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DeCillis wins election for Mineola board

HAPPY 100TH!

Middle school teacher to fill seat left vacant by Napolitano

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Middle school teacher Stacey DeCillis was elected to the Mineola Board of Education on Tuesday, filling the seat previously held by President Christine Napolitano, who did not seek re-election.

DeCillis received 699 votes while Trustee Brian Widman, who also ran unopposed, for his third term on the board, received 680 votes.

DeCillis has worked as an eighthgrade history teacher at Garden City Middle School for 17 years and has lived in Mineola for 13 years. She said that her family’s background in education and community involvement made running for the board a natural choice for her.

“My mom was an administrator in a district, and my father was also a school board member previously, so I come from a background of educators who want to give back to the community,” DeCillis said in an interview before the election. “Since there

was an open seat this year, I found this as my opportunity to give back to the community, to make sure that the district continues the trajectory that it’s on right now.”

Efforts to reach DeCillis and Widman for further comment were unavailing.

The district’s $111.8 million budget for the 2021-22 school year also passed, receiving 718 votes in favor and 210 opposed.

The budget is an increase of almost $11 million, or 10.87 percent, from the $100.1 million budget for 2020-21.

The budget calls for no increase in the tax levy. Capital projects such as Jackson Avenue School renovations and additions call for $13 million, according to Assistant Business Manager Andrew Casale.

Jackson Avenue renovations include a new cafeteria, kitchen, playground, sidewalks, retaining walls on the east side of the school, and new Continued on Page 18

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Mineola’s Abby Meehan, who committed to playing softball at Hofstra University next year, recorded her 100th hit last week.

Local Democrats, GOPers applaud new mask rules

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

by local officials.

The Democratic and Republican officials backed Gov. New rules that allow many Andrew Cuomo’s decision to state residents to get rid of relax the rules on masks under their face coverings took effect coronavirus guidance put forth Wednesday, a step welcomed by the Centers for Disease Con-

trol and Prevention.

According to the new guidelines, those who have been fully vaccinated are now able to do a majority of indoor and outdoor activities withContinued on Page 51

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Former Congressman 4-year sentence for Lester Wolff dies at 102 Americana shooting

Was catalyst for pushing through iconic social programs Queens man faces federal prison

BY R O S E W E L D ON

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An alleged member of a Queens gang will serve four years in prison for his involvement in a nonlethal shooting that put the Americana Manhasset on lockdown last summer, a federal judge decided this month.

Yuri Oluh, 21, of Jamaica had been arrested on July 25 after a verbal argument with “an unknown male black suspect” in front of the luxury mall on Northern Boulevard led to the unknown suspect pulling out a weapon and discharging several rounds at Oluh, who was not struck.

According to court papers, Oluh then fled to a nearby Benihana restaurant and stuck a loaded .22 handgun under a sink in the establishment’s men’s

room. He was found by police shortly afterward.

Initially Oluh was charged by the Nassau County district attorney’s office with criminal possession of a loaded weapon and criminal possession of a defaced firearm. Federal prosecutors later took on the case.

At the federal courthouse in Central Islip in August, Oluh pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and being in possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, according to court records.

U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert sentenced Oluh on May. 7. He will serve the four-year term in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

The suspect who discharged the shots remains unknown and has not been caught.

Former Congressman Lester Wolff died last week at 102.

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ After a long public career in which he helped push through iconic social programs for the nation, former Congressman Lester Wolff has died at 102.

He represented the North Shore from 1965 to 1981.

Wolff, a Democrat who was the oldest living person to have served in Congress, died on May 11. Wolff ’s son, Bruce, confirmed his father’s death to various news outlets but did not provide a cause of death. He died at a Syosset Hospital, according to reports.

Efforts to reach a member of Wolff ’s family for comment were unavailing.

When Wolff was elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, President Lyndon B. John-

son was creating his Great Society and was tangled up with the Vietnam War. Wolff voted for the bill creating Medicare, the health insurance plan for those 65 and older, and later for the bill creating Medicaid, which covered the poor.

Wolff voted for legislation against the Vietnam War and marched with civil rights activist Medgar Evers. He attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.

During his time as a congressman, Wolff helped preserve natural resources in battles against such opponents as famed planner Robert Moses and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.

Wolff was born in Manhattan and attended college at New York University, where he majored in business but did not complete his education. He married his wife, Blanche Silvers, in 1940. The two

were married for more than 50 years before her death in 1997.

Wolff represented New York’s 3rd Congressional District from 1965 to 1973, and the 6th Congressional District from 1973 to 1980. His congressional career ended in a loss to 27-year-old Republican John LeBoutillier in 1980.

Wolff was part of the Civil Air Patrol in World War II and served as chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.

In a 2019 interview with Blank Slate Media, Wolff said some of his proudest achievements were on the international stage. He met with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping at a time when the United States did not formally recognize China. Wolff Continued on Page 50

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Police on the scene at the Americana Manhasset following a report of shots fired. Yuri Oluh, a Queens man connected to the shooting, has been sentenced to prison for reasons relating to the incident.

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HOF another stop for ex-Port resident George Kalinsky reflects on life behind the lens from basketball stars to Frank Sinatra

BY R O S E W E L D ON George Kalinsky has photographed icons in one of the world’s most beloved entertainment venues for nearly 55 years.

A former resident of Port Washington and Sands Point, Kalinsky, 85, began serving as Madison Square Garden’s resident photographer in 1966, and still holds the position. Earlier this week, Kalinsky was announced as one of three recipients of this year’s Curt Gowdy Media Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts for his decades of work photographing the New York Knicks.

While Hempstead native and Hempstead High School graduate Kalinsky grew up taking family photos, his first love was sketching and drawing. He attended the Pratt Institute in Manhattan to study design and first picked up photography in earnest as a student there.

Kalinsky worked as a sports cartoonist early in his career, including for Newsday and the Long Island Press, but he says luck intervened in 1965, when he had a chance encounter shortly after in-

terviewing for a job at the Miami Herald in Florida.

While walking to get an ice cream with his son Lee, Kalinsky noticed sports journalist Howard Cosell standing on the corner of 5th Street in Miami.

“I didn’t know him, but I went up to Cosell, and I asked him what he was doing there,” Kalinsky said.

“And he said, ‘I’m here to interview — ‘ and as he said ‘interview,’ I saw Muhummad Ali coming down the block. And Cosell said, ‘I’m here to interview the champ.'”

Ali, who had recently been called “unpatriotic” by then-Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War due to his Islamic beliefs and ethical opposition to the conflict, had scheduled an interview with Cosell at a local gym. Kalinsky followed them with Lee in tow, in hopes of getting a few pictures with his Rolleiflex camera.

He was stopped at the door of the gym by Ali’s trainer Angelo Dundee, who asked for a dollar in order to be let in. Since he couldn’t afford to give a dollar, Kalinksy thought on his feet.

“I thought this could be a big deal for me,” Kalinsky remembered.

took another gamble and went to the Garden with the roll in hand.

“I went to the Madison Square Garden, and I showed my roll of film to John Condon, who was the head of boxing,” Kalinsky said. “And he said, if you’re coming to me, if you can come to me, if you have the chutzpah to come to me with one roll of film to be the photographer of the Garden, and then I have the chutzpah to hire you.”

From rock stars and athletes to politicians and popes, Kalinsky photographed thousands of faces at the Garden and elsewhere over 10,000 events, including the Concert for Bangladesh, a papal mass with Pope John Paul II, Elvis Presley’s final concerts in New York, PHOTO COURTESY OF LEE KALINSKY the 1970 NBA Finals won by the Knicks, the 1986 World Series victoGeorge Kalinsky, formerly of Port Washington and Sands ry by the New York Mets, the 1994 Point, stands before his images of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Stanley Cup victory by the New York Rangers, one Republican NaSinatra in Times Square in an undated photograph. tional Convention, two Democratic “And I said, ‘Well, I’m the photogra- dian, come on in.'”

National Conventions, the Concert Using the 12 pictures available for New York City in 2001, and a pher for Madison Square Garden.’ I had this camera around my shoul- on his roll of film, Kalinsky used his 1979 concert at the Garden starring der, and I don’t know how it came Rollei to snap images of Ali train- John Lennon and Elton John which out of my mouth, but it just did. ing, and sold the roll to the Miami would be Lennon’s last live perforAnd [Dundee] looked at me and he Herald, which ran them with stories mance.

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Roslyn man sentenced for bankruptcy fraud Daniel Kamensky gets fine, home confinement for involvement in Neiman Marcus filing

BY R O S E W E L D ON A Roslyn resident has been sentenced to six months of supervised release on home confinement and a five-figure fine after pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud in connection with the bankruptcy of retailer Neiman Marcus.

Daniel Kamensky, the founder and former principal of the hedge fund Marble Ridge Capital, was charged last September by the Manhattan-based U.S. attorney’s office of the Southern District of New York, according to a statement from the office. He pleaded guilty to one count of bankruptcy fraud before U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in February.

In addition to the six months of home confinement, Kamensky has been ordered to pay a $55,000 fine.

“Kamensky’s alleged criminal acts occurred in connection with his scheme to pressure a rival bidder to abandon its higher bid for assets in connection with Neiman Marcus’s bankruptcy proceedings so that Marble Ridge could obtain those assets for a lower price,” the statePHOTO COURTESY OF THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ment said. “Kamensky then attempted to persuade the rival bidder to cover up the Daniel Kamensky of Roslyn has been sen- scheme.”

The U.S. attorney’s office said that tenced after pleading guilty to bankruptcy Kamensky’s fund Marble Ridge, which fraud. specializes in investments in distressed

situations, including bankruptcies, and had assets under management of more than $1 billion as of early 2020, was appointed to a committee on unsecured creditors for Neiman Marcus shortly after the retailer declared bankruptcy in May 2020.

“During the bankruptcy process, the committee had negotiated with the owners of Neiman Marcus to obtain certain securities, known as MyTheresa Series B Shares (the ‘MYT Securities’), and ultimately, the committee was successful in coming to a settlement to obtain 140 million shares of MYT Securities for the benefit of certain unsecured creditors of the bankruptcy estate,” the U.S. attorney’s office said. “In July 2020, Kamensky was negotiating with the Committee for Marble Ridge to offer 20 cents per share to purchase the MYT Securities from any unsecured creditor who preferred to receive cash, rather than MYT Securities, as part of that settlement.”

Attorneys said that on July 31, Kamensky learned that a diversified financial services company, identified in court proceedings as “the investment bank” and headquartered in New York City, had informed the committee that it was interested in bidding a price between 30 and 40 cents per share, higher than Kamensky’s bid, to purchase MYT Securities

from any unsecured creditor who was interested in receiving cash.

“That afternoon, Kamensky sent messages to a senior trader at the investment bank telling him not to place a bid, and followed those messages up with a phone call with IB Employee-1 and a senior analyst of the investment bank,” the office said. “During that call, Kamensky asserted that Marble Ridge should have the exclusive right to purchase MYT Securities, and threatened to use his official role as co-chair of the committee to prevent the investment bank from acquiring the MYT Securities. Kamensky also stated that Marble Ridge had been a client of the investment bank in the past but that if the investment bank moved forward with its bid, then Marble Ridge would cease doing business with the investment bank.”

The unnamed bank then decided to not make a bid to purchase the MYT securities, and informed the legal adviser to the committee of its decision, and would tell a legal adviser that the bank made that decision because Kamensky, a client of the bank, had asked it not to, according to federal attorneys.

“Later that evening, Kamensky contacted [the employee of the bank] and attempted to influence what [the employee] would tell others, including the Continued on Page 51

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Curran announces re-election bid County executive says she has brought honesty, transparency promised in first campaign

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran launched her re-election campaign last week, nearly two months after the county’s Republican Party announced that Town of Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman would be running for her post.

“I’ve served as the Nassau County Executive for more than three years,” Curran said in a statement. “In that time, I’ve worked hard to build the honest, effective government that you deserve.”

Curran, a 53-year Democrat and Baldwin resident, has served as county executive since she defeated former Republican state Sen. Jack Martins in 2017.

The former county legislator echoed calls for fiscal responsibility and transparent government that she made in her previous campaign.

“Back in 2017, I based my candidacy on a simple idea: government should be accountable to voters,” Curran said. “For too long, Nassau County had been ruled by a network of favors and corruption, benefiting few and leaving taxpayers with the bill.”

Jay Jacobs, the chairman of the county and state Democratic committees, touted Curran’s accomplishments as county executive in a news conference last week. Jacobs cited Curran’s “honesty

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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced she will be running for re-election this year. and authenticity” in her role as county executive before and during the coronavirus pandemic.

“We have a county executive that has demonstrated that, in Nassau County, it is possible to govern honestly and have a straightforward, favoritism-free way of running this county,” Jacobs said. “We also have someone who, over the past three years, has engaged in real govern-

ment, unafraid to take on the hard issues or do things that other people would not do, and lead when leadership was required.”

Officials from the Curran campaign said the three priorities she wishes to address if re-elected this fall are to ensure fair and equitable access to the coronavirus vaccine, continue to reopen businesses affected by the pandemic and create more than 3,000 jobs through infrastructure projects.

“I’ve worked hard to make sure that throughout it all, Nassau County remains a place where families can thrive and where communities remain united,” Curran said. “That’s why I’ve worked hard to support entrepreneurship and business in Nassau County. It’s why during the pandemic, I worked to get loans to businesses in need, helping to make sure they were able to stay afloat.”

Blakeman announced his candidacy in mid-March. A 65-year-old Atlantic Beach resident, he was appointed to the Hempstead town council in 1993 and served through 1995 before ultimately being reappointed in 2015.

In the interim, Blakeman served as the County Legislature’s presiding officer from 1996 to 1999. Along with experience as an attorney in the private sector, Blakeman served as commissioner of the

Port Authority and the liaison between Nassau County’s Republican Party and former President Donald Trump.

Blakeman and the Nassau County Republican Party have criticized Curran’s handling of property tax reassessment.

According to statistics provided by Newsday, more than 214,000 homeowners throughout the county saw an increase in their school taxes in 2020, compared with 115,000 who received reductions.

“I’m running for County Executive to protect taxpayers and your family’s safety,” Blakeman said. “Laura Curran hiked taxes on 65% of homeowners and tried to kick law enforcement out of their headquarters at the county jail. It’s wrong!”

Curran called for the reassessment of approximately 400,000 homes in 2018 after the county’s assessment roll had been frozen since 2008. During that period, thousands of residents filed grievances on the value of their homes, winning reduced assessments and shifting the tax burden to others who did not challenge their assessments. Jacobs defended the necessity for the reassessment, spearheaded by Curran.

“If we did nothing, 100% of homes would have their taxes go up,” Jacobs said. “This is something that needed to happen and the Republicans know it.

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NuHealth preps for mental illness spike Subsidiary department in health care organization will provide grants to conduct research

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Officials from the Nassau Health Care Corp. said they are preparing for an increase in mental illness and drug addiction cases as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a news release, the corporation’s Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department will provide grants to conduct research and better understand the impact that mental illnesses and chronic substance abuse have on people from economically challenged areas.

The grants will be funded by the Von Tauber Institute of Global Psychiatry, a subsidiary of the Nassau University Medical Center, according to the

news release. The medical center is overseen by the Nassau Health Care Corp., also known as NuHealth.

The department, chaired by Dr. Constantine Ioannou, primarily serves residents on Long Island suffering from severe mental illnesses and chronic substance abuse. Ioannou spoke about some of the contributing factors related to mental illnesses and substance abuse, which have only been exacerbated by the hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

“Finances, access to a car and/or technology, as well as personal and cultural disbelief in the need for psychiatric care are all common hurdles that prevent individuals in these communities from getting the care they need,” Ioannou said.

Ioannou went on to acknowledge that a significant number of Long Islanders with these illnesses and addictions have gone without medication and in-person treatment since the pandemic began March 2020.

This announcement of preparedness to combat mental health illnesses and chronic addiction came on the heels of recent calls from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DNY) to have federal funds be released to help fund programs and combat mental health problems and drug addiction throughout the state.

On Long Island, Schumer said, there is a need for federal funding and programs to combat mental health issues before the conditions lead to “danger-

ous spirals that upend lives and families.”

While mental health disorders tend to get heightened publicity across the nation, it is addiction to various drugs and opioids that has been a prominent problem across Long Island in the past.

According to new statistics reported by Newsday, projected fatal drug overdoses increased by 34 percent in Nassau County in 2020. There were 287 fatal drug overdoses in the county last year, with 60 suspected overdose deaths that have not yet been confirmed by the medical examiner’s office, according to Newsday.

In the $5 billion request, $3 billion would come from mental health and substance use block grants Schumer helped secure.

The grants would be used to fund treatment for New Yorkers, implement community-based mental health interventions, and enhance efforts to prevent mental health problems.

More than $1 billion would be used to develop mobile crisis intervention services, which would work closely with law enforcement to help provide aid to people going through mental health or substance use emergencies.

The remaining funds would be used for the mental health needs of frontline health care workers who have struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and fatigue throughout the pandemic, youth mental health, and other educational campaigns on mental health disorders.

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Suozzi, Rice tout expanded child tax credit Congress members say aid provided in American Rescue Plan will benefit families

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U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) encouraged New York parents to file their 2020 taxes on time to become eligible for thousands of dollars in federal funding on Friday.

U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi and Kathleen Rice urged New York parents to file their income taxes on time to qualify for a newly expanded child tax credit under the American Rescue Plan.

Parents with eligible children who filed their 2020 federal tax returns by Monday can receive the credit that can help impoverished families across Long Island, officials said.

“This child tax credit is going to provide hundreds of thousands of families throughout Long Island with thousands of dollars and lift up people’s lives,” Suozzi, a Glen Cove Democrat, said at a news conference last Friday. “The American Rescue Plan has been great in so many ways. We just have to keep telling people about all the things that are in there.”

Rice said more than 100,000 children in her 4th Congressional District — which includes Floral Park, Garden City, Hempstead, Mineola, Car-

le Place, New Hyde Park and Westbury — stand to benefit from the child tax credit.

That number, which accounts for more than 65 percent of the child population in the district, includes 5,500 children who will be lifted out of poverty as a result of the credit.

In Suozzi’s 3rd Congressional District — which stretches from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County and includes Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park, among other areas — more than 56 percent of children will benefit from the credit, with 3,700 being lifted out of poverty, he said.

“This is money directly in the pocket of families to put food on the table and pay the bills,” Rice, a Garden City Democrat, said during the news conference. “I encourage all families to file their taxes by Monday, May 17 to receive the full amount they qualify for.”

Officials said tax returns

filed by the May 17 deadline will not include the specific child tax credits, but filing will make parents eligible to receive “advance payments” as soon as July. The payments will be continuously distributed throughout the rest of the calendar year.

The tax credit offers parents $3,600 for every child 6 years old or younger, $3,000 for children aged 6 to 17 years and up to $500 for children older than 18, including full-time college students aged 19 to 24. The benefit is available to parents of biological and adopted children, stepchildren and foster children.

Full payments for each child are available for an individual parent making up to $75,0000 a year, and joint filers making up to $150,000 a year. Single filers with incomes of $240,000 or more and joint filers with combined incomes of $440,000 or more will not receive the child tax credit. Those with incomes between those figures will get reduced payments.

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How to succeed in business in 2021 Elmont resident updates strategy for getting ahead in modern workforce in new book

BY B R I A N N E L E DDA Elmont resident Asha Aravindakshan, 40, has worked at eight companies since she graduated from college in 2002, moving between nonprofits like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and private companies like Civic.

She has relied on a network of referrals and recommendations, in addition to leveraging her skills and digital presence, to build a satisfying career.

“A majority of my adult career, the roles have been because somebody said, ‘Hey, I have a problem that needs to be fixed. I think you can fix it. Do you want to come work here to do that?’” she said.

Now, Aravindakshan — who is vice president of operations at Sprinklr, a tech startup that helps businesses manage the digital customer experience — has drawn on that experience to write a book outlining how to succeed in the modern workforce.

“Skills: The Common Denominator,” which will be available to purchase on Amazon on Aug. 30, describes how to network, develop a professional brand and identify transferable skills.

“The idea came from a presentation I gave in August of 2015 to …

alumni and students [at George Washington University] about how they can use LinkedIn to improve their personal brand to network and then just to have a really good digital portfolio online,” Aravindakshan said.

At the time, she worked on the university’s career service committee to help students and alumni hunt for jobs.

Her webinar, “Making LinkedIn work for you,” outlined how to build a personal brand on LinkedIn and use it to network. That presentation and others like it have resonated with her audiences.

“After the presentations, the number one question is, can I get a copy of it?” she said. So in fall 2020, about six months after the pandemic hit last March — noticing professionals suddenly switching careers and recent graduates facing retracted job offers — Aravindakshan joined the Creators Institute to write it all down.

“Given my understanding of how the job hunt could be a lonely process, compounded by social distancing measures, I wanted to use my prior learnings to help,” she said.

