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Suozzi wins Congress race Dem defeats GOPer Martins 48-44 despite Trump victory; Rice gets 2nd term ure out what’s going on in this country and figure out how to bring people North Shore voters chose Demo- back together again to work together crat Tom Suozzi over Republican Jack to actually address the problems that Martins on Tuesday to represent the we face in this country.” Voters also re-elected Democratic 3rd Congressional District, keeping retiring Rep. Steve Israel’s seat in Rep. Kathleen Rice over Republican David Gurfein, a retired U.S. Marine Democratic hands. Suozzi, a former Nassau County Corps officer and businessman from Manhasset, in the 4th executive, won 48.45 Congressional District. percent of the vote Rice, a former to state Sen. Martins’ Party activists Nassau County district 44.02 percent, a tighter margin than polls react to Trump win attorney from Garden City, won a second had predicted. PAGE 24 term with 54.26 perThe win is Suozzi’s cent of the vote to Gurfirst in 11 years and brings him some political redemption fein’s 37.1 percent. The 3rd District race tightened in after losing his last three elections. But the victory was tempered by the week leading up to the election — Republican Donald Trump taking the Suozzi’s lead shrunk to 7 percentage White House and his party maintain- points from 16 in early October in a ing control in both houses of Con- Nov. 3 Siena College poll. Martins, a former Mineola mayor gress. “We need to really do some who now lives in Old Westbury, proved soul-searching,” Suozzi told a crowd a popular candidate but continually of about 200 supporters at the Mil- struggled with name recognition. leridge Inn in Jericho. “We have to figContinued on Page 22
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Democrat Tom Suozzi declares victory Tuesday night in his 3rd Congressional District race against Republican state Sen. Jack Martins.
Phillips wins as GOP holds state Senate BY J OE N I K I C , STEPHEN ROMANO AND MAX ZAHN
In two hotly contested state Legislature races, Republican Elaine Phillips defeated Democrat Adam Haber in the 7th Senate district, while Democrat Anthony
D’Urso defeated Republican Matt Varvaro on Tuesday night. In two other state races, Democrat Charles Lavine comfortably retained his seat in the 13th Assembly district against Republican Jeffrey Vitale, while Republican Ed Ra decisively defeated Democrat Gary Port to retain his seat in the 19th Assembly district.
In a tight race to replace outgoing state Sen. Jack Martins in the 7th Senate district, Phillips defeated her opponent, Democrat Adam Haber, by 4,161 votes, out of 127,308 cast. Haber, an East Hills businessman, received 59,169 votes on the Democratic line to his opponent’s 58,455 Republican votes, but 5,490 Conservative Party votes
pushed Phillips over the top in the race for a 52 percent to 48 percent victory. “When I began this campaign six months ago, I asked the voters of this district to look at my record of cutting taxes, working to enact strong ethics and protect the environment,” she said. “Voters agreed that we need a Senator Continued on Page 23
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Herricks seeks to add Bringing Wheatley four school holidays to Costa Rica Proposal reflects changes in demographics Students aid in rebuilding school BY N O A H M A N S K A R
was severely damaged by a 2012 earthquake, he said. The 150 students currently attend classes in a warehouse in half-day sessions, with 75 going in the morning and the other 75 going in the afternoon, Avila said. The school, meanwhile, is locked and surrounded by cracked pavement and a fence, Avila said. The government has offered little help except for some repaving of nearby roads, he said. “I know plenty of people that have visited Costa Rica and many of the tourists that go there, they don’t really see that side of the country,” Avila said. Avila started Project Brasilito to raise the $10,000 to $20,000 necessary to fix the school. He has so far raised about $1,000 and collected school supplies by hosting two events at the Wheatley School, he said. Gitlitz, his friend of more than 10 years, joined him in the effort and hopes to visit Costa Rica later this year, he said. Avila said he hopes the money will help make the school a place students want to go every Continued on Page 48
As Old Westbury residents and students at the Wheatley School, Samuel Avila and Evan Gitlitz know their school is nicer than most in the world, they said. The childhood friends are working to give students in Costa Rica the same kind of educational opportunities they’ve had by raising money to rebuild a school in Costa Rica through Project Brasilito, a charity Avila started last year. “They don’t value educaiton as much when the school is shambles,” Avila said. “We just want to not only rebuild the school, but make it a positive environment.” PHOTO BY SAMUEL GLASSER To do that, they’ve teamed up with Row45, a gym in AlbertHerricks High School student Agam Singh (center) of the South Asian Student Alliance son, and with Gitlitz’s family to addresses the Herricks school board. With him are Alliance members Hita Soni (left) and host events this month benefiting Shreya Rao. Project Brasilito, including one on Saturday. Avila’s father was born in tion are reckoned by the lunar the New York City schools have, BY S A M U E L calendar; their corresponding Chile and raised in Costa Rica, Celano said. GLASSER AND The discussion started a few dates on the Gregorian calendar and he’s traveled there with his NOAH MANSKAR family about half a dozen times, years ago when the board noted vary from year-to-year. he said. The school board faces sevdemographic shifts in the disThe Herricks school district On each trip, they visit a is looking to add four Hindu, trict, said Nancy Feinstein, the eral constraints in adding holischool in Brasilito, a town on days, either because of the disschool board president. Muslim and Chinese holidays She said “it’s just a matter of trict’s teachers union contract or the country’s western coast, that to the school calendar, a move time” until the holidays can be state regulations, Celano said. supported by many students and For example, he said, the added. parents. School districts throughout state Education Department But a discussion at Thursday night’s school board meet- the North Shore have seen pop- mandates 180 days of instrucing was just “the first stage” of ulations of minority students in- tion that have to fit between a process that contains many crease between 2005 and 2015, Sept. 1 and the week of Regents steps, said Fino Celano, the dis- state Education Department exams, typically held during the third week of June. data shows. trict’s superintendent. Schools cannot be open on Herricks has seen the big“The discussion will continue,” said Nancy Feinstein, gest change in student demo- federal holidays and five consecutive days off must be given the school board president. graphics. Students of Asian descent during spring and winter breaks. “We have some hurdles to overCalendar modifications account for about 57 percent come.” The district wants to des- of the student body, up from 45 would also depend on the schedule of the state Regents exams, ignate the Chinese Lunar New percent in 2005-06. Over the same period, the Feinstein said. Year, Diwali, the Hindu festival Parents on Thursday spoke of light, and the Muslim holidays white student population dePHOTO COURTESY OF PROJECT BRASILITO of Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha of- creased to 35 percent from 50 highly of the quality and ethnic Wheatley School junior Samuel Avila (left) is trying to raise diversity of Herricks schools. ficial school holidays, as other percent. The four holidays in quesContinued on Page 48 money to rebuild a school in Brasilito, Costa Rica. districts in Nassau County and
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Drucker bests Imbroto for county seat Dem fends off GOP supermajority in Legislature in race to replace late Judy Jacobs BY M A X Z A H N Democrat Arnold Drucker easily defeated Republican Louis Imbroto in an election for Nassau County’s 16th legislative district seat, which opened up after the unexpected death of longtime county Legislator Judy Jacobs. “I’m very excited for this opportunity,” said Drucker, who lives in Plainview and runs a law practice in Jackson Heights. “My primary goal is to do the kind of work that would make Judy Jacobs proud.” Drucker garnered 17,647 votes, which comprised 58 percent of the electorate; while Imbroto took in 12,774 votes, which amounted to 42 percent. The county’s 16th Legislative District takes in parts of Roslyn Heights, Old Westbury and the Town of Oyster Bay. Imbroto, also of Plainview, is the associate general counsel for the Nassau Health Care Corporation. He remained upbeat in spite of the loss. “I’m really proud of the re-
Arnold Drucker, who was elected to represent the 16th District of the Nassau County Legislature. sults because this was a tough district,” he said. “I’m thrilled that I had a chance to present my plans to the voters.” Jacobs’ death, on Sept. 13, brought the two candidates into an unexpected sprint toward Elec-
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Plan for major spending cuts: NIFA Nassau County’s financial control board requests plans to fill deficit in 2017 budget BY N O A H MANSKAR Nassau County’s financial control board asked county officials last Wednesday to make plans for major spending cuts in case the final county budget fails to meet the board’s standards. In a letter, Adam Barsky, chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, told County Executive Edward Mangano and his administration to develop three contingency plans — one cutting $50 million in spending from the county’s $3 billion budget, another cutting $75 million and a third cutting $100 million. NIFA wants the county to submit the plans by Nov. 16 and says they should contain “detailed initiatives that can be immediately implemented” to reduce spending, according to the letter. The NIFA board of directors must approve the county’s annual budget and four-year spending plan. The plans could
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a move Barsky called “deeply troubling.” Presiding Office Norma Gonsalves has said lawmakers will fill the hole by Dec. 1. Brian Nevin, a spokesman for Mangano, a Republican, said the Legislature will likely finalize a balanced budget at its Nov. 21 meeting.
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“In the meantime, the deputy county executive for finance is reviewing NIFA’s letter and preparing contingencies should the Legislature not fund the budget they approved on October 31,” Nevin wrote in an email. In a statement, Gonsalves said the Legislature has told NIFA of its plan to take more time to “evaluate potential budgetary alternatives that have been brought to our attention, and that all contemplated revenues would be in place well before fiscal 2017.” Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) said the NIFA letter indicates “the governing of this county has spiraled out of control.” The letter foreshadows another showdown with NIFA after the authority last year rejected the 2016 budget, threatening major spending cuts and stricter controls before agreeing to a quarterly budget review process. If NIFA rejects the final budget proposal, it will order county officials to revise it and pres-
ent it to NIFA for another vote. A NIFA report last month said Mangano’s proposed budget contained $217 million in risks and found it would result in a deficit of $99.5 million according to generally accepted accounting principles, which do not count borrowing as operating revenue. Among the risky revenue was $64 million from a proposed “public safety fee,” a widely panned $105 surcharge for all traffic and parking tickets. Mangano’s budget proposed about $83 million in revenue from dozens of new and increased fees. The Republicancontrolled Legislature this week struck $9.2 million of that and cut spending by about the same amount. Mangano will be involved in budget talks in the coming weeks following his indictment last month on federal corruption charges. He has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.
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Suozzi reclaims mantle of fighter BY N O A H M A N S K A R Tom Suozzi was sitting at home with a cold on Jan. 5 when his phone started to ring. That was the day U.S. Rep. Steve Israel announced he would retire from Congress at the end of his 16th year, a surprise that caused a political stir on the North Shore. The deluge of calls Suozzi got that afternoon encouraging him to run for Israel’s 3rd Congressional District seat took the edge off the cold and the existential questions he was asking himself about what to do next in his career. “I’m getting texts, I’m getting messages, and I’m like, ‘Ooh, this is the happiest I’ve been in a while,’” said Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive from Glen Cove, on a recent Saturday afternoon, following a few hours of campaign events. Suozzi has said he lost his last three elections because he relied too heavily on political consultants who sought to curb his passion and idealism. But as he looks to return to public office, he and his aides say this campaign represents a return to Suozzi’s former political self — a firebrand unafraid to fight big fights with big ideas. Consultants are on board this time, but Suozzi is behind the wheel, he said. “This is more like how I used to campaign,” he said.
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of Old Westbury. Suozzi displayed comfort with meeting new people, no matter how brief the interaction, during campaign stops across the district on Oct. 29. Between addressing a Shabbat service at Temple Chai in Dix Hills and a group of senior citizens at The Bristal Assisted Living in North Hills, Suozzi stopped briefly at a parade in Bellerose, Queens, celebrating a Sikh holiday. He stopped at every table during a meal after a Shabbat service at Temple Chai in Dix Hills while taking time to discuss the Iran nuclear deal and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with members. Suozzi said he likes to break the ice with phrases in foreign languages. On this particular day he greeted people in Hindi, Hebrew and Italian, and sang a song in Polish. He’s also spoken Chinese, Korean and other languages on the campaign trail. The practice gives people a sense of comfort as Suozzi tries to persuade them that he would best represent the ethnically and culturally diverse district stretching from northeast Queens to northwest Suffolk County, he said. He hopes personal connections will give supporters faith in him when he starts fighting the battles against “powerful interests” that he has promised, he said. Continued on Page 50
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Dems seek to bar OK for unbalanced budget BY N O A H M A N S K A R Democratic Nassau County legislators introduced a bill Monday to prevent the Legislature from passing an unbalanced budget ever again. The bill would amend the county charter to require the Legislature to both adopt and fully fund a budget for the following ďŹ scal year by Oct. 30. The charter now only
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Tax breaks cost revenue
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he Nassau County Legislature approved a $2.9 billion 2017 budget last week — with $70 million less in revenue than expenses. The Nassau County comptroller’s office issued subpoena’s last week to the Hempstead Town Industrial Agency and two Hempstead Town officials regarding tax breaks the agency granted to Green Acres Mall. The two actions are not unrelated. Year after year, Nassau — one of the wealthiest counties in New York State — has used all kinds of gimmicks in what are usually unsuccessful efforts to balance the budget without raising property taxes. This year that effort features a proposal by Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano to impose a $105 traffic ticket surcharge known as a “public safety fee.” This in a county in which red-light tickets currently carry a cost of $95 and most other tickets, from parking violations to illegal turns, cost between $110 and $225 – without the fee. In a moment of legislative responsibility, Republican county legislators rejected the proposed $105 ticket surcharge. Unfortunately, it was just a moment and the Republican legislators went ahead and approved the budget anyway. The Republican legislators said they would get to the part of having revenues equal expenses at a later date. Unimpressed, the chairman of Nassau’s control board directed Mangano to produce three separate contingency plans by Nov. 16 to reduce next year’s op-
erating expenditures by as much as $100 million. At least part of the county’s problem in getting revenue to equal expenses may lie the tax breaks given to businesses by not one, not two, but three industrial development agencies — the Hempstead Town Industrial Agency, the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and the City of Glen Cove Industrial Development Agency. The industrial development agencies are intended to spur economic development by granting exemptions to businesses on property taxes as well as mortgage recording taxes and, in some cases, exemptions from state and local sales taxes. In return, the businesses agree to payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements, or PILOTs, to offset some of the money saved. The tax breaks, it is said, permit projects that create jobs and spur developments to move forward that would otherwise be too costly for businesses to otherwise undertake. In many instances, this may be true. But when some businesses are given tax breaks everyone else — residents and businesses — must make up the difference. Or else you get an unbalanced budget. In the case of the tax breaks given to the Green Acre Mall’s owner, California-based Macerich, the millions in tax breaks given by the Hempstead IDA in 2014 on the company’s $79 million renovation project resulted in tax increases ranging from 4.6 percent to 12.2 percent for residents of Valley Stream, according to Nassau County Comptrol-
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ler George Maragos. Ken Volk, senior vice president at Macerich, issued a statement saying that the company’s investment “stabilized” the mall and preserved “nearly 3,000 jobs,” according to a story in Newsday. Volk, according to Newsday, went on to say that the project creates “670 new union construction jobs, increases the sales tax revenue, and has already made a number of critical safety and infrastructure improvements and brought new stores and more visitors than ever before.” Left unsaid were the number local retail stores — many of whose owners live in Nassau County — were or will be hurt and even forced to close because of their subsidized competitors. Officials routinely call the small mom-and-pop stores the backbone of the community. But the tax breaks usually go to the
big guys. Adding insult to injury, these small businesses are often the ones who as both residents and business owners make up for the revenue lost by the tax breaks. Also left unsaid is why, if the upgrade was so important to the mall why the owners invest their own money in the improvements. Or sell the property to someone who would. Under public pressure, the Hempstead IDA last week commissioned a cost-benefit analysis of the mall’s tax breaks. While the Hempstead clearly has this backward, it is actually more than what most IDAs across the state do. And Green Acres is not the only development to receive tax breaks and the Town of Hempstead not the only IDA to issue them. The Nassau County IDA has given tax breaks to a Roslyn car
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dealership, luxury apartments in North Hills and a luxury senior facility. In the case of the luxury senior facility, the IDA was poised to grant a second round of tax breaks until Great Neck and Herricks school officials as well as the Village of North Hills and then county Legislator Judi Bosworth intervened, noting that the second round of tax breaks would do nothing for economic growth and cost them muchneeded revenue. The state Legislature, which regulates IDAs, has tightened supervision of local agencies in recent years. That’s not enough. It’s time the Legislature requires a costbenefit analysis on all IDA projects to see if the benefits actually outweigh the costs. Perhaps then, the county might even balance its budget.
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PROFESSOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Pyrrhic victory for partisan press?
