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Amityville Village and Babylon Town held 9/11 services last Wednesday. Above family leaves flowers and note at Babylon Town 9/11 Memorial. See page 2 for more photos of these ceremonies.
By CAROLYN JAMES cjames@liherald.com
Amityville School District residents who would like to be considered for a position on the school district’s ad hoc budget advisory committee have until Mon. Sept. 23 to fill out an application and return it to the district.
The committee will consist of 15 community members. School district officials will review all the applications on Wednesday Sept. 25 and select the prospective members. By early October, prospective members will be contacted by the school to confirm their interest and availability to serve on the committee.
Members will be asked to use their expertise in reviewing the school district’s 2025-26 proposed budget and provide recommendations.
School Board President Lisa Johnson noted that pr ospective members are not required to have experience in or a degree in finance and are asked to bring their combined experience as residents and concerned citizens of the district.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, the board will appoint the selected members and the first meeting for the committee is Tues., Nov. 12, 7 p.m.
A paper application is available at the district office, 150 Park Ave., Amityville. They can also be emailed toebecker@amityvilleufsd.org.
Applications are also available on the school district’s website under the Board of Education tab.
For more information call the district at (631) 565-6000.
By CAROLYN JAMES cjames@liherald.com
Last week, Amityville Police handled two significant cases: one involving the theft of over $200,000 in cash from a local resident and another that began as a trespassing case but escalated into a federal investigation.
WOn August 10, around 7:30 a.m., Amityville Police were alerted about a suspicious vehicle parked at a vacant home on South Ketcham Avenue. Upon arrival, officers observed awhite male dressed in all black exiting a 2022 GMC with Arizona plates. A check of the vehicle through the E-justice system revealed it was stolen from a U-Haul company in Davenport, Iowa.
for further verification. Consequently, the District Attorney’s Office declined to authorize charges for unauthorized use. Instead, Amityville police charged Jorge Miguel Gongora, 39, of Houston, with trespassing and seized the vehicle.
ith a case like this, it is obvious that crime has no borders.”
Bryan Burton, Amityville Police Chief
Attempts to confirm the vehicle’s status with the U-Haul company were unsuccessful, as a representative declined to sign an unauthorized use affidavit. Additionally, the Davenport Police Department was not available over the weekend
Upon searching the vehicle, police discovered hundreds of documents, including notary stamps, printers, checks in the names of numerous individuals, death certificates, and other personal identification information. They also found over 150 credit cards belonging to various corporations and individuals. “It was obvious to us that this was the kind of information used by scammers,” said APD Chief Bryan Burton. The case was subsequently handed over to U.S. Postal police, Homeland Security, and other investigators.
Amityville Police Officers Matt Russo, Nikita Fitzgerald, and Charlie Taylor were involved in this investigation.
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By Christie Leigh Babirad cbabirad@liherald.com
Suffolk County Police and the county’s District Attorney’s Office are seeking the public’s help in identifying a young man whose remains were found at Gilgo Beach in 2011. Called “Asian Doe” by the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force, the victim’s facial rendering was
developed and released in the hope that someone will recognize him and come forward.
“This is a significant development in the case because there aren’t a lot of Asian profiles currently in our genealogy databases,” said S.C. District Attorney Ray Tierney at the press conference. “This will hopefully help us in determining who he was.”
Tierney, alongside representatives
from local, state and federal law enforcement partners presented the renderings of the victim on Monday. Until now, police were only aware that the man was of Asian descent, but further forensic analysis showed that there is a strong likelihood that he is of Southern Chinese descent, Han Chinese descent.
While police discovered the remains in April of 2011, the homicide most likely occurred in 2006 or earlier, said police. The homicide was ruled as blunt force trauma.
“This victim suffered a violent death,” said Tierney. “This person certainly had a life and loved ones and it’s important that this victim get their name back so the people who cared for him can get answers.”
It is believed that “Asian Doe” worked as a sex worker prior to his disappearance and may have identified as a woman since he was found wearing women’s clothing. “We will not stop in the pursuit of justice for the victims of these homicides,” said Tierney, adding that “Asian Doe” remains nameless despite the best efforts of police.
