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Contents

Letter from the Publisher

It’s autumn for Great Neck Record Magazine By Angela Susan Anton

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Wake Me Up

The most important meal of the day can be found at these local eateries By Christina Claus

Anchors Aweigh

History, tradition and discipline at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy By Mike Adams

Preserving The Past

The Great Neck Historical Society is a pillar of record for the town By Christopher Birsner

Great Neck Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mark on the North Shore By Joe Scotchie

Boutiquing

Middle Neck Road has much to offer in the way of clothing shops and boutiques By Kimberly Dijkstra

The Rebhuhn House

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright makes his mark in Great Neck By Joe Scotchie

Broadway Boy

Producer and Great Neck native Stewart Lane brings theater to the people By Dave Gil de Rubio

My Great Neck

Local residents share what they love about their town By Mike Adams

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Welcome to Great Neck Record Magazine Located on a peninsula on the North Shore, the town of Great Neck is composed of nine villages and unincorporated areas. With a stellar academic reputation and stunning views and parks, Great Neck is a destination for day trips and a place where people come to raise their families. Anton Media Group has taken great pride in covering this Philip G. Palumbo, CFP® unique community by way of our weekly newspaper, The Senior Vice President-Wealth Management Great Neck Record, since 1908. Mike Adams, the paper’s Senior Portfolio Manager new editor, dives into the history of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, located in Kings Point. Mike also Many successful Second Opinion Service families may be in complex financial situgot to know local resident by interviewing them about why ations or just unhappy with the advice they are receiving they love about Great Neck. Philip G. Palumbo, CFP from their financial advisor(s)—it’s not uncommon. We Senior Vice President–Wealth Management On the cover, Christina Claus spends the morning visiting Senior Portfolio have Managerfound that a majority of high net worth investors Great Neck’s best breakfast stops, including Rothchilds value a second their finances. Many successfulwould families may be in complex financialopinion situations or on are just unhappy with the advice they are Coffee & Kitchen, Willie’s Coffee Shop, Great Neck Diner, receiving from their financial advisor(s)—it’s not uncommon. We have found that a majority of high net worth bee-organic and Cafe 1 of a Kind to discover how residents investors would value a second opinion on their finances. In order to help people achieve their financial goals, enjoy the most important meal of the day. 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imosas. Bloody Marys. Fluff y scrambled eggs. Crunchy toast smeared with butter and jelly. Stacks of pancakes with syrup pouring down the sides. Waffles with berry compote dripping and whipped cream piled on top. Is your mouth watering yet? The saying goes that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why just pour some cereal in a bowl? Take a stroll down Middle Neck Road for a quick pop into Willie’s Coffee Shop for a classic breakfast or Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen for a Mediterranean take on the first meal of the day. Of course, the peninsula’s staple, the Great Neck Diner has an abundance of options to fill any resident’s stomach at any time of day with some morning flavors. Health gurus and locals on the go can make a quick pit stop before the gym or work at bee-organic to grab a smoothie or açai bowl, while Cafe 1 of a Kind offers a unique spin on the usual breakfast fare.

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egg sandwiches, Great Neck Diner kicks it up a notch, adding western, Florentine In the mood for a classic breakfast? and Greek-style sandwiches to the menu. Willie’s Coffee Shop is the best option Also making the menu unique is the for a quick stop and some traditional huevos rancheros, complete with two eggs morning eats. Their menu boasts every served any style over corn tortillas with Long Islander’s favorite, an egg sandwich refried beans and or an egg sandwich homemade salsa and with bacon, ham guacamole. From or sausage. Other traditional eggs classic combos are Benedict to Irish pancakes or French (with homemade toast with bacon, corned beef hash) to ham or sausage. California with avoCheese or western cado, the diner had omelets with five mouthwatering potatoes, toast and Benedict options coffee also have a to choose from. spot on the brief Additional specialty menu. For those items include avolooking for a quick cado toast, Monte stop-in meal, the Cristo, old-fashioned shop’s bakery offers Photo source: Great Neck Diner Facebook blintzes, Nutella a buttered roll, bagels, pancakes and healthy French toast. English muﬃns and corn muﬃns. Great Neck Diner is located at 14 Grace Willie’s Coffee Shop is located at 809 Avenue, Great Neck. For more information, Middle Neck Road, Great Neck. For more call 516-466-0678 or visit www.greatneck information, call 516-829-2193. diner.com.