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here’s a long held media maxim that a journalist’s most valuable asset is reputation. After this election, many media outlets may have to file for bankruptcy due to their lacking reputations. Americans’ confidence in the media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” is at an alltime low. Only 32 percent trust them, a September Gallup poll found. Pollsters blame “lower standards for journalism” in presidential campaign coverage for “corroding Americans’ trust and confidence.” One big reason for the decline is media bias. A majority of likely voters say journalists are biased against Donald Trump, an Oct. 19 Quinnipiac University poll found. While the perception of bias depends upon one’s party, it’s telling that 60 percent of independent voters believe the media is anti-Trump. Journalists deny this, of course. Soon after Gallup’s poll, Washington Post media reporter
Paul Farhi ranted in a column “To: Everyone: … I know a lot of you don’t like [us] … Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ It’s an invention, a tool, an all-purpose smear by people who can’t be bothered to make distinctions.” True, the media aren’t a monolith. Reporting standards differ widely across the media. The digital media revolution over the past 30 years has given rise to cable and online media outlets that carve a niche by catering to partisan audiences. Many are staffed by journalists who are more pundits than reporters. Anyone can start a blog and call himself a journalist these days. But the legacy media have remained the big leagues of journalism because they’ve long held higher standards. Print, radio and TV media have appealed to a general audience by covering news objectively. To achieve this reputation, their reporters adhere to ethical customs, such as sticking to the facts, verifying information and not taking sides — even when
MARK GRABOWSKI Professor’s Perspective covering a hostile subject like Trump. It wasn’t always this way. America’s early press was largely operated by political parties who mixed news and opinions indiscriminately. That changed in the early 20th century, with an outcry against “yellow journalism” and demand for greater truthfulness and accountability. Journalists saw their work as a profession with a responsibility to the public. Media outlets adopted codes
of ethics, which included prohibitions against political campaign contributions. This impartiality transformed journalism into the Fourth Estate: referees of politics’ playing field who didn’t root for Team Blue or Team Red. Many journalists continue to adhere to these standards. But a noticeable number of reporters and outlets have abandoned that practice while covering this election, hurting the entire profession’s reputation. Contrary to Farhi’s claim, there’s more than “anecdotal evidence” of “liberal bias.” A recent Center for Public Integrity study revealed 480 reporters and editors contributed to either presidential campaign, with 90 percent donating to Hillary Clinton. Journalists at The New York Times and other legacy outlets contributed, despite newsroom policies forbidding it. Granted, it’s possible for journalists to cover stories fairly despite having biases. But this election many haven’t even tried to. Consider The Times, whose
Aug. 8 cover story called on reporters who believe Trump is a “dangerous” “demagogue” to “throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century” even though “it may not always seem fair.” Many journalists apparently took that to heart. A recent WikiLeaks release of hacked emails revealed dozens of reporters, including several at The Times and major TV news networks, coordinated with Clinton’s campaign to provide positive coverage. It showed in their stories. For example, a content analysis of last week’s coverage of Clinton’s email scandal found overwhelming evidence that TV journalists spun it in Clinton’s favor. Media Research Center, a right-leaning media watchdog group, found ABC, NBC and CBS negatively reported on the F.B.I. director instead of Clinton “by a ratio of almost 3 to 1.” In a sense, Trump’s right that the election was “rigged.” Continued on Page 17
A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
The final two of my fabulous 10 list
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here used to be something called the Harvard Five-Foot Shelf: a bookshelf containing all the classics that Harvard’s 21st president, Charles Eliot, deemed most essential for a well-rounded education. I have the modern equivalent: a shelf that’s 10 DVD’s long. It’s not so much “educational” as it is essential for getting through life. I don’t need any help becoming sad, or outraged by the vicissitudes of life. What I need help with is getting past all that, or at least living with it. That’s where my movie shelf comes in. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” may appear, on the surface, to have nothing to do with your life today. And yet — who hasn’t been in a situation where, after much tribulation, you have brought back the required “shrubbery” for the fearsome “Knights who say ‘Ni!’,” only to be told you must now bring back a second shrubbery, “for the nice two-level effect”? I think we’ve all had bosses
like that. Or clients! I loved “Grail” from the very first scene (well, after the fake movie at the start) when the horses you hear clip-clopping up a foggy medieval hill turn out to be — coconut-shell halves, such as any sound effects man would be proud to own. It’s a simple gag but they stick with it throughout — even “dismounting” later when something makes the “horses” nervous! I am quite fond of the scene where a village full of filthy peasants want to burn a witch (Connie Booth) whom they’ve found. “How do you know she’s a witch?” asks Sir Bedivere, a knight of the village played by Terry Jones. “She turned me into a newt!” exclaims a villager (John Cleese). Everyone turns to him in amazement. “I got better,” he shrugs. “Burn her anyway!” they all shout. Of course, nothing like that happens any more, in these enlightened times! My favorite scene occurs when King Arthur and his Knights must cross the Bridge of
JUDY EPSTEIN A Look on the Lighter Side Death. To cross safely, they must answer the bridgekeeper’s three questions. But any incorrect answer will plunge them into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. Sir Launcelot crosses safely. Sir Robin, asked the capital of Assyria, replies “I don’t know!” and plunges to his death. Then, “What is your name?” “Sir Galahad.” “What is your quest?” “To seek the Holy Grail.” “What …is your favorite color?”
“Blue!” replies the startled Galahad. “No, yellow —” he corrects himself — or tries to. Too late! He, too, flies off into the abyss. As a youngster who had trouble making decisions about everything, even her own favorite ice cream flavor, this scene came often into my head. I feel like it’s a member of my family — or that I’m a member of theirs. At least so far, I have managed to avoid the abyss. As for the movie “Airplane” — it’s as funny as ever. There isn’t a single scene without at least one gag. Right from the opening credits we know what we’re in for — a romp — when we see an airplane’s tail fin cutting through a cloud-filled sky, to the music from “Jaws.” So many gags, so little space! One of my husband’s favorites is the scene in the airport, where Capt. Oveur takes a call on the white courtesy phone from a man in a white lab coat, standing in front of a wall full of mayonnaise jars. It’s a doctor at the Mayo clinic, of course. But then the
Captain must take a call from a Mr. Hamm, on line 5. “Give me Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo,” he says. I seem to share a “drinking problem” with the hero of the story — namely, that I too, when attempting to drink a liquid from a glass, often miss my mouth, drenching my face or shirt instead. “Just a little drinking problem!” I sheepishly explain to folks, as I towel myself off. I hope they know I’m referring to the movie! Of course there’s the gag this movie may be most famous for: “Surely you can’t be serious!” “I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.” My children might not understand the “smoking” ticket, or a courtesy phone — but they’ll understand the people sitting on the luggage carousel instead of the bags… or the running gag “I picked the wrong week to quit drinking coffee…smoking cigarettes…sniffing glue.” There is more than enough in this film to reward repeated viewing — which is why it will always have a place on my “Ten Film Shelf.”
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Highest taxes, debt in NY: Nassau For over half a century, New York has been ranked at the bottom of the 50 states for economic competitiveness. In 1975, for instance, the Fantus Company survey gave the Empire State “undisputed last place for attractiveness of business climate.” Not much has changed since then. Earlier this year, the American Legislative Exchange Council in “Rich States, Poor States,” a study that analyzed 15 policy variables, New York came in 50th place for economic attractiveness. Reasons for these dismal results included New York’s high cost of labor; high cost of energy; onerous regulations; unfunded state mandates; and huge public debt.
But the top one is taxes. New York has the highest combined state and local taxes in the nation. Ever growing taxes to service ever growing debt and government largesse is at the root of our economic malaise. And a report recently released by the Empire Center for Public Policy, “Benchmarking New York,” reveals that the tax and debt numbers for Nassau and many of its municipalities are the worst in the state. Here are some of the grim findings: Nassau has the highest percapita debt owing $3,045 per resident. North Hempstead is the highest spending and most heavily indebted large town in the state;
Suffolk Average
Per Capital Taxes-Counties Nassau $1,605 Westchester $1,299 Suffolk $1,360 Average $1,092 Per Capital Spending-Counties Nassau $2,677 Westchester $2,712 Suffolk $2,102 Average $2,143
GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Here are pertinent comparisons: Per Capital Debt-Counties Nassau $3,045 Westchester $1,444
Right idea, wrong location
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ho wants an indoor recreation center? Almost everybody. Who wants it replacing the Kings Point Tennis Center, on Steamboat Road? Not me! I’ve wanted a rec center long before the articulate and cute fifth graders were paraded in front of the parks commissioners, pleading their case for a place to play. But 143 Steamboat Road is the wrong site for it — inadequate for the community’s needs, and unsafe for the community. Steamboat Road is the major East-West thoroughfare at the North end of town, and yet it’s only one lane in each direction. If (meaning when!) people
double park to drop off or pick up their kids, traffic will have to stop, or cross a double yellow line to drive into oncoming traffic. Add the synagogues in the vicinity, with literally hundreds of people walking in the streets Friday Nights and Saturdays, and we have a recipe for disaster! Oh, and there’s a firehouse directly across the street. What did the traffic study say about all this? Right. There hasn’t been one! I don’t mind spending $5 million to $7 million for a rec center. In fact, I’m willing to be taxed a bit more ($1 dollar a week, instead of 72 cents), to build a real rec center from
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scratch, on land the parks department already owns. The very underused dog run on Colonial Road (more centrally located, to serve the entire community) has a huge parking lot, and the dog run was built over a pool. Let us have yearlong swimming, as well as yearlong skating, and room for more than just two basketball courts. If a traffic study finds this site to be problematic, how about the abandoned pool site at Kings Point Park, Steamboat Road side? Let’s build a safe, accessible, great rec center for everyone!
Per Capita Debt-Large Towns North Hempstead $1,496 Hempstead $536 Smithtown $159 Average $542 Per Capita Taxes-Large Towns North Hempstead $715 Hempstead $425
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Per Capita SpendingLarge Towns North Hempstead $1,198 Hempstead $767 Smithtown $889 Average $875 And you wonder why people, particularly millennials, are fleeing Nassau for greener economic pastures and low property tax environments. Contrary to all the happy talk of the political classes, Nassau’s economy will continue to be fragile until genuine tax and spending reforms are implemented by its county and town governments.
Help needed for Thanksgiving meals
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n Thursday, Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day, we will be preparing and delivering hot meals to homebound senior citizens, coordinating this program from our home. Last year we provided over 450 meals and we expect to be doing the same this year. We are in need of donations of desserts, individual non-carbonated beverages, mini loaves of bread or dinner rolls, turkeys, and cash in order to complete the meals. These items can be dropped off at our home at 35 Maxwell Road, Garden City. Sam Yellis Please call us as soon as possible to coordinate a convenient drop Great Neck off time. All deliveries will begin at 12 noon on Thanksgiving Day. Each delivery is accompanied by a visit, if so welcomed by the
recipient. We deliver to between 35 and 40 different towns within Nassau County; please call us if you are able to help with the delivery of the meals. This year will be the 21st year we have coordinated this project! It is a special part of our family tradition, and we invite you to make it part of yours, as well. Your generous donations of food, money, and time have made the deliveries a tremendous success each year. With your help, we can continue to bring a meal and a smile to those who are alone on the holiday. Feel free to contact us at 7468331 regarding any part of this program. We thank you all for your continued support each year! Melinda and John Alford Garden City
Congrats to G.N. ed board
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armest congratulations to President Barbara Berkowitz, Vice President Lawrence Gross, Trustee Donald Ashkenase, and Trustee Susan Healy for their years of dedication and outstanding service to the Great Neck community. “The roots of education are
bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”— Aristotle. As we celebrate School Board Recognition Week in New York State, we acknowledge the sweet fruit afforded by our board’s commitment to excellence, hard work, and the many hours spent in helping our schools in providing an exempla-
ry education to all. We look forward to continued excellence in our district with their guidance. Joanne Chan and Sarah Moss Presidents of United ParentTeacher Council Great Neck Public Schools
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READERS WRITE
Second Ave. subway funding falls short
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egardless if Phase One of Second Avenue Subway opens by the end of December or some time in early 2017 — it is still a gloss only one quarter full. Consider there is only $1.035 billion in funding contained within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority $27 billion five-year 2015-2019 capital program to support preliminary work for phase two north from 96th Street on to 125th Street. There is still the need of $4.965 billion for funding actual construction of phase two. These dollars will have to come from the next MTA Five Year 2020-2024 capital program. The MTA is counting on the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration New Starts program to provide $500 million or more in additional funding. Add $15 billion more down the road for phases three and four to complete the full length of Second Avenue Subway south to Hanover Square. The MTA hopes using “Fast Track” to allow construction of Second Avenue subway phase two to start in 2019. Don’t count on it. The MTA will enter this project into the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration “New Starts” program.
How many years will it take to complete the NEPA environmental review process? Which neighborhood will want to host any entrance for both a tunnel boring machine and removal of construction debris? Construction of the new Second Avenue Subway 125th Street Station will be underneath both the Metro North Park Avenue Viaduct and New York City Transit Lexington Avenue subway. Will there be any required speed restrictions for MetroNorth Railroad or New York City Transit Lexington Avenue Subway trains during construction? Will there be the need for any service outages? Will any Metro North or NYCT force account support be required during construction? They will want to protect both their operations and physical structures from vibrations and other potential adverse impacts. Will phase two incorporate the stretch of tunnel previously built in the 1970’s between 99th Street and 105th Street? Based upon the master grant agreement between the MTA and U.S. DOT FTA, if these portions of work do not go into transit use, Uncle Sam has the legal right to ask for its money back. NYCT since the 1970s has had to maintain and protect this
unopened tunnel. The federal government has considered this work part of an active ongoing project. If the MTA does not incorporate utilization of this tunnel, Washington may ask for reimbursement. The MTA could owe up to several hundred million based upon current fair market value. The goal would be to obtain a Full Funding Grant Agreement between the U.S. DOT FTA and MTA for fully funding the project. MTA is in competition between its own operating agencies and against other transit agencies around the nation. There are 98 other Senators and 434 Congress members supporting their own New Starts projects. Why would USDOT FTA approve any FFGA without a guarantee from the MTA that matching local share or $4.965 billion balance of funding to complete the project is secure and in place. The only proof is inclusion of this project within the next 2020-2024 Five Year Capital Program approved by both the MTA and Albany Capital Program Review Board. Previous MTA five year capital plans have been approved one or more years late. Based on past history, the next MTA five year capital plan for 2020 to 2024 may not be approved until
2021. The MTA would not risk advertising multi billion construction project bids without secure funding being in place. Any procurement process from advertising to bid award could easily take six months to a year. Just issuing contract addendum in response to potential contract bidders questions to such a complex project requires several months. Actual contracts for full construction could end up being awarded in 2022. If phase one takes 11 years to complete from the original 2007 contract award to 2017, phase two might not be completed until 2030 or later. There are conflicting growing competing priorities and limited available funding. Consider what the 2020-2024 MTA five year capital program has to deal with besides finding $4.965 billion for Second Avenue Subway phase two. The original proposed 2010 - 2014 MTA $29 billion five year capital plan was cut to $24.2 billion before being approved. The original proposed 2015 - 2019 MTA $32 billion five year capital plan in Sept. 2014 was rejected by the New York State MTA capital program review board. In October 2015, a revised $27 billion 2015 - 2019 MTA five-year capital plan was ap-
proved by the MTA Board, New York State MTA capital program review board. A majority of the $8 billion in deferred capital improvements cut from these two plans still need funding. Don’t forget the billions needed for routine state of good repair projects and programs for each operating agency. Regardless of the funding source, Second Avenue subway phase two will end up competing against many worthy projects in the next MTA five year 20202024 capital plan. Going back decades, the city, state and MTA have consistently kicked the can down the road every five years. As a result, coming to a consensus on what to fund in the next five year capital program plan will become even more difficult. Second Avenue Subway phase two will be the largest single project proposed for funding in the next five year capital plan. It could potentially consume almost 20 percent of the total program! Larry Penner Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.
Thanks for electing Prez election a pyrrhic me to library board victory for partisan press?
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wish to thank the community and all those who voted in my election as trustee of the Great Neck Library. With everyone’s support and guidance, I hope to make the best decisions for our community — thank you, thank you. I want to learn as much as I can from my fellow trustees during the transition while listening to the community’s concerns. Using the Main Library as
the benchmark, I believe we can eventually streamline and update the station, Lakeville and Parkville branches. We need to save the core collection and increase our digital selections. Thanks again for your support,. Douglas Hwee New Hyde Park
Continued from Page 15 Not by voter fraud, but by some journalists nixing neutrality and serving as Clinton’s propaganda machine. Which isn’t to say Trump deserved to win. There are many reasons why the Republican real estate mogul — who has filed for multiple bankruptcies, proposed controversial policies and spoken countless vulgarities — might’ve lost.
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But the ultimate loser might be the media. Experts say recent setbacks suggest the press is already paying a steep price for its declining reputation. The Times announced this week quarterly profits dropped by 96 percent. Two weeks earlier, the Raleigh News & Observer lost a libel case and must fork over $6 million.
Columbia Journalism Review said it’s “evidence that the growing unpopularity of media may translate into less-sympathetic jury pools.” In their quest to beat Trump, the media has become just like him: unprofessional, bankrupt and despised. Mark Grabowski teaches journalism at Adelphi University and writes on current events each month.
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Katz right for pollution control district
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y friend and colleague Patty Katz is running for Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Commissioner. If ever there was a job and a candidate so perfectly matched, I have not heard of her. Patty is a lifelong Great Neck resident and through word and deed has shown a selfless and fired up commitment to her community. She was a member of the Town of North Hempstead Environment Legacy Fund for Land Preservation and the towns Ecological Commission. She was Outreach Coordinator for Guilt-Free Green, an educational program helmed by state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel.
She raised money for a mission to Africa that brought potable water to villages in Kenya and she was the worthy recipient of the May W. Newburger Women’s Roll of Honor. But my connection to Patty is personal; we met around the time we joined Reach Out America, a local 12-year-old grassroots progressive organization that is dedicated to meaningful, doable, measurable change through the actions of five committees. My issue is the first amendment and so I joined the Separation of Church and State Committee, which I ultimately helmed. Patty too has her passion, which is the environment. She created the ROA Green Committee and chaired it for over nine years.
We at ROA are dedicated to working for a Better America however some of our committees garner more success than others; our agenda issues have enjoyed some progress but mostly our goals are works in progress. But Patty’s committee, due in very large part to her energy, enthusiasm and dedication, has actually been part of some groundbreaking change. In conjunction with other groups she helped anti-fracking legislation to be enacted, agitated successfully to promote wind farms, and testified and protested to stop the proposal to develop the Port Ambrose LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) facility off the shore of Long Beach. Now Patty heads Reach Out America with me.
