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W.P. bans sale of recreational marijuana

ON THE RECORD

Residents voice support for local law barring stores from opening BY J E D HENDRIXSON The Williston Park board voted unanimously to approve a ban on the sale of recreational marijuana should it be legalized in the state later this year. Dozens of Williston Park residents voiced support for the board’s decision at a public hearing Monday night. Village Mayor Paul Ehrbar said the legalization of recreational marijuana appeared “inevitable” and the ban was a pre-emptive measure. The village’s new local law bans the sale and distribution of recreational marijuana and marijuana-related! products for consumption. The law does not restrict medical marijuana facilities. Among many reasons residents cited in support of the ban were an impact on the quality of life, an expected rise in the cost of policing that would fall to resi-

dents and an overall sentiment that the sale of the marijuana in a recreational setting does not align with the village’s values. Resident Pamela Carter said that because the village is so small, without any pre-emptive regulations in place like the ban, Williston Park could be subject to several storefronts opening uncontested. Ehrbar explained that the ban was the best measure the board could present, citing the actions taken by other villages. In Mineola, New Hyde Park and Floral Park, the village boards approved local laws restricting potential marijuana dispensaries to adult-use and industrial zones, away from residential areas. Though not an official ban, Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi previously said the zoning efforts effectively dissuade dispensaries from opening in the villages by restricting where they can operate. Continued on Page 73

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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran fielded questions from Blank Slate Media publisher Steve Blank and audience members at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset last Thursday. See story on page 3.

Mineola board approves Main Street development BY J E D HENDRIXSON Village of Mineola trustees approved the application for construction of a four-story, mixed-use building at 86-88

Main St. last Wednesday. The building, which drew both support and criticism from residents and business owners, was approved at the trustees’ meeting. The development, three-

stories of residential apartments over commercial space, aligns with the village’s comprehensive master plan for downtown revitalization, according to trustees Continued on Page 74

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East Williston’s Parente Weed restrictions running uncontested legally questionable Mayoral candidate talks priorities ahead of election BY J E D HENDRIXSON East Williston Deputy Mayor Bonnie Parente remains unopposed in the race for mayor of the village, but she is still encouraging residents to get out and vote March 19. Parente’s only potential challenger, resident Stephen Leccese, announced in a Facebook post that he would not be running for mayor. “My decision not to run, was in the end a decision on how to find a way to bridge the growing divide in our community,” Leccese said. Leccesse, an outspoken member of the community who had said he was “seriously considering” running for mayor, did not end up filing with the village oﬃce and said that he was looking forward to seeing changes on the village board under Parente’s leadership." In addition to a trustees’ race that will bring at least one new face to the village board, Parente said that being involved in the community and elections is a key part of civic life in East Williston, which she would continue to foster as mayor. A huge part of encouraging community involvement stems from supporting the recreation committee, responsible for several events in East Williston throughout the year, Parente said. “I want to be able to say yes more often and allow them to do the things they do so well,” Parente said. She" announced her bid for mayor last month, citing inspiration from her family and fellow mayors. “In eight years as deputy mayor I’ve learned a lot and I’m now prepared to use what I’ve learned to make things even better,” Parente previously said. While working as a labor at-

Opt-out eyed limited to populations of 100K BY T E R I W EST

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East Williston Deputy Mayor Bonnie Parente. torney for the last 25 years, Parente has served on the village zoning board for two years and a trustee and deputy for eight years on the Board of Trustees. She has been involved with Girl, Boy and Cub Scouts, village Little League and other community organizations. One of Parente’s first priorities would be taking a finer look at the village’s building code in an eﬀort to streamline the building permit process and make it “user-friendly.” Issues with the building code and closing outstanding permits in a timely manner have not been entirely ignored in years past, according to Parente, but they will become her first priority if elected mayor. Among her other priorities will be continuing to work with the East Williston school district’s board on the potential erection of a fence"at the North Side School and the water quality issues that continue to

occur. Parente said the village is divided nearly in half over the potential fence, with those in support claiming the fence is a necessary safety precaution and those against contending it will damage the aesthetic of the school and neighborhood. Parente said the boards have been discussing the plans and she hopes that a compromise can be reached over the proposed height of the fence, currently 6 feet, as well as the commercial appearance of the black estate gate. Further assessment of the water quality issue will have to wait until the construction of neighboring Williston Park’s new water tower is complete, according to Parente. Following that, Parente said the board will map out the issues over a two- or three-month, systematic approach to focus on what is going on and how to remedy it.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed recreational marijuana program, as outlined in his budget proposal, allows counties and cities with populations of at least 100,000 to opt-out of allowing marijuana to be sold, while municipalities may only regulate the stores’ “time, place and manner.” Some Nassau County villages, however, have already started readying or passing legislation to pre-emptively ban marijuana retail stores, and opinions diﬀer from village to village about how such legislation would fare under the current version of Cuomo’s proposal. Before its January debut, it had been widely anticipated that Cuomo’s budget proposal would include the legalization of adultuse marijuana. Legalization’s intricacies, however, such as who would have the opportunity to sell marijuana and whether municipalities would be allowed to ban it," were more subject to speculation. The villages of Floral Park and Munsey Park both passed laws that zone the sale of recreational marijuana after Cuomo

announced the details for optingout. Mayor Dominick Longobardi of the Village of Floral Park said the potential for a lawsuit is one reason that his village passed a law restricting the zoning for marijuana but not banning its sale. The law limits the sale of marijuana to a specific, small portion of the village, which has a population of a little over 16,000, he said. “Basically it’s about three blocks long just south of Jericho Turnpike, and what that did is it eﬀectively put it in an area where it won’t be next to schools, it won’t be next to churches it won’t be in our main retail area,” Longobardi said. The Board of Trustees and village counsel agreed that the zoning restriction would have better legal standing than a 100 percent ban, the mayor said. Munsey Park passed an allout ban on the sale of marijuana earlier this month. Trustee Lawrence Ceriello said the village was confident about doing so because of zoning distinctions laid out in The Nassau County Charter. Continued on Page 73

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The Munsey Park Board of Trustees, at its first public hearContinued on Page 74 ing on its marijuana ban.

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Curran makes case for reassessments Also fields questions on marijuana, economic development and ICE at community forum BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Nassau County Executive Laura Curran defended her administration’s handling of property re-assessments and emphasized the importance of economic revitalization at a Blank Slate Media forum last Thursday night, while also fielding questions about marijuana and ICE. More than 100 people attended the “on the record Community Forum” at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, where Blank Slate Media Publisher Steve Blank and several attendees honed in on several county issues. Curran said the assessment rolls were frozen about a decade ago by the Mangano administration, leading to what she termed “wild” inaccuracies. People who grieved their taxes, contending they had overpaid, also ended up essentially subsidized by people who did not grieve, Curran said. The assessment rolls were frozen in 2011 by the Edward Mangano administration. Thou-

freeze. “It almost makes me think, ‘How dare you?’” Curran said. “Finally we have a credentialed assessor doing the work and then to call for his resignation – is the status quo better?” County Republican Legislators, including Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) had called for Moog’s resignation in late January, citing tens of thousands of errors like missed deadlines and misleading information. Asked about why the assessment change should be implemented over five years, as pitched in the Taxpayer Protection Plan now included in the state budget, Curran said that would make it PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN more gradual. “And to those who say, I’m goBlank Slate Media publisher Steve Blank interviewed Nassau County Executive Laura Curing to be continuing to overpay, I’m going to say that if we did not ran about issues affecting the county in Manhasset on Thursday. fix this, you would continue to sands of residents, meanwhile, ing to fix the assessment system restaff a decimated assessment overpay even more. We’ve got to filed grievances on the value of and quickly unfroze the assess- and assessment review depart- get this right,” Curran said. “This their homes – costing the county ment roll, before moving to reas- ment. She also said that calls for shows why it’s so incredibly immillions of dollars and shifting sess every parcel of land at a 0.10 County Assessor David Moog to portant to get things right – so resign were “just terrible,” while you have everyone shouldering the burden onto others who did percent level of assessment. At the same time, Curran said blasting Republicans for not hir- their fair share.” not challenge their assessments. Curran came into office vow- the county has been working to ing a qualified assessor amid the Continued on Page 73

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No North Shore solutions in study Surge barriers surrounding city would not protect western Long Island Sound: Army BY J E S S I C A PA R K S

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released an interim report last week outlining the impact of coastal storms and flooding on shoreline areas in New York and New Jersey. The study was conducted with the goal of creating a comprehensive plan to combat future storm risks in the New York-New Jersey Harbor region. ! One of the focus areas is the Long Island Sound region, which comprises northern Long Island from Queens to Glen Cove and across the Long Island Sound to include sections of Bronx and Westchester counties. The report outlines five potential alternatives to address potential flooding. Some involve surge! gates at the Throgs Neck in the southeastern Bronx, where the East River enters Long Island Sound, but none will directly address flooding in the North Shore of Nassau County. In an appendix that compiled the comments from the scoping period conducted prior to the release of the interim re-

water to estuaries along the Long Island Sound. Alternative 2 includes a 32,500-linear-foot surge barrier from Sandy Hook, N.J., across the outer harbor to Breezy Point in Queens as well as a similar barrier along the East River, just west of the Throgs Neck. The report said this proposal “could conceptually broadly address coastal storm surge and wave attack from either the New York Bight or Long Island Sound to the vast majority of the study area.” Alternative 2 is projected to benefit 94.7 percent of the project’s study area but does not include the North Shore of Nassau County. Alternative 3a involves surge! gates at the southern PHOTO COURTESY OF THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS mouth of Arthur Kill, between Woodridge, N.J., and Staten IsThe areas highlighted in red will benefit from the proposed surge barrier that will run from land; the Verazzano Narrows, Sandy Hook, NJ to Breezy Point and another west of the Throgs Neck. between Brooklyn and Staten Island; and the Throgs Neck. The surge gates would adport, a question was asked about Corps of Engineers said that pre- York Bight Apex. the impact of the flood gates on liminary models have shown that The alternatives, listed as 2 dress approximately 58 percent the western shorelines of the two proposed alternatives could and 3A, include surge barriers at of the study area, which also does Long Island Sound. nduce flooding in the western the Throgs Neck that are also ex- not include the North Shore. In response, the U.S. Army Long Island Sound and the New pected to aﬀect the migration of Continued on Page 75

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Closing statements in Manganos’ retrial Defense maintains ex-county exec took no official action, prosecutors say he served himself BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON The prosecution and defense continued with closing arguments that began on Monday in the federal corruption retrial of former County Executive Edward and Linda Mangano. U.S. District Court Judge Joan Arrack will instruct the jury of the law ahead of deliberations, which are scheduled to begin this week in Central Islip. Following five weeks of testimony, both sides rested lasted week before addressing the jury with closing arguments Monday and Tuesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Mirabile, leading oﬀ for the prosecution, attempted to fortify the government’s case that Ed Mangano, county executive from 2010 to 2017, used his oﬃce to serve himself, accepting bribes from former friend-turned government witness Harendra Singh, the newspaper said. Defense attorney Kevin Keating maintained that Ed Mangano took no formal action in steering contracts Singh’s way, and over the course of several hours over two days, picked away at government evidence and witness testimony. Ed Mangano is charged with seven criminal counts, including bribery and conspiracy. His wife, Linda, is charged with five counts, including making false statements to the FBI,

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Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, as seen leaving the federal courthouse in Central Islip last year. according to court filings. The first trial, which lasted 12 weeks in 2018, resulted in a retrial for the Manganos and had former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto acquitted of 27 charges. This time around, Keating reiterated in closing arguments that Singh, who is awaiting sentencing for pleading guilty to bribery charges, was already benefiting from his relationships in Oyster Bay before Mangano took oﬃce, according to Newsday. Singh hardly needed Mangano’s as-

sistance, particularly at a crucial meeting of elected oﬃcials in April 2010 that would benefit Singh financially, when he had already been heavily associated with Venditto for almost 12 years, Keating said. Keating also attacked Singh’s credibility, claiming he had perjured himself while on the stand and was a “morally bankrupt sociopath” that would lie for a dime, according to Newsday. The prosecution has alleged Ed Mangano took#bribes from#Singh that included a

$454,000 no show job for his wife, paid vacations to destinations including the Caribbean and Florida and luxury items, according to Newsday.# In the closing days of testimony, the prosecution brought in FBI forensic analyst William Delgais to total up the amount of money Singh allegedly provided the Manganos in order to gain their favor. Eﬀorts to reach the U.S. District Attorney’s oﬃce were unavailing. On the same day as opening statements in the retrial, #Azrack granted an email request by the prosecution that prohibits all parties and counsel from making statements to the media outside of information available in public records, according to court filings. Including the job, vacations and other perks, the prosecution alleges that Singh spent $489,410 on the Manganos, according to Newsday. From the moment Ed Mangano took office, Mirabelle said he used his political clout to enrich himself and help Singh. The two were “partners in crime,” she said. Mirabelle contended that the Manganos’ relationship with Singh filled a salary gap that Ed Mangano assumed when he became county executive, giving up his work in private legal practice, according to Newsday. Though given the opportunity, neither Mangano nor his wife decided to take the stand during the trial.

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Buckley seeks OK for capital projects Proposes renovation of parking lot, dining hall renovation and 6 new classrooms BY T E R I W EST Buckley Country Day School has developed a $5 million capital project that would include a parking lot renovation, dining hall expansion and six new classrooms, headmaster Jean-Marc Juhel said Monday. The school is now turning to the Village of North Hills for final project approval, and the village will hold a public hearing on the matter in an upcoming month. Under the current capital campaign plan, which the Buckley board of trustees approved in September, the parking lot would be closer to the school entrance while also expanding to accommodate more cars, Juhel said. The dining room addition would be in the same location as the new classrooms, with three new language classrooms above it and three new music classrooms below it. Planning for the project began about two years ago, Juhel said. “We created a master plan for what we needed to do to

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A rendering of the proposed renovated parking lot at Buckley Country Day School. enhance the quality of the programs here, the quality of the experience of the students and to enhance traﬃc,” he said. The intention behind the parking lot renovation, the headmaster said, is to both beautify the campus and make it safer for pedestrians. “Our youngest children are 2 1/2 and our oldest are 14,” he

said. “I really want them to be able to enjoy this beautiful location that we’re in without having to worry about cars.” The parking lot is currently between the school building and the soccer field. Some of the pavement there would be replaced with grass, as the lot would shift toward the school’s entrance, Juhel said.

There would,"however, be a net gain in parking spaces. The dining hall expansion would allow the school to accommodate all the students for its family-style lunches, Juhel said. With the student population at the maximum capacity, the current space is not quite big enough, he said. The additional classrooms

would reinforce Buckley’s commitment to foreign language and performing arts programming, he said. Students at the school start learning Mandarin and Spanish in pre-K and then select one of the languages to stick with through eighth grade. Buckley oﬀers five diﬀerent performing arts programs, ranging from chorus to percussion, Juhel said. The school has already launched a campaign to raise funds for the capital project. Much of the support will come from alumni and parents, the headmaster said. A piece of the $5 million would also go toward the school’s endowment, according to the campaign’s webpage. The public hearing in North Hills was originally scheduled for March 27 but has been postponed. “They gave us a preliminary site plan and that’s where we’ll start the public hearing,” said North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss.

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that provide all students with the best possible education for more than 30 years,” said Nancy Brown, dean of the SUNY Old Westbury School of Education. “Our new students with disabilities degree program was designed to meet the changing needs of this highly specialized discipline by combining the school’s collective experience with the latest information and research related to instruction in this area.” The third new program is simply an online version of the university graduate accounting degree program, which has been oﬀered since 2004. The two-year program includes tracks for individuals both with or without undergraduate accounting degrees. Digitalizing it makes the program more accessible for working professionals, said the university’s PHOTO COURTESY OF SUNY OLD WESTBURY business school dean Raj Devasagayam. “I am delighted that our onstudents grades one through six. experienced teachers and individ- ground excellence is now available It is five-semesters, part-time and uals with education degrees. in a flexible online format to foster includes both theory and practice. “SUNY Old Westbury has been lifelong learning among our stuThe program is intended for dedicated to preparing teachers dents,” he said.

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Making sense of reassessment

ichard Nicolello recently offered an interesting explanation of why people who have been underpaying their taxes for the past eight years should get another five years following the reassessment of all property in the county before paying their fair share Nicolello, the presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, said that to make people who are underpaying their taxes pay their fair share immediately would impose such a financial hardship that some would have to sell their homes. This explanation raises several questions. For starters, what happens in five years? Are the people who are now underpaying their taxes going to get second jobs? And if some of the Nassau County property owners who have been underpaying their taxes would not be able to afford their homes if they had to pay their fair share immediately, what about the other 50 percent of property owners who have been overpaying their taxes for the past eight years? They will continue to overpay their taxes under a proposal to phase-in changes in assessments over five years. The proposal, made by Democrat Nassau County Executive Laura Curran with the support of Nicolello and his fellow Republicans, was included in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal. Have the 50 percent who have been overpaying their taxes – who are generally less affluent and made up of more minority members – been moving out of the homes? And Nassau County? If so, Nicolello did not offer any proof of this. Nor did he offer any concerns

about the people who have been overpaying their taxes the past eight years. This may not be too surprising since Nicolello was a member of a Republican majority in the Legislature for the past eight years when county assessments stayed frozen under Republican County Executive Ed Mangano and property tax rates became more and more unfair. Neither Nicolello nor his Republican colleagues expressed much concern during that period about the county assessment system. Nor did they express any misgivings about the county not having a certified assessor to oversee the assessment system for those eight years or the assessment department operating with about half of the required staﬃng. Nicolello did point out that those who are overpaying their taxes could have challenged their assessments as did virtually everyone who is now underpaying their taxes. But, by Nicolello’s logic, this does not make sense. If everyone in the county had challenged their assessments, then the people currently underpaying their taxes would be paying their fair share today, which is to say more. And then we are back to the problem of the fair sharers not being able to aﬀord their taxes. This assumes,$of course, that all assessment challenges were handled fairly —$ not necessarily something one should do. Final arguments were made in the political corruption trial of Mangano and his wife, Linda, Monday. Mangano’s deputy county executive, Rob Walker, is scheduled to follow Mangano to court

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with a trial on political corruption charges of his own. Someone might want to check to see if registered Republicans, donors or friends of Mangano and other Republicans were treated diﬀerently than other people in the handling of assessment challenges. We do know that people who used firms specializing in assessment challenges – which were among the largest donors to legislators’ election campaigns – did better than taxpayers filing on their own. This could just be a matter of the firms specializing in assessment challenges having greater expertise, for which they were paid 50 percent of the savings. Or perhaps politics was involved. Or both. Nicolello raised the question of politics when three Nassau residents recently filed a class-action lawsuit against the county on behalf of non-white property owners who they contend were forced to bear the property tax burden of wealthier, white communities due

to county policies beginning in 2011. Without offering evidence, Nicolello responded by saying he believes the lawsuit is a political tool for Nassau Democrats to change the narrative around the reassessment currently taking place. Politics also seems to be a likely reason for Curran’s supporting the phase-in. When asked at the on-the-record Community Forum sponsored by Blank Slate Media and Unitarian Universalist Church at Shelter last week, Curran defended the phase-in as better than the alternative of no change. The county executive deserves much credit for hiring a certified assessor, hiring$ assessment staff, purchasing needed software and reassessing all the property in Nassau County But her explanation, while true, does not offer a justification. Voters facing a tax increase, even one based on fairness, does. Still, Curran’s explanation is

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several steps up from what has been oﬀered by Nicolello and county Republicans, who have seized on several stumbles in the reassessment process to criticize Curran, in one instance calling for the resignation of County Assessor David Moog. This is hypocrisy on a galactic scale. But Nicolello may still have hit upon an important truth: The county’s reliance on property taxes to fund government is not working. Even when all county properties are assessed for what they are worth, the system will be unfair because property taxes are unfair, measuring the value of a person’s property — not their ability to pay as done by an income tax. At the end of the day, an honest discussion of the county’s dependence on property taxes, including a possible county income tax, would be the best outcome of the assessment mess.