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The Great Neck Diner goes a little above and beyond the usual diner food. The breakfast menu is a full page of cereals, egg sandwiches, omelets and griddle options. While many diners have the basic

Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen If you’re looking for a Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and American breakfast from a family with deep roots in the community, Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen is the best choice for the first meal of the day. The Rothchilds Breakfast (offered for one or two) is an omelet with a choice of three from a list including fresh herbs, onion, tomato, mushrooms, Swiss cheese or feta cheese, served with an Israeli chopped salad, sun-dried tomato spread, pesto, Kalamata olive tapenade, green herb tahini, labene with za’atar and feta cheese with sumac. Other dishes on the robust menu include a shakshuka skillet (a poached egg dish), a green shakshuka, Challah French toast, avocado toast, croissant de lox and Boreka supreme. Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen is located at 76 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck. For more information, visit www.rothchildskitchen. com or call 516-482-0434.

Coffee and French toast from Rothchilds Coffee & Kitchen Photos by Christina Claus and Cathy Bongiorno

bee-organic For those who are health conscious, bee-organic has the perfect breakfast meal full of flavor. The breakfast menu offers traditional options like two eggs any style, veggie omelets, crepes, banana French toast, oatmeal with fresh fruit, yogurt parfaits and almond butter and jelly sandwiches. While the menu boasts those favorites, it also has a robust selection of on-the-go choices. bee-organic has about eight different juices from the energy combo (beet, carrot, celery and apple) to the healthy glow (cucumber, celery, lemon, parsley and mint). Smoothie flavors range from tutti frutti (strawberry, raspberry, apple and apple juice) to pink banana (strawberry, banana and fresh grapefruit juice) to mango blues (mango, blueberry, banana and apple juice). bee-organic is located at 4 Bond Street, Great Neck. For more information, call 516-5700915 or visit www.bee-organic.com.

Cafe 1 of a Kind Its name is an indicator of the dishes that line the menu. Cafe 1 of a Kind offers classic breakfast options with a unique twist. The cafe, which is situated on Northern Boulevard, but has a quaint back patio for eating, offers ebelskivers (a Danish-style sphereshaped filled pancake with choice of spiced apple, Nutella or walnut filling), green eggs Benedict (two poached eggs served on hash browns with fresh baby spinach, avocado, cherry tomatoes, almond chips and balsamic glaze) and crunch French toast (two buttery brioche toasts with Corn Flakes, maple syrup, toasted almonds and toasted pecan topping). The cafe also has four types of avocado toast, a whole wheat waďŹ&#x201E;e and more. Cafe 1 of a Kind is located at 255-13 Northern Boulevard, Great Neck. For more information, call 347-408-4780. Above: Avocado toast from Cafe 1 of a Kind Right: AĂ§ai bowl from bee-Organic Photos by Christina Claus

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76 Years Of Service By Mike Adams

A few moments before the hour, students at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point begin to converge near the brick-covered courtyard outside the mess hall.

welve strikes ring off the chapel bell—it’s noon. Before the echoes finish reverberating around the campus, midshipmen—the word the academy uses for its landside students—pour out of the academic buildings on the far side of the old Gold Coast estate. Slowly, they start to pool into groups; some to the left, some to the right, with a small detachment of upperclassmen oﬃcers surveying the whole scene. They’re being organized into their respective companies, shepherded into formation by their fourth-year commanders. As the companies form, inside the mess hall a small army of first-year students flies around the cavernous cafeteria, setting tables. The hall seats 1,000, and on any given day when regular classes are in session, 750 midshipmen and instructors will pass through here around midday.

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The academy has its newest recruits service the older students to help instill discipline. Far from being a burden, many first-year midshipmen don’t mind the extra tasks. At some point, everybody had to bus the tables. “I love it here,” first-year midshipman Reginald Ash, who hails from Colorado Springs, says. “This is training everyone goes through. We have to go through the plebe year, and learn to be led, so that once we lead people, we know what it feels like when we’re in those same situations. We’re going through the thick of it, but everyone here has been through the exact same thing.” Back outside, the companies are gathered. Regimental Commander JC Henderson, a well-built young man whose demeanor casts a shadow far larger than his body, calls for reports from the company