I am president and she is vice president and working closely with her I have not only come to see for myself how ethical and hardworking she is, I have also learned what a generous colleague and friend she can be. She is a self-starting organizer and tireless once she begins a project which she then always sees to conclusion. Her contribution as vice president has, despite the very short time she has held office, reaped measurable progress. That cannot help but be true when she becomes commissioner. Please vote for my friend Patty Katz at the Great Neck House on Arrandale Avenue or Great Neck Social Center on Grace Ave. on Dec. 13. Rita Hall President, Reach Out America
Cubs victory proves anything possible
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hicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in ten innings. It was a real nail biter. The curse has ended after 108 years. I myself was station in Great Lakes,
Illinois as a member of the United States Navy and traveled by train into Chicago to Wrigley Field. I would attend games when they were in town and sometimes they would win and sometimes they would lose and
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this was over 40 years ago. Now I am proud of the Chicago Cubs who fought the good fight and has made America proud. Now for that I say, ”bravo, Chicago Cubs for proving when you believe noth-
ing is impossible.” Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola
ALAN WEINSCHEL, Temple Sinai member will discuss the Normandy Kaddish Project and his book, Jewish Heroes of Normandy
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 at 7:30 PM In 2013 while touring and photographing Normandy beaches and the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach, Alan and his wife Barbara were overwhelmed by the vast array of 9,000 graves. They noticed that many of the graves marked by Stars of David had no stones or coins on them, signifying that there had been no recent visitors. After his return, Alan began a nationwide effort to have Jewish congregations in the U.S. say Kaddish for these men each year on the Shabbat that falls closest to June 6th. This has become an annual practice at many congregations, including Reform, Conservative and Orthodox synagogues. Alan’s book Jewish Heroes of Normandy provides photographs and information about each man and he will discuss the project and provide interesting stories about the lives that were lost.
FREE FOR CONGREGANTS | $5 FOR NON-CONGREGANTS Temple Sinai of Roslyn 425 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 516.621.6800 | mysinai.org Affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism
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ELECTION RRESULTS E S U LT S Percent Votes PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Donald Trump (REP)
48% 59,082,155
Hillary Clinton (DEM)
48% 59,234,436
Gary Johnson (LIB)
3% 4,008,209 1% 1,194,134
Jill Stein (GRE)
UNITES STATES SENATOR Wendy Long (REP)
26% 1,864,510
Charles Schumer (DEM)
67% 4,789,385
Alex Merced (LIB)
1% 43,885
Robin L. Wilson (GRE)
1% 102,368
U.S. HOUSE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 3 Jack Martins (REP, CON, RFM)
44% 142,023
Tom Suozzi (DEM)
48% 156,315
U.S. HOUSE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 4 David Gurfein (REP)
37% 118,821
Kathleen Rice (DEM)
54% 173,796
NY STATE SENATE DISTRICT 7 Elaine R. Phillips (REP, CON, IND, RFM)
48% 65,709
Adam Haber (DEM, WFP, WEP)
45% 61,548
Suozzi beats Martins in race to replace Israel in January. Martins was picked as the GOP nominee in March, while Suozzi spent another three months fighting off four other Democrats to win his party’s primary in June. Martins later became embroiled over the summer in a protracted but ultimately successful legal fight to avoid a GOP primary against Philip Pidot, an upstart conservative challenger. Suozzi pledged to fight powerful interests to make big changes in Washington, just as he did in Nassau and Glen Cove. His message seized on the pent-up frustration with the political establishment that has defined this election cycle, a theme that dovetailed with Trump’s campaign. Martins touted his work across the aisle in Albany to pass key legislation as proof he could do the same in Congress. Using a landmark gun control law and last year’s paid family leave plan as examples, Martins sought to convince voters he could broker compromises and move issues forward. Martins and Suozzi differed on a few major issues such as immigration and health care reform. But when the race between two political moderates got heated, it was not over policy but rather their political pasts. Martins’ campaign and the National Republican Congressional Committee attacked Suozzi hard for the
large tax hikes he imposed as county executive and for pay raises he took in that office and as mayor of Glen Cove. Suozzi defended his administration, touting the 13 bond upgrades that resulted from his tax hikes, and his efforts to trim the county workforce and renegotiate labor contracts. Martins also raised taxes and took raises, he noted. Suozzi criticized Martins’ tepid support for Trump as “phoney-baloney political talk,” while Martins charged Suozzi would not be independent enough with Democrat Hillary Clinton in the White House. While Democrats picked up a few U.S. Senate seats, Trump’s upset victory helped the GOP keep its power in Congress. That will make it difficult for Suozzi and other House Democrats to advance their agendas. But it does not detract from Suozzi’s goal of creating change by working with lawmakers from both parties, he said. “I’ll play the cards I’ve been dealt, and I don’t think it’s about Democrat and Republican,” Suozzi said. “I think that’s what’s hurting the country, is that people have been too partisan for too long.”
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tinue the bipartisan work she started in her first term that resulted in two bills she sponsored becoming law. She said she wanted to focus more intently on immigration reform and rebuilding infrastructure. “I told you that my priority was to get things done, to get real results — not to get myself reelected,” Rice told supporters Tuesday night at the Garden City Hotel. “And that’s exactly what I’ve tried to do every single day since I was sworn into office.” Gurfein launched a 3rd Congressional District campaign — his first run for public office — in September 2015, but chose to run in southwest Nassau County’s 4th District after Martins won the GOP nomination on the North Shore. Touting his military and business records, Gurfein argued he had the experience and knowledge necessary to support national security and economic growth, which he said ought to be the federal government’s main priorities. Gurfein did not comment on the results Tuesday night, but he thanked supporters in a video posted to Facebook Wednesday morning. “I’m honored to have been a part of this democratic process and our incredible country,” he said, later adding, “We may have lost this battle, but we have not lost this war.” Gurfein and Rice differed widely on nearly every major political issue, from immigration and foreign policy to tax reform and gun control. Gurfein charged Rice’s foreign policy stances endangered national security, while Rice called Gurfein a “demagogue” who relied too heavily on the military. Rice got endorsements from labor unions and local Republican officials, while Gurfein got support from law enforcement unions and officials such as U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford).
4th Congressional District candidate David Gurfein of Manhasset is seen at the Nassau County Republican Committee’s election night party in Westbury on Tuesday.
Stephen Romano contributed reporting.
Continued from Page 1 About half the voters in two Siena polls said they did not know Martins or had no opinion of him, despite his six years representing most of the district’s Nassau County portion in the state Senate. Martins said he would continue to stress tax cuts, environmental issues and job creation while he spends time in the private sector to determine his next career move. “While the outcome was not what we hoped and the race is over, it does not mean we will stop fighting for the ideals on which we ran,” Martins said in a statement early Wednesday morning. About 59 percent of the district’s active registered voters cast votes in the district stretching from northeast Queens to northwest Suffolk County. Suozzi carried the Nassau County portion, about 53 percent of the district, by about 4 percentage points while Martins won the Suffolk section by about 3 points. But Suozzi won the smaller Queens portion by more than 12,000 votes after campaigning heavily there. “[I] made a point of playing to my strengths and trying to build up a margin where I was strong,” Suozzi said. Martins and Suozzi emerged from a crowded pack of candidates who eyed Israel’s seat after he announced his retirement
RICE WINS RE-ELECTION In southwest Nassau County’s 4th Congressional District, Rice pledged to con-
NY STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 13 Jeffrey S. Vitale (REP, CON, RFM)
33% 18,425
Charles Lavine (DEM, WFP, WEP)
56% 31,339
Jeffrey Peress (GRE)
1% 609
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Phillips, D’Urso take open seats in state races Continued from Page 1 who listens to our communities and who will stand up for Long Island.” “I am so very grateful and humbled by their support, and ready to get to work to create the bright future that every Long Islander deserves,” said Phillips, who is Flower Hill’s village mayor. She was seeking her first term in the state Legislature. Phillips received more than a dozen law enforcement endorsements, as well as endorsements from public government and school employee unions. The loss is Haber’s second in the 7th Senate district after Martins defeated him to win re-election in 2014. He said he was “terribly disappointed” about the result of his race, but offered his support for Phillips. “I worked my tail off and I wanted to serve the community,” Haber said. “I wish Elaine Phillips well and if I can help to make her community a better place, I’m here.” He said that the one thing he had “peace” about was his efforts during the campaign. “I didn’t take a day off for months,” Haber said. “I did as much as you can physically can do. I left it all out there.” “My life will skip a couple beats,” he added. “But I’ll find my groove again.” Throughout his campaign, Haber had received notable endorsements from top Democratic officials including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and state Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul. Haber serves on the Roslyn school board and previously on the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, which oversees Nassau County spending. Phillips, who worked in the financial services industry with Goldman
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RESULTS Percent Votes NY STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 16 Matthew Varvaro (REP, CON, RFM)
44% 25,413
Tony D’Urso (DEM, WFP, IND, WEP)
46% 26,825
NY STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 19 Edward P. Ra (REP, CON, IND, TRP, RFM)
55% 32,562
Gary Port (DEM, WFP, WEP)
34% 20,116
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PHOTO BY MICHAEL SCRO
Democrat Adam Haber of East Hills lost his 7th Senate District race against Republican Elaine Phillips, the mayor of the Village of Flower Hill. Sachs and J.P. Morgan, had said a Haber victory would tilt the state Senate to a party dominated by New York City. The state Legislature, she said, needed a balance between Republicans and Democrats. But Haber argued that the Senate GOP has failed and a Democratic majority would benefit the state. The GOP has retained control of the Senate, in part, as a result of this race. Both candidates had attacked each other’s record, with Phillips arguing that the Roslyn school district has had the highest tax rate of any school district since her opponent joined the board in 2009 and Haber referring to an audit released in December 2012 by DiNapoli’s office, which he said showed “how poorly” the Village of Flower Hill was run. Phillips was not on the board at the time of the audit. The race saw a bit of controversy last month after Haber slammed a social media advertisement depicting him as a character from “Fiddler on the Roof” as anti-Semitic. The Phillips campaign said they had nothing to do with the advertise-
ment. Both candidates agreed that Long Island schools needed to receive more state aid and both said they would fight for better ethics in the state Legislature. D’Urso defeats Varvaro In another tight race to replace outgoing state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel in the 16th Assembly district, Democrat Anthony D’Urso defeated Republican Matt Varvaro by 1,412 votes of the 52,254 cast. D’Urso, a former North Hempstead Town Councilman, received 26,825 total votes to Varvaro’s 25,413 for a 51 percent to 49 percent victory. D’Urso said he was happy to achieve his goal of reaching the state Assembly. “I will commit to working very hard for the people of this district,” he said. “I commit to trying to do all the right things to elevate families that are struggling.” He said Schimel, and her predecessor, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, had big shoes to fill, but he wanted to carry on their “tradition of progressiveness.”
“I will also not just follow their trail, but blaze a trail of my own,” D’Urso said. “I always say, I cannot guarantee results, but I will sure as hell try.” Throughout the campaign, he had touted his records of accomplishments, having served as North Hempstead Town councilman from 1992 through 2005 and working for the New York City Department of Housing since 1971 and eventually rising to serve as the assistant commissioner of the Division of Architecture/ Engineering and Construction. D’Urso’s campaign was focused on fighting ethics in Albany, including eliminating outside income for state legislators and ending the LLC loophole, and tackling high school property taxes. Although it was his first run for office, Varvaro has served as a researcher on Joe Lhota’s campaign for New York City mayor in 2013, as a legislative aide to North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio in 2014 and as a research director for former New York City Gov. George Pataki’s campaign for president last year. Continued on Page 24
Dennis F. McDermott (REP, CON, IND, TRP)
24% 142,750
David W. McAndrews (REP, CON, IND, RFM, GRE)
23% 138,722
Eileen J. Goggin (DEM, WFP, GRE, WEP)
26% 159,703
Helen Voutsinas (DEM, WFP, RFM, GRE, WEP)
27% 165,530
NASSAU COUNTY FAMILY COURT JUDGE Virginia A. Clavin-Higgins (REP, CON, IND, TRP)
12% 247,459
Eileen C. Daly-Sapraicone (REP, CON, IND, TRP, RFM)
12% 251,481
Darlene D. Harris (REP, CON, IND, TRP)
12% 246,527
Martin J. Massell (REP, CON, IND, TRP)
12% 241,362
Stacy D. Bennett (DEM, WFP, GRE, WEP)
13% 273,026
Ayesha Keri Brantley (DEM, WFP, RFM, GRE, WEP)
12% 251,623
Ellen R. Greenberg (DEM, WFP, GRE, WEP)
13% 265,990
Conrad Singer (DEM, WFP, RFM, GRE, WEP)
13% 257,709
Results courtesy New York State Board of Elections
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Dems mourn, GOP celebrates Trump BY N O A H M A N S K A R , JOE NIKIC AND STEPHEN ROMANO Democrats were getting increasingly anxious on the North Shore Tuesday night as Republican Donald Trump won more and more states in the presidential race. Watching CNN analyze vote counts in Pennsylvania around 9:20 p.m., hours before the crucial swing state was called for Trump, wasn’t helping Shanon Lacorte, whose eyes were trained on a TV at Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice’s election night party in Garden City. “It’s like a basketball game,” said Lacorte, a Woodmere native. “I’d rather see the last two minutes, but I have to watch the whole thing.” A handful of Democrats also huddled around TVs at Democrat Tom Suozzi’s party in Jericho as Trump’s numbers climbed, while others talked over drinks, avoiding the elephant in the room. Suozzi’s supporters were excited to see him leading in the 3rd Congressional District race against Republican Jack Martins. But seeing Hillary Clinton, their party’s standard-bearer, trail in the presidential race worried them. “I’m going to have a heart attack,” said Rokeya Akhter of Greenvale, the Long Island political director for the Indian-Amer-
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Joseph Mondello speaks in Westbury. ican Voters Association. The prospect of a Trump presidency made Akhter, a Muslim, feel more motivated than afraid, she said. She and others at Suozzi’s party said they remained optimistic Clinton would pull out a victory, especially with returns from big states on the West Coast yet to come. But those states came and went, and Trump inched closer to clinching the presidency, putting local Democrats into a state of shock and disbelief.
“I can’t believe this is happening,” one woman shouted at the Nassau County Democratic Committee’s election night celebration at Westbury Manor as Trump began taking a commanding lead. The night started as one of both celebration and anxiety. A crowd of about 35 local Democrats surrounded the screen projecting CNN as it updated with results throughout the night, while others socialized throughout the venue. Each time Clinton won a state, the room would erupt in applause and cheering. But as results continued to come through the screen, and Trump began taking the lead, the high spirits in the room began crashing down. The presidential election largely overshadowed the local state races, but attention shifted to them as Clinton began falling. Pockets of supporters surrounded Democratic victors, such as Anthony D’Urso, Todd Kaminsky, Charles Lavine and Arnold Drucker, as Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs announced their wins. The remainder of the room, however, began emptying out. Nassau County Republicans, meanwhile, were celebrating Trump’s victories at Mirelle’s Restaurant in Westbury.
“It’s just damn good to be a Republican,” Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Mondello exclaimed after taking the stage. As the vote tallies trickled in, a burst of excitement erupted from the center of the restaurant, activists celebrating as the Fox News headline read “Trump wins Florida.” “I just can’t believe this,” said Kyle Ludewig, a 21-year-old Republican from Levittown. “I just really can’t believe this. I think all Republicans are just really happy and excited and it’s going to be a fun night.” “This being my the first election I voted in, I’m just happy that Donald Trump was a candidate I could really relate to,” Ludewig said. “It all started out this night with getting Trump elected, but the local elections were important, too, so I did research to see who I agreed with and am happy with my candidates. Mondello continued updating the crowd on local congressional and state Senate races, while a giant board was updated with results for all the races. As Trump edged closer toward the presidency and secured more states, a group of Republican supporters cheered with excitement, jumping up and down and embracing one another. “He’s going to be the president,” one supporter yelled. “The polls were dead wrong.”
Incumbents keep seats in statewide races Continued from Page 23 His campaign has also focused on stopping corruption, including setting an eightyear term limit for legislators, eliminating the LLC loophole and reforming the state’s “weak” ethics boards. Varvaro had said he wanted to reform the state’s education standards to include more technology use in the classroom and reform the state’s tax code by lowering tax rates and eliminating certain tax breaks. He had attacked his opponent’s knowledge of the issues impacting the 16th Assembly District, specifically heroin addiction on Long Island. But D’Urso has said that heroin and opiate addiction has been a problem on Long Island and that more resources should be used for addiction treatment and for law enforcement to catch drug suppliers. Lavine defeats Vitale The six-term Democratic incumbent, Lavine, soundly defeated Vitale in an election to represent the 13th Assembly District. “It’s very gratifying to know that I have the support of the people of the 13th Assembly District,” Lavine said. “I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their support.”