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ON THE RIGHT

Progressives against progress in LIC

ho drove Amazon to walk away from a deal, that included over $2 billion in tax credits and zoning exemptions, to build a massive headquarters in Long Island City? Progressive ideologues. Gov. Cuomo got it right when he admitted during a radio interview on Feb. 22, that “progressives do not know how to govern.” Yes, all the New York progressives are guilty of that charge. Let’s review: Cuomo, who calls himself a “pragmatic” progressive (a label his father, Mario, invented in 1982), made the first mistake: negotiating the pact in secret. That’s classic Cuomo. He is a one-man band who trusts no one and doesn’t like to be questioned. Cuomo’s other mistake: he believed that if the city’s progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio, signed on, they could jam the Amazon deal through. As for Amazon’s CEO, progressive Jeﬀ Bezos, and his team that hammered out the deal: they were naive. A Firewall essay titled “What

can other companies learn from Amazon’s N.Y.C. Debacle?” concluded, “Amazon’s mistake was taking Cuomo’s word for it that everyone would be supportive rather than finding out for themselves.” Also, Cuomo, de Blasio and Amazon underestimated the political sway of freshman progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who represents Long Island City. A flagrant violator of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s political rule, “you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts,” Ocasio-Cortez made up some pretty ludicrous “facts.” Amazon had to be stopped, she declared, because it’s “not just about any jobs, it’s about dignified jobs in New York.” Insisting “someone’s got to look out for the people our system is leaving behind,” she wanted to “eﬀectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the world’s biggest corporations.” Let’s see, Ocasio-Cortez thinks tens of thousands of new, well-paying, white-collar jobs and blue-collar construction jobs that would have been created in Long

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Island City are not “dignified”? That’s ridiculous. And what about the scores of local entrepreneurs — shopkeepers and restaurateurs — and the folks they employ that would have benefited financially from 25,000 new workers and residents who would have patronized those businesses? Shouldn’t Ocasio-Cortez be concerned that they “be looked out for”? Despite her vacuous statements, she did frighten state Sen. Mike Gianaris whose district includes Long Island City. Dreading a 2020 democratic

primary challenge from one of Ocasio-Cortez’s confreres, Gianaris cast his lot with radical progressives and came out against Amazon. Even though polls indicated 80 percent of his constituents wanted Amazon in Long Island City, Gianaris not only deemed the deal “unacceptable,” his senate oﬃce sent out fliers that demanded Amazon “stay in Seattle.” To further prove his loyalty to the new progressive order, Gianaris persuaded Senate Majority Leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, to nominate him to the public authorities board where he would be empowered to scuttle the Amazon project. The deal, however, would never get to that board because Amazon had had enough and scrapped their plan citing that too many local pols “made it clear that they oppose our presence.” Progressives were jubilant all over the nation. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders praised New Yorkers “for standing up to the power of Amazon.” The clueless Ocasio-Cortez, the Post reported, “incorrectly stated that $3 billion in subsidies

that would have gone to Amazon could be used to hire teachers, fix the subways and ‘put a lot of people to work.’” She didn’t understand that there is no bag of money. The subsidies consisted mostly of future tax incentives. Opining on the Amazon disaster, de Blasio actually made a lucid observation: “I came up watching the mistakes of progressives of the past, unfortunately, what happened in this city when it almost went to bankruptcy in the 1970s. I saw all the times progressives did not show people eﬀective governance and all the times progressives made the kinds of mistakes that alienated working people.” For once, the mayor gets it. The 1960s and 1970s tax and spend progressive experiment destroyed the city’s fiscal and economic base and drove out the city’s middle-class. And Ocasio-Cortez & Co., ignorant of history, are promoting the same old progressive ideological nostrums that ignore facts and will drive the city, once again, down the road to financial and economic despair.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Saying yes to dress — again and again!

t’s the Oscars again, and I have a confession. Sure, I watch to see who wins for best adapted screenplay, and special eﬀects… but mostly, I watch for the dresses. I have only one real standard: is the woman wearing the dress? Or is the dress wearing the woman? You know it’s the latter when there seems to be an alien life-form propelling an unhappy human down the carpet. Every year there are a few. At this year’s Grammy’s the best (or perhaps the worst) example was the undersea creature that appeared to have swallowed the lower body of singer Cardi B., its upper portions poised around her shoulders, ready to finish the attack. But I mustn’t get too critical, because I know that every woman on the red carpet worked her butt oﬀ (literally!) to get in shape for this night. Some actually hire trainers to design workouts for areas highlighted by their dress — maybe the shoulders, maybe the arms,

maybe what an architect would call “the rear elevation.” Cardio, weight-training, and then some more cardio… It’s a regime that would drop a boot camp survivor — especially when you consider that these women are eating nothing stronger than green tea and kale. If they’ve gone to so much trouble, who am I to look away? And deny them the admiration they’ve worked so hard to attain? There was even, if my eyes do not deceive me, a man at tonight’s celebration — a seriously macho-looking Billy Porter — who wore a black velvet tuxedo top above, billowing out below in an enormous ballgown skirt, to the floor. Billy! Don’t do it! Why take yourself prisoner? Do you have any idea how much easier you men have it? While the women are slaving and starving themselves for weeks, spending all day in hair and makeup, all you must do is slap on a tux and walk out the door! Your shoes don’t even have

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A Look on the Lighter Side to hurt! Why on earth would you give all that up? And if you do, can I have a turn? There is such a double standard in all this, I hardly know where to begin. A man can buy one tux and wear it till he drops. By contrast, we women are never supposed to wear the same dress twice. (And out of a paycheck which is anywhere from one quarter to one third less than a man’s!) Where does this rule come

from, anyway? As far as I can see, even Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, sometimes recycles her outfits. So why can’t we? I am reminded of a scene from the film, “My Favorite Year.” When writer Benjy Stone, junior writer on a TV comedy show, brings Hollywood star Alan Swann home to Brooklyn for family dinner, the high point of the meal comes when his Aunt Sadie bursts in, in her ancient wedding dress. “Do you like this?” she simpers, hoping to impress. “I only wore it once!” This scene plays in my head every time I contemplate recycling something from my closet. Then I go right ahead. I am not walking anybody’s red carpet, so expectations are low. There’s only one time I hit bottom, when my boys were small. Back when there were still such things as cameras, and photographs, I would print up snapshots from an earlier gathering, to give to my in-laws. Suddenly, I realized that I was standing there in the self-same outfit that was in

the pictures I was handing out! That’s why I believe there should be an award for Best Costume Philosophy… and it should go to comedian Tiﬀany Haddish. Haddish hosted Saturday Night Live in November of 2017 — in the same sexy white dress she had worn elsewhere, recently. As she explained in her opening monologue, “I feel like I should be able to wear what I want, when I want, however many times I want…. Like this dress! I wore it on the red carpet for ‘Girls Trip,’ and my whole team, they told me, ‘Tiffany, you cannot wear that dress on SNL, you already wore it, it’s taboo to wear it twice!’ And I said I don’t give a dang about no taboo…. This dress cost way more than my mortgage, it’s a $4,000 dollar dress! I’m gonna wear this dress multiple times! You might see this dress in two sketches tonight!” When Haddish finally wins her Oscar, you already know what she’ll be wearing. I’ll be there, too — applauding.

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What is your health worth to you?

e have yet another threat to our water on Long Island — 1,4-dioxane. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 1,4-dioxane is a likely human carcinogen that has been found in groundwater throughout the United States. Exposure may cause testicular and kidney cancers, liver damage and developmental eﬀects to fetuses or breast-fed infants, such as low birth weight and accelerated puberty. Long Island is home to 82 of the 89 wells identified in the last four to six years throughout New York as having concentrations of 1,4-dioxane higher than the one part per billion recently recommended by a New York State drinking water quality council panel. 1,4-dioxane is a synthetic industrial chemical widely used as a stabilizer in chlorinated solvents, paint strippers, greases and waxes, as well as in some consumer products like deodorants, shampoos and cosmetics. Though most use was phased out under the 1995 Montreal Protocol, 1,4-dioxane is relatively resistant to biodegradation underground and remains

a threat to human health and the environment. The current issue is not the presence of this carcinogen in our water, which is well-known, but the controversy over the cost to add treatment systems to the 185 wells on Long Island contaminated by 1,4-dioxane. The Long Island Water Conference survey completed about a year ago found 185 wells to have 0.5 parts per billion of 1,4-dioxane. For this contaminant, 0.5 parts per billion (half the recommended regulatory standard for 1,4-dioxane) is the point at which water providers would typically treat water contaminated by 1,4-dioxane. The projected cost to install the treatment systems is $840 million. This amount is expected to double water rates for average residential water bills. In Suﬀolk County the average water bill is $410 and in Nassau County it is $750. The question then is, would you rather pay more for water not contaminated with a human carcinogen or roll the dice and hope you don’t end up with one of the serious consequences of 1,4-dioxane exposure and the associated medical costs, employ-

LYNN CAPUANO Earth Matters ment disruptions and life limitations? Long Island water providers are indicating they will seek a three-year delay in state enforcement of the one part per billion regulatory standard for 1,4-dioxane once the standard is approved. Their stated reasoning is the shock their customers would feel in response to a potential 100 percent increase in water rates. Sure, we would all rather pay less for services like water, but how and who is making the decision that water customers would choose to pay less for their water in exchange for continuing to consume and use contaminat-

ed water for a longer period? Our water districts proclaim they are in the business of managing our water and providing a continuous supply of high-quality water at low cost. When lowcost and high-quality are at odds, who makes the choice of which one wins and how is that choice made? The Suﬀolk Water Authority in 2017 and at least 10 Nassau County water providers this past month sued chemical manufacturers and distributors to recover 1,4-dioxane treatment costs, but it will be years before the litigation is settled. In the meantime, we, the residents of Long Island and consumers of contaminated water, bear the risk. The state announced in 2017 it would take action on regulating 1,4-dioxane since the federal government was not doing anything. According to Newsday, the New York State Department of Health is expected to announce a drinking water standard soon with a timeline of 12 to 18 months for enforcement of that standard. Once announced, there will be a two-to-three-month public comment period. We can expect the water pro-

viders to push for an extended implementation period because of the high cost of treating 1,4-dioxane contamination. That calculation and analysis should not be done without consideration of the cost of the risk of exposure to this chemical. These sorts of decisions are not binary. They are complicated by ripple eﬀects and long-term consequences. It is not just the costs of treatment to consider but the costs to human health from exposure that we will all pay through increased insurance rates and overall increases in medical rates as more people get sick; the costs to the environment including possible harm to crops and materials; the economic costs from people not being able to work because of illness or caregiving responsibilities and from people not wanting to live somewhere with contaminated water. This is a big deal with particular significance to residents of Long Island. Please think about how much your health is worth to you and take the time now to let the New York State Health Department know when it comes to 1,4-dioxane, how much risk you’re willing to assume.

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America needs a Green New Deal

cientists say we have only 12 years to save the planet from catastrophic floods, drought, famine, and if you think refugees are a problem now, just wait when 200 million are forced away from homes because of rising sea levels. Think Noah and the ark that killed oﬀ all but two by two of animal life. Now comes the Green New Deal – the name captures the sense of urgency, the scale of plight, and the fact that we’ve tried leaving it solely up to capitalists who have rigged the market in order to preserve their wealth and power, and now it’s time for something else. Since Republicans have rejected, torpedoed, sabotaged the practical and productive solutions advanced by President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy (Clean Power Plan, Paris Climate Accord, higher fuel stan-

dards), and now are determined to reverse, not merely hold, course to address climate change. Republicans want to re-create 1950s society and all that implies – when it was legal to discriminate against gender, race, religion; when McCarthy demagogued a Red Scare. They have left no choice but to go all New Deal. It’s physics: every action causes an equal reaction. It’s the swing of a pendulum. We absolutely need a New Deal on the scale of FDR – public-private partnerships that built the Hoover Dam, Lincoln Tunnel, Triborough Bridge and LaGuardia Airport and created the Tennessee Valley Authority to bring low-cost electricity to impoverished rural areas. At the same time, Roosevelt addressed the larger societal issues that produced income disparities – banking reform, Social Security, minimum wage. Re-

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minder: America didn’t sink into communism, despite McCarthy’s malignant hysteria, but instead became a global Superpower with the highest standard of living in the world– until Trump. The Green New Deal seeks to emulate FDR’s New Deal to address the existential climate crisis, which indeed, goes beyond how

we power our society, but to who turns control over that power and profit to control political power. It is as much about social, economic and political justice, as environmental justice. That’s why they have attached such “radical” measures as calling for minimum wage, universal health care, a guaranteed job or a guaranteed income. They are summoning the urgency of the Great Depression and World War II when Americans recognized their patriotic duty to conserve resources, ration food, shut oﬀ lights. And you can understand why they are going all out: because trying to be accommodating to conservatives (Obamacare was built upon the conservative Heritage Foundation model and the Clean Power Plan gave enormous discretion to states to meet carbon-reduction standards) only brought the same charges: Social-

ism! Class Warfare! and lawsuits. So why not go whole hog? But progressives, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic Socialist!) who are now making the Green New Deal their own litmus test – are self-defeating by insisting on the very ambiguous things that would make climate action radioactive, rather than a well-defined plan (like the Aﬀordable Care Act). By mashing up everything under the sun– a guaranteed federal job, guaranteed income, universal health care – that should be addressed separately, they are making what should be critical, essential policy radioactive, making it easy for Republicans in the palm of Big Oil, to rattle voodoo dolls and inspire fear and loathing from the 50 percent of Americans under the spell of Fox propaganda. America would become Venezuela! Continued on Page 70

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

How to talk about immigration policy

mmigration policies and practices have been vexing, polarizing challenges to Americans for decades. Many years ago, I heard an eminent historian argue that when human events get into a twisted logjam, the only way it might be unstuck is with violence. I was appalled by that view when it was espoused in the 1950’s; I still reject it. Unfortunately, we now have too many hate-mongers who seek to alter the social landscape with violence. We’ve seen the Nazis in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us.” We’ve seen the killer at the Pittsburgh synagogue who blamed HIAS and Jews for the rise of immigration and the decline of the U.S. (as he proudly aﬃrmed the Trump MAGA slogan). And, this past week, another armed extremist (who was arrested) vowed to “keep America white” and threatened a “civil war” if there were an attempt to impeach Trump. Our nation urgently needs creative approaches to many issues; a key one is immigration, which has been at the core of our national identity since the first settlers arrived in the “new world.” In its recent National Issues

Forums booklet, the nonpartisan Kettering Foundation presents a framework: “Becoming American: Who Should We Welcome, What Should We Do?” At Hofstra University, we have applied for a grant from the Herman Goldman Foundation to implement Long Island forums that will have a distinctive approach. We will ask citizens who participate in the forums to agree to engage in a two-part sequence: first, in deliberative discourse, using the newest NIF booklet, “A House Divided: What Would We Have to Give Up to Get the Political System We Want?” (2019). After addressing the challenges of divisions and partisanship in the first forum, we will then consider immigration issues on a separate day. Our intent is to encourage folks to focus first on citizenship responsibilities, how to strive for the common good and for civil, respectful ways of discourse, even when there are significant diﬀerences in values and aﬃliations. Will citizens who go through a two-hour forum of this nature be better — and more attentively — disposed to address the ongoing, vexing immigration issue in

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field the next two-hour forum? We recognize that these are brief experiences; it may be unrealistic to expect substantial change from limited encounters. However, part of our distinctive approach is to prepare a team of our best college students (our “civic discourse fellows”) to serve as co-moderators for the two-part sequence. We believe that folks of all ages (coming to our forums at colleges, schools, public libraries, community groups) will be welcoming of young people in a leadership role who strive to help our society move beyond its citizenship discontents. Our civic discourse fellows will learn about deliberative fo-

rums, first as participants, with experienced faculty serving as moderators, and then they will practice nonpartisan moderating themselves. Hofstra’s Institute for Peace Studies is sponsoring the project. We recognize that not just young people, but any leaders can be strengthened by partnering. The Hofstra goals are affirmed in a recent New York Times analysis: “A New Country for Conflict Resolution Experts: The U.S. — Applying Profound Listening to Help Bridge the Political Divide.” A new book by Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland also speaks to our themes: “I Think You’re Wrong but I’m Still Listening: A Guide to Grace-filled Political Connections.” At Hofstra, we have been privileged to work with Kettering and NIF for thirty years. We have seen the aﬃrmative, empowering eﬀects of deliberative forum experiences. A challenge for the entire nation is to bring more citizens into this kind of civic activity. The structure and process of the forums developed by NIF and Kettering are meant to resemble a jury process of deliberation — a

careful weighing of reliable data in the quest for making informed public judgments. Each of the NIF booklets provides at least three options for the issue under examination. There is always room for participants to propose a 4th or 5th option, and ways to use a “parking lot” for disagreements about data that cannot be immediately resolved, but will be checked and shared later. On Long Island, and throughout the nation, folks who have participated in NIF forums have been highly positive about the process and how it enhances engaged and interactive citizenship. Because our nation is so physically huge, with a vast population, and with more than one hundred 50 ethnic groups, no thoughtful person will underestimate the challenges of reaching common sense immigration accords. In my next column, I will proceed (admittedly, with all deliberate speed) to examples of immigration policies and actions, and to how the Hofstra endeavor could have national implications. Do let me know if your group has an interest to participate in the Hofstra two-forum process.

ALL THINGS POLITICAL

Rotten Senate pork-barrel promises

onstituents rarely see behind the financial scenes of what it takes to run for oﬃce. Challengers, struggling to get much-needed media attention to raise their name recognition, must raise money to fund direct mail, TV ads, social media, polling and pay the staﬀ necessary to win. While incumbents need funding for the same reasons, they have one huge advantage, grant money, otherwise known as pork, which enables them to curry favor with constituents in the hope of “purchasing” additional votes. According to the popular website, Investopedia (https:// www.investopedia.com/), “PorkBarrel Politics” is defined as follows: … a process that legislators use to obtain funding from central government to finance projects benefiting the legislators’ local constituents. The benefits

of such projects typically do not extend beyond a legislator’s constituency, despite the fact that funding was obtained through taxation of the larger geographic region. This form of political patronage helps the legislator attract campaign contributions and the support of local voters. Unfortunately, this form of quid-pro-quo dissolves rapidly, when an incumbent is defeated. Look no further than the 2018 state Senate race# and you’ll see why. Former state Sen. Elaine Phillips, in her fight against wellsupported and popular Democratic candidate Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, used many such pork promises, in a desperate attempt to retain her seat. In total, former Sen. Phillips promised roughly $10 million in grants. Among the recipients, Winthrop and Northwell hospitals were promised $1 million

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All Things Political each, while villages, school districts and community centers were told they would each receive $100,000 or more. In fact, some of the promised grants were unsolicited by the recipients, an obvious attempt to curry favor in parts of Phillips’ district where she had poor support. A quick Google search

shows many “secured” municipal grants by former Sen. Phillips during the heated final stretch of her re-election campaign. Some of these promises include: $100,000 for Sid Jacobson JCC in August 2018; $250,000 to the Village of New Hyde Park in September 2018; $300,000 for the Williston Park Fire Department in October 2018; and (a week before Election Day) $1,000,000 Health Care Transformation Capital Grant for Northwell Health Cohen Children’s Medical Center. After Sen. Phillips re-election loss, inquiries to her oﬃce for many of these grants were met with stone cold silence. It should be noted that lame-duck legislators still receive their salary until the new legislators are sworn in two months later. In 2010, the average state Senator received about $1.3 million in “pork” to distribute, with Sen. Malcolm Smith deemed the “Prince of Pork,” giving out $5.7

million. That same year, the average assemblyperson gave out $300,000. In 2018, $385 million in grant money was allocated through the State and Municipal Facilities Program (or SAM, also known as SMFP). With 63 state senators and 150 assemblypersons, it doesn’t seem plausible that Sen. Phillips was ever going to make good on the $10 million in grants she promised. In other words, her oﬃce severely abused pork-barrel politics in the hope of re-election. The dozens of recipients who believed this funding was real and planned for it in their budgets are now left holding the bag. The majority of the promised grant money by former Sen. Phillips was never properly appropriated and many of the grants were not approved. New York State taxpayers should be furious.