The book compiles years of professional development presentations Aravindakshan has given to students, interns and peers, and outlines the careers

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of several people she has interviewed who have pivoted between industries.

One chapter highlights Carter Holland, who was an interim chief marketing officer at Sprinklr from September to March; he has swiveled from an early start in a rock band, to freelance journalism, to a career in marketing, among other things.

So far, Aravindakshan has sold 285 copies via pre-order. Christy Mossburg,

her editor at New Degree Press since March, said they are in the first stage of the revision process to prepare the manuscript for copyediting.

“Asha has a tremendous amount of experience to share with her readers,” she said. “Anyone would do well to follow her advice when looking for a job, whether they’re changing careers or just looking for change in their current field.”

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BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI Over a year after coronavirus health restrictions forced a community choir to suspend in-person rehearsals, members say their time physically apart has made them stronger than ever.

Like most performing arts groups, the Shireinu Choir of Long Island, which normally rehearses at Temple Israel of Great Neck, has operated fully remote since March. But that didn’t stop Deborah Tartell, the choir’s musical director, from performing online.

“I was determined to finish out the year on Zoom,” Tartell said. “I wanted to continue not just with the music and our repertoire and the learning process, but I felt that people needed the connection.”

That determination culminated in an end-of-season project in which nearly all the members performed a rendition of “Heal Us Now” on YouTube, with nearly 6,000 views.

“It was just the perfect song for our times,” Tartell said. “Basically it covered it all – heal our body, heal our soul, heal our

people, heal our country.”

Putting together the performance meant lots of practice hours, both individually and as a group. In making the performance the best it could be, Tartell worked with the nondenominational ensemble, which has about 70 singers and explores Jewish heritage in music, both as a group and in private.

“They had to raise their level of musicianship to participate in this,” Tartell said.

“You have to be accountable for knowing it [their music] extremely well, and I really believe it raised the whole level of musicianship in the choir.”

Growth in musicality wasn’t the only thing that occurred during the past year’s virtual rehearsals, according to Tartell, who pointed out the vocalists’ growth in companionship despite being physically distant.

“We would leave opportunity at the end of rehearsals to have people unmute and chat, because when I’m saying this choir has become a family – it has,” Tartell said. “It was a way to keep us growing not just musically, but as a family.”

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Port’s Soundview Cinema to reopen

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“Can you smell the fresh popcorn?

We can!!!” the management of Soundview Cinemas wrote in a Facebook post on May 14. “Soundview Cinemas is pleased to announce our reopening [on] Friday June 25th [at] 33% capacity.”

Located in the Soundview Marketplace in Port Washington North, the theater had been closed since the begin-

ning of the coronavirus pandemic. Owner Jordan Desner of Plainview said in a phone interview that improving conditions had led to the reopening decision.

“We feel that COVID is starting to improve, and now the studios are starting to release the better movies as the summer’s starting to come, so we’re going to give it a chance,” Desner said.

A lack of “good product” had been one of the reasons that Desner opted against reopening in October, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo allowed theaters to reopen with COVID-19 safety guidelines.

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Manhasset school district fails test

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e would have to be grading on a very generous scale if we were to give the Manhasset school district a passing grade for the way it handled the announcement last Friday that Superintendent Vincent Butera “will be on a leave of absence” for the rest of the school year and the events that led up to it.

The announcement, made in a news release, followed newspaper reports that an investigation by an outside counsel found that Butera had violated the district’s rules on sexual harassment after a Shelter Rock Elementary School teacher complained in September 2020 about his conduct with her that she said began in October 2018.

The findings of the investigation were reportedly presented to the board in late 2020. No explanation has been offered why those findings were not disclosed by the school board.

Butera acknowledged the findings at a board meeting two weeks ago while saying he was disheartened that the teacher had construed his actions as troublesome.

Butera said he had “reflected deeply” about “my actions and behavior” and felt “profound regret and sadness.”

“Despite my intent, the independent counsel did find that my attention was perceived by the complainant as unwelcome and therefore a violation of district policy,” he said.

Butera outlined five examples of his conduct. They included: Coming in “close proximity to the complainant” while having a

“work-related conversation” during a retirement party with 100 people and a DJ playing loud music.Hugging the teacher in an effort to console her after another teacher died “as I did with others that day.”

Visiting the teacher’s classroom frequently, which Butera said he does regularly to observe how students are being taught.

“Upon reaching a significant professional milestone, the building principal called every teacher to the library, where I along with other administrators and a boardmember offered a congratulatory hug.”

The state of New York’s sexual harassment policy defines “physical assaults of a sexual nature,” as including “touching, pinching, patting, grabbing, brushing against another employee’s body or poking another employee’s body.”

Based on Butera’s account, it sounds as if more than one Manhasset administrator missed the class on sexual harassment.

That the policy was developed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who now finds himself under investigation for complaints from as many as eight women, does nothing to lessen its importance.

At the meeting, the school board did not say whether – and if so how – Butera was disciplined.

Nor has it said anything since.

The board did not announce that Butera was taking a leave of absence until teachers and students showed up wearing black on Friday in protest of the school board’s decision not to immediately terminate him following the investigation.

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Shortly after noon, more than 200 seniors staged a walkout at Manhasset Secondary School.

“Hey hey, ho ho, Vincent Butera has to go,” they chanted, according to a report by 4New York.

“You’re a superintendent.

You’re supposed to be a role model for kids,” senior Jonathan Malary was quoted as saying.

Would Butera have gone on a leave of absence if the students and teachers did not wear black and stage a walkout? If not, what was the district’s standard for supporting a leave of absence under these circumstances? Public pressure?

The district’s letter said Butera “will be on leave of absence so that as we close out the school year, the district’s sole focus will be on supporting our students, faculty and staff.”

If their goal was to support the students, faculty and staff, they haven’t been paying too much attention to what is being said.

The district’s letter also did not say whether Butera’s leave was voluntary, whether he would be paid during the leave or whether he would return next year.

So much for transparency on the part of the district. Which raises still more questions.

Manhasset voters went to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots on a $102.3 million budget and two board seats being contested by four candidates including one incumbent, Trustee Carlo Prinzo.

A second incumbent, Trustee Ann Marie Curd, did not run for reelection.

Did the district attempt to withhold the findings against Butera until after the budget vote and the conclusion of the trustee race?

And if so, didn’t Manhasset voters have the right to hear from the three challengers — Frank Bua, Jill Pullano and Erin Royce — as well as Prinzo about how the board had handled the investigation and what was found?

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Given that hiring and deciding whether to retain a superintendent is probably the most important thing a school board member will decide.

A close second, we might add, would be the handling of allegations of sexual misconduct.

The voters spoke on Tuesday and Prinzo was soundly defeated, finishing fourth in the four-person race with 684 votes. Pullano and Royce won with 1,650 votes and 1,385 votes respectively with Bua finishing third with 1,000 votes.

The budget easily passed 1,786 to 809.

Sadly few of the candidates addressed the board’s handling of the allegations against Butera, the counsel’s finding that he was guilty of sexual harassment and what the penalty should be, including the possibility of his being fired.

Now that the election has been concluded – and two new members have been elected – the board owes voters, students, teachers and staff some answers.

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ON THE RIGHT

New York state’s fiscal shell games

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n April, the New York State Legislature approved and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a record-breaking $212 billion spending plan for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

To fund the budget the state is dispersing the federal COVID relief windfall of $12.2 billion and has increased taxes to the tune of $4 billion.

Despite this huge influx of revenues, it appears that it is not enough to satisfy Albany’s ravenous spending appetite.

Hence, Albany utilized fiscal gimmicks to bury various expenses that are spelled out in state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s “Annual Review of the Enacted Budget.”

Here are his findings: First and foremost, the state, once again, deferred $3.5 billion in Medicaid payments owed to providers into the next fiscal year. That’s like skipping your credit card payment due in December. Your checkbook may have been balanced at year-end, but you are still in debt come January.

Instead of using one-shot Federal money judiciously to clean up the state’s financial ledgers, Albany is squandering the money on lard-

laden projects like $300 million for farmlands, botanical gardens and zoos.

The state has also failed to make additional deposits into its “rainy day” funds.

“Although current law,” DiNapoli notes, “authorizes a balance of more than $6 billion, the state has just under $2.5 billion in rainy-day reserves. While the Department of Budget sets aside additional funds in the General Fund for various needs, including economic uncertainties for debt management, the sum of these resources is not high enough to ensure sufficient reserves for future economic downturns.”

Even though the state is flush with cash, the budget authorizes the governor to borrow up to $3 billion in short-term notes and up to $2 billion in letters of credit. “Although less than the $11 billion in short-term borrowing, enacted in SFY 2020-2021,” the authorizations are “unnecessary given the strength of the state’s cash position and revenue outlook,” the report concludes.

To permit even more spending, the budget excludes new borrowings from the provisions of the

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Debt Reform Act of 2000 that put a cap on debt. “Combined new debt to be excluded from debt caps and capital requirements could exceed $19 billion.”

Also, the budget includes questionable terms to circumvent accounting standards. If left unchecked those changes “could also artificially reduce the appearance of true liabilities and reported receipts and disbursements of the state.” In other words, “blue smoke and mirror” accounting practices.

Segments of the budget are far from transparent.

For example, there is a $25 bil-

lion appropriation whose description is so nebulous that the spending of those dollars will be at the sole discretion of the governor.

About $8 billion in emergency COVID spending is exempt from “the state comptroller’s oversight and waives competitive bidding procedures.”

Other oversight exceptions: The new Excluded Worker Fund, which will provide $2.1 billion in relief to undocumented workers without jobs, $130 million for the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and over $100 million for various capital projects.

Evading “high standards of transparency, accountability and oversight,” the comptroller rightly concludes, “undermine[s] the state’s responsibility to promote an accurate understanding of how public resources are generated and spent.”

It also opens the door to cronyism and corruption.

Finally, there is the issue of state spending sustainability.

A boatload of one-shot revenues from Washington finance existing programs for education and Medicaid.

When that money runs out

next year, where will the revenue come from to maintain those programs? More taxes?

The radicals who control the Legislature will probably say “Sure!

Why not?”

But what about the residents who are now paying the highest state and local taxes in the nation.

Will they say “Why not?”

I doubt it.

About 40 percent of the personal income taxes are paid by the top 1 percent of earners.

“With the prospect of a high tax burden,” the comptroller concedes, “high-income taxpayers may consider relocating … Since the financial plan will be even more dependent on high earning taxpayers, it will only require an additional small number of these taxpayers to relocate to adversely impact revenue projections.”

And since there has been a net migration of taxpayers for the past five years, it is unlikely that trend will change.

New York’s tax-and-spend ideology will not only drive out people from all walks of life seeking economic opportunities and lower taxes, it will drive the state into the fiscal abyss.

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It’s a big ‘Coming Out’ party longtime coming!

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t’s a Great Big “Coming Out” Party!

The entire town was buzzing with the news.

“Have you heard? We can come out of hiding!”

“Finally!”

“Yes, our terrible, long period of waiting is over. It’s finally safe to come out of our hiding places and go around uncovered in the out-of-doors.”

And with that, the 17-year cicadas decided to come out of their underground hideouts, spread their wings and start a raucous party.

I feel the same! I am finally ready to venture outside — I’ll be adventurous with only one mask at a time instead of two— because even though I am fully vaccinated, I think I’m naked with nothing at all on my face.

Golly, it sure is beautiful out here.

“What are these brightly colored things near the front porch?”

“Those are flowers! Daffodils and tulips and look — the lilacs and azaleas are still in

bloom.”

I stumble haltingly over to the bushes as if I’ve never seen such things before and take some flowers into my hand.

When’s the last time I saw spring flowers? I can’t even remember.

These days the way I feel goes beyond anything felt by a cicada — even a 17-year one — and more like being a survivor of nuclear winter. I pry open my door — shoving boxes and stacks of paper goods aside, watching dust cascade off them and onto the floor — and blink at the ball of brightness up in the sky.

The world looks mostly the same, except that random parts of the landscape have disappeared. Bed Bath & Beyond?

Gone. Lord & Taylor? Gone.

The Rite Aid in a nearby shopping center? Poof! Turned into a Walgreens.

Lord & Taylor’s demise hurts me the most; they had decided to stay and renovate and also had the best salespeople. The injustice is all the more stinging

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side when you realize that Macy’s is still with us — the place where I have often been tempted to walk out with an armload of merchandise just to see if that at least might finally trigger some attention from a sales clerk.

Cicadas don’t have these problems. They just need to find a mate.

Luckily for me, I don’t need to find one — merely encourage the one I already have to come outside with me. For example, to the Town Dock, where it’s

plenty exciting enough for us just to sit on a bench and feel the wind on our faces while we watch the waves.

“What is that feeling of heat?” I wonder. “On only one side of my body at a time? And why am I unable to see without squinting?”

“That’s the sun, Judy.

Speaking of which, did you remember to bring any sunscreen?”

“I did not! I haven’t had a single thought about sunscreen for at least 17 months. Anyway, all of ours is probably expired.”

When I went into lockdown, I was still wearing my jacket with the winter lining. I remember being grateful that it was cold outside to keep our delivery groceries chilled until we could get them all wiped down and inside.

Then I put that jacket away. I was planning to throw it away before the weather got cold again. Then came another winter, and I needed that jacket back out.

I no longer have any gran-

diose plans for it — or for any of my other clothes either. If they still fit, I will simply say a little prayer of gratitude and put them on. If they don’t, I will call a charity to come and haul them away.

After that, I will probably have a lot more room in my closets. I’m not saying I gained weight, stress-eating my head off through the pandemic.

I’ll just say there are a lot of my clothes that seem to have shrunk.

It’s easier for a cicada.

Cicadas don’t have to worry about what if their clothes don’t fit. They just shed their skins when they’ve grown too tight and keep on growing.

Months after all the cicadas are gone you’ll be startled by coming across what looks like one of them, clinging to a blade of grass or a tree trunk and it’ll just be an empty husk. I used to find them rather creepy, but this year they will be a happy reminder that The Time of Endless Waiting has now ended for all of us.

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THE BACK ROAD

Maybe I’ll pick a fight with drug companies

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s an 11-year cancer survivor soon approaching retirement, I’ve made some surprising discoveries as I prepare to make the transition from my group health insurance to full Medicare at age 70.

To provide some context, since 2010 I have been through several rounds of treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy and an allogeneic stem cell transplant in December 2019, just before the pandemic.

I like to joke about having had a three-month headstart using PPE – surgical mask, gloves and hand sanitizer. Why? Transplant wipes out one’s old immune system as well as the protections of prior vaccinations on the road to building a new one.

I learned early on that one of the risks of transplant is developing another life-threatening disease called Chronic Graft vs Host Disease (cGVHD). What is it?

When the graft – the new stem cells, attack not only the cancer,

which is the aim of transplant, but also attack the host – including one’s vital organs.

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I am in remission from my non Hodgkins Lymphoma, a blood cancer.

The bad news is that I have developed cGVHD. Thus far, none of my vital organs have been affected, only my skin and joints. It is uncomfortable but not life-threatening. My oncologists work as a team in analyzing my blood, reviewing symptoms and prescribing medications to protect me, to advance the growth of a new immune system and address cGVHD symptoms.

I’ll be retiring this summer. In preparation, I started taking steps to apply for full Medicare insurance. For readers who don’t know, there are four parts: Part A provides inpatient hospital coverage; Part B provides outpatient medical coverage; Part C offers enhanced coverage and Part D provides prescription drug coverage.

Everything seemed routine

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until Part D. There are a number of options to choose from depending on the medications I have been prescribed. There is an easy way to plug in the medications on a website search function and find out what they will cost me.

I discovered that one of the cGVHD oral medications that I am paying zero dollars for on my group insurance, has an average cost of $17,000 for a one-month

supply of 60 tablets. Among the Medicare Part D choices is one which covers very high cost prescription drugs. This, my best choice on Medicare, would leave me with a one-third co-insurance cost or more than $5,500 per month — $66,000 per year.

My heart dropped when I discovered this.

There is an irony in working a lifetime with a salary and health insurance that go a long way to protecting me to a time in my life when I will have fewer resources to guard against exorbitant prescription medication costs, when I will need the care then more than ever.

According to a new report from the RAND Corporation, “prescription drug prices in the U.S. are more than 250 percent times higher overall than those in 32 other countries,” with the gap between prices even higher for brand-name drugs. In Canada, my medication is one-third the cost it is here.

One way or the other I will

figure this out. My options include continuing with my group health plan for a limited period of time at a premium greater than the cost of Medicare, taking advantage of a specialty pharmacy to mitigate somewhat against high cost of the medication, taking less of the medication than prescribed to stretch out a month’s supply to two months or stop taking the medication altogether.

Although I have no regrets whatsoever about retiring, I did not expect to face this battle immediately afterward.

As a career social worker who fought for others to have insurance parity for mental illness, now I know from personal experience how some retirees feel, who live with life-threatening physical illnesses and are faced with scandalous, heart-breaking prescription medication bills.

In recent months, I have been asked how I will keep busy in retirement. I’m not sure. Maybe I’ll pick a fight.

E A R T H M AT T E R S

L.I. faces unbridled development, unseen risks

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he shoreline around Hempstead Harbor has changed over the last decade. Several large condominium complexes have been built or are under construction in Roslyn, Glen Cove and Glen Head, despite considerable opposition by those living in surrounding communities. And there are more developers eyeing tracts of land at the water’s edge on the Port Washington peninsula who have approached the local planning board with their proposals.

It may not be true, but it seems like developers usually win these battles. Planners call this “high density residential development,” and it seems to be particularly popular on Long Island, even though we already have the dubious distinction of being the seventh densest place on Earth.

Many of us think of overdevelopment as increased traffic and long lines at the grocery store, or even long waits for a doctor’s appointment. But there are other risks of continuing to develop an island that suffers from air and water quality issues, contributes greenhouse gases from vehicular traffic and energy use, and is already experiencing the devastating effects of climate change.

As an example, let’s look at the kinds of water contaminants associated with development. Nitrogen, mainly from human waste

and fertilizers, has increased more than 200 percent since 1987. Nitrogen can decimate shellfish beds and cause algal blooms that can harm other aquatic species and even humans.

Some 117 different pesticide compounds have been found in our drinking water supply, mostly from use on lawns. Volatile organic compounds have doubled in concentration since 1987, due to industrial processes and household use. And emerging water contaminants, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), 1, 4-dioxane, pharmaceuticals and personal care product chemicals have federal and state agencies scrambling to require manufacturers to eliminate the contaminants from their products while simultaneously requiring water departments and private water companies to remove them from their water supplies.

Developers seem to view open space as an empty canvas, waiting to be filled with something. I don’t know about you, but I cringe as I drive past the few remaining large parcels of open space along the LIE and see them being destroyed by heavy earth-moving equipment tearing out mature carboncapturing and oxygen-producing trees by their hard-won roots and bulldozing the land. The result will be a flat surface devoid of any plant material, ready for the construction crews and the cement trucks.

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After building a new corporate headquarters or a business/industrial complex or even yet another shopping center, developers will surround it with acres of blacktop parking lots. Most developers will not have put into their specs the use of solar energy or geothermal systems for heating and cooling.

But they will probably carve out a few tree beds in the asphalt to plant some “greenery” just for aesthetics. It would be small consolation if they were at least native species.

“Jobs, jobs, jobs.” we’re told.

How often do we hear that we have to grow the economy in order to stabilize our taxes? Is it really worth ruining our environment for a long time to come to create shortterm jobs? There must be a better way to keep people employed than continuing to stress this unique and fragile island with more built

environment.

Just over a half century ago, Long Island had lots of trees. Deciduous and evergreen woodlands thrived. They helped clean the air and water, protect the land from storm surges and soil erosion and provide habitat and food for birds and small animals.

Open space has always been essential for recharging or replenishing our underground sole source aquifers which provide the water we use for drinking, cooking, bathing and irrigating. It also allows native plants to thrive and provide food for endangered species that are critical to our local food chain. And the benefits for humans to walk, run, play and just be part of the natural world are untold.

Wetlands seem to be targets for developers. These unique ecosystems buffer the area between surface waters and land and serve as nurseries for fin and shell fish, safe habitats for animals, and provide a natural filtering system for pollutants. But in some places on Long Island, they are gone completely. In other places, they are being carefully replanted by volunteers with native grasses and plants in the hopes that they might flourish once again.

Perhaps you have read recently about the periodical cicadas that are about to emerge after spending 17 years gestating under-

ground. They are known as Brood X and the last time they emerged on Long Island (and the Eastern Seaboard) was in 2004. When the soil temperature reaches about 64 degrees, they will emerge in huge numbers and molt, shedding their paper-thin exoskeleton on any nearby vertical surface. The males will then create an almost deafening noise or high pitched trill calling for a mate. After mating, the females will lay their eggs in tree bark, and then the emerging nymphs will fall and burrow into the ground and the 17-year cycle will begin again.