Lavine received 31,339 votes, which amounted to 56 percent of the electorate; while Vitale garnered 18,425 votes, which comprised 33 percent. The green party candidate, Jeffrey Peress, won 609 votes for a 1 percent share of the ballots cast. “This was a tough race,” Vitale said. “I learned what it takes to run a campaign and I’m very happy about that.” Lavine and Vitale differed significantly on issues ranging from corruption to abortion to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. The district covers Roslyn, Glen Cove, Jericho and Plainview as well as parts of Manhasset, Westbury, East Hills and Bayville. Lavine serves in Albany as chair of the Assembly Committee on Ethics and Guidance and co-chair of the New York State Legislative Ethics Commission. Before his time in office, he worked as an attorney for the Legal Aid Society and then as a criminal defense attorney in private practice. Vitale, a grant writer for the Town of Oyster Bay, had never run for public office before this race. He expressed an interest in giving it another shot. Lavine reaffirmed his gratitude for the voters in district, with whom he said he has become familiar. “This has been 12 years in office,” he
said. “I have gotten to know a lot of them and they’ve gotten to know me.” Ra defeats Port Ra received 28,507 votes to Port’s 18,976, good for a 55 percent to 34 percent victory, in winning re-election in the 19th Assembly District beating Port. A resident of Franklin Square, Ra has held a seat in the Assembly since 2010 and is the ranking minority member of the Education Committee. “I’m very grateful that I got re-elected by the great people of the 19th Assembly District,” Ra said. “I’m ready to continue serving them.” The 19th Assembly District covers parts of the Town of Hempstead, the Town of North Hempstead and the Town of Oyster Bay. With recent corruption issues in the Assembly, Ra pledged to fight for an ethics reform, implementing term limits and an internal evaluation of the Legislature that ultimately leads to the stripping of leaders’ absolute power. “Even though this is a victory, we still have a lot today,” Ra said. “Republicans have put forth a lot of plans, but there is a long way to go and we’re going to get started on fixing thing, starting with an ethics reform and finding a better way to
evaluate teachers.” Port, a divorce lawyer from West Hempstead, has opposed Ra in the last three elections. During the campaign, Port repeatedly criticized Ra, saying his career was built on patronage and nepotism, referring to Ra’s first job working under his father as the Hempstead town attorney. Ra responded by touting his work ethic and noting his re-election in a tough district. Ra said because of the presidential election, people wanted to talk to him about the election on a national stage, but he made it a point to talk to his constituents about local issues. To combat corruption, Port said Assembly members should be limited to four or five terms, and the election cycle should be changed from every two years to four years to eliminate corruption created by the allocation of money in short terms. Both Ra and Port opposed the Long Island Rail Road’s third track expansion, citing the lack of information as their main concern. However, Port said he believes the idea is good in theory, but the environmental impact aspect needs to be researched more.
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arbara Streisand, Willie Nelson, Martha Stewart and the Beastie Boys may not share much in common. But they’ve all visited the home of Roslyn Harbor music producer Charles Koppelman, who was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame last Thursday. “Kanye West was in Roslyn playing music for my kids and me,” he said. A businessman and artist who has worn many hats, from making music with Diana Ross to briefly replacing Steve Madden as head of his shoe company, Koppelman said he “felt great” about the Hall of Fame induction. “Long Island has been good to me and my family,” he added. Koppelman was born in Brooklyn but moved to Long
Island when he was one year old. His music career began in 1960 when his band the Ivy Three put out a top-10 hit called “Yogi.” What cemented Koppelman’s place in the industry, however, was his knack for recognizing and producing hit songs. “I realized I had this uncanny ability to understand what a song would be and what a hit record would be,” he said. Koppelman’s daughter, Jennifer Hutt, described his knack as “a great ear for talent, for music and for a hook.” In 1975, he partnered with real estate developer Sam LeFrak and attorney Martin Bandier to form The Entertainment Company, which “independently administered and promoted song catalogs and signed artists directly to their company,” according to the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Soon after, in 1977, he moved to Roslyn Harbor, where he has lived ever since. Hutt said she remembered when, in the 1970s and ’80s, neighbors thought Barbara Streisand lived at her family’s home because Streisand spent so much time there. “They worked so closely that it was all in our house,” Hutt said. “The way somebody has a family business my dad’s business was intertwined with all of us.” The Entertainment Company became SBK Entertainment World Inc. in 1986, soon after which it bought the 250,000 titles owned by CBS Songs
for $125 million. “It was the highest price ever paid for a music publishing catalog,” the Hall of Fame said. The list of performers Koppelman worked with is a who’s who of music that includes names as disparate as Dolly Parton, Vanilla Ice and Lionel Ritchie. While studying abroad in Paris in 1990, Hutt received a recording of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” from her father. “He said this is going to be a monster hit,” she recalled. In 1997, Koppelman planned to retire from the music industry, Newsday reported. Soon after he temporarily replaced both Martha Stewart and Steve Madden as the head of their respective companies while they served prison terms. “I brought Martha Stewart to Peter Luger,” he said of dining with the celebrity at the steak house in Great Neck. Koppelman couldn’t resist returning to the music industry, which he did in 1997 with the founding of C.A.K. Entertainment, where he is the chief executive officer and chairman. Its clients have included Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and Nikki Minaj. Hutt attended law school and practiced as an attorney, but has joined the entertainment industry as a radio host on Sirius XM. What appealed to her about the type of work she saw from her father growing up? “When fiercely talented individuals have work ethic really cool things can happen,” she said
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Sublime with Rome with Special Guests – The Skints
Monday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. With drummer Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails) now permanently installed behind the kit and Sublime bassist and co-founder Eric Wilson anchoring the group, Sublime With Rome are armed with an album that makes a real statement. Where: 370 New York Ave, Huntington Info: (631) 673-7300 paramountny.com
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Sleeping with Sirens “End The Madness! Tour” with Special Guests: State Champs, Tonight Alive & Waterparks
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Sleeping with Sirens, led by charismatic front man Kellin Quinn, is a band so raw and unrestrained, their art has no boundaries. Reinvigorated by meaningful songwriting and their love of hooks and melodies, they made an album that drives right to the core of that place inside that connects people through music. Where: 370 New York Ave, Huntington Info: (631) 673-7300 paramountny.com
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Steve Vai Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Tour
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer, and consummate producer who sculpts musical sound with infinite creativity and technical mastery. Where: 250 Post Ave, Westbury Info: (516) 283-5566 thespaceatwestbury.com
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Fitz & The Tantrums with Special Guest: Barns Courtney
Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. Since forming in 2008, Fitz and the Tantrums have always been a band focused on evolving. Having made a splash with the soulful R&B-revival sound of their debut album, 2010’s Pickin’ Up The Pieces, the band offered up a New Wave-influenced dance-pop sound with 2013’s Heatseekers. Where: 370 New York Ave, Huntington Info: (631) 673-7300 paramountny.com
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With a red hot seven piece band along with unrivaled and often-embarrassing childhood archival footage, Jukebox Life traces Jarrod’s journey from Philly to Los Angeles to New York, through some terrible (and eventually less terrible) auditions, to getting the role and, best of all, to getting the girl. Where: Adelphi University Performing Arts Center Westermann Stage, Concert Hall, 1 South Ave., Garden City Info: (516) 877-4000 aupac.adelphi.edu
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Tower of Power and Average White Band
Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. For close to 50 years, Tower of Power has been creating their own kind of soul music. Average White Band are widely regarded as one of the best soul and funk bands in the history of music. Where: 960 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury Info: (516) 334-0800 venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com
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The Machine Tribute To Pink Floyd
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. The Machine, America’s top Pink Floyd show, has forged a 25 year reputation of excellence, extending the legacy of Pink Floyd, while creating another legacy all their own. Where: 960 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury Info: (516) 334-0800 venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com
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THE TOP EVENTS FOR KIDS FOR THE COMING WEEK
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Join us as we commemorate all the brave men and women that serve our country on a daily basis. Veteran’s Day was once called Armistice Day-
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Friday, Nov. 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Get ready for tryouts at the Island Garden Veterans Day Camp. The camp is for boys and girls in grades 2-10 at all ability levels.
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Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come join us for a free family shopping event. A unique destination where consumers can interact with and buy directly from the source. Emerging and established artisans and high quality craft and gift vendors offer their handpicked items at recognizable savings.Where: 300 Park Avenue
East, Long Beach Info: (516) 442-6000 hnassaucountycraftshows.com/long-beach-art-craft-gift-fair.shtml
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Nutcracker Long Island is a great introduction to this classic holiday favorite.
Go to FadeyevBallet.org to buy tickets and for more information.
Saturday, Nov. 12 through Sunday, Nov. 13 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. (both days) This annual fundraiser for the museum features minerals for sale for both the beginner and advanced collector — these are not specimens deaccesioned from the museum’s collection. There will also be a limited number of fossils and shells available for sale. During this open house weekend there is no admission charge to the museum. The sale is on the second floor of the museum and is not handicap accessible, but all first floor exhibits are.
Where: Heitz Place and Bay Avenue, Hicksville Info: (516) 822-7205 www.gregorymuseum.org
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Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Join us as we create a beautiful Thanksgiving craft to share with your family during this special holiday season. A portion of our class fees will go to Island Harvest.
Where: 7 Green Street, Huntington Info: (631) 268-4072 www.craftreeclasses.com
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Joe Bonamassa Friday, Nov. 25 at 7 p.m. Saturday Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Jim Gaffigan:Fully Dressed Sunday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. Sirius XM pres. The Brian Setzer 13th Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. Ralphie May THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com Friday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. Three Dog Night Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. Steve Vai Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Tour Thursday, Nov. 17 — Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The Big Party Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. Chris Robinson Brotherhood Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. Get The Led Out Saturday, Nov. 26 at 9 p.m. Ebi THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Friday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Yellowcard – The Final World Tour: Performing “Ocean Avenue� In Its Entirety with Special Guests - Like Torches & Dryjacket Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Sleeping with Sirens - End The Madness! Tour with Special Guests: State Champs, Tonight Alive & Waterparks Monday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. Sublime with Rome with Special Guests – The Skints Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. Fitz & The Tantrums with Special Guest: Barns Courtney Thursday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Carlos Mencia Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. The Dillinger Escape Plan with Special Guests – O’ Brother, Car Bomb & Cult Leader Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. Kansas: Leftoverture 40th Anniversary Tour Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. Scott Stapp: The Voice of Creed with Special Guests Adelitas Way & Citizen Zero Wednesday, Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. Evanescence with Special Guest - VERIDIA: Presented by 94.3 The Shark Friday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. Dark Star Orchestra – Celebrating The Grateful Dead Experience: Fall Tour 2016 (2 Nights)
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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT
German dishes for October and beyond Every year Germans celebrate their food, culture and beer from the middle of September to the beginning of October. Why be limited to three weeks of the year to celebrate and eat delicious German food? German sausages are known for their full flavor and ease of preparation as most are sold precooked in the supermarket. Start off your celebration of Germany with pretzels and hearty German mustards, available in the International section of most supermarkets or at German delicatessen’s. Prepare the Bratwursts and the sides, ahead of time if you wish, and finish off your meal with a delectable strudel, available at most bakeries and you have a German feast. Wearing Lederhosens is optional — Oompah! MENU Serves 12 Pretzels and Mustard Bratwurst Baked Endive
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store bought chicken stock A few sprigs of thyme 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. 2. Butter a quiche dish or other ovenproof dish. Place endive facedown. Top with stock and thyme. 3. Butter a sheet of aluminum. Place on top of endive. 4. Bake, covered, until endive is soft. Approximately 50 minutes. Serve hot.
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A Celebration of “Arthur Miller at 100,� created and performed by Shirley Romaine, will be held at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. Romaine is an actress, television personality, creator and performer of her own multi-media arts/theater programs, and an arts activist, according to a press release from Temple Emanuel. For more than 25 years, Romaine was
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Arts council hosting auction of artwork The Huntington Arts Council recently announced “Auction on Main — Art Auction Fundraiser,” where an opening reception will take place on Friday, Nov. 11 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and closing reception on Friday, Dec. 2 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This is a free event and refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend. “Auction on Main is a very important event for us” Executive Director Marc Courtade said. “As a non for profit we are
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reliant on the generosity of our membership, partners and the community — this is a fun, engaging way to show the talent of our supporters and provide the general public with a unique way to support the arts and the Art Council. Both the Opening and Closing Receptions are open to the general public and have a great turnout.” This event runs a full three weeks providing the public with the opportunity to come to the gallery and place a silent auction bid on any of the over 40 pieces of artwork donated by a variety of accomplished artists — such as Shain Bard, Michael Fairchild, Holly Gordon, Bunny Hoest, Kasmira Mohanty and Constance Sloggatt Wolf, according to a press release from the Huntington Arts Council. In addition to the beautiful art work, there will also be raffle tickets available for purchase for items that have been provided by local merchants and businesses. Proceeds help support the exhibition program. The auction and raffle close at 7 p.m. on the evening of the closing reception.
Temple Sinai to host classic jewels concert Temple Sinai of Roslyn is holding a concert entitled “World Classic Jewels” on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. The concert features soprano Hanna Golodinskii, pianist Oxana Mikhailoff and includes “Beloved Arias” by Puccini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Chopin. Golodinskii is a Ukrainian-American soprano whose repertoire includes the Ukrainian National Academy Opera Theatre, according to a press release from Temple Sinai of Roslyn. She received her master’s degree as an opera solo performer and chamber solo performer in 2004 from the National Music Academy of Ukraine. Hanna has performed on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Riverside
Church in New York City, and other venues. Mikhailoff is an active concert pianist, a music series director, and heads up her own metropolitan based teaching studio comprised of adults, children and seniors. She is a winner of 13 international competition prizes including the Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos-Aires. Mikhailoff had her Carnegie Hall debut in 1999 followed by an all Chopin recital dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the composer’s death. She appears regularly on the East Coast playing solo and chamber music concerts. Wine and cheese will be served at a reception following the concert. Cost is $10 for Temple Sinai Members, and $18 for Non-Members.
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Ballet troupe to present Nutcracker L.I. Fadeyev Ballet is presenting “Nutcracker Long Island” at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater at the Landmark on Main Street on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. This production is choreographed by Yaroslav Fadeyev, artistic director, which will feature music by Tchaikovsky and the original story by E.T.A Hoffmann, according to a press release from the
Fadeyev Ballet. This performance is a student production and has been created and priced for family audiences. In 1987, Yaroslav “Slava” Fadeyev was selected as one of seven students from the Soviet Union to participate in the Peace Child Exchange Program in the United States and the Soviet Union.
This experience gave Fadeyev his first inspiration for dance. Born in to a ballet family, his mother was a master teacher at St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences, principal dancer at Mikhailovsky Theater, and an honored artist of the Russian Federation. Trained at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg Russia, Yaroslav began a career that has culminated as a teacher, coach, director and expert on the Vaganova Method of Clas-
Temple to host doctor at end-of-life talk Temple Judea will host a physician from Northwell Health on Friday evening, Nov. 18 at our 8 p.m. Shabbat service. Dr. Steven Walerstein, the associate chief medical officer of Northwell Health and a representative of the CHAT Project will present a program regarding advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making. These are issues people need to address with their loved ones but often avoid because of their anxiety. The CHAT (Conversations: Health and Treatments) Project of Northwell Health and the Maurice A. Deane School of Law of Hofstra University has been designed to help family members communicate better with each other and their clinicians about these sensitive matters so they may have greater peace of mind at difficult times.
The Conversation Sabbath campaign associated with this project recognizes how receiving this message with the support of clergy helps congregants break the ice to start these conversations. Rabbi Todd Chizner will first discuss the Jewish perspective regarding advanced care planning, and will be followed by Dr. Walerstein, who will discuss the issue from professional and personal vantage points before addressing your questions. The community is invited to join us for what is sure to be an informative and thought-provoking evening This event is open to anyone affiliated with Temple Judea and to the community. Temple Judea of Manhasset is located at 333 Searingtown Road in Manhasset. For more information call (516) 6218049 or email maxexec@temple-judea.com
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sical Ballet. His career highlights include dancing professionally with Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theater, Hartford Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. The theater is located at 232 Main Street, Port Washington. Tickets are $18 and $15 for children ages twelve and under and can be purchased online at FadeyevBallet.org. The theater is accessible for all audiences and arrangements can be made for those with special needs.
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Williston Park Library From the Director: Please note that the library will be closed on Nov. 8 (Election Day) and Nov. 11 (Veterans Day). We are not accepting donations until further notice. If you do have books to donate, please contact The Book Fairies, a wonderful non-profit organization in Freeport. www.thebookfairies.org. Here are some new arrivals to the library:
Infamy—Robert Tanenbaum Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power & Control—Glenn Beck Forward: A Memoir— Amy Wambach Florence Foster Jenkins: Life of the World’s Worst Opera Singer— Darryl Bullock Ghost Times Two— Carolyn Hart Love Warrior: A Memoir— Glennon Doyle Melton Winter Storms— Elin Hilderbrand Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir
of a Family and Culture in Crisis—J. D. Vance Life She Wants— Robyn Carr Two By Two— Nicholas Sparks Perfect Girl— Gilly Macmillan
ADULT Music Therapy Fridays—Nov. 4 & 18— 10:30am in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Please see Emily for registration
Knitting Circle Thursdays—November 10; December 1, 15, 29—11am1pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. All knitters are welcome! Please bring your supplies and enjoy a fun morning. Coloring Tuesday—Nov. 1—6:30pm in the Library. All supplies will be provided. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Reiki Circle Tuesdays—Nov. 15 & 22—7-
8:15 in the library. $10 p/ person. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Santa Hat Door Hang Nov. 29—6:30pm I n the library. $25 material fee due at registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Book Discussion Wednesday—Dec. 7—7pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Copies of Leaving Time, by Jodi Picoult are available at the Circulation Desk.
YOUTH Tiny Tykes Wednesdays—Nov. 2--10:1511:15 am OR 11:30-12:30 pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children ages 1 1/2-5 years old. There is a $45 non-refundable fee due at registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Storytime—Saturdays—11am in the library for children of all ages
East Williston Library DAYTIME BOOK CLUB “Girl at War” by Sara Novic. The group will meet on Tuesday, November 15th at 1:30 pm. EVENING BOOK CLUB “The Chaperone” by Laura Moriarty. The group will meet on Thursday, December 8th at 7pm.
OLD WESTBURY GARDENS and NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PASSES: The passes are available to East Williston Library card holders. Each family pass (2 adults and children under 18 years of age) may be borrowed for a 3 day period. Passes may be reserved in advance.
LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Whatever your goal, LearningExpressLibrary’s resources will help you succeed. The various “Learning Centers” offer the information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life. Are you looking for a new job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center
dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you. Visit us at www.ewlibrary. org N0TARY PUBLIC: Hours are Monday & Thursday from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm and Wednesday from 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Photo identification is required. Documents to be notarized
must be signed at the time of notarization, not before. You must bring your own witness if needed. Please telephone the Library to confirm a notary is available.
artwork of talented students of Willets Road School art teachers Ms. Colette Hardy and Ms. Melinda Gomez. The public is invited to visit, view and enjoy.
