin Chen, grade five, on viola, Dhruv Gandhi, grade five, on bass, Enya Sakhrani, grade five, on viola, Ryan Yen, grade five, on cello. From Herricks Middle School the following students
performed: Peter Aliprandis, grade six, on violin, Katherine Cha, grade six, on cello, Kyra Chan, grade six, on violin, Preston Chan, grade six, on cello, Isabel Comerchero, grade six, on viola, Alex Ha, grade six, on cello, Chloe Kim, grade six, on violin, Fiona Kuo, grade six, on violin, Justin Lau, grade six, on violin, Ryan Lo, grade six, on cello, Kaylee Luo, grade six, on violin, Yvette Park, grade six, on cello, Catalin Wong, grade six, on violin, Kevin Zhu, grade six,
on violin, Maria Defex, grade eight, on viola, Genesis Kang, grade eight, on violin, Hailey Ko, grade seven, on violin, Megan Kumar, grade seven, on bass, Jovana Lau, grade eight, on violin, Jeylin Lee, grade seven, on viola, Rachel Lee, grade eight, on violin, Esther Min, grade eight, on cello, Kailey Simons, grade seven, on violin, Katherine Yee, grade seven, on violin, Emma Yen, grade eight, on violin, Tina Zhao, grade eight, on violin.
Herricks wins at national fest
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Herricks High School’s Mock Trial team completed their season in March.
Mock trial team ends with success Herricks High School’s Mock Trial team completed their season on March 5 in a very close match against Sacred Heart Academy. The Herricks students won both of their prior mock
trial competitions in February against Saint Dominic High School and HewlettWoodmere High School, and competed in their first Moot Court competition this past November.
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Herricks High School’s Chamber Orchestra was named First Place High School String Orchestra at the American String Teachers Association’s National Orchestra Festival. Herricks High School’s Chamber Orchestra was named First Place High School String Orchestra at the American String Teachers Association’s National Orchestra Festival, with a Superior rating and the highest overall score of 59.4/60. The ensemble members departed for Atlanta, Georgia on March 8 and, following a 17-hour bus ride, rose early the next morning to perform for a panel of highly esteemed judges and members of the public. Sixteen high school ensem-
bles from all over the United States were selected, via an audition process, to attend this festival to compete. Of those, 13 were in the category of High School String Orchestra. Judges, guest clinicians, and music teachers in attendance commented on the Herricks students’ refined and nuanced playing, their connection to the music and their conductor and their incredible passion and showmanship.! “These students made me as proud as I have ever been
to be their teacher,” said Catherine Fish, director and conductor. “They are no longer merely students of music – they have achieved true artistry! Preparing for a National Competition is a rigorous and often grueling process that takes many months, but the Herricks High School Chamber Orchestra never balked at the work. They became a true team and worked together to create something so beautiful that it moved audience members, and myself, to tears.”
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attended the event. Naylor, who is the author of “Women in Long Island’s Past: A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives,” said that even when women are recognized for historic accomplishments, they’re typically kept out of local history. In her speech she highlighted several women, including Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who organized a suffrage hike from the Bronx to Albany in 1912. Last November marked 100 years since women got the right to vote in New York, a right the state granted three years before the country. Last November was also when Nassau voters elected their first female county executive, Curran. While it is important have firsts, with women leading the way into territory formerly held by men, it is vital to go beyond them, Naylor said. Women like Gillen, Bosworth and U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, who are not the first to hold their positions, but are the “second and counting” are an important piece to the puzzle" “so women in political office can become as common as men,” Naylor said. Naylor discussed a speech given by Marilyn Goldstein, a Newsday journalist and columnist, at a 1996 conference at Continued on Page 70
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Town OKs zoning law fixes, sewer bond BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N The North Hempstead Town Board approved changes to zoning laws on restaurant alterations and parking requirements on Tuesday night as part of a larger effort to modernize the code and be welcoming to business. The amendments to the town code eliminate a distinction established in 1998 between more formal restaurants and fast food eateries. The board also set the level of alteration for kitchens requiring review by the town zoning board at 20 percent or 250 square feet. This also affects parking calculations, which will use the restaurant’s square footage as a standard rather than the number of seats. “While it seemed to be progressive at the time to establish a separate category for fast food, what we’re running into with the industry is an ever-increasing number of formats,” Michael Levine, commissioner of planning, said. Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said the changes are a part of the town’s effort to show that it wants to welcome business. “This is to amend the town’s zoning code so that we’re clearing up concerns about alterations to restaurants, calculation of parking requirements for the restaurant,
and the idea is to be able have these applications go forward more quickly,” Bosworth said. She commended Councilman Angelo Ferrara, who represents Williston Park, Mineola, Garden City Park and parts of New Hyde Park, for pushing to review codes that could be updated. In unrelated business, the Town of North Hempstead authorized the issuance of $18.8 million worth of bonds for improvements to the Port Washington Water Pollution Control District’s facilities. Among the improvements would be the implementation of a new asset management system and the ability to monitor operations, rehabilitating some of the 67 miles worth of pipes and upgrading water treatment plants. The sewer district serves more than 25,000 people in the Port Washington area, including the Village of Port Washington North, parts of Flower Hill and Baxter Estates and unincorporated areas. It also treats sewage collected by the Village of Manorhaven. In other business, the Town of North Hempstead adopted a site plan review for planned parking lot renovations for the Garden City Park shopping mall on Jericho Turnpike. The next Town Board meeting will take place on April 17.
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n early Sunday afternoon quickly turned into a late evening as the Temple Israel Players in Great Neck ran through their planned performance of “Beauty and the Beast.” With song, dance and colorful costumes, a small ensemble led by musical director Debbie Tartell rehearsed as director JoJo Conley’s corrections and advice sometimes boomed above the music. Stage workers also practiced transforming the stage from village to castle to forest and back. “It’s a lot of work,” Mark Putter, a show producer involved with the Players for 15 years, said on Sunday night in between scenes. “And it’s a lot of fun.” The Temple Israel Players, a theater troupe founded more than 40 years ago, will be taking on the iconic fantasy tale — and Disney — for the first time this weekend, with shows planned for Saturday and Sunday. Conley said some people might view “Beauty and the Beast” as just a children’s show since it was an animated feature. But, Conley said, working with a mature cast offered a chance to explore the script’s nuances through body language, like Gaston slowly imposing upon Belle, and female empowerment as seen when she defiantly weaves around his advances, makes her own choices and tames Beast. “There’s a lot of meat on the bones of this story,” Conley, the mother of three daughters, said in an interview, noting its resonance in the “Me Too” era. “I’m thrilled with how they’re doing it because they really dug into the issues that each character was having and really extract a lot of emotion out of the scenes,” Conley added. The troupe is also “double-casting” many roles, producers said, a rarity that will get even more people involved with the show. The production will star Lillian Rokhsar as Belle, with Abe Kanfer playing Beast on Saturday and Daniel Frankel playing him on Sunday. Kenneth Leff plays Maurice on Saturday, followed by Van Frankel on Sunday. Former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman will play Gaston in both productions, while the role of Madame de la Grande Bouche will be played by Kai-
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Former Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, who will play Gaston in Temple Israel’s planned Beauty and the Beast show, strikes a pose during a musical number at a Sunday night rehearsal. man’s wife, Kim, and Lois Sazer. Kim Kaiman will play Madame de la Grande Bouche on Saturday and one of the “silly girls” fawning over Gaston on Sunday. Cogsworth will be played by Harold Citron, Lumiere by Mark Cwern, Babette by Shoshana Cellers and Debbie Volk, who is also a producer, Mrs. Potts by Meredith Bachrach and Amy David, and Chip by Mia Bachrach. Seventeen people will be in the ensemble, which includes townspeople and enchanted objects, while six people will consistently be among the “silly girls” fawning over Gaston, according to the playbill. “A number of our roles are double-cast,” Volk said. “So each performance is genuinely unique as each actor brings their own personality to the character they play.” Daniel Frankel, a 25-year member of the Players who will be Beast in the Sunday performance, said he is not
normally very beast-like in real life. But he said it is also a chance for a release, to bring his favorite childhood movie to life, and act with his father Van Frankel – portraying Maurice – with whom he remembered first seeing “Beauty and the Beast.” “I must have been no older than 5 years old and I fell in love with the story, the music – just the entire animation of it was phenomenal,” Frankel, a 30-year-old opera singer, said between scenes. “It’s been a big part of my life since, and to be playing the Beast in the show that means so much to me is a dream come true.” “By the time the movie was over, I was crying,” Van Frankel, a longtime member of the Temple Israel Players, recalled. “It was so great … I have an emotional attachment to Disney and I have an emotional attachment to the story.” There are also a number of other family relationships among the cast and crew. Meredith Bachrach and her daughter Mia will be playing Mrs. Potts and Chip, for example. Meanwhile Ella and Max Covitt, who are playing both villagers and the wolves who chase down Maurice, will join enchantress and ensemble member Lauryn Covitt – their mother. Jon Kaiman, who has been involved in the troupe for more than 20 years, said it has been a great way to bond with his family and make friends inside Temple Israel. “It’s a great escape and it’s a good thing for us to do together, and again, we develop friendships,” Kaiman said. “It really makes a difference when you’re part of this group, when we are active in the temple — this is a very large temple, with thousands of members.” “It’s a camaraderie,” Kaiman added. “There’s a sense of family within this larger family and that’s a real nice thing that we’ve had over these years.” The shows will take place Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. at Temple Israel at 108 Old Mill Road in Great Neck. To order tickets, call Kathy at Temple Israel Box Office at 516-482-7800 ext. 1109 or email Krecckia@tign. org. Saturday tickets cost $20 to $50 and include a champagne reception for patrons and sponsors, while Sunday’s tickets cost $10 to $36 for adults and $10 to $18 for children. All proceeds benefit Temple Israel.
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Gold Coast International Film Festival
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On Your Radar at Landmark Friday, March 23 at 8 p.m.
WFUV-90.7 FM radio’s John Platt returns with the 2018 Landmark On Your Radar, featuring talented and eclectic musical performers that will include Morley, Bluebirds of Paradise (Ari Hest and Chrissie Poland), and Mike + Ruthie of The Mammals.
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Where: Landmark on Main Street, Jeanne Rimsky Theatre 232 Main St., Port Washington Info & Tickets: (516) 767-1384 • landmarkonmainstreet.org
Join us on the International Evening of Science on Screen! Filmmaker Jay Cheel’s extraordinary documentary examines the ever-lingering obsessions of childhood by focusing on two men with a shared interest in time travel. Robert Niosi is a former stop-motion animator, who has devoted the last decade of his life towards the creation of a nearly exact replica of the time machine from the 1960 H.G. Wells film adaptation. Theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett dedicates his studies to the concept of time travel, a controversial topic in the science community. Join us after the screening for a discussion and Q&A with film subjects, Robert Niosi & Dr. Ronald Mallett, and Director Jay Cheel
Visit goldcoastfilmfestival.org or call 516-829-2570 for tickets. Tickets $15/$10 for students when purchased in advance, $20 at the door.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Friday, March 23, 8 to 10 p.m.
The world-renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and New York Times best-selling author of “Team of Rivals” and “The Bully Pulpit,” will share stories, insights, and in-depth analysis of the U.S. presidency, which she has studied for more than four decades. Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: (516) 299-3100 • tillescenter.org
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Murder on Spring Break! Dinner Show
Friday, March 23 at 8 p.m.
Imagine a shot in the dark. Laughter from the rafters. A diabolical murder. And you could be the guilty party! New York’s leading murder mystery theatre group, The Killing Kompany, will perform their latest show in which diners can be a part of the drama and the criminal may be seated right next to you. Where: Palmer’s American Grille, 123 Fulton St., Farmingdale Info & Tickets: (516) 420-0609 • palmersamericangrille.com
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Daughtry Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m.
The rock band formed and fronted by namesake Chris Daughtry, a finalist on the fifth season of “American Idol,” will perform music from their four top-selling albums that includes the hit songs “It’s Not Over,” “Home,” and “No Surprise.” Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: (516) 247-5211 • thetheatreatwestbury.com
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Join Us For Holy Week Worship SUNDAY OF THE PASSION
March 25th 9:45am – Procession of the Palms 10:00am – Worship with Holy Communion
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Michael Feinstein: The Crooners Sunday, March 25, 7 to 9 p.m.
Michael Feinstein, a multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist known for reviving the Great American Songbook, will perform his salute to legendary vocalists Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and more. Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: (516) 299-3100 • tillescenter.org
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A Conversation with Vice President Joe Biden
Tuesday, March 27, 8 to 10 p.m. Presented by the Global Institute at LIU, this special event will include a speech by Vice President Biden, followed by a Q&A session on top global issues with former Long Island Congressman Steve Israel. Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: (516) 299-3100 • tillescenter.org
March 29th 7:00pm Worship of Holy Communion
GOOD FRIDAY
March 30th 12:00pm and 7:00pm Services
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March 31st 7:17pm Worship
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April 1st 8:00am and 10:00am Worship with Holy Communion
CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR , LUTHERAN 1901 Northern Blvd., Manhasset 516- 627-2430 www.manhassetlutheran.org The Reverend Marc Herbst Parking in rear of Church
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Michael Bolton Thursday, March 29 at 8 p.m.
Enjoy a night of music with Michael Bolton, the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and social activist who has sold more than 65 million records globally, written with some of the greatest performers of our time, including Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga, Diane Warren and David Foster, and whose songs have been recorded by the likes of KISS, Jay Z, Barbra Streisand and Cher. Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington
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Children can breeze by the inner lobby and welcome the colors of spring all month long as they create a bright and cheery banner to hang at home. This is a free, drop-in program with museum admission. Where: Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Ave., Garden City Info: 516-224-5800 or licm.org
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ids’ Authors Sara Varon and John Patrick Green
Friday, March 23, 4 to 5 pm.
Kids can meet Sara Varon, author of “New Shoes,” a heartwarming graphic novel about a donkey on a quest to make the perfect pair of shoes, and John Patrick Green, author of “Hippopotamister,” about a Hippo who decides to venture outside the zoo with his friend Red Panda. The authors will read from and sign copies of their books at this special event.
Where: Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine, 110 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre | Info: 516-764-6000 or turnofthecorkscrew.com
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Families can explore the universe in a fascinating digital display inside the inflatable Starlab Planetarium in Castle Gould, where they will discover the planets and moons that comprise our solar system, and watch for comets, asteroids, and meteor showers. Where: Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Castle Gould, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point | Info: 516-571-7901 or sandspointpreserveconservancy.com
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Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24 at 7 p.m.
The Royal Crown Players present this Tony Award-nominated, roller-skating musical adventure about following your dreams that rolls along to the original hit score from the cult classic movie of the same title. Following the journey of a magical Greek muse who descends from the heavens of Mount Olympus to Venice Beach, California in 1980 on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, “RCP Xanadu” is hilarity on wheels.
Where: Roslyn High School Auditorium, 475 Round Hill Road, Roslyn Heights Info & Tickets: 516-801-5156 or rcp@roslynschools.org
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Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m.
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school… again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy has ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus in this musical adapted from the bestselling book, “The Lightning Thief,” by Rick Riordan.