Entomologists fear that these fascinating insects who are an important part of the food chain won’t show up in the same numbers this year, or in some places, not at all. They have predicted that large numbers of this cicada brood will never make it to the surface as their habitats have been paved over by parking lots, roads, shopping malls or large tracts of homes and condominiums. They have been entombed under the blacktop.

If you do happen to observe this once-in-a-generation event, you and even your children can participate in citizen science and help to map and provide observations at this site Got Cicadas? Take a Picture and Help Entomologists Map Their Arrival

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VIEW POINT

Netanyahu, Hamas are only winners in conflict

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he only consensus that has come out so far in this latest Israeli-Palestinian-Hamas tragic conflagration is that both Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Hamas terror organization that controls Gaza have cynically stoked the violence for their own political gain.

I have little sympathy for Hamas under fire from Israel in Gaza. Hamas is a “genocidal terrorist” organization whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the death of Jews anywhere in the world, with no interest whatsoever in peace, in preserving life or actually governing Gaza, and especially no interest in a two-state solution.

They use Gazans as human shields, placing their military infrastructure under hospitals, residential buildings and densely

populated neighborhoods.

Imagine what could have been accomplished for Gazans since 2005 when Israel unilaterally withdrew, abandoning 17 settlements and forcibly removing 10,000 Jewish settlers, with the aid that it received – instead of building infrastructure, Hamas built tunnels, instead of employing Gazans in productive economy, they employ terrorists manufacturing rockets and missiles, assembled from the abandoned plumbing and smuggled arms from Iran, amassing an arsenal of 30,000 rockets.

But Gazans and Palestinians play the victim card extremely well, always managing to ignore their own provocations and murderous acts.

But what is happening within Israel is different story, where the scale of conflict between

KAREN RUBIN View Point

Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis – inter-communal conflict – is new and alarming, and is what Hamas and Hezbollah are using, opportunistically, to seize and expand power that had been fraying.

Indeed, the Palestinian cause had fallen off the front

pages with Arab states largely ignoring it; four even established relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords. Hamas couldn’t have that.

There are 2 million Arab Israelis – 20 percent of Israel’s population – many who had been living side-by-side with Jews for decades (just like before 1948). But in recent years, as Netanyahu grew more and more reliant on support from right-wing extremists in order to keep power (much akin to Trump and White Supremacists), Arab Israelis have been turned into second-class citizens without equal rights in an ostensibly “democratic” country.

In 2018, Israel passed a law that established “national rights in Israel belong only to the Jewish people.”

The controversy that under-

lies the internal uprising – the eviction of six families from a neighborhood in East Jerusalem (which is being adjudicated in court, not mobs) has another side: Jews say that the Palestinian residents are squatters and that the district, which is built beside the ancient tomb of a Jewish high priest, was Jewish until 1948 when Jews were expelled.

“The decades-old legal battle over the fate of a few dozen Palestinians, which Israeli officials dismiss as ‘a real estate dispute,’ has become emblematic of a wider effort to remove thousands of Palestinians from strategic areas in East Jerusalem and a stand-in for the whole decadeslong Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Patrick Kingsley writes in the New York Times.

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Follow Whiteman’s road to see who is happiest

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ear reader pals: If you have the time and inclination I hope you will continue with me on Long Islander Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” to explore happiness.

In his brilliant book, “Homo Deus,” Yuval Noah Harari joins Whitman and other key analysts in contending that happiness is the major purpose of life.

Of course, complex matters need to be explored. How does one achieve happiness? Does the accomplishment rest mostly on personal responsibility or are there a host of other social, structural and relationship factors involved?

How great are the variations among folks concerning how they regard happiness as well as gauging its effects on their lives and relationships? If you think of the memorable line from the film “Casablanca,” you may be “shocked, shocked” to learn that a recent international survey of Global Happiness ranked American people only 18th in the world?

Has the United States improved since 2018 when it was rated among “the most stressful in the world” — 58% of citizens were stressed compared to Uganda, 53%; Costa Rica, 53%; and Rwanda; 52%) Why are 17 nations doing better? With its vast resources and distinctive history, why doesn’t the United States have a higher rating?

Why are Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland rated

as having the best quality of life?

Why has Canada been rated the top country in the world for four years in a row?

What are the polling techniques for taking stock of millions of individuals for happiness within any particular nation? Leading analysts are Gallup and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

As mentioned in my initial column, Jefferson’s celebration of the “pursuit” (“practice” of happiness) has an economic security component. Well before Abraham Maslow developed his “hierarchy of needs,” Jefferson and others argued that folks needed economic security, to foster freedom, individualism and democracy.

Jefferson also had confidence in the essential “benevolence” of individuals; they would strive to better themselves and their communities with virtuous lives that included others. Benjamin Franklin expanded on these views establishing the Philadelphia club “Juntos” when he was only in his 20s.

Consider what Franklin’s regular community gatherings conveyed, beginning in the 1720s. As a deeply caring people person (also a master of epistolary friendships – discussions later!), Franklin recognized that if folks met together regularly, they could become better known to each other. They could share their achievements (building intimacy bonds) and also indicate where they needed assistance and

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field find ways in which cooperative endeavors could enhance their shared community.

I will have much more to say later about comparing happiness levels in various nations, but in each of these “Whitmaneque” essays I will spend some time on the journeys of individuals. Certainly, what Benjamin Franklin organized during the 1720s is still relevant today (perhaps more relevant than other approaches).

In our times when there is much talk of “loneliness (“intimacy”) anorexia,” Franklin’s sustained “community conversations” offered building blocks similar to what Abraham Marlow advocated in his theory of “hierarchy of needs” that build a support system from which individuals could feel confidence and support for “self-actualization” and “peak experiences.”

We need to consider how in-

dividuals today are motivated and energized to link Franklin/Maslow approaches in the pursuit (“practice”) of happiness (taught at home, in schools, by community groups?)

That still leaves questions about what happiness means to folks in their daily lives. Writers like Yuval Noah Harari contend that most intense happiness is often associated with physical pleasure, particularly sexual pleasure. How do we evaluate that in light of the many ways that folks cherish happiness in careers, communities and relationships?

How many folks will cultivate “mindfulness” so they establish paths to happiness and the kinds of satisfactions they consider particularly satisfying and rewarding?

This past week Lester Wolff died at age 102. I saw him frequently at gatherings in Rabbi Robert Widom’s social library at Great Neck’s Temple Emanuel. For years, Lester had been the longest surviving former member of Congress. It was a great pleasure to know Lester for 40 years and to have his assistance when I ran for Congress in 1984.

In many respects, Lester reminded me of a 19th century North Shore writer, William Cullen Bryant, about whom it was said: “He had the wisdom of age in his youth, and the fire of youth in his age.”

Like Bryant Lester Wolff achieved happiness by following the principles of genius outlined

by Leonardo Da Vinci (something

we discussed often). Da Vinci listed 10 qualities of genius all spelled in Italian.

The significant first one was easy to translate: “CURIOSITA” — one might ask if anyone could achieve happiness without an ongoing sense of inquiry, quests for knowledge and understanding.

At one point Lester did TV Q-and-A programs with citizens where he interacted on current events of the day. But as recently as months ago, a group of folks clustered around Lester for a chat in the rabbi’s library. Lester and I were the only ones leaning on canes as the cluster chatted. I urged Lester to sit down with me while younger folks could remain standing if they wished.

I was always struck by Lester’s appreciation of another of Da Vinci’s qualities of genius: “SFUMATO. In Italian this was an expression that literally meant “going up in smoke.” Idiomatically, it meant the ability to deal with “ambiguity.”

Lester Wolff incorporated this into his philosophy and paths to happiness, articularly with his bizarre election loss in 1982.

Those of us who cherished seeing Lester Wolff at Temple Emanuel will dearly miss the many ways he exemplified happiness for all of us.

Still to come: Atlantic Monthly project “What Makes Us Happy,” and Kettering alums “Zoomer” analyses of changing dimensions of happiness.

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Adam Sandler plays pickup in Roslyn Famed comedian joins game of hoops at Christopher Morley Park on Sunday

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SCREENCAP VIA INSTAGRAM, @ROBOBBALL3

Comedian Adam Sandler dribbles during a pickup basketball game with locals at Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn.

One of the nation’s comedy stars appears to be enjoying his time on the North Shore, as evidenced by a recent sighting at a park in Roslyn.

YouTuber and engineer Robert Whitehorn of Huntington, whose Instagram handle is @RoboBball3, posted 44 seconds of footage to Instagram on Sunday showing comedian Adam Sandler, clad in a pink T-shirt, playing a pickup basketball game at Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn.

Sandler, who Newsday reports is shooting a movie for Netflix at Grumman Studios in Bethpage, was playing on one side of the half-court at Morley, Whitehorn told Newsday.

“He walked in very low-key, and one of the people I was playing with said, ‘That’s Adam Sandler on the other end of the court,'” Whitehorn said.

“I noticed the pink polo shirt with the baggy shorts and I wasn’t sure it was him, but he turned his head and I saw his face and I knew immediately.”

Sandler’s team won a half-court

game and played another team fullcourt, Whitehorn said.

While Instagram story content cycles out after 24 hours, sports journalist Anthony Puccio obtained the video from Whitehorn, a childhood friend, and posted two excerpts on Twitter on Monday.

Whitehorn told “Inside Edition” on Tuesday that he is hoping to use the viral interest to convince Sandler to appear in a charity basketball game.

“Mr. Sandler, if you’re even seeing this, so many people pulled up around the park to see you, so I think it would be awesome if you had any free time at all to do a charity basketball game on Long Island,” Whitehorn said. “I would love to help him put that together because he obviously has done a lot of charity, [and] I’ll take care of it. Just let me know. If you would ever want to do that, I’m here for it.”

The sighting came less than a month after Sandler unintentionally starred in another viral video on the North Shore, in which a Manhasset

IHOP hostess lamented over TikTok that she didn’t recognize him when he came into the Northern Boulevard restaurant with his daughter and left after she told him it would be a 30-minute wait.

Sandler later joked on Twitter that he had left because the restaurant’s unlimited pancakes promotion did not apply to milkshakes, which the chain rectified in a special nationwide Milkshake Monday promotion that resulted in Sandler reuniting with the hostess at the Manhasset IHOP. The Brooklyn-born Sandler has shown off his basketball skills on the Island before, including a game in Morley Park in June 2017, with one of his fellow players describing him to Newsday as a “well-rounded” player with a “high basketball IQ.” In June 2019, Sandler stopped

by Hofstra University’s gym in Hempstead with friend and frequent co-star Rob Schneider to shoot hoops with students before a show at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater.

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Also featured is the construction of a new field house, which officials expect to take about three years to complete.

EAST WILLISTON East Williston Board of Education Trustees Robert Fallarino and Leonard Hirsch were re-elected after running unopposed.

Fallarino received 259 votes and Hirsch received 250, according to the district.

Hirsch, from Roslyn Heights, has served two terms on the board.

He has two children, one in Willets Road School and one in North Side School. Hirsch, who grew up in East Williston, was first elected to the board in 2012.

Fallarino, a medical malpractice attorney, won his fifth threeyear term on the board. Fallarino has also previously served as a prosecuting attorney for the Village of Floral Park.

Voters also approved the $64 million budget for 2021-22, which includes $6.81 million to fund capital projects. The budget received 222 votes in favor and 95 votes opposed.

The $63,984,675 budget is a 1.4 percent increase from the $63,091,128 budget for 202021. The budget also comes with a property tax levy increase of 1.67 percent.

Joseph Piscopia, a member of

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Stacey Decillis was elected to the Mineola Board of Education on Tuesday. the Capital Facilities Advisory Committee, outlined several current and future projects underway at the district’s schools. They include the installation of a new irrigation system for the fields at Northside School and the addition of new sidewalks from the parking lot at Willets Road School.

Some projects have been completed recently at the Wheatley School, including the installation of a new gymnasium floor and replacement of the turf on the baseball field.

NEW HYDE PARKGARDEN CITY PARK New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District residents Binu

Jacob and Danielle Fagan won uncontested election bids after three incumbent Board of Education trustees did not seek re-election.

Fagan received 432 votes and Jacob received 368 votes. Jacob and Fagan will fill the spots of Jennifer DeRocchis and David Del Santo, respectively.

Trustee Danielle Messina announced she would also not run for re-election, but received 20 writein votes. Officials previously said the board would appoint someone to fill Messina’s seat if no one else was elected.

Del Santo, who has also served as the Sewanhaka Board of Education president, spent five terms on the board. DeRocchis, a former Manor Oaks Parent Teacher Association vice president, was first elected to the board in 2015 after unseating Frank Miranda. Messina, an involved parent in the school district, was appointed to the trustee position last year.

Efforts to reach Jacob and Fagan for comment were unavailing.

The public also passed the $42.3 million budget for the 202122 school year. The budget received 384 votes in favor, and 265 votes against it.

The budget comes with a tax levy increase of 1.14 percent. The $32,971,547 tax levy will cost the average homeowner $42 more.

It also includes a 0.69 percent

decrease in salaries to $20,649,980 and a 0.32 percent increase in benefits to $10,803,115. Administrators expect a decrease in staffing needs based on enrollment projections, and there has been a decrease in staff due to retirements, according to Michael Frank, the school district’s deputy superintendent.

The district’s voters also passed a resolution to authorize the establishment of a capital reserve fund for a maximum of 15 years not to exceed $10 million with 373 votes in favor of it and 240 opposed.

Another resolution was passed to increase the current transportation limits for kindergarten to sixthgrade students from one mile to 1.5 miles. It received 329 votes in favor of increasing the radius, compared with 314 opposed.

HERRICKS Herricks Board of Education Trustees Brian Hassan and Nancy Feinstein were both re-elected.

Feinstein received 888 votes and Hassan received 675, according to the district.

Feinstein, a Roslyn resident, was elected to her fifth three-year term on the board. She has three children who have all attended and graduated from Herricks schools.

Hassan, an Albertson resident, was also elected to his fifth term on the board. He has three children who have graduated from the Herricks schools.

Efforts to reach the incumbents for comment were unavailing.

Voters also passed the $122.9 million budget. The budget received 825 votes in favor of it, compared with 391 votes opposed.

The budget is a $2.33 million, or 1.94 percent, increase from the 2020-21 budget.

The budget called for a 1.42 percent increase in the 2021-22 tax levy from this year, but it remained below the state cap of 2.51 percent.

The initially proposed 1.86 percent levy increase was lowered to 1.42 percent as a result of additional state aid. The district’s average levy increase since the cap’s inception in 2012-13 is 1.66 percent.

The district also passed a proposition to allow the district to spend $1.2 million of capital reserve funds for renovations to the Herricks High School auditorium. The proposition received 888 votes in favor, compared with 301 against it.

“Our Board and Administration worked diligently to develop a budget that continues to support all programs and opportunities for students yet was well below the allowable tax levy cap,” a district statement said. “We appreciate the efforts of and thank everyone in the community who participated in the budget development process and all those who express a continued interest in our schools.”

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ANTIQUES ROADSHOW TO SANDS POINT PRESERVE

BY R O S E W E L D ON “Antiques Roadshow,” one of the longest-running programs on PBS, is coming to the Sands Point Preserve.

The beloved appraisal show will be filming at the preserve’s 50,000-squarefoot Hempstead House on Sept. 14 – and the producers are looking for collectors who want to put their treasured artifacts on camera.

The program has launched the Antiques Roadshow 2021 Appraisal Contest to find local residents willing to have their antiques appraised when the production shoots in Sands Point for its 26th season, which is scheduled to air on PBS in 2022.

Entrants have until June 7 to submit a short description of their item and how they came to own it, any known story or background information about their item, and two or three digital photos of the item.

Producers will contact entrants prior to

filming in September. Interested people can enter the contest at pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/tickets/apply/. A maximum of two entries are permitted.

Marsha Bemko, who serves as executive producer of the “Antiques Roadshow,” said in a phone interview that the property satisfied several “practical considerations” that the program seeks in its filming sites, including having the size to accommodate the production during the COVID era, and having a rich history itself.

“It’s really nice to have a place that’s rich in history, that people are interested in how this came to be and what is it today, and we can tell that story,” Bemko said.

“And so that all combined led up to a perfect location for us.”

Hempstead House was built in 1902 by financier Howard Gould, following his wife’s disapproval of the 100,000-squarefoot Castle Gould on the same property. Following their divorce, in 1917 Gould sold the

estate in 1917 to mining tycoon Daniel Guggenheim, whose family built several other houses on the property.

After Guggenheim’s death, his widow, Florence, auctioned off the house’s furnishings, and during World War II she allowed 75 British refugee children to live in Hempstead House while foster homes were organized for them.

Florence Guggenheim later donated 162 acres of the estate, including Hempstead House and Castle Gould, to the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1942, resulting in their use as offices and laboratories.

Once operations moved to Florida in 1967, the land was declared government surplus, but in 1971 Nassau County acquired 127 of the acres for public recreational use. With the remaining 90 acres deeded to the county after Florence’s son Harry died, the estate was restored and rechristened the Sands Point Preserve.

The estate is now overseen by the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy and is a frequent filming location for TV and movies.

Bemko said that since the program couldn’t film because of the pandemic last year, she and the rest of the crew are “starving” for unique stories.

“We didn’t get to tour last year right,” Bemko said. “We’re tour junkies, we’ve toured every year except for the last one.

For everyone who is submitting stories now, it doesn’t need to be great stuff. It just needs to have a great story.”

Other locations where “Antiques Roadshow” is slated to film include Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown, Connecticut, on Aug. 10, the Omni Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, on Sept. 1; an unspecified location in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia on Sept. 28; and Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, on Oct. 6.

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The PBS program “Antiques Roadshow” will be filming appraisals at Hempstead House in the Sands Point Preserve.

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Terror expert Nance, Louis in virtual meet On Sunday, May 23 at 3:00 PM, Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present a Video Conversation with intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, moderated by NY1 news anchor, host of Inside City Hall, and CNN political analyst, Errol Louis.

Malcolm Nance is an American author and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, insurgency, and torture. He was a counter-terrorism and intelligence consultant for the U.S. government’s Special Operations, Homeland Security and Intelligence agencies, and is currently a counter-terrorism analyst for NBC News.

Over 34 years, Nance participated

in field and combat intelligence activity including acquiring experience as an Arabic-speaking special intelligence collections operator, field interrogator as well as providing both covert and

Malcolm Nance, Errol Louis

clandestine anti & counter-terrorism support to national intelligence agencies and assets.

A former Navy intelligence operator, he has eye-witnessed numerous terrorist incidents and/or participated in response operations, and has trained and advised numerous international and government agency personnel in terrorist tactics and countering extremist ideology including the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Malcolm is the author of several books, including, “Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight and What They Believe;” “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cy-

berspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election;” the New York Times bestseller, “The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West;” and most recently, “The Plot to Betray America.”

This program is funded by Mortimer Zimmerman, past president of Emanuel, and his family.

Registration for this event is $10.

For further information, to register and purchase a ticket, go to: https://www.scwculturalarts.org/ sunday-series Please call 516.482.5701 if you have additional questions.

Learning the art of graffiti On several recent sunny afternoons outside the Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck students learned the art of graffiti in workshops with guest street artist Zimad; how to paint Picasso-inspired selfie portraits; and the painting techniques required to create Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired flowers.

As the weather has gotten warmer, PopUp outdoor workshops such as these have become just one new way for the non-profit arts organization to offer unique experiences for artists of all ages.

“While students have been enjoying our interactive virtual programming throughout the past year, our new outdoor workshops offer students an experience like no other as the weather gets warmer. Families and friends can come together for workshops in Ceramics, Cartooning, Yoga and more!” explained Kim Pogorelis, associate school director. These outdoor workshops are taking place all spring and summer long outside the Arts Center’s facility on Middle Neck Road and in area parks, as part of Arts in the Park, an exciting new partnership with the Great Neck Parks District.

While one-day workshops are a great way for students to get a taste of the arts, hundreds of students have been working diligently over the past year, both virtually and in-person, in Gold Coast’s art, music and dance departments.

Gold Coast is proud to celebrate these students at their annual Festival of the Arts,

a series of events showcasing the students’ hard work. Events include a Student Art Show featuring paintings, drawings and ceramics by students ages 4 — 17, which can be viewed in the Gold Coast Arts gallery by appointment; and a series of music and dance recitals, which instead of being performed in front of packed auditoriums, will be videotaped live this year at Gold Coast Arts so that family and friends can enjoy the performances from home.

Megan Clancy, a dance instructor at Gold Coast School for the Arts since 2010, is particularly proud of the dedication of Gold Coast’s successful Competition Dance division, which is excited to be competing in its first national competition this July after years of stellar competition performances regionally. “Our competition dancers have demonstrated an impressive level of talent and commitment throughout the pandemic that is necessary to perform at this high level, and their performances are thrilling to watch.”