Merchant Marine midshipmen line up outside the mess hall prior to lunch. Photo by Alex Nuñez

commanders. Everybody is accounted for, so Henderson tells the midshipmen to “carry out the plan for the day.” The uninitiated might call that plan “lunch.” A pair of drummers beat a simple cadence as the companies, gathered in ranks, colors leading the way, head into the mess hall. These hundreds of students come from all across the country; a few even hail from outside the U.S. entirely. But in the procession, they look as uniform as any band of military men and women, forming a sight that would be well at home at West Point or Parris Island. When everybody is inside, Henderson reads off the day’s announcements. There’s not much to report except for a pair of birthdays. Fourth-year engineering-track midshipman Chelsea Chamberlain is turning 22, so she’s getting a cake at the front of the mess hall with the other student leaders. For everyone else, lunch is grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, some water, some juice and soup-and-salad bars at the flanks. Today’s lunch routine is a ritual that stretches back decades. The Merchant Marine was established by Congress in 1936, but they lacked a dedicated home in their early years. For half a decade, would-be mariners trained at a number of ad-hoc installations, before the academy acquired the land it currently sits on in 1942. Their 81-acre Kings Point home was formerly the estate of automobile magnate Walter Chrysler, whose old mansion still stands as Wiley Hall, the administrative heart of the academy. President Roosevelt dedicated the academy in 1943. It celebrates its 76th birthday on Sept. 30. Students and graduates from the

school have been called to serve their country in times of war for nearly a century now. Seventy-six years of battles have taken their tolls, though none of the conflicts has had as devastating an effect on the body as World War II. Merchant Mariners manned the decks of both military and supply ships during the Second World War, most notably aiding the civilian fleet aboard the country’s famed Liberty Ships that ferried men and supplies across the Atlantic Ocean to England and Europe. The North Sea was the most dangerous body of water in the world during the early phases of America’s World War II engagement, its shipping channels constantly stalked by German warplanes and submerged U-boats. Thousands of merchant vessels were sunk. Before Berlin fell in 1945, 142 students and graduates from the academy would lose their lives. The world outside saves most of its honorifics for the dead of other branches, but here those lost cadets are revered by students and graduates alike as heroes. Paeans and monuments for those lost students, universally referred to as “The 142,” are spread generously across the campus. Their names adorn the head of the mess hall, they’re commemorated on the colors of every company. The on-site museum even has an exhibit dedicated to the stories of each lost cadet. More recently, the students here played a key role in the events of September 11. The campus sits on the easternmost edge of New York Harbor, with a view clear through to the Manhattan skyline on a sunny day. On that fateful morning eighteen years ago, midshipmen watched from the shores as Ground Zero turned to smoke. Those same students quickly got to work in the aftermath, evacuating survivors off Manhattan and serving as a staging ground and resting area for volunteers and first responders that needed time to breathe away from the rubble-filled corridors of the city. Before they graduate, every student at Kings Point will spend three years studying here and one year in total on the sea, split between a four-month and an eight-month stint. Whether they gear their studies towards engineering or deck operations, whether they go on to serve in the military or the civilian merchant fleet, the biggest lessons this place has to teach its students have stayed the same for every one of its 76 years, and don’t have all that much to do with the specifics of how to run a ship. “You learn how to push yourself past what you think you’re able to do, every day,” Chamberlain says. “You go to sleep knowing that you accomplished so much more than what you wake up thinking you’re going to do. It’s a grind, 24/7, but you still have to have the right attitude to push everyone around you to better themselves.”

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Top to bottom: Aerial view of the USMMA campus; the 142 memorial plaque, 2019 graduates; lunch time in Delano Hall; Midshipman Kaleigh D’Arcy with Rubio; a training ship; ﬁrst-year students walk past the former home of Walter Chrysler.

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he history of Great Neck is well-documented, such as the creation of the Village Green and the history behind many of the street names. A lot of these records have been collected and preserved by the Great Neck Historical Society, who have had many iterations over the last century. The current society was formed about 10 to 15 years ago.