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THE NEW SUBURBANIST

American satire Inside Russia’s ISA

he year is 2014. Deep in the bowels of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia, two young analysts – Boris and Natalia – hatch a long-term strategy to interfere with American elections, communications and society. “Natalia! I’ve got it. It’s all about the cell phone. And voice mail. And prank calls! “What do you mean, Boris? What are you talking about?” “American people already are hooked on text messaging instead of the actual telephone call. Our comrades work hard to disrupt their lives on social media. Why don’t we attack their use of the telephone function on their cell phones?” “What do you have in mind?” “Look, we can create profiles of salespeople to phone Americans with spam calls! Spam calls for services they hate discussing – health care! life insurance! College loans!” “Yeah. Ok. But they will just hang up. Who cares Boris?” “Yes! That’s the whole point. The Americans will hang up. They

will despise phone calls. They will avoid answering their phones. They will let calls go to voice mail. They will mistake legitimate callers for spam callers! They will avoid speaking to one another. Remember that book we read in Misinformation 101 class? “Bowling Alone” by Robert Putnam from Harvard? Well, we can further that isolation in America. We can cause Americans to be wary of communication!” “Boris! I think you are on to something.” “Yes! Right?” “So how do we make this happen?” “The tech guys will handle the VPN networks, the false company set ups, the Internet-enabled autodialing massive sets of phone numbers in random, rotating batches. They can set it up for calls to roll in from hilarious, random destinations and area codes such as Riverhead, New York; Santa Rosa, California; Bayonne, New Jersey; and Centertown, Kentucky.” “O.K. So what role do you and I play in these eﬀorts?” “We need to come up with the

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The New Suburbanist names of companies, the scripts, names and voices of the callers. This will be the fun part!” “OK. So, like, ‘Jane’ from Bayonne, NJ? Calling for CIGNA Blue Cross?” “Yes! That’s brilliant. What will she say?” “How about: “If you can afford, we make it hassle-free to sign up with policies from Cigna, Blue Cross, Aetna, United and many more. Press 1 now to get a hasslefree assessment. Or press 2 to be placed on our do not call list. And,

as always, be happy and blessed.” “Yes! Perfect Natalia. But, wait a second, why should she say, ‘Press 2 to be placed on our do not call list?” “Easy. I observed the do not call list idea when I was an exchange student in Iowa. Americans believe they can take themselves oﬀ of email lists or robocall phone lists. So this feature will give them a false sense of hope! They think they won’t receive more spam calls. But they will receive many more! From Jane in Bayonne. It is the worst form of phone torture. Americans will be so disheartened and disgusted, they will let their voicemail boxes pile up with these ridiculous spam messages. Some of them won’t even be able to have voice mail arrive. Their boxes will become so clogged.” “You are a sick woman, Natalia. But I like it. I like it very much!” “My closing line about ‘be happy and blessed’ will be like salt in their relational wounds. Americans like to be nice and kind to others. So this remark with in-

sincere kindness will make them angry, jaded and more cynical.” “Let’s walk these downstairs to Igor. If he gives us the green light we can sketch out a more complete strategy map, run a SWOT analysis, establish some deliverables and get the project underway. Do you want create a PowerPoint deck if he greenlights this quickly and needs us to present to the directorate at Friday’s meeting?” “Hell yes! I have to use my Wharton skills somehow, Natalia. I’m a PowerPoint wizard. Do you think this might win the Agencywide Sergei Brin award for most innovative misinformation idea of the year?” “Um. Boris. I think this is the best idea anyone has had since malware and bot accounts for Twitter. I think we will win the prize easily.” “What’s the prize this year?” “Season tickets to the Bolshoi!” Paul Glader is an associate professor of journalism at The King’s College in New York City.

No favoritism shown to Dejana project

ertain residents have accused the village of Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals of showing favoritism to property owner/ developer Peter Dejana. Nothing could be further from the truth. The BZA’s process is the same for all petitioners. Variance requests, independent studies and other information about the project are carefully reviewed, public comment is heard, then the board carefully determines whether the requested changes are reasonable and if they might positively or negatively aﬀect the community. All members of the BZA live in Manorhaven and are very proud to serve in the best interest of residents and what is felt to be best for the village. On the Sagamore Manor project, throughout the review process, several and substantial modifications to the plans were made based on a combination of public and BZA comments. However, throughout the five months during which the project was being reviewed by the BZA, several mistruths (or misunderstandings) were being communi-

cated. The following clarifies the facts surrounding several of these false claims: “Build to Code”: Without requesting a variance, Dejana could have built five two-family houses each with three bedrooms. Typical occupants of rentals this size include two adults, two to three children and two cars. This translates to 40 to 50 people and 20 to 25 cars (off-street parking would accommodate 20 cars). Alternatively, existing code would allow the property to include an auto repair shop, selfstorage facility or other commercial buildings with rental units above. (Note that the immediate neighbors of this property are, in fact, an auto body shop and industrial buildings and buildings previously on the site took up almost the entire square footage. These buildings will only occupy 28 percent.) Claims of excessive traffic, stress on infrastructure: An independent traffic engineer’s report for the roads in Manhasset Isle and the intersection of Manhasset Avenue and Shore Road stated that, not only will the expected increase

in vehicles from this project not noticeably affect traffic, but that it is estimated it would be less of an impact than “right-of-use” (within existing code) construction. Conversely, since families with children tend to rent three-bedroom apartments, this “build to code” option would add a burden to our school system, buses and roads. This is not just for getting to and from school, but also afterschool/weekend activities, friends, parties, etc. A separate, independent engineer’s report stated that the difference between the estimated sewage flow for the proposed project versus a right-of-use one was de minimis (unnoticeable). This report also concluded with a zero assessment for any environmental, solid waste, erosion, flooding, leaching and drainage impact. The report continued to note that there would be no detriment to public health, safety, welfare, comfort, convenience to the public in general. Thirty-four parking spaces vs 83 in current code: Existing code requires one parking space for every 300 feet of gross floor area, which translates to 83 spaces. This

many spaces would take up over 50 percent of the entire 26,000 square foot parcel, not even including room to enter and exit the spaces. Clearly, this illogical parking ratio needs to be addressed. The 34 parking spaces included in the approved proposal provides ample parking for all tenants. Note that the industrial buildings previously on the lot had only a handful of parking spaces, which meant staﬀ mainly parked on adjoining streets. Ample public comment offered: The February 19 BZA meeting where the board voted on the final proposal was the fifth meeting held on this project. The first three oﬀered public comment, the third and last of which gave every single person the opportunity to speak, some more than once. After the last speaker finished, the board took a vote to close public comment. During the February 19 meeting, residents asked why amendments weren’t shared with them again. All of the information, including changes had been presented during previous BZA meetings, posted on the Village website and published in newspaper articles.

There was no reason to restate the same information that had already been discussed multiple times. Much opposition for minimal variances: In a nutshell, the only real diﬀerences between this project versus building five two-family three-bedroom homes is that it: is seven feet above existing code not including center of rooftop elevator shafts that will be virtually invisible from street level; allows for 34 versus 83 parking spaces (which, again is unreasonable); and, has a front of building setback of ten versus 20 feet. It is also important to note that, much of the opposition’s arguments were predicated on denying use variances, although the developers did not request any use variances. The majority of the BZA felt that this beautifully designed luxury apartment building will dramatically improve the landscape of that part of Manhasset Isle, which, in turn, benefits us all. Patrick Gibson Chair of the Village of Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals Letters Continued on Page 67

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Contract extended for Belmont review Record-setting outpouring on arena-retail development plan adds to manpower needs BY J E D HENDRIXSON Empire State Development has approved an extension of a contract with one of their consulting firms for the Belmont redevelopment project in response to a record-setting number of public comments. The state agency voted to approve a year-long extension of their agreement with environmental consultant AKRF at a board of directors’ meeting Thursday, citing a need for additional environmental review of the project and a historic number of comments received relating to the draft environmental impact study. During the comment period of the draft environmental impact study, in which the study was available to the public for review and Empire State Development hosted three public hearings, thousands of comments were received, the most of any project in the state agency’s history, according to vice president of planning and environmental review Rachel Shatz. Empire State Development said in a statement that they are committed to maintaining the project’s original timeline. “Yesterday, we reiterated the same timeline we’ve had since the beginning of this project, and we still anticipate to release the Final Belmont EIS in the second quarter of 2019,” Empire State Development press sec-

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A rendering of the Belmont redevelopment project plans. retary Jack Sterne said. “We’ve received a very large number of comments from Long Islanders – proof positive that the process is working – and this routine contract extension shows that we take the environmental review process seriously.” The original consulting period, September 2017 to September 2019, has been extended to September 2020. In addition to the approval of the extension, ESD will ask the developers, New York Arena Partners, to pay AKRF an additional $1.25 million for the extended consulting work, citing a

section of state finance law. The development envisions a 19,000-seat arena home for the New York Islanders, a retail space, a 150-foot-tall hotel that has been lowered from the initial proposed 250 feet after community concerns, 7,000 parking spaces in three lots and a power substation. The board approved the draft environmental statement in December last year for public review and hearings despite unavoidable traﬃc congestion concerns outlined in the study. Previous timelines presented by ESD projected the release

of the final environmental impact study and ground-breaking of the project in the second quarter of this year so that the arena would be complete for the Islanders to start the 2021 season in. The extension has led some, like the Belmont Park Community Coalition, to believe the project’s start will be delayed. “There will be no shovels in the ground in the first half of this year,” Tammie Williams, a member of the coalition, said. The coalition has been a vocal opponent of the redevelopment project.

The overwhelming support and involvement of the community have contributed to the apparent delay, according to Williams. Village of Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi said he is grateful Empire State Development has listened to residents’ concerns regarding the scope of the project and its potential impacts, including traﬃc congestion, parking" and other quality-of-life issues in the village, which is directly adjacent to Belmont Park. “We plan to continue to work with ESD to ensure that the review addresses issues comprehensively and listen to the outcomes closely,” Longobardi said. Floral Park residents alone submitted over 2,000 comments already to Empire State Development for review, according to village oﬃcials. The deadline for written and electronically delivered comments was also recently extended by ESD. Days prior to the original deadline, Feb. 15, ESD announced comments on the environmental impact study would be accepted until March 1. Written comments responding to the project draft environmental impact study can be submitted" to Michael Avolio, Empire State Development, 633 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017, or by email to BelmontOutreach@esd.ny.gov.

North Hills plans to hire park consultant BY T E R I W EST

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North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss

Village of North Hills trustees intend to upgrade Lowell H. Kane Park and have agreed to hire a consultant to help determine what enhancements in which to invest, Mayor Marvin Natiss said." The board is seeking professional advice before selecting what it might add to the park, he said. There is an open space in the park that was previously home to a handball court. “What we really want to do is enhance the facility,” Natiss said. “There’s a big open space there"— a big open lawn. It’s really all very tentative.” At the December Board of

Trustees meeting, the group bounced around ideas about increasing park surveillance and possibly investing in a camera. The board of trustees had recently formed a"park committee. Deputy Mayor Dennis Sgambati noted that there had been elicit activity in the park, including the trespassing of non-village residents and activity associated with items including condoms and marijuana. The village’s insurance company recently inspected the park’s surfaces and hardware to ensure its safety. Separately, the village will be seeking a new accounting firm to conduct its audits, the mayor said. Its previous auditor is no longer oﬀering municipal audits.

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Bosworth talks town’s marijuana policies BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth is open to potential adjustments to some of the town’s recent pre-emptive laws regulating marijuana. At a Floral Park North End Civic Association meeting last Thursday night, Bosworth said the board acted in the interest of many constituents by passing a trio of local laws zoning, restricting and banning marijuana locations, but that she was willing to revisit them in the future. “If the need for more [medical dispensaries] increases, we can go back and revisit the law,” Bosworth said of the second law, restricting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries to two in the town. According to Bosworth, that law — one of three passed by the town regulating marijuana —was spurred by a chain of events started by a single question. Following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that two medical marijuana dispensaries would open on Long Island, one in Lake Success and one in Riverhead, Bosworth said the town board, though it had no role in the decision, recognized the potential need for the medical use of marijuana. But, Bosworth added, when a second dispensary location was announced for North Hempstead in Carle Place and rumors circulated about the first relocating from Lake Success to a more prominent location in Manhasset, she questioned why. “So, I asked, ‘why are all these stores popping up in the town?” she said. According to Bosworth, when the board reached out to the commissioner of the state Health Department to ask about the new locations, they found out

that no additional locations had opened in Suﬀolk County since the Riverbed location and there was no talk of dispensaries opening in the towns of Hempstead or Oyster Bay, despite the two towns’ larger areas and populations. This led Bosworth and the board, she said, to consider taking measures to zone and regulate both medical and recreational marijuana in the town. Based on discussion about potential legalization of recreational marijuana"in the state, which would eventually be"corroborated in Cuomo’s State of the State address, Bosworth said she and the board believed the cannabis company MedMen was relocating from its Lake Success location to Northern Boulevard in anticipation of recreational legalization. Following a meeting with the company in early October, area civic leaders said they had suspicions that MedMen was seeking a more visible storefront in anticipation of marijuana legalization that would give it a broader customer base. Aside from MedMen, no other companies have vocalized plans to open recreational facilities in North Hempstead. Bosworth and the town board would eventually pass three local laws regulating and restricting marijuana in the town. The first law, passed in November, prevents medical dispensaries from operating as retail locations if the recreational use of marijuana is legalized. The second law," passed in December," " restricts the number of medical marijuana dispensaries allowed in the town to two, but Bosworth said last Thursday night she would be willing to consider raising that limit. Continued on Page 74

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Commended for savings worker’s life BY T E R I W EST When police responded to an emergency at a construction site in Roslyn Heights Feb. 13, Adam Meyer, a former U.S. Army combat field medic, happened to be one of the officers. He and his colleagues arrived to find a construction worker in critical condition, with both of his legs severed after a steel plate weighing more than 2,500#pounds fell on them. Meyer and Officer Michael Kenney used tourniquets to ease the victim’s bleeding, an effort that a trauma surgeon said saved the worker’s life, said Nassau Police Benevolent Association president James McDermott. The officers along with Police Medic Cathleen Fay were honored by the Nassau County Legislature Monday for their efforts at the legislature’s monthly “Top Cops” recognition. “This man can now live on and he can continue his life,” Legislator Laura Schaefer (R-Westbury) told the officers. “I want to thank you because that’s probably the greatest gift you can give to somebody is to save their life.” The victim, 39, was pinned into an

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From left, Officer Michael Kenney, Officer Adam Meyer and Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott at the Nassau County Legislature Monday afternoon. approximately 10-foot-deep hole when the steel plate fell on him. By entering the hole, Meyer and Kenney risked their

lives because the walls could have collapsed, Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.

“We’re always asked to put ourselves out there and be that first line of defense,” he said. “They were the first line of defense for that man that day, and because of the work that they did, they saved their life. So they truly are heroes.” The incident occurred at 8:05 a.m. around Corncrib Lane and Locust Lane, the police reported that day. The tourniquet that Meyer used to control the victim’s bleeding was his personal equipment, not department issue, McDermott said. Meyer served for three U.S. Army tours, two of which were in Iraq and one in Kuwait. “Every call’s different,” Meyer said. “We weren’t aware of the severity until we arrived, and it quickly became a situation that was desperate.” The medics helped transport the victim to NYU Winthrop Hospital. While this was a highly unusual event, the officers’ efforts are representative of the police as a whole, McDermott said. “This is just the work we do,” he said. “We do great work. But this was exceptional because [Meyer] was beyond prepared.”

Charged for stealing from North Hills firm BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON A Greenlawn woman surrendered to Nassau County detectives Tuesday for writing $200,000 in payments to herself from the account of the North Hils company for which she worked, police said. Linda Toscano, 43, accompanied by her lawyer, turned herself into police Tuesday morning in Bethpage, police said. She was arraigned and charged with grand larceny, possession of a forged instrument and

falsifying business records, they said. Toscano wrote out business checks payable to herself without the authority to do so while working at SNL Construction in North Hills, police said. Toscano wrote five checks totaling approximately $200,000 from July to November 2018, police said. She also altered business records to prevent the company’s loss from being discovered. Eﬀorts to reach SNL Construction for comment were unavailing.

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Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman’s living wage audit found that 16 employees of the emergency shelter provider, ADD/ADHD Housing Group Inc., were being paid less than the living wage required of employers with county contracts. Keith Cook, the executive director of ADD/ADHD, said in a telephone interview with Blank Slate Media that the county’s requirement to pay employees almost $15 an hour with benefits can cause an undue hardship for a nonprofit. The emergency shelter has a contract with Nassau County which requires them to pay their employees $14.27 an hour with benefits or $16.41 an hour without benefits, as well as granting paid time oﬀ to full-time employees. The comptroller’s audit states that during 2016 and 2017, the 16 employees were underpaid by an average of $1.07 per hour, ranging from 4 cents to $6.07 per hour. It was calculated that ADD/ADHD owed 16 employees back wages of $30,600, which the employer said it paid Jan. 22 in its written response to the audit. The comptroller conducts living wage audits due to complaints or for routine review, according to a spokesman from Schnirman’s press oﬃce. ADD/ADHD operates three shelters in Nassau County: two in West Hempstead and one in Freeport. Cook’s response, provided in the audit, says that other shelter providers are allowed to avoid the living wage law due to the creation of a separate organization for each shelter site in order to create companies with fewer than 10 employees. The text of the County Living Wage

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Law says the pay requirement applies to employers with financial assistance contracts of more than $50,000 and at least 10 employees. Cook contended that ADD/ADHD does not maintain this practice of minimizing the number of employees in order to bypass paying the living wage law “for the sake of integrity.” Despite ADD/ADHD’s payment of the back wages, the audit notes that the agency submitted a request to the County’s Living Wage Officer to be waived from living wage requirements in 2017. The request was denied. Cook pointed to Section 10-D of the County Living Wage Law, which says that “not-for-profit corporations shall be eligible for financial assistance from the Nassau County Living Wage Contingency Fund… in order to meet increased payroll expenses incurred due to the operation of this law.” According to a spokesman from the comptroller’s office, the contingency fund has not been funded. At the time of publication, it was unclear whether Cook submitted a request for assistance from the fund. Cook said the employees who were being paid less than the living wage requirement were nighttime employees who were allowed to sleep on the job. With their payment of the county’s required hourly rate, these employees are now being paid the same as case workers “who provide intake case management facility and staff oversight,” he said. As well as the recommendation to pay back the employees, the comptroller suggested ADD/ADHD# implement a daily time reporting process that includes pay period beginning and ending dates, hourly pay rates and actual daily hours worked on biweekly payroll records. Another recommendation is to provide the comptroller’s office with an explanation for the 10 employees who were paid without corresponding#hours of work noted in the released payroll records. The recommendation refers to the audit’s finding of 10 employees who did not have a listed number of hours of work and therefore the comptroller could not determine if they were paid the required living wage. Twelve employees were not compensated for 1,079 hours of their# paid vacation time, which led the agency to pay them $16,988. Cook’s response said ADD/ADHD had only designated paid time-off to employees who worked over 40 hours per week. “Our office conducts these audits so that we can ensure employees of county contractors are being treated fairly,” Schnirman said in a press release. “If you want to work with Nassau County, you have to make sure your employees are earning a living wage.” Continued on Page 62

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Nassau housing prices rise 5% in January BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Nassau County’s median home prices for closed sales for the month of January was $525,000, 5 percent higher than the year before, according to a monthly report from Multiple Listing Service Long Island. The median price for January

2018 was $500,000. The median closed sale price for January also reflected an increase from December which recorded a median sale price of $510,000. However, January’s median price for pending home sales dropped since last January from $510,000 to $500,000, a 2 percent

decrease. It also exhibits a drop from December when the median price for pending sales was $515,000. There were 916 homes sold in the county in January, a drop of 2.8 percent from the same month last year when 942 homes were sold. If home sales abide by the trend of the past two years, the

number of sold properties will slightly fluctuate through the spring until it peaks for the summer months starting in June. Some 866 pending sales counts in January reflect a 10 percent jump from last January when there were 789 pending sales. Those on the hunt for a new house in the new year had 4,649

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Nassau’s home prices for closed sales opened up the year at 5 percent higher than the year before.

to choose from in Nassau County in January and 15,270 on Long Island, including Queens. Long Island’s January housing inventory rose from last January with an increase of over 14 percent. The available inventory for January 2018 was 13,350. Multiple Listing Service Long Island includes neighboring Queens in its Long Island housing statistics. The median home price for closed sales on Long Island was $450,000 in January, a 2.5 percent increase from last January which recorded a median price of $439,000. January’s closed sale activity for the entire island dropped by almost 8 percent from the same month last year with 2,731 sold homes. Next-door Suffolk County’s opened up the year with a closed median price of $380,000, an increase of almost 6 percent from last January’s closed median price of $359,000. There were 1,154 sold homes in Suffolk in the month of January which was an 8 percent drop from January 2018 when 1,255 homes were sold. Suffolk’s median home price for closed is almost 28 percent lower than Nassau County’s median home price.