What’s next at Gold Coast Arts? This summer’s calendar is filled with a wide array of camps, classes and workshops designed for students of all ages. To see all the exciting programs offered please visit www.goldcoastarts.org or call 516.829.2570 for more information. And for a small taste of the great work created over the past year, check out the Arts Center’s newly designed storefront window at 113 Middle Neck Road.

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30 BEST OF NASSAU COUNTY • Blank Slate Media Newspapers, Friday, May 21, 2021

Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST APPETIZER (Con’t) Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen Sullivan’s Quay Williston Townhouse Diner Kyma BEST ASIAN (NOT JAPANESE/SUSHI) MoCA Asian Bistro Hunan Taste Pearl East Chef Wang Chen’s Kitchen East Shore Wok Fortune Wheel Happy Garden Hong Kong Kitchen Kotobuki Moonstone Modern Asian Cuisine & Bar New Garden Nikkei of Peru Kyma Narinatto Fyyhre Hibachi BEST BAGEL SHOP Bagel Master Bagel Boss Boardwalk Bagel & Delicatessen Bagel Boss of Roslyn Let There Be Bagels A&S Bagels Bagel Craft Bagel Haus Bagel Hut Bagelman of Mineola Bagels and Bialys Bagels N A Hole Lot More Barbara’s Bagels Glen Cove Bagel Cafe Greenvale Bagels Hand Rolled Bagels I Bagel Cafe Manhasset Bagels Mineola Bagel Cafe Munsey Park Bagel My Three Sons Bagel Cafe of Williston Park Schmear Bakery & Market Tulip Bagels BEST BAKERY Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace Front Street Bakery Bakers of All Nations Buttercooky Bakery Cardinali Pastry Diane’s Dortoni Bakery and Pastry Shoppe For Five Coffee Roasters Gourmet Bake Shop Inc. La Bella Bakery Leonetti’s Lulu’s Bakery Squared Maria’s Pastry Shop Marie Blachere Marzullo Bakery Polito Bakery Riesterer’s Bakery

St Honore Pastry Shop St. Rocco’s Bakery Sweet Tarte Bakery Cafe Sweet Temptation Desserts Sweet To Lick Vegan Bakery Tulip Bake Shop La Bonne Boulangerie BEST BREAKFAST Thomas’s Ham & Eggery Diner Great Neck Diner Harry’s Hilltop Catering Delicatessen A&S Bagels Dominick’s Italian-American Deli Floral Park Diner Greenvale Townhouse Restaurant Harbor Deli Hicksville Sweet Shop Hinck’s Louie’s Majestic Diner Mineola Diner Old Westbury Diner Omega Diner Restaurant Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen Yesterday’s Diner BEST BRUNCH Thomas’s Ham & Eggery Diner Ayhan’s Mediterranean Marketplace Thyme Restaurant Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Crabtree’s Culinary Architect Catering Galo Tavern 18 Gatsby’s Landing Limani Maggiano’s Little Italy Port Washington Diner Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen Sullivan’s Quay Thyme Kyma Great Neck Diner BEST BUTCHER Prime Time Butcher Whole Foods Market A & F Market Andy’s Meats Inc. Bryant & Cooper Center Cuts Ceriello Fine Foods Pellegrini Meats NY Roslyn Kosher Foods BEST CANDY STORE Bobb Howard’s General Store & Auto Repair Kron Chocolatier Lazar’s Chocolate Tulip Sweet Shop BEST CATERER Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Ayhan’s Mediterranean Marketplace Ardito’s Italian American Deli

Capers Catering & Delicatessen Ceriello Culinary Architect Catering Delicacies Gourmet Delicatessen Garrett Hamilton Grace’s Marketplace LI H on the Harbor Harbor Delicatessen Harry’s Hilltop Deli Holiday Farms Iavarone Bros Colbeh @Temple Beth Sholom Piccolo Ram Caterers of Old Westbury Valley Caterers

Harry’s Hilltop Catering Delicatessen Hinck’s Delicatessen Iavarone Bros Iavarone Bros New Hyde Park Kucks Deli Main Street Deli of Westbury Lakeville Deli On A Roll Deli Parkway Deli & Catering Pastrami Plus Piccolo Gourmet Deli Sam’s Deli Ryder’s Deli The Polish Deli Tulip Caterers

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT Orient Odyssey Hunan Taste Pearl East Dynasty Best Wok Blue Wave Chef Wang Chen Kitchen China Palace Cho Sen Village East Shore Wok Empire Garden Fortune Wheel Happy Garden Hong Kong Kitchen Jade Fortune Jade King Roslyn King House Nanking Nova Asian Bistro Nu Fu Run Orchid Sweet Mandarin Wild Ginger of Great Neck Wong’s Garden

BEST DINER Majestic Diner Great Neck Diner Landmark Diner East Bay Diner Floral Park Diner Glen Cove Diner Greenvale Diner Louie’s of Manhasset Mineola Diner New Hyde Park Diner Old Westbury Diner Omega Diner Restaurant Port Washington Diner Seven Seas Restaurant Stop 20 Diner Thomas’s Ham & Eggery Diner Williston Townhouse Diner Yesterday’s Diner

BEST COFFEE/TEA SHOP The Coffee Shop Bakers of All Nations For Five Coffee Roasters Fresco Creperie and Cafe Great Neck Diner Karmic Grind SerendipiTea The Cup Coffeehouse The Witches Brew Willie’s Coffee Shop Yesterday’s Diner BEST DELI Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Harbor Deli Lido Kosher Delicatessen Ardito’s Deli Brendel’s Deli Capers Catering & Delicatessen Cordon Blue Deli Delicacies Gourmet Delicatessen & Pizza Dominick’s Deli EMF Eastern Meat Farms Deli

BEST FAMILY RESTAURANT Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Ayhan’s Shish-Kebab Restaurant Borrelli’s 1221 at MFP Benihana Restaurant of Manhasset Floral Park Diner Great Neck Diner IHOP Jameson’s Bar & Grill Jonathan’s, New Hyde Park Port Washington Diner Publican’s Samurai Sushi Hibachi Sullivan’s Quay Villa D’Este Villa Milano Your Mother’s House Kyma BEST FISH MARKET Jewel of the Sea/ Victoria’s Market Whole Foods Market Albertson Seafood Market Marine Fishery North Shore Farms Pellegrini Meats Righthouse Seafood Roslyn Seafood Continued on Page 31

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST FRENCH RESTAURANT La P’tite Framboise French Restaurant Bar Frites Brasserie Americana Bar, Lounge & Restaurant Fresco Creperie & Cafe BEST FRENCH FRIES Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers All American Hamburger Drive In Hendrick’s Tavern Port Washington Diner Smashburger Still Partners Sullivan’s Quay Thyme BEST FROZEN YOGURT 16 Handles of Great Neck 16 Handles of Port Washington 16 Handles of Westbury Dulce Delights Go Greenley Yogurt Red Mango of New Hyde Park Yo Blossom Yogurt & Such Cafe of Greenvale YOLO Yogurt & Desserts BEST GOURMET SHOP A&F Market Basil And Prime Gemelli Gourmet Market North Grace’s Marketplace LI H Mart of Williston Park Holiday Farms of Port Washington Iavarone Brothers Gourmet Food, Woodbury Iavorrone Brothers Gourmet Food, New Hyde Park Kitchen Kabaret Long Island Gourmet North Shore Farms Pita Park Sansone Market Whole Foods of Manhasset BEST GREEK RESTAURANT Greek Cove Ayhan’s Shish-Kebab Restaurant Avli The Little Greek Kitchen Ayhan’s Mediterranean Marketplace & Cafe Azerbaijan Grill Ellas Greek Corner Gyro Station Gyrolicious Herb & Olive Kyma Restaurant Limani Mediterranean Kebab House Opa Grille of Williston Park Pita Park Pita Station The Greek Place Wild Fig of Roslyn Yummy Gyro BEST HAMBURGERS Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Harry’s Hilltop Catering Delicatessen

Bareburger Burger Bite Burger King of Port Washington Burger Village Ceriello Five Guys of Garden City Park Galo Tavern 18 Great Neck Diner Hickory’s Famous Wood Pit BBQ Grill Jameson’s Bar & Grill Memories 2 Bar and Grill Mim’s New Hyde Park Diner Port Washington Diner Publicans Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen Schout Bay Tavern Shake Shack of New Hyde Park Sid’s All American Smashburger of New Hyde Park Still Partners Sullivan’s Quay Willies Coffee Shop Yesterday’s Diner BEST HEALTHY EATERY Avo Taco Bee ORGANIC Grillmark BEST ICE CREAM SHOP Sweet Treats On the Wharf Baskin Robbins of Albertson Carvel of Port Washington Carvel of Williston Park Douglas and James of Port Washington Gelateria Dei Coltelli Haagen Daas Hicksville Sweet Shop Manny’s Sweet Treats Red Mango of Lake Success Yogurt and Such of Greenvale BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT Chili & Curry Diwan | Best Indian Restaurant In Long Island 5 Star Indian Akbar Restaurant & Banquet Hall Heritage of India Restaurant of New Hyde Park Jassi’s Pista House Royal Tangra Massala Southern Spice BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT (NON PIZZERIA) Vincent’s Clam Bar Il Mulino Long Island Pasta-eria DiMaggio’s Trattoria 388, Roslyn Angelina’s of Williston Park Angoletto Cafe Anthony’s Lucky Duck Antonino’s Cafe Continental Casa di Fratelli

Cassariano Centro Cucina Cipollini Cugini Da Angelos Pizzeria & Restaurant Eric’s Italian Bistro Ernesto East Fanatico Filomena’s Frantonis Gino’s of Port Washington Gino’s Trattoria & Pizzeria of New Hyde Park Il Mulino King Umberto La Bottega of Roslyn La Pala La Parma of Port Washington La Parma of Williston Park La Piccola Liguria Matteo’s of Roslyn Nick’s Tuscan Grill Poppy’s Place Positano Brickoven Pizza Spaghettini Pizza Trattoria Stressa Tavern 227 Toscanini Toskana Pizzeria Restaurant Trattoria DiMeo Tre Sorelle Uncle Bacala’s Villa D’Este Villa Milano BEST JAPANESE/ SUSHI RESTAURANT Tiga Yamaguchi AIKO Sushi and Bar Asian Fusion Benihana of Manhasset Benihana of Westbury Blue Wave Sushi Bonsai Japanese Restaurant Chef Wang Chez Kama Daruma of Tokyo FYHRE Hibachi Sushi Lounge Hazuki Sushi Hibachi Sushi-Ya Kinha Sushi Kiraku Kotobuki Matsuya Mikawa Nikkei of Peru of Port Washington Osaka Sushi Samurai Sushi Hibachi Shintaro Soku Asian Fusion Sushi Republic Sweet Mandarin Tinbu Asian Toku Tokyo Sushi Wild Ginger of Great Neck

BEST MEDITERRANEAN Greek Cove - East Norwich Ayhan’s Mediterranean Marketplace Bosphorus Cafe Grill Herb & Olive NY Kyma Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT Besito Mexican Restaurant - Roslyn Dirty Taco - Woodbury Burito Blvd Cactus Cafe Chipotle Mexican Grill Green Cactus K Pacho Margarita’s Café, Port Washington Margarita’s Café, Plainview Mole Mole Puerta Vallarta Salsa Mexicana Mesita I Am Nacho Mama Little Mexico BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT Bosphorus Cafe Grill Ayhan’s Shish-Kebab Restaurant Afghan Grill Azerbaijan Grill Colbeh Restaurant Miraj Healthy Grill Pita Station Ravagh Persian Grill BEST PIZZA Pasta-eria Salvatore’s Abeetza Pizza Amalfi Pizzeria and Restaurant Angoletto Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Attilio’s Pizza Cafe Gino’s Carlos Pizza Of Port Washington Ciro’s Pizza Delicacies Gourmet Pizza Eddie’s Pizza Francesca’s Pizzeria Frank’s Pizza Frantoni’s Pizzeria & Ristorante Gino’s of Manhasset Gino’s Pizzeria of Great Neck Gino’s Pizzeria of Williston Park Gino’s Trattoria & Pizzeria of New Hyde Park Green Olive Kosher Pizza & Falafel Iavarone Cafe Joanne’s Gourmet Pizza La Rotonda Ristorante Luigi’s Mama Theresa’s Milano’s Pizza Pizza Cucina Positano Brickoven Pizza Previti Pizza and Papazzio Dining Randazzo Pizza

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST PIZZA (Con’t) Salvatore’s Coal Oven Pizzeria Sergio’s Skinny Pizza Taglio Pizza Umberto’s Villa Meci Pizza Village Pizzeria Vincent’s Pizzeria Vito’s Ristorante and Pizza of Glen Cove Vittorio’s Pizza 3 Brothers Pizza BEST POKE Pokeworks Chen’s Poke Culinary Architect Catering BEST PRIVATE DINING ROOM Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Colbeh Restaurant Umberto’s Restaurant & Pizzeria BEST PUB FOOD Barefoot Peddler Finn MacCools Finnegan’s Pub Green’s Irish Pub Hendricks Tavern Memories 2 Bar and Grill Mim’s Publicans Recovery Room Schout Bay Tavern Still Partners Sullivan’s Quay The Clubhouse The St. James Trinity BEST RIBS Smokin’ Al’s Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que Biscuits & Barbeque Sempre Fame Gourmet Grill and BBQ Restaurant & Catering Smoked Barn Smok-Haus Stuey’s Smokehouse BBQ BEST SALAD Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Majestic Diner Bosphorus Cafe Grill Efresh Great Neck Diner Luigi’s Pizzeria Matteo’s of Roslyn Nancy’s Restaurant Port Washington Diner Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen BEST SANDWICH Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Ardito’s Italian American Deli

Bagel Station Harbor Deli Herb & Olive Manhasset Delicatessen Mineola Diner Pastrami Plus Roast Sandwich House BEST SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Butlers Flat Clam Shack Cedar Creek Cove Restaurant and Oyster Bar Crabtrees Heart of Portugal Kyma Restaurant Las Vinas Peruvian Cuisine Limani Louie’s Sangria 71 The Jolly Fisherman & Steak House BEST STEAKHOUSE Bryant & Cooper Peter Luger’s Steakhouse Brasa Rodizio Churrasqueira Bairrada Franks Steakhouse Hendricks Tavern Kobe Japanese Steakhouse Morton’s The Capital Grille The Harrison The Jolly Fisherman BEST THAI RESTAURANT Sarin Thai Authentic Thai Cuisine Frankly Thai Krung Tep Thai Bistro Nanking Port Thai Place Sopah Thai Kitchen SriPraPhai

HEALTH, WELLNESS & BEAUTY BEST ACUPUNCTURIST Port Salt Cave Inspiration Wharf Acupuncture Wellness P.C. Amy Morse, Plandome Road Art of Acupuncture NY Dr. Anita Sadaty Dr. Dazhi Chen Dr. Gang Shi Dr. Ping Zhang, DOM, LAc Dr. Xiaoling Fang Empire Medicine and Rehabilitation Five Phases Acupuncture P.C. Healing Touch Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation P.C. Healthy Healing Heights Healthcare Jiliang Xiao Acupuncture P.C. Joy Acupuncture Lincar Salon Donnelly Acupuncture Marc Levano Massage Envy Mind Body Medicine Acupuncture North Nassau Acupuncture Pure Wisdom and Acupuncture Healing Center Shui MD Acupuncture and Wellness Tae Hyun Kim MS L.Ac L.MT Tricia M. Amico L.Ac Unsool Park

BEST VEGAN SPOT Bee ORGANIC Burger Village Efresh Rob’s Vegan Place Skinny Pizza Sweet To Lick Vegan Bakery The Witches Brew

BEST AESTHETICIAN Walk-in Dermatology, Greenvale Aesthetic Medical Studio, Great Neck BodyBrite Spa, Roslyn Hope Aesthetics, Roslyn Innessa Mandelbaum at Deep Blue Med Spa, Garden City Marchelle Charles at Beautiology, Mineola Massage Envy, New Hyde Park Optimum Laser Hair Removal, Manhasset Prism Med Spa, Roslyn Red Hots Spa, Roslyn Spa at HealthBridge, Great Neck Skin Concepts, South Hempstead BARE NY Laser Hair Removal & Aesthetica, Floral Park Radiant Skin by Kerry Inc., Great Neck

BEST WINGS Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers Harry’s Hilltop Catering Delicatessen Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Cornerstone Croxley Ale House Eddie’s Pizza Greens Irish Pub Margarita’s Café of Williston Park Memories 2 Bar and Grill Publicans Spanky’s Food Factory Sullivan’s Quay The Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille Wing Zone Wings Plus

BEST ALLERGIST Dr. David E. Wertheim Dr. David Rosenthal Dr. Gary Weinstock Dr. James Fagin Dr. Luz Fonacier Dr. Marcella Aquino Dr. Robert Corriel Dr. Sharon B. Markovics Dr. Susan Hyman Dr. Victor Turow Dr. Vincent R. Bonagura Dr. Mimi Bansal Ear, Nose & Throat Associates of Nassau County Dr. Maria Levada Manhasset Allergy and Asthma Northwell Health Division Of Allergy/Immunology

BEST ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY The Regency At Glen Cove Atria on Roslyn Harbor Plattduetsche Retirement Home Society The Bristal Assisted Living at Westbury Amber Court BEST AUDIOLOGIST/ HEARING AID STORE I Love Hearing Donna Geffner G B Audiology I Love Hearing Inc. KIDZ Therapy Services, PLLC Long Island Audiology North Shore Audiology Dr. Ken Scioscia BEST BARBER SHOP Castle Barber Shop Dennis’ Barber Shop Joe’s Barber Perfection Barbershop and Hair Salon Plandome Haircutters Ralph And Yuris Barbershop Ruben’s Hair Place BEST BOTOX PRACTICE Walk-in Dermatology Bodian Dermatology Group & Medical Day Spa Dr Kelly Mattone Long Island Plastic Surgical Group and Deep Blue Med Spa Aristocrat Plastic Surgery & MedAesthetics: Dr. Kevin Tehrani Dr. Lyle Leipziger BEST BOXING GYM A+ Martial Arts Bout Boxing UFC GYM Long Island BEST CARDIOLOGIST Dr. Antonio P. Madrid Dr. John J Santucci Brookaven Heart Associates Dr. Bruce Jared Rutkin Cardiovascular Wellness Community Cardiology Dr. Adina Pascaru Dr. Alan Goldman Dr. Ari Ezratty Dr. Bart Steinberg Dr. Barton Cohen Dr. Edward Oruci Dr. Edward Rutkovsky Dr. Eveline Grayver Dr. George Yiachos Dr. Justine Lachmann Dr. Lois Gleckel Dr. Louise Spadaro Dr. Marie Roethel Dr. Richard Shlofmitz Dr. Stephen Mezzafonte Dr. Steven J. Siskind Dr. Susan Hyman Dr. Thomas Pappas Continued on Page 34

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST CARDIOLOGIST (Con’t) Long Island Heart Associates Mt. Sinai Medical Associates Dr. Thomas Pappa Premiere Cardiology Associates Winthrop Cardiology Associates BEST CHIROPRACTOR Lawrence Lembo DC 516 Chiropractic DeRiggi Family Chiropractic John Mannion DC Frank Anderson DC Mary McCourt Mitchell Levine DC Robyn Croutch DC Ronny Bergman DC Stephen Pruden DC Forster Chiropractor LLP Gold Coast Chiropractic Great Neck Family Chiropractic Harry Bensiatto DC Long Island Holistic Health Associates Plandome Chiropractic Center Total Health Chiro Valerie D. Tully DC BEST COSMETIC DENTIST ProHEALTH Dental Da Vinci Dental Arts Danoff Dental & Associates LLP Dr Anton Feldman Dr. David Schwartz Dr. David Gardner Dr. Harvey Passes, Passes Dental Care Dr. John Geager Dr. Michael Greenbaum Dr. Scott Danoff Dr. Thomas D. Mondello Dr. Edward Perlow Dr. Joseph Gul Lake Success Dental Group Linsky Dental Group Long Island Dental Group Manhasset Dental Arts National Dental New York Dental Partners Park One Dental Whitehall Dental Arts 3V Dental Associates: Dr. Steven Volk & Dr. Irina Kellerman-Volk BEST COSMETIC SURGEON Dr. Burt Greenburg Dr. Andrew Jacono Dr. Anthony Uria Dr. Arnold Breitbart Dr. Deborah Gotkin Dr. Gerald Acker Dr. H. Sasson Dr. Ilan Silberman Dr. James Bradley Dr. Kevin Tehrani Dr. Nathan Monhian Dr. Pamela Gallagher Dr. Peter Korn Dr. Randall Feingold