Where: Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre | Info & Tickets: 516-323-4444 or madisontheatreny.org
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Indie bands to rock The Paramount Modern bands often seem faced with the choice between being challenging and being accessible. ! These ideas tend to be presented as opposite poles, two irreconcilable objectives that cannot co-exist without one taking precedence over the other. The time where unabashedly unconventional bands could engage the masses has long since passed and those heavyweights have been relegated to the shelves of “classic rock,” with high concepts and grandeur replaced by irony and painful self-awareness. But for Circa Survive, a! rock band from the Philadelphia suburb of Doylestown,! there exists another option, one where huge ideas and unbridled imagination can commingle with nuance and vulnerability. In their world, this dichotomy is not only achievable, it’s essential, and it fuels the band’s sixth full-length, The Amulet. The band is currently on tour for the album, with an appearance scheduled at The Paramount on Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. From the release of their 2005 debut, Juturna, to their 2010 major label release, Blue Sky Noise, to today with The Amulet, Circa Survive has made a career of turning all of the things that make them difficult to categorize into their greatest strengths. The word “pro-
gressive” is often used to describe their sound, and while this term doesn’t really do justice to the band’s distinct identity, it does conjure the scope and ambition of those iconic bands from decades ago — the ones that managed to capture the attention of mainstream audiences without sacrificing their esoteric tendencies. On The Amulet, Circa Survive continues this legacy, but filtered through the unique lens of their punk and alternative roots. Drawing on the raw power of punk and post-hardcore, the earnestness of emotional alternative, and the unrestrained experimentation of art rock, the band effortlessly creates a sound that can be compared to very few, but appeal to many. The Amulet’s mix of intricate guitars, muscular bass, and interlocking drums creates a dynamic foundation for vocalist Anthony Green’s unparalleled voice; however, the magic of Circa Survive isn’t just technical skill — it’s an ability to blend that technicality with undeniable sense of melody and hooks. It’s this focus on uncompromising yet satisfying songwriting that compels listeners, no matter their genre-of-choice. Circa Survive’s upcoming concert at The Paramount will include special guests, Missouri indie rock band,! Foxing, and California post-hardcore band,!Hail the Sun.
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Avoiding falls key to good health Tips to risk chance of a fall in the home, many of which are covered by insurance BY D AV I D J . SANDS, DPM
Every second of every day in the United States an older adult falls. This makes falls the number one cause of injuries and deaths from injury among older Americans. In 2014 alone, older Americans experienced 29 million falls causing seven million injuries and costing an estimated $31 billion in annual Medicare costs. Eighty-seven percent of all fractures in the elderly are due to falls. Two-thirds of those who fall will do so again within six months. When an older person falls, his or her hospital stays are almost twice as long as those of older patients who are admitted for any other reason.! Among people aged 65 to 69, one out of every 200 falls results in a hip fracture. That number increases to one out of every 10 for those
aged 85 and older.! Onefourth of seniors who fracture a hip from a fall will die within six months of the injury. Many falls do not result in injuries, yet 47 percent of noninjured seniors who fall cannot get up without assistance. Falls, with or without injury, also carry a heavy quality of life impact. A growing number of older adults fear falling and, as a result, limit their activities and social engagements. This can result in a further physical decline, depression, social isolation, and feelings of helplessness. The most profound effect of falling is the loss of independent living. Many older patients are resistant to using a cane, let alone a walker.! Trying to get them to agree to a home assessment is next to impossible. To get them to consider wearing an ankle brace is even harder.! Patients will take a myriad of medications prescribed by their internist with-
out question but will be so resistant to doing something that will clearly reduce their risk of falling. The analogy can be made that the prescription for your high blood pressure is a pill, and your prescription for your risk of falling is…” There are so many things that can be done for patients that are at risk of fall, most of which are covered by insurance/Medicare, why not take advantage?! The following are some things that can be done to reduce risk of fall. Home fall-risk assessment: many healthcare agencies will come in and assess ones home to make suggestions to reduce risk of fall in the home. Here are some great tips for reducing risk of fall in the home: Remove obstacles inside and outside of the house that could cause tripping. Install handrails and lights on staircases, with light switches at the top and bot-
tom of the stairs. Add nonslip treads for bare wooden steps. Install shower and tub grab bars in the bathroom, around the toilet and the tub. Place no-slip mats on the shower floor and bathtub. Secure loose rugs with double-faced tape, tacks, or slip-resistant backing. Store clothing, dishes, food and other necessities within easy reach. Make home lighting brighter. Have vision checked often and regularly. Have the senior wear sensible shoes. They should be properly fitting, sturdy shoes with nonskid soles. Consider a PERS (Personal Emergency Response System) unit that will alert others when help is needed. Physical Therapy: PT is a great tool for patients that are at risk of falling. Most therapy facilities will now come to the patient’s home which is a great conve-
nience.! There are many therapeutic modalities that can reduce one’s risk of fall, and a good therapist that has experience with balance therapy can be a great resource. Assistive Devices: canes, walkers, orthopedic shoes, braces; these words are often stigmatized in the older population. Using a cane or walker can make an older patient feel inferior.! It is seen as a sign of age and loss of function and independence. Many of my patients shun the use of an assistive device because they don’t want to give in to father time. In conclusion, an elderly patient’s risk of fall is the leading cause of mortality in this population.! There are so many things that can be done to limit such risk. Information provided by David J. Sands, DPM, www.sandspodiatry.com. !
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How a P.T. can help you age well BY ROB ZIEGELBAUM, PT, DPT, TPI As we get older, our bodies undergo changes that play a role in how we go about our lives. Tasks that were previously commonplace may present more of a challenge. However, that is not to say that we can’t adapt. Physical therapy can play a crucial role in how we tackle the marathon of aging. Performing transfers like standing up from a chair, reaching into cabinets and walking in the community are things that the younger population may take for granted — in the rehab world we refer to these as activities of daily living. With the guidance of a physical therapist, increased independence during ADLs can be either re-attained or made sustainable for the long term. A very common complaint from elderly patients is difficulty standing up from a chair or sofa in their homes. While there are many reasons why the transfer can pres-
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ent difficulty, several steps can be performed to increase efficiency. Strengthening your legs under the guidance of a physical therapist is a good place to start. In addition to strength, putting yourself in a position to succeed is crucial; patients are coached in the “nose over toes” method. The first instruction in the transfer is to slide to the edge of the chair and bring their feet back towards the seat. The next part lends itself to the name of the method – lean forward, such that a person’s nose is on top of their toes. This shift forward increases a person’s ability to stand up. Across all body parts, range of motion and strength are critical in increasing an individual’s level of function. Our shoulders are one of the most mobile joints in our bodies. The large range of motion that our shoulders are capable of allows us to do a wide variety of tasks. The muscles in our shoulders — such as the rotator cuff muscles—are critical in stabilizing our shoulders through motions in our day-to-day lives.
As we get older and perhaps slightly less active, muscle strength can diminish. The decrease in strength in the shoulders can then become a limiting factor in an individual’s ability to perform functional tasks such as lifting a carton of milk and placing it in the refrigerator. A physical therapist can instruct a patient in a proper strengthening regiment to address deficiencies a person may have in their strength. Isometric rotator cuff exercises are often the starting point in a strengthening program. Isometric exercises are safer initially in that the patient is in total control of the amount of force exerted without adding resistance. An added perk of these exercises is they don’t require equipment, so they can be done anywhere! A common problem people in the elderly population face is difficulty walking and balance issues. A fear of falling is a legitimate and real problem. Physical therapists can aid in reducing the risk of falls through a variety of methods. In order to
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maintain our balance, our bodies rely on three systems: vision, sensation and our vestibular system located in our inner ear. To remain upright, we need two of the three to be functioning properly. Physical therapists can assist with deficits in all three areas, but we will hone in on sensation. As people age, the nerves furthest away from our core become less efficient in transferring information to the brain. These nerves are called peripheral nerves. When peripheral nerves in the feet are affected, as often is the case in the elderly population, messages about where the feet are in space are lost and balance is affected. Physical therapist can’t stop this aging process, but can facilitate something known as neuroplasticity.## Neuroplasticity is an amazing phenomenon that our brains are capable of wherein the body subconsciously finds nerves that are functioning properly to pick up the slack for others that are lagging behind. One way to do this in terms of balance is
through exposure. A physical therapist will perform supervised weight shifting in all directions to allow the individual to feel their body move in space without the risk or fear of falling. Cues for mechanics during ambulation are also crucial to increase safety and independence when walking on all surfaces. A solid program for balance strategies coupled with leg strengthening and gait mechanics can greatly affect a person’s ability to walk or stand with confidence while performing ADLs. Getting older comes with a multitude of changes, but with the guidance of a PT the transition can be a smooth one. A supervised treatment plan and an appropriate home exercise program can be a huge asset in increasing independence. Aging is a privilege, and the human body is capable of incredible things – take advantage! Information provided by Rob Ziegelbaum PT, DPT, TPI, Clinical Director/Physical Therapist at Zelik Ziegelbaum Physical Therapy, www.ZZ-PT.COM
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lthough inevitable, death is an emotional subject that’s difficult to discuss. While estate planning can make people uncomfortable, it is an essential part of securing assets for future generations and can make a death in the family easier for loved ones to handle. Estate planning is an umbrella term that refers to a host of things that must be done prior to a person’s death, including writing a will and even making funeral arrangements. Estate planning attempts to eliminate financial uncertainties and maximize the value of an estate, and allows men and women to state their wishes with regard to long-term healthcare and guardianship for their children. When done right, estate planning can prevent family feuds and ensure that the deceased’s estate stays in the hands of family rather than being relegated to the government. Estate planning can be a complex process, so men and women should seek help to ensure the process
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Getting started
Estate planning should begin early in a person’s life, especially for young parents. It’s easy to talk about saving for a home or retirement, but it’s not so simple to discuss who will care for your children should you die while they are still minors. Those who are not able to sort through these answers on their own should enlist the help of an attorney or a financial adviser, both of whom can take some of the emotion out of the discussion and put it in more practical terms.
The will
A will is an important component of estate planning. Without clearly and legally spelling out your wishes, there is no guarantee that those wishes will be honored. It will be up to a state or province to make potentially life-altering decisions that can impact your surviving family members, and the only way to ensure your
wishes will be carried out is to put them into a will. Although men and women can write their own wills, many people prefer to seek the assistance of an attorney, who can make sure all necessary details are included in the will.
Medical directives
In addition to a will, estate planning includes your wishes if you become incapacitated or
suffer from a serious medical condition that precludes you from making decisions about your care and finances. Spouses can be named to make important health decisions, but you may want to indicate other information, such as life support measures or organ donation, as well. If you have strong opinions on treatment, medical directives and living wills are a necessity.
Another aspect of estate planning concerns funeral arrangements. Many people prefer to make their own funeral and burial plans so that these heart-wrenching decisions do not fall on the shoulders of grieving family members. Funeral planning may include choosing a burial plot, selecting a casket, indicating cremation, and paying for everything in advance so there is no financial burden on surviving family members. According to the funeral planning website Efuneral.com, the average cost of a funeral in the United States in 2012 was more than $8,500 for a burial service and $3,700 for a cremation. That’s a considerable expense that you may not want surviving family members to pay. Estate planning is a process that is difficult to discuss, but one that is essential to maximize your assets and ensure your end-of-life wishes are honored.
The best countries for retirees M any couples look to downsize once they retire. Empty nest retirees may no longer need their large family homes, which can be expensive and difficult for seniors to maintain. While some retirees choose to move into senior living communities or condominiums, some opt to be a bit more adventurous and venture further from home.
A number of retirees choose to spend their golden years abroad. Doing so can equate to a more adventurous retirement, a lower cost of living and the ability to stretch retirement savings much further than if you decided to stay closer to home. Many of the more popular international retirement locations offer beautiful climates, culture and health care systems that are hospitable to retirees. Affordability is a key consideration for men and women mulling whether or not to retire internationally. According to U.S. News and World Report, retiring overseas may run the average person anywhere from $700 to $1500 USD per month. Those who can offer higher budgets may be able to retire to any location of their choosing. Before you make any drastic changes, first calculate your retirement budget. Add up retirement savings, Social Security income (if applicable), pensions, and any other investments or savings you may have. Have an estimate of the market value of your current home and any other property you may own. These figures will be your working numbers. Subtract your age from your estimated life expectancy and divide the retirement funds sum by that many years to see how much per month you will have to spend. Once you have established your budget, begin investigating where you
would like to live. Argentina, Ecuador, Belize, Costa Rica, and France are some of the more popular retirement locations among North Americans. Once you’ve selected a potential location, take a vacation there and explore. In addition to the climate, check out the infrastructure, shopping, medical services, amenities, and crime rates. Try the place on for size and figure out if this is an area where you can comfortably spend your retirement.
Once you have narrowed down your prospects, contact your native country’s embassy to determine what will be needed to legally live in a foreign country and obtain a visa. Some places are more accommodating than others with regard to residency visas. It also pays to contact an accountant or tax professional to see what, if any, taxes you will still be required to pay even if you move abroad. Your obligation may be less than if you chose to stay closer to home. Another consideration is health insurance. Government-sponsored plans may not cover services overseas, requiring you to find an alternative insurance source. The good news is that many international plans may be more affordable than ones found in the United States. Retiring abroad does not mean you have to cut all ties to home. Some couples choose to keep dual residency and fly back and forth when necessary. But the slower pace, affordability and other draws of international retirement spots could be challenging to leave behind. AARP, Forbes and International Living routinely rank the best international retirement destinations. Check with these sources for more information about retiring abroad.
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f you have psoriasis, an autoimmune skin condition marked by red, flaky patches on the body, you also could be at risk for a certain type of arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis, which causes stiffness, swelling and pain in and around the joints, affects up to 30 percent of people with psoriasis, says the National Psoriasis Foundation. While psoriatic arthritis can develop at any time, it is most common in people between the ages of 30 and 50. This type of arthritis can develop slowly or come on quickly and be severe. Just like psoriasis itself, psoriatic arthritis tends to go through periods of flare-up and remission. Typically, the skin condition precedes the joint disease in 85 percent of patients. Keep in mind that a severe case of psoriasis will not necessarily translate into a severe case of arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis may be treated like other forms of arthritis. Doctors may prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs,
antirheumatic drugs, exercise, and complementary therapies. Those who have psoriasis and have begun to experience joint pain and stiffness should talk to a doctor about potential therapies.
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3 money-saving Make vacations and travel tips travel a key component for retirees of your retirement T
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hen the time comes to bid farewell to conference calls, meetings and daily commutes, retirees have open schedules to fill with whichever activities they choose. Travel is one exciting way to pass the time.
Traveling can be a rewarding prospect for active seniors, particularly those who successfully preplanned for retirement and have the income to fund various excursions. Many seniors, both in the United States and Canada, find that travel tops their to-do lists once they retire. According to Senior Travel magazine, new travel options are emerging for newly minted retirees looking for something a little different from the status quo. The list of destinations retirees have at their disposal is limitless. The following ideas are some of the more popular ways retirees choose to travel.
Road trips rule. Taking to the highways and byways is an excellent way to see the country. Seniors can customize their routes depending on which places they want to visit. RV travel can be as comfortable or as
rustic as travelers prefer. Many seniors spend months traveling in their campers, which offer many of the same amenities of home. Campsites and special RV hook-up sites offer the other necessities of traveling the open road.
Genealogical tourism is popular. People hoping to trace their ancestry and visit their ancestral homelands are one of the fastest-growing travel segments. Visiting an old church in Europe where ancestors were married or buying food from a market in which a great aunt or uncle once worked leads retirees on many international adventures. Such trips provide travelers with a unique opportunity to understand their roots up close and personal while enjoying some international travel along the way. Exotic tours can be exciting destinations. History buffs or adventure-seeking couples may be particularly attracted to exotic travel destinations that are slightly off of the beaten path. Travel tours may take vacationers to destinations such as excavation sites or backpacking through the rainforest. With passport in
hand, seniors can go just about anywhere their desires take them.
Enjoy a relaxing seaside trip. A seaside vacation can be the perfect trip for seniors who want to put their feet up and sip some cocktails while watching the waves lap the shores. Many beach resorts offer all-inclusive packages for different age groups. Meals, excursions and hotel rooms can be bundled into one affordable, confusion-free price. Go cruising. Speaking of allinclusive vacationing, cruising seems tailor-made for those ages 50 and older because it offers the convenience of accommodations, food, entertainment, and transportation all in one. The various activities offered on the ship mean travelers can find ways to spend their time how they see fit. Cruising couples can opt to spend all of their time on the ship enjoying carefully prepared meals and entertainment or disembark and explore the various ports of call along the way. Now that they have more free time, retirees can gear up for travel adventures to remember.
hough a transient lifestyle is something few people aspire to during much of their lives, come retirement, the idea of staying in a place for only a short time has more appeal.
According to a recent study from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, 36 percent of baby boomers want to spend their retirements traveling. Many are succeeding in doing just that, as a study from the luxury travel network Virtuoso found that today’s seniors spent an average of just over $11,000 per year on travel. That was more than any other generation, highlighting just how much older adults like to get out and explore the world. Retirees who fear they cannot afford to travel can explore the various ways for seniors to cut costs and still satisfy their wanderlust during retirement.