Dem senators question MTA transformation BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio pitched a new plan for funding and reorganizing the MTA Tuesday, calling for congestion pricing to help bail out the troubled subway system by tolling drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest corridors. The MTA, which runs the subways, the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, the bridges and the tunnels, is facing huge losses because of deteriorating subway service and the dire need to reverse years of delayed maintenance throughout its aging transit system. Manhattan’s Midtown streets have become choked with drivers from Long Island and other points outside the city who are reluctant to count on unreliable MTA service. Under the 10-point plan, fares collected through new tolls would go toward a lockbox to create “a funding source necessary to ensure the capital needs of the MTA can be met.” PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR Oﬃcials have long expressed concern about crippling congestion in New New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, along with New York City Mayor Bill De Bla- York City as well as budget deficits and sio, pitched a plan to transform the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. the subway crisis.

The charge per car is not yet set, but a task force commissioned by Cuomo recommended $11.52 per car entering Manhattan south of 60th Street. Cuomo also said that without alternative revenue streams, subway and bus fares could be forced to increase 30 percent to support the necessary repairs for a dilapidated and neglected transit system. While congestion pricing would increase the cost of travel for some Nassau County commuters, Cuomo has also said the plan could generate $15 billion annually and help commuters in the long run. The congestion pricing revenue would be supplemented by part of a new Internet sales tax and cannabis excise tax. The MTA currently has about $40.7 billion in outstanding debt, according to the agency’s debt portfolio posted online. The plan also calls for centralizing common functions among the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, New York Transit Authority, and other entities by June. Among those functions are construction management, procurement, engineering, legal matters and human resources. Continued on Page 75

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From Elvis to the Box Tops

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ick Levy, one of the current members of the ‘60s band, the Box Tops, admits that he doesn’t recall much from his early childhood, but one memory is crystal clear — the day he received his first Elvis Presley album in 1956. “It sounds trite. It sounds contrived, but that was like the Holy Grail,” Levy said during a recent interview. “The light went oﬀ.” This spark led Levy on a musical journey that took him from running around his house as a boy wearing Elvis-inspired cardboard sideburns glued to his face, to receiving a birthday kiss from Elvis’ wife, Priscilla Presley, at the Box Tops’ induction ceremony into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame this past November. While people may not know Levy by name because he often performs back-up and behind-the-scenes, his passion for playing music has kept him closely tied to the industry for the past 50 years, juggling roles as a touring musician, bandleader, producer, writer, promoter and manager. “Everything I did and learned about the music business, aside from playing my instrument, was done so I could continue to play,” Levy said. “I could have had a job at Capitol Records on the business side… done the corporate ladder thing. Then I realized I wouldn’t be doing what I love to do.” So Levy asked himself early on, “How can I do this and keep reinventing myself so I can continue to play music and make a living doing it?” The answer lies in “High in the Mid-‘60s: How to Have a Fabulous Life in Music Without Being Famous,” Levy’s account of his rollercoaster ride in the music business alongside artists who made their marks during what Levy calls the “renaissance” age in music and are revered to this day. “There’s still an audience, a pretty good audience, for this 60s-era music,” Levy said. “It’s transcended the Boomer generation for sure.” At Box Tops’ concerts across the country, Levy says he often sees grandparents, parents and grandkids at the shows together singing, “Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,” the opening lyrics of the band’s greatest hit, “The Letter.” “They all know it because these songs have come up in commercials, in movies, in TV,” Levy said. “The ‘60s’ thing has become, in my estimation, the mold, and once the mold is made it’s easy to replicate, but it’s not the same.” While there have been many ‘60s tribute acts over the years, Long Islanders can experience the real thing when the Memphis-born Box Tops, including two of its founding members, Bill Cunningham and Gary Talley, share the stage with the Grass Roots and headliners Tommy James & the Shondells at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Friday, March 15 at 8 p.m. Prior to joining the Box Tops three years ago, Levy spent 14 years managing the group while performing with many other recording stars including Jay & the Techniques, Herman’s Hermits, Frankie Avalon, the Shirelles, the Belmonts, the Drifters, the Platters, Martha Reeves and more. “The artists I’ve played with are such a wide range like Tommy Roe, who did songs like ‘Sheila’ and ‘Dizzy,’ and was called the king of bubble gum, these feel-good songs,” Levy said. “And then you play with a guy like Bo Diddley, who was one of the pioneers of it all… I still feel like I’m the kid in the candy store.”

It was during his time performing with Peter “Herman” Noone of the British band Herman’s Hermits in the late ‘90s and early part of the 2000s when Levy first asked himself a more introspective question in light of his good fortune, “How did I get here?” What began as a journal transformed into his memoir that tells a story of an everyman making it in the real world rather than the often-heard tale of a rock icon’s rise in the music world. “Rick Levy record star was not in the stars for me,” he said. So finding where his expertise as a businessman and performer could best be used in an ever-changing world has been his longtime pursuit, providing him with hardwon wisdom and magical moments that he recounts in his book from the very beginning. Levy played several instruments as a child, but guitar was his favorite. He played his first Martin guitar at the age of 13 and took lessons from a jazz guitar player in his hometown of Allentown, Pa., “a real bohemian… dressed in black… chain-smoking Camel cigarettes,” Levy said, “but he played guitar and it was like I was transformed. He taught me stuﬀ that I still use to this day.” Despite these early lessons, Levy says his real training came from his time with his first garage band, the Limits, in high school and then with the group Wax while at the University of Pennsylvania. “Some of the guys were better, technically-trained musicians than I was so I learned a lot from them about theory and chord structure,” he said, recalling a memorable trip during these years. In the summer of 1967, right after graduating from high school, the Limits drove to the Catskills in upstate New York to play at a summer camp. “We’re driving in a station wagon… and, of course, back then all you had was AM radio… and this song

comes on for the first time, the opening of ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale,’ and we literally had to stop the car and just listen to that thing cause we had never heard anything like it. That just altered the universe, my musical universe, much like Elvis did when I was a kid,” Levy said. So perhaps it was kismet when Levy and his Wax bandmates got to meet the British rock band who first recorded “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum, while at the Electric Factory, the same Philadelphia concert club where rising rockers like the Who and Jimi Hendrix performed. “We kind of had carte blanche to go see shows because, although we were a local band, we were a favorite of the owner,” Levy said. “I mentioned that story to them — about how important the song was to us. Funnily enough, the Box Tops recorded a version of ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ on their very first album.” A similar idol moment occurred in the early ‘70s when Levy and his new bride attended a Rolling Stones’ concert at Madison Square Garden on Mick Jagger’s 29th birthday. Through connections, Levy went to the after-party at Manhattan’s St. Regis Hotel and shared an elevator ride with Keith Richards. “My sister swears by it,” Levy said, given that his memory was a bit foggy after a night of partying with the likes of Jagger, Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan. Music had to take a backseat when Levy and his first wife had a son. He went back to school to earn a degree in teaching to provide a steady income for his family, but he brought his love for music into the classroom by forming a music education program for children called RockRoots. “It won the best single kids’ program by PBS Pennsylvania stations,” Levy said. “It’s not the same as a Grammy or a million-selling record, but that’s who I am.” In the decades that followed, Levy’s marriages ended and his bands never scored a recording contract with a major label, but he continued to play gigs, fine-tune his skills and remain close with many of his industry contacts. “I’ve burned very few bridges in 50-plus years,” he said. When he had the opportunity to work with his first ‘60s recording group, Jay & the Techniques, Levy discovered a new musical path. “I saw the popularity of this thing,” he said, so he set out to find practical ways to play with other recording artists, often involving managing the talent. “I was never an original member of any of these big groups, but being part and parcel of presenting them again… trying to do the sound right and honestly… to me is an honor and it’s a responsibility,” Levy said. “When I finally put the guitar on and go onstage, I’m just in relaxmode.” Local music lovers will get to experience all the fun and nostalgia when the Box Tops open the show on the 15th, bringing with them more than just great hits like “Cry Like a Baby,” “Soul Deep” and “Neon Rainbow.” “They’re gonna get what made the Box Tops such a cool band for Memphis and why Memphis was so cool, especially in the ‘60s… in that great theatre in the round,” he said. When the music and euphoria die down, Levy returns to his beachfront home in St. Augustine, Fla., where he enjoys quiet pastimes like yoga and pottery, before he plans the band’s next excursion. In March, they will board a Flower Power cruise with the Beach Boys, Jeﬀerson Airplane and other big bands of the era. Continued on Page 59

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Saturday, March 9 at 8 p.m.

The Musical Box will present a tribute to the English rock group who made it big in the 1980s with hits such as “The Land of Confusion,” “Turn it on Again,” “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight” and “Follow You, Follow Me.” Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: 516-247-5211 • thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Echoes — 60th Anniversary Exhibit and Artists’ Reception

Sunday, March 10, 2 to 5:30 p.m. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Long Island Craft Guild will present a special exhibition, “Echoes,” in which artists used a variety of materials to create art that echoes of personal experiences and inspirations. The afternoon will feature a gallery talk at 2 p.m., followed by an artists’ reception at 3:30 p.m.

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The Paramount Comedy Series Presents: Kevin James

Sunday, March 10 at 8 p.m. The Long Island comic, who stars in the TV sitcoms “The King of Queens” and “Kevin Can Wait” and the films “Zookeeper” and “Hitch,” will perform his latest stand-up show. Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info & Tickets: 631-673-7300 • paramountny.com

‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’

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In dogged rebellion of the corporate world and in hopes of striking it rich, two scheming cousins Vincent and Anton Zalesky (Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård) set out to build a thousand-mile-long, four-inch-wide tunnel that will give them a one-millisecond edge on transactions at the New York Stock Exchange. The cousins are an odd couple united by their desire to forge their own path in life, with Vincent a frantic dreamer and schemer and Anton a socially awkward data genius conjuring the magic seconds edge they need in their plan. While operating as rogues their plan attracts the attention of their ruthless former employer Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a Wall Street lion willing to devour anyone unlucky enough to get in her way. As time runs out, their plan and its promises grow wilder as the stakes climb higher. A tragicomedy about financial hustlers by Academy Award–nominated director Kim Nguyen, The Hummingbird Project is a thrilling contemporary portrait of a David vs. Goliath mission.

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Saturday, March 9, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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Saturday, March 9, 2 to 3 p.m.

Celebrate the birthday of Girl Scouts in America. In honor of Girl Scout Day, all Girl Scouts wearing their scouting uniform will receive a free hatchery and aquarium tour with paid admission. Where: Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium, 1660 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor Info: 516-692-6768 or cshfishhatchery.org

ofstra University’s 21st Annual Irish Festival

The Irish Festival continues to celebrate the Irish gifts of music, food and culture to America. There will be a number of music and dance performances and children’s activities throughout the day, as well as a variety of vendors and food. Tickets are $6 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and free for children under 12. Where: Hofstra University, David S. Mack Physical Education Center, 900 Fulton Ave., Hempstead Info & Tickets: 516-463-6582 or hofstra.edu

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Sunday, March 10, 4 p.m.

Bach To Rock showcases young musicians of all ages whose unique method is based on the idea that students learn best when they join together to play the music they love. Where: My Father’s Place at the Roslyn Hotel, 1221 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn Info & Tickets: 516-413-3535 or myfathersplace.com

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15th Annual Town of North Hempstead Polar Plunge Saturday, March 2, 2019 North Hempstead Beach Park—Pt. Washington

Check-in 10- 11:30am PLUNGE at NOON

Last year over 400 plungers braved the chilly water while hundreds of spectators watched on. Help raise money for the athletes of Special Olympics New York by asking your friends, family, co-workers, etc. to support you in taking the PLUNGE! Every Plunger that raises $150 receives an official Plunge sweatshirt….. raise more money and receive more great prizes! Whether you plunge or support a Plunger, come join us on March 2nd!

How do I get started? Log onto www.polarplungeNY.org/northhempstead where you can start a team, join a team or join as an individual. Set up your Personal Plunge Page and you are on your way to “Freezin’ for a Reason!”

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‘My Long Island’ art exhibit Irish author to visit The Art Guild’s new juried competition and exhibit, My Long Island: Places, Spaces, Faces,” will be on view from Saturday, March 2 through Sunday, March 24. An opening reception and award ceremony with the artists will be held on March 2, from 3 to 5 p.m.!Both the gallery and the reception are free and open to the public. “This is historically one of the most popular juried competitions at The Art Guild, and was a challenging exhibition to curate,” said executive director, Lisa Grossman. “We were excited to see new perspectives from both well-known and up-and-coming photographers on Long Island. We invite the public to come see the beauty of the Island through the lens of a diverse group of photographers.” The exhibit features 64 photographs by 62 photographers, including 16 high school students, chosen from more than 200 images. The photographers are from all across Long Island and bring a wide view of the area, from hidden landscape gems to sensitive

portraits. The juror of awards for this exhibit is Katrin Eismann, an internationally respected artist who specializes in interpretive travel, still life and portrait photography. She is also an educator and the author of four acclaimed books on digital photography. Eismann! is the founder and chair of the Masters in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts. The Art Guild’s classes for children and adults run six days a week. A 10-week oil

painting class with Joan Stevens begins on Tuesday, March 12, and a 10-week life drawing class (non-instructional) with Stevens commences on Friday, March 15. An eight-week class, Introduction to Digital Art with Photoshop for Middle Schoolers with Heather Heckel, has been added to the schedule on Wednesday afternoons beginning on Feb. 27. Children’s week-long summer workshops for ages 5 to 7 and 8 to 12 are now registering. Adult workshops for 2019 include: Seascapes and Winter Scenes in Pastel with Lana Ballot, March 23 and 24, The Floral Still Life in Oil with Jacqueline Kamin, June 13 to 16; Painting the Figure from Photographs in Watercolor with Ted Nuttall, June 19 to 22; and Painting in Colored Pencil with Cynthia Knox, July 26 to 29. The Art Guild’s home, Elderfields Preserve, is at 200 Port Washington Blvd. in Manhasset. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment. For more information, call 516-304-5797 or go to www. TheArtGuild.org.

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In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes” and Alice Taylor’s “To School Through the Fields,” Tom Phelan’s “We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood” is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s.! Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; and a time when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland. “We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It” recounts Phelan’s upbringing in an isolated, rural community from the day he was de-

livered by the local midwife. With tears and laughter, it speaks to the strength of the human spirit in the face of life’s adversities.! Phelan had just turned 50 when his first novel, “In the Season of the Daisies,” was accepted for publication. That novel was later chosen by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. Since then, Phelan has written five other novels:! “Iscariot,” “Derrycloney,” “The Canal Bridge,” “Nailer” and “Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told.” He now lives in New York. Phelan will be launching his new book at Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine, with an appearance scheduled for Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. Maureen Murphy, Irish studies historian and features editor of!The Irish Literary Supplement!since 1982, will interview Phelan at the special event that is not to miss. Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine is located at! 110 N. Park Ave. in!Rockville Centre.

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Cost-effective tips for staging a home What you can do to maximize the price you get before going to market

Home sellers often ask what can they do to close the deal while maximizing earnings quickly. Staging a home is a cost-eﬀective way to sell the idea of what can be and these easy to implement tips can help you when you are ready to put your house on the market. Neutralizing the home is always in your favor: Oﬀsetting your home so that it appeals to the broadest range of potential buyers is critical. Start with a fresh coat of paint for an impressive, yet, economic transformation. Light neutral color palettes will compliment almost any buyer’s style! De-clutter and de-personalize your space: Buyers need to walk through the home and easily envision it as theirs. Family photos, evidence of pets, or even personized accessories can distract your buyers. Keep their eyes on the prize by storing away personal belongings. Updated lighting fixtures are known to brighten the seller’s profits: Making a small investment in contemporary light fixtures will instantly give the house a modern feel that buyers often find attractive. Changing light bulbs to “daylight” is also highly recommended.

Kitchens and bathrooms can make or break the sale: If the budget allows, its recommended to refresh hardware and upgrading faucets. Go the extra mile by giving showers and tubs a fresh bead of silicone around the edges. These minor fixes can seriously pay oﬀ in a quicker, high-earning, sale. Work with existing furniture, rearrange layouts: Furniture needs to be organized in a clear, open fashion to show each room’s

function while optimizing flow. Too much, too little, or improperly placed furniture impacts the quality of the room’s design and feel. After determining which existing pieces work for each room, rearrange them into groupings that highlight the home’s best features. This, however, doesn’t mean moving furniture up against the wall. Conversation areas around accent tables are warm and inviting. Improve your home’s curb appeal: Companies invest so much into prod-

uct packaging for a reason. Think of your home’s exterior as the packaging that attracts the intended buyer. Establish a welcoming and inviting presentation by mowing the lawn, power wash siding, walkways, and driveways. Take that extra step by repainting the front door and porch as needed. Organize and pack– you’re moving! Now is the time to get started with sorting and packing your belongings. Consider renting a storage unit to stow away excess furniture and other items from your home. Details create the bigger picture: Give your neutral spaces a touch of character by including contemporary accessories and art. Doing so can be as simple as having beautiful accent pillows. It is recommended to update bed linens to white for the master bedroom. If it’s in the budget, use white bedding in the secondary bedrooms, as well. There are very aﬀordable options like “bed in a bag’’ choices that make this tip worth your while. Not only will these tips make the selling experience easier, but it can ensure a fantastic return on investment! Information provided by Leonore Burgos, Advanced Home Staging Certified Professional, www.stagingbyleonore.com

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The ultimate secret to the company’s success revolves around the top quality products sold for the absolute lowest prices. Manufacturers such as Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Andersen and Pella have partnered with Unified to bring the best installation practices directly to the homeowner.

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Celebrated Harrison concert returns to L.I. In 1971, George Harrison of the Beatles held the first large-scale, rock-androll benefit at Madison Square Garden for the people of Bangladesh using sitars and other Indian instruments. He was joined by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russel, Badfinger, Billy Preston and other musical friends. Wonderous Stories: The Concert for Bangladesh! Re-visited marks an all-star tribute to Harrison and that memorable music night. The performance will take place at the Space at Westbury on Saturday, March 2 at 8 p.m. For three years in a row, 2007 to 2009, Wonderous Stories played Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in its entirety at BB King’s Blues Club in Manhattan to sold-out audiences. They played in 2011 and 2013 at the Highline Ballroom and in 2017 at the Space at Westbury. In those years, special guests included members and former members of Badfinger, Paul McCartney’s Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, Vanilla Fudge, the Hooters, Zebra, Tower of Power, Ted Nugent, Dire Straits and the Soul Survivors, as well as people who were behind-thescenes at the original 1971 show and special guest promoter Sid Bernstein, who produced the Beatles’ concert at Shea Stadium.