Dr. Robert Gotkin Dr. Ron Israeli Dr. Scott Newman Island Plastic Surgery Group North Shore Center for Plastic Surgery BEST DAY SPA Allure Esthetics Aesthetic Center for Cosmetic Surgery Aqua Beauty Spa Beautiology Blast Spa and Fitness BodyBrite Brooks Dermatology Deep Blue Med Spa Dr. Kelly Mattone Eastern Breeze Spa Flirt Spa and Brow Bar Glow Skin Esthetics Hand and Stone Massage Envy of Lake Success Massage Envy of Port Washington New Nature Spa Services Inc. nuBest Port Salt Cave on Inspiration Wharf Prism Med Spa Pure Green Day Spa Spa at HealthBridge The Laser Place The North Shore Medical Spa The Spa at Red Hots Truth and Beauty Spa Viana Hotel and Spa Vita Ageless Medical Aesthetics Flawless Art Med Spa BEST DERMATOLOGIST Walk-in Dermatology Dr. Craig A. Kornreich Advanced Dermatology All Island Dermatology Avalon Dermatology Bodian Dermatology Brody Dermatology Complete Care Dermatology Group Dr. Clifford Berck Dr. Vivian Yee Dr. Angela Azar Dr. Carole Hazan Dr. Deborah Sarnoff Dr. Karen Wesson Dr. Laurie Levine Dr. Navin Arora Dr. Robert Gotkin Dr. Helen Flamenbaum Manhasset Dermatology Group Dr. Mimi Bansal North Shore Dermatology Associates Northwell Health Dept of Dermatology Dr. Deborah Porges Schweiger Dermatology SNC Dermatology Winifred Chu DO BEST E.N.T (EAR/NOSE/THROAT) Dr Raymond Soletic Dr. Moishe Ephrat Dr. Joshua Werber

Dr. Maseih Moghaddassi Dr. Alexander Sorin BEST ENDOCRINOLOGIST Dr. Rachel Fetner Ageliki Valsamis DO Dr. Kenneth Herson Dr. Carla M. Romero Dr. David Lieberman Dr. Jonathan Kaplan Dr. Lynn Hawkins Dr. Martin Greenfield Dr. Paul Margulies Dr. Perry B. Herson Dr. Robert L. Levine Dr. Rory S. Breidbart Dr. Tharakaram Ravishankar Endocrine Associates North Shore Diabetes and Endocrine Associates Northwell Health Division of Endocrinology Winthrop Endocrinology BEST FITNESS FACILITY Ultimate Performance + Fitness A+ Martial Arts Blast Spa and Fitness Body In Balance Body N Sync ConfiDanZe & Fitness Cross Fit Nine 7 D-Fine Fitness Equinox of Great Neck Evolution Pilates Excel Workout F45 Training Fitness Figures Harmonious Pilates InForm Fitness Integrated Fitness Solutions Killer Body Fitness & Training Kings Point Fitness Legacy Strength Gym Manhasset Fitness Center New York Sports of Great Neck NXT Gen Fitness of Port Washington Peak Performance Power 10 Push Fitness Club Relentless Strength & Performance Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Sportime of Roslyn Taecole Tae Kwon Do Fitness The Fitness Loft of Manhasset Training Station Athletic Club BEST GASTROENTEROLOGIST Dr. Neeraj Kaushik Anfang and Zimmerman Digestive Disease Care Digestive Medicine of Long Island Dr Brian Markowitz Dr. Alan Lipp Dr. Anthony Celifarco Dr. Arthur Talansky Dr. David Berger Dr. Geraldine Lanman Dr. Gregory M. Ackert Dr. Ian Storch

Dr. Joanne Lee Dr. Joel Laxer Dr. John Rizzo Dr. Leena Sayedy Dr. Leonard Treihaft Dr. Lisa Lih-Brody Dr. Madhu Patel Dr. Nathan Schulman Dr. Perry Milman Dr. Robert Brunner Dr. Ronald Greenberg Dr. Alan Sloyer Gastrointestinal Associates of Long Island Hillside Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Long Island Medical Gastroenterology Mt. Sinai Medical Associates North Shore Gastroenterology Northwell Health Physicians Partners NYU Langone Nassau Gastro Assoc.

Dr. T. Cristina Sardinha Winthrop Internal Medical Group BEST GENERAL DENTIST Dr. Frederick Steinberg Dr. Harvey Passes, Passes Dental Care Bella Smiles Da Vinci Dental Arts Danoff Dental & Associates LLP Dental Care of Manhasset Distinctive Dental Services of NY Dr. Anton Feldman Dr. Adrianne Koster Dr. Antoinetta Pannullo Dr. Anthony Mondello Dr. Emily Halpern Dr. Howard Baylarian Dr. Jeffrey Navre Dr. Joseph Parisi Dr. Lu Dr. Maria Eubig Dr. Michael Greenbaum Dr. Morris Chimon Dr. Paul Eisen Dr. Stuart Rubin East Hills Dental Associates Dr. Edward L Perlow Essential Dental of Roslyn Dr. Eugene Simons Floral Park Family Dental Four Seasons Dental Care Dr. Sandra Garcia Iryami Golan Family Dental Great Neck Orthodontics PLLC Dr. Jack Gruber Gruber Dr. Krecko Andrejs Lake Success Dental Group Linsky Dental Group Long Island Dental Group Manhasset Dental Arts Mineola Dental Care National Dental New York Dental Partners North Shore Dental Group of Manhasset Park One Dental Port Washington Dental Dr. Alan Ganci Silverstein & Vinciguerra Dr. Neal Seltzer The Dental Center NY

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST HAIR SALON Salon Rock Lauren Lavelle Adelina Hair Salon All 4 Hair All In One Salon Salon Allure Ambiance Hair Salon Angelo’s Hair Salon Aria Hair Salon BAM Style Beauty Bar Glen Cove Bogart & Co Hair Salon Cuttin Club Dari’s Barber DiRosa Hair Hair Junkie Salon Hairsay Salon Illusions Hair Design Inspire Hair Care Salon Jadore De Hair Lakeville Hair Studio Lemon Tree Hair Salon Lemon Tree of Williston Park McGreevy Salon Nicole Rose Hair Salon Nina Josephine Hair nuBest Salon and Spa Paragon Hair Salon Profile Hair Salon Salon 311 Salon ECO Salon Pop Salon Ruby Salus Day Spa Sorell The Cut Salon The Haircutters of Roslyn Tomy B. Salon Touch of Class II VS1 Hair Salon Wash Salon and Color Lounge William Matt Salon Bella Luna Hair Salon Adesso The Salon Great Hands Hair Salon Wisdom Salon Biometrix Hair Center Glass Beauty Bar Luminez Salon Mirror Mirror Hair Boutique BEST HEALTH FOOD STORE Organic Peak Rising Tide Whole Foods of Manhasset BEST HEALTH SYSTEM Catholic Health Services of Long Island Northwell Health NYU Winthrop Pro Health HSS Long Island BEST HEARING AID STORE Contemporary Hearing Aids G B Audiology I Love Hearing Inc. Long Island Audiology North Shore Audiology

BEST HOSPITAL St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center® Long Island Jewish Medical Center Northwell University Hospital` NYU Winthrop Hospital BEST IN-HOME ELDER CARE SERVICE Sara Companion HomeCare Services 7 Day Home Care Advanced At Home PT BrightStar Homecare Jzanus Home Care SafeCare Seniors Helping Seniors Eastern Nassau BEST INTERNIST Dr. J. Ezra Haller Dr. Rory S. Breidbart Dr. John Peters Dr. Anthony Ardito Dr. Ari Ezratty Dr. Carl Ruoff Dr. David Edelson Dr. David Hoch Dr. Gabriel Dugue Dr. HIlary Kushner Dr. Joanne Gottridge Dr. Kenneth Ackerman Dr. Lori Cohen Dr. Marc Meltzer Dr. Marius L. Pessah Dr. Mark Corapi Dr. Marlene Lobato Dr. Rosa F. Pereira DO Dr. Roseann Russo Dr. Sanford Ratner Dr. Scott M. Tinter DO Dr. Steve W. Rucker Dr. William Klein Dr. Joel Laxer Manhasset Primary Care Mount Sinai Medical Associates North Coast Internal Medicine North Nassau Cardiology Associates Northwell Health Department of Internal Medicine Winthrop Internal Medical Associates Dr. J. Ezra Haller Winthrop Internal Medical Associates BEST LASER TREATMENT CENTER Bodian Dermatology Group & Medical Day Spa BodyBrite Deep Blue Med Spa Dr Kelly Mattone Ideal Image J. K. Laser Aesthetics The Laser Place BARE NY Laser Hair Removal & Aesthetica Aesthetic Medical Network Simi Beauty Salon Zen Retreat

BEST MASSAGE CLINIC/STUDIO Beautiology Studio & Spa Besties Nail & Spa Blue Horizon Spa Deep Blue Med Spa Massage Envy of Lake Success Massage Envy of Port Washington New Nature Spa Services Nicole Nahmias, Great Neck Therapeutic Massage and Wellness Red Hots Spa Yang’s Wellness Massage Foot Kiosk BEST NAIL SALON Bellissimo Nails Emma’s Nails Ahava Nail Spa Besties Nail & Spa Black Diamond Nail & Spa Cleo Nails Fine Nails & Spa Friendly Nail Salon Glamour Nail Salon and Spa Jane Nail Spa Kacsi Nails & Spa Kings Point Nails Lovely Nails Milk and Sugar 11 Nail Sense Noble Nails nuBest Ogi Nails Red Nail Divas Salon ECO Tulip Nail & Spa Wheatley Nail Spa Lala Nail & Spa JY Style Spa & Nails BEST NEUROLOGIST Dr. Philip S. Ragone Dr. Abraham Glassman Dr. Laura Schoenberg Neurology Dr. Rina Caprarella Dr. Anthony Cohen Dr. Grace Forde Dr. Itzhak Haimovic Dr. James Liguori Dr. Lawrence J Robinson Neurological Associates of Long Island Dr. Noah Rosen BEST NUTRITIONIST/DIETICIAN Eleana Kaidanian Allison Marshall, ProHEALTH Care Josephine Tutrani, HealthBridge June Alpert Laura Burak NutriHealthny, Port Washington Weight Watchers BEST OBGYN/OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY PRACTICE Dr. Terry Rifkin Dr Wendy Fried Dr. Agnes Chen-Steibel Dr. Hera Sambaziotis Dr. Hetty Chung

Dr. Eileen Krim Garden City Obstetrics & Gyn Dr. Jennifer Hanauer Dr. Maria Levada BEST OPHTHALMOLOGIST Dr. Susan Resnick Dr. Peter D’Arienzo Dr. Anat Benjamin Dr. Aimee Eichen Dr. Allison Angelilli Dr. Faye Warren Dr. George Tung Dr. Jerome Martin Garber O.D. Dr. Jules Winokur Dr. Lawrence Jindra Dr. Mark Weiss, Marcus Avenue Dr. Martin Fox Dr. Stephen Kronwith Dr. Frank Loffredo Lake Success Ophthalmic Associates Long Island Eye Surgeons New York Ophthalmology P.C. Dr. Brad Kligman BEST OPTICIAN Focal Point Optical Optical Heights 20/20 Eyecare In Focus Eyewear London Optical North Shore Optics at Roslyn Eye Center Pearl Vision of New Hyde Park Pearl Vision of Roslyn Pearle Vision Roslyn Eye Centre See World Optics Inc. Visual Eyes of Albertson BEST OPTOMETRIST Alice Mann Dr. Jerome Martin Garber O.D. Dr. Linda Gulotta, Optical Heights Katims Optometrists London Optical North Shore Vision Services OCLI Unique Eye Optique Village Optical Vision World Visions of Manhasset BEST ORTHODONTIST- ADULT Dr. Laura Danoff Dr. Robert Panzer Great Neck Orthodontic Group Luccarelli & Barrese Orthodontics BEST ORTHOPEDIST Dr. Jonathan Danoff Dr. Michael Angel Dr. Peyton Hays Dr. Stanley Asnis Dr. Barry G. Simonson Dr. Peter R. Langan Dr. Glenn Teplitz HSS Long Island Continued on Page 36

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST PAIN MANAGEMENT Comprehensive Pain Management Associates Contemporary Rehab Dr. Carole Agin Dr. Christopher Burrei Dr. David Rosenblum Dr. Edward S. Rubin Dr. James D’Olimpio Dr. Kiran V. Patel St Francis Hospital Pain Associates BEST PERIODONTIST Dr. Steven Cooper Dr. Barbara Berwald Dr. Barry Greenfield Dr. Demetrios Tsiokos Dr. Edward Ginsberg Dr. Edward Jutkowitz Dr. Jordanna Fleischer Dr. Marichia Attalla Dr. Steven Kerpen Dr. Stuart Heimann North Shore Periodontics BEST PERSONAL TRAINER Anthony Giallanzo, Ultimate Performance Ashley Davi, A+ Martial Arts Jason Nelson, Trainerize.me Kings Point Fitness Ray Messina, Taecole Tae Kwon Do, Albertson Petros Arzoumanidis, Workout Anywhere Inc. BEST PHARMACY Village Pharmacy Of Syosset Carman Drugs East Hills Pharmacy Franklin Square Pharmacy Grace Avenue Pharmacy Greenvale Pharmacy & Homecare Harbor Hill Pharmacy Manhasset Park Drug New Grace Pharmacy Roslyn Pharmacy Smith Pharmacy Town Pharmacy BEST PHYSICAL THERAPIST Health Solutions Physical Therapy PCLouis Tortorello Advance at Home Physical Therapy House Calls Body Movement Physiotherapy Contemporary Rehab Dynamic Physical Therapy Healing Touch Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation P.C. KIDZ Therapy Services PLLC Marathon Physical Therapy of Great Neck Metro Physical & Aquatic Therapy Panetta Physical Therapy Peak Performance Physical Therapy Physical Solutions PT Pro Sports Performance and Physical Therapy Total Performance

BEST PILATES STUDIO Body N Sync Harmonious Pilates Evolution Pilates Art of Pilates Long Island My Pilates Studio Club Pilates BEST PODIATRIST David Sands DPM P.C. Advanced Podiatry of Roslyn Comprehensive Podiatric Care Country Foot Care Phil Palmieri DPM Arthur Kaplan DPM John Burzotta DPM Michael Pliskin DPM Mitchell Greenbaum DPM Russell Caprioli DPM Gary F Stones DPM Great Neck Family Foot Care Lance I. Greiff DPM Long Island Foot and Ankle Group Mark F Buthorn Jr., DPM National Foot Care Center North Shore Podiatry Robert J Gottlieb DPM P.C. Westbury Foot Care BEST RADIOLOGIST Dr. Thomas F. Mannino Dr. Sharon Taylor Dr. Brett Cox Dr. Ken Crystal Dr. Scott Sherman Jericho Specialty Imaging Nassau Radiology Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology HSS Long Island Radiology BEST REHAB CENTER Advance at Home PT AMG Occupational Therapy P.C. Excel Workout Healing Touch PT of New Hyde Park Long Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Marathon Physical Therapy Northwell Health Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Services Peak Performance Sands Point Center for Health and Rehab Sports Physical Therapy of Manhasset Zelik Ziegelbaum BEST SENIOR LIVING Amber Court Assisted Living at Westbury Amsterdam at Harborside Atria at Cutter Mill Atria at Roslyn Harbor Plattduetsche Retirement Home Regency at Glen Cove The Bristal at Lake Success The Bristal at North Hills Orchard Estate of Woodbury Assisted Living & Memory Care

BEST TATTOO ARTIST/ BEST TATTOO SHOP Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics Lark Tattoo Tony’s Tattoo and Body Piercing Twin Moon Creations BEST THERAPIST Dr. Rosara Torrisi Dina Kalnicki Psy.D Dr. Karen S. Miller Erica Rubrum Therapy My Way Dr. Marlene Levy BEST URGENT CARE FACILITY CityMD of Great Neck CityMD of Mineola Excel Urgent Care of New Hyde Park Go Health of Port Washington Nassau Immediate Medical Care Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care NYU Winthrop Urgent Care ProHEALTH Urgent Care of Roslyn Stat MD Urgent Care BEST VASCULAR/VEIN CARE Dr. George Hines Dr. John Gallagher Dr. Peter Patetsios Dr. Richard Matano Dr. Saqib Chaudhry Dr. Thomas Panetta Dr. William Purtill North Shore Vein Center Schulman Vein and Laser Center BEST VITAMIN STORE Nature’s Remedy Pharmacy Organic Peak Rising Tide Whole Foods of Manhasset BEST WAXING SALON Grace Drazal at Aesthetic Medical Studio Pamper Aesthetics & Make-Up Sonia’s Waxing Plus BEST YOGA STUDIO Ashtanga Yoga Long Island ConfiDanZe & Fitness Glen Cove Yoga Om Sweet Om Yoga Yoga Life at Sands Point Preserve

HOME AND DESIGN BEST AIR CONDITIONING COMPANY T.F. O’Brien Jack Gayson Plumbing & Heating Co. Inc. Mel Modern Systems Systematic Control Corporation Slomin’s Universe Home Services

BEST APPLIANCE STORE P.C. Richard & Son All Shore Appliance Hampton Major Appliances and Televisions Alper’s Hardware Gold Coast Appliance Mr. Jay Appliances P.C. Richard & Son of Greenvale P.C. Richard & Son of New Hyde Park The Home Depot BEST ARCHITECT Costa Architects Frank Petruso Architect Guilor Architect Hierarchy Architecture and Design James Thomas Martino P.C. Jared Mandel Architect P.C. Landow and Landow Architects AIA Matthew Korn Architect N2 Design + Architecture P.C. Norman Glavas Notaro Grupp Associates Pinner Architecture Rosenbaum Design Group Architecture Sanford Berger Schneider Architectural Works P.C. Sussan Lari Architect P.C. Vassalotti Associates Victor Famulari BEST CARPET, FLOORING STORE Anthony’s World of Floors Inc. Harry Katz Carpet One Floor & Home Campbell’s Carpet Service Inc. Country Carpet & Rug Designer Rugs & Carpet by Peykar Glen Floors J&R Kitchen and Flooring Long Island Ceiling and Floors Millennium Class Carpet National Carpet Sid Hall Floors The Home Depot BEST CONTRACTOR W.E. Bonnie Contracting Northern Contracting Micron Restoration Inc. Elite Kitchen & Bath / Express Contracting Express Contracting of Great Neck Golden Hammer Home Improvement GRB Construction Harbor Remodeling Island Contracting Metropolitan Painting and Contracting North Shore Signature Homes Pascarella and Son Contracting Perri Logan Group Precision Plus Home Remodelers Reality Roofing RJ Flynn Home Improvement T Michaels Contracting Inc. Ted Emmerich Construction V.A.R. Home Improvement Wendel Home Center Continued on Page 38

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST ELECTRICIAN W.E. Bonnie Contracting ADB and Sons Electric Inc. Albertson Electric H&A Long Island Electric Home Run Electric Generator Showroom JHACS Electric K.J. Kenny Inc. Michael Mirino Nello Electric Roslyn Electrical Company Scotty’s Electric Services Inc. BEST GARDEN STORE/NURSERY Abby’s Parkside Nursery & Florist Inc. Bayles Garden Center & Nursery Inc. Di Stefano Garden Center Eagle Nurseries Garden World Hicks Nurseries Inc. North Shore Garden Center Venezia Garden Center Zaino’s Nursery & Garden Center BEST GRANITE, MARBLE, TILE STORE GENROSE Stone + Tile (Formerly Galleria Stone & Tile) Cancos Tile Architectural Tile and Bath C-Line Marble and Granite Country Carpet Glamour Tile Manhasset Marble Park Tile Porcelanosa RAI Design Renaissance Marble Works Siena Marble & Tile Swan Tile & Cabinets The Tile Shop BEST HARDWARE STORE Feldman Lumber Ace Hardware of Glen Cove Ace Hardware of New Hyde Park Albertson Hardware Alpers True Value Hardware Do It Best Hardware Costello’s Ace Hardware of Garden City Park Glen Head Hardware Raindew Family Center Randy’s Hardware Store Shields Hardware BEST HEATING AND AC COMPANY Baker Air Heating & Air Conditioning Abballe Plumbing and Heating Absolute Comfort Inc. Air Ideal Arvada Mechanical Corporation Gelber & Sons Jack Gayson Plumbing & Heating Co. Inc. Mel Modern Systems Nassau Heating and Cooling Rebman Plumbing Heating & AC Systematic Control Corporation T. F. O’Brien Thomas Curley Plumbing and Heating