The Saddle Rock Grist Mill is owned by Nassau County and the historical society has been working with ofﬁcials to getting it back up and running. Photo by Alex Nuñez

“It is local citizens dedicated to preserving the history of the community, serving as a resource for people who want to find out about things in the community and presenting programs that relate to the history of the community,” says Marc Katz, a board member of the historical society. “The historical society has taken on two major projects on an ongoing basis.” One of them is protecting the Stepping Stones Lighthouse, which is located in the middle of Long Island Sound between the Great Neck peninsula and

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City Island. The lighthouse stands about one-and-ahalf stories high and can be seen in the distance while crossing the Throgs Neck Bridge. Built in 1877, it was initially owned by the federal government before it was offered to local municipalities when it was no longer needed. The Town of North Hempstead took ownership of the lighthouse in 2008. “It sat for quite a number of years with nothing happening to it,” says Katz. “The Great Neck Historical Society began a campaign to save the lighthouse because it is

badly decaying and falling apart. Together with the town, the historical society raised a significant amount of money to preserve the lighthouse but no work has been done yet.” Spearheaded by Great Neck Park District Commissioner Robert Lincoln, the historical society has continued to raise funds and has been urging the town to get started on revitalizing the lighthouse. The town, in response, has begun a bidding process for a construction company to build a dock on the island so that boats can easily go there and bring materials

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boarded up on Middle Neck Road. As of now, ownership of the theater has a proposal in that would tear down the theater and build an apartment building. “The historical society would’ve liked to have seen it preserved,” says Katz. “The Village of Great Neck Estates has been rejecting these proposals and the building has sat for many years. The society has been working to either get this building preserved as a theater or at least the facade of it preserved. If it had to be an apartment building, at least it could be decorated with posters of the building’s historic past. All of this is up in the air.” In addition to all the projects the historical society works on, they also present programs to help educate people about all the great history Great Neck has at no charge to the community. Just this month, the society presented a program teaching people about the various performers and entertainers that lived in the area. Most of them had jobs in Manhattan but lived in Great Neck. The First Playhouse

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The historical society has fought to keep the First Playhouse of Great Neck from being demolished and/or turned into an apartment complex. Photo courtesy of the Great Neck Historical Society

of Great Neck actually showcased Off-Broadway productions before they made it into the city. “Many performers have lived in the community as recently as comedian Alan King,” says Katz. “One of the most famous to live in Great Neck was Groucho Marx. But there were many others. It’s the society’s mission to present these programs to let people know about the history of their community.” The organization continues to work on many projects to keep the historical aspect of Great Neck alive, as well as give people an education in what has built the city we know today. For more information on the Great Neck Historical Society, visit www.greatneck historical.org.

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The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald Puts Great Neck On The Map

By Joe Scotchie

t age 24, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a literary sensation. His ďŹ rst two novels, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned had turned this native of St. Paul, MN, into the spokesman for the Lost Generation, those restless Americans emerging from the wreckage of World War I into the world of ďŹ&#x201A;appers and stockjobbers, jazz music, radio, talking movies and a Golden Age of Sports.

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After the publication of his second novel, Fitzgerald and his young bride, Zelda, plus their infant daughter, moved back to the novelist’s hometown. Fitzgerald finished up a play, The Vegetable, but otherwise, got little fiction completed. Ever the restless young man, Fitzgerald declared his time in Minnesota to be a “wasted year.” But he did have a play completed and so, it was off to New York to find a producer. In New York, Fitzgerald’s friend and fellow novelist, John Dos Passos, helped the young couple with house hunting. Dos Passos took Scott and Zelda to Great Neck, where they rented a house on Gateway Drive. A neighbor was the famed sportswriter, Ring Lardner. Fitzgerald’s career came to a sad ending, but the man was exceedingly generous. Unlike most novelists, he was not competitive. He championed the young Ernest Hemingway who would be published by Scribner’s, Fitzgerald’s publisher. He also helped Lardner, a sportswriter who did not take the game of writing so seriously, to get his short stories published also by the same house. Fitzgerald later boosted the career of Maxwell Perkins’ third “son,” the novelist Thomas Wolfe. Fitzgerald envisioned Scribner’s as ground zero for a new Golden Age in American literature and with it, civilization itself. Great Neck was home to other artists, most of them in the entertainment business. That impressive lineup included Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Gene Buck and Lew Fields. In all, however, Great Neck, as the novelists’ premiere biographer Matthew Bruccoli claimed, “was not conducive to serious work.” The couple was young and famous and both wanted to enjoy all the amenities Jazz Age-era New York