COLLECTION ON DISPLAY: For the month of November, the East Williston Public Library Friends will display, in the Village Hall, the
Register for all programs by calling 741-1213 or email us at ewpl@ewlibrary.org
Mineola Public Library ADULT PROGRAMS Feature film series Thursdays at 6:30PM; Fridays at 11:00AM. Please join us on November 17
and 18 for Our Last Tango. Blood Drive at the Library The library will be hosting a Blood Drive by the Long Island Blood Services on Thursday, November 10th from 1:30-7:30PM. Please
donate now. You are welcome to register at the Reference Desk or 516746-8488 Ext. 2. Walk-ins are always welcome.
November 16 at 7:30PM to discuss The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. New members are always welcome
The Book Discussion Group Will meet Wednesday
Concert: Sylph Chamber Music Saturday, Nov. 19 at 2
p.m. Enjoy a musical afternoon performance with Nadine Scharman, flutist, Vivian Israel, cellist, and Ann Zalkind, pianist, for their presentation of a wide-ranging program of Classical, Romantic,
jazz and Broadway music that features composers Vivaldi, Dvorak, Haydn, Satie, Jobim, Bolling, and Gershwin. For the latest news, visit us at www.theislandnow.com
Shelter Rock Library ADULT PROGRAMS THE 16 MOST CRITICAL CURRENT EVENT TOPICS with Howard Shurdut Monday, Nov. 14 at 1:30 p.m. Many long held ideas and activities are being disrupted by rapid change and while some of these changes are basically good for individuals, society and civilization, many of us resist change. In addition, some of the changes are either not good
or subject to intense debate as to their worthiness, morality or positive nature for mankind. Be part of the discussion of the current events that we are dealing with that have consequences for us, our families, our country and the world. STRESS MANAGEMENT Nov. 21 at 1:30 p.m. with Dr. Penny Stern, Northwell Health Board Certified in Preventive Medicine Stress is ever-present in our busy lives and impacts each
of us differently. Completely doing away with stress is not possible, but we can manage it and relieve some of the problems associated with it. This talk will provide practical suggestions for de-stressing right now. The Evergreen Trio presents A Tribute to the Golden Boys of Rock & Roll Sunday, Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. The Trio will perform hittune favorites by popular rock & roll icons of the
day, namely Bobby Rydell, Dion, Ricky Nelson, Wayne Newton, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka. Band members include Everett Green, lead vocals and keyboard, Jim Kanellos on saxophone/trumpet and Bill Catalanotto on drums. Film - Our Kind of Traitor Directed by Susanna White 2015, Rated R, 108 Minutes Cast: Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard Thursday, Dec. 1 at 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. Art on Display in the Community Room On Display in Nov. & Dec. The Art of Jack Grimando Jack loves nature and old world scenes which he paints with great detail... many are painted from his imagination. The 16 Most Critical Current Event Topics Monday, Nov. 14 at 1:30 p.m. Many long held ideas and activities are being disrupted by rapid change and while
some of these changes are basically good for individuals, society and civilization, many of us resist change. In addition, some of the changes are either not good or subject to intense debate as to their worthiness, morality or positive nature for mankind. Be part of the discussion of the current events that we are dealing with that have consequences for us, our families, our country and the world. With Howard Shurdut Continued on Page 48
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Leisure Club welcomes autumn BY D O R O T H Y D A LY Autumn, a blest season, is colored in burgundy and gold landscapes, cobalt skies and hot pink sunsets — all inviting the seniors of the Herricks Leisure Club to embrace the ambiance of the new season. And the return to club meetings after the summer respite offers additional incentives to take on new activities. At our first get-together on Sept. 8, members were warmly welcomed back by the club’s board. Helene Picchiello paid a tribute Frances Kivatisky, the club’s recently deceased director, by adorning the dais with an array of nostalgic photos of Kivatisky through her past 18 years as club coordinator. Treasurer James Kovalsky submitted a comprehensive financial statement and Legislative Chairlady Tess Fiorentino reported on her recent accident and hospitalization. A trip to Yonkers Casino took place on Sept. 14 un-
der the auspices of Rita Ruffino. The meeting the next day afforded a busy schedule. Corresponding Secretary Terry Lanese noted some serious illnesses, flu shots were distributed by a Rite-Aid representative and club President Cristello conducted a celebration of 11 birthdays. The Sept. 22 meeting featured a presentation by guest speaker Marilyn Kaufman called “Growing Up With Radio,” a look back on radio personalities and shows. Hilda Escobar, the new club director and a retired nurse, informs members about health-related matters. At this meeting she shared advice on shingles. On Sept. 29, Membership Chairlady Jeanette Kovalsky offered data on “suicide hotlines” and Jewish club members were wished a happy Rosh Hashanah. October arrived with an informative program on Oct. 6. Vice President Mary Carotenuto filled in for Cristello, who is recuperating in Winthrop-University Hospital.
Library opens seating area
The Mineola Library recently opened its new seating area. In attendance at the ribbon-cutting were Village of Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss, Mineola Village Board members, Mineola Library Board members, library staff and state Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square). Funding for the project was made possible through grants from state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury), Ra and Nassau County Legislator Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park).
Blood drive in Mineola Ashram-Kant Darshan Darbar in Mineola will host a blood drive on Saturday, Nov. 19. Sponsored by the American Red Cross, the blood drive will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 115 Jericho Turnpike in Mineola.
Village of Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss will appear to encourage volunteers and share his experiences of community service. To schedule an appointment to give blood, call 1-800-733-2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.
Jr. firefighters breakfast The Mineola Junior Fire Department is sponsoring a pancake breakfast on Sunday, Nov. 13 to benefit the victims of Hurricane Matthew and the fires in Portugal.
The breakfast will be held at the Mineola Community Center, located at 155 Washington Ave., from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. All of the proceeds will go to those affected. The suggested
donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Attendees are encouraged to bring family and friends to help those in need.
She introduced Herricks school district Superintendent Fino Celano, Assistant Superintendent for Business Lisa Rutkoske, Facilities Director Jim Brown and school board Trustee Jim Gounaris, who told the club about the bond issue which is needed to address necessary building repairs. An excursion to the Empire Casino came on Oct. 12. The next day, Fiorentino invited members to Pasta Night at the VFW to meet the local candidates for office. Jeanette Kovalsky also introduced two new members. Cristello announced a celebration of nine birthdays and the anniversaries of three couples married 46, 59 and 62 years. On Oct. 20, members gathered at the Pompei Restaurant to celebrate the club’s 41st anniversary with an avalanche of savory cuisine and dancing to the music of John Walters. Five significant birthdays were honored, including the 95th birthday of Jim Villani, and the 96th of Tony Catalano.
Tree Church to lighting host fair in W.P. Nov. 19 Village of Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar and the village Board of Trustees, along with their families, invite all residents to the annual village Christmas tree lighting ceremony. The ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. in front of the Village Hall on Sunday, Dec. 4, with Santa Claus arriving at 6:30 p.m. in Williston Park fire trucks, accompanied by many village resident volunteer firefighters. Join the village in Christmas songs, accompanied by local children’s groups. All are invited to sing along. Following the tree lighting, Santa will arrive and then visit the village streets on the fire truck. There will also be hot chocolate and cookies.
The Hillside United Methodist Church will hold its annual Holiday Fair on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the church, located at 2801 Hillside Ave. The fair will feature jewelry, a white elephant room, merchandise mart, buttons, beads and other craft supplies, hardware, handcrafted Christmas ornaments, and home-baked cakes, cupcakes, and other items. A snack bar will be available. For more information, call 516-637-8907. The church is located at the corner of Hillside Avenue and Heywood Street, two stoplights west of Herricks Road.
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2 from Queens arrested for E.W. robberies BY N O A H MANSKAR Two Queens residents were arraigned Tuesday for allegedly robbing 20 homes in a 10-month period, including two in East Williston and one in Albertson. Nassau County police arrested Johana Gomez of Astoria and Jorge Guevara of Bayside on Monday afternoon after a lengthy investigation by the Burglary Pattern Team, a task force dedicated to tackling strings of burglaries. They were caught trying to break into a house in Merrick that would have been their 21st burglary, police said. The pair allegedly hit 20 homes between Jan. 6 and Oct. 21 by forcing their way through back doors or windows and
Johana Gomez
Jorge Guevara
stealing jewelry, cash and other items, police said. They allegedly robbed a house on Dorset Avenue in Albertson on April 26, one on Feather Lane in East Williston
on June 2 and one on Wheatley Avenue in East Williston on June 8, police said. The other alleged burglaries happened in Levittown, North Massapequa, Carle Place, Syos-
set, Westbury, Seaford, North Bellmore, Wantagh and Farmingdale, police said. The Burglary Pattern Team, composed of four police officers and one supervisor, worked with the NYPD and several investigators in New Jersey to determine who committed the burglaries, police said. Gomez, 38, was charged with 19 counts of second-degree burglary, and Guevara, 36, was charged with 20 counts of second-degree burglary. Both were charged with three counts of second-degree attempted burglary and one count of third-degree burglary. They appeared in First District Court in Hempstead. The East Williston burglaries Gomez and Guevara allegedly committed were part of a
pattern of crimes in the village that led to a continuing discussion about improving security there. The village has since formed a Security Committee to evaluate potential measures. A private security officer has also patrolled the village for about a year. Stephan Leccese, a village resident and security advocate, said it is important that security discussions continue. “It’s good that they caught them, but our village is still probably as susceptible to being burglarized today as it was back then,” Leccese said. Neither David Tanner, the village mayor, nor Caroline DeBenedittis, the Security Committee chairwoman, could be reached for comment.
Dancing up a storm at Herricks senior center BY N O A H MANSKAR One night about eight years ago, Lynne Gambone stumbled into a nightclub and left with a lifelong passion, she said. People in the club were dancing the salsa, and Gambone, a Herricks school district parent and PTA member, said she became “utterly mesmerized,’’ adding, “I stared at people’s feet for three hours.” Since then, dance has led Gambone to feel a kind of joy that nothing else gives her, pushing her to first perform a set of ballroom dances for the Herricks Senior Community Service Center five years ago. She has returned every year since, finding the performances give the senior citizens in the program a similar sense of joy and nostalgia, she said. “You can see the wonder,” said Gambone, an Albertson resident. “You can see the smiles on their faces, but you can see the wonder in their hearts, and
they share that when we’re done dancing by coming up and chatting with us.” Gambone will return to the Senior Community Service Center for her annual show on Dec. 6, performing there for the first time with her new dance partner, Bob Goot of Centereach. Their partnership has amplified their passions for dance and helped them further improve their skills, they said. “We both have very similar goals,” Gambone said. “We both are driven to dance as much as we can. We both are passionate about the dancing and having our audiences see that.” While Gambone recently got into dance, Goot jumped back into it six years ago after about a 20-year hiatus, he said. He danced competitively in his 20s and once appeared on the TV show “Star Search,” he said. They met each other through a Long Island dance teacher they both know, and since then it’s been a natural
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BOB GOOT AND LYNNE GAMBONE
Bob Goot (left) and Lynne Gambone say their dance partnership has been a natural fit. fit, they said. They’ll also be performing in the Catskills next week during Stardust Ballroom Dance Weekend at Honor’s Haven Resort & Spa. “You have to have that utter joy that Lynne talks about and that passion, but you also have to be able to step back and appreciate what the other people bring to the table,” Goot said.
“... In our case, it doesn’t really seem to be an effort.” Gambone’s performances are one of several arts and culture programs the Herricks Senior Community Service Center, based at the Herricks Community Center, offers for seniors from across Nassau County, said Carol McBride, the center’s director.
The center also serves lunch and sponsors games and other activities every Monday, Tuesday and Friday. This year, Gambone and Goot will show off eight to 10 dances in their repertoire, including the salsa, cha cha, rhumba, waltz, fox trot, American tango, hustle, West Coast swing and East Coast swing, Gambone said. The 50 to 90 seniors who attend the shows are always glad to see there’s an appreciation for the ballroom dances they danced when they were younger, Gambone said. “I think it opens their world, maybe, or gives them an opportunity to see things that may not be so easily accessible to them just because of transportation issues,” McBride said. Gambone and Goot’s free performance will start at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Herricks Community Center, located at 999 Herricks Road in New Hyde Park.
Construction begins on Ritz Carlton phase 2 BY M A X Z A H N Construction on the second and final phase of the Ritz Carlton Residences will begin in two weeks, said Frank Haftel, the vice president for development and asset management at RXR Realty,
which has overseen the work. “We’re ready to begin placing the foundations,” Haftel said. “We’re very excited.” The second phase of construction will span two years, adding two five-story buildings and 120 units to the luxury condominium
complex on the Long Island Expressway’s South Service Road. The complex currently consists of 124 condominiums in two residential buildings as well as a clubhouse that features a swimming pool, exercise room, and movie theater, among other
amenities. Over 90 percent of the completed condominiums have been sold, though only approximately half of those purchasers have moved into their homes, Haftel said. RXR will begin putting the phase two condominiums on the
market as soon as construction begins. They range from two bedroom, two and a half bathroom apartments for $1,350,000 to 3 bedroom, 3 and a half bathroom apartments for $4,900,000. Continued on Page 48
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EWSD seeks to better integrate math, science BY N O A H MANSKAR East Williston school district officials are looking to tweak high school computer science and math programs to make the district’s curriculum more cohesive. Officials are considering changes to the college-level Advanced Placement computer science class at the Wheatley School that would align it with Project Lead the Way, a science and technology initiative the district has implemented in grades nine through 12, school Superintendent Elaine Kanas said. They are also evaluating changes to the eighth-grade
math research program to align it with other research initiatives in the district, Kanas said. “We’ve always had research initiatives. Now we’re just trying to bring it into cohesiveness with all academia so that children are learning across academics with all available tools,” said Mark Kamberg, the East Williston school board president. The possible changes come as part of the district’s annual review of the five-year strategic plan, now in its fourth year, Kanas said. The review aims to incorporate new programs, initiatives or regulations into the plan, she said. The new AP computer sci-
Elaine Kanas ence program focuses more on software engineering than the current course, Kanas said.
That would bring it more in line with Project Lead the Way, a high school initiative that focuses on engineering, she said. “What we’ve done over the past couple of years is to look at our computer science strand and our engineering strand so that they could either support each other ... or they could support students who want to go on and do more of a computer sequence,” Kanas said. The district may also expand its math research program or better align it with Wheatley’s science research program and its Advanced Placement capstone course, a research-intensive class that is being tested this year, Kanas said.
For example, the capstone course may include a math component in the future, Kanas said. Bringing the research programs together would help students connect skills across subject areas to make them more academically successful, Kamberg said. ”You just no longer read and write in English [classes] anymore,” he said. “... It’s part of science, it’s part of social studies, it’s part of math.” District officials plan to finalize adjustments to the strategic plan by the spring so they can update their instructional goals and teacher training programs accordingly, Kanas said.
Wheatley alum set to promote latest book BY ST E P H E N ROMANO Daniel Paisner walked across the street from his job at Simon & Schuster to the NBC studios in New York City in 1986. On the way back, he had a deal to collaborate on a book with longtime “Today Show” weatherman Willard Scott, his first collaboration and the first of over 60 books he’s written since. “I got the gig to write about Willard Scott, and they took a chance on me,” Paisner said. “I was working at Simon & Schuster after graduating college and meeting a lot of people and they gave me a shot.” On Nov. 15, Paisner is appearing at the Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington promoting his newest book with Mets pitching legend Ron Darling, “Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life,” which chronicles the last game of the 1986 World Series. “It’s always nice getting back to Port Washington to promote work,” said Paisner, a Port Washington resident since 1989. “It’s great when people come out who don’t know me. I always feel like I’m putting my friends out to come to these things, but it’s so nice when I see strangers come and I get to meet them and tell them about my book.” Working in the publicity department at Simon & Schuster, Paisner began freelancing for
The New York Times, Associated Press and New York Daily News, but he said he always knew he wanted to write books. Growing up in Roslyn, Paisner attended the Wheatley School and edited its student newspaper, The Wildcat, and also put out smaller newspapers with his friends around the neighborhood, he said. “I’ve always been writing,” he said. “It’s just something that came naturally, and I’ve always been better at translating thoughts from my head through writing.” While Paisner has collaborated with celebrities and athletes, including Darling, Ivanka Trump, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Serena Williams and the entrepreneur Daymond John, he has also written four novels, which he said is what he originally wanted to do as a writer. But when he’s collaborating with someone, he said, it’s their story, not one he’s making up. “It’s a little bit easier for me to work with something else, because the story has been lived and told,” he said. “I’m not looking at blank page and looking to fill it. I know where I’m going with the story.” Paisner’s most recent novel, “A Single Happened Thing,” which came out in April, uses baseball from the 1800s to introduce a contemporary character, he said. Although he’s written mostly nonfiction books, Paisner said, it wasn’t difficult for him to develop his writing voice, and when he’s collaborating
Daniel Paisner will appear Nov. 15 at Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington. with someone, he has to try and find their voice and write their narrative. “I do have my own voice and style, but I try to approach collaborations as if I’m writing about characters,” he said. “I want to get inside their head and learn their voices, lives and personalities.” In 2012, he collaborated on
“Scratching the Horizon: A Surfing Life” with surfer Izzy Paskowitz, channeling the voice of a “surfer dude” throughout the book, he said. Usually working on books for six to nine months, Paisner said, projects began to find him. “Not a lot of people do this for a living,” he said. “It’s typically a family member or friend,
a journalist who followed them around for a long time throughout their career, or a magazine writer who is expanding a story. If not, it’s usually someone in this small community of collaborators.” Writing books about highprofile athletes and celebrities has gotten Paisner more deals, he said, but he enjoys telling the stories of ordinary people “who do something extraordinary.” Paisner collaborated with Port Washington resident Krystyna Chiger to write “The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in the Holocaust’s Shadow,” a book that tells the story of Chiger’s time during the Holocaust. “It was such an honest and compelling story,” Paisner said. “My favorite stories will always be the ones with ordinary folks. It was difficult because our sessions were very emotional and real.” Paisner’s experiences with the people he has written about, he said, have spawned friendships that have lasted years. Every year, Paisner volunteers for Paskowitz’s foundation, working with children who are on the autism spectrum, he said. “These relationships and friendships are formed from writing books with people, and it’s allowed me to go back and write a second or third with someone,” he said. “All of these books come with a reward, whether it’s financially, or an award, or a friendship. They are all so rewarding.”