1. Take advantage of age-related discounts.
Some adults prefer to hide their ages, but when it comes time to travel during retirement, honesty is the best policy. Many businesses that cater to travelers offer discounts to seniors. Car rental agencies, hotels, travel agencies, and cruise lines may offer direct discounts to customers 65 and older, while membership in organizations such as AAA and AARP may make seniors eligible for additional discounts. Discounts on lodging and airfare might net the biggest savings, but even discounts on various smaller expenses can add up to big savings.
2. Don’t overlook travel agencies.
While many prospective travelers’ first instincts are now to visit various travel websites in an effort to find the most affordable trips, it’s important that travelers not overlook travel agencies when planning trips. Travel websites, though a valuable resource, only list the hotels and airlines that agree to be included on their sites. While many participate, some do not, and those that do not may instead work independent of travel websites or partner with travel agencies. Travel agencies have access to the latest information, and many specialize in certain countries, knowing all the attractions visitors to their countries want to see. Travel agencies may offer packages that include admissions to popular attractions, which can be more affordable than planning a trip a la carte.
3. Travel as part of a group.
Group travel may not appeal to everyone, but it should appeal to older, budget-conscious travelers. Retirees who are uncomfortable driving at home will likely be even less comfortable driving in foreign countries where the rules of the road are not the same. Traveling in groups, whether it’s with a retirement community, religious organization or another program, can save travelers substantial amounts of money. Many hotels and tourist attractions offer steep discounts for group tours, which can even be arranged through travel agencies. A hidden benefit of signing up for a group tour is the chance to meet new people and develop new relationships with fellow globetrotters. Many working professionals hope to spend the bulk of their retirement traveling the globe. While such a goal is potentially costly, there are various ways to save and still see the world.
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Dreamers of time Sea Cliff artist focus of a new exhibit machines film subjects The Alfred Van Loen Gallery at the South Huntington Library is currently showcasing “Impressions,” a solo exhibit of paintings and woodblock prints by local artist Nancy Kirk. The gallery will feature two groups of Kirk’s work. “The Gap Between Breaths” is her abstract expressionist paintings, and “Pictographs” her woodblock prints on Japanese paper. Kirk’s paintings, “The Gap Between Breaths,” are large, gestural oils on linen, mostly black and white with hints of color and graphic lettering. !They are organic expressive abstractions with influences of Franz Kline and Japanese brushwork. They mix principals of east and west philosophies revealing ! an energy evoking rhythms of the natural world. Kirk shifts to her printmaking in “Pictographs.” ! These are monoprints that she hand carves from cherrywood blocks and rubs onto red rice paper. !Taos inspired, they are quiet reflections both ethereal and earthly. ! Kirk’s contemporary sensibility integrating icons offers a fresh and
timeless visual and perceptual experience rooted in artisanal traditions. She encounters everything through her art, says Kirk. !Her how and why of life finds expression through varied disciplines of visual art. A native of Berkeley, California, Kirk began her formal art studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts. ! She continued her studies in Florence for 10 years while working under Raffaele Del Salvo, head scenic designer at Florence’s renowned opera house, Il Teatro Communal, and alongside legends such as Ricardo Muti, Beni Montessori, and Paolo Filmmaker Jay Cheel’s (“Beauty Day”) Bortoluzzoi. documentary, “How to Build a Time MaReturning back to the U.S., she chine,” examines the ever-lingering obsesworked as a commercial illustrator, au- sions of childhood by focusing on two men thoring and illustrating books for chil- with a shared interest in time travel and dren, and has had her photographs ex- love of H.G. Wells’ novel, “The Time Mahibited. !Her works on canvas have been chine.” shown in numerous galleries in Florence, Robert Niosi is a former stop-motion Bologna, Seattle, Berkeley, and New York. ! animator, a medium intrinsically linked to She has been a resident of Sea Cliff the concept of time, who has devoted the for many years, and has applied her last decade of his life towards the creation knowledge of illustration, set design, and of a nearly exact replica of the time machine painting to a successful career of fine in- from the 1960 H.G. Wells film adaptation.! terior art. While her paintings grace some University of Connecticut theoretical of the area’s most exclusive homes, she physicist Ronald Mallett dedicates his studcontinues to pursue a lifelong passion in ies to the concept of time travel, a controabstract expression. Her studio is open to versial topic in the science community that visitors by appointment. forced him to earn his degrees behind a “Impressions” will be on display smokescreen of other topics, largely black through April 3. ! The Alfred Van Loen holes.! Gallery at the South Huntington Library Niosi’s hobby arises from a childhood is located at 145 Pidgeon Hill Road in nostalgia, the memories that “The Time MaHuntington Station.
chine” conjure combined with an absurdist goal that even he cannot fully explain.! He has no interest in actual time travel, unlike Mallett whose entire fascination with the concept stems from his desire to travel back to a time before his father passed away.! Though their intentions differ, a shared sense of loss drives them both forward throughout a film that is just as concerned with development as it is with the past. Sponsored by the Gold Coast Arts Center, “How to Build a Time Machine” will be shown at Bow Tie Squire Cinemas, 115 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck, on Tuesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. ! There will be a discussion session and audience Q&A with Niosi and Mallett before and after the screening.! The tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for GCAC members. For more information, go to goldcoastarts.org
Art, music combined in one-of-a-kind show How much excitement is there in watching portraits being painted? Plenty, if it’s accompanied by high-energy dancing, singing, and audience involvement. Proof is in watching!a performance of Artrageous, an interactive art and music extravaganza unlike anything you have every experienced that will take place at Landmark on Main Street on Sunday, March 25 at 3 p.m. A unique visual journey packed with wild inspiration, creativity, and fun, the! Artrageous troupe of artists, musicians, singers, and dancers pay tribute to a variety of art forms, pop icons, and
musical genres, culminating in a gallery of fabulous finished paintings.!
Watch! and listen as giant artworks are created with amazing speed, unveil-
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Arts & Entertainment Calendar NYCB THEATRE AT WESTBURYturn 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5205 • www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Saturday, March 24, 8:00 p.m. Daughtry NYCB LIVE, NASSAU VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale (516) 794-9300 • Saturday, March 24, 7:00 p.m. Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes Through April 1st. Thursday, March 22, 7:00 p.m. Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 • www.paramountny.com Saturday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. Circa Survive: The Amulet Tour Thursday, March 29, 8:00 p.m. Michael Bolton Friday, March 23, 8:00 p.m. Paul Zerdin Sunday, March 25, 8:00 p.m. Robin Trower TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville (516) 299-3100 • www.tillescenter.org Friday, March 23, 8:00 p.m. Doris Kearns Goodwin Tuesday, March 27, 8:00 p.m. Joe Biden Sunday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. Michael Feinstein Saturday, March 24, 8:00 p.m. National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283-5566 Friday, March 30, 8:00 p.m. Godfrey Townsend: Eric Clapton Tribute LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-1384 • www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Sunday, March 25, 3:00 p.m. Artrageous! Wednesday, March 28, 2:00 p.m. Film: “Charade” Friday, March 23, 8:00 p.m. On Your Radar with Morley, Bluebirds of Paradise and Mike + Ruthie NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor (516) 484-9338 Sunday, March 25, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Family Sundays at the Museum Friday, March 23, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Fri-Yay Art Days! at The Manes Center Saturday, March 24, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Studio Saturdays at The Manes Center SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY Hempstead House, 127 Middle Neck Road,
Sands Point (516) 571-7901 • www.sandspointpreserve. org Friday, March 23, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Celestial Weekend LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 11 Davis Ave., Garden City (516) 224-5800 • www.licm.org Saturday, March 24, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Discovering Dinosaur Eggs For kids of all ages. Free with museum admission. Friday, March 23, 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Kids in the Kitchen: Egg and Cheese Breakfast Toast Tuesday, March 20, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Rainbow Banners Wednesday, March 28, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Rainbow Banners BOOK REVUE 313 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 271-1442 • www.bookrevue.com Monday, April 09, 7:00 p.m. Long Island Writers Guild Writing Workshop CINEMA ARTS CENTRE 423 Park Ave., Huntington (631) 423-7611 • www.cinemaartscentre. org Wednesday, March 28, 7:00 p.m. Board Game Night MADISON THEATRE AT MOLLOY COLLEGE 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 323-4444 • www.madisontheatreny. com Saturday, March 24, 8:00 p.m. Dvorak and Brahms Sunday, March 25, 2:00 p.m. The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1 South Ave., Garden City (516) 877-4000 • www.aupac.adelphi.edu Friday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. Adelphi Symphony Orchestra Sunday, March 25, 3:00 p.m. Larson Legacy Concert THE DOLPHIN BOOKSHOP & CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop.com Friday, March 23, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Cafe Music at The Dolphin Sunday, March 25, 11:30 a.m. Storytime & Craft THE ART GUILD 200 Port Washington Blvd., Manhasset (516) 304-5797 • www.theartguild.org Thursday, April 12, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sip & Sketch BARNES AND NOBLE 91 Old Country Road, Carle Place (516) 365-6723 • www.barnesandnoble. com
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A&E Calendar cont’d Saturday, March 24, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Little Blue Truck’s Springtime Story Time plant TURN OF THE CORKSCREW BOOKS AND WINE 110 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 764-6000 Friday, March 23, 4:00 p.m. Kids’ Authors Sara Varon and John Patrick
Green WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE STATE HISTORIC SITE 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station (631) 427-5240 • www.waltwhitman.org Friday, April 06, 6:00 p.m. Open Mike & Walking with Whitman: Terrance Hayes
COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY & AQUARIUM 1660 Rte. 25A, Cold Spring Harbor (516) 692-6768 • www.cshfishhatchery.org Saturday, March 31, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Spring Egg Hunt THE WHALING MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER 279 Main St., Cold Spring Harbor
(631) 367-3418 • www.cshwhalingmuseum. org Saturday, March 31, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Egg-cellent Celebration! A special program featuring hands-on activities that reflect Long Island boating and fishing traditions the whole family can enjoy.
Community Calendar NORTHWELL HEALTH 2000 Marcus Ave., New Hyde Park Saturday, April 07, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Preparation for Childbirth / One-Session Class Saturday, March 24, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Preparation for Childbirth Class at LIJ UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION AT SHELTER ROCK 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset (516) 627-6560 Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. “What Is the Movement for Black Lives?”: A Conversation Friday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday Bridge, Lessons & Game Play Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Inisfada Zen Sitting Meditation Thursday, March 29, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Yoga with Mike Mancini TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM 401 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights (516) 621-2288 Saturday, March 24, 10:45 a.m. Mini Minyan STEPHEN C. WIDOM CULTURAL ARTS 150 Hicks Lane, Great Neck www.scwculturalarts.org Friday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. Chris Nicola, Creator of the Film “No Place on Earth” OLDE TRADING POST 1218 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516) 492-3195 Tuesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.
Game on Trivia Every Tuesday night. SID JACOBSON JCC 255 Lakeville Road, Lake Success www.sjjcc.org Saturday, March 24, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Shababa Saturday ST. ALOYSIUS SOCIABLES 2499 Jericho Turnpike, Garden City Park Wednesday, March 28, 12:30 p.m. St. Aloysius Sociables Call John Hyland, 516-482-3795, for reservations. SOCCER FOR THE COMMUNITY 1801 Evergreen Ave., New Hyde Park (516) 869-6311 • www.soccerforthecommunity.com Friday, March 23, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Soccer for the Community: Youth Soccer Clinic Every Tuesday or Friday beginning March 20 and 23. Tuesday, March 27, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Soccer for the Community: Youth Soccer Clinic Friday, March 30, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Soccer for the Community: Youth Soccer Clinic SHELTER ROCK JEWISH CENTER 272 Shelter Rock Road, Roslyn Friday, March 23, 6:30 p.m. Pre-Passover Dinner Pre-Passover dinner, follows Kaballat Shabbat service. $32 adults, $12 children Continued on Page 44
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Community Calendar cont’d Wishing you & yours a blessed & joyful Easter CELBRATE
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March 30th at Noon & April 1st at 9:30am 7:30pm Tenebrae Worship Service with Holy Communion
Easter Egg Hunt! following worhsip - EVERYONE INVITED Christ Lutheran Church
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Bowling Every last Sunday at the month.
ages 3-15. Pre-registration required, Barbara@srjc.org or 516-741-4305 ext. 10. Shelter Rock Jewish Center, 272 Shelter Rock Road (intersection Herricks Road)
ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF LONG ISLAND 38 Old Country Road, Garden City 516-741-7304 • www.ehsli.org Sunday, March 25, 1:00 p.m. What You Should Know: Health Forum on Alzheimer’s Disease
CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL 40 Hill St., Glen Cove Saturday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. The Kirtan Rabbi Concert Free event. The public is invited.
HUNTINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET 253 Oakwood Road, Huntington www.longislandfarmersmarkets.com Sunday, March 25, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Huntington Winter Farmers Market Every Sunday through March 25.
SINGLES ASSOCIATION OF LONG ISLAND 465 Herricks Road, Garden City Park (516) 741-8022 Sunday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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space in New York City, which had become a dumping ground for garbage, sewage and bullet-riddled mobsters. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon, “Saving Jamaica Bay” underscores the importance of citizen action and the role of urban nature in protecting our cities from the effects of climate change. The writer and producer of the film, Daniel Hendrick, will show his awardwinning documentary and discuss the environmental challenges that Jamaica Bay is facing. With more than a decade working on environmental issues, Hendrick is ideally positioned to produce this first-ever, fulllength documentary on Jamaica Bay. "He is the author of the only general readership book on the bay’s history (“Jamaica Bay,” Arcadia Press, 2006), and spent years as the editor of a local newspaper covering Jamaica Bay, the residents who depend on it, and the challenges it faces. "A graduate of Columbia University, Hendrick currently works in the renewable energy industry. The Manhasset Public Library is located at 30 Onderdonk Ave. in Manhasset. " The event is free and open to the public. " For more information about the event, call 516-627-2300 or go to www. northshoreaudubon.org.
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VILLAGE OF EAST HILLS The Architectural Review Board meetings take place on the first Monday of the month at 209 Harbor Hill Road in East Hills. The Village includes Kids in the Park and Seniors Activities Committees, the latter of which includes movies, lunches, games, trips and other events. For a complete schedule of upcoming events, go to www. villageofeasthills.org. The East Hills pick-up softball game is always looking for a few good men. Games are every Sunday, weather permitting, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the park at East Hills off Harbor Hill Road. Contacts: William Gavin, East Hills Park Director, 516484-9800; Steward Faden 516-4106666; Peter Wagner 516-527-1200.
COLLEGE SAVINGS SEMINAR: Thursday, Mar. 29, 1:00 p.m. Bryant Park Library is located at 2 Paper Mill Road in Roslyn. For more information about these and other events, go to www. bryantlibrary.org.
with women’s roles in Broadway musicals.
COLLEGE SAVINGS SEMINAR Thursday, Mar. 29, 1:00 p.m. The College Planning Seminar will educate parents with the various options for college funding. Knowledgeable financial professionals from New York Life will walk attendees through different financial vehicles offered for college planning.
HOLLYWOOD LOVES COLE PORTER: PRESENTATION BY PHILIP MALAMUD Wednesday, Mar. 28, 1:30 p.m. Cole Porter was one of the great American composers and Hollywood gave him the A treatment. From Fred Astaire to Gene Kelly to Judy Garland, some of the most notable actors did the very best performances of his music on the silver screen. Come to this presentation and see some wonderful singing and dancing.
CONCERT WITH NAOMI ZEITLIN: THE WOMEN OF BROADWAY Sunday, Mar. 25, 2:00 p.m. Enjoy Broadway songs sung by well-known Broadway leading ladies such as Martin, Merman, Andews, Streisand, Minnelli, Lansbury, Peters, Buckley and other artists associated
MIND, BODY, HOME WORKSHOP LED BY JOAN ACCOLLA Tuesday, Mar. 27, 6:30 p.m. Is your home your boss? Become a detective and learn the clues hidden in your home that can impact your entire life. Online registration required.