For the second year, Wonderous Stories will play on Long Island on the Space at Westbury’s large stage to accommodate all of the musicians who will present the multi-instrumental show, in addition to Harrison songs that were sorely missed at the original show. A portion of the money from the concert will be donated to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in memory of Harrison, who died of cancer in 2001. Some of the musicians who are scheduled to perform, along with the five members of!Wonderous Stories,!include guitarist Denny Laine (Wings), drummer Steve Holley (Wings,! Julian Lennon, Ian Hunter), guitarist Godfrey Townsend (John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, Alan Parsons Project, The Turtles), saxophonist Arno Hecht (J. Geils, Dion, Buster Poindexter, Uptown Horns), keyboardist!Tommy Mandel (Bryan Adams, Ian Hunter, Dire Straits), bassist! John Montagna (Alan Parsons Project, Happy Together tour, Hippie Fest tour) and trumpeter! Phil Granger (Jay and the Americans). To purchase tickets to this timeless, throwback show, go to www.thespaceatwestbury.com. The Space at Westbury is located at 250 Post Ave. in Westbury.

Music of Astaire and Rogers at Emanuel The seventh season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Tuesday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m., when Patti Dunham and Gary Haberman perform the music of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a show called Night & Day. Dunham and Haberman look back at the movies of the most famous dance

team of all time. Astaire and Rogers appeared in their first movie, “Flying Down to Rio,” for RKO Studios and they stole the show. They starred in nine more films together in the 1930s and their screen chemistry has never been matched. The Hollywood dance legends introduced songs written by some of the most famous American songbook composers — Berlin, Gershwin, Kern and Porter. Dunham and Haberman will perform songs from Astaire and Rogers’ classic movies, including “Night and Day,” “I Won’t Dance,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Just the Way You Look Tonight” and “Shall We Dance.” Admission to the performance is free, but donations are welcome. For more information, call 516-482-5701 to receive the 2018-19 SCW Cultural Arts booklet and learn about discounts for the SCW Sunday subscription series. Temple Emanuel is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck. Prior to their Great Neck show, Dunham and Haberman will perform Dimples, the music of Shirley Temple, at the Long Beach Public Library, 111 West Park Ave. in Long Beach, which is also free and open to the public. !!

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The Chocolate Expo Rick Levy: from Elvis takes flight on L.I. to the Box Tops The Chocolate Expo, America’s largest and most unique chocolate festival, will be returning to Long Island’s Cradle of Aviation Museum on Sunday, March 3, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. At the Chocolate Expo, attendees will get to taste, purchase, celebrate and otherwise indulge in delicious gourmet chocolates, baked goods, specialty foods, gelato, cheeses, wines, spirits, hard ciders, craft sodas and much more from local and regional vendors, while touring one of the largest air and space museums in the world. In the museum’s atrium lobby, guests will be greeted by Aurora Gourmet’s chocolate fountains overflowing with milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate to cover a choice of fresh fruits, marshmallows, pretzels and crisp rice treats. Participating chocolatiers in this year’s event include Chocolate Moonshine, Chocolates U, Emalyn Sweets, Raw Chocolate Love, Twizzle’s Tasty Treats, Teacher’s Recipe Fudge, the Cocoa Exchange and the Pretzel Princess, among others. Unusual chocolate items at the Chocolate Expo include Bacon Bites’ chocolatecovered bacon, chocolate-flavored pumpkin seeds from Super Seedz, raw cookie dough treats from Whipped Up, chocolate vodka from Olde York Farm, chocolate wine from Pazdar Winery, chocolate soda from Drink More Good and chocolatescented personal care products from Scru-

bIt NH. Wine tastings and sales will be oﬀered by Adirondack Winery, Fire Island Winery and Warwick Valley Winery. Ciders by Doc’s Hard Ciders and spirits from Lake George Distillery and Black Dirt Distillery will round-out the lineup of alcoholic beverages at this year’s Chocolate Expo. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, food artist Nancy Baker, who has been featured on the Food Network, will recreate a scene from a famous photo of the moon landing using a delicious combination of chocolates, cookies and colored sugars. More than 25 authentically-costumed Star Wars characters from the 501st Empire City Garrison will descend on the Chocolate Expo and be available for selfies and other picture-taking opportunities from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free face painting and balloon twisting activities for children will take place in the museum’s Junior Jet Club. Admission to all air and space exhibits is included with admission to the Chocolate Expo. Additionally, free admission to shows in the JetBlue Airways Planetarium, regularly $9 per adult and $8 per child, will be included as well. “Space Junk” will be shown at 12, 3 and 5 p.m. The Cradle of Aviation Museum is on" Charles Lindbergh Blvd. in Garden City. For more information, contact the museum at 516-572-4111 or go to www. cradleofaviation.org.

Continued from Page 29 Over the years, Levy says there have been times when he has envied friends who had steady jobs and stable home lives. “Security is a funny thing,” he said. “We all want it, but I think of what happened when all these people who worked for corporations thought it was all secure and then their pensions are gone.” So while Levy’s “rock climb” didn’t

put him at the very top, music ultimately brought him — and many others of the ‘60s generation and beyond — feelings of peace, happiness and freedom. “It’s only rock and roll,” Levy said, but people sure do like it. For tickets to the show, go to www.thetheatreatwestbury.com. To purchase “High in the Mid-‘60s,” go to www.amazon.com or www.ricklevy.com.

HELPING PEOPLE FIND THEIR PERFECT HOME ELIZABETH ZUVEKAS Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

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Documentary on college Folk duo Howe, Freebo entrance exam debate return to Huntington

Each year, more than three million high school students take the SAT or ACT, the college entrance exams required by most four-year colleges in the United States. For decades, however, there have been questions about exactly what these tests measure, what role they play in the admissions process and how predictive they are of academic success. The anxiety-provoking exams, and the multibillion dollar test-prep industry that has grown up around them, have also become lightning rods in the ongoing national debate over equity in educational opportunities. In the new documentary feature, “The Test and the Art of Thinking,” filmmaker Michael Arlen Davis examines this controversy through interviews with

students, parents, counselors, test-prep professionals and academics, to provide a fascinating look at this uniquely American rite of passage and how it reflects deeper issues in our educational system and society as a whole.! The! 55-minute film, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A, will take place at Landmark on Main Street on Tuesday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m., as part of their Conversations from Main series. Admission is free. This special screening event is copresented with the Parent Resource Center and Port Washington Advocates for Public Education.! Landmark on Main Street is located at 232 Main St. in Port Washington.

Acclaimed singer-songwriters Alice Howe and Freebo will be the featured performers during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly First Saturday Concerts’ series on March 2. The 8:30 p.m. concert at the Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive, oﬀ Route 25A, in Centerport, will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. Freebo, a veteran singer-songwriter and musical sideman who was Bonnie Raitt’s bass player for 10 years, was impressed upon first hearing Howe perform during the 2016 Northeast Regional Folk Alliance conference. After reconnecting with the talented newcomer at the 2017 Folk Alliance International Conference, Freebo invited Howe to record a few songs with him in California — and a musical partnership was forged. Each a compelling performer in their own right, they have been touring together and backing each other on their respective songs in concert, while Freebo produced Howe’s debut full-length album, Visions. With her soulful, impeccably tuned voice and well-crafted poetic lyrics, Boston-based Howe has a pure, distilled sound that reflects a musical sensibility rooted in 1960s folk and 1970s southern

California songwriters. Howe’s 2017 EP, You’ve Been Away So Long, features her original song “Homeland Blues,” which debuted at No. 1 on the international folk DJ top songs chart in April 2017. She participated in that year’s Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist Showcase and has earned coveted oﬃcial juried showcases during the conferences of two regional affiliates of Folk Alliance International. After more than 40 years of recording and touring with many of the great artists of our time, including Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, and more, Freebo has come into his own as a singer-songwriter. A multi-award winner and finalist in numerous songwriting contests, Freebo was recognized as the Best Folk Artist-2007 in the Los Angeles Music Awards. He has appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Midnight Special,” and in concert with the legendary Spinal Tap. Tickets to the performance are priced at $25 ($20 for FMSH members) and may be purchased in advance online at www. fmsh.org or at the door (cash and checks only). For more information on the featured artists and the concert, visit the website or call 631-425-2925.

L.I. Baroque Ensemble to celebrate J.S. Bach The Long Island Baroque Ensemble will present its 49th annual concerts in celebration of the birthday of J.S. Bach on Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church,! 30 Brooksite Drive in! Smithtown, and at 3 p.m. in Christ Church,!61 East Main St. in!Oyster Bay. The program will also

be a commemoration of the group’s founder, Sonia Gezairlian Grib, who passed away in March 2018. Among the performers for the special occasion will be Arthur Haas, a distinguished harpsichordist who was Grib’s professor when she studied for her masters degree at SUNY Stony Brook.

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Mineola’s Rustemi named E.W. library news National Merit finalist The Mineola Union Free School District announced Mineola High School senior Neilah Rustemi who has been named a finalist in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Competition. Neilah is one of 15,000 students nationwide, representing less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors who qualify as a finalist in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT/Na-

tional Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for one of the 2,500 National Merit Scholarships worth $2,500 each that will be awarded in the spring. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Winners are expected to be announced in March.

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Mineola High School senior Neilah Rustemi has been named a finalist in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

Mineola’s Nagler honored Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola School District, is being lauded as one of the most devoted supporters of public education on Long Island. Nagler is among 13 honorees to receive the 2019 Nassau BOCES Education Partner award, bestowed annually on those individuals and organizations whose impact on public education in Nassau County can be measured in tangible ways. A strategic education partner with school districts since 1967, Nassau BOCES created the awards program to recognize those who share its mission of ensuring a successful, challenging, caring and safe environment that enables students of all ages and abilities to achieve their maximum potential. These outstanding individuals and organizations have made strides in accomplishing key educational goals embraced by Nassau BOCES, such as ensuring student success." Nagler will be honored at the awards gala held in April by the Nassau BOCES Educational Foundation. The Foundation is an independent non-profit organization that raises funds for innovative educational programs that fall outside of the agency’s budget." Over the course of his 10year tenure as superintendent, Nagler’s innovative leadership has markedly improved instruction and learning throughout the Mineola UFSD, and helped the district to achieve national recognition for academic suc-

cess. The American Association of School Administrators (also known as the School Superintendents Association) ranked Mineola among of the Top 25 Most Innovative School Districts in the Country. Leading-edge technology company Apple has recognized each of the district’s five schools as a Distinguished School. Nagler’s out-of-the-box thinking has led the district’s innovative use of technology in the classroom. He implemented the 1:1 iPad initiative, giving every student access to the electronic tablets to supplement learning. He spearheaded the development of a number of technological advancements throughout the district, including digital student portfolios, interactive video lessons and state-of-the-art fabrication labs, complete with 3-D printers and plasma cutters. Through the Kindergarten Badge Book initiative, Nagler helped to introduce a creative approach to learning at the earliest possible stage. He organized a committee of teachers and administrators to develop

a grading framework for kindergarten students that better promotes learning. The result was the Badge Book, which replaces traditional grades with badges that recognize and celebrate students’ mastery of new skills and concepts across the standards-based curriculum. Each student earns badges based on individual strengths and skills. The Badge Book provides parents with detailed descriptions of each skill their child has mastered, the criteria used to earn the badge, and the resources and activities they can use to help their child practice at home. " Nagler represents the Mineola UFSD on the national stage as well, through organizations such as the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, which focuses on improving learning opportunities through technology and research. He has also shared his inventive leadership style through a TEDTalk for the internationally renowned Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference, which posts its “talks” online under the slogan “ideas worth spreading.” As President of the Nassau County School Superintendents Association, Dr. Nagler helps districts throughout the county to succeed." " “Dr. Michael Nagler is a visionary leader who believes in giving students choices in their learning,” wrote his award nominator. “He is a tech-savvy, creative thinker who always puts the students first when making decisions.”

THE MOVIE “GREEN BOOK” Tuesday, March 5 at 1 p.m. INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION Tuesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. Mindfulness is the practice of being fully present and aware of what is happening right now, allowing for whatever comes up without judgment or resistance. If you have ever thought about trying the practice of mindfulness and meditation… here is your chance. Listen to expert Jo Futerman discuss both practices and how to incorporate them into the day. The discussion will finish with a short meditation and Q&A. Adults only. AFTERNOON BOOK GROUP Tuesday, March 12 at 1:30 p.m. “Alternate Side” by Anna Quindlen New members are welcome. EVENING BOOK CLUB Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. “Loving Eleanor” by Susan Wittig Albert New members are welcome. TWEEN CANVAS ART Thursday, March 14 at 4 p.m.

Tweens between the ages of 10 to 12 can visit the library and paint an owl canvas. The event is hosted by the Little Art Studio. $15. Participants must register and pay in the library. EAST WILLISTON IRISH NIGHT Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. Wear green and come out to enjoy treats, music and Irish step dancing performed by East Williston’s own talented young girls and learn how to make Irish soda bread. Adults only: $5.00. Register and pay in the library. For Irish soda bread, bring one of the following: a cast iron skillet, deep dish pie plate, and two small skillets or muﬃn cups to bring home and cook MEET AND GREET THE CANDIDATES FOR THE VILLAGE OF EAST WILLISTON BOARD! Thursday, March 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Candidates for both mayor and trustee positions will be present to speak to residents. Vote on March 19 at the Village Hall from 12 to 9 p.m.

W.P. library news New Titles Added! “Liar Liar” by James Patterson “Fulfillment” by Barbara Delinsky “The Half-Life of Everything” by Deborah Gang “The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel” by Pam Jenoﬀ “Judgment: A Novel” by Joseph Finder “The Hope Fault” by Tracy Farr “The Weight of a Piano: A Novel” by Chris Cander Adult Programs Knitting Circle: Thursdays, March 7 and 21; April 4 and 18, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Meet and Greet the Candidates for The Village of East Williston Board: Thursday, March 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Candidates for both mayor and trustee positions will be present to speak to residents"Vote on March 19 at the Village Hall from 12 to 9 p.m. AARP Safe Driver Course: Thursday, March 28, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in the Assembly

Room of Village Hall. $20 for AARP members; $25 for nonmembers (check only, payable to AARP). Non-Williston Park residents may register beginning Feb. 26. CPR & AED Workshop: Thursday, March 28, 6:30 p.m., in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. This two-hour workshop will teach proper CPR methods for children and adults. Certification is optional for $20. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Children’s Programs Dr. Seuss Rocks: Saturday, March 2, 11 a.m., in the Library for children of all ages. Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Tiny Tykes: Wednesdays, March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children 1-1/2 to 5 years old. There is a $45 fee due at time of registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Story Time: Thursdays, March 7 and 14, 11 a.m., in the library for children ages 1-3. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

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Shelter did not pay a living wage: audit Continued from Page 24 ADD/ADHD also failed to provide the appropriate tax forms to represent employees’ discounted rentals from the housing agency, which were part of some employee’s overall compensation package, the audit found. The employer issued 1099s, which Cook explained in his response represented the below market rents paid by the employees to ADD/ADHD. Cook said he merely “gave the employees the 1099s and they could file the income if they wish and his plan was not to have them pay more taxes.” The comptroller said the rental assistance should have been included in the employees’ W-2 form reporting income. The audit said the comptroller’s director of investigations interviewed one of the employees issued the 1099 and she said that “she lives in a house owned by the individual who is the executive director, pays rent to the individual personally, and does not believe the rent to be discounted below market rate.” The employee said she thought the income listed on the 1099 was

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1st-hand look of growing opioid crisis Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health system, published a firsthand, in-depth look at the eﬀects of the opioid epidemic, which continues to rage in the communities served by Northwell in the metropolitan area. Entitled “The Rage of Understanding: An Opioid Opera of Tragedy and Hope,” the piece was published in The Well, Northwell’s health and wellness website. It features personal accounts of addiction, including the stories of Jon Allen, a recovering heroin user from Long Island, family members of other opioid victims who passed away from the disease, and enlightening statistics and stories from addiction specialists battling the epidemic on the front lines. The article is accompanied by a short video that follows" Allen as he discusses the struggles of addiction and how he overcame it. “It is important to have open dialogue about opioids and substance use so we as a health system can better address this epidemic,” said Dr. Sandeep Kapoor," Northwell’s director of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to

Treatment (SBIRT) program. “At Northwell Health, we launched multiple initiatives among providers, nurses and staﬀ to heighten awareness and to support judicious prescribing of opioids, while also educating students at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on techniques to address substance use with patients, fostering an environment of trust and partnership to encourage transparent discussions about their substance use and potential consequences. We are here to support and navigate pathways to treatment and care.” “This public health crisis requires continued insightful examination of drivers and solutions. Families must be informed about what needs to be done to slow the spread of opioids,” said Dr. Jay Enden, chair of Northwell’s Opioid Management Steering Committee. “If one family is educated and one life is saved through open and honest accounts of the epidemic, we have done a public service.” The story, months in the making, includes not only first-hand accounts, but also statistics and data on both the local

and national levels to formulate a comprehensive picture. The data includes a breakdown of use by types of opioids, as well as numbers on the skyrocketing death toll. “We feel it is our obligation to share first-hand accounts of victims and providers grappling with the opioid epidemic,” said Gina Czark, Northwell Health’s vice president of content. “This is a brutally honest and introspective look at the crisis. In the piece, we sought to expose every angle possible, from patients to experts, to help the public better understand how we got here, how bad the problem has become, and what options exist to combat this often fatal addiction.” Some statistics included in the story include: The number of opioid deaths in 2017 is expected to reach 72,000 compared to 62,000 in 2016. One-third of Americans over age 12 (91.8 million) used prescription opioids in 2016. Of those, about 11.5 million didn’t use them the way they were in-

tended. Today, it’s estimated that more than three million people abuse painkillers outright. The number of overdose deaths from traditional prescription opiates is dropping, replaced by an estimated 30,000 deaths related to the synthetic drug fentanyl. In 2017, it is estimated that 9,000 more people died from synthetics than in 2016. “Stigma is an enormous barrier to treatment, and Northwell’s eﬀorts to train medical professionals and students about addiction are critical in terms of changing attitudes toward patients with the disease,” said Fred Muench, president of the New York-based nonprofit Center on Addiction. “Northwell’s innovative practices are an important step toward changing the way our country addresses addiction. They will ultimately save lives and help keep families together.” To read the full story, click here. To view The Well website, click here.

Screenings added Outpatient joint replacement of civil rights doc Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town board have announced two upcoming screenings of the Townproduced historic documentary, “Defining Moments: The Civil Rights Movement in North Hempstead.” The first will take place on Monday, March 11, 7 p.m., at the Port Washington Library, 1 Library Drive in Port Washington. On Sunday, March 31 at 1 p.m., the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, located at 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, will show the film. The film had its successful premiere in January at the Bow Tie Theater in Manhasset. The 40-minute film is directed by NHTV Studio Director and LIXI Studios President Alan Ginsberg and was funded by a grant from the National Park Service. The documentary highlights the struggle and stories related to the African-American struggle for equality in the 20th century during the Civil Rights Movement in North Hempstead. North Hempstead was

at the epicenter of major triumphs of human rights as well as inequalities during this tumultuous time. “This powerful film tells the many stories of courage, confrontation, triumph, and sorrow throughout the Civil Rights Movement that happened right here in North Hempstead,” said Bosworth. “We are so grateful for the grant from the National Park Service that enabled us to tell the story about this important time in history.” The documentary represents nearly two years of research, interviews, filming and editing. In addition to the documentary, individual oral histories of more than a dozen North Hempstead residents who had a role in the Civil Rights Movement will be uploaded to mynhtv.com and archived on the Town’s YouTube page. The screenings are free and open to the public. For more information call 311 or 516-869-6311 outside of the Town of North Hempstead.