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Northwell partners on opiod podcast The Northwell Health Foundation and the GroundTruth Project recently announced the establishment of a new health reporting fellowship that will produce a podcast series exploring opiod prescriptions and addiction, the link to heroin and other illegal drugs, and potential solutions. GroundTruth supports a new generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of their generation, according to a press release from Northwell Health. To carry out this reporting fellowship, GroundTruth is partnering with the Northwell Health Foundation to support research and training for a new generation of health care leaders, offering reporting fellowships to graduates of the City University of New
York Graduate School of Journalism. Over the next month, GroundTruth will be accepting applications for the fellowship. By early January, it will assemble a team of reporters and editors to produce a five-episode series of podcasts that will rely on narrative storytelling to address the issues. The reporting will look at a complex set of questions around the issue by focusing on the stories of providers and patients, and steps being taken to correct the gaps in the health delivery system. “Health care, and specifically emergency health care, is under enormous pressure to treat people quickly and effec-
tively,” Terry Lynam, senior vice president at Northwell Health said. “The Hippocratic oath famously says ‘first, do no harm’ — but what if, in some instances, the desire to treat and cure is providing unintentional complications for the patient and society as a whole? How do we address that?” The reporting team will produce a multimedia report to accompany the podcast and will seek out editorial partners to expand the reach of the reporting. The fellowship will include a stipend of $5,000 for each selected reporting fellow. Beginning in January, the fellowship will be structured around a one-week workshop focused on the craft of podcast-
ing and three weeks of reporting in the field in New York. The fellowship will be open to current students and recent graduates of CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, November 22, and winners will be announced in December. Applications should include a resume, five samples of writing, podcasting or other editorial work and a cover letter outlining the applicant’s interest in reporting on health and what approaches they feel are important in examining the Affordable Care Act. Please send applications to: fellowships@thegroundtruthproject.org.
County event to aid vets
Play reading on Veteran’s Day The American Airpower Museum is hosting “Children of the April Rain,” a reading of a new play for Veterans Day on Friday, Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. “Children of the April Rain” began when, upon meeting the play’s main characters, writer William Bryant Doty, combined their memoirs to create a story of mostly defense-
Graphic courtesy: www.vva.org less American civilians facing the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War, according to a press release from The American Airpower Museum. Regular admission is $10 for adults;
$8 for seniors; and $5 for children age five to 13 — under five is free. All veterans will be admitted free with proof of service, with a DD-214 or other form of proof.
Gun range to honor veterans In recognition of Veterans Day, the Nassau County Rifle and Pistol Range will be offering free admission for veterans and active military on Friday, Nov. 11 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The last sign in for the day will be at 3:00 p.m. The Nassau County Rifle and Pistol Range is the only such facility open to the public in Nassau County, according to a press release from the Nassau County executive office. There are six ranges and 30 individual shooting points available and targets can be set from five yards to 30 yards. The range received an extensive renovation over the summer of 2005, which included lead removal
from the ranges and the addition of a new roof and additional parking. The Nassau County Rifle and Pistol Range is located at the Mitchel Field Athletic Complex in the “Hub” area in Uniondale, just west of the Nassau Coliseum. Operating hours are as Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Last booking is one hour prior to closing. For more information, call (516) 572-0420. Proof of service is required and refreshments will be served. For more information about the Nassau County Parks, Recreation and Museums Department, call (516) 572-0200 or visit www. nassaucountyny.gov/parks.
Veterans Day parade in G.N. A Veterans Day parade will be begin at the Great Neck Alert fire house at 555 Middle Neck Road at 10:45 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11. Louise McCann, commander of The American Legion Charles A. Fowler, Jr. Post #160, has commanded the parade for the last three years, according to a press release from Suzette A. Gray, legislative aide to Town Councilwoman Lee R. Seeman. The parade is also under the auspices of the Gilliar-Norwill Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #372, United States Merchant Marine Academy, and Great Neck Alert and Vigilant fire companies. “We must never forget that our freedoms are preserved by the fighting men and women of our military,”McCann said. “It is important for us to remember the heroism of those who have served our nation and those who contin-
ue to serve.” As prescribed by law, the service is always held at 11 a.m. on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The parade will proceed north to the Village Green, where a short ceremony will be held at the Wall of Remembrance located at the north end of the Green. Marchers will include members of the Great Neck Alert and Vigilant fire companies, along with our elected officials and members of the Great Neck Boy and Girl Scouts. Seating at the Village Green in available for all veterans, service members and their families — for seating reservations and any further information about the parade, please contact Suzette A. Gray at (516) 869-7694 or e-mail grays@northhempsteadny.gov.
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A Veterans Stand Down will be held Tuesday, Nov. 22 at the Freeport Armory at 63 Babylon Turnpike in Freeport. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is hosted by the Nassau County Veterans Service Agency with assistance from volunteers representing all service organizations. “My administration is committed to serving our veterans and ensuring resources are provided to them once they return home from service,” Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said. “Nassau County Stand Downs have assisted veterans in securing benefits, job counseling, legal advice and dental care — I thank all those good citizens who donate their time to making this event a success.” Veterans will receive assistance with securing entitled benefits, job counseling and legal advice, according to a press release from the Nassau County executives office. Clothes and food donated from the community will be available to the veterans, as well as a BBQ, haircuts, medical screenings, enrollment in the Veterans Affairs health care system and dental cleaning offered by Dental on the Go. Representatives from Nassau County government agencies will be participating, including the departments of Social Services, Health, and Human Services, as well as The Salvation Army, thestate Department of Labor, The Department of Veterans Affairs, state Division of Veterans Affairs and The Red Cross. For more information, contact the Nassau County Veterans Service Agency at (516) 572-6565.
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Liberator to speak at center The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County recently held a program “Rescue Beyond War: Unknown Military Heroes,” featuring Seymour Kaplan, of Brooklyn. He spoke during the program about his experiences as one of the liberators of the Dachau concentration camp, according to a press release from the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. At 17-years old, Seymour enlisted in the Army and left Brooklyn to fight against Nazi Germany. He became a machine gunner with the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion attached to the 42nd Infantry Division. In April 1945, he was one of the first American soldiers to enter Dachau. With his knowledge of Yiddish, Seymour served as a translator between Holocaust survivors and the Army. When he returned home, he established a garment manufacturing company, eventually retired, and then began a second career as a teacher. He is a mental health advocate and has been honored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Town officials and several of the local Chamber of Commerce presidents join together to celebrate Small Business Saturday. Liberator Seymour Kaplan, of Brooklyn, with Holocaust Survivor Charlotte Gillman, of Westbury, at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s program on “Rescue Beyond War: Unknown Military Heroes.” For more information, call (516) 571-8040, visit www.hmtcli.org or find us on social media at Facebook.com/HMTCNY and Twitter.com/HolocaustTolCtr.
County opens Santa’s boxes A network of Santa’s mailboxes was recently announced in various Nassau County Parks, which will run through Friday, Dec. 16 for children of Nassau County to send their holiday lists directly to Santa Claus at the North Pole. The Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums will forward letters to Santa at the North Pole, according to a press release from the Nassau County executive office. Letters received by Friday, Dec. 16 with a legible name and return address will be answered by Santa before the holiday — there is no postage necessary.
Colorful red and green mailboxes will be accessible from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at the administration buildings of the following parks: Cantiague Park in Hicksville — 571-7056 Christopher Morley Park in
Roslyn-North Hills — 571-8113 Grant Park in Hewlett — 571-7821 Rev. Arthur Mackey, Sr. Park in Roosevelt — 571-8692 Wantagh Park in Wantagh — 571-7460 Nassau Aquatic Center at Parking Field No. 1A — 572-0501 The Eisenhower Park Administration Building on Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. — 572-0200 For more information about Santa’s mailboxes, please call (516) 572-0200 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., or visit the Park’s Department website at nassaucountyny.gov/parks.
Town backs small biz day The Town of North Hempstead has announced its support for Small Business Saturday on Nov. 26 and are encouraging residents to shift some of their spending this holiday season to support local small businesses. The town has a joint partnership with Women Impacting Public Policy and the Small Business Saturday Coalition, according to a press release from the Town of North Hempstead. In 2015, 551 city, county and town officials joined together to support Small Business Saturday, including the Town of North Hempstead. “Grab a friend and explore your local downtown stores this holiday season. Find something special and make that purchase because shopping at small businesses in your home town represents an investment in your local
community,” Executive Director of the Town’s Business and Development Corporation Kim Kaiman said. Small Business Saturday is an effort to drive consumers to shop at local independently owned businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This year, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, the town board and the town’s BTDC are taking the initiative a step further by encouraging residents to consider spending around 10 percent of their holiday shopping at local businesses. “The holiday season is the ideal time to support our local business owners and local economy,” Bosworth said. “Making a small shift in your spending can make a big difference to our businesses.” For more information on Small Business Saturday, visit www.shopsmall.com
Holocaust survivor’s story Town A Holocaust Service will be held at Temple Sinai of Roslyn where Holocaust survivor Hanne Liebmann will share her story on Friday, Nov. 11 at 6:30 p.m. Liebmann will share her experiences at our Kristallnacht Commemoration. Into her 10th decade of life, Liebmann speaks with the conviction, strength and humor of a younger person, according to a press release from Temple Sinai of Roslyn. Liebmann tells her story so that younger generations may experience what she witnessed, firsthand. Raised in Karlesruhe, in southwest Germany, Liebmann was born in 1924. Liebmann and her mother lived with her elderly grandmoth-
Hanne Liebmann er and aunts, as Nazis forced Jews from their homes. In late 1940, she and her female relatives were arrested and placed on a deportation train. Unexpectedly, that transport took them to France, to the Gurs concentration camp, rather than
Poland. Nearly a year later, Liebmann left for Le Chambon, France, through relief efforts of the OSE, a French Jewish social service organization. Her other family members remained imprisoned at Gurs. She was placed in a children’s home, run by the Swiss Red Cross Children’s Aid Association. At times, during the war years, concerned local residents hid her during Nazi raids. During the Friday night Service commemorating Kristallnacht, Hanne will describe two extremes of human behavior during the war — cruelty at the hands of German Nazis, and kindness at the hands of French Huguenots of Le Chambon. All are welcome to attend this free service.
changes vet tax breaks
Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman and the town’s Veterans Advisory Committee have announced to residents a change to the law regarding veterans’ exemptions on 2017-2018 school tax bills. Signed into Chapter 253 of the Laws of 2016, the bill authorizes school districts to grant the Cold War Veterans Property Tax Exemption to homeowners who served in the armed forces during times other than wartime from September 1945 through Dec. 1991. This law is in addition to the
Alternative Veterans’ Property Tax Exemption which was signed into law in 2013. In order for a Cold War Veteran to receive this benefit, each of the local school districts must adopt the legislation by Dec. 31, 2016 for the exemption to be applied to the Oct. 2017 school tax bill. Therefore, Bosworth, Berman and the committee are urging residents to contact their local school district and ask them to opt-in and adopt this property tax exemption before the Dec. 31 deadline. For more information, call 311 or (516) 869-6311 from outside the Town.
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Store windows on Main Streets If I had to summarize the surprising and unexpected presidential run of Donald Trump I would say never underestimate the power of branding. If you want to learn how to be a successful storekeeper on Long Island you can learn from him. I attended a conference yesterday at Fordham University where professors and psychoanalysts were gathered to discuss the 2016 presidential election. The entire seminar was spent discussing Donald Trump and his personality. No surprise here. The remarks tended to be hostile and attacking. I was the only person in the room who actually knew Donald Trump and came away from the conference with the idea that once again he was underestimated. He much like Tiger Woods in golf is a force of nature. For 20 years every conversation about golf began and ended with Woods. And now for the last 18 months every conversation about politics began and ended with Trump. Trump and politics in general is far removed from the streets of Williston Park, Manhasset, Port Washington or Great Neck but we can all learn a lesson from his method of marketing. 1. Do not be afraid to shine a light on yourself and your store. As an example there is a little shop owned by Debbie
Winter right next to Hildebrandt’s Williston Park that serves the best pastries you will find on Long Island. Alas no one knows about them. They have a little sign in front that says “Irresistibly Good” but their window displays nothing that would remotely reveal how very good their pastry treats are. If Trump owned that store the sign would be bigger than life itself and the pastries in the window would be visible to one and all. Everyone likes to criticize Trump for being a self-promoter but all he is really doing is branding himself. 2. Do not underestimate your value. I get my haircut at a place called Aroma Nails again on Hillside Avenue in Williston Park. The owners are Suhwa Kim and her husband Minho.
DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town Suhwa really knows how to cut hair. But as in most things in life it took me some pain to understand just how good she is. She had a baby recently and was off work for two months. I was forced into getting my hair cut from someone else and sadly for me it didn’t look too good. When you get to my age
This store window of a little coffee shop in Carmel-by-the-Sea is an example of how to decorate a store window. When you walk past the window acts like an irresistible magnet drawing you inside.
you need a really good haircut to look even passable. So each day I looked in the mirror and I fluctuated between wanting to cry or finding out where Suhwa lived and talking her into cutting my hair immediately. Well I gritted my teeth and patiently waited for her to return. Each day I would go into her shop and ask her husband when she was returning. Finally she was there and I sat down and said “welcome home!” As she cut my hair I saw how talented she really was and thought to myself she could charge me four to five times more than her current rate and I wouldn’t bat an eye. She charges me twenty dollars and if she raised her price to one hundred dollars I would still be smiling and saying “thanks.” No one would ever accuse Donald Trump of underestimating his value. And his attitude has made him over a billion dollars and counting. His slogan “Make America Great Again” is a good reflection of how much he values himself and his country. As I strolled down Hillside Avenue on Sunday I stopped to look at the always interesting window display at Peter Andrews. As luck would have it Patricia the owner and window display artist was exercising her magic at the time and I asked her about the local shopkeepers on Hillside and
whether she was for hire to help them out. She told me that she thought Williston Park was going through a renaissance over the last few years and that there is now much more street traffic with new faces thanks to the new restaurants like Taverna 38, Sangria 71, and the Butchers. Now is the time for local shopkeepers to take advantage of this window of opportunity. I think Williston Park is like many of the small towns on Long Island. The store keepers provide great service and great product but not many people know how to market or present themselves to the public. Only a small percentage of the folks walking down Hillside know anything about how good Debbie Winter’s apple turnovers are or just how great a haircutter Suhwa Kim is. We may be a bit weary of this year’s presidential campaign but we can learn something from The Donald. He has unwittingly taught America that if you are smart enough, brave enough and confidence enough to trumpet your wares you just might find yourself achieving more success then you ever dreamed possible. Trump taught America to dream big, value yourself, show the world who you are and to shoot for the stars. That is quite a bit to learn just by watching a new politician in action.
Dems seek bar to unbalanced budget votes Continued from Page 10 “To do it after Election Day so that you don’t jeopardize any of your colleagues in state or federal government, to me, is wrong,” Abrahams said. The Legislature adopted a $2.9 billion 2017 county budget last week that has about $70 million less revenue than expenses. Republicans cut three of the dozens of new and increased fees Mangano proposed, but are looking for alternatives to some others,
including the public safety fee. That controversial measure would add a $105 surcharge to any traffic or parking ticket in the county and raise an estimated $64.4 million. Democrats also called on Republicans to convene a full Legislature meeting and vote on the budget Monday. Republicans plan to propose new revenue or spending cuts to fill the hole for the Legislature’s approval at its Nov. 21 meeting. Among them is an am-
nesty program that would allow business owners to pay 75 percent of the county fines they owe for violating a law that requires owners of investment properties to report income and expenses for those properties. The penalties could raise up to $105 million, Newsday reported, but the law is being challenged in state court. The Democrats’ proposed charter amendment is unlikely to be called for a vote by Republican Presiding Offi-
cer Norma Gonsalves of East Meadow. Democrats thought it would be futile to file any amendments to Mangano’s budget because they would not be considered, Abrahams has said. In a statement, Gonsalves criticized Democrats for not offering any suggestions to fill the budget hole. “It is galling that the Democrats are submitting this legislation to restrict potential budget solutions when they have not offered a single idea
to amend the budget, regardless of deadlines,” she said. Brian Nevin, a spokesman for Mangano, deferred questions to the Legislature. The final county budget is subject to approval by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the county’s state financial control board. NIFA last week told the county to develop contingency plans for up to $100 million in immediate spending cuts in case NIFA rejects the budget.