SHELTER ROCK JEWISH CENTER The Shelter Rock Jewish Center, located at 272 Shelter Rock Road in Roslyn, offers a full range of religious services, an Early Childhood Center (including a program for two-year olds, three-year olds, and a pre-K program), an Adult Education program, a hospitable Sisterhood and a thriving Men’s Club. For a complete schedule of events, which includes ACBL sanctioned Bridge games every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. and Thursday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. (call 917-6585991 to make a reservation), go to the website at www.srjc.org. NORTHWELL HEALTH’S CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE IN ROSLYN This education, wellness and retreat center, located at 1500 Old Northern Blvd., Suite 3, in Roslyn, hosts a variety of mind, body and soul improvement classes on an ongo-
ing basis, including yoga for adults, Pilates, daily meditation sessions, an 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, nutrition, medical wellness consultations, massage, Reiki, acupuncture, 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Registered Vinyasa Teacher Trainings, and workshops. Specialized programs now include Cardiac Medical Yoga, Yoga for Infertility and Cancer, Kundalini Yoga, Personalized Fitness under Spencer Scalzetti and more. For a complete schedule, go to www. clients.mindbodyonline.com or call the center at 516-858-3095. TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM Temple Beth Sholom, located at 401 Roslyn Road in Roslyn Heights, offers an array of classes in Hebrew, Bible study, Torah cantillation, Jewish thinkers, prayer, and parenting through a Jewish lens, as well as a monthly “Lunch and Learn” program with guest speakers and TBS Sisterhood Education Classes that are open to the community. The day and evening classes are open to all adults, although there is a registration fee for some of the courses. For further information and a listing of events, go to www.tbsroslyn. org or call 516-621-2288. THE LITTLE GYM OF ROSLYN The Little Gym of Rosllyn, located at 55 Lumber Road in Roslyn, is a children’s gym offering activities for kids including parent/child classes, kids dance, gymnastics, sports skills and karate for children from 4 months to 12 years. Tuition plans starting at $27 per class. To see a full schedule of events, go to www.thelittlegym.com or call the studio at 516-513-0600.
Parents serve as partners Faculty and staff from Harbor Hill School and Administrators from around the Roslyn School District were guest readers on March 9 at Harbor Hill School. The children were able to
enjoy “The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes” by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein The week of March 5 was designated at Parents As Reading Partners week at Harbor Hill.
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Mosbacher speaks about gun violence On March 8, Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, co-chairman of “Do Not Stand Idly By,” a national campaign against gun violence, spoke to a packed audience at Temple Sinai about his mission to change the gun industry. Mosbacher has first-hand experience with gun violence: in 1999, his father, Lester, was shot dead at his business on the South Side of Chicago. Rabbi Mosbacher, now Senior Rabbi at Temple Shaaray Tefila, a reform congregation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, works tirelessly to persuade leaders in every sector of our society to make a difference in reducing gun violence in America. The “Do Not Stand Idly By” initiative, which takes its name from the biblical passage “Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed…” (Leviticus 19:16), targets the officials responsible for purchasing guns for their municipalities. Rather than focusing on Congress and legislative action to
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Rabbi Joel Mosbacher with some of the Long Island clergy who came to Temple Sinai of Roslyn to support the “Do Not Stand Idly By” campaign. elicit change, the campaign’s approach is to ask mayors, governors, sheriffs, and police chiefs to use their purchasing power directly to address gun
violence. The ultimate goal of the campaign is for gun manufacturers to develop and utilize safer technologies as well as to
Students’ voices heard in tribute
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Students gathered at Roslyn High School for a peaceful protest against school violence. Like! young people! across the nation, students at Roslyn High School! led a memorial tribute! on March 14 for those! who were killed at Mar-
jory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida one month earlier. Students and staff gathered in the gymnasium shortly be-
fore 10:00am. Once per minute, the name of a victim was read aloud and a bell was rung. The assembled crowd was in total silence for the 17 minutes of the memorial. Afterward, several hundred students held a peaceful but impassioned demonstration against school violence and in favor of measures to stop it. At Roslyn Middle School, several hundred students and staff members also gathered for a 17-minute tribute to the victims, while the Community Service Club there challenged students and faculty to be mindful of the things and people in our lives for which we are grateful. Throughout the district, faculty members wore orange clothes or ribbons to commemorate those who lost their lives.
Annual Easter egg hunt Roslyn Presbyterian Church will host its annual Easter egg hunt from 2 to 3:30 p.m.!March 31 at 140 East Broadway. Children up through fourth! grade and
their families are invited for an afternoon of fun with games, prizes, egg hunts, lots of candy and an appearance by the Easter Bunny.
crack down on the 1 percent of legal dealers whose weapons are used in approximately 60% of the crimes committed in the U.S. Currently, public officials in 124 municipalities have signed on to be part of the “Do Not Stand Idly By” campaign. In the wake of the Parkland tragedy, the issue of gun violence has become even more urgent. At the event, Lois Schaffer, whose daughter, Susan, was murdered during a robbery in 2009, said that her story “is more relevant today than it was nine years ago. As gun violence escalates, the focus needs to be on saving lives.” Mosbacher’s inspiring and hopeful message had a tremendous impact on the crowd at Temple Sinai. Congregant Sharon Russ shared that, “A few days ago, I said to my 18-yearold son, Max, ‘Every generation has to fix problems created by prior generations. You need to fix our gun problem.’ [Tonight], we arrived separately and did
not sit together. But, when he caught my eye in the middle of the lecture I knew that a spark had been lit. And proud doesn’t begin to define the feeling.” The evening concluded with Temple Sinai’s Senior Rabbi Michael White promising to lead the congregation to further action towards gun violence prevention. “We are horrified by the deaths of children in their classrooms and by the 30,000 deaths by guns every year,” White said. “Temple Sinai joins the movement to reduce gun violence because Jewish tradition commands us to choose life and save lives.” Celebrating its 70th anniversary, Temple Sinai is a reform congregation on Long Island, located at 425 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY. For more information about Temple Sinai or its many programs, please contact Alison Stamm, Executive Director at (516) 621-6800 or visit our website at mysinai.org.
Roslyn students honored for sports
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Buckley Country Day School students, from left, Rebecca Fabricant and Kate Juhel were honored during the school’s winter athletics awards. On March 9, Buckley Country Day School handed out its Winter Athletic Awards. “I am so proud of all of our student-athletes,” said Buckley Athletic Director Isaac Neal. “They practiced hard, competed in every game, and showed incredible sportsmanship throughout the season.” In all, 33 student-athletes
from 11 basketball teams were honored. Two of those awardwinners were Roslyn residents: sixth-grader Kate Juhel, who was named as the Girls 5/6 Purple basketball team’s Most Valuable Player and fifth-grader Rebecca Fabricant, who was given the Bulldog Spirit Award for the Girls 5/6 Blue basketball team.!
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Pictured bottom right: Roslyn High School student Kelly Frank, center, rehearses for the upcoming “Xanadu” performance this month with Jordan Resnick, Josh Fried, Maya Behiri, Sydney Sirota and Caroline Aruanno.
Frey returns to direct ‘Xanadu’ Brad Frey returns to the Royal Crown Players of Roslyn High School to direct their spring musical, an absurdity on wheels and award winning musical, “Xanadu.” Reliving the 80’s nostalgia of romantic comedies, leg warmers and roller disco, “Xanadu” is a classic tale of boy meets girl, except that this girl is actually Greek muse “Kira” performed by Kelly Frank, sent from the heavens to Venice Beach, California, to help struggling artist, Sonny, portrayed by Mark Russ, to achieve his greatest dream, to open the first roller disco. When Kira falls into for-
bidden love with this mortal, two of her jealous sisters, Melpomene, played by Bryn Goldstein, and Calliope, played by Jordan Resnick, take advantage of the situation with the other Muses along with greedy real estate mogul, Danny Maguire performed by T.J. Sheppard and a host of other heavenly bodies that complete a recipe of chaos with abounding absurdity. “Xanadu” features the music of the Electric Light Orchestra and a legendary score by Jeff Lynne and John Ferrar which includes Top 40 hits as “Magic,” “All Over The World,” “Suddenly,” “I’m Alive,” “Evil Woman,”
“Have You Never Been Mellow” and “Xanadu.” “I wanted to do a work that was fun, musical and entertaining with a touch of absurdity that creates an interactive work of musical theater,” Frey, who directed more than 32 Royal Crown Players productions, said of his decision to direct the musical. “We seat a number of audience members onstage to complete the intimacy of our performers to the audience along with a stage built into the auditorium. Xanadu is that musical and of course the hit score and music of the Electric Light Orchestra with roller skating
puts an explanation point on the whole show. “I always want to do something new and different, and this show had the wheels.” The 1980 film starring Hollywood heavyweights Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly was a surprise flop while the 2007 Broadway musical version was a surprise hit. Xanadu the musical ran on Broadway for over 500 performances and was nominated for multiple Tony awards. It also received both an Outer Critics Circle Award as well as a Drama Desk award. During its run The New York Times raved, “Heaven
on wheels!” And The New Yorker called Xanadu “the most fun you’ll have on Broadway.” “It will be the most fun you will ever have on this stage with its facsimile roller rink, and you absolutely won’t be able to sit still,” Frey said. Rounding out the cast are the chorus of Muses — Ben Heller as Terpsichore, Maya Behiri as Euterpe, Josh Fried as Thalia, Caroline Aruanno as Erato, and Rose Verde along with Sydney Sirota as Polyhymnia and Urania respectively. Watching from Mount Olympus players are Jonathan Schatzberg as Continued on Page 71
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N. Hempstead earns top town bond rating BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N Moody’s Investors Service affirmed the Town of North Hempstead’s Aaa municipal bond rating with a stable outlook for the third consecutive time last Wednesday, marking a full year at that rank. The Aaa rating, which is the highest a town can achieve, was first obtained by the Town of North Hempstead on March 16, 2017, following a yearslong uptick in its bond rating from A1 in 2002. The rating specifically applies to the town’s $21.8 million worth of public improvement serial bonds, which are used to pay for capital projects and other investments. A favorable rating typically leads to lower interest rates on bonds. “This third consecutive affirmation of our Aaa rating from Moody’s reflects the hard work by this administration and its finance team to keep the Town on solid financial footing,” Jessica Lamendola, the town’s acting comptroller, said in a statement. Factors leading to this rating from Moody’s include the town’s “conservative fiscal management practices” that “support healthy operating performance and maintenance of a strong financial position,” according to the report. This Moody’s report also lists the town’s healthy financial position, large and wealthy
tax base and a manageable debt burden with “above average fixed costs” as factors. Moody’s also maintained its Aaa on the town’s $345 million in debt outstanding. “I am extremely pleased to see the Town’s fiscally conservative practices and management of the Town’s budget be once again recognized [by] Moody’s with a Aaa rating,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a statement. “The Town’s Aaa rating will continue to translate into savings for taxpayers.” Hypotheticals that could impact the bond rating include deference of pension payments, structurally imbalanced budgets, the erosion of operating reserves and liquidity, and a decreased tax base, the report said. North Hempstead’s bond rating is currently the highest for a town in Nassau County. The Town of Hempstead has an Aa3 bond rating and the Town of Oyster Bay has a Baa3 bond rating, both with a stable outlook, according to Moody’s. The cities of Long Beach and Glen Cove, both in Nassau County, have bond ratings of Baa1 and Baa2 respectively, meaning they are “investment grade” with some credit risk. Most towns in Suffolk County have Aaa bond ratings from Moody’s, with none dropping into the B grades, which carry moderate to significant risk.
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Mangano had family compensated: Singh BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Why did restaurateur Harendra Singh hire Linda Mangano to work as his marketing director? “Her qualification was she was the county executive’s wife,” Singh told a federal court jury, according to Newsday. Since last Thursday, Singh has taken the stand as the star witness in the trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto in Central Islip. Over his two days of testimony, Singh repeated much of what he told prosecutors in October 2016, when he pleaded guilty to bribery. Singh said he supplied Venditto and the Manganos free meals at his restaurants, and the Manganos received gifts including a $100,000-per-year job for Linda Mangano in which Singh expected her to do no work, Newsday said. Edward Mangano and Venditto are charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest services wire fraud. Mangano was additionally charged with extortion and Venditto with securities fraud. Linda Mangano is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements to the FBI and obstruction of justice. All three have pleaded not guilty. According to Newsday, Singh employed Linda Mangano and her son, Sal, who was paid $900 per week as the manager of a Tobay Beach eatery.
Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano Newsday reported on Wednesday that Singh had testified to giving former Nassau County Sheriff Michael Sposato and had many meals with him at IHOP in order to obtain a contract to provide the county jail with bread and rolls. On Tuesday, Singh revealed that he provided steaks and shrimp for VIPs like Mangano and Sposato during the recovery efforts after superstorm Sandy, far supe-
rior to the food Singh was supplying to emergency workers, Newsday reported. The meals were paid for using funds from FEMA, Newsday said. Singh said that county and Oyster Bay Republicans helped him to secure business loan guarantees after he began to struggle financially. He said that even with his money problems, Edward Mangano would call Singh if Linda’s paycheck was
late; he would have to deliver the check because Linda did not come to work, according to Newsday. The paychecks for Linda Mangano lasted from April 9, 2010, to Aug. 4, 2014, Newsday reported. Singh testified that the checks stopped because his office was raided#by the FBI on Aug. 5. Singh testified that he was able to obtain a loan guarantee after meeting with several local leaders and attorneys at the Massapequa Republican Club in April 2010. Among those in attendance were Edward Mangano, Venditto, two attorneys from Mangano’s former law firm, Rivkin Radler, local GOP leader Richard Porcelli and Deputy County Executive Rob Walker, according to Newsday. Walker has been charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI in a case unrelated to Singh. He has pleaded not guilty. Craig# Burnett, a professor of political science at Hofstra University, said last week that the Manganos’ and Venditto’s attorneys would attack Singh’s credibility. Although Singh has not faced cross-examination, defense attorneys have already issued statements claiming that Singh was not to be trusted. “The government has said in open court: ‘Mr. Singh lies, even his mother lies. He cannot be trusted,'” John Carman, attorney for Linda Mangano, told Newsday on Monday. “Today he plays the role of their star witness.”
Median home prices Activists launch robo rise for Nassau in Feb. calls aimed at Phillips BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Median prices for homes sold in Nassau County rose for the second straight month, to $505,000 in February, according to the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island. The figure also marked an increase from February 2017, when the median price for sold homes was $449,000, the lowest number for that year. The 12.5 percent change between February 2017 and February 2018 marks the largest year-to-year improvement of any month since at least March 2017. Sale prices experienced only a modest dip this winter — falling to a low of $487,500 last November — and February’s number was only $15,000 off of the two-year high of $520,000, reached last July. The rise in prices could be due to the fact that fewer properties were sold last month than at any point over the last two years. The 741 property sales in February were down from 922 in January and 823 a year ago.
But first, they are calling you. BY R E B ECC A K L A R For the first time since November, The advocates for the bill launched pending sale prices also increased. Childhood sexual abuse survivors are calls in the home districts of four state senFebruary median pending sale prices were $495,000, up $9,500 from the month calling on state Sen. Elaine Phillips (R- ators. Another Nassau County Republican before and $30,000 from a year ago. That Flower Hill) to stand up for the Child Vic- targeted is Carl Marcellino (R-Syosset). number is also just $15,000 off the two- tims Act. Continued on Page 51 year peak of $510,000 for pending sales, which lasted from April to June of 2017. Unlike properties sold, the number of properties pending sales increased from the previous month. There were 958 pending sales in February, up from 806 in January and 920 the year before. The month-to-month increase was similar to last year when pending sales were up after bottoming out in January. Neighboring Suffolk County also saw a slight increase in February, with the median sales price rising to $360,000, a 9.4 percent increase from a year ago. Pending median sales price also shot up to $359,000, approaching the two-year peak PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR of $370,000. The number of Suffolk properties sold in February also saw a month-to-month Kathryn Robb, seen here at a protest outside state Sen. Elaine Phillips’ ofdrop, down to 942, while pending sales fice in December, can be heard on a robo call left for residents in Phillip’s increased to 1,219. district explaining the Child Victims Act.