Asian Doe’s” remains were found in the area surrounding Gilgo Beach, near where the remains of six women were found. Rex A. Heuermann of Massapequa Park is charged in those murders, but police have not associated him with Asian
Doe.
While police work tirelessly to solve the case, Massapequans noted over the weekend that once, again, their community is in the news.
“Every time something happens with the Gilgo Beach case, things get stirred up in Massapequa and Massapequa Park,” said Massapequa Park Village Mayor Daniel Pearl, who early in the investigation met with Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick J. Ryder and addressed families living near the Heuermann home to answer questions and assure them that they would work hard to ensure as little disruption to them as possible.
At John Burns Park on Sunday morning, families were cheering on their children playing soccer and baseball. “I tell people who ask me about it that this is a beautiful community and that just one terrible person or incident does not define us,” said a woman walking there.“
Anyone with informationon the identification of the victim is asked to contact Crimestoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS, or via email or mobile app atsuffolkpd.org/ Alerts/Crime-Stoppers. Translation services are available and a reward of up to $2,500 from Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is being offered for information leading to the identification of the victim.
—Carolyn James contributed to this story
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“With a case like this, it is obvious that crime has no borders,” Burton added.
On August 27, an Amityville man was robbed of more than $200,000 in cash from his business in front of his home on Mincher Place. The victim had returned home around 1:45 p.m. after collecting cash from vending machines he owns in Brooklyn. Police believe he was followed by three individuals driving a black Audi.
As the victim entered his driveway, one suspect emerged from the vehicle, approached the victim from behind, and seized the cash-filled bag. The victim fought the assailant and managed to hold him until police arrived, while the other two suspects fled with the cash. Officers Paul J. Schmidt and Nikita Fitzgerald, who were on the lookout for the vehicle, spotted it traveling east on Sunrise Highway. The suspects abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
Charged in that incident was Oscar Arroyo Magallanes, 31, of Los Angeles, who was later found to have given police a false name. Using information from an ankle bracelet provided by Suffolk Police, however, Amityville Police located him in Manhattan and re-arrested him. He was charged with providing a false name to police and is also connected to similar crimes. The investigation is ongoing.
“Credit goes to Officers Schmidt and Fitzgerald for their quick response and successful foot chase,” said Chief Burton. “We appreciate the cooperation from the Suffolk and New York City police departments in this case. We have video coverage of the incident, and the investigation continues.”
“With a case like this, it is obvious that
crime has no borders,” Burton noted.
In the second incident, an Amityville man was robbed of more than $200,000 in cash in front of his home on Mincher Place on August 27. The victim told police he had returned home around 1:45 p.m. after collecting cash from vending machines he owns in Brooklyn. Police believe he was followed by three individuals driving a black Audi.
As the victim entered his driveway, one suspect emerged from the vehicle, approached the victim from behind, and seized the cash-filled bag. The victim fought the assailant and managed to hold him until police arrived, while the other two suspects fled with the cash. Officers Paul J. Schmidt and Nikita Fitzgerald, who were on the lookout for the vehicle, spotted it traveling east on Sunrise Highway. The suspects abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
Charged in that incident was Oscar Arroyo Magallanes, 31, of Los Angeles, who was later found to have given police a false name. Using information from an ankle bracelet provided by Suffolk Police, however, Amityville police located him in Manhattan and re-arrested him. He was charged with providing a false name to police, who believe he is also connected to similar crimes. The investigation is ongoing.
“Credit goes to Officers Schmidt and Fitzgerald for their quick response and successful foot chase,” said Chief Burton. “We appreciate the cooperation from the Suffolk and New York City police departments in this case. We have video coverage of the incident, and the investigation
By CHRISTIE LEIGH BABIRAD cbabirad@liherald.com
Canine Companion service dogs are so popular that there is currently a waiting list of more than 500 people. According to Robert Monahan of Amityville, a third-time puppy raiser with the organization, there is a definite reason for this demand.“Canine Companion dogs are bred for intelligence and intuitiveness,” he said. “The training they go through is better than show quality.”
However, it is not simply the training that contributes to the organization’s success, it is also the dedication, passion and love of the organization’s volunteers,
Canine Companions is a not-for-profit organization that is also a founding member of Assistance Dogs International (ADI). It is committed to the highest standards of training, placement, utilization and education of service dogs who help their owners overcome physical, psychological and social barriers so that they can live more independent lives.