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Business&RealEstate What makes Great Neck great I have lived in Great Neck for way over a half a century and seen many, many changes, the majority positive and I have found it to be quite an amazing town to call my home. There are nine villages, including, Kings Point, The Village of Great Neck, Saddle Rock, Saddle Rock Estates (not a village and unincorporated) Harbor Hills (not a village and not incorporated), Great Neck Estates, Kensington, Thomaston, Russel Gardens, University Gardens, and Lake Success. There are also specific areas and streets which are not incorporated (not part of an incorporated village) but are part of Great Neck and the Great Neck Park District, but are part of the Town of North Hempstead (get their refuse picked up by the town, but lower Real Estate taxes, due to no extra costs of mayors, trustees, employees and maintenance of buildings and grounds). The villages of Kings Point, The Village of Great Neck, Kensington, Great Neck Plaza, Thomaston and Russell Gardens are included in the Great Neck Park District as well as those unincorporated areas. There are so many things to keep you and the kids busy, such as, of course, the Parkwood Pool, the Ice Skating Rink and Tennis Complex as well as rock climbing wall, ping pong, bad mitten, volley ball, billiards, basketball and all sorts of games during the summer in the recreation center (ice rink in the winter). Your children can also join the swim and diving club. Having your Great Neck Park District photo ID, enables you and your family to enter Steppingstone Park and the use of all its facilities including the “over the top” summer concerts. There are also three park district-owned parking lot facilities: on North Station Plaza, Canterbury Road and Welwyn Road. You need a photo ID card from the Great Neck Park District to use those facilities (daily/monthly fees to Park). The areas in Great Neck that are not part of the Great Neck Park District are Lake Success, University Gardens, Harbor Hills, Saddle Rock and Saddle
Rock Estates. We are one of the few park districts in the State of New York and was the first to become one in 1916. There are 21 active and passive parks in Great Neck, and from my research, more than any other towns that I can think of in the U.S. I had done a study for Neil Marrin a former Great Neck Park District superintendent about the best most advantageous use of park land. To make a long story short, keeping open space was the most economical and least costly and best use for a number of reasons. First and foremost, was the fact, that if the land were to be developed, the school and local population would increase substantially, infrastructure e.g. sewers/cesspools would be very expensive to build and maintain, less open space to recharge our aquifers and local real estate taxes would increase. So maintaining park land as open space for our area would have less of an impact on our quality of life than developing it; and in fact we have the best quality of life compared with a many, many other communities, due to the hundreds of acres of protected open space that our fantastic and dynamic current and past Great Neck Park District commissioners have secured since 1916, when it was created. My hat is off to the current group , Robert Lincoln, Frank Cilluffo and Dan Nachmanoff for keeping our Park District what it is, “The jewel of Great Neck” and their efforts going forward, to have a new recreation center on Steamboat Road for all to enjoy! As I mentioned we have top notch concerts in Ielpi Park (Grace Ave.) (free to all)and Steppingstone Park during the summer months(need a park district photo ID card). You can also have picnics in Steppingstone Park for, I believe, up to 30 people with a permit (also free). You can moor your boat or sale boat there at a nominal cost as well as to learn how to sail (fee based). There is a ramp in the Park to slide your boat or water craft into the water and enjoy the
PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch day! There are nature walks, visits to the Light House, dinner cruises to Port Washington and the Crab Shack in City Island and history walks in the Village of Great Neck Plaza. Free movies at Great Neck House (with a park district card) during the weekends year round. I did mention ice skating in the Parkwood rink, with hockey teams to join, rental skate area and concession stand when you get those hunger pangs satisfied! We have an Autofest in the fall in the Village of Great Neck Plaza, where 1000s of people in and out of Great Neck enjoy the day and a second crafts Fair in the Village of Great Neck in May, around Memorial Day Weekend in the spring. We have one movie theatre, as well as numerous and varied foods in a multitude of restaurants throughout Great Neck Plaza. There are so many things to do in Great Neck for you and the kids, that it is like being on vacation, but I call it a staycation, since you don’t have to drive anywhere and it’s almost free! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that our newly renovated high tech Library on Bayview Ave had its grand opening the other Sunday. After a special meeting last week, we learned that the park district is in the beginning stages of potentially purchasing a tennis court on Steamboat Road to be turned into an amazing and much needed recreation center for the kids and adults, especially in the winter months, so everyone within the park district will have a place to enjoy and have fun.
Lastly, we have a multitude of adult classes to learn everything from stock picking to dancing and computer lessons, a cornucopia of choices! Many move here after downsizing and realize what a special place it is with all its amenities, special events and also proximity to New York City. All this absolutely contributes to the true value of our real estate and its inhabitants to enjoy a special place to call home. Over the many years that I have resided in Great Neck, I have come to the realization that, you are not purchasing or leasing a home, condo, co-op, but are gaining a unique lifestyle, whatever that may mean to you, your significant other and children. Like a newly planted tree, you begin to grow roots and expand as you network and connect in a highly rated community of diverse cultures and demographics, and the truth is, “We all do Get along here, regardless of where we come from; with a minimum of crime and a maximum of safety. The bottom line, none of us are really Americans, except those that have been born here (or the people that walked over the Asian Peninsula, when it was attached to Alaska, 10,000 years ago. Lastly, our ancestors are from around the globe and got transplanted here either for opportunity or political reasons. So, the bottom line is that we are all essential immigrants that were born and traveled here, most with not a dime in their pocket and a fortunate few with large sums of money; all seeking a new life of freedom and opportunity.
Since I am here for so long, and I know that I couldn’t find a more exciting place to live, so, I won’t be moving anytime or anywhere soon, just chillin’ and having as much fun as possible in Great Neck! P.S. By the time you read this article, we will have already elected a new president and I surely hope whomever it is, that they live up to whatever course they plan to navigate our country through during the next four years and just do whatever they say they will do for the good of all of us in the USA. Learning how to be and have much more non-partisan politics and more help and assistance from our senators and congresspeople in our government! So, I just hope our freedoms and opportunities that are available today to those who are already here and those who come here legally, will continue to flourish and exist for our society and country into the foreseeable future and will not selfimplode, as history has shown us time and again as happened with the Romans, Greeks and all other major and dominant civilizations that did themselves in, for no real logical or good reason except greed and partisan politics! Bonus Information for our Readers: If you would like to receive a digital copy of “Unlocking the Secrets of Real Estate’s New Market Reality, or “Our Seller’s Guide for “Things to Consider When Selling Your Home,”just email me with your name, email and cell number.
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Recent RE Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions Median sales price $550,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita
City 7,264 11,604 43.9 2.8 107,622 43,205
County 1,338,712 4,702 41.2 3 97,049 42,286
19 Foxcroft Road, Albertson Sold Price: $555,000 Date: 10/21/2016 3 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Exp Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 78x89 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $11,715 MLS# 2872123
273 Brown Street, Mineola Sold Price: $643,000 Date: 10/21/2016 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $9,882 MLS# 2870544
9 Lee Avenue, Albertson 69 Argyle Road, Albertson Sold Price: $598,000 Date: 10/05/2016 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 70x100 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $7,099 MLS# 2873691
Sold Price: $529,000 Date: 07/19/2016 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $7,186 MLS# 2853117
Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas 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 the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.
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3 women sue Roslyn Hgts. brain surgeon BY M A X Z A H N Three women have brought malpractice lawsuits against Dr. Paolo Bolognese, a Roslyn brain surgeon, for injuries stemming from recent surgeries. Each of the women sought treatment for chiari malformation, a usually congenital disease that causes a structural defect in the brain. “They were able to work and do activities of daily living until they went into the operation room with Dr. Bolognese,” said Jordan Merson, the attorney representing the three plaintiffs. “Their lives have come to a crashing halt since that day.” The plaintiffs are Crystal Hensley Hall, 29, of Ellijay, Ga.; Jennifer
Lake, 24, of Rio Ranch, N.M; and Lori White, 55, of Sterling, Va. Their lawsuits were brought in Queens County Supreme Court. Merson said the surgeries took longer than expected, each lasting approximately five to eight hours. But he said the cases focus primarily on the “deterioration of each woman’s condition that occurred from the moment they were done with surgery.” Dr. Bolognese is the director of the Chiari Neurosurgical Center at Neurological Surgery in Rockville Centre. According to Newsday, Lake’s and White’s legal complaints alleged that Dr. Bolognese misplaced items while con-
ducting the surgery, causing severe injury. Hall’s lawsuit said Dr. Bolognese did not adequately perform the surgery, nor did he respond to her complaints about pain afterward. A few of Bolognese’s other patients have come to his defense, including Sarah Dyer, who herself suffers from chiari malformation. “My experience with Dr. Bolognese has been nothing but excellent,” she said. She underwent a 10-and-a-half-hour surgery with Dr. Bolognese on Feb. 17 to treat her chiari malformation as well as a related ailment called cranial cervical instability, which compromises structural support for the spine. “My life last year at
this time was terrible,” she said. “Now I’m able to go to my children’s football games and scream and cheer. In the past that would’ve caused me intense pain and agony.” She noted that Dr. Bolognese has made himself available promptly whenever questions have arisen since the surgery. Merson said he is awaiting a response from the defendant’s counsel to the complaints he filed in late October. Dr. Bolognese’s representation is unknown at this time. He has 20 days to respond from the date the complaint was filed. Efforts to reach Dr. Bolognese and Rosaleen McCrory, a lawyer for Dr. Bolognese in other malpractice lawsuits, were unavailing.
Lori White, one of three plaintiffs in a malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Paolo Bolognese.
$500K grant to combat Alzheimer’s violence BY M A X Z A H N Many expect a friend or relative diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease to experience severe memory loss, but fewer realize that the disease can bring additional symptoms of aggression and violence, said Dr. Peter Davies, director of the Litwin-Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease, a division of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset. “Those features are terribly troublesome to families, and they’re extremely difficult to treat,” Davies said. “There is no good explanation of why
they happen.” Up to 50 percent of Alzheimer’s patients exhibit agitated behavior, according to the Geriatric and Mental Health Foundation. Some of that behavior escalates into violence. Davies and his colleague at Litwin-Zucker, Dr. Jeremy Koppel, received a $500,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America last Monday to find out why the aggression occurs and to develop a treatment for it. Charles J. Fuschillo Jr., president and chief executive officer of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, said the organization is “proud to partner with Dr.
Dr. Peter Davies, director of the Litwin-Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease, a division of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Davies” for what he called “a critical study.” Davies has given the keynote speeches at two
educational conferences organized this year by the Alzheimer’s Foundation, including one that took
place two weeks ago at the Marriott Hotel in Melville, Fuschillo said The grant will fund five years of research, during which the scientists will model the disease in mice and experiment with possible treatments for those exhibiting aggressive behavior. The mice provide the scientists with a “very rapid way to screen for new treatments and new ways to address this problem,” Davies said. “You can screen hundreds and hundreds of drugs in a very short space of time,” he added. The feature of Alzheimer’s most likely to
cause the violence is a brain formation called a tangle, which is made up of a common neurological protein called tau, Davies said. In a tangle, tau takes on an abnormal, disruptive shape. The combination of tangles and an excess of the brain chemical dopamine is a “very dangerous combination,” Davies added. The current treatment for the aggressive symptoms is a regimen of antipsychotic drugs like those prescribed to alleviate the symptoms of schizophrenia, Davies said. Continued on Page 48
Shelter Rock Library Continued from Page 38 Rene Magritte Friday, Nov. 18 at 11 a.m. The Treachery of Images at The Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou has organized a magnificent exhibition of the works of the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte. The exhibition forcuses on the reinterpretation of the works of
the artist in the light of his five recurring motifs: fire, shadows, curtains words and fragmented body. The retrospective brings together Magritte’s most iconic paintings along with antique illustrations depicting mythological narratives of the invention and definition of painting. With Ines Powell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
CHILDREN/ YOUNG ADULTS Children’s Art Show We are delighted to display the creativity of our “artistsin-residence” and hope patrons will take a moment or two to enjoy the artwork of the children from our
community. The artwork of the students from Denton Avenue School will be on display during the month of May. Thank you to the students of Roslyn Trinity for our April display. Visit the Children’s Room to see Mr. Sadowsky’s Zip Line & Flying Trapeze Self Activated Working Models
Visit the Children’s Room to see Don Sadowsky’s newest exhibits Zipline and Flying Trapeze All exhibits are free and open to the public. Gallery viewing times may vary during regular library hours. Board & Video Games Friday, Nov. 18 from 4:15pm
to 5:30 p.m. Join the YA Librarian and the TAB group and play popular board games such as Clue, Scrabble, Life and Risk. We will also play video games on the Wii and Playstation 3 platforms such as Mario Bros, Jeopardy and Wii Sports. Enjoy some refreshments
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Wheatley students aid in rebuilding school Continued from Page 2 day, encouraging them to eventually attend college and their parents to support their educational endeavors. “We come from a privileged area and they don’t have the privilege that we have,” Gitlitz said. Row45, a gym that specializes
in rowing exercises that Avila’s mother attends, agreed to host a half-day of classes on Saturday with all proceeds going to Project Brasilito. Gitlitz’s family will also host a Nov. 17 comedy show at their Old Westbury home to support the effort, he said.
Wheatley students have also been supportive, Avila said. The Spanish club helped him sponsor a school supply drive and students gave about $800 during last year’s “Showdown,” a weeklong competition between the classes, he said. Avila also hopes to partner
with the New York City FC soccer team for a future fundraiser, he said. “I was really surprised how many people wanted to help with this cause,” Avila said. Rowing classes at Row45 run from 11:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Nov. 12 and cost $30 per person.
Food and drinks will also be available, Gitlitz said. The comedy show will start at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Gitlitz home at 108 I.U. Willets Road in Old Westbury. Tickets are $50. Anyone interested in attending can email info@projectbrasilito. org for more information.
Herricks ed board seeks Work begins on Ritz to add 4 school holidays Carlton phase 2 Continued from Page 2 Some said their children are often torn between wanting to celebrate the holidays with family and the fear of falling behind if they miss school. Students representing the South Asian Student Alliance at Herricks High School presented to the board a petition with 522 students’ signatures supporting the inclusion of the holidays on the calendar. One parent said, “home life and school life are needed for
success. A family should not have to chose between school and family values.” Celano said he hopes a revised district calendar can be drafted by January. The East Williston school district is also considering adding three new holidays to next year’s school calendar after an initial discussion last year about adding the Lunar New Year, district Superintendent Elaine Kanas said. Asian students represented
19 percent of the student body in the 2015-16 school year, up from 7 percent in 2005-06, state data shows. Mark Kamberg, the East Williston school board president, said calendar discussions are happening in many other districts. “I think school districts across Long Island are taking a look at their demographics and taking a look at their calendarbuilding process,” Kamberg said.
Feinstein get $500K grant to combat Alzheimer’s violence Continued from Page 47 Such drugs, however, can hasten the death of an elderly person with Alzheimer’s. “It’s a very bad situation because on the one hand there is the patient’s troublesome behavior and on the other hand, if you try to treat it with antipsychotics, you’re putting a patient’s life at risk,” Davies said. “It’s terribly troublesome. Families get really desperate because
of this.” Citing preliminary research, Davies said he thinks the study could result in a treatment that reduces violent symptoms and alleviates their intensity. “If patients do become agitated, it will be much more mild than it currently is,” he said. “We hope to have a treatment by the end of the five years.” If a treatment is discovered, it would then have to un-
dergo a multiyear testing and certification process before it becomes available to patients. While passionate about the research, Davies has not had personal contact with a friend or relative with the disease. “The good news is no member of my family has developed Alzheimer’s disease,” he said. ‘‘The bad news is people in my family generally don’t live long enough to develop Alzheimer’s.”
Continued from Page 40 Haftel said RXR has taken every precaution to minimize construction noise for the complex’s current residents, though he acknowledged, “the first three to four months will be noisier than the rest.” At a North Hills Board of Trustees meeting in June, during which RXR received final approval to go forward with phase two of construction, village residents expressed concern over increased traffic congestion caused by the development. Prior to the meeting, RXR had installed a traffic light at the Ritz-Carlton’s New Hyde Park Road entrance, as the village required it to do. Haftel said he has not heard any further complaints about the traffic and doesn’t expect it will be a problem going forward. “We’re going to stage parking areas for workers within our site,” he said.
The hotelier manages the condos in a partnership with RXR, which purchased the North Hills property and has worked to develop it since 2007. The firm split the project into two phases in 2013, after the 2008 financial crash led to long delays and a major redesign. Emily Bock, sales and marketing manager at the Ritz Carlton Residences, said a community has started to form at the complex. “We just had a Halloween party throughout the top floor of the clubhouse,” she said. “We had a haunted house and a spooky movie in the theater.” She said the complex’s facilities will not have a problem accommodating the residents who eventually move into phase two condominiums. “Everything is suited for the 244 residents for whom [the complex] was originally planned.”
Check us out on facebook at www.facebook.com/ TheIslandNow The Ritz-Carlton Residences will hold 244 condominiums when the project is finished in 2018.
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The Great Neck-based Gold Coast Arts Center was a beneficiary of Neiman Marcus’ “Love to Give” collection. The items in the collection went on sale Nov. 3, marked by an event at the Neiman Marcus store at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City.
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Suozzi got back to old self in campaign Continued from Page 8 “When they start doing the TV commercials and they spend the time trying to knock me down, I’m going to need you more then than even now to stand up and say, ‘You know what, I met that guy, he’s a pretty good guy,’â€? Suozzi told about three dozen seniors at The Bristal. A loss to Martins this year could eectively end Suozzi’s political career. Suozzi has stayed ahead in the polls, but his lead has shrunk from 16 percentage points to seven, according to a Newsday/ News 12/Siena College poll published Saturday. Suozzi said this campaign more closely resembles his successful runs for mayor of Glen Cove and Nassau County executive than the last three races he lost, putting him on political hiatus. He is focused now on this campaign and no longer has the ambition for higher oďŹƒce that voters have associated with him, he said. The names on his campaign roster also
look familiar. Kim Devlin, his primary political strategist and a campaign spokeswoman, ran his successful 2001 and 2005 county executive campaigns and worked on his failed run for governor in 2006. Suozzi’s campaign is the ďŹ rst Mike Florio, his campaign manager and former aide, has ever run. Suozzi brought him on because he’s “an honest person who I trust,â€? he said. Suozzi’s personality and passion resonated with some voters at his campaign events. “He’s a ďŹ ghter, apparently, and we need ďŹ ghters,â€? said Felice Pester, a Democrat who lives at The Bristal. “And he’s willing to work with the opposite side, which nobody is today.â€? One man at Temple Chai said he would vote for Suozzi along with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the top of the ticket. “He’s an honest man,â€? he said of Suozzi.