had to offer. Which they did. Fitzgerald’s time in Great Neck wasn’t a waste. On the advice of his editor, Fitzgerald began reading the two titans of 19th-century literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Charles Dickens. As with the brash, young Hemingway, Fitzgerald was ready to step into the ring with the greats. As important, Great Neck provided Fitzgerald with material for his third—and most famous—novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald started the novel in Great Neck, but he had to travel to France to complete the manuscript. The problem? New York, including Great Neck, offered far too many temptations to the young couple. Fitzgerald didn’t do much writing in 1922 and for the first half of 1923, it was more of the same: A life now filled with parties and drinking, the first signs that the man would become an alcoholic. Zelda loved her time among the wealthy, too. Plus, their lifestyle was beginning to catch up to them. Fitzgerald was writing and selling short stories. As a famous writer, he commanded top dollar. His yearly earnings were now $36,000, which translated into a princely sum of $250,000 a year by today’s standards. Alas, not even that was enough. Fitzgerald set aside $2,000 a month for expenses. The bills, however, ran over $3,000. Among the items the couple was spending on was home liquors, “wild parties” and miscellaneous cash. “A comfortable but dangerous and deteriorating year at Great Neck,” Fitzgerald noted in his journal as 1923 drew to a close. “No ground under our feet.” Was it true? Great Neck offered much inspiration for the novelist. There was another neighbor, Max Gerlach, a man with

Statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Rice Park in downtown St. Paul, MN. Statue by Michael Price.

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a mysterious past (it was rumored that he was a bootlegger). Gerlach and Fitzgerald were friends. The former referred to the novelist as “sport,” one of Jay Gatsby’s favorite words. Another neighbor got caught up in a Wall Street scandal for the misuse of a brokerage house’s assets. Plus, there were the mansions and the all-night parties. It all came together in France, where the Fitzgeralds rented a house on the French Riviera and the novelist wrote the story of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy man also with a shady past, one suffering from the unrequited love of Daisy Buchanan. Gerlach is not Gatsby (the man was an automobile salesman in Flushing). Great Neck and Sands Point, meanwhile, were portrayed thusly:

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived in this house at 6 Gateway Drive from 1922-1924 Photo courtesy of Great Neck Library

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 to critical acclaim. T.S. Eliot hailed it as the “first step” forward in American fiction since Henry James. It sold up to 20,000 copies, even though the author had hoped for more. By the age of 30, Fitzgerald now had three novels under his belt, plus a budding collection of short stories and magazine pieces. He continued writing fiction, publishing Tender Is Night (1936) and the posthumous The Last Tycoon (1941). At the time of his death in 1940, Fitzgerald, ruined by drink and a fading

What 6 Gateway Drive, Great Neck, looks like today Photo courtesy of Google Maps

career as a Hollywood screenwriter, was only a dim light in American letters. However, in the 1950s, his reputation soared again. Both Hemingway and William Faulkner had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, highlighting an era where Fitzgerald was a major figure. His novels went back into print, enjoying brisk sales that continue to this day. No less than 300,000 copies of The Great Gatsby are sold each year. Fitzgerald left Great Neck in 1923 and never looked back. It didn’t matter. Literary history had already been made. In the novel,

Great Neck was immortalized as “West Egg,” while Sands Point was dubbed “East Egg.” In 2000, the Modern Library at Random House commissioned a group of writers and critics to compile a list of the top 100 novels in English of the 20th century. James Joyce’s Ulysses was listed number one. The Great Gatsby was number two. Joyce was an Irishman, so Fitzgerald’s jewel was voted the top American novel of the century. The unsuspecting Great Neck of the 1920s turned out to be an indispensable village after all.

Bountiful Boutiques Find fall fashions at Great Neck clothing shops

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ashionistas of Great Neck need look no further than Middle Neck Road for an eclectic selection of shops specializing in clothing and accessories. Your hometown has everything, from vintage finds at Ella Mia Vintage to menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formal wear at Badger & Welsh Bespoke, and from dazzling dresses at Lev Couture to kids clothing at MMKidz. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overlook staples of the downtown shopping district such as Infinity Clothing, Nardo Shoes, Chicos, Red Boutiques, Ooh La Shoppe, Preview and Steven Dann. No matter your style, there is something for everyone in Great Neck.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Comeback House By Joe Scotchie