BEST HOME DECORATOR/ INTERIOR DESIGN In-Two Design Baltimore Design Center Interiors by Dafna Adler F&F Design Center Margali & Flynn Designs Color Age Stores The Rinfret Group Abaca Interiors BEST HOME FURNISHING STORE Baltimore Design Center Restoration Oak Safavieh Home Furnishings Arhaus Classic Dinette Crate and Barrel Duxianna Home Goods of Port Washington Home Goods of Westbury Horizon Furniture Mitchell Gold Bob Williams Nude Furniture NY Peter Andrews Color Age Stores Thomasville Walpole Outdoor Furniture BEST HOME ORGANIZER Stow and Behold California Closets Jane’s Addiction Organization Neat Freaks SMART Organizing by Geri 1-866 WE JUNK IT - Dumpster Rental NYC BEST HOME PAINTER All American Painting CertaPro Painters of Nassau County Granath Color Works iPaint and Contract Inc. Jose Garcia Pereira Michelangelo Painting and Wallpaper BEST HOME THEATRE & AUDIO Home Theater of Long Island Audio Breakthroughs Audio Command of Westbury Certified Custom Integrators Long Island Sound and Cinema BEST KITCHEN & BATH Showcase Kitchens Elite Kitchen & Bath / Express Contracting Boss Cabinetry Eli Cabinetry J&R Kitchen and Flooring Inc. Ken Kelly Kitchen Designs Kitchens and Baths by Precision Kolson Korenge Mineola Kitchen and Bath Pin Point Design The Kitchen Studio

BEST LANDSCAPER Bromante Landscape Design Inc. Collura Bro’s. Landscaping Inc. Di Stefano Landscaping Frank Graves Irrigation Grounds Guys of Garden City Hicks Nurseries Inc. Hines & Zaffarese Landscaping Milena’s Garden Center Organic Solutions Peter Fuschetto Landscaping Roma Horticulture Sontelli and Sun Landscape Venezia Garden Center BEST LOCKSMITH Able Lock Shop Frog Lock Key Star Locksmith of Great Neck Lock City Locksmith of Port Washington Precision Lock & Safe Inc. Randy’s Hardware & Variety Center S N Z Locksmith Inc. BEST MOVING COMPANY A & J Moving & Storage Verity Van Lines Inc. All The Right Moves Ltd., Moving & Storage Gentil Moving Services Inc. Men On The Move BEST OIL COMPANY Hy-Grade Fuel Petro Home Services Slomin’s BEST PAINT STORE Sherwin Williams, New Hyde Park Sherwin-Williams Paint Store Aboff’s of Glen Cove Aboff’s of Roslyn Alper’s True Value Hardware Benjamin Moore of Mineola Costello’s Ace Hardware of Garden City Park Feldman Lumber New Park Paint and Wallpaper Raindew Family Center Sea Cliff Paint and Hardware Sherwin Williams of Mineola Sherwin Williams of Port Washington The Home Depot Willis Paint Place & Design Center BEST PEST SERVICES Parkway Pest Services Aladdin Pest Control Masters Exterminating Optimum Pest Control Orkin Pest Paramount Pest Management Rest Easy Pest Control BEST PLUMBING AND HEATING Botto Brothers Plumbing & Heating Bellmore Plumbing & Heating Kaufman Brothers Plumbing Supply Abballe Plumbing and Heating Ben Dinkin Plumbing

Floral Park Plumbing and Heating Frank and Son Plumbing and Heating G H Cody Inc. Stan Gelber and Sons Heating & Plumbing Jack Gayson Plumbing & Heating Co. Inc. Kostynick Village Plumbing Miller Brothers Plumbing & Heating N.J. McCann Plumbing & Heating Sakowich Plumbing and Heating Scott Glazer Plumbing T F O’Briens Thomas Curley Plumbing and Heating Williston Plumbing & Heating BEST REAL ESTATE AGENCY Scout Residential Team at Compass Douglas Elliman Port Washington HomeSmart Premier Living Realty ERA Caputo Realty The Friedman Team Coldwell Banker Realty - East Hills Regional Office Daniel Gale Wheatley Plaza Douglas Elliman Williston Park Douglas Elliman Manhasset Compass Keller Williams Realty of Greater Nassau Laffey Real Estate Scout Residential Douglas Elliman Syosset BEST REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY Kaplan, Kaplan & DiTrapani LLP Dory Salem Jamie Heiberger Harrison Matt Ditrapani John J. Randall IV Roy J Mirro Associates P.C. Ackerman Law PLLC BEST REALTOR Alana Benjamin, Compass Scout Residential Team at Compass Nicole Eskanazy, Douglas Elliman Melanie Cogan, Scout Team at Compass Joyce Styne, Berkshire Hathaway Susan Cherney, Douglas Elliman The Friedman Team Abe Kanfer, Daniel Gale Alyce Tucker, Coldwell Banker Realty Andrea Levine, KW Gold Coast Beth Catrone Realty Christie Lavelle, Coach Realtors Dalia Elison, Douglas Elliman Gabor Karsai, Landmark Realtors Gloria Dallal, Century 21 Heidi Spellman, Heidi Spellman Realty Jen Schultheis, Keller Williams Jeri Eisinger, Coldwell Banker Joanne Mackonochie, Douglas Elliman John Pan, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty John Russo, Coach Realty Ken Deutsch, Deutsch Realty Linda Ragione, Laffey Real Estate Lisa Donatelli, Douglas Elliman Lisa Gelman, Coldwell Banker Banker Realty Continued on Page 40

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST REALTOR (Con’t) Maggie Keats, Douglas Elliman Mark Leventhal, Compass Mary Kay Connors, Daniel Gale Melissa Assael, Douglas Elliman Michael Alpert, Daniel Gale Michelle N Cohen, Compass Mindy Miles Greenberg, Douglas Elliman Patricia Rummel. Patricia Rummel Real Estate Roy Sobel, Premier Properties Tony Piscopio, Douglas Elliman Trudy Elliott, Keller Williams Wendy Sanders, Douglas Elliman Linda Freedman, Douglas Elliman BEST ROOFER Blake Windows, Siding & Roofing F & F Roofing Co. Reality Roofing Unified Roofing Wendel Home Center Clearview Roofing and Construction

PETS BEST ANIMAL HOSPITAL Feline Veterinary Hospital Station Plaza Veterinary Group Port Washington Animal Hospital V.E.T.S. Group, New Hyde Park Animal Hospital Crawford Dog & Cat Hospital Dr Joseph Silverman, Garden City Park Animal Hospital Garden City Park Animal Hospital Great Neck Animal Hospital Green Forest Veterinary Hospital of Glen Cove Jericho Animal Hospital Manhasset Animal Hospital Mid Island Animal Hospital Mineola Animal Hospital Old Shore Animal Clinic Veterinary Referral & Emergency Center of Westbury Williston Park Animal Hospital BEST DOG WALKER Good Dog Lady Laura Abrahamsen Doriana Hyman In Home Pet Services of Nassau’s Gold Coast Leslie’s Leashes Manhasset Animal Hospital Pet Sitters Club Dan’s Dog Walking and Pet Sitting BEST GROOMER Doggie Den Inc. Luxury Pet Spa & Boutique Manhasset Animal Hospital Ruff Life Mobile Grooming Shirwill Trim Shop Spock and Elvis Unleashed By The Bay

BEST PET STORE Luxury Pet Spa and Boutique New Hyde Bark Pet Smart of New Hyde Park Pet Supplies Plus Petco of Albertson Spock and Elvis The Left Paw The Pet Store Next Door Unleashed By The Bay BEST PET SITTING/BOARDING Good Dog Lady Laura Abrahamsen Best In Show Pet Resort Catnip and Carrots Central Vets of Mineola Garden City Park Animal Hospital Leslie’s Leashes Manhasset Animal Hospital Pet Smart Pet Sitters Club Roslyn-Greenvale Veterinary Group Spock and Elvis The Left Paw Wiggily Waggily Dog Walking Service Dan’s Dog Walking and Pet Sitting Hounds Town BEST VETERINARIAN Station Plaza Veterinary Group Dr. Joseph Farmiloe Animal Hospital of Roslyn Catnip and Carrots Central Vets of Mineola Cove Animal Rescue Dr. Joseph Silverman, Garden City Animal Hospital Dr. Jay Berkowitz Dr. Julie, Garden City Park Animal Hospital Dr. Michael Ezell Green Forest Veterinary Hospital Manhasset Animal Hospital New Hyde Park Animal Hospital North Shore Animal League Old Shore Animal Clinic Roslyn-Greenvale Veterinary Group Roslyn Village Veterinarian The Cat Doctor Veterinarian on Wheels Village Vets West Hempstead Animal Hospital Williston Park Animal Hospital

SERVICES BEST ACCOUNTING FIRM D.J. Dolan Tax Group DeMarco & Nesi CPA Frank J. Stella CPA Goldstein and Bashner Heritage Financial Planning Howard Ginsberg CPA Joseph Gil Liberta & Milo LLP Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP Marino Menz & Co. LLC Michael Allen, CPA Milligan Muller

Robert H Swerdloff PLLC Rooney, Schmidt & Associates Rosen and Glaser CPA Stephen Goodman E.A. Steven Bachmann and Company Trager, Kevy & Trager LLP BEST BANK BRANCH Apple Bank Northern Blvd Bank of America Capital One Forest Ave. Citibank 1535 Northern Blvd Citibank, Middle Neck Road Dime Bank Jericho Tpke.

First National Bank of Long Island, Glen Head Road Hanover Community Bank Jericho Tpke.

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Jovia Financial Credit Union People’s United Bank, Glen Cove Road Roslyn Savings Bank TD Bank, Great Neck Road TD Bank, Willis Avenue Wells Fargo, Northern Blvd Wells Fargo, Plandome Road BEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Port Washington Chamber-Commerce Floral Park Chamber of Commerce Great Neck Chamber of Commerce Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce Manhasset Chamber of Commerce Mineola Chamber of Commerce Roslyn Chamber of Commerce Williston Chamber of Commerce BEST CHARITY Women Of Integrity Inc. Cancer Care Inc. Family and Children’s Association Life’s WORC Ronald McDonald House of Long Island Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases BEST CORPORATE VENUE The Inn at New Hyde Park Hilton Garden Inn Jericho Terrace Leonard’s Palazzo Swan Club The Inn at Great Neck BEST DRY CLEANERS Giovanni’s Garment Care Veroli Cleaners & Tailors Ltd $2.99 Pressed Cleaners Alpian Cleaners Beau Geste Cleaners Butler Cleaners Chen’s Cleaners Continental Cleaners Country Cleaners East Hills Cleaners Executive Dry Cleaners Great Neck Plaza Cleaners Inc. Green Tree Cleaners Harbour Hill Cleaners Joy Cleaners

JRS Dry Cleaners Lakeville Dry Cleaners Manor 2 French Cleaners Mayflower Cleaners II New Vincent Cleaners Nu Natural Cleaners Park Manor Dry Cleaners Plandome Road Cleaners Tres Bon Dry Cleaners Unique Dry Cleaning BEST FINANCIAL ADVISOR Charles Schwab Davidov Financial Coaching Gino Carollo, Citibank Ginsberg Wealth Management LLC Jeffrey Blank, Ameriprise Financial Kleinman Financial Services Rooney, Schmidt & Associates Inc. S K Management Consultants Inc. Stephen Goodman E.A. The North Shore Group at Morgan Stanley Fidelity Investments BEST FIREHOUSE Protection Fire Engine Co. #1 Syosset Fire Department Carle Place Fire Department Albertson Hook & Ladder, Engine & Hose Co. No. 1 Inc. Floral Park Fire Department Garden City Park Fire District Great Neck Vigilant Fire Co. Mineola Fire Department HQ Plandome Fire Station Roslyn Highlands Fire Department East Williston Fire Dept.

BEST FUNERAL HOME Roslyn Heights Funeral Home Carl C Burnett Funeral Home Austin Knowles Funeral Home Cassidy Funeral Home Dodge Thomas Funeral Home Fairchild Sons Funeral Home McLaughlin Kramer Megiel Funeral Home New Hyde Park Funeral Home R. Stutzman Funeral Home Riverside-Nassau North Chapel Thomas F. Dalton Funeral Home Weigand Brothers Funeral Home Whitting Funeral Home BEST GREEN BUSINESS Restoration Oak Winters Bros. Recycling of Long Island Hicks Nurseries, Inc. BEST HOTEL/MOTEL Floral Park Motel Hilton Garden Inn at Westbury Holiday Inn Express at Roslyn-Manhasset Inn at Great Neck Continued on Page 41

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Best of Nassau County Nominees • Vote at theislandnow.com/contest2021 BEST INSURANCE AGENCY Mark Smith - State Farm Insurance Agent Allen Insurance & Associates Allstate Insurance - Nicholas Stavola Allstate Insurance - Richard McKenna Double Eagle Insurance Haller Zaremba & Company Inc. Hiram Cohen and Son Jacoby Life and Pension Planners Inc. Keats Insurance Agencies - Nationwide Insurance Krug Insurance Manhasset Agency Metlife of Lake Success N S Gigoutakis & Co. Northwestern Mutual of Great Neck Prudential of Manhasset Rosenweig Insurance State Farm Insurance - Jim Paterson State Farm Insurance Nancy Morris Agency The B&G Group Inc. Valentine Agency All-State Insurance- Ken Marcus Noah Bank, Insurance Broker BEST LAW FIRM/LAWYER Law Office of Stephen J Silverberg P.C. Pegalis Law Group LLC Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe LLP Anita Nissan Yehuda Bart Sobel

Bellavia Blatt & Andron & Crossett P.C. Brownstein, Gurfein, Weingarten Burton Weston Great Neck Castillo Law Firm Collard and Roe Davidov Law Group Dennett Law Offices Goldstein and Bashner Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt James Iannone Katrina Paterson Makofsky & Associates P.C. Martin Weinberg Michael Adges Nancy Peters Randall, John R IV Robert J Kurre & Associates Salamone, Gruber, Blaymore & Strenger P.C. Sanders, Sanders, Block & Woycik, Viener & Grossman P.C. Scott Limmer Sontag & Hyman Tadler & Hoil The Law Firm of Alan W. Clark & Associates LLC Wisselman, Harounian & Associates

Friendly Limo Lancelot Limousine Services Inc. Manhasset Plandome Taxi Port Limo and Taxi Stars & Stripes Limo Bus Corp.

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BEST PRINTING SERVICES Beyond Printing Co. Arland Printing D & J Printing

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The 6,000-year long battle of the sexes

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n the film version of”My Fair Lady” Rex Harrison sings plaintively “Why can’t a woman be more like a man” expressing the confusion that exists between the sexes. This Oscar winning masterpiece has been referred to as the “perfect musical” based upon the story by Bernard Shaw, the music by Lerner and Loewe and the cast, which included Audrey Hepburn, who plays Elisa Doolittle. Throughout the play, Eliza works hard to obtain some respect and dignity while Rex Harrison, as Professor Henry Higgins, treats her with condescension. This Broadway smash has been revived many times as it attempts to understand the differences between the sexes and the struggle to find love. The last revival was in 2018 and this time around Elisa walked out on Higgins in search of her own career and this ending fell flat, based upon the audience reaction. The differences between the sexes are not only seen in plays but in real life as well. As a sport psychologist I would say that men are drawn to sports more than women. Men are often content to spend the weekend watching football, baseball,

basketball, hockey, golf or tennis depending on the season. If not that, then they are on the links or on the court competing to win.

If you look deeply enough, you can see male confusion, jealousy and fear around every corner in sports. If Freud were alive. he would look at football and remark, “Vas is des I see? A big fat man squatting down and then passing the ball between the legs into zee arms of zee other man? Des football is it not reminiscent of a baby and of childbirth?” Freud would tell you these are symbols of child-

Is there really that much difference between men and women?

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birth and the male imitating the female for some reason.

Or if soccer is your game, watch as 10 men carefully guard penetration into their end zone.

Freud may say, “Why do des 10 men protect their end zone so well? Are des man afraid of penetration and of thus becoming girls?

And vie do des winners hold the winning trophy in the air and kiss it. Do they think of it as their little newborn baby?”There is clearly an odd intermingling of values and jealousies that are hidden at every turn here. Men seem to be stuck in the competitive mode and are apt to boost and posture while women are stuck in the cooperation mode

with sweet smiles and a need to comply.

The Me-too Movement has revealed some basic issues here and feminists have long talked about the fact that women are marginalized in every way possible. What exactly is the source of this conflict between the sexes? The genesis of sexism is thousands of years old.

Man has marginalized, objectified, minimized, infantilized suppressed, depressed and idealized woman since the Bronze Age way back in 4,000 BC. When men were able to create weapons and tools, they conquered nature, but their fear of Mother Nature remained and was projected onto females.

And when you fear something, you want to keep it contained. At least this is the feminist reasoning and I see no reason to at all to dispute this interesting point that remains in place 6,000 years later.

This has been called the 6,000-year-old battle of the sexes and as in all battles, it proves to be a waste of precious resources. And Sun Tzu widely counseled in “The Art of War” the best strategy of all is to avoid war if you can.

And it may be that the LGTB

trend that we now see is the culture’s effort to right this imbalance.

As an example, coaching would be vastly improved if more professional teams started hiring women as head coaches. They tend to be more humane, empowering, supportive and interested in the players’ development rather than the win-loss record. And when you respect and empower your players and treat them as humans, they will win for you far more.

If that trend leads us into better relations between the sexes, then bravo to the LGBT movement. It seems that when women are marginalized and minimized and treated as anything but equals, it leads to anger, resentment, exhaustion and depression on all sides. Men wind up as overworked dominating, disappointed chest thumpers and women wind up as sweet-smiling. teeth-clenching beauties who feel alone, trapped and undervalued as humans.

The proof that things seem to be changing is seen in politics where we have a female vice president. As the song goes “The times they are a changing.” I would say it’s about time.

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ack in March 2015, a rally was held in front of the closed Sixth Precinct building on Community Drive. Ostensibly arranged by the supervisor, the rent-a-crowd of “concerned citizens,” who looked like they had been rounded up from the town’s motor pool, were flanked by what newspapers call “local leaders.”

One leader was not local.

Legislator Kevan Abrahams was there to show his support, which I always thought was odd. As far as North Hempstead is concerned, Mr. Abraham’s district may as well be in Macon, Ga. No matter how many times then Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said it would be of absolutely no benefit, and the crime data didn’t warrant it, an alliance of payroll padders in government as well as some over-moneyed matrons who deemed themselves experts in law enforcement logistics, pushed the reopening. You have to forgive them. Some of these

people live in such fear of contact with the commoners, they think they need an armed guard to enter the Buttercooky. And now they have one.

But as big a farce as most knew the reopening of the Sixth was, time reveals all. On Feb. 18, 2021, Newsday reported on county negotiations with the PBA and wrote “PBA President… McDermott’s one strong card might be Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s bid for re-election in November: The PBA hammered her in the leadup to her 2017 win against Republican Jack Martins and thereafter. Curran wants a deal done and wouldn’t mind a few new friends in blue.”

So Newsday simply blurts out that when it comes to staffing and remuneration, reality doesn’t matter. What the administration needs is “friends,” and they’re going to squander your tax dollars to get them.

About half of Nassau County’s officers earn over $200,000 a year, with “separation pay” averaging another $200,000,

sometimes hitting $500,000.

Pensions average $100,000. All this, for patrolling one of the safest areas in the nation if not the world.

And now, the Nassau County government, itself merely a pension and benefit extortion scheme that provides sundry municipal services as a side hustle, has to sing for its supper if it wants “friends” and campaign contributions. I mean, how often do you get to bribe the counterparty you’re negotiating with?

Perfectly legal, darling.

But a terrible thing happened along the way: a nineminute snuff film showing the final moments of George Floyd’s life was flashed around the world, and there were calls for reform.

There’s a lot of dirty stuff that’s gone down in the county when it comes to how law enforcement engages with minority communities that doesn’t make headlines. Like a lot that goes on here, either you know or you don’t. But it’s always

been there. The Floyd incident, almost providentially, provided a pretext to deal with it.

So when it came to a police reform plan, the county executive politely listened to representatives of the communities most likely to be affected.

And then blew them off.

Three county legislators, none of them white, voted against the plan.

Legislator Abrahams was always a team player. He went along with what the leadership wanted in a county where every road, every bridge overpass, every local zoning rule, every school district boundary was specifically designed for a single outcome. And he kept quiet about it all this time.

But this was too much.

Members of his own leadership shoved Mr. Abrahams and the other two legislators not under the bus but to the back of it. And hard. Hard enough for them to go over the heads of the state party leader and the county executive to plead to the New York State attorney general for

oversight.

Politically that is a seismic rift. Just as outrageous as the executive’s dismissive action, that’s how the PBA paid Mr. Abrahams back for his unqualified support of their profligacy.

Laura Curran’s spokesman was quoted as saying, “After hundreds of meetings and countless hours of input from community stakeholders, the Nassau Police Reform Plan passed the legislature in a bipartisan manner.”

Actually, not bipartisan.

How many times have I told you there is no such thing as a Long Island Democrat? Moreover, Messrs. Jacobs and Curran must have known how the dissenting legislators felt about the plan, and they went ahead anyway.

Ralph Ellison has been dead for 27 years. Mr. Abrahams is still invisible. Maybe for not much longer.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Hempstead allocates $22M for rental assistance Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin, along with the entire Hempstead Town Board, authorized a $22,749,744.50 relief grant for the Long Island Housing Partnership, Inc. for the creation of an Emergency Rental Assistance Program.