Northwell Health is oﬀering total hip replacement surgery at its Schwartz Ambulatory Center, part of North Shore University Hospital. The procedure is performed in an outpatient surgical setting and does not require an overnight hospital stay. Nearly 300,000 people undergo total hip replacement surgery in the United States each year when hip pain cannot be relieved by other treatments. Until recently, most patients needed to have this complex procedure in a hospital. National trends in orthopedic surgery continue to shift to ambulatory facilities. In line with this innovation, Schwartz Ambulatory Center offers patients a safe, highly advanced surgery and optimal pain management before and after the procedure. Short stay patients start their recovery at home and outpatient physical therapy is coordinated by Northwell. “In order to have the best outcomes for same-day total joint replacement surgery, candidates for the procedure must be carefully selected,” said Dr. Nick Sgaglione, chair of orthopedic surgery at Northwell Health. “Patients are evaluated for several possible risk factors — associated medical issues, generalized health and fitness and how robust support is at home.” For same day hip replacement surgery, the direct anterior

approach is used. This refers to the surgery being done from in front of the hip, which is a less invasive surgical technique and requires less muscle tissue dissection. The anterior approach puts patients at less risk for dislocation and promotes faster recovery than conventional hip replacement surgery. Building on the proven outcomes in the Orthopedic Department at North Shore Hospital and from the health system’s orthopedic team, Northwell has established a program to provide the safest and most eﬀective same day total joint replacement surgery. Clinicians provide extensive preoperative education, rapid recovery protocols and close communication with the multidisciplinary team caring for the patient. The first total hip replacement was done at Schwartz Ambulatory Center on Feb. 11, and this follows several total shoulder replacement

surgeries which began in 2018. Dr. Sgaglione said increased advances in pharmaceuticals also play a key role in the surgical process and recovery. “We are better able to optimally treat pain with select anesthetic blocks,” he said. “After surgery, we have more effective alternatives to opioids for pain management and less side eﬀects. Northwell is committed to providing the highest quality orthopedic surgery to our patients, while oﬀering patients the comfort and familiarity of being home with family to recover.” Northwell has plans to expand same day total joint replacement surgery, including hip, shoulder and knee, to other ambulatory surgery centers in its network. For more information about the Same Day Joint Program at the Schwartz Ambulatory Center, call 516-562-4865 or go to www.northwell.edu/orthopaedicinstitute.

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Local students making college news Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Jeevan Kamboj of Roslyn and#Hai-Tri Paul Pham of Roslyn Heights were#named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester. New York Institute of Technology Joseph Sassoon of Great Neck was awarded an Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship to travel to Minneapolis in March. Sassoon will pursue a five-day experience to test a revolutionary technology potentially useful in treating patients with diabetes. Sassoon is working on a M.S. in bioengineering. LIM College Lauren Esposito,# Tiﬀany Iannucci and# Kanae Sawaguchi of Port Washington# were named to the President’s List for the fall 2018 semester. To be placed on the President’s List, students must earn a grade point

average between 3.8 and 4.0. Bryant University Emilio Trujillo of New Hyde Park was named to the Deans’ List for the fall 2018 semester. Rochester Institute of Technology The following students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester:#Samuel Kang,#Matthew Palermo and#Matthew Oelbaum;#Margaret Wang,#KeCheng Yu and# Aidan Lee of Great Neck;# Alessandro Fiorella,# Kyle Cruz,# Chris DeMarco,# Patrick Hayes and# Julian Vargas of New Hyde Park;# Sean Wong of Williston Park;# Danny Murray of Mineola and# John Murray of Mineola;#Zach Harwood and#Julia Epprecht of Roslyn; and#Jonathan Jang and#Christine Casazza of Manhasset. Georgia Institute of Technology Jonathan Chen of Albertson and#Karan Lakhani of

New Hyde Park#earned a B.S. in computer science.#Shimin Zhang of New Hyde Park earned an M.S. in computer science. Tufts University The following students were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2018 semester:# Emilia Charno,# Mark Gonzalez,#Sarah Gottesman,#Madeline Katz and#Alexander Zsikla of Port Washington;#Meital Agagi,#Craig Cagner,# Nayoung Kim,# Erica Levy and# Angelina Ng of Great Neck;# Julian Balkcom,# Sonam Delhiwala and#Ismenia Ginebra of New Hyde Park;#Rachel Ginsberg,#Ilana Gitlin,#Anisha Jain,#Brooke Juhel,#Samantha Leong,# Michelle Roitgarts and# Andrew Schloss of Roslyn; and# Andrew Batteria,# Anthony BenjaAthon,# John Cyprus,# Kenar Haratunian,# Alex Maleno,#Lucinda Pavlovich,#Adam Pidedjian,#Nadia Sbuttoni and#George Triantafillou of Manhasset.

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Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Supervisor Judi Bosworth and other Town officials attended North Hempstead’s 10th annual Marriage Recommitment Ceremony, held at Harbor Links Clubhouse in Port Washington on Feb. 14. The ceremony, which was officiated by Wink, offered married couples the opportunity to reaffirm their vows to each other on Valentine’s Day. Also on hand at the ceremony were council members Viviana Russell, Veronica Lurvey, Peter Zuckerman, Lee Seeman, Dina De Giorgio and Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman. “Love is in the air today. Thank you for joining us today to renew your marriage vows,” said Bosworth. “We are all celebrating the power of love

and how love can conquer all.” “It is my pleasure to oﬃciate this ceremony and celebrate Valentine’s Day with these inspiring couples who have been committed to each other for many years,” said Wink. Over 40 couples renewed their vows at this year’s ceremony, many of them after being married for over 50 years. This year’s longest married couple was Rose and Charlie Cipolla and Bart and Marie Cosolito. Both couples have been married for 65 years. The residents who attended the event enjoyed a champagne toast and lunch after the ceremony. Also in attendance was county legislator Ellen Birnbaum.

Healing Headbands Project, Inc., a New York non-profit organization that combines the healing power of laughter and art using their custom Laugh Create Heal® workshops, will be holding its second ArtHeals fundraiser on May 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tilles Center at Long Island University. Funds raised will be used to expand the program into more children’s hospitals, community organizations and schools throughout the country.

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ou are my better mirror, streaming beauty into me. What truly sustains, like refreshing rain on a flowerbed, or an exchange of breath that becomes ecstasy. Look, we exist, because love takes over completely. What more abundance for proof? Nothing else! How we become entangled in the cosmos from simple beginnings — by being young and naive,

feverish and dreaming: at least we dared! And so we grow into our own constellation — a human space that allays the surging depths which churn ignorance and restless terror, but we originate beauty. Like a bud cradled inside us that blooms with the seasons into memory. Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

s grand knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911, I had the proud honor and pleasure to present three young boys Eagle Scout certificates from the Knights of Columbus. The Eagle Scout Court of Honor took place at St. Anastasia Parish in Douglaston on Feb. 23. The boys, or shall I call them now young men, have achieved the highest honor in the Boy Scouts, which is Eagle Scout. The names of these young men are as followers: Paul Russell, Vito Vaccaro and Ryan Cahn of troop #153. These young men are dedicated to

God, country and community and do many works of charity. I know for a fact because they help helped my council and myself and co-chairman Giuseppe Petruso run two blood drives a year where I told them at the event that their help was immeasurable in saving lives. I, myself, was a Boy Scout over 50 years ago and had found it quite rewarding. My good friend Harry Weymer and I were both members of scout troop #114 in Queens Village in the ’50s and ’60s. We had numerous camping trips and collected funds for toys and food for the needy. Harry had brain cancer

and has passed away last year, but I still remember the times we had in the Boy Scouts and how it instilled in us what was important for us like compassion and respect for others and made us responsible adults. I think scouting is a great organization to belong to for a young boy, for it teaches good morals, charity to others and good citizenship. So please, parents everywhere, please consider enrolling your child into the Boy Scouts and you would be glad that you did.

their sanctuary city/state policy? The blood of every American citizen killed by these illegal criminal immigrants is on the heads of these jerks. She said that “supposedly” 10 to 20 million people are here Illegally. Supposedly? Really? Which number does she believes is true and how did she come to this conclusion? !Eight people… two thousand… two million? I’d like to know how many in her universe know the true number. She implied that I said they are more likely to become murderers. ! I never said that. ! She did. That is what is “poppycock.”! I like the way she tried to divert attention away from illegal criminal immigrants and mention “easy access to guns in this country.” !

She mentioned the latest in Illinois. ! I believe she is referring to the slaughter of young blacks killing other blacks involved in the drug trade as well as bystanders. What are her thoughts on how to control gun violence? ! Obama’s main man, the mayor — not running again for this office — could not come up with a plan. ! Maybe Scherer could advise him since he is a Democrat total failure. Finally, she does not want my pity. ! As a compassionate conservative who lives in a universe of truth and logic, I will continue to try to convince her that my universe is better than hers.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

Accomplishments of ‘old white men’ Trump backers, opponents in parallel universes

egarding Dr. Sobel’s letter where he stated “the GOP is the party of old white men,” he could have added in their time these old white men of the GOP made world history as follows: 1865 Abolish Slavery: Dems: No; Rep: Yes; Passed, 13th Amendment

1866 Reconstruct the South: Dems: No; Rep: Yes; Passed 1867 Blacks Gain Citizenship: Dems: No; Rep: Yes; Passed, 14th Amendment 1868 Blacks Can Vote: Dems: No; Rep: Yes; Passed, 15th Amendment Clara Rucker Floral Park

Another double standard in politics

find it quite ironic, as well as repulsive, that state Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso would seek out recognition for his family’s role in “saving a Jewish family from the Nazi regime…” when he himself supported the recent New York Reproductive Health Act that further promotes the killing of innocent unborn babies. Did he seek recognition from the Pope for that as well?

Such a blatant example of a double standard and a self-promoting ploy for political gain. It’s too bad he did not follow in his father’s footsteps when he referred to his father’s actions by saying, “He did the right thing when the rest of the world went crazy.” This is hypocrisy at its finest. Marie Nuzzi Albertson

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have to thank Mary Ellen Scherer for her rebuttal letter. It made my day. It confirmed what many Americans believe. That there exists in the minds of many Americans that two universes exist looking at the same data and coming to different conclusions. I stated that it is sad that some American citizens kill other American citizens. Each has a right to live on American soil. ! However, American citizens, killed by illegal criminal immigrants, would still be alive if these killers were not allowed to even be in the U.S. Must we not thank Mayor Comrade DiBlowhard, Gov. Incompetent Cuomo, Gov. Gruesome of California who allow all illegal immigrants to live in America because of

John Messina East Williston

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Mayor, you’re ignoring what residents want

n open letter to Mayor Bral: A recent New York Times article was written expressly about deserted storefronts in desirable London communities. It was quite lengthy and informative. You might try to research it. It was written within the last four to five months.! Online shopping isn’t just hurting Great Neck. But something you may wish to think about, why isn’t our Orthodox community actively supporting the Judaica shop in our community?! The poor man sits there most of the time doing nothing. Yet, on the flip side, Cedarhurst supports an exquisite, elaborate Judaica store four or five times the size plus, I’m certain, a second Judaica shop, as well. I am of the belief the mayor and board are asking the wrong questions. Why aren’t our Great Neck residents being educated in the importance of paying a bit more to support local shops and, thereby, keep them in busi-

ness?! The residents of Cedarhurst get this concept and there are a scant number of vacant stores there with a flourishing, enviable retail community. Think about it. You don’t get to complain (about empty shops) if you don’t shop local.! You can’t have it both ways. Why isn’t there a fancy women’s hat shop to wear on Shabbos? !Why isn’t there a wig shop? Certain shopping habits in our particular village defy all logic and reason. It seems to me worth exploring with real women and real residents.! Why does Jildor Shoes flourish in Cedarhurst and yet their sister shop closed here, fairly recently? Like I said, you are asking the wrong questions. Consider what advertising agencies do as a service for their clients before they invest large sums of money: invest in focus groups, run by trained professionals, who understand how to conduct focus groups; and

get public opinion — real public opinion from a well-rounded, diverse demographic of taxpaying, voting citizens. To do anything less will just bring you right back to where you started.! In a roomful of angry, discontented, distrusting residents.! It is regrettable but true, the VHB Plans were so insulting to the intellect and life experience of most every resident (young and old) it makes it impossible to trust either the mayor, board or the village attorney going forward. ! If you don’t believe me, consider the similar remarks issued by Barbara Berkowitz, president of the Board of Education and Mayor Susan Lopatkin, who spoke on behalf of her board. ! They are telling you the VHB Plans are disrespectful and outrageous.! Will you listen? !If you are truly interested in the best interests of the community, please put down your ego and hear what is being said to you. Lastly, our residential community has become an eyesore

from the subdivisions you leniently and generously allowed. ! And yet, you tell us today there are more pending? Our quality of life has disintegrated from the constant sound of banging and thrashing all day. Will someone please shut down that constant high-pitched mechanical sound day in and day out? Some residents work from home. Some are retired.! Some are young mothers.! How can we trust you (our elected leaders) to make the right decision after we watched you destroy our local streets? For many of us, our homes are the single most important investment we own.! And yet we watched you fail to punish unlawful developers at 66 Essex Road. Not only did you fail to punish them, they appear to be rewarded by the fast-neck pace allowing them to build faster than any other area home being built.! We are not blind. We have our eyes wide

open and we don’t like what we see.! !All signs point to the fact that the outsiders — not the insiders (the tax-paying residents) — are your main focus.! Even our neighbors in other Great Neck villages can see it.! Over and over, ! your actions demonstrate that the majority of diverse residents don’t matter to you when you weigh in on important community decisions.! How can you regain the public’s trust?! That’s another question worth asking. And finally, please do not believe for one moment that your transparency (as leaders) was responsible for the SRO crowd in attendance two meeting dates in a row.! Instead, it had everything to do with the countless hours a few passionate, concerned residents devoted to this mission of transparency.! Mission accomplished. Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

Questions pile up on L line tunnel design

t has been six weeks since the recent Emergency Metropolitan Transportation Authority board meeting called by Gov. Cuomo.! It ended up being window dressing for his proposed new New York City Transit East River Canarsie subway L line tunnel design.! At the end of the day, there were more questions than answers.! It is not a good example of how the MTA plans on spending several hundred million dollars in discretionary Federal Transit Administration Super Storm Sandy Relief and Resiliency funding. Over six years after Super Storm Sandy, why was this now declared an emergency?! MTA headquarters, board members, NYC Transit, and NYC Department of Transportation managers and engineers still need more time to review and comment on this “new design” along with budget, environmental and schedule impacts and useful life for tunnel repairs.! The same holds true for both the MTA and Federal Transit Administration independent en-

gineering oversight consulting firms.! It made no sense for the MTA to reassign management of this project from NYC Transit to the MTA Office of Capital Construction. NYC Transit has already successfully managed several Super Storm Sandy federally funded tunnel projects. For the most part, they were completed on time, within budget, accompanied by few design or change orders.! Contrast that with MTA’s Office of Capital Construction’s track record.! East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal, if all goes well with the most recent recovery schedule, will be completed ten years late and $8 billion more than the original $3.5 billion budget.! Check out the original 2006 MTA/FTA Full Funding grant agreement and see for yourself.! Second Avenue Subway Phase One and Hudson Yards No. 7 subway extension both suffered from delays, budget, scope and change order issues. MTA Capital Construction

currently has their hands full trying to complete East Side Access by the most recent recovery schedule of December 2022 and begin Second Avenue Subway Phase 2.!! Why should NYC Transit hire yet another engineering consulting firm to perform an independent review of Cuomo’s proposed redesign?! This just duplicates the work of the MTA’s existing Capital Program Oversight Committee independent engineering firm.! The same holds true for the FTA’s existing independent engineering consultant, who is usually assigned to monitor any MTA or NYC Transit federally funded capital improvement project over $100 million.! In these times of multibillion dollar MTA funding shortfalls, paying for another engineering consulting firm is a waste of scarce financial resources. Several hundred million was previously provided under a Federal Transit Administration Super Storm Sandy Recovery and Resiliency grant in 2016.!

Based upon the board presentation, questions, answers and discussions, the MTA will probably have to update FTA’s previously approved project Environmental Impact Statement.! It is clear that the scope of work, project schedule, completion date, budget and useful life of investments will be different from the original grant commitments.! FTA employees have been back at work for several weeks after being furloughed. What has been the progress to date in the MTA informing the FTA of these changes?! The MTA is legally required as part of the master grant agreement with FTA to provide monthly financial and milestone progress reports.! This includes any changes to the scope of work and contract change orders over $100,000.! This is accomplished under the FTA Transit Award Management System! known as TRAMS.! ! MTA and NYCDOT provide these reports on many other active capital projects and programs worth

over $12 billion.! Has the MTA met with FTA and! its own independent engineering oversight consulting firm to!provide!a presentation on the new “design” changes? As these developments continue to unfold, I would not be surprised when the MTA and FTA respective Office of Inspector General, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli begin to take an interest.! Sooner or later they will initiate their own respective review to see if there is any waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer dollars. Their respective audits and reports will make interesting reading.! As they say in Brooklyn, the development of this project is beginning to sound fugazy. Larry Penner (Larry Penner is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked!31 years for the U.S. Department!of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Oﬃce.)!

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Ambulance’s response may have cost a life

n Oct. 21, my wife Neila died under circumstances which no one living in this county or town should have to endure. At 4:37 a.m. on that day, I placed a call to 911 as I have done several times in the past for the same reason." My wife was, once again, having great diﬃculty breathing." She had been long ago diagnosed with flash pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure." Preceded by two oﬃcers, an ambulance would always arrive

in a timely manner, volunteer personnel would check her vitals, attach a face mask to administer oxygen and then rush her to the hospital where she would be treated to get her breathing back to normal and, after being admitted, would spend a period of time after which she would return home. This particular day was disturbingly diﬀerent. " As usual, two oﬃcers arrived quickly, only six minutes after my call. We waited together for the arrival of the ambulance. I called again. It was on its way.

However, I was told that no Port Washington ambulance was available and a Nassau County unit was dispatched instead. My worry increased. This had never happened before and my wife’s breathing grew more shallow as the three of us waited for help. It gets worse." The ambulance had a driver and no other personnel. The driver, who identified herself as an EMT, helped the two oﬃcers lift my wife from the floor of the entrance hall in our apartment and managed to get her into the back of the ambulance."

At this point, I have no idea if she was still breathing. I followed the ambulance to the hospital, which I always did in these circumstances. When I entered the ER, an attendant was administering CPR." She was pronounced dead at 6:07 a.m. I write this letter not to evoke sympathy. Everyone experiences loss. I write because the system somehow failed. Waiting 48 minutes for help is not only unacceptable"it can be tragic, as it was in this case." It should also be noted that my letter of Nov. 20 to the

Nassau County supervisor has gone unanswered." Mayor Bob Weitzner of Port Washington North is doing his best to make sure that changes are made to ensure that this never happens again to any resident of Port Washington or Nassau County." I will pursue this until that happens and hope the voices of our residents will make change a reality.

Martin Farber Port Washington!