The organization breeds Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers and a mix of the two breeds. At about 8 weeks old, the puppies go to a volunteer puppy raiser for approximately a year where it receives socialization, love and basic canine training including housebreaking and learning how to sit and stay.
After a year and a half with the puppy raiser, the dogs go into the training program with Canine Companions to become a service dog.
Puppy Program Manager and former puppy raiser Sharon McComb has been with Canine Companions for 10 years and said she is fortunate to have a career that is “immensely meaningful.
“I have such a sense of pride in what I do and the puppy raisers are truly irreplaceable, we cannot do what we do without them,” she said.
McComb said that the puppy raisers ‘selflessly’ say goodbye to the dogs to allow them to begin their more intensive training to become a service dog.
“They’re the backbone of our organization and dedicated to making a difference in someone else’s life,” said McComb.
But all of that good work came to a sudden halt during the pandemic when the airlines shut down and the puppies, which are bred in California, could not be transported to the east coast and to the puppy raisers.
All of that changed, however when a pilot, Josh Hochberg of Sonoma Jet Center, stepped up with a number of other volunteer pilots to use corporate jets to transport the pups.
“It sounded like a nice thing to do to help,” said Hochberg.
He said that the puppy raisers are there to greet him when he arrives.
“These are people who have them for 18 months, love them, pour their heart
and souls into them, and then have to say goodbye,” Hochberg said. “They are the amazing ones…I feel small in comparison.”
Even as the airlines opened, Hochberg continues to volunteer to transport the dogs and encourages other aircraft owners to become part of the project.
Since their founding in 1975, Canine Companions has graduated 7,865 teams. After graduation, the dogs are placed with those in need of their service. McComb described graduation day for the dogs as a “magical day.
“There’s always such pride in the puppy raiser and even though it’s sometimes challenging to turn over the puppy you cared for, when you see the lives you changed, it’s a beautiful moment,” said McComb. “It’s emotional, motivating and powerful.”
The graduation ceremonies are open to the public.
Anyone who needs a canine companion, is interested in becoming a puppy raiser or in volunteering to transport the dogs or otherwise get involved can contact Canine Companions at canine.org or can call (1-800)-572-2275.
“If people are at all debating or wondering if this is an organization to get involved with, please reach out to us,” said McComb.
Meanwhile, Monahan who has his third dog in training, Chauncey II, said that what he has enjoyed the most about being a puppy raiser is watching them grow.
“Chauncey is the cutest and most intelligent puppy we’ve ever had,” he said. “It’s very rewarding and you’re helping those in need.”
By ANTHONY DICOCCO
Special to the Herald
Starting with the 2025-26 season, the Stony Brook hockey team will begin a new chapter of its story that may aid in expanding its recruiting reach across Nassau County.
Last month, the Seawolves announced that this upcoming season would be the team’s 14th and final year in the Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League. Beginning with the 2025-26 campaign, Stony Brook is set to join a brand-new conference — the Atlantic Coast Conference Hockey League.
The ACCHL will have North and South divisions. Stony Brook, Pittsburgh, Delaware, Syracuse and Oswego State in the North. The South will consist of Alabama, Louisville, North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina.
Due to the conference relocation, Stony Brook players from Nassau County are hoping that more players from their area will be inclined to join the program. Currently, there are just three Nassau County residents playing on the team.
After initially failing to get into the university, the Massapequa native attended Farmingdale State for a year to “take care of business on and off the ice” before transferring to Stony Brook prior to last season.
As someone who identified Stony Brook as the total package for both academics and athletics, Valenti hopes that joining the ACCHL can be a needle mover for other Nassau County residents.
“After playing junior hockey in Connecticut for two years, I realized that I had everything that I needed regarding academics and hockey at home,” Valenti said. The new conference, he added, “is definitely exciting . . . and people need to realize it’s a (State University of New York) school. We’re going to be in a very competitive league and you get what you pay for. Stony Brook is a very good school for everything, and hockey is just the icing on the cake.”
Forward Jake Gusavitch, a Massapequa native and first-year student, understands his peers’ reluctance to attend Stony Brook but hopes the name notoriety of the other schools in the conference, along with the opportunities they can bring, can help change that.