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Town hopes to welcome more winged residents BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N Monarch butterflies may have found their biggest friend on Long Island yet: the Town of North Hempstead. Town officials announced last Wednesday that they are taking the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge, committing to 24 actions to help save the declining monarch population. These butterflies totaled 1 billion across the United States in 1996, according to the National Wildlife Federation, but their numbers have plummeted by about 90 percent in recent years in part because of agricultural practices. “I am proud to be able to participate in this campaign and take the very important pledge to take action to preserve the habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators in our town,” said Judi Bosworth, the town supervisor. Among the actions the town says it plans to take are issuing a proclamation, launching a campaign to encourage people to plant monarch gardens, adopting
new pesticide practices and boosting efforts to remove invasive species so more milkweed and nectar plants can grow. The town also plans to create a monarch-friendly demonstration garden at the Clark Botanical Garden in Albertson, supports efforts to monitor changes in the monarch population, hosts a native plant sale and is considering a “milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.” North Hempstead is among a small handful of municipalities on the North Shore — and Long Island — promising to take action. Great Neck Plaza was an early pledge adopter, becoming the first village on Long Island to sign on in October last year. The village promised to take at least eight actions to help butterflies. The villages of Great Neck and Lake Success, also on the Great Neck peninsula and within North Hempstead, later signed on to take at least three actions, according to the National Wildlife Federation. More than 300 municipalities are participating nationwide as of March 14.
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Tesla plans new service center in Nesconset BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Tesla officials announced Friday that a new service center in Nesconset will open by the end of this year. Tesla currently has another service center in Syosset, a store in Manhasset, two galleries in Huntington Station and East Hampton and two solar warehouses in Hauppauge and Bethpage. “Tesla’s new service center in Smithtown will provide thousands of Long Island residents with convenient service for Tesla’s sustainable products,” the company said in a news release. “Proposed legislation would enable Tesla to also sell and deliver our products at this location, and allow for additional Tesla stores across New York, deepening our investment in the state. “Smithtown is a promising market for sustainable energy products and Tesla is eager to meet that demand head on.” According to the release, the Smithtown location will create at least 25 new jobs. This service center will be located in the former Sixth Avenue Electronics store at Route 347 and South Hillside Avenue, revitalizing a space that has been vacant for
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Tesla announced it will open Long Island’s second service center in Nesconset by the end of the year. several years. “It is exciting to see Tesla working with the Town of Smithtown to revitalize this long-vacant property and turn it into a positive that will benefit all who live in our region,” state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said. “Tesla’s commitment to this project will help create career opportuni-
ties for our residents, benefit the students who are gaining crucial experience and, in the long run, help protect the local environment. We welcome them to the area and wish them great success.” Tesla will not be permitted to sell cars at the Smithtown service center because of an existing agreement with the state limit-
ing the company to five direct sales facilities in New York. The company, however, is supporting legislation co-sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle to increase the cap to 20 direct sales facilities. Service centers are not included within the cap. Representatives from Farmingdale State College President John Nader addressed the new job opportunities the" service center will create for students and an ongoing internship program with Tesla. The program, which began in fall 2017, provides students in the automotive technology department with the opportunity to work on Tesla’s zero-emissions vehicles and potentially gain full-time employment with the company after graduation. “The opening of a new Tesla service center in Smithtown is great news for Long Island and for Farmingdale State College,” Nader said. “This location will give more of our automotive technology students the chance to put their talents to use and begin fulfilling careers with an innovative, industry-leading company.”
Victims Act advocates target Phillips in robo calls Continued from Page 50 The others are Chris Jacobs, of Erie County, and Sue Serino, of Dutchess County. Each features a victim with ties to the Republican senator’s district. In Phillips’ district, it is Kathryn Robb, a founding member of the group and a survivor of what she said was repeated sexual assault as a child growing up in Manhasset.
The Child Victims Act would expand the criminal statute of limitations to victims who are 28 years old and the civil statute of limitations to victims up to 50 years old. The Democratic-controlled state Assembly approved it in for the sixth year in its budget proposal last Wednesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo also included the bill in his budget proposal for the first time this year. The Republican majority in the state
Senate now must decide if it will agree to include the bill, which a Quinnipiac poll showed 90 percent of New Yorkers support, as part of the budget due April 1. The state Senate has never brought the bill to a vote on the floor. Phillips said in a statement that she’s met with survivors in recent weeks and agrees that “we need to enact real and meaningful reform.” She added that this “issue is of such
importance that it deserves to be handled outside of the State Budget Process.” Without the passage of the bill predators are able to roam the streets, work in schools and churches, coach local sports teams and abuse again, Robb said in her message. The message ends with an option for residents to press one to be directed to Phillips to let her know where her constituents stand on the bill.
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Telemedicine at skilled nursing facility The Northwell Health Stern Family Center for Rehabilitation has launched a telemedicine program to provide clinical bedside support using two-way video communication to assess and diagnose clinical problems and minimize hospital readmissions at the 256-bed subacute care facility. While Northwell hospitals have employed telemedicine in its intensive care units and emergency departments for the last three years, Stern is the first skilled nursing facility in its network to implement telehealth technology. “Telehealth meets our specific needs with a large sub-acute population given the acuity of our patients,” said Dr. Howard Guzik, the facility’s medical director. “Most skilled nursing facilities don’t have physicians on the premises 24/7. To provide around the clock access to physicians, we invested in two portable telehealth carts. If an acute medical situation arises, a cart is wheeled into a patient’s room and a nurse supervisor can access a consultation with a physician in
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Nurses at Stern Family Center for Rehabilitation activate its telehealth service to remotely consult with a physician about a patient’s condition. real-time.” In the past, if a patient’s condition changed after physician hours, clinical staff relied on telephone consults with doctors or transported them to nearby North Shore University Hospital, Guzik said. The telehealth carts are linked to Northwell Health’s
Nominations for senior of year Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is seeking nominations for Nassau County’s 2018 Senior Citizen of the Year. This annual award recognizes two individuals who have demonstrated outstanding concern and action for human services and community involvement relating to any age group. Nominations are being accepted through Friday, April 20. To be eligible for the award, a candidate: Must be 60 years of age or older and presently living in Nassau County; May not be an employee of any organization, unless in an unpaid, volunteer position; and Must be submitted on an official application form. Those who have already received the award are ineligible, while those who were nominated but did not receive previous awards may be renominated.
All nominations will be reviewed by a panel of judges from the Nassau County Office for the Aging. This award will honor two of the many dedicated individuals who have made outstanding personal contributions for the enrichment of the lives of others. Nominations for Senior Citizen of the Year may be made by individuals or groups. # All nominations must be submitted on an application form. For more information, an application form or submission, please call (516) 227-8919 or email Michele.Greenblatt@hhsnassaucountyny.us. Nominations can also be mailed to: Awards Committee – Senior of the Year,#Nassau County Department of Human Services,#Office for the Aging,#60 Charles Lindbergh Boulevard, Suite #260,# Uniondale, N.Y. 11553-3691
Telehealth Center in Syosset. The technology includes the use of two-way cameras, monitors and computer programs that transmit information between patients and the command center where intensivist or critical care physicians and nurses have real-time access to a patient’s vital signs and cardiac rhythm. Electronic
medical records also are easily accessed. There is a microphone and speaker in the room to allow direct communication between bedside health care providers at Stern and patients or family members. The first telehealth consult at Stern took place last month when, sometime around midnight, nurses noticed that a 92-year-old patient developed a fever and showed signs of weakness. Staff, concerned about infection, activated the service. On clinical shift at the command center that night was Dr. Saurabh Chandra, medical director of Northwell’s electronic ICU. “With telehealth, we get a better picture of the patient when we lay our eyes on him or her in real time,” Chandra said. “Within minutes nurses at Stern were able to start an IV line for the patient and start fluids. Antibiotics were given and diagnostic tests were ordered. The team was able to get lab results in a two-hour turnaround, showing Stern’s capabilities. If you can take care of a patient in-house, it makes it easier on the patient. In
this case an unnecessary hospitalization was avoided.” Patients at a skilled nursing facility, many of whom are elderly, could experience a range of health issues, including exacerbation of congestive heart failure or COPD, urinary infections, pain syndromes and changes in condition, which are diagnoses that can be assessed by telehealth. “Telehealth technology is evolving and we are happy to add this critical service to Stern,” said Gerard Kaiser, executive director of skilled nursing facility services at Northwell Health. “Telehealth is an extra reassurance for patients and families to have access to physicians 24/7.” Stern is located on the campus of North Shore University Hospital. It specializes in shortterm rehabilitation, skilled nursing and extended care services. Stern has been awarded five out of five-star rating for overall quality from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, placing Northwell Health Stern Family Center for Rehabilitation in the top 10 percent of nursing facilities in the country.
Giving kids a smile Nearly 100 Northwell Health volunteers from Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital helped bring a collective smile to Nassau County and Queens children. The collection of dentists, hygienists and other medical professionals participated in the Nassau County Dental Society’s “Give Kids a Smile Day,” which hosted 1,200 underserved and special needs children – ages 4 to 7 – from 16 schools on March 9 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. “When we started ‘Give Kids a Smile’ 15 years ago we had approximately 400 children attend the event,” said Dr. Joseph Brofsky, section head of pediatric dentistry at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park and co-chair of Nassau’s Give Kids a Smile Day. “Today we had a record 400 volunteers with over 1200 children. It’s a great credit to our profession that we care so much about underserved children in our community and want to give back to those in need.” More than five million chil-
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A young patient is given an exam by Kathleen Schultz, a pediatric dental resident at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park. dren have been served nationwide – 15,000 locally – since the event began in 2003 as part of National Children’s Dental Access Day and National Children’s Dental Health Month. The 15th Nassau “Smile” event included complimentary screenings and fluoride varnish along with oral hygiene supplies to take home and lessons on how to maintain a healthy mouth. Northwell was one of several
organizations which partnered with Nassau County Dental Society to make the event possible. “We’re reaching children at an early age when habits are forming,” said Anastasia Schepers, a nutritionist at Cohen whose message of healthy eating was made possible by a grant from Kohl’s. “If we can make the connection that what they eat and drink can help their health, I feel like I’m doing a good job.”
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READERS WRITE
Not so fast with wireless rollout!
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ot so fast with wireless rollout! A recent opinion piece in this newspaper touted the many advantages that advanced wireless technology might bring to Long Island. While we agree that reliable cell service is important, the protection of the health and safety of Long Islanders is a much more important goal. The potential impact of human exposure to radio-frequency or “RF” radiation, the kind emitted by microwave ovens, smartphones and cell towers, has been under scrutiny since World War II. The original focus was on its thermal effects – at what levels could RF radiation actually burn human skin? As microwave ovens became popular in the 1960s, users were warned of the potential danger of accidental exposure.
Lately, scientists have been more focused on the potential for biological effects from RF radiation – the possible disruption of normal cell function, leading to various types of human health problems, including cancer. In 2011, after looking at the growing body of scientific studies showing a significant risk, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified RF radiation as “possibly carcinogenic,” which means there is sufficient evidence of harm to be concerned. Preliminary findings of a study by the National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Health released in 2016 showed a link between exposure to RF radiation and increased risk of both heart and brain tumors. More recent laboratory studies have confirmed the potential negative impact of long-term ex-
posure to typical levels of wireless radiation from both near-field exposures like cell phones and farfield exposures like the antennas that use RF radiation to transmit the signals to your phone. A study to be released this week shows that far-field exposures are just as likely as nearfield exposures to cause biological harm. Which bring us to the current rapid deployment of “small cell” wireless transmitters in neighborhoods across Long Island. The issue here is proximity. Proximity is the factor that increases or decreases your risk from RF radiation. The closer you are, the more radiation you and your family will receive. So it’s very troubling that at the same time the scientific community is raising caution flags about our increasing exposure to
RF radiation, the telecom industry is busy installing its powerful radiation-emitting wireless transmitters on utility poles just outside our doors, or in our backyards. This rollout of “next generation” 5G wireless technology is not required to improve cell phone service on Long Island as the author seems to claim. Nor is it required for our FirstNet public safety system. It is not designed to bring broadband to underserved communities. It does not improve safety or security. Industry insiders confide that its primary purpose is to allow giant telecoms to blast their signals into homes on Long Island to allow consumers to stream video. The phone maker Ericsson estimates that by 2021, 95 percent of mobile data traffic will be used for streaming video.
There is a long list of behaviors and products that were once touted as “solutions” to various problems. Cigarettes were good for digestion. Asbestos was harmless and would protect you from fire. Vioxx would ease the pain from arthritis, and hormone replacement therapy would alleviate the discomfort of menopause. Now we know better. Is wireless radiation the next in this sad procession? We won’t know for years, but until we do, caution is the common sense approach to any massive increase in wireless deployment, on Long Island or anywhere else. Doug Wood Port Washington Associate Director of Grassroots Environmental Education
Vasa an ‘accomplished’ businesswoman, leader
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am writing to invite my neighbors and friends in Port Washington to join me in supporting of Sima Vasa for the position of library trustee in the election on April 10. Sima is an accomplished businesswoman and inspirational leader. After beginning her career at IBM, Sima went on to serve as President of the NPD Group, an
industry leader for data technology solutions. More recently, Sima and her husband Cyrus have formed their own data technology company in Port Washington and been investors in digital technology start-up companies. Sima also serves as a director on the boards of three organizations and has been recognized nationally as an expert in technology trends.
She hosts her own podcast called “Data Gurus.” Sima and I have become friends over the past four years.# Our younger daughters attend Sousa Elementary school together and are in the same Girl Scout (Brownies) Troop. Sima is troop leader. As leader, Sima always shows her troop respect and understanding and has nurtured the girls’ thirst for knowl-
edge and desire to help our community. ## I have also had the pleasure of working with Sima as part of the Sousa HSA (Home School Association) where she has served as chair of our Green Committee for the past seven years.# Sima always has fresh ideas on how to inspire the students to be Green Leaders at school, at home and in the community.