Don’t buy a pet dog bred from puppy mills

wanted to thank the animal advocates who protested outside of Pups4Love recently. They are 100 percent right in saying that puppies that are sold in pet stores come from puppy mills, the notorious breeding facilities that treat dogs horribly. According to the Humane Society of the United States, the dogs who are forced to breed in puppy mills are packed into small, unsanitary wire cages. They receive no companionship or love. They’re often underfed, and they get little if any basic veterinary care. Many have never laid a paw on the ground. About eight years ago, I

worked for a no-kill animal shelter that routinely brought back dogs and puppies rescued from puppy mills from all around the country, and even from right here on Long Island. I saw firsthand the heartbreaking condition these dogs were in. They were horribly matted, infested with ticks and fleas and open sores; their paws were often raw and bloodied from standing on wire cages; they were covered in feces and urine, and some had nails so long they were piercing the dogs’ paw pads. Moreover, they were absolutely petrified. Many cowered and shook when a person leaned to-

ward them to give them aﬀection. These dogs have had no experience with loving, human touch. For anyone who loves dogs, you know how crucial it is for these precious animals to bond with their humans and with other animals. I will never forget the sad and frightened looks on the faces of these breeding dogs. I only wish that anyone who heads to a pet store to buy a puppy had to see what I saw. In addition, because of the conditions, the puppies are born into, many of these pups carry diseases and parasites. They may appear healthy and happy, only to

fall ill within days or weeks of being purchased. At the shelter, we heard story after story of people who had bought puppies who died well before their time, often after their purchasers spent thousands of dollars trying to save them. For those who are determined to buy a purebred puppy, you must visit the breeder in person. See for yourself that the breeding dogs are healthy and kept in humane, loving homes. USDA regulations mean nothing, nor does so-called A.K.C. certification. You must see for yourself. People who care for and love the dogs they breed never sell

them to puppy stores. They want to meet the people who are buying their pups because they don’t want them to end up in abusive situations. They will want to interview you to make sure you will provide these pups with a loving home. Bottom line: For true animal lovers, the only option is to adopt a puppy or dog from a shelter or rescue group. These dogs will be grateful to you for the rest of their lives, and you will be so thankful that you adopted them. Save lives. Adopt, don’t shop. Jenna Kern-Rugile Roslyn Heights

Nassau County’s forgotten bid for Amazon

here has been some good commentary on the Amazon withdrawal on these pages, but forgotten in this whole drama is Nassau County’s own bid, which is eye-popping in itself. First, let me say it was cynical and manipulative of Mr. Bezos to dangle this “prize” in front of a national audience. Municipalities, some with few resources to spare and no hope of winning, spent quite a bit on promotion and grandiose promises that I doubt could be fulfilled by many of them. It was a sad spectacle and a reflection of the dystopian economics of our country. A race to the bottom.The Mangano Administration oﬀered: $215 million in sales and use tax exemptions, meaning they were exempt from charging or paying sales taxes up to this limit. Exemption from mortgage recording taxes: $26.25 million. Remember how they wanted to

raise YOURS. Lastly, a Property Tax exemption of a whopping $2 billion. The sheer scale of this exemption is remarkable. Remember Nassau County’s economy generates $84 billion. New York City’s GDP is $1.55 trillion and exceeds the economic output of 46 states. Now compare the city’s $3 billion in exemptions to Nassau’s oﬀer. How the County was supposed to be made whole from this is anyone’s guess. What also wasn’t considered was the eﬀect it would have in the highly remote chance it won the bid. Technology hubs generate a lot of jobs and revenue. They also generate a lot of problems for municipalities who have to deal with the penalties of success. As an example, San Francisco, one of America’s most beautiful cities, only allowed the construction of one dwelling for

every four jobs created thanks to strict zoning laws imposed by existing residents. The city not only has an intractable housing crisis that is now turning people away, but the sidewalks seem to have something left on them besides hearts if you get my drift. The quality of life has suffered. Seattle, Amazon’s home town, has massive housing problems. The city council voted to impose a $275 per employee annual fee for every large employer in the city, the funds used to reduce homelessness and build affordable housing. The cost to Amazon would have been less than the difference of one hour’s trading of the stock, well under $50 million. Mr. Bezos threatened the City by stating he wouldn’t build any more in Seattle if the tax went through. The city council caved immediately. When it comes to civic

responsibility, Mr. Bezos makes the Walton family look like St. Francis of Assisi. That’s one reason I didn’t accept Gov. Cuomo’s and Mayor DeBlasio’s assurances that “things could be worked out” once the mass displacement of existing residents in Long Island City commenced. If the experiences of these other cities are any guide, this deal could have bought the city a lot of misery. One could only imagine the outcry from Nassau residents if Amazon located here. First, since our housing template is stuck in 1965, there would be a problem accommodating all of these new workers. And this workforce is not at all like the one that built the county. The day of the “30-year man” ended a long time ago, and this workforce is highly mobile, and wants the kind of amenities only a densely populated urban en-

vironment can provide. They’re not going to buy four-bedroom homes and they’re not into tending lawns. And in a county where a knife fight can break out over the expansion of a school parking lot, I don’t think we would have done a good job accommodating them. If there’s one word to describe Nassau County, it’s “stasis.” But throughout all this, no one was thinking of the outcomes. All they could focus on was the “victory” of winning the bright shiny object. New York’s job market and economy is already on fire. While I wouldn’t have minded if Amazon located here, I wouldn’t mourn their loss. Amazon needs New York more than New York needs Amazon. Donald Davret Roslyn

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A better life for all by any name “I’m a Danish schoolteacher making about $61,000 a year. We get free education (and) you don’t have to pay for going to a doctor (or) the hospital. We can aﬀord to have our own house, a car, we get six weeks’ vacation and women get one-year maternity leave (when they have) a baby…” Doesn’t this sound like the American Dream? Yes, but we in the United States have not yet achieved it. I submit that what is pejoratively called “the welfare state” is considered anathema by most of us. We have been conditioned to believe that socialism is evil. I have long argued that socialists are concerned with basic needs such as health, education, food, shelter and dignity. While even the least compassionate conservative will not oppose good health etc., they do make the case that we cannot aﬀord such grandiose goals. Brian Riedl writing in the National Review: A 70 percent tax bracket (recommended by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

would raise very little (if any) revenue… He goes on to estimate “a green energy initiative costing $7 to 10 trillion over the decade… $42 trillion (which includes) single-payer healthcare… student loan forgiveness (1.4 trillion), free public college (800 billion), infrastructure ($1 trillion )… and Social Security expansion ($188 billion). These costs must scare even the most rabid socialist. But let’s take a closer look. These are totals for the next 10 years. Why not use figures for one year? And why not prioritize? What if we achieved only two or three of these, for example, Medicare for all and infrastructure improvements? Couldn’t we aﬀord a scaled down version of this Utopian dream? On Feb. 7, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, along with Sen. Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, introduced a plan called the “Green New Deal.” It was a bold proposal which strives to achieve on two

fronts. First, it seeks to improve the environment by developing 100 percent renewable, zeroemission energy sources (eat your heart out Koch Brothers), including electric cars and highspeed rail systems.” This is designed to get at climate change problems and reduce the social cost of carbon usage. The second prong is the “New Deal” portion which focuses on universal healthcare, fair minimum wages and regulating monopolies. Another criticism of the resolution is that there are not many details in the plan, but keep in mind that it was not meant to be detailed — it is, rather, a blueprint for the future designed to start a conversation about what our society might look like. Who supports this resolution? Presidential hopefuls like Senators Cory Booker, Kristin Gillebrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and, of course, Bernie Sanders. #Ocasio-Cortez also has support from economists James Galbraith and Paul

Krugman, as well as environmental organizations like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace. If this proposal is not to your liking, Warren has a diﬀerent plan. She proposes that instead of focusing on taxes we look at wealth. It turns out that the richest 0.1 percent of Americans (or about 75,000 families) have nearly the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90 percent of American families combined. This wealth can be found in art collections, real estate and yachts. I recall when John McCain was running for president, his family owned eight homes. I remember thinking that this must have posed a problem for him, namely, “where should I sleep tonight?” Here’s another way of looking at the problem of accumulated wealth. An heir with $500,000,000 in assets can pay the same amount in taxes as a public school teacher. So why not look at “wealth?” Warren’s plan goes by

another name — “the ultramillionaire tax.” In case you’re wondering how such a convenient tax-dodge come about, it should be obvious that the rich and the powerful control Washington and can elect legislators who will do their bidding. This is my final letter dealing with socialism in America. The only question which remains is “what lessons can we learn from all this?” My conclusions are: 1. most Americans will continue to think of socialism as pie in the sky utopianism; 2. the capitalist credo with its Horatio Alger dream of “rags to riches” will prevail; 3. while there are proposals afoot to alter our economic thinking, these will find it diﬃcult to take root in American soil; and 4. while Americans are pragmatists who eschew extremes, I, personally, will always align with “the left” because I prefer being allied with compassion to siding with greed. Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

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America needs a Green New Deal Continued from Page 16 This is Obamacare with all the fallacies and fears (death panels!), on steroids. Instead of explaining and defending the Aﬀordable Care Act, Democrats are doing the same thing again: letting Trump and the Republicans define and caricature a Green New Deal. Here’s a simpler explanation that Democrats should use: First: the United States faces nearly $1 trillion in disaster relief from recent climate catastrophes including this year’s California wildfires ($400 billion), last year’s Hurricane Maria, Michael, Florence and other “1,000-year superstorms” that are coming with astonishing ferocity and frequency; hundreds of lives have been lost; whole communities, like Paradise,

California, destroyed, creating tens of thousands of climate refugees (Puerto Ricans coming to your neighborhood, where they can vote!). Add the cost of the public health impacts from extreme weather, air pollution, contaminated ground and drinking water, food-borne diseases, heat-related illnesses – impacting productivity, medical costs, and premature death. Finally, add in the higher cost for food, water, and housing. Second: the United States faces more than $6 TRILLION just to repair its obsolete infrastructure – roads, bridges, water systems, sewage treatment, electricity grid. Meanwhile, every other country around the world is making technological advances to shift

their economies to clean, renewable energy – even oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia. The US will be stuck in the 19th century with dirty, aging, ineﬃcient systems. American products – cars, machines – will be shunned on the global market (China, the biggest market in the world, moving to require electric vehicles). Why not marry those things: as we make the necessary repairs, transition our communities, our society, our economy, to clean, renewable energy and a sustainable structure? As jobs in coal mining and oil delivery are replaced, retrain and if necessary relocate workers (as Americans have always done, since the first settlers arrived). There already are more jobs in renewable

energy than carbon – 374,000 solar energy workers, compared to 187,000 for coal, gas and oil power generation combined. That is where future prosperity and quality of life lie. But just saying “a guaranteed federal job” will only scare the beejeebies out of those who want nothing better than to shrink government to a size it can be flushed down a toilet. Indeed, the annual expenditure for infrastructure development – $1.5 trillion – matches the amount of money the tax cut shifted into the pockets of the wealthiest individuals and corporations. That money should be clawed back and invested in America’s, the planet’s and humankind’s future sustainability. Though states – like New

York’s own Green New Deal – and localities have taken up much of the responsibility for climate action, the federal government must play a role: the electric grid crosses state boundaries; regulations are needed to level the playing field so that dirty-fuel polluters can’t operate more cheaply than others who do the right thing; the government should oﬀer incentives and tax benefits for research, development, and business start-ups. As it is, Trump’s EPA has virtually shut down enforcement against polluters. As I recall, Noah’s neighbors were equally skeptical and did not get on board; hence they drowned or starved. Think of the Green New Deal as a 21st Century Ark.

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Market compared to 2018, SALT I am glad that you asked that question! Well in Nassau County, comparing February of 2018 through January 2019, we are doing very well, thank you! Selling prices are still going up, but they vary depending on the month and season of the year. Average Sale price in February 2018 for homes in the County was $636,487 and jumped to a high of $720,088 in August of 2018 and then softened somewhat over the next four months, down $78,000 to $642,140 in December of 2018. Then in January 2019, the average sale priced spiked back up to $671,327. Crazy market eh? Well, my professional opinion is, due to the serious lack of snow through January (February too!) and some decent weather, minus the rain; (I calculated with all the rain, we could have had in excess of 11 feet of snow,) one inch of rain= one foot of snow) the weather enabled and brought out more mortgage qualified as well as cash purchasers in full force to buy up existing inventory, in what I call a “feeding frenzy” (I had the most successful winter in 25 years!). So, inventory was reduced by that buying spree, but from December of 2018, the supply is now slowly increasing once again. I think many buyers went south, (snowbirds and snowflakes), allowing the number of homes, as well as homeowner associations, condos and co-ops to increase too. It’s not abnormal for the number of units to increase at this time of the year; however, we ended the year oﬀ with a final and positive bang! Normally, a snowy winter would not have seen as many sales or contracts as we had in the last two months of 2018. Thank goodness for that flurry of sales, great for the sellers and wonderful for the new homeowners too! Stupendous for our local economy too! I applaud Congressmen Suozzi-King’s Bill, HR257, that on Jan. 4 was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, and I quote, from their media release, “it would retroactively reinstate a full deduction for state and local taxes (SALT).

In 2017, a $10,000 cap was put on SALT deductions, that has negatively aﬀected middle-class families, particularly those living in high cost of living areas like Long Island. Reinstating a full SALT deduction that will provide these families with tax relief; not more tax burden.” Now, if only this passes the House, many more of us will be happy and ecstatic, right? Like the 1976 movie, “NetWork” where Peter Finch, as Howard Beale, tells all his viewers, to stick their heads out of their windows, and scream, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” Here is the link to view the rant: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug So get oﬀ your butts and get on the phone right now and call all your congresspeople and senators to repeal the S.A.L.T. tax as well tell both parties to get their acts together and work out all their issues with by partisanship discussions and dialogue and stop acting like little spoiled children! My feeling is that blue states were disproportionately discriminated against, for I wonder what and why? (I

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think we all know why, right?) In a most recent article in “PoltiFact” in partnership with The Buﬀalo News, that really perturbed and disturbed me quite a lot and I quote, “State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a report on the balance of payments between New Yorkers and the federal government in October. DiNapoli, an elected Democrat whose oﬃce reports on state finances, concluded that for every dollar New York sent to the federal government in federal fiscal year 2017, it received just 90 cents in benefits. The average return for all states was $1.19 for every dollar they send to Washington, D.C., DiNapoli said.

DiNapoli’s latest findings are consistent with what he has found in analyses conducted in two prior years. In 2013, the state received 91 cents for every dollar it sent to Washington, and in 2016, it received 84 cents for every dollar it sent. You can read the entire article here: https://www. politifact.com/new-york/ statements/2018/nov/02/ nathan-mcmurray/new-yorkgiver-state-federal-treasury/ This is not “fake news” but the real honest to goodness factual candid and upfront truth! That extra money that is taken out of high-costcost states coﬀers, could be used to repair, roads, bridges, tunnels, and schools and how about our high speed rail sitting dormant in 4 zones in the U.S.! (China and Brazil are soooooo far ahead of us too!) Although inventory of homes in Nassau County will most likely increase and even though prices are still on the rise, but median sold prices only increased 3.83 percent from January 2018 to January 2019 and average sold prices increased only 3.30 percent; so they are softening further, but with the continued upward price increases, demand will

also soften at the same time, due to aﬀordability and required larger down payments; unless more people either win the Mega Lotto or more rich and wealthy parents and relatives pass and leave a boatload of money to their children, the latter being more feasible and the odds are stacked against the former happening to the 99.9 percent of the population! *Home sales and other figures are derived from the Multiple Listing of Long Island statistics February 2018-January 2019 market reports. Philp A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 Great Neck. He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist. Receive regular “free” updates of sold homes in your area and a “free” Comparative Market Analysis” of what your home would sell for in today’s market or search on: WWW. Li-RealEstate.Com He can be reached by email, at:Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com, or by cell: (516) 647-4289.

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Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $640,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 7,331 11,692 42.7 2.8 101,921 42,231

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

36 Ogden Avenue, E. Williston Sold Price: $879,000 Date: 02/11/2019 3 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 65x89 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $15,514 MLS# 3078229

65 Exeter Street, Williston Park Sold Price: $495,000 Date: 02/20/2019 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 42x123 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $10,513 MLS# 3067777

516 Roslyn Road, E. Williston Sold Price: $782,000 Date: 11/16/2018 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: .26 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $19,571 MLS# 3040566

100 Mayflower Avenue, Williston Park Sold Price: $750,000 Date: 02/08/2019 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Hi Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $13,446 MLS# 3067988

Editorâ€™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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Williston Park bans retail marijuana sales Continued from Page 1 Williston Park does not have industrial or adult-use zones similar to those larger villages, Ehrbar said, limiting what eﬀective zoning actions can be taken. The ban is the only way the village can “reclaim home rule,” he added. Only counties will have the option to opt-out of the potential legal sale of recreational marijuana, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Resident and Williston Park Civic Association member Umberto Magnardi expressed a lack of faith in the county opting out. “Unfortunately, County Executive Curran has ap-

pointed a 24-year-old legislator to head the task force,” Magnardi said, referring to District 18 Legislator Joshua Lafazan, the co-chair of the counties task force. He added that in addition to having to wait for the task force’s findings, he believes Cuomo is holding his cards to see how municipalities are reacting to potential legalization before putting a bill before the state Senate. Ehrbar said even though the village may be a little early with the ban and any state proposal could possibly override it, it is an important step to take now before legalization.

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Village weed restrictions raise legal questions Continued from Page 2 The charter grants villages that were founded before 1938 authority over their own zoning, he said. Munsey Park was founded in 1930. “Munsey Park does have zoning control over the land in the village,” Ceriello said. The Town of North Hempstead has already banned the sale of retail marijuana in its unincorporated zones.

The town has a population of 226,322, according to the last census, and its unincorporated sections alone have a combined population of approximately 122,643, said a Nassau County spokeswoman. County Legislator Josh Lafazan cochairs Nassau County’s recently formed task force on marijuana legalization with Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. The group is gathering information

from experts on everything from legislation and regulation to public health and will publish the findings in a report in March, Lafazan said. “Data should be driving the conversation, and therefore we believe that any discussions right now on a potential opt-out are premature until the data is synthesized and the report is finalized,” he said. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran would not say whether she would

support a countywide opt-out when Blank Slate Media Publisher Steven Blank posed the question to her last Thursday at an “on the record Community Forum” held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock. “The [state] legislation is still fluid,” she said. “We don’t quite know what it looks like. We don’t know what the revenue looks like, so I am very eager to see what this task force has to say about it.”

Curran makes case for reassessments Continued from Page 3 Curran also emphasized the importance of economic development, while expressing disappointment that Amazon decided not to locate its second headquarters in Long Island City. Curran said Amazon would have helped revitalize the downtowns, made the case for transit-oriented development, grown the tax base, attracted more business to New York and helped ancillary businesses in the county. Amazon had promised to create at least 25,000 jobs over 10 years, while officials estimated it would bring in about $27 billion in new tax revenue. In exchange, state and New York City oﬃcials had oﬀered $3 billion in incentives. “It felt like a body blow when I found out what was going to happen,” Curran said of Amazon’s decision to pull out. Blank asked how the $3 billion in breaks could be justified, considering Amazon is not paying federal taxes on $11 billion in profits and seemed to be getting an unfair advantage compared to small businesses. Curran said she understood the argument, but that the $27 billion would have gone to extra train stations, beefing up in-

frastructure and transportation networks, and “would have burnished our brand as a region to say, ‘Yes, we are open for business.” “To make it even harder [to do business here] is doing all of us a disservice,” Curran said. “We have to really think seriously about how we’re going to embrace the 21st century, making sure that we’re growing our tax base and reversing the brain drain.” Blank asked about what role local officials have in fighting new enterprises, as seen with Charles Wang’s proposed Lighthouse Project, a massive redevelopment project involving Nassau Coliseum, as well as possible marijuana dispensaries and oﬀtrack betting lottery machines. Curran said communities have legitimate concerns, which is why it’s important to work with them right from the get-go and for local oﬃcials to show “a little bit of courage.” “You can’t really impose it on communities, but you can work together with them to make it happen,” Curran said. Asked specifically about the possibility of opting out of marijuana sales should the state legalize the drug for recreational use, Curran said she wanted to wait on the rec-

ommendations of the county’s task force. Curran also said the unanimous approval of the Nassau Hub around Nassau Coliseum, which would essentially be a new Long Island downtown complete with apartment complexes for young adults, a Northwell Innovation Center, retail outlets and hotels, “a real reason for optimism.” Several audience members also asked questions, ranging from revamping the permit process to help local downtowns to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Bradley Diamond, a real estate broker Lee & Associates in Great Neck, said one of the biggest problems is the permit process, which can involve building departments across several municipalities. He then asked if there was anything that could be done to streamline the process. Curran said there are plans to convene officials from the towns, cities and a representative from the Nassau County Village Officials Associations “just to begin that conversation of how we can do that.” “The tricky part is each of these municipalities covets what it does and what it is in charge of,” Curran said. “I’m curious

to see through this conversation if any of them are willing to open that up a little bit and work together.” The presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, in a trailer at the county jail in East Meadow and Nassau County more broadly was also concerning to many questioners. One of them was Osman Canales, a longtime immigrants rights activist.# He asked if Curran would support a memorandum of understanding between police and schools to not send information to ICE. “I want to express how unsettling it is to have ICE at the county jail because it puts our community at risk,” Canales said. “There are cases where individuals without any conviction have been taken by ICE because ICE is located by the jails.” Curran said that if someone is innocent, they are safe, and that the county is currently working to relocate ICE where it is “suitable” for everyone. “[The job of the police] is not to take people who are going to school, going to work, going about their business and cart them oﬀ,” Curran said. “That is not their job and that is not what they do.”