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Architects may come/ And architects may go and/ Never change your point of view/When I run dry I stop awhile and think of you. So sang Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in their 1969 song, “So Long Frank Lloyd Wright” about the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright American architect. Wright was the most revolutionary architect of the early 20th century. Most of his work, residential and commercial, was in the Midwest and the Western states. Wright’s most famous building in New York is the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue and 88th Street. There is only one Wright production in Great Neck. But it remains a residence that stands out in a village noted for Tudor-style architecture. In the late 1930s, Wright’s career was in decline. Wright’s eclectic style seemed out-of-date for the grim 1930s. But he did have his fans. In 1937, Benjamin Rebhuhn, a magazine publisher, commissioned Wright to design a home for his family in Great Neck Estates. The neighborhood, as noted, was populated mostly by Tudor or neoclassical styles. Wright’s trademark Usonian design was out of place. Wright’s Usonian, according to Tim Seeberger in a Long Island Press article on the structure, signified “an idealized vision of America that celebrated individuality and oneness with nature.” Wright, Seeberger adds, fashioned his designs after organic elements. The Great Neck project, which represented a comeback of sorts for Wright, was completed as a two-level structure with a carport and windows that looked out into the wooded surroundings. The exterior was composed of tidewater red cypress board and batten, with brick and red roof

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ou can say that live theater is in Stewart Lane’s blood. The proud Great Neck High School North alum has spent the past four decades plying his trade as a Broadway producer (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Legally Blonde) and director on top of prior experience as a playwright and actor. Lane’s passion for the stage, shared with his wife Bonnie Comley, led the duo to launch BroadwayHD, a theater streaming platform, back in 2015. For the price of $8.99 a month, subscribers have access to an aggregate of 300 full-length musicals and plays to choose from. Four years later, Lane and Comley have essentially cornered the market in offering this kind of service. While he declined to provide numbers, Lane says they’ve enjoyed a major growth spurt that’s seen their subscriber base grow 110 percent in the past year alone. Not unlike the way Hollywood movie studios

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received the advent of television, the live theater world had trepidation about getting involved with the BroadwayHD concept when it was initially launched. “One of the challenges we faced in starting out is that we’re dealing with 17 unions and guilds. One of the advantages I had was that I’ve been producing on Broadway for 40 years, so they know me. It’s been a little easier than for someone who might be coming in from the outside,” he explains. “But now we’re seen as an additive. People in the industry see that we encourage audiences to seek out live theater. I will also cite this as a statistic. The Broadway audience for the past 35 years has been around 45 or older—it’s usually women from a higher economic bracket who are better educated and are buying the tickets. Last year for the first time, they lowered the median age to about 40 or 41 and I’m sure that’s because of our BroadwayHD

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his idyllic land, this Gatsby country called Great Neck, is a place far more deep and vibrant than an outsider might expect. In reality, this seemingly singular community is nine separate villages, each one full of people with wildly varying backgrounds and viewpoints. But within all that diversity comes one unshifting constant: a love for this community, no matter who you ask.

By Mike Adams

Regina Gil Director, Gold Coast Arts Center I moved to Great Neck with my husband and children in 1976. It was a beautiful and vibrant town with a long cultural history and a strong school system for our kids. The schools are still strong, the gardens and parks are still beautiful. Great Neck is still a special place to live and the incoming residents who are new to the suburbs are embracing all the rich resources of a great town and a great community.

Michael Klayman Rabbi, Lake Success Jewish Center Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar Great Neck resident and writer We make our homes in a geographically special place, a small spit of land on an island surrounded by water. Elsewhere, people may have to adapt to life in habitats less than ideal, while we here in Great Neck have aquifers below us for life-sustaining water and the seawater around us for a vista that reminds us we live free. I am pleased that generations of the Gilliar family have played a role in this community for 150 years, watching each influx of newcomers demonstrate the wisdom essential for us to protect and maintain this special place. (Photo by Alex NuĂąez)

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Despite vast social, religious and ethnic differences, the people of Great Neck have always demonstrated a deep and sincere concern for the welfare of our town. Whether issues involving education, quality of life, or anything in between, we are passionate about our opinions and in our perspectives about the future. My hope is that Great Neck will continue to flourish as a community welcoming to all of its citizens and receptive to the panoply of social, cultural and religious ideas/ contributions vital to our future.

Steven Weinberg Mayor, Village of Thomaston Great Neck is an ideal location. We have so many wonderful activities to enjoy on the peninsula and Long Island, plus we have easy access to all New York City has to offer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasure to be the Mayor of the Village of Thomaston and to live in a diverse community with friendly people who help each other.

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