# I believe that Sima’s business expertise, combined with her warm, nurturing personality and dedication to our community is the perfect combination needed to help maintain our library’s tradition of excellence and help it to grow in the future. Mara Sarchese Port Washington
Support Port library budget, Vasa for board
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love Port Washington and everything it has to offer. One of our most precious resources is the Port Washington Public Library. To protect, preserve and help our amazing library continue to grow, I encourage my fellow Port Washington residents to elect Sima Vasa
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to the position of library board trustee on April 10.# # I have known Sima for many years and worked with her on many projects at Port’s schools, where our children have been students together. I have always found her to be a person of great honesty and
integrity. Her passion for helping all of Port’s children is boundless. She has worked tirelessly to improve our schools through her volunteer efforts for her daughters at Sousa and Weber. # There is no doubt in my mind that Sima will make a dif-
Answer to Trump impeachment talk
n response to Mary Ellen Scherer of New Hyde Parks opinion: Mr. Obama gave billions to a selfproclaimed enemy(Iran) ‘and none of that should have been accepted’ by Re-
publicans. None.Of.It. Time to jail lawless, treacherous Obama. Eugene Savage Great Neck
ference at our library by implementing new and effective programs that benefit Port’s children and all community members. Sima has excellent communication and people management skills; strong knowledge of great business practices; and valuable digital technology ex-
perience.# Sima will bring new strength and vision to our library.# # I hope all Port residents vote yes for the budget and for Sima Vasa for library trustee. Mat Lanfant Port Washington
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Do not renew permit for Border Walls On parking lot at 17 Myrtle St. Patrick’s Day
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o the chairman and members of the Board of Zoning and Appeals for the Town of North Hemp-
stead: I am writing on behalf of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Organizations to urge you to deny renewal of the permit for conditional use as a commercial parking Lot at 17 Myrtle St. in Manhasset. I am unable to attend the upcoming hearing on the matter and am therefore sending my comments in writing. I have been a civic leader in Manhasset for the past 15 years and a resident for 23. I co-chaired the Coalition for a Safer Manhasset, have served as an officer of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, was a member of the Plandome Road Visioning Stakeholders and a member of the Plandome Road Parking Committee. Availability of parking in Manhasset for shoppers, employees and commuters is a topic on which I have focused much time and energy for the past 15 years in addition to pedestrian and motorist safety as it has been greatly affected by an increase in traffic
over time. The property at 17 Myrtle is being used to privately host commuter parkers from outside of the town of Manhasset under the current conditional use permit. While this permit was granted in the past and a renewal of said permit is being sought, I believe that the BZA should not approve the renewal.# When the original permit was granted, circumstances in the Manhasset community were very different.# The demand for parking was significantly less. The building of large developments along Shelter Rock Road has significantly increased the population of the town and the need for a variety of types of parking. Traffic in the area was significantly less when the original permit was granted. Hosting a commercial commuter lot increases traffic to our community when non-residents rent those spaces.# Furthermore, it uses spaces for parking that could be allocated in a manner that benefits the community better. At this time, a more appropriate use for this property would be to use this space for local em-
ployee or shopper parking. This could be accomplished if the Town of North Hempstead or Manhasset Park District either leased the property or purchased the property from the current owner.# Furthermore, there are concerns that the spaces are not properly sized or marked and there is no handicap parking as required by code. I understand that the BZA is not tasked with enforcement of parking codes but rather to decide whether the owners qualify for a renewal of their conditional use permit. Due to the fact that the conditions of the area and the needs of the community have changed since this original permit was issued, I believe it warrants denying the renewal of the permit. This property has in fact very recently changed ownership and should be considered with a “new lens” as circumstances have changed. I thank you in advance for your consideration of my comments on this public hearing. Sue Auriemma Manhasset
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appy St. Patrick’s Day.# I don’t have an original poem to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day per se, but this new poem seemed appropriate given all the talk about borders and walls and all, and that I’m 1/4 Irish going back the Potato Famine and the later civil war exodus –#in fact, all my family came across several thousand miles of oceans – I thought you might find my poem at least interesting and I hope worthy of sharing.# Please feel free to share this message with family and friends. Something there is that builds walls. To pitch the dreams of one side blind against the other, as if the summer sizzling away on my side is somehow better kept to myself, not share. And the days I go walking up and down the line beneath the sun are something I couldn’t or wouldn’t want to understand another way. #What if I were to climb over a blind wall to dream on the other side for a while— a warning—a broken skull—unwelcome— shackles— What?# Perhaps a meaning.# Because walls and doors and windows are in recognition of the soul’s condition that signify the large part of Who I am, and What I want to believe. Do I know him, or want you to be more like me? # Something there is that builds walls and wants them to come down, because walls are motionless and have no more than three dimensions. Then, I want mine reduced to rubble, to be a living thing again. To bathe in the regenerative waters— alternate days and nights and seasons with dreams, until I have the sense of Infinity. Stephen Cipot! New Hyde Park
Plaza road project no improvement
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n the latest Plaza Voice newsletter, the cover story dealt with updates to the Shoreward Drive/Welwyn Road Transportation Enhancements Project. The area is very much in need of a facelift, and the mayor is to be commended for procuring a grant to pay for the lion’s share of the work.#That is where the compliments end. Part of Jean Celender’s plan is to pave the area sidewalks with her beautiful bricks — those most attractive bricks—that are slippery in the rain, hazardous in the summer when they expand and become deathtraps in the winter. And then there is her “4500 square feet of outdoor ‘public plaza’ space [with]… seating for the community to enjoy [as well as the creation of]… additional public
parking spaces.” However, Celender neglects to mention that this project also removes at least six existing parking spaces. Celender held a public meeting at the inception of the project, asking for input from the community. In response to her idea of building a park in front of the post office, residents gave her a resounding “No!” citing the problematic nature of providing “seating for the community to enjoy,” and the unnecessary addition of another park when there are already two lovely parks with great amenities within a block or two from the site. So what did Mayor Celender do? She changed the name from “park” to “public plaza.” Who does she think she’s kidding?
The protrusion of a 4,500 square foot area into the street in front of the post office will make it even more difficult than it already is for the unwanted 12 or more buses per hour to make the turn-around safely; it often takes two or three tries for the buses to turn in the existing space, and only last week a bus took out the left rear quarter panel of a car parked in front of the post office. # # Given the many delivery trucks that block up and unload their merchandise on the street on a daily basis, along with the negligent way that many drivers in this area operate their vehicles, the narrowed street space will also be ripe for accidents. The benches in the park/ a.k.a. public plaza that “will allow residents and visitors alike an area for rest and re-
laxation” will also provide a resting place for a good number of homeless folks who call this neighborhood home; a place for smokers to further pollute our air and litter the lawn with their cigarette butts; more opportunities for those who persistently pervade the area with garbage from their Shop Delight takeout meals; and the extra activity in the park will exacerbate the already-existing levels of noise pollution. # A perfect parody of Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet,” might read, “What’s in a name? That which we call a public plaza, by any other name would still smell as foul.” # The “Jean Machine” has ignored the needs and wishes of its constituents for too long.
It’s too bad that no one stepped up to run against them in the March 20th election. But that’s not surprising, as former candidates have all sadly learned that every Plaza election held during Jean Celender’s regime has been a fait accompli for her and her team because of the hundreds of absentee ballots that she faithfully procures each year from residents of the two local Atria facilities. #Given the honor of having the only mayor in the country to have her own built-in electoral college, perhaps Jean Celender should proclaim herself “mayor for life” and spare the village the expense of holding future elections. !Muriel and Leo Pfeifer Village of Neck Plaza (We want our “Great” back!)
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Govs share blame on transit funding
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revious governors of New York and New Jersey found billions in hard cash for their local share to obtain Federal Transit Administration New Starts funding for the following projects.! These include New Jersey Transit’s Hudson Bergen Light Rail Minimum Operating Segment One ($992 million), Segment Two ($1.2 billion and Secaucus Transfer ($450 million).! The Metropolitan Transportation Authority did the same for Long Island Rail Road East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal ($10.8 billion) and Second Avenue Subway Phase One ($4.5 billion).! None of these projects required a federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing or Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Improvement Act loans.!! The Gateway Tunnel Portal Bridge ($1.6 billion) and Hudson River Tunnel ($11 billion) portions along with Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 ($6 billion) are currently in the first phase of Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts program known as “Project Development.”! This status comes from recent release of the Federal Transit Administration’s FY 2019
New Starts Report.! MTA Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 has $1.7 billion in approved local funding within the MTA $32 billion 2015-2019 Five Year Capital Plan.! The MTA intends to program an additional $2.3 billion in local funding within the next MTA 2020 – 2024 Five Year Capital Plan for a total of $4 billion in local funding.! They hope to use these local dollars to leverage $2 billion in future Federal Transit Administration New Starts funding.! MTA LIRR has previously provided billions in over match to cover billions in cost overruns for East Side Access.! Any Federal Transit Administration Full Funding Grant Agreement requires the recipient to be legally responsible for any additional costs above the agreed upon Full Funding Grant Agreement project cost. Justification for replacement of the Northeast Corridor Portal Bridge has been discussed since the 1980s.! It is really the first phase of the $29 billion Gateway Tunnel project.!! The project has been in the development stage since July 2016. The environmental review process was completed in July 2017. The Gateway Develop-
ment Corporation is seeking entry into New Starts program Engineering phase along with approval of a FFGA in 2018.! This has yet to take place.! The $1.56 billion cost would be comprised of $772 million New Starts, $119 million Federal Highway!Administration! Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality dollars transferred to!FTA!and $682 million in local dollars. Completing both final design and engineering along with approval of a FFGA within 12 months appears overly optimistic.! This is based upon past history of other New Starts projects.! Final design and engineering completion in 2019 with an approved FFGA assuming funding availability in 2020 is more realistic. Gov. Murphy appears to support New Jersey Transit’s proposal to finance his $1.9 billion initial contribution by attaching a 90 cent “fee” to riders coming to Penn Station starting in 2021 going up to $1.70 in 2028 and $2.20 in 2038.! This would be used to pay back their own federal loan. Any proposed fare increase or surcharge would require public hearings followed by approval of the NJ Transit Board of Direc-
tors.! NJ Transit fares have gone up five times for a total of 30 percent since 2010.! This includes the most recent 9 percent 2015 fare increase.! NJ Transit riders pay 50 percent of the cost per ride, which is more than most other transit systems around the nation.! These fare increases help pay for operations including basic service and employee salaries.! These proposed “fees” would be on top of other inevitable upcoming fare increases in future years.! How many fare increases and “fees” does anyone believe NJ Transit riders will put up with? Using the NJ Transportation Trust fund for financing would make more sense. Why would the Federal Transit Administration have accepted other federal dollars under its New Starts program local share financing requirements?! This would be double dipping using FRA funding toward local share to obtain additional dollars from the FTA. Previous governors found billions in real local dollars to provide real skin in the game today, not over decades.! Why can’t current governors Phil Murphy of New Jersey and Andrew Cuomo of New York do the
same today?!! It should not be that difficult for Cuomo and Murphy with the assistance of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to come up with several billion each toward their local share to begin both the $1.6!billion Portal Bridge and $11 billion Hudson River Tunnel early phases of the overall $29 billion Gateway Tunnel.! Time to stop crying poverty and man up.! !! Without real hard financial resources from up to Washington ($14.6 billion), N.J. ($7.3 billion) and N.Y. ($7.3 billion) along with some private sector investments, how will the full $29 billion Gateway Tunnel be paid for?! ! A project can’t be financed by borrowing and fare surcharges alone. Washington, Albany and Trenton all share equal blame for the lack of a real $29 billion Gateway Tunnel financing package.! Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.)"
Vasa right person for Zucker offers needed Port library board mental health service
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am pleased to support Sima Vasa for Port Washington Public Library trustee. I have known Sima for over a decade. ! Our friendship began because of her kindness, insightfulness, and willingness to laugh, but it grew because of her basic humanity and integrity. ! She is the person you can rely on to tell you the truth that’s good for you, even if you don’t want to hear it – and then will still find a way to make you feel okay about it.! Such a friend is gift; such a person on a board making decisions about money and policy is invaluable. ! Sima juggles so many things so gracefully that I feel like she must have a clone. She never complains but always manages to take on yet another task, whether it’s leading Girl Scout troops for her daughters, co-chairing the elemen-
tary school Green Committee, or getting dinner for a sick friend. All the work that she does is in the interest of sharing her talents and enriching the world in which we live. !Her fundamental goal is to do good. She manages to do all these things, by the way, in addition to running her own company with her husband, leading a weekly podcast focused on market!research! and technology, and raising two amazing girls. ! !Sima brings humility and an eagerness to learn to all that she does. ! She listens carefully and offers ideas only when she feels fully informed of a situation. I know that she will bring that caution, respect, intelligence, and work ethic to the library. !I am so glad she’s taking on this worthy community service!! Anita Sethi Port Washington
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would like to praise the Zucker Hillside Hospital for all they do in the mental health field to help the many in need. The hospital is located in Glen Oaks Village. It is a division of Northshore/ LIJ and a member of Northwell Health. My wife Eva who I love dearly was admitted there last week to their Geriatric/ Adult Behavioral health department. I saw first hand the help and care by their staff of psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors and nurses. They are dedicated to the care of their patients. It seems to me there still is a stigma surrounding those with mental health
problems. As a society, we show a great deal of concern for those with diseases of the body but not enough for those with the health of the mind. I feel more must be done and more funding is needed to cope and help those who are suffering so much from diseases of the mind. Remember a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Now, this is from a person who knows my wife Eva for many years who is suffering from depression and has suffered so much. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola
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Wireless networks, Smart Cities systems
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arc Alessi wrote a letter in the March 16 issue of the Great Neck News, gushing over the upcoming implementation of a new, powerful version of a wireless network, known as 5G. Unfortunately, his presentation failed to mention the potential negative health consequences of the system. What follows is a brief summary of two webpages, not my personal opinion: https:// ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Scientist-5G-appeal-2017. pdf and https://www.naturalhealth365.com/electromagnetic-fields-cell-phone-radiation-1439.html On Sept. 13, 2017, more than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries signed a petition recommending a moratorium on the roll-out of 5G systems for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health
and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry. 5G will substantially increase exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields on top of the 2G, 3G, and 4G Wi-Fi networks for telecommunications already in place. Given that RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment, scientists are fearful that exposure to 5G systems will substantially increase the health hazard, over and above what we are already experiencing. A large number of peerreviewed scientific reports have demonstrated harm to human health from EMFs, including a recent study by the National Toxicology Program. These results support human epidemiological studies on RF radiation and brain tumor risk. 5G networks are generally
considered to operate within the band of spectrum between 6 GHz and 100 GHz, also known as the millimeter wave band. These are much higher frequencies than the 2G, 3G, or 4G networks currently in place, and have never before been used in conjunction with everyday consumer products. Because of the tremendous capacity of these 5G networks, companies will be able to link more and more devices to one another wirelessly. Such connected devices make up what is called “The Internet of Things.” Soon we’ll be able to access many of our appliances at home via our cell phones or computers, as an example. As great as this may sound, it means that we will be completely awash in the waves that connect these devices, and by the electromagnetic fields generated by them. Another related use of the
5G networks is in “Smart City” systems. These are wireless networks that connect many objects in a community, such as the streetlights, cameras, audio surveillance equipment, billboards, garbage pails, etc. As part of the LED streetlight installation in the Village of Great Neck, Mayor Pedram Bral authorized the installation of a Smart City system. There is now a wireless receiver on top of every one of the 800 light poles in the Village. This will make it possible for someone at a remote location to dim the lights as needed. Ostensibly, this is the major purpose of this very expensive network. My concern is twofold: 1. even with the system in place, the result is that we now are bathed in RF-EMFs to a greater degree than we had been previously; 2. it is likely that in the future, the system will be upgrad-
ed to a 5G system, bringing with it even more potential risks to health and to the environment. The issue of RF-EMFs goes way beyond Great Neck Village. State legislation is now on track to ease the installation of 5G systems by the major telecommunications giants in this country, leaving localities no control over the rollout. I urge everyone to contact Gov. Cuomo and state Sen. Elaine Phillips to tell them that you are concerned about the premature rollout of 5G systems. Tell your state representatives to make sure to vote to exclude Article 13-E, Radiation Emitting Wireless Equipment from the executive budget proposal. Amy Glass, Ph.D. Great Neck
Cuomo fills void in Trump picks Mondello election protection for ambassadorship Continued from Page 16 pages of targeting ads in Ohio will just vanish. In last election, $1.4 billion was spent on social media ads by campaigns; we expect $3-4 billion next time – all the money is migrating there. “It’s not just Russia, it’s about campaigns. If they run dark, dirty ads, they will put them on Twitter, Facebook, because they can bury and hide if there are no rules of the road.” In the absence of federal action, Gov. Cuomo – as he has on gun control, climate change, women’s rights – has decided to take action on a state level. Cuomo is advancing complementary legislation in New York to do what Klobuchar’s legislation would do at the federal level – requiring social media platforms know who is providing the political ads and maintain records that can be investigated. Cuomo is hoping other states follow suit, in order to force marketplace pressures on the companies to adopt the higher standard. Increasing transparency of online political advertisements and protect against foreign influence, by requiring digital platforms to maintain a public file of all political advertisements is one element of what Cuomo is advancing as his “Democracy Agenda,” included in his 2019 Executive
Budget that needs to be adopted by March 31. The Democracy Agenda also includes $5 million to create an Election Cyber Security Support Toolkit for county and local election boards to strengthen cyber security protections. And considering that New York State, despite its reputation for progressivism, has one of the lowest rates of voter turnout, largely because it is one of the few that does not provide for early voting, it is significant he is calling for $7 million to improve access to voting across the state by instituting 12 days of early voting as well as automatic and same-day voter registration. Cuomo noted that it isn’t just federal elections that need such defense, that Russia’s purpose is to “create chaos in the American electoral system, so we question what governors, mayors, assembly people got elected. Part of the goal is to wreak havoc, and if it isn’t Putin, it could be North Korea or any country. The system is so porous right now. Anyone with a few million dollars [like Robert Mercer, Sheldon Adelson, the Koch Brothers] can wreak havoc in race on social media with no disclosure whatsoever. Not to mention cyber attacks on the actual [voting] system itself.”