This program was specifically designed to help the more than 1,500 residents within the town who are facing housing insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. LIHP will spearhead the initiative and administer the program that will provide assistance to people in need.

Clavin today announced the details of the grant at Hempstead Town Hall with Peter Elkowitz, resident/CEO of Long Island Housing Partnership and James Britz, Executive VP & COO of Long Island Housing Partnership, and was joined by Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, Councilman Dennis Dunne, Sr., Councilman Tom Muscarella, Councilman Chris Carini, Town Clerk Kate Murray and Receiver Jeanine Driscoll.

“This is one of various initiatives that has been made possible thanks to the advocacy of Sen. Schumer in securing the extension of last year’s funding,” said Clavin. “Since the pandemic started, we have seen an increase in both home and food insecurity in our town. Initiatives with the INN, Long Island Harvest, Long Island Cares and now The Long Island Housing Partnership, Inc. are essential to help residents and families in the community face the unexpected challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The program can assist with current and prospective rent, arrears for utilities and home energy costs, and other expenses related to housing such as rental security deposits to ensure housing stability.

Assistance under this program could be provided for up to 12 months of payments, with an additional 3 months if necessary to ensure housing stability, and will cover arrears and costs accrued on or after March 13, 2020.

Residents that meet the below criteria are asked to fill out a

short interest form at one of the following links: English form:https://www. lihp.org/hempsteadERAP.htmlSpanish form: https://www.lihp. org/hempsteadERAP-SP.html Those who fill out the interest form will be contacted as soon as the application process officially launches, which is expected in mid-May. It is important for residents to know that this assistance program will work solely on a first-come, firstserved basis. The Interest and Intake forms, as well as the Pro-

gram Guidelines, will be available in English and Spanish.

Qualifying Criteria— Eligible residents must be able to answer yes to the following questions: 1. Do you live in the Town of Hempstead as your primary residence?2. Is your household income (from all sources) at or below 80% (see income guidelines below) of the U.S. Department of Urban Development Area Median Income?3. Are you at risk of homelessness or housing instability? (e.g. past due

utility or rent notices)?4. Has one member of the household (a) qualified for unemployment, (b) had a reduction of income, (c) incurred significant costs, or (d) experienced a financial hardship?

Once the program opens if residents need help filling the intake form out online, there will be resources provided to assist including kiosks, or other locations in the Town of Hempstead where people will assist residents to submit the intake form, or by calling the established Call Center. Furthermore, there will be informational videos for both tenants and landlords on the LIHP website, also in different languages to help respond to any questions should these arise.

“The Long Island Housing Partnership (LIHP) is proud to work in partnership with Supervisor Clavin and the Town of Hempstead to provide rental assistance to those low- and moderate-income residents struggling to pay their rent due to COVID-19 impacts,” said Peter Elkowitz, President/CEO of the Long Island Housing Partnership.

Upcoming at the Williston Park Library Carl DelVecchio Memorial Library www.willistonparklibrary.org By: Donna McKenna, Director E-mail: wppubliclibrary@gmail.com Thank you to all the families and community organizations who donated pet food and supplies to our annual collection drive for LI Cares! Your generosity is overwhelming!

New titles added to the collection: Windsor Knot—S. J. Bennett Super Host—Kate Russo Early Morning Riser— Katherine Heiny Dictionary of Lost Words— Pip Williams When the Stars Go Dark— Paula McLain Sentinel—Lee Child Invention of Miracles—Katie Booth Fast Burn: the Power of Negative Energy Balance—Ian Smith, MD To Raise a Boy—Emma Brown

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Adult Programs Reiki—Thursdays—May 20—6pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. $10 p/person, p/session.

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Children’s Programs Summer Reading Club Kickoff— Saturday—June 26—11am-1pm in the parking lot of Village Hall. This year’s theme is Tales & Tails. Children of all ages are welcome to register for programs, dance to a DJ, and enjoy ice cream from a genuine Mr. Softee truck!

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Business&RealEstate Will there ever be a bubble?

If you have noticed, there have been sporadic reports of a bubble in real estate and then other reports that there is no bubble in real estate. How would one determine the future of real estate? Did you read the real estate column in the Sunday, May 16, Newsday? It talked about bidding wars, lack of adequate inventory, and the intense and passionate fervor of purchasers who are all in on competing for their next place to call home.

Prices have increased by over 16 percent year over year throughout the U.S. Looking at my crystal ball and pinpointing and coming up with an exact answer over the next 10 years would be way too difficult.

However, over the next few years, I see things will continue as we are currently experiencing them, but hopefully increases will not be as much. However, there are three variables in determining the market and housing values. First it’s inventory, and if it was a normal six to seven months. then sales would still be good or could potentially be even higher than today due to the excessive demand sucking up all the availability.

But if inventory were to be even higher for 10 to 11 months

like in 2008, (when interest rates were much higher), that could make demand as well as prices substantially lower; as in Las Vegas and California where prices fell 30 percent or more. The Case-Shiller report in 2008 saw prices drop as low as in 2004 and were down for 27 months in a row. December 2008 saw a decrease of 18 percent year over year. Here is the link to the article: https://money.cnn.com/2008/12/30/real_ estate/October_Case_Shiller/ index.htm One other important factor today is the Dodd-Frank law that made banks scrutinize their loan requirements and eliminate “nodoc” subprime/low down payment loans to those who would be most affected by downturns and subjected to “underwater” mortgages. So today’s financing requirements are much more strict and the environment is the complete opposite of what it was in 2008. If you had a pulse and were breathing back then, banks would provide you financing. Today you have to qualify with an adequate debt/ income ratio and no doc loans of the past have morphed into stated-income, verified-asset loans. However, monthly selfemployment business income

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can also be used to qualify for a mortgage.

Fortunately, we are very far away from those higher inventory numbers and interest rates are so much lower now than then. Rates back then were as follows:2006 6.41%2007 6.34%2008 6.03%2009 5.04% Depending on the sale price the cost of financing is far less than 13 years ago. Also, there are purchasers who have greater equity in their current homes to be able to move up and their salaries and/or businesses have a higher income than back in 2008. Read the statistics by RealtyTrac: https://www.realtytrac.com/news/why-the2021-real-estate-recession-willbe-different-from-2008/

Foreclosures will be considerably less even after forbearance ends due to the majority of properties having positive equity that has built up over the last 10 years. In three out of the last five recessions real estate had positive increases (see article).

It would be much easier to sell today and leave with cash in your pocket compared to 2008 when millions of mortgages were underwater with zero or negative equity and families just walked away from their homes. The scenario for a bubble currently does not exist and I don’t see this happening for many years. So the supply-anddemand economics comes into play, meaning further increases in prices will continue. I am not quite sure how builders can increase the required inventory to satisfy demand today into the future, as land values have also increased as well as lumber and the component costs to be able to build homes. We are experiencing a perfect storm for both sellers and qualified purchasers.

Over the last 10 years, more and more millennials and others have been entering a market with decreasing inventory and then all of a sudden the Covid-19 pandemic hit us, making many leave cities to

purchase single-family homes in less dense locations. Maybe looking back this will have been the most historic time in real estate selling, purchasing and investing. I would call this a win/win environment where everyone who is selling will be making money and those who are buying will do so with still bargain interest rates. I see the tipping point when prices go beyond the reach of a greater number of buyers (and possibly higher interest rates), creating a cooling-off period.

Unless there is some catastrophic event, I don’t see prices going down any time soon. I do not see interest rates approaching what they were back in 2008. Otherwise, if that were to occur, then the third variable, demand, would be adversely affected as well as the cost of U.S. domestic and international debt, which would truly be unsustainable! That would change the mindset of the market (some due to financial costs and some due to psychological reasons) and a great many purchasers would pull back and either stay where they are or more would consider renting, which would be beneficial to landlords and investors.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 6474289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com Just email or snail mail (regular mail) with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

122 Dorset Avenue, Albertson

73 Syracuse Street, Williston Park

4 bd, 1 ba, 1,083 sqft, Sold on: 3/5/21, Sold Price: $525,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

3 bd, 3 ba, 1,658 sqft, Sold on: 2/9/21, Sold Price: $515,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

405 Congress Avenue, East Williston

70 Liberty Avenue, Mineola

5 bd, 4 ba, Sold on: 2/26/21, Sold Price: $1,600,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,545 sqft, Sold on: 3/1/21, Sold Price: $575,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies.

This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Former Congressman Lester Wolff dies at 102 Continued from Page 2 delivered a message to Deng from then President Jimmy Carter, which ultimately led to the diplomatic recognition of China and exposing of a large heroin supply destined for the U.S. and its troops stationed in Vietnam located in the “Golden Triangle” of Southeast Asia.

The two discussed Taiwan, and Deng was hoping American ties with Taiwan wouldn’t hinder the potential for diplomacy with China, Wolff said.

Wolff, whose family practices Reform Judaism, was a founding trustee and board member of Temple Emanuel in Great Neck. He lived in Great Neck for more than 50 years before moving to Muttontown. The congregation held a funeral service for its longstanding member on Sunday. Among those who spoke were family, friends, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, former Congressman and Ways and Means Committee head Charles Rangel, and Robert Zimmerman, a founding partner at Z.E. Communications.

Zimmerman, said he and DiNapoli were on Wolff ’s political youth commit-

tees growing up. Both thanked Wolff for being a mentor and a friend for them, along with expanding their horizons and instilling values they still carry to this day.

“What Lester was able to accomplish and the people whose lives he touched and the eyes he opened and inspired was truly special,” Zimmerman said.

“He expanded my horizons in my world, and he did that in so many ways with so many other people too.”

“Lester led a distinguished career in public service, dedicated to serving the Long Islanders he represented,” DiNapoli said. “He was both a mentor and friend to me and will be dearly missed.”

Temple Emanuel Senior Rabbi Robert S. Widom reflected on Wolff ’s accomplishments in a statement to Blank Slate Media.

“We mourn the loss of Congressman Lester L. Wolff, who was a founding member of Temple Emanuel of Great Neck,” Widom said. “He served our nation with distinction, believing in the positive role that America was destined to play in the world. He was appointed

by President Jimmy Carter to represent our country at the United Nations as Deputy Chief of Mission with the rank of ambassador. He also received the nation’s highest civilian award, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, which was a source of great satisfaction.

“Lester was a Reform Jew, and he took his Judaism seriously, believing that it was the embodiment of his finest aspirations and ethical ideas, principles to be practiced and not merely preached. He will be missed, leaving everyone who knew him a treasure of memories that will deepen and mellow as the years go by. May his memory be a benediction.”

Wolff was also an environmentalist, fighting against a proposed 8.5 milelong Oyster Bay-Rye bridge. U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) led a bipartisan effort to change the name of the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge in honor of Wolff last year.

The refuge is the largest one in the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, covering 3,209 acres. It is

home to a variety of animal life such as waterfowl, northern diamondback terrapin and harbor seals. It also includes a freshwater pond, salt marsh and subtidal habitats.

Suozzi, in a Facebook statement, thanked Wolff for his service on the North Shore and spearheading efforts to preserve natural resources in the 3rd Congressional District.

“Congressman Lester Wolff was a statesman, a champion of civil rights, a formidable proponent of our environment, a mentor, and my friend,” Suozzi said. “Rest in peace, good and faithful servant.”

Despite his advanced age, Wolff continued to write books, was active on Twitter and was in talks with Netflix about creating a movie based on an “assassination attempt” Wolff experienced while in a helicopter of the “Golden Triangle.”

In addition to his son, Wolff is survived by a daughter, Diane Yorg, four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

Hall of Fame another spot for Ex-Port resident Kalinsky said that “I Am the King of the World,” a decade-spanning collection of his Ali photographs exhibited at the New York Historical Society Museum in 2019, is the work of which he is the proudest.

Kalinsky also had a close working friendship with a different kind of heavyweight, Frank Sinatra, having photographed his concerts at the Garden.

“Frank and I became very close,” Kalinsky said. “He came into my office at the Garden one day and he said, I want you to tell me all you know about photography in five minutes. And then five minutes turned out to be three hours, we had lunch. And so we became very friendly.”

Four days after Sinatra’s death in 1997, Kalinsky said, the crooner’s daughter Tina called him at his office.

“She was crying, and she called me with tears in her voice,” Kalinsky remembers. “And she said, ‘Of all the pictures that have ever been taken on my father, no one has captured his essence as you have.’ And that was the most defining moment of my career when she said that, because for her, for the amount of pictures that were taken of him in his lifetime, that she must

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have had access to – for her to say what she said, that was a very important moment for me.”

One of the biggest surprises of his career, Kalinsky said, came in 2001, when he was called and told that he had been named International Photographer of the Year by the PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association, the highest honor in professional photography.

“I hung up on the guy,” Kalinsky said with a laugh. “I knew that I was good but I didn’t think I was that good, and I thought it was a crank call ... but it turned out that it was true, and I won the award. And at that moment in my life, which was 2001, I felt like that was the most important thing that had happened to me.”

Since that win, Kalinsky has also received honors from the National Center For Disabilities, which he cochaired for several years; the National Arts Club; numerous awards from his alma mater, the Pratt Institute; the Knicks’ Dick McGuire Legacy Award; and inductions into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame.

His work has also been added to the Library of Congress in Washington,

D.C., and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society Museum and the International Center of Photography.

Additionally, Kalinsky is credited with authoring or providing photographs for 10 books, including “Garden of Dreams,” a look at the first 125 years of the Garden with a foreword by journalist Pete Hamill; “The New York Mets: A Photographic History” with a foreword by New York Gov. Mario Cuomo; and “Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judaism,” with a foreword by actor Kirk Douglas. An 11th book is on the way, he says, as is a documentary on his life to be produced by Frank Sinatra Enterprises.

Kalinsky last saw his beloved Garden on March 8, 2020, when the Knicks scored a win against the Detroit Pistons in their final home game before the COVID-19 lockdown. Since then, he has stayed inside his Upper East Side apartment with his wife, Judy.

Now that New York venues are opening, he said, he’s ready to get back to work whenever the Garden calls him.

“I’m certainly not going to call it quits,” Kalinsky said.

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Continued from Page 3 “The most difficult part of my job is when I’m not working, because I love to work,” Kalinsky said. “I love photography, and I love to create. Realistically, the most difficult part of my job is getting people to look good, and to be able to look like themselves at the same time.

“How I work depends on also what I’m photographing. If I’m photographing a concert, I want to make sure that I have pictures that show what the person is like, and to learn to try to make the photos that I take better than anyone else ever took. Actually, I’m sort of quiet in some ways and I’m very competitive in other ways. I know that if I’m doing a Knick game or any any sporting event, then I have to I drive myself to get not only the best picture I can, but the best picture that anyone got.”

The Miami training pictures would be the first of many that Kalinsky took of Ali, including the Fight of the Century against Joe Frazier at the Garden in 1971 and their sequel fight in 1974. Kaminsky would also suggest the “Rope-a-Dope” technique to Ali in his fight against George Foreman, and the two would be friends for over 50 years.

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Local Dems, GOPers applaud mask rules Continued from Page 1 out a face covering or social distancing. On Monday, Cuomo announced that New York would adopt the centers’ guidelines effective Wednesday.

Under the guidelines, masks are still required in schools, on mass transit and in health care settings, and unvaccinated people are required to wear masks in public settings.

“The people of New York and visitors alike should take solace in the lifting of mask requirements, but be respectful of those who may still feel safest wearing their mask in public and business owners who may still ask patrons to don their mask,” Cuomo said.

“We are ever closer to our better, safer New York.”

Cuomo said more than 52 percent of New Yorkers over 18 years old had been fully vaccinated, with more than 652,000 residents in Nassau County being fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat, touted Cuomo’s decision to adopt the national guidelines and lauded the work of Nassau County health entities getting vaccinations into the arms of residents.

“The Governor’s decision to adopt the CDC mask-wearing guidance today reflects that truth as Nassau continues to put lifesaving shots into arms,” Curran said in a statement. “As Nassau continues to lead the State for people receiving the vaccine, I trust our residents are able to make the right decisions for themselves and their families.”

Nassau County Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) called on Cuomo to adopt the centers’ guidelines before the governor’s announcement on Monday. Nicolello said not adopting the guidelines would be a disincentive to people getting the vaccine.

“In Nassau County, more than 70% of eligible adults have now had at least one dose of the vaccine and the percentage of people testing positive for the virus has plummeted to below 1%,” Nicolello said.

“For months we have been urging people to get vaccinated. The time has come to follow the science and update the mask mandate as the federal government has done.”

Cuomo announced two weeks ago that the state would lift a majority of capacity restrictions, including outdoor and indoor social gatherings, along with residential gatherings, beginning on Wednesday. Capacity

limits for businesses would also be replaced with allowing individual businesses to permit as many patrons as they desire, so long as there is six-foot social distancing.

And under the latest guidance, businesses do not need to maintain six-foot so-

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York will adopt the new mask-wearing guidelines set forth by the CDC last week.

cial distancing if all patrons are vaccinated in the establishment or in a designated area.

Cuomo announced that limits on outdoor social gatherings would increase from 200 to 500 people on May 10, and the limits on indoor social gatherings would increase from 100 to 250 people on Wednesday. Also, as of Wednesday, there are no restrictions on residential outdoor gatherings throughout the state, and the limit for residential indoor gatherings increased from 10 to 50 people.

Cuomo said that any event with an excess amount of people will be permitted only if everyone in attendance can provide proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test or full vaccination.

Beginning Wednesday, large-scale indoor events are permitted to function at 30 percent capacity, an increase from 10 percent. Large-scale outdoor event venues are permitted to function at a 33 percent capacity, Cuomo announced. He said patrons for both types of venues will require proof of full vaccination.

Cuomo also announced that hair salons, barbershops and other personal care services may expand to 75 percent capacity, and gyms and fitness centers may expand to 50 percent capacity.

Roslyn man sentenced for bankruptcy fraud Continued from Page 4 committee and law enforcement, about Kamensky’s attempt to block the Investment Bank’s bid for MYT Securities,” federal prosecutors said. “Kamensky said at the outset of the call, in substance, “this conversation never happened.”

Federal prosecutors said that during the call, Kamensky allegedly asked the bank employee to falsely say that the employee had been mistaken and that Kamensky had actually suggested that the bank bid only if it were serious.

“Do you understand … I can go to jail?” Kamensky is quoted as saying. “I pray you tell them that it was a huge misunderstanding, okay, and I’m going to invite you to bid and be part of the process … But I’m telling you; this is going to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. This is going to go to the court …[I]f you’re going to continue to tell

them what you just told me, I’m going to jail, okay? Because they’re going to say that I abused my position as a fiduciary, which I probably did, right? Maybe I should go to jail. But I’m asking you not to put me in jail.”

During a subsequent interview with the Office of the United States Trustee, which the U.S. attorney’s office said was conducted under oath and in the presence of counsel, Kamensky stated that his calls were a “terrible mistake” and “profound errors and lapses of judgment.”

Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement that Kamensky had abused his position.

“Daniel Kamensky abused his position as a committee member in the Neiman Marcus Bankruptcy to corrupt the process for distributing assets and take extra profits for himself and his hedge fund,” Strauss

said. “Kamensky predicted in his own words to a colleague: ‘Do you understand … I can go to jail?’… ‘this is going to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.’ His fraud has indeed come to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and now has been revealed in open court.”

The attorney’s office said Marble Ridge resigned from the committee handling the Neiman Marcus bankruptcy and has advised its investors that it intends to begin winding down operations and returning investor capital.

Before sentencing, Cotes said that Kamensky was a “good man, but one who lost his moorings” and succumbed to the pressure of running his own firm. “He came undone,” Cote said. “He tried to control what he could not control.”

“It is particularly unfortunate – in many ways tragic – that the recovery Dan achieved on behalf of all the unsecured

creditors is what led to the conviction based on a breach of fiduciary duty to the very same unsecured creditors,” Joon Kim, Kamensky’s attorney, said in court prior to sentencing.

Neither Kim nor Kamensky had any further comment when reached, a press representative said.

Kamensky was previously a partner at Paulson & Co., and prior to that held roles at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, and was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

He received the Jewish National Fund’s Theodore Herzl Leadership Award in 2017, having helped to found the organization’s Finance for Israel group, and is a former member of the board of trustees for the Schechter School of Long Island, which in 2019 named him a guest of honor at its annual gala.

Soundview to reopen, other cinemas uncertain Continued from Page 12 Major theater chains including Regal, which has eight theaters on Long Island including one in Westbury, and AMC Theaters, which has eight, including one each in Glen Cove and Garden City, reopened with reduced capacities

in October.

As for two remaining independent theaters on the North Shore, whether the Manhasset Cinemas or the Roslyn Cinemas will reopen is not known. Both have stood dormant since the start of the pandemic, and efforts to contact the

Great Neck-based Gilman Management Corp., which owns and operates both theaters, were unavailing.