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Thursday, November 17 @ 8:30 a.m. District Office, 236 E Shore Rd, Great Neck (516) 482-0238 Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, November 15 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck 516-482-0019 Village of Great Neck Planning Board Meeting
Thursday, November 17 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck 516-482-0019 Great Neck Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, November 15 @ 7:30 p.m. Main Branch, 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck 516-466-8055 Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees Meeting
Wednesday, November 16 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall, 2 Gussack Plaza, Great Neck 516-482-4500 Continued on Page 58
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Legal Notice NOTICE OF ADOPTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on November 1, 2016, the Town Board of the Town of North Hempstead duly adopted the Annual Budgets for the following Special Districts of the Town of North Hempstead for the 2017 Fiscal Year: Port Washington Business Improvement District Garden City Park Fire District Manhasset-Lakeville Fire District New Hyde Park Fire District Westbury Fire District Carle Place Garbage District Glenwood Garbage District Roslyn Garbage District Shelter Rock Library District Manhasset Park District Belgrave Water Pollution Control District Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Port Washington Water Pollution Control District Albertson Water District Carle Place Water District Garden City Park Water District Lakeville Water District Port Washington Water District Roslyn Water District Westbury Water District PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Budgets, as adopted, are available for public inspection in the Office of the Town Clerk, 200 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York from 9:00 A.M. until 4:45 P.M.—Monday through Friday. Dated: Manhasset, New York November 1, 2016 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD WAYNE H. WINK, JR. TOWN CLERK WT #144583 1x 11/11 /2016 #144583
NOTICE OF ADOPTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on November 1, 2016, the Town Board of the Town of North Hempstead duly adopted the Annual Budget for the Town of North Hempstead and the Town-Operated Special Districts for the 2017 Fiscal Year. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Budget, as adopted, is available for public inspection in the Office of the Town Clerk, 200 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York from 9:00 A.M. until 4:45 P.M. —Monday through Friday. Dated: Manhasset, New York November 1, 2016 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD WAYNE H. WINK, JR. TOWN CLERK WT #144588 1x 11/11 /2016 #144588
Notice of Formation of Gosian LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/7/2016. 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,42 East 2nd Street. Mineola. NY. 11501 Purpose: any lawful purpose. WT #144596 6x 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02, 12/09, 12/16 /2016 #144596
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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF NASSAU INDEX NUMBER: 14-012258 DATE FILED: December 31, 2016 CHRISTIANA TRUST, A DIVISION OF WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB, AS TRUSTEE, as Trustee of Knoxville 2012 Trust, by 21st MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as Servicing Agent of the Knoxville 2012 Trust, -againstMICHAEL PODLOFSKY; ‘THE STANLEY PODLOFSKY ESTATE DEFENDANTS’ (said last name being fictitious, it being the intention of the plaintiff to designate thereby any and all persons or entities not specifically named and joined as a party defendant herein who are the heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, legatees, assignors, lienors, creditors and successors in interest of Stanley Podlofsky, deceased, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through the said Stanley Podlofsky, deceased, or under by or through any distributee or heir at law of the said Stanley Podlofsky, deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the property described in the Complaint herein, and the respective husbands or widowers, wives and widows of said person(s), if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff); THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK —OFFICE OF THE MEDICAID INSPECTOR GENERAL /HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC.; NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK—DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA obo DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY—INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; and ‘JOHN/JANE DOE 4’ through ‘JOHN/JANE DOE 10’ (said last six names being fictitious, it being the intention of plaintiff to designate any and all other tenants, occupants or other persons or entities having or claiming an interest in the real property which is the subject of this action, whose identity is not presently known to plaintiff), Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your answer on the plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by
personal delivery within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the amended complaint. Nassau is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises in this action at 80 Sycamore Street, Town of Oyster Bay, in the County of Nassau, State of New York. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. ORDER AUTHORIZING SERVICE: The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Nassau (Hon. Thomas A. Adams), dated the 21st day of October, 2016. NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage lien upon and against the premises in Nassau County, New York located at, and commonly known as 80 Sycamore Street, Town of Oyster Bay, New York (Tax Map No. 57-193-92 & 93) and the fixtures, improvements, appurtenances and personalty thereon and thereto (the ‘Mortgaged Premises’), more particularly described in that certain mortgage executed by Stanley Podlofsky to GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. to secure the payment of the sum of $372,000.00, which mortgage is dated August 31, 2006 and recorded in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office on November 13, 2006 in Liber M31199 of Mortgages at Page 516 (the ‘Mortgage’). The relief sought in this action is a Final Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage.
HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the tollfree helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKING.STATE. NY.US. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS. Be careful of people who approach you with offers to ‘save’ your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. DATED: October 11, 2016 CARTER, CONBOY, CASE, BLACKMORE, MALONEY & LAIRD, P.C. MICHAEL J. CATALFIMO, ESQ. Attorneys For Plaintiff 20 Corporate Woods Boulevard Albany, New York 12211-2362 (518) 465-3484 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. WT #144550 4x 11/04, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25 /2016 #144550
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Mineola man killed in Roslyn Hgts. accident BY M A X Z A H N A Mineola man was killed on Roslyn Road in Roslyn Heights on Tuesday afternoon after the motorcycle he was driving collided with another vehicle, Nassau County police said. Mineola resident Joao P. Cunha, 37, was driving his 2015 Yamaha motorcycle northbound when he struck a car that was turning into a parking lot south of the Long Island Expressway, according to a police report. Cunha was taken to North Shore University hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:32 p.m. There were no other
injuries reported in the accident. Both vehicles will undergo brake and safety examinations, police said. According to online records, Cunha lived at 121 Westbury Ave. Roslyn Road has been the site of several vehicle accidents in recent years, including an incident that killed two Mineola teenagers in March 2014 after their car crashed into the backyard fence of a residence. In the aftermath of the crash, the town decreased the speed limit and increased signage and police presence along an area of the road near its intersection with Locust Lane.
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Joao P. Cunha, 37, who died in a motorcycle accident in Roslyn Heights on Tuesday.
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Sports Carle Place/Wheatley advances Quarterback Chris Kelly leads team with 2 touchdown runs in conference quarterfinals BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI The second seeded Carle Place/Wheatley Wild-Frogs defeated seventh seed East Rockaway Rocks 42-12 in the Nassau Conference IV quarterfinals on Friday evening, led by quarterback Chris Kelly’s two touchdown runs. Kelly rushed for 128 yards on five carries while running back Dom Pascarella ran for 39 yards on five attempts and scored a touchdown for Carle Place.
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East Rockaway ROCKS
Carle/Place Wheatley fullback Dayce Niosi also added a touchdown and rushed for 55 yards on nine carries. Head coach Tim Moran said it was another big team win, as their running game and play on the line of scrimmage was the difference in the matchup against East Rockaway. “We spread the ball around and the offensive line did their job,” Moran said. “Once we controlled both lines of scrimmage, we knew we were gonna be in good shape. We played physical and we set out to do what we
Carle Place/Wheatley linebacker Joe Megiel (No. 51) came to do since August.” Carle Place/Wheatley got on the board first with 7:12 remaining in the first quarter. After they stopped East Rockaway on the game’s opening drive, Carle Place took over. Their 64-yard opening drive was capped by a 14-yard rushing touchdown from running back Luke Caliendo. Caliendo then kicked the extra point and gave Carle Place/Wheatley a 7-0 lead.
With 1:34 left in the first quarter, Kelly gave Carle Place another touchdown with a 58yard dash and Caliendo added the extra point to make it 14-0. Pascarella ran for a five-yard touchdown with 2:08 left in the second quarter. Caliendo tacked on the extra point and Carle Place/Wheatley took a 21-0 lead into halftime. In the third quarter, after stopping Carle Place on their
opening drive, East Rockaway took over from their own 11yard line to begin an 89-yard drive. James Tierney got East Rockaway on the board with a six-yard run but they failed to convert on the extra point attempt. Carle Place/Wheatley led 21-6 with 6:36 left in the third quarter. Carle Place answered back as Niosi capped off a 66-yard
drive on a one-yard rushing touchdown with 2:17 remaining in the third quarter. Caliendo’s kick extended Carle Place’s lead 28-6. In the fourth quarter, with 11:03 left to go, Kelly’s 31-yard touchdown run completed a 54yard drive and Caliendo’s extra point attempt gave Carle Place/ Wheatley a 35-6 lead. East Rockaway responded with a 72-yard drive, resulting in Colin Barnes’ 14-yard rush with nine minutes left. However, they failed to complete the two point conversion and Carle Place led 35-12. With 4:22 left to play, quarterback Matt Baltzer faked a handoff and ran for a 27-yard touchdown while Caliendo’s kick finished off the scoring as Carle Place/Wheatley won 42-12. Moran said this win was their first playoff victory since Carle Place and Wheatley merged their football programs 10 years ago. “It feel’s good but it’s definitely not over yet” Moran said. “We won’t be happy until the season is over.” Kelly said the feeling of earning their first postseason win was just unbelievable, as they gear up for the semifinals at Hofstra University. “We knew there was a lot of excitement around this game and we knew that we wanted it,” Kelly said. “It means so much not just for the team, but for the whole community. We always get a good crowd that comes out to support us and now they get to watch us at Hofstra.” Weekly Football Scores Saturday Nov. 5 Wantagh defeated Floral Park 48-0. Sean Colbert led top seeded Wantagh with two touchdowns in the Nassau III quarterfinals.
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Carle Place/Wheatley running back Luke Caliendo (No. 7)
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Wheatley boots way to championship BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI The top seeded Wheatley Lady Wildcats defeated second seed Carle Place Lady Frogs 5-0 in the Nassau B championship game Tuesday afternoon at Cold Spring Harbor High School.
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Carle Place LADY FROGS
Tiffany Bernot and Nicole Hetzel led Wheatley with two goals each. Isa Rios also provided a goal to pace Wheatley’s attack, as they captured the Nassau Class B title. Head coach Paul Paino said it felt great to come out on top and make amends for last year’s defeat against Carle Place. “Last year, we were co-
The 2016 Nassau B Champions Wheatley varsity girls soccer team. champions,” Paino said. “These guys beat us in penalty kicks and went on to play the Suffolk team. Now we have a chance to beat the Suffolk team.”
According to Paino, their game plan heading into the championship game was using their speed on the outside and have Bernot control the ball at midfield.
Paino said Bernot, Rios, forward Allie Lamonica and defender Gretchen Keller contributed in stopping Carle Place’s top two players. “Everyone did their jobs
perfectly,” Paino said. “Tiffany did a good job marking their best player and Allie and Isa got a boost on the wing. Gretchen also did a great job defending their other big scorer.” Paino said Hetzel, who didn’t score much in the regular season, played a great game as she and Bernot combined for four of the five Wheatley goals. Rios netted the final goal to secure a championship berth for Wheatley. Paino said the biggest factor in the win was their attack and ability to sustain pressure, where they peppered the opposition with 11 shots on net. “We put the pressure on them,” Paino said. “Our wings, Allie, Isa and Tiffany had the ball in their end and were putting so much pressure on them all day long. They really didn’t have many opportunities to put pressure on us.”
LIU Post steamrolls way to 10-0 BY M I C H A E L OTERO After dominating Pace University in their regular-season home finale and climbing to their highest national ranking in program history, the No. 10 ranked LIU Post football team solidified its place as one of the best teams in Division II with a 64-7 victory over Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. on Saturday, Nov. 5.
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Merrimack WARRIORS
The win gave the Pioneers a perfect 10-0 season for the first time since 2002. Coming back from a knee injury, senior quarterback Jeff Kidd led the Pioneers, completing 21-of-30 passes for 266 yards and two touchdowns. He was eventually relieved by red-shirt sophomore quarterback Michael Campbell, who threw for 74 yards on only six attempts and two scores. The LIU Post offense got going early and often. In the first quarter, separate Pioneer drives were capped off
by senior halfback David White, who ran in from 15 yards out and red-shirt junior receiver Kyle Ward, who scored on a 12yard pass from Kidd. In the second quarter, redshirt sophomore running back, the second of the two-headed backfield monster, found the end zone from three yards out to make it 21-0 in favor of LIU Post. A few possessions later, the Pioneers went up four touchdowns on connection from Kidd to red-shirt senior pass catcher Shane Hubbard. At halftime, the Pioneers led 31-0. The Pioneers, though, were not satisfied with a 31-point ad-
vantage. In the second half, they changed that in just two plays. Red-shirt sophomore defensive back Kasim Thomas read the eyes of the opposing quarterback, picked off the pass and took it back 18 yards for a picksix. Campbell subbed in under center for a majority of the second half and threw touchdown passes to red-shirt junior receiver Tyler Collins and red-shirt sophomore receiver Michael Hartgrove. The final Pioneer points came from freshman tailback Tim Marinan, who scampered 18 yards for six, making it 64-0
at that point in the fourth quarter. A Merrimack touchdown with a minute left spoiled the Pioneer shutout, but nonetheless, the Pioneers dominated every facet of the game. The Pioneers rushing attack totaled 194 yards from nine contributors. In the receiving department, Hubbard went for six catches, 84 yards and a touchdown while Higgins also had six catches for 56 yards. Defensively, the Pioneers had four interceptions, two by freshman defensive back Joshua Flowers. Red-shirt freshman line-
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The LIU Post Pioneers defeated the Merrimack Warriors on Nov. 5 to finish their undefeated season.
backer Conor Haverty had four tackles and a forced fumble in the victory as well. “The boys up front did a great job in shutting down the run game and making them one-dimensional,” head LIU Post football coach Bryan Collins said. By making them rely solely on the pass, the Pioneers forced turnover after turnover. The defense allowed a total of 167 yards compared to 534 for LIU Post. The Pioneers, led by Collins, will host No. 15 ranked Assumption College in the NE-10 Conference Championship on Saturday, Nov. 12. In their matchup earlier this season, the Pioneers came out victorious 19-18, in large part due to a running game that went for 185 yards and a defense that forced three turnovers. Kickoff at Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium is at noon. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3. This article was originally published in the Pioneer, LIU Post’s award-winning student newspaper that is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016, www. liupostpioneer.com. The article is republished by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.
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LIU Post hopes to build on last season Seek to continue year-to-year improvement behind two All-Conference players BY M I C H A E L OTERO The LIU Post men’s basketball team is coming off an 18-12 season and Head Coach Erik Smiles is looking to keep the trend in an uptick in wins per season; winning more games than the previous season. Smiles, now in his three year at the helm, has compiled a 52-37 record and has gone 4029 in conference play. Smiles believes it starts with his two AllConference players, Jared Hall and Greg Dotson. “It really all starts with those guys and they are two great pieces to build off,” said Smiles. In addition to the Hall and Dotson duo, Smiles is also expecting big contributions from two other players who logged big minutes last season. “Aary Bibens and Hunter Powell…both
The LIU Post men’s basketball team will start its seasonin Brookville on Nov. 12 against the University of the Sciences at Philadelphia. of those guys need to have big seasons for us to reach our goals this season.”
While Smiles noted that those four players will play major roles, he didn’t underestimate the transfer and freshmen talent on his roster. “With all the new guys on the team, we have been going a lot slower installing plays and concepts this year,” said Smiles. “But in the end when the lights go on it’s just basketball and players are players and they will respond.” According to Smiles, Jamal Mosley and Kyle McLeggan are two transfer students who
“are really going to impact us.” Under Coach Smiles a season ago, opponents shot just 38 percent from the field. In fact, with Smiles on the sidelines, the LIU Post men’s basketball team has been the second and third best defensive teams in Division II in terms of field goal percentage during the last two seasons. “We take a lot of pride in our defense and we tell our guys if you can’t guard then you can’t play here,” Smiles
said. The core group of upperclassmen and young hungry underclassmen is a good formula for a run deep into the season. Smiles said that’s the goal. “Our goal is always to win a championship and I think by season’s end we will definitely have a chance to do that. I like our program right now and where we are and if we can stay healthy, I think we will have a chance come March,” Smiles said. The LIU Post men’s
basketball season begins on Saturday, Nov. 12, against the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia at the Pratt Recreation Center in Brookville, N.Y. at 2 p.m. This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the awardwinning 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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LIU Post hopes to rebound from 5-23 Coach Deirdre Moore says consistency, hard work keys to team’s improvement BY M I C H A E L OTERO The 2016-17 season will be the ninth season with Deirdre Moore at the helm of the LIU Post women’s basketball team. Since she began as head coach in 2008-09, Moore has a record of 13697. Moore’s team will look to grind out more wins this year and improve on a down season a year ago, when the team went 5-23. Moore believes stacking up more wins this season starts with “focusing on being consistent and working hard.” If that is done, the Pioneers can live with the outcome. In terms of seeing better results on the court, Moore said, “The players, both old and new, have worked hard over the summer and off-season to improve their game.” Last season, the Pioneers shot 36 percent from the field and would like to see that improve this year. Although only slightly better, the opposition shot 39 percent, showing the Pioneers’ strength last season was definitely their defense. The Pioneers are working on offensive efficiency. “We have been committed to more competitive shooting and extra shooting,” said Moore. “I also think shot selection will help us increase our efficiency and field goal percentage.” “I love the three-point shot on offense and hate it on defense,” said Moore. “To me the three point shot is a possession and a half. I like to shoot it on offense and we have to defend it well on defense.” A season ago, the women’s basketball team made and gave up five three-pointers a game. Moore added that the team has some very good shooters with prowess from deep.
The LIU Post women’s basketball team will start its season in Brookville on Nov. 11 against Pace University. “I would like to see my team compete with the most effort and intelligently,” said Moore. “One goal that I have is for us to be in our conference tournament and make it back to the National Tournament…I would like to be one of the better teams in our conference and region.” The LIU Post women’s basketball team begins its regular season Friday, Nov. 11, against Pace University at 5 p.m. at the Pratt Recreation Center 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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