BY LU K E TORRANCE Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Mondello was nominated by President Donald Trump on Monday to serve as U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. “Being asked to serve as the President’s personal representative to one of our nation’s most important trading partners – the nation with the third-highest GDP per capita in the Americas after the United State and Canada – is an extraordinary privilege,” Mondello said in a statement.! According to Newsday, Mondello, 80, has never been to the island nation, but he underwent “ambassador school” training with six other potential nominees in December. The report also said that Mondello was familiar with Trump before he ran for president and that Trump
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Nassau County GOP Chairman Joseph Mondello addresses the crowd on election night at Mirelle’s Restaurant in Westbury. once hired Mondello to work on a development. He will be leaving his position as county GOP chair, which he has held since 1983. Mondello endorsed Trump in March 2016, ahead of New York’s primary, calling him! “the leader our nation needs at this critical time in history.” As previously reported by Blank Slate Media,
many of Mondello’s Long Island GOP colleagues did not make an endorsement. “I look forward to the upcoming United State Senate confirmation process and then to meeting the many challenges that I am sure I will face as I enter this new and exciting chapter in my public service career,” Mondello’s statement said. Continued on Page 61
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Where the loyalty lies among us It has come to most everyone’s attention, realtors and consumers alike, that over the years the creation and evolution of new technology and major website advancements, and consolidations, eg. Zillow, Trulia, hot pads, Street Easy, (all owned by Zillow), Realtor.Com, Craigslist, Angie’s list and Home Advisor (they just bought Angie’s List), as well as the major social media sites of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin (my daughter, Kim, is the top sales executive there!) and many more less prominent sites have provided consumers a cornucopia of choices by which they can search and retrieve their real estate information without a realtor. Even the commercial segment of the real estate industry is now being serviced and dominated by Costar, LoopNet (owned by Costar), Property Shark and others, and we are regularly bombarded by T.V. commercials from the behemoths of the internet world, Zillow.Com and Realtor.Com who are battling it out for a majority position for the potential billions of dollars from the real estate industry through the brokers and agents. Unfortunately, over the last 10 years, all the Multiple Listing Services across the U.S. were remiss and slow to change and advance with the times. Unfortunately, they allowed these new companies to barge and jump in and compete, flourish and grow by leaps and bounds, by taking a consistently larger slice of the real estate market from them and their agents and become dominant players; offering advanced and greater reach to the public, global exposure, varied and simplified services and superior results to agents and consumers and out maneuvering the MLS’s and other service companies in the real estate market, by staying current and ahead of the curve, with cutting edge programming, creative and dynamic services, mega million dollar budgets and over the top marketing! They understood what the consumer needed and wanted, easy access to real estate information; and with that knowledge and their advanced programming and algorithms , were in a strong position in grabbing and gaining a much coveted and lucrative, profitable opportunity to take and have a leading role in the dissemination of real estate information to the public as well as those in the business.
However, in many, many instances their accuracy and methods of providing that information have and can be quite inaccurate and some have said to me, deceptive. Many times they take advantage of words and the consumer reacts way to quickly, when they observe a particular property on their site and immediately try to contact someone and inquire as to whether or not it is available (seems lately, that places are being snapped up and sold during the week, before the purchasers can view them at the open houses on the weekends!) Many times properties are posted that say, “Public listing, not available, off the market, even under contract, and the unassuming consumer, without carefully reading the noted information on the sites, and the large sums of copy, still make calls to me! I have, what one might call, “a love-hate relationship” with one company, which will remain nameless unless you call me and I will tell you! The reason I say this is that, when my phones ring with a seller, investor, landlord, purchaser or tenant inquiry, I “absolutely love it.” But wait, hold on! Then I have to qualify the information for accuracy, by checking and/or making calls, as well as the consumer’s
PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch
credentials in a “legal fashion.” hen more times than none, they are either looking at a property that is not available, under contract or sold! More important, some may not even be qualified to buy, as I realize this, as I go through the process. That is the “hate” part of the “love and hate relationship.” One must have “very thick skin” have or learn to have a passion for the business and be very fortunate if you realize that you, “are doing what you love, and loving what you do.” However, if we hit enough home runs and close the deals, that it’s worth the effort and pain of going through the ordeal of who is hot and who is not! Remember,
Babe Ruth struck out 1440 times, but hit 714 home runs, the most in baseball history, playing less games that all the other current and past “home run champs, without any drugs! So, the motto is, “one must keep getting up and continue swinging for the bleachers; and with the tenacity, effort, discipline, stick to it attitude, with the proper knowledge, transparency and honesty, the home runs will happen; it’s a numbers game, that’s all! Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win! So to verify other sites info, when possible, MLS is the number one source for accuracy, when it comes to what is available, under contract, sold and withdrawn and released (not sold, and most likely overpriced!). So our job is to educate the public as to what is real and what is Memorex (remember that commercial?). Using the MLS system provides us with all the information that is needed to provide the consumer with up to date and honest information about properties in their market. So the next time you see a commercial on TV, hear something about a property on the radio or observe or hear information on the net, your antennae should automatically go up and make sure
you read and understand what it is that you are looking at or hearing. Consult with a realtor to verify what you are reading, seeing and hearing, as to the properties validity and availability, so you don’t waste your time and energy chasing duds, unavailable or sold properties! Seek out and interview those that are experts in the field and handle their businesses in a professional manner, before selling, investing, purchasing, renting or leasing any type of residential or commercial property, since ones’ home or investment properties are usually the most valuable assets that one owns today. There will always be a place in the real estate industry for those 1 to 5 percenters, that are professional, have the expertise, have mastered their trade, are honest and transparent, similar to any field, where the “cream rises to the top.” Their earning potential will always provide those special individuals a higher than standard earnings, (a six-seven figure income)"because they are worth it! Phil is the owner of Turn Key Real Estate at 7 Bond St in Great Neck. He can be reached by email: Phil@TurnkeyRealEstate.Com or by cell (516) 647-4289 to answer any of your questions.
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Recent Real Estate Sales in Roslyn Roslyn Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $960,000 Demographics near Roslyn, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita
City 2,795 4,331 43.7 2.2 87,961 66,626
County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949
216 Dogwood Road, Roslyn Sold Price: $860,000 Date: 12/22/2017 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Hi Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 80x112 Schools; Herricks Total Taxes: $17,640 MLS# 2971987
32 Meadow Lane, Roslyn Heights Sold Price: $660,000 Date: 10/30/2017 3 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 65x107 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $15,348 MLS# 2963743
15 Hunters Lane, Roslyn Sold Price: $1,151,000 Date: 12/28/2017 4 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 90x125 Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $16,405 MLS# 2978435
113 Schoolhouse Lane, Roslyn Heights Sold Price:$2,095,000 Date: 12/18/2017 5 beds, 5 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 208x139 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $43,614 MLS# 2960617
Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Roslyn, Roslyn Heights and Old Westbury by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in Roslyn, Roslyn Heights and Old Westbury and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.
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Continued from Page 12 There are only five heart transplant centers in the state, three in New York City, one in Westchester and one in Rochester, despite New York having one of the highest number of candidates on a waiting list for a heart transplant. There are 322 residents on the list, according to the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network. Fleming said she didn’t realize how fast the process would occur. Once she got to the hospital within a week she was tested, she said. Fleming said she got a call that Friday saying she was going to the transplant team. On Sunday around 3:30 p.m., a doctor came in and said, “I don’t think you should eat that,” Fleming said. “I joked, I said, ‘Why, you took the heart out of the freezer and now it’s ready,'” Fleming said. “He started laughing and he said, ‘No, we have a heart for you.'” The transplant team receives calls routinely about hearts, but the doctors sift through the tests and lab results of the potential donor to decide if it is the best fit for the patient, Lima said. Lima said the team was fortunate and found a perfect match early on for Fleming. During a transplant process there are two teams: the donor team and the recipient team. When an organ is deemed a fit for a recipient, a doctor from the donor team travels to the hospital to examine it in person and retrieve it. In this case, the recipient doctor
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Giving thanks from the top of her new heart
Pictured left: Fleming’s team of doctors, Dr. Gerin Stevens, left, Dr. Brian Lima, center, and Dr. Syed Hussain, explained the transplant process. Pictured right: Fleming’s old heart as it was removed during the surgery. was "Hussain. Hussain said the process is both humbling and exciting. There are even more doctors involved, as the donor could be giving other organs to other patients in various hospitals – even different states. “Somebody is giving the gift of life and we always take that into account when we go to the hospital,” Hussain said. “We treat them with the utmost respect.” The doctors are also dealing with a tight timeframe, Lima said. Ideally, the doctors don’t want the heart out of the body for more than four
hours if possible, Lima said. The coordination between the donor team and the recipient team has to be timed “literally down to the second,” Lima said. For Fleming’s transplant, the process all happened in under three hours, Lima said. Fleming said she is grateful that she came to North Shore, because “North Shore saved my life.” “You don’t have a hospital, you have a family of people that love what they do, they respect people, they give it their all and then some,” Fleming said. “From the staff that keeps your hospital clean to the
surgeons that do your surgery, there’s so much love in here.” Now that Fleming has her new heart, she’s going to honor it, she said. Fleming plans on being an advocate for donors of all kinds, she said. Whether it be for hearts, lungs, eyes, “I’m going to sign as many people up as I possibly can,” Fleming said. “I’m going to round up a whole new group of donors. They don’t even know I’m coming,” Fleming said. “Because you know what, I think like this, everybody needs something, we just don’t know we need it and when it comes to you, you got to accept the blessings.”
Report pins record lateness on LIRR Continued from Page 1 responsible for 14 percent of all incidents and more than half of the increase in poor performance, with delay incidents more than doubling from 1,227 to 3,074. The report also shows the LIRR was responsible for 6,542 incidents, translating to almost a third of delayed and canceled trains. The state comptroller’s office attributes most of this to unscheduled repairs and mechanical problems. The LIRR maintains that 82 percent of incidents could be attributed to passengers boarding or exiting trains, but the report suggests only a quarter should be attributed to customers. “Most of the delays from boarding and exiting the trains occurred when demand exceeded the level of service provided by the LIRR, mostly for special events and holidays,” the report said, also noting short platforms and late arrivals to the terminal as factors. “The LIRR, not the customer, bears PHOTO COURTESY OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE responsibility for these conditions,” the report added. This chart from the state comptroller’s office shows that the LIRR was The release of the state comptroller’s report follows the release of statistics by responsible for nearly one-third of its delays and canceled trains.
the LIRR showing that the railroad got off to a poor start in 2018, posting its worst monthly on-time performance in January in over two decades. The report also comes after LIRR officials outlined a new performance plan in February. LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski said at the time the plan would feature new trains as provided in the capital program, using new technology to reduce weather-related complications, and expanding rail inspections and rail grinding to repair damaged wheels and tracks. An LIRR spokesman said officials “have heard our customers loud and clear” and are taking “a host of aggressive actions to improve service,” including adding staff, upgrading infrastructure and “hardening against weather-related delays.” The spokesman also noted 100 capital projects, including the double track, third track and Jamaica Capacity Improvement project, which “will dramatically improve the railroad’s performance and enhance capacity for generations to come.”
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USMMA alums inspire women
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Pictured from left to right: Capt. Jack Buono addresses a crowd of current students and Kings Point alumni, saying he looks forward to the day where men and women face “equal challenges;” Jeanne-Marie Van Hemmen, a 1986 graduate, encourages young women to embrace their strengths and push forward; Susan Winfree, a 1985 graduate of the academy, was one of three women speakers to share their experience and encourage young women to embrace the academy and unconventional careers. Continued from Page 19 Inc., an ExxonMobil subsidiary, said the students here – both men and women – choose a difficult path where they are pursuing personal greatness. But, he said, he believes women have faced more challenges – yet managed to do great things. “I think we’ve made great progress there, but I do believe women have had a harder time. Shame on us and shame
on the industry,” Buono, a 1978 graduate, said. “But don’t let that dissuade you, because it is changing, and there have been some incredible women before you who have paved that way in the industry, and you need to follow that.” Buono added that one of those women was Tracey Gunnlaugsson, a 1991 academy graduate, who went on to succeed him as the youngest head of SeaRiver Maritime Inc. ever.
“Go out there and conquer. You have every right to achieve your greatness in the maritime industry and change this industry into what it should be – change it into an industry where there’s equal challenges for men and women,” Buono said. Midshipman Emily Gramer, 22, a regimental public affairs officer at Kings Point graduating this year, said she aims to sail in the maritime industry. And for her, seeing so many girls in
attendance and hearing from women who have gone through the Kings Point experience to have diverse careers was even more encouraging. “It’s awesome to see these people,” Gramer said. “They’ve had incredibly different careers coming from the same spot, so it gives us a lot of hope of what’s coming for us in the next couple of years.” The United States Merchant Marine Academy has faced its own challenges, with sexual assault being a dominant issue in recent years. According to a USMMA# survey of campus midshipmen, 19.5 percent of women and 0.8 percent of men there said they had been sexually assaulted during the 2015-16 academic year – but only four cases were reported to academy officials. The same survey also showed that 73 percent of the assaults occurred on campus. The academy’s accreditation status with the Middle States Commission on High Education was put on warning, due to failure to meet five of 14 standards, although it is no longer under threat. The academy also temporarily suspended Sea Year, where midshipmen serve aboard a merchant vessel, to hold special training on acceptable conduct following reports of bullying, sexual assault and sexual harassment. Rear Adm. James Helis, the academy’s superintendent, previously said the academy has hired people to help deal with sexual misconduct and plans to hire more officials to work in the school’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program.
NYIT students celebrate Match Day Continued from Page 3 “I give them about 30 seconds to thank their parents, friends, teachers, lovers, dogs, anything that comes along,” Gilliar said. “To me, it is the grounding that we are not alone.” Parini Patel of New Hyde Park said her interest in the neuromuscular system led her to pain management and reha-
porting him through undergraduate and graduate school at Vanderbilt University as well as his time at NYIT. “As medical educators, this is the pediatrics. bilitation. “I did a pediatric ICU rotation, and joyful moment we look forward to each Patel, who had already learned her match before the ceremony, will spend it was the most humbling experience of year,” Gilliar said. “For four years, we’ve her residency at Nassau University Medi- my life,” Goldstein said. “I just want to seen these medical students transform and envision their future as physicians, help kids.” cal Center. Goldstein, who did rotations at Me- and today we see them open the enveStill in shock after the ceremony, Matthew Goldstein of Manhasset said he morial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center lopes not only to their residency matches, was heading to his first choice at Florida and Mount Sinai, thanked his parents, but to their dreams.” Hospital for Children with a specialty in Celeste and Stuart Goldstein, for sup-
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Trump picks Mondello for ambassadorship “It is a great way for him to end a remarkable career,” Nicolello said. “He’s been a leader for the Republican Party for 30-something years … but!putting aside politics, if it were Democrat with the same accomplishments I’d feel the same way.” In addition to working as county chairman, Mondello was the chair of the state GOP in the 2000s and served as Hempstead presiding supervisor during the late 1980s and early 1990s. A spokesman for the Nassau GOP said that no determination! had been made as to who would replace Mondello as chairman. He said that it could take a few months before Mondello is confirmed and leaves Nassau. Nicolello said he was unsure who would take over as chairman. “I am on the Nassau GOP committee, so in terms of making a decision, I’ll be involved,” he said. “But I won’t know until we get closer to that time.” According to a source, Newsday reported, the presumed favorite is Joseph Cairo, who has worked with many local candidates and is considered Mondello’s top lieutenant.
Continued from Page 56 A spokesman for the Nassau GOP said Mondello! did not want to speak about the ambassadorship until after his confirmation. Should he be confirmed! Mondello would take over for interim ambassador John W. McIntyre, who has held the position since Trump’s inauguration. With a population of 1.3 million, the two islands make up the second-largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean. According to the World Bank, it is one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in the region, with a GDP of $21.8 billion in 2016. According to MIT, more than half of the country’s exports consist of oil and natural gas. According to the State Department, it also has the highest per capita rate of ISIS recruitment in the Western Hemisphere. Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park), the presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, was among the local Republicans who offered congratulations to Mondello.