One local independent theater in the area has already been claimed by the effects of the pandemic, with Great Neck’s Squire Cinemas announcing its closing

in mid-September following 85 years of operation.

For the patrons hoping to hit Soundview Cinemas soon, movies being shown and show times for the reopening will be announced the week before, Desner said.

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Lauding Manhasset donations

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he members of American Legion Post 304 extend our sincere appreciation for the generous outpouring of donations from merchants, businesses, community organizations, and Manhasset residents for the replacement of the American Flags on the poles that line Plandome Road. The flags will be joined by the beautiful planters sponsored by the Manhasset

Chamber of Commerce.

The new American Flags and the Adopt-a-Pole flowers will be hung in time for Memorial Day and will remain throughout the season to beautify Manhasset. Both exemplify our pride and patriotism as well as our respect and love for those who served or are serving in our armed forces and those who gave their lives in the service of our country. As you view

their beauty, please take a moment to remember very especially those men and women who never came home and join us as we march once again along Plandome Road for our Memorial Day Parade.

Thank you for your support and may God Bless America.

Thomas J. Buzzitta Sergeant-at-Arms

Biden must condemn Hamas

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amas and Islamic Jihad have launched over 2,500 rockets indiscriminately into all parts of Israel, as of this writing. Germany and other countries have condemned these terrorist organizations for indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel. Israel did not start this war.

Israel is defending itself. Most governments, including the U.S., agree these are terrorist organizations.

When Israel sent rockets into Gaza in response to thousands of rockets launched into Israel, the owners of buildings containing Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and media,had been called to evacuate their buildings, so that not one person in these buildings were killed. It is well known that Hamas keeps their rocket launchers and military headquarters in the middle of Gazan neighborhoods, using women and

children as ” protective shields.”

Although President Biden has said Israel has a right to defend itself, Biden should also condemn the terrorist organizations who started sending thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel, as Germany and other countries have already stated.

Marshall Hubsher Port Washington

Congress loves earmarking

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ikes pigs dining at the trough, members of Congress just can’t get enough pork to bring back home. On a bipartisan basis, they have resurrected the old “member items” previously known as “Congressional earmarks.”

Both Democrats and Republican Congress members believe it is one way to assure re-election in 2022.

Congressional earmarks have been re-

branded under a new title, community project funding.” requests.

Most federal aid programs are distributed on a formula basis to states and cities with local recipients. Washington bureaucrats don’t decide how to spend these funds. Civil servants want to make sure dollars are spent for eligible projects, completed on time and within budget with taxpayers receiving the full benefits.

Career civil servants have the independence and technical expertise to do a better job in the distribution of funds and to protect the interests of taxpayers in avoiding any waste, fraud or abuse than members of Congress.

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Netanyahu, who is desperate to keep power to stay out of jail (sound familiar?), benefits from the hostilities with Hamas by stirring Israelis’ fears of existential threat.

Indeed, Hamas’ weaponry has much improved, the rockets penetrating much further – to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Half the country now rushes into bomb shelters – the equivalent of 150 million Americans under missile attack.

But Bibi may have overplayed his hand – and broken the unwavering bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress that Israel had depended upon – by making support of Israel another political litmus test when he hitched his own political future to alliances with right-wing religious-nationalist extremists.

But Joe Biden is not Donald Trump (a Bibi wannabe and not the other way around) and Congressional Democrats now have a significant progressive bloc that sympathizes more with the plight of Palestinians than the Jewish state. Younger Americans — even liberal Jewish Americans – do not share the same unshakeable support of Israel.

And the scenes of bombed-out buildings, bodies being carried out, terrorized children feed a growing hostility to Israel.

“We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation and systems of violent oppression and trauma,” declared first-term Congressmember Cori Bush of Missouri, a Black Lives Matter activist.

Representative Gregory W. Meeks of New York, Foreign Affairs Committee chair, said he would ask the Biden administration to delay $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel that had been approved before these tensions erupted.

How naïve and dangerous that would

be – it is the precision-guided weapons that have kept Gaza civilian casualties and “collateral damage” down. What other military in the history of the world phones ahead to warn people to get out of the way of a bomb attack? Hamas doesn’t have the same care, and in fact, deliberately tries to inflict as much pain as possible on Israeli civilians.

And if the U.S. cuts off funding for the Iron Dome, which has kept Israeli casualties down amid the bombardment of several thousand rockets, Israel would likely feel compelled to undertake a ground assault into Gaza, which would result in many more casualties.

It is easy for Senator Bernie Sanders to push Biden to more forcibly demand a ceasefire, using threats to withhold aid to both sides and promises of hefty Gaza reconstruction dollars to Hamas, but the problem is that Hamas uses the ceasefires to rearm, rebuild its arsenal and terror infrastructure – which is why these cycles of violence happen every few years, each time with more vicious, ruthless and effective weaponry. So Israel says it is dug in until it has decimated Hamas’ ability to terrorize Israelis.

While Bibi and Hamas are likely to be the only winners in this travesty – Gazans, Arab Israelis and liberal Israelis and Israel itself the losers – so will Biden be a victim and may well lose his Democratic majority in 2022 as a result.

But Biden’s response has been appropriate – much more even-handed, and therefore credible and constructive than Trump could be.

“Our objective is to — just like it is with other countries and our partners around the world — is to play the role we can play in the most constructive way possible to reduce the violence, to deescalate the situation on the ground. And a great deal of that is going to be through intensive, quiet diplomacy behind the scenes,” press secretary Jen Psaki stated.

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Choir thrives with virtual rehearsals Continued from Page 12 For some members of the choir, having Tartell as musical director is part of the reason for the ensemble’s success. Jemi Goldstein, a vocalist with the choir, gave Tartell credit for advancing the group to greater goals.

“She [Debbie] is a force to be reckoned with,” Goldstein said.

“She instills in us the feeling that we can accomplish whatever goals she sets for us.”

Tartell previously was a choral teacher in a public high school for 10 years, as well as director for community theater musicals. A founding member of the ensemble, Tartell said the idea for forming Shireinu came after she met others interested in Jewish choral music at the North American Jewish Choral Music Festival. Three seasons later, members of the choir hold the group’s activities as a special part of their routine.

“It’s really been special,” said Dahlia Dressler, a vocalist with the choir. “I’m with people that I wouldn’t necessarily come across or get to know, and yet they’re all incredible.”

With members between the ages of 25 and 91, intergenerational

friendships that might be uncommon in daily life happen more frequently in the choir.

“For me it’s been really fulfilling but I think for the people that we perform for it’s really fulfilling as well,” Dressler said.

Prior to coronavirus health restrictions, vocalists like Alise Kreditor particularly enjoyed the closeness of singing shoulder to shoulder alongside musicians in her alto section, saying it led her to develop new friendships with people she had not known before.

“All of a sudden I am spending an intense two to three hours a week with these people,” Kreditor said. “The choir became much more than just an opportunity to sing, but an opportunity to lift yourself up with everybody else.”

Research on a connection between mental health and choral participation may support the anecdotes of Shireinu members. A 2018 study commissioned by Chorus America found nearly threequarters of vocalists reported choral singing helped them feel less alone or lonely.

That study also found choral vocalists to be more active members

of their community, including as more frequent volunteers and more civically engaged than the public.

“A big part of our choir’s mission and reason that we established was so that we could create something and share something with the community,” Kreditor said.

Those intentions came at a fitting time, according to Goldstein, who pointed out the difficulty in maintaining high spirits during the pandemic. Her hope was to uplift the community through music.

“What we hope to bring to the community and to our audience is a moment in their lives when they can let the air out and just be uplifted by the music,” Goldstein said.

“To replenish their souls, literally, to give them a moment in time where they can float on the music.”

While the Shireinu choir was founded as an organization to support the community through song, members say they have also supported each other. This was especially true while physical distancing restrictions kept the choir from inperson rehearsals, making a “tremendous difference” for the lives of some vocalists.

“Everyone in the choir who

hears about someone struggling with some[thing] reaches out,” Goldstein said. “Whether it’s a text, or an email, a phone call, a card, a meal, in some way to let that person know that they’re supported, that they’re not alone.”

Even for those not struggling, vocalists like Sherry Husney said “having that contact during this time, even if it’s only via Zoom or telephone, has been critical to maintaining a healthy outlook on life.”

While the choir’s spring season has concluded, Tartell is keeping her fingers crossed for resuming this fall. In-person activities for the choir can only happen in accordance with CDC guidelines, which currently outline how singing can increase risk of COVID-19 infection.

Vocalists like Dressler are eager to meet their fellow members in person.

“Even that would be such an amazing accomplishment,” she said.

As for the choir’s accomplishment’s so far, Tartell said her work with Shireinu is what she is most proud of in her career.

“Making music is fun,” Tartell said. “That’s why we do it.”

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Members of the Shireinu Choir of Long Island sang virtually in a rendition of ‘Heal Us Now.’

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SCHOOL NEWS

Herricks announces valedictorian, salutatorian Herricks High School has announced Rhea Rasquinha and Kyle Pinzon as the Class of 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

Both students are award-winning Science Research students, AP Scholars with Distinction, National Honor Society members and National Merit Finalists, and together they served as Co-Presidents of the Freshmen Focus and Yearbook organizations. They each have their own extensive list of additional accomplishments, talents and interests as well.

Earlier this school year, Rhea was recognized as a Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar for her Science Research project, “Identifying the Prognostic, TumorSuppressive and Immunologic Roles of IRF5 in Breast Cancer.”

She studied under the mentorship of Dr. Betsy Barnes of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research for two summers and explored IRF5 and breast cancer and practiced different data analysis procedures.

She has also earned a Rensselaer Medal and the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Affiliate Award and was part of a finalist team in the 2019 Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge International Summit.

Rhea is active in her school community — she served as Student Government Vice President for her first three years of high school and is currently Executive Board Vice President.

She is also a leader in the STEM Club, Tri-M Music Honor Society and Euro/Fed Challenge, for which she is a Co-President, and the Herricks Explore, Create, Share organization as Public Relations/Podcast Editor. At the onset of the pandemic, Rhea helped organize Herricks Strong, a community-wide group and fundraiser for those directly impacted by COVID-19.

Prior to that, she volunteered at the Sunharbor Manor nursing home and at the middle school’s Friday Night Rec program.

In addition to her scholastic aptitude and charitable endeavors, Rhea is an athlete and musician. She serves as captain of the Varsity Cross Country team and has earned All-County honors and qualified for the

PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Valedictorian Rhea Rasquinha and Salutatorian Kyle Pinzon were recognized at the May 6 Board of Education Meeting. From left: Board of Education President Henry Zanetti, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Elizabeth Guercin, Rhea Rasquinha, Kyle Pinzon, Board of Education Vice President Nancy Feinstein, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Fino Celano.

2018 Class A State Championship. She is also on the Varsity Winter and Spring Track teams and has earned All-Conference, AllCounty and All-Division distinctions.

She plays the clarinet in the Wind Ensemble and has participated in the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra’s Nassau Principal Orchestra, All-County ensembles and AllState Symphonic Band. She also performs in the Blue Jazz Band as a clarinetist/tenor saxophonist.

Kyle was recognized as a second-place winner in the biochemistry category of both, the 2021 New York State Science and Engineering Fair and Long Island Science and Engineering Fair.

He received the ASM Materials Most Outstanding Exhibit Award at NYSSEF and the LISEF Regeneron Biomedical Award. He is also a recipient of a NYSSEF Environmental Engineering award, and was named a JSHS Semifinalist last year. His most recent research was conducted under Dr. Iwao Ojima at Stony Brook University and focused

on finding and creating novel drugs with the potential to combat SARS-CoV-2 and aid in patient recovery.

During his junior year, Kyle studied under Dr. Robert Farrauto at Columbia University and concentrated on enhancing the capabilities of a novel catalyst capable of converting CO2 into usable energy, a fuelefficient approach to tackling rising CO2 emissions.

A leader at school, Kyle has been involved in student government since his freshman year and currently serves as School Executive President. He is Community Club Vice President and is a varsity member of Herricks Quiz Bowl. Additionally, he is a skilled athlete and has excelled as a captain and member of the varsity swim and badminton teams.

A talented cellist, Kyle has many musical accomplishments to his name – he was selected to All-State the past two years and has participated in the Lincoln Center Young Musicians Program, Music for All In-

dianapolis National Chamber Festival and LISFA Chamber Music Festival.

He won first place in the Long Island Choral Society Young Artists Concerto Competition, and has been a featured soloist in Herricks High School’s Chamber Orchestra and Freshman Orchestra, as well as a member of the Herricks Cello Quartet. Since the eighth grade, he has studied at Manhattan School of Music Precollege on Saturdays and participated in various MSM ensembles.

Through his MSM involvement, he won the Marion Feldman Endowed Cello Precollege Scholarship, received the Parents Association Award, made Dean’s List and earned placement in the Honors Recital. Kyle teaches and has mentored younger peers in their cello endeavors, and has a following of more than 10,000 on an Instagram account that features his musical practice.

When asked what pieces of advice they have for younger peers striving for success in high school, both seniors cited the importance of creating time for oneself and pursuing passions and interests. They acknowledged the positive impact that friends and teachers have had on their approaches to work and learning.

“Find a support system, don’t be afraid to ask for help, try to make time for things that you’re actually interested in, and take time for yourself,” Rhea said.

“Don’t forget to remind yourself what a great job you’ve done,” Kyle said. “It’s so easy to get trapped in this mindset of, ‘I need to work harder, I can do better, etc.’ Funnily enough, it’s very hard to take a breather and congratulate yourself for the good work you’ve done already. We’re growing up in such a fast-paced world, but this only makes having compassion for yourself even more important.”

With college just around the corner, Rhea plans to embark on the medical path and will attend Brown University’s Program in Liberal Medical Education. Kyle will attend Vanderbilt University as a double major in Cello Performance and Chemistry, with the likelihood of pursuing postgraduate degrees.

Signing day celebration Herricks High School’s Guidance Department hosted the inaugural Senior Signing Day on April 28 and 29 during lunch periods. Herricks Public Schools Guidance Director Natasha Khan and Herricks High School’s team of counselors coordinated this celebration of the Class of 2021’s success.

Seniors were offered a complimentary ice cream to celebrate their official “college decision day,” and counselors wore shirts that read “Seniors Last Licks” as they congratulated each student in the courtyard with selfie stations and props set up. The event recognized the excitement ahead as students enter into the final few weeks of their senior year.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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READERS WRITE

BID’s wrong message about Port diversity

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love living in Port Washington. One of the things that attracted my husband and me here in 1990 was the community’s economic, religious, social, ethnic and racial diversity.

Boy, you sure wouldn’t know about any of that from the ad that the Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District ran in the Port Washington Times’ May 7 Guide to Port Washington.

The blurbs on the ad make it sound like every resident is an “urban sophisticate,” a media person or an artist. Those terms happen to describe our family, but Port has a solid core of working-class

people as well as professionals.

Worse, everyone in the photos the BIDchose (with one possible exception) is white. That doesn’t reflect our community at all. Per the U.S.

Census Bureau’s2019 population estimates,1 in 4 Port residents claims some nonwhite ancestry.

Whether these choices were conscious or unconscious, the BID should be ashamed of promot-

ing such a skewed — one might say racist — view of Port Washington. There’s really no excuse in this day and age.

Barbara Selvin Port Washington

Reflections on G.N. school board election

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ow, thankfully, that the Great Neck Board of Education election is behind us, it is important to reflect on what this election was really all about and why there were such strong feelings on both sides.

But first, it is important to note that while the turnout was somewhat higher than in previous elections the percentage and the actual number of eligible voters who did so was still embarrassingly low.

This was a watershed election with respect to the future of our schools and community and we failed to arouse the residents. I think people are so used to having a smooth-running, highly successful public school district, with superb professional administrators, that they assume that it really doesn’t matter who is on the board. This is especially true for those who do not have children in the system.

As for the candidates and the campaigns, in

truth, there were really no substantive issues.

Mr. Glickman’s platform came down to his assertion that Ms. Berkowitz has been serving too long and it is time for a change.

He could not point to any specific complaints, problems or issues. Just that it was time for her to go.

Her years of experience and historical knowledge of how our schools operate and how issues have been addressed over time were totally discounted.

Furthermore, Mr. Glickman offered no new or creative proposals for how he would improve the performance of the Board. And if a new, fresh and younger perspective is needed, Mr. Toch, the successor to Don Ashkenase, was guaranteed a spot on the board.

Ms. Berkowitz clearly was able to tell her story of years of highly competent, respected and successful leadership, and had the strong support of all the education profession-

als, past and present, and leading representatives of the parents of current students.

No one ever claimed that the Great Neck Public Schools are perfect, but any comparison with other districts, locally and nationally, has consistently shown us at the top.

So, again, what was this all about and why did so many people vote for Mr. Glickman?

The majority of his votes came from people not concerned about any specific complaints about our schools or the board.

There were those with personal animosities and agendas, but the charge against Ms. Berkowitz was led by people whose actual objective was to further divisions in our community.

Attacking a long-time respected member of the board, and replacing her with someone over whom they had great influence was their goal. And it was fueled by two Big Lies they promoted.

The first Big Lie was

told by well-known extreme right-wing provocateur Jeffrey Wiesenfeld.

In a letter to this newspaper, he once again claimed that the Berkowitz campaign was part of an effort, led by me, to have a Democratic Party takeover of school leadership. This was a repeat of the same strategy he utilized in the last election in the Village of Great Neck.

The Berkowitz campaign had the involvement of people of all political leanings and I challenge Mr. Wiesenfeld to find one scintilla of evidence of political partisanship. (He also repeated, in his original letter, his scandalous accusations that I harbor antisemitic and anti-Orthodox intentions.

Outcries of protest from prominent members of the community, including from Ms. Andrea Bolender, my successor as chair of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, led the editor of this paper to remove that accusation from Mr. Wi-

esenfeld’s letter.)

His goal was to encourage people to vote as if this was a political and ideological battle and he spouted nonsense about the liberal and antisemitic environment in our schools and curricula.

We are well aware of the political divisions in Great Neck, which are occurring all over the country, and there is nothing wrong with that. It just doesn’t belong in a school board election.

The second Big Lie is even more dangerous. A Mr. Emil Hakimi, someone I do not or care to know, posted this on social media: “Barbara Berkowitz is openly hostile towards all the Persian Communities here on Great Neck. We have an opportunity to remove her today, by voting Michael Glickman for the Board of Education seat.”

There could not be a more blatant effort to smear a candidate and appeal to his fellow Persians to vote out of fear or hate.

This kind of thinking could

be the death of our community and the environment of tolerance, respect and comity that we’ve worked so hard to foster.

So, Big Lie number one was that the election of Mr. Glickman was critical to stopping a liberal Democratic takeover of the Great Neck schools, and BIG Lie number two was that it was urgent to remove an anti-Persian bigot.

Unfortunately, too many people fell for the lies and apparently did not care what it meant for the future of the community.

Mr. Glickman should have shown some integrity and disassociated himself from these lies and I urge him to do so now.

We owe a great deal to those who voted for Ms. Berkowitz based on her record and the success of our schools, and to those who understood who was behind the Glickman campaign and their true intentions.

Steven Markowitz Great Neck

G.N. Library No pols at Holocaust Memorial says thanks A

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lan Mindel is entitled to his opinion; he is not entitled to his own

he Board of Trustees and staff of the Great Neck Library appreciate the support of the community, shown by the approval of the Library’s operating budget.

Thank you for your vote of confidence which enables the Library to

continue to deliver services that are responsive to the needs of the community.

2021-22 Public Library Budget Passed: Yes: 2,228 No: 1,142 George Trepp Interim Director

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facts.

Apparently, Alan must have been out of town when the scandal of Steve Markowitz’s exposed e-mails concerning his views of Orthodox Jews — were disclosed and reported in the Great Neck News.

Quoting directly from the Great Neck News article, printed at the time: “Steve Markowitz,

the chairman of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, has issued an apology for an email sent in 2015 during that year’s Village of Great Neck mayoral race after it resurfaced in the 2019 mayoral contest and led some to believe he is anti-Orthodox.”

(The actual e-mail remains available on-line.)

“Robert Spitalnick, in a separate letter to the editor, alleged that Markowitz was engaged in

a “series of anti-Semitic whispering campaigns intended to keep Orthodox Jews out of public office in this town.”

He made reference to a screenshot of an alleged email from Markowitz in 2015, the year Pedram Bral was first elected mayor, which said, “Have no reluctance to tell people that this election is about an attempt by right-wing Orthodox groups to take over the village.”

It is widely accepted

by families of survivors in Nassau County that Steve’s service to a political party and the resulting correlation of his activities to that party, made his continued service as chair of the Holocaust Center untenable.

Hence, the new leader.

No political party leader should head up any Holocaust Museum, anywhere, other than in an honorary capacity.

Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld Great Neck

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