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Mineola board OKs development on Main Continued from Page 1 The goal of the downtown section of the master plan is to create a vibrant, walkable and accessible downtown that is a community focal point, the plan states. The village board previously reserved making a decision on the property following a second public hearing. At that hearing, the board overall showed improved opinions on the project following adjustments by the development team to consider the board’s suggestions, including slightly increasing the size of the apartments, pushing back the fourth story of the building to align with the top of the neighboring buildings and adjusting the facade to blend with other downtown establishments. Fox’s of Mineola owner Bob Fox, at both meetings, pressed the board on parking and congestion issues in the downtown area, which he said are aﬀecting his business. “With all that’s going on do we really need to over-stress the situation now and throw this development right into the middle of Main Street?” Fox previously said. Multiple construction projects are currently underway in the downtown area. In addition to the construction beginning on the LIRR third track expansion project, construction is underway at both the Village Green across the street to erect a 266-unit apartment building and between Harrison Avenue and First Street on Mineola Boulevard for a five-level,

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A rendering of 86 Main Street. 551-space parking garage. Sewer work is also scheduled to begin on Main Street in the near future. No timeline was provided for when the project construction will begin. Mayor Scott Strauss also addressed an unrelated village matter, a contentious discussion on parking in Mineola with a resident disgruntled by changes to over-

night parking in the commuter lots. The board recently amended parking laws, banning parking from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. in several lots, to prevent the overnight and long-term storage of vehicles. The adjustment was to ensure that the parking was being used by commuters, Strauss said. Village resident Theo Rabinowitz,

who lives at the Town House on First Street, argued that the ban made an already diﬃcult parking situation worse, but the board maintained that the lot is for commuter use and that there still 55 parking spots with no overnight restriction available just south of the Long Island Railroad station. The abuse of commuter permits by residents seeking parking options is an ongoing issue in the downtown area, Trustee George Durham said. Durham added that the buildings residents are living in were built in years like 1955 and 1968!when parking was a non-issue. The village also honored Mineola High School student Yesenia Hanif, who recently won a $50,000 scholarship to the college of her choice. Strauss and the board presented Yesenia with a proclamation congratulated her on the award, which she received for winning an essay contest held by Univision/ACT Contest, Sweet 15: A Dream Achieved Contest. Yesenia will also be partaking in a prestigious summer program at Oxford University, according to Deputy Mayor Paul Pereira. Village Clerk Joseph Scalero was also commended by the board. Scalero was recently named the first vice president of the New York State Association of City & Village Clerks. Scalero said that it is an honor to be recognized by his peers locally and throughout the state.

Parente talks priorities ahead of election Continued from Page 2 Often when water connections are opened, either for emergency fire services or utility work, residents’ water will turn brown. The village currently has a warning system instructing residents how to proceed when this occurs, but there have also been instances in-

volving random quality issues as well. Parents has not considered who she will appoint her deputy yet at this point but said that the experience of Trustee Christopher Siciliano has been invaluable to the board and village residents. “Many residents might not be aware of all that he does, because he

isn’t looking for the glory, but I have great admiration for him,” Parente said. Parente, who is running on the same ticket as Trustee James Iannone for re-election, did not endorse either of two new candidates, Raﬀaela Dunne and James Reichman, for the open trustees’ seats, but said she is thrilled

that the two are actually getting involved in village aﬀairs. “Any two out of the three candidates would be incredible,” Parente said. The village election will take place Tuesday, March, 19 from noon to 9 p.m. at village hall.

Willing to revisit medical marijuana: Bosworth Continued from Page 21 “Although there’s certainly a need for it, there must be people in the rest of Nassau County that need access to this kind of service,” Bosworth said.! The third law was approved by the board in January and banned the sale of recreational marijuana in unincorporated areas of North Hempstead.

Bosworth reiterated sentiments from the three hearings at which the laws were passed that the board was acting in the interests of its constituents in taking early action on marijuana legislation. Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi commended Bosworth for the laws, including the ban, citing the lim-

ited actions that villages like his could take in preparation of potential legalization. The state’s option to opt-out of the legal state sale of recreational marijuana will only apply to counties, according to Bosworth and Longobardi. Floral Park, like other local villages, voted unanimously to restrict any retail

dispensaries to particular zoning districts rather than outright ban the sale, because that ban may be challenged once the substance is legalized. “If we ban it, we could be challenged and we could lose,” Longobardi said. The zoning measure in Floral Park is “essentially a ban,” restricting where stores can open to a very small area.

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Flood study provides no North Shore fixes Continued from Page 6 Another alternative suggests not drawing up a comprehensive plan but instead continuing to fund flood prevention mechanisms for individual areas. The planned structural measures as part of the No Action Alternative are “focused on improved coastal risk management and/or resilience at specifically defined buildings or locations in the study area,” according!to the report. The next step will be for the agency to narrow down the five alternatives to

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one tentative selected plan by January 2020. The plan will be presented in the Draft Feasibility Report and Tier 1 Environment Impact Statement slated for release in March 2020. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be holding public hearings in locations throughout the study area and will be accepting comments on the study by mail, email or in person. Comments on the report will be considered as the study team further analyzes the project alternatives.

Dem senators question MTA transformation Continued from Page 26 The Long Island Senate Majority delegation, which includes state Senators Anna Kaplan, John Brooks, Jim Gaughran, Todd Kaminsky, Monica Martinez, and Kevin Thomas said they are “generally supportive of the concept” of decreasing reliance on car trips to the city while protecting the environment and easing congestion, but said they see “troubling concerns.” They said those concerns include a lack of three things: a dedicated revenue stream for LIRR infrastructure, a tolling exemption for the RFK Bridge and representation on the proposed capital project review committee from other transit agencies, including the LIRR. “As the representatives for millions of Long Island commuters, it is our responsibility to ensure that any congestion pricing plan is not funding on their backs without substantial benefit,” the senators said in a joint statement. The joint statement goes on to say, “We cannot support the proposal in its current state and are happy to meet with any party to address these concerns.” TransitCenter, a transportation advocacy and research group, endorsed the congestion pricing portion of the plan but said there is “no need to rush through a major reorganization of the MTA concurrently with the budget.” “Enacting congestion pricing would be a huge step forward for New York City’s transportation system – reducing traffic, funding transit and speeding up buses,” the group said in a statement. “While the MTA urgently needs to contain costs as well, such reforms can be delivered through the agency’s existing structure,” TransitCenter added. At the same time, the plan says the MTA will face an independent audit to

be completed no later than January 2020 and a review of its capital plan by a committee of independent experts. Paired with this is a call for the MTA to “immediately expedite the completion of the Subway Action Plan,” a $836 million initiative designed to “stabilize and improve the subway system.” It also describes the necessity of a partnership between the city and state to counter fare evasion. The plan says the state plans to work with the MTA, city, and district attorneys to create an enforcement strategy that works to “not criminalize fare evasion but instead prevent fare evasion.” Fernando Ferrer, the acting chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said he “strongly” endorses the joint proposal to address “the fundamental challenges the MTA faces.” “This proposal is a holistic cure for much of what ails the MTA, and I hope to see it enacted swiftly for the benefit of our 8.5 million daily customers,” Ferrer said, adding that it “builds on work we are already doing to improve service through aggressive action.” New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, however, blasted the plan and said it should not have been necessary in the first place. “Cuomo’s congestion pricing scheme is just another tax on overburdened New Yorkers who are already being nickeled and dimed to death,” Cox said. “Gov. Cuomo has wasted billions on his corrupt publicity projects while ignoring the growing MTA crisis and now is trying to cover up that mismanagement by taxing New Yorkers and rushing through legalized marijuana for the sake of its revenues, despite mounting evidence of health and public safety concerns.”

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Interior and Exterior • Plaster/Spackle Light Carpentry • Decorative Moldings Power Washing 516-385-3132 New Hyde Park

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TREE SERVICE

OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE Owner Operated Since 1989 Licensed & Insured

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JOB FAIR: Mon., Mar. 11, 2019 10 am- 2 pm at United Methodist Church 130 W. Old Country Rd., Hicksville, NY 11801 WE OFFER: • Flexible hours • 401K plans with • BIG BUS: $20.73 hr. Benefit rate matching funds • BIG BUS: $22.73 hr. *Non-Benefit rate • Health & Life insurance • Emergency family leave • VAN: $17.96 hr. Benefit rate • Safety and attendance • VAN: $19.96 hr. *Non-Benefit rate bonus twice a year RETIREES WELCOME! *available after 90 days

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P/T ASSISTANT IN PHYSICAL REHAB office in Garden City South. Great hours for college student or returnee. Will train in office procedures. Knowledge of Microsoft Word a plus. Monday 3:15 to 7pm. Tue/Thur 1:45 to 7pm Call 516-564-1138

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FT CAREGIVER and MOTHER ASSISTANT NEEDED: Looking for someone who is honest, caring, responsible and willing to learn about diabetes in order to care for a Type 1 diabetic 6 year boy. Primary responsibilities are cooking meals, running errands, homework and light house keeping. This is Monday thru Friday 7am-6:30pm. This person will have to be comfortable administering medicine and needs to be a driver. Please call 516-978-6842 for more information.

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ARTISTS AND PAINTERS WANTED to share gallery space in Roslyn Village. 6 ms commitment. Great location! Please call 516-721-7807

SITUATION WANTED CAREGIVER AVAILABLE Experienced woman seeks full time position to care for your sick or elderly loved one. Live in. Very reliable, non driver, references available. Call May 516-292-2662 CERTIFIED HHA, PCA seeks weekday position Monday through Friday, or weekends, live in or live out. 17 years experience with Parkinsons, Alzheimers, dementia, cancer patients. References available upon request. Call Doreen 516-302-7564 COMPANION AVAILABLE Available full time/ part time. Looking for someone to take care of your elderly parents in the comfort of your own home for peace and tranquility? 18 yrs. experience, references, driver w/ reliable vehicle. Please call 516-410-1892 or 917-244-3714 EXCELLENT HOME HEALTH AIDE Striving to make elderly comfortable in their own surroundings. Seeking FT/PT position. Flexible hours. Have worked with many prominent people. Excellent references. Driver w/ car. Will do errands, doctor appts, housework, light cooking. Call Lorna 347-4252804 NURSES AIDE/COMPANION Experienced. Available to take care of your elderly loved ones. Excellent references, honest and reliable. Call 347-882-4753

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES JOB OPPORTUNITY: $17/hr NYC $14.50/hr LI If you currently care for your relatives or friends who have Medicaid or Medicare, you may be eligible to start working for them as a personal assistant. No Certificates needed. 347-462-2610 or 347-565-6200

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MARKETPLACE INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Looking to sell items from your home? Consider doing an Online Auction! Online Auctions reach more interested buyers than tag sales and can often sell for more than what you would make at an estate or tag sale. Invited Estate Sales by Tracy Jordan can do both! You can sell your items online reaching potential buyers locally or globally as well as hosting a private sale from your home! Let us guide you on what items to put in auction including furniture, housewares, decorative items, jewelry, collectibles, coins, artwork and anything else you may no longer want or need. Our services can help you to maximize your selling experience whether you are selling 1 item or 500 items. We are a one stop service for all your needs when you are moving or selling a property! Selling, donating, discarding and cleaning out services can be done to meet your time frame with minimal stress. Estate and Tag Sales Online Auctions Cleanout and Moving Services Home Staging Services Appraisals Contact for more info: info@invitedsales.com or Call: 516-279-6378 to schedule a consultation or receive more information. www.invitedsales.com PRIVACY HEDGES SPRING BLOW OUT SALE. 6’ Arborvitae (cedar) reg. $179 NOW $75. Beautiful, nursery grown. FREE installation/ FREE delivery. Limited supply! ORDER NOW! 518-536-1367 www.lowcosttreefarm.com DOWNSIZING: Selling 11.8 2-door GE Refrigerator, 2-drawer fireproof file cabinet, children’s furniture, gas grill, etc... Call 516-487-1642 MOVING!! FURNITURE FOR SALE Sectional Sofa 14’$150 Glass Coffee Table 5x3$115 Wood Dining Room Table 2 extra leaves & 6 chairs$150 Glass Kitchen Table 42” & 4 chairs$125 Wood Desk w/ Hutch and Bookcase $75 Additional wood desk$25 Fixtures and more !!! Photos available Call Matt 516-780-1462

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A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-971-3242

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AUTOMOTIVE

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TAG SALE *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@atstewartexchange. org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org AVITAL GALLERY 336: Paintings, Royal Copenhagen, Rosenthal and more. Hours Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 12-4, Friday 10-12 or by appointment. 770 Middle Neck road, Great Neck, NY 11024. 516304-5640 or call 516-528-9765. Free parking in back

PETS

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Commercial Property For Sale WEST HEMPSTEAD Mixed use building. Turn Key, fully rented. Commercial/Retail and 2 -1 BR apartments. Garage & 2 parking spaces. Near train & municipal parking. $598,888. Sparrow Realtors 516-220-6417

JUNK CARS BOUGHT

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 25 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 BATHROOM RENOVATIONS EASY, ONE DAY updates! We specialize in safe bathing. Grab bars, no slip flooring & seated showers. Call for a free in home consultation: 888-657-9488

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TUTORING MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, PreCalc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314

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CLEANING AVAILABLE EXPERIENCED POLISH HOUSE CLEANER Good references, ability. Very honest, reliable, responsible and hard working. Own transportation. English speaking. Flexible days and hours. Reasonable rates. I will do a good job. Call or text 516-589-5640

A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www.ajmoving.com 516741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405

CLEANING SERVICES for Houses, Apartments & Offices. 5 years experience. Own supplies, own transportation. Excellent references. Free estimates. Call anytime 347-753-2353

COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL/DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential/Commercial. Bonded/Insured. Free estimates. 516-538-1125

RINA’S CLEANING SERVICES Houses, Apartments, Offices Let us do the work for you! 17 years experience Trustworthy & dependable Free estimates Call Rina: 516-476-4193 516-312-4896 Rinascleaningservices@yahoo. com STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs. Free estimates. Bonded and insured. 516-538-1125 www.strongarmcleaningny.com

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3 killed, trains delayed in LIRR crash Continued from Page 13 A westbound train then struck the vehicle before the two front cars derailed, the Times reported. Authorities said the three people killed were in the car. According to the Long Island Rail Road, approximately 200 feet of third rail and running rails of one of the tracks was damaged by the collision and needs to be repaired. The Westbury station platform was also damaged when a train crashed into it. As of Wednesday morning, crews are still working to assess and repair the damage. The LIRR said there was limited westbound service during the morning rush on the Port Jeﬀerson and Ronkonkoma branches and that eastbound train service would be suspended. Midday train service through Westbury will also be suspended to allow re-railing of the remaining cars, the agency said. The incident prompted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to call for a probe of the crash. “As we continue to gather information surrounding the incident, my heart goes out to the victims and their loved ones,” Cuomo said in a statement. “In wake of this tragedy, I am calling for a full investigation into the collision, including with complete cooperation of the MTA, State Police, local law enforcement and the NTSB.”

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Where gifted come to learn gymnastics What’s that you say, you want to see your kid in the Olympics? Fair enough. I’ve got just the place to start and its right here in Nassau County. Just enter the name Infiniti Elite Gymnastics in Syosset into your GPS and when you get there walk in and ask for Tammy Marshall. She’ll be the one who has all the adoring students gazing up at her with smiles. I have heard about this gym for years. It has a knack of producing nationally recognized gymnasts that wind up getting full scholarships to college and I was interested in finding out why. I called up Tammy this weekend to schedule an interview and it was obvious to me over the phone that this was a coach with great energy and courage. Often when I call for a potential interview and announce I’m a journalist with Blank Slate Media many will become afraid, anxious, hesitant, awkward and reluctant to speak. I received the opposite reaction from Marshall who quickly responded: “great come on over.” I liked her already. When I got there it was during winter break week and so no classes were being held. However, Marshall had a full schedule of private lessons to deal with and was good enough to squeeze me in between the action. Just walking into the main area takes some coordination and balance since the 10,000 square foot arena has a variety of floor surfaces which have varying degrees of give to pro-

tect the gymnasts from injury. The place looked state-ofthe-art and I watched as Marshall took 14-year-old Abby Smith through her floor routine in preparation for states next month. Abby is this statuesque athlete with a 3.9 index at St. Anthony’s and who has the ability to work on her skills a minimal of 25 hours per week. I chatted with her mom, Betty Anne Smith, who told me they do lots of travel and had just gotten back from competitions in Virginia and Ohio. Such is the driven and highly disciplined life of the elite young athlete and their family. After the lesson, I got to sit with Marshall for a while and talk. She was born and raised in Hicksville and was directed away from dance and into gymnastics due to her level of

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energy. She, too, was an excellent student and eventually earned a full scholarship to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was All-American each year and was awarded the prestigious AAI Award. Throughout our interview she continually used words like “dedication,” “hard work” and “time management” to explain what it takes to get to

the top. She competed with Mary Lou Retton when she was younger and almost earned a spot in the Olympics until an ACL tear ended that dream. As we were finishing up our interview, an adorable little five-year-old came marching into the gym announcing she was ready for her private lesson. Yes, you got me, a fiveyear-old. I made a graceless exit and from the observation room I watched Marshall bond with the girl and take her through her warm-up routine. I was not alone in the room because the mother of the little one was with me. Turns out, the girl’s name is Sophia Maddaloni and the mother was once a dancer at Julliard and had secret hopes that little Sophia would also become a ballerina. “Sophia had her own

dream and wanted gymnastics instead. Who was I to say no so I researched many gyms and finally found this one. There is something in the air here, something magical about the place.” I believe gifted children have a will of their own and often get what they want and need. It reminded me of the piece written by Danyel Smith, one of America’s finest sports writers, who did a piece for ESPN about Simone Biles, the gymnast extraordinaire. Smith wrote about how “lucky” it was that Biles managed to find the right sport at the right time in the right place and had enough funding to make it all happen. But then Smith quickly corrected herself and wrote that, in fact, Biles was a born winner from the very start, was irrepressible, and that luck had little to do with it. Biles had what Dr. Ellen Winner called “the rage to master,” which is a deep fire that all gifted children have to learn and to understand and to conquer things that they have a passion about. This so-called “rage to master” is what Tiger Woods has, what Simone Biles has and what Roger Federer has. And this”‘rage to master” is what I saw in Tammy Marshall and what makes Abby Smith and Sophia Maddaloni so enchanting. Ms. Maddaloni was quite right when she said there is magic in the air in this gym. The magic is this very same “rage to master” that is on ample display by this gifted coach working with gifted young athletes. Oh, what a sight it is.

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On Sunday, March 10, the Mineola junior fire department will be hosting their 23rd Annual Pasta Dinner. It will be held from noon until 5 p.m. at the Mineola Community Center on Washington Avenue, between Willis Avenue and Mineola Boulevard. Each year the dinner attracts over 800 people from the tri-state area, and

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Tastefully updated 3br, 1.5 ba colonial with open concept featuring hardwood floors, lr with wood burning fp, new quartz/stainless kitchen, 3 large brs, large full bath, finished basement, new gas boiler/hot water heater, fully fenced yard. Walk to stores, transportation.

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MANHASSET HILLS 25 DAYS FOR CASH

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