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War of middle classes The recent school shooting in Parkland Florida is merely the latest in a stunning series of mass shootings that American middle-class teenagers have witnessed, heard about and have been traumatized by. The Columbine High School shooting back in 1999 was a watershed moment when the nation was stunned to learn that two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, entered their school with shotguns and assault rifles and killed 13 students, wounded 24 others before killing themselves. But the Columbine killings were merely the first of many mass murders that were soon to come. The most dramatic included Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech who killed 32 classmates and injured 17 others. In 2012 Adam Lanza shot 26 children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. And now in February of this year Nikolas Cruz entered the high school from which he was expelled and shot and killed 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Florida. One of the most notable aspects of this trend is that these school shootings are taking place in what was heretofore considered to be safe middleclass neighborhoods. So what’s going on? What are the causes of this trend, what is the impact on kids and what are the solutions? This past week on March 13 nearly every school in the nation organized student ‘Walk outs’ to show respect for the lost children which serves to demonstrate that the entire country is anxious and worried. First let us take a moment to talk about a few of the possible causes for this new trend in middle-class school shootings. The one that every politician has latched onto is the number of guns that are circulating around our nation. In fact, there are over 350 million handguns, rifles and shotguns in hands of American citizens. That’s a lot of guns. And even if we could reduce that number by 90 percent there would still be 35 million guns left. Yes indeed gun control is an obvious cause but there are deeper issues at play here. I would suggest that a primary cause of this new middle-
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class war relates to trends that we are all very familiar with. For the longest time we have seen stagnant middleclass wages, the growth of the so-called 1 percenters which has resulted in an extremely stressed and overworked population. Most families now have both parents working and both returning home late at night exhausted. It is obvious that this simple fact has had a damaging effect on family life. Add to this the hyper-competitive life kids now experience if they hope to get into a decent college. What this adds up to is an overdriven population of adults and kids who are stressed out beyond belief. Many if not most of us overdriven Americans wind up doing okay for ourselves. That’s the good news. The bad news is that a small but critical percentage of us are left behind feeling ashamed, ostracized, humiliated, alone and angry. Actually very angry. Some of these kids will get depressed, some will get physically sick, some will turn to drug use and some will act out in anger. And what we see with this increase in middle-class school shootings is that small but very angry group who decide to act out in violent ways. What is the impact of all these school shootings? I have interviewed some kids and families and my sense is that the impact is grave and unsettling. One brave girl put it well when she said “It’s tough enough to try to get good grades for college admission but now we have to worry about getting shot at.” This stunning comment is enough to leave a parent feeling unnerved and helpless. Another interview revealed that schools are now training students in ways to take cover
and hide when they hear gunshots. This reminded me of my days in grammar school in the 1950’s when we were trained to ‘duck and cover’ under our desks if a nuclear attack was imminent. Every kid in every school is now on edge and even the slightest offhand joke or funny remark made by a student may produce a paranoid reaction on the part of other students or teachers. The police are then called in to investigate each and every incident no matter how minor or innocent the story. These predictable overreactions serve to re-traumatize the entire school and especially the falsely accused whose reputation may be permanently damaged. This is in some way reminds me of the mass hysteria during the Salem witch trials when 20 people were hung after being accused of demonic possession. In the case of the Salem witch hunts, they community was fractious and facing contentious disputes about property rights. This stress apparently was expressed with mass hysteria and fear of demon possession. This serves to warn us that we need to understand the underlying anxiety in a community rather than hunting down scapegoats. These are strange and difficult times for middle-class Americans. This trend in mass school shootings is a sign of serious cultural distress, partly connected to economics and partly connected to social exclusion. To date the very best solution I have heard is not from politicians or talking heads but from one of my young patients who said to me “I think the best thing to do is not to go out marching but to tell every kid in school to reach out and be kind to the kids who look lonely or left out or sad. I bet that would help a lot.” I couldn’t agree more. Everyone wants to feel loved and accepted and included. It may be Utopian and idealistic to think we can have a nation which is more loving but it certainly seems to me that’s the direction to go in. Kindness costs nothing, would save lives and we would live in a place with more happiness.
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Women honored for community work Continued from Page 12 Town Councilman Peter Zuckerman at the Albertson train station, where he handed her a flier about running for office. It was around the time Groothuis was releasing her first book, “Peace in Our World.” “He said he’s running for office because he wants to be a helpful person and help the world,” Groothuis said. “I said, ‘I want to help the world too.'” Groothuis said Zuckerman has been helpful at supporting and promoting her work, and she feels honored by the town’s recognition. Harris, who said she usually likes to stay in the background, said she was pleasantly surprised when she found out about the recognition and was certainly not expecting it. Harris is involved with Kiwanis and other charitable organizations. She said she does a lot of volunteering for Cystic Fibrosis and is also a director for Warriors for a Cause, which raises money for a number of Long Island-based nonprofit organizations, charities and foundations. Barnola, who has lived in Mineola for 65 years, said she was honored and pleased when she found out about the recognition. Barnola is active in different clubs, including the Mineola Golden Age Club, the leisure club and Mineola AARP. She worked for 27 years in the Mineola School District as an administrative assistant to the assistant principal at the high school. When she retired, she said, there
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Mona Ng, upper left, Paula Groothuis, upper right, Lillian Barnola bottom left, and Helene Harris, are four of 12 women North Hempstead is honoring next Wednesday. was a “little void” that her involvement filled. “You want to do something worthwhile … you want to give back to the community,” Barnola said. Barnola said she knew Newburger when she was town supervisor.
“She did a lot for the community and Town of North Hempstead,” Barnola said. “She was a very active person so I’m honored be on the honor roll in her name.”
LIRR outlines improvement plan Continued from Page 21 These upgrades include adding digital countdown clocks at suburban stations, making WiFi available in Penn Station and Atlantic Terminal, and publicizing apps like TrainTime. Additionally, it calls for further market research, focus groups and “LIRR Listens” sessions to gauge consumer sentiment and improve communications. “Just as important, whether we have a disruption or are providing normal service, we know that improved communication with custom-
ers is vital,” Nowakowski said. “That extends to this plan itself.” Nowakowski estimated that the plan would cost between $15 million and $20 million, with roughly threequarters of the cost going toward the increased staff. Overall, MTA Trustee Ira Greenberg said he believes the plan will help. “I think this is very good,” Greenberg said. “This is a meat and potatoes list of things that are going to be done that will result in on-time increased performance.”
But Scott Rechler, who represents Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the MTA board, said that while there may be “a lot of good ideas here” he was “disappointed” and recommended stepping back to repackage how it is presented. “We need a well thought out plan that could be easily communicated, that reflects the type of sense of urgency that this performance deserves,” Rechler said at the MTA meeting.
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LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held by the Planning Board of the Village of Roslyn Estates on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in the Village Hall, 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates, New York 11576, to hear the following case: Public Hearing for Case #78, Application for Re-grading Approval, of Harvey Fastman, owner of premises at 75 The Serpentine, Roslyn Estates, NY 11576, also known as Section 7, Block 48, Lot 211, on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, located in R-21 zoning district, for re-grading approval under Village Code Section 80-3, with respect to proposed re-grading of the parcel within 20’ of a property line by more than 2” At the public hearing, all persons shall have an opportunity to be heard. Individuals wishing to review a file may do so during Village business hours. Those persons planning to attend the meeting and who require special accommodations because of a disability should notify the Village Clerk no less than 48 hours prior to the meeting. BY ORDER OF THE PLANNING BOARD ERICA SLEZAK, CHAIRPERSON DATED: March 14, 2018 RT #147964 1x 03/23 /2018 #147964
LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held by the Planning Board of the Village of Roslyn Estates on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in the Village Hall, 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates, New York 11576, to hear the following case: Public Hearing for Case #79, Application for Re-grading Approval, of Steve Shapiro, owner of premises at 78 The Intervale, Roslyn Estates, NY 11576, also known as Section 7, Block 1, Lot 47, on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, located in R-21 zoning district, for re-grading approval under Village Code Section 80-3(A), with respect to proposed re-grading of the parcel within 20’ of a property line by more than 2”in connection with the installation of a swimming pool and patio. At the public hearing, all persons shall have an opportunity to be heard. Individuals wishing to review a file may do so during Village business hours. Those persons planning to attend the meeting and who require special accommodations because of a disability should notify the Village Clerk no less than 48 hours prior to the meeting. BY ORDER OF THE PLANNING BOARD ERICA SLEZAK, CHAIRPERSON DATED: March 14, 2018 RT #147966 1x 03/23 /2018
LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the completed and verified assessment roll for the Village of Roslyn Estates for the fiscal year June 1, 2018 through May 31, 2019, will be filed with the Village Clerk of the Village of Roslyn Estates, at 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates, New York, on April 2, 2018, where it shall remain open to public inspection Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Dated: Roslyn Estates, New York March 23, 2018 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VILLAGE OF ROSLYN ESTATES Michael P. Tomicich Village Clerk/Treasurer RT #147974 1x 03/23 /2018 #147974
Notice of Formation of FM NYI LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/01/2018. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, FM NYI LLC, 145 Willow Street, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577. Purpose: any lawful purpose. RT #147686 6x 02/16, 02/23, 03/02, 03/09, 03/16, 03/23 /2018 #147686
Notice of Formation of Jansen Construction LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/2018. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 105 Yale Street, Roslyn Heights NY 11577. Purpose: any lawful purpose. RT #147803 6x 03/02, 03/09, 03/16, 03/23, 03/30, 04/06 /2018 #147803
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Summit on women The newly formed Long Island Women’s Diversity Network announced the schedule of workshops and panels for their first Women’s Diversity Summit to be held on March 24 at SUNY College at Old Westbury. The conference has over two dozen workshops and panels that cover a wide range of topics including race and ethnicity, children and youth issues, exploring LGBTQIA lives, advocacy and activism, women and politics, and the impact of social inequality." " “This conference is held in honor of Women’s History Month, and our goal is to celebrate all of Long Island’s diverse communities”, states Shanequa Levin, Every Child Matters-LI cam-
paign director and the Diversity Network’s chair. “The strong lineup of programs represents our attempt to engage participants in lively discussions and active learning around meaningful topics for 21st Century Long Island. Participants should expect to leave the Summit with different perspectives on the complex issues we face today.” " Levin continued “One of our more thought-provoking panels is ‘The Language of Cultural Awareness: Using Words that Connect, Heal and Empower.’ Adesuwa Obasohan, from the National Council of Negro Women, will be moderating a panel of diverse community advocates to discuss the use of language and how it
impacts the general public’s understanding of and connection with minority communities.“ " The first Women’s Diversity Summit will be held on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at the Campus Center of SUNY College at Old Westbury. The Summit runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with plenty of time to socialize and network. The 2018 LIWDN Summit is a project of Every Child Matters and over 30 other community-based organizations and is cosponsored by SUNY Old Westbury. " For more information contact:" Shanequa Levin, L.I. Women’s Diversity Network chair at" liwomensdiversity@ gmail.comor call (631) 885-8044
League honors ‘herstory’ Continued from Page 24 Hofstra University. Goldstein spoke about Long Island in the 1970s, which she called a “hot pit of feminism,” according to Naylor. Goldstein said during her speech that the energy came from the ground that was gained. “When you start from zero, everything is up,” Goldstein had said. The movement did not continue at the same pace, Goldstein had said,
because the next generations of women grew up not understanding that those advances had to be fought for in the not-sodistant past. To them, the right to have a credit card or apply for any job was no more immediate in history than “the Spanish Inquisition,” Goldstein said. Another roadblock Goldstein mentioned in the 90s, and Naylor argued is still present, is that change did not need to come from laws but rather
from attitudes. “It’s easier to legislate than change the thinking,” Goldstein said. Those attitudes are starting to shift again, though, Gillen said. Gillen said she’s encouraged by all the women elected this year, a trend she said is likely to continue. “[We’re] seeing now a level of engagement of young people and young girls who all of a sudden think ‘This is something I might do,'” Gillen said.
LIU Post baseball back in Brookville BY M Y L ES GOLDMAN With the baseball season in full swing, the LIU Post Pioneers came back to Brookville to play their first home game on Saturday, March 17, after opening the season with 14 games away. The first 14 games of the season were monumental for some of the players. Junior pitcher James Varela was awarded East Coast Conference Player of The Week on March 12 after pitching all nine innings and striking out 12 batters against Franklin Pierce University on March 10 in Cary, N.C. Junior infielder Jimmy Mendyk also had a game to remember on the road when he picked up four hits to aid in a win for the Pioneers against Dominican College on March 11.
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Mike Gaffney, LIU Post’s head baseball coach
Head baseball coach Michael Gaffney is pleased that the team has returned home after spending many weekends on the road. “We feel better about playing on our field, sleeping in our beds and leaving our suitcases unpacked, but the snow is our only wrinkle.” The team travels to North Caroline and South Carolina to begin every season. The Pioneers are the only Division II baseball team that still has a grass baseball field. But, the Pioneers are able to use the fields at Adelphi University and New York Institute of Technology in case of inclement weather, since turf sustains its structure during bad weather. Turf doesn’t create puddles of water, which can lead to injuries. As the team heads home, they’re sitting in eighth place in the East Region ranking after a 2-0 victory against Franklin Pierce University on March 10. At the beginning of the season, the Pioneers were in fifth place, so they dropped down three ranks. “We had a tough week in Myrtle Beach,” Coach Gaffney said, “but by the end of the year, we’ll be in the top seven. I don’t put too much stock in it because it’s still early.” The Pioneers will play their next game at home against the NYIT Bears on Friday, March 23 in Brookville. This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.
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Roslyn Elections draw few residents Continued from Page 1 mer associate village justice, was also elected with eight votes to replace Justice Charles E. Parisi, who opted to retire. According to the Census Bureau, the Roslyn Harbor population in 2016 was 1,098. Results were not immediately available in Roslyn in the uncontested elections of Deputy Mayor Marshall Bernstein and Trustee Craig Westergard as well as village Justice Andrew Weitz. Bernstein, who was originally elected to the seat in 1995, said this will likely be his last term. Westergard was elected in 2000 and Weitz was elected in 2014. Luke Torrance contributed reporting.
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Frey returns to direct ‘Xanadu’ Continued from Page 48 Zeus, Isabella Soffer as Hera, Abigail Drucker as Medusa, Oliver Topel as Eros and Alex Russ as Cyclops. The Sirens who are also the featured dancers are Maya Behiri, Daniella Futoran, Lanie Kotler, Olivia Rubrum, Lindsey Russ, Isabella Soffer, Rose Verde and Arianna Vigorito. Rounding out the ensemble are Samantha Berg, Emma Dalessio, Julia Farinacci, Daniella Futoran, Maya Golos, Lanie Kotle, Nicole Lee, Samantha Matthews, Trevor Rosenthal, Olivia Rubrum, Morgan Sapienza, Gianna Segura, Kyra Sorkin, Charlotte Trezza and Andie Weiner. Along with Frey, the creative team includes musical director Ryan Occeña, producer Diana Sabzevari, choreographer Nicole Bianco, costume designer Cathleen Marx and Erik Chocianowski along with Doug Sherry, who designed and constructed the exquisite set. The lighting design is by former Royal Crown Players member Josh Azoulay.
The onstage pit orchestra rocks the house with Frey conducting and on keyboards along with Occeña on keyboards, Jerry Hu on guitar and Jonathan Lin on drums. Other members of the creative
team include stage manager Rebecca Golden and assistant stage manager Molly Frank. The technical director and lighting chief is Ross Rosenfeld. The backstage chiefs are shop foreman Devin Rosenthal, Ross Rosenfeld and
set designer Jasmine Ting and and set construction by Molly Frank and Edwin Torres. The dance captains are Daniella Futoran and Lindsey Russ along with assistants, Lanie Kotler and Arianna Vigorito. Other chiefs include Sarah Golden for sound, Jessica Novick for make-up and Sam Matthews for costumes who is also the production manager. The business manager is Sami Pye assisted by Nicole Lee. The box office manager is Alex Russ with Kelly Frank and the publicity chief is Rose Verde. “Xanadu” will be performed at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Roslyn High School auditorium. Senior citizens can attend the Thursday matinee for free. To purchase or reserve tickets, visit royalcrownplayers.org or call the Box Office at (516) 801-5156. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $10 for students.
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