“If you just see the logo of Alabama or UNC, it acts as an attractor for players in Nassau County and really everywhere,” Gusavitch said. “We have schools like Syracuse and Delaware
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joining us along with the schools down south, so I think that’s a great opportunity to get some looks from scouts who are coming for the bigger schools. All in all, there are a lot of positives.”
Bethpage native and forward Lucas Puccia echoed that sentiment.
“There’s a lot of talent down there in the south,” the sophomore student said. “I think playing those teams will be pretty cool and competitive. Stony Brook is one of the top programs and a really good option for anyone on Long Island.”
Gusavitch also emphasized the bonuses of a limited traveling schedule, as teams in the North will only compete against the South’s teams during the playoffs. Due to Stony Brook’s hyperfocus on academics, he raised the point that less travel on the weekends allows for more time to get schoolwork done, which can be enticing for new recruits who live farther away in Nassau County.
In defenseman Teddy Valenti’s case, Stony Brook was always at the top of his college wish list despite living just under an hour away from the school.
While the Seawolves are guaranteed to finish their tenure in the ESCHL with the most championship wins (five) and regular-season championships (four), the last two seasons have not been kind to them. They have posted a combined 25-28-8 record, missing the American Collegiate Hockey Association National Tournament during each campaign. Choosing to concentrate on the new season, the Seawolves are putting the upcoming league change on the backburner, as they hope to capture their sixth ESCHL championship and their first national title.
“The mission is always the same,” Valenti said. “We had a very unsuccessful year last year. This year we’re playing in the same conference, and hopefully we can prove ourselves as a program. Then next year, when we move on to a different conference, those teams should fear us.”
Stony Brook will open its ESCHL farewell tour at The Rinx, where it will face off against the New York University Violets, on Oct. 4.
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By NIKO SCARLATOS sports@liherald.com
After finishing with just a 2-13-1 record in 2023, Amityville’s girls’ soccer team aims for improvement.
Coach Michele Armenia is in her second year at the helm of the program and wants the Warriors to play more together.
“Last season, we need to be more like a family,” she said. “I told them to just trust within each other. They have the skill to do it, they just have to believe.”
More than half of this year’s roster consists of seniors so it’s a veteran-led group. That includes four center midfielders: Keyra Zelaya, Delainey Katz, Joselyn Chinchilla, and Jannais Marte all have huge roles. “They are so key for us,” Armenia said. “Having them to hold down the middle of the field is huge.”
On defense, Alisson Molina and Janithza Sanabria are the leaders. They, along with goaltender Katelyn Hernandez, are crucial to the team’s success. “Those three are so great,” said Armenia. “They hold the fort down back there and keep us in games.” Not only have Molina and Sanabria done a great job on the field, but they’ve also helped a young player develop off the field. Isabella Luis is the only eighth grader on the varsity roster and continues to learn from the seniors on the team.
While Luis is Amityville’s youngest player, there are a few juniors who are looking to take the next step with advanced roles. Aurora Morales is a midfielder who hopes to take a big step forward. “The goal for her is to take more of a leadership role,” Armenia said. Along with Morales, both Jazleen Diaz and Diana Zacarius are in their junior season as they join the team after being on JV last season.
“Both Jazleen and Diana add to the team’s dynamic,” Armenia said. “They
have been ready to go from the jump and have done a great job of putting the team first.”
Even though this is just Armenia’s second year as coach, she has plenty of experience. Last year, however, was a new encounter for everyone. The team was without assistant coach Nick Demonda. “I’m not one to make excuses but that changed a lot for us last season,” Armenia said. “The players love him and he’s such a great asset to our team. We missed him in 2023.”
This season has not gotten off to a great start, with multiple blowout losses in the first three games. It also battled Copiague to a 1-1 draw. Katz scored.
But there is still plenty of time for the Warriors to show improvement and continue to get better and better as the season goes on. That’s all Armenia is looking for during the hard-fought journey.
By NIKO SCARLATOS sports@liherald.com
Season No. 2 of Babylon girls’ soccer under coach Stuart Love has begun. After winning Suffolk and Long Island titles and reaching the New York State Class B finals in 2023, the team is aiming to replicate its success. That is the message that Love has told his players.
“I told them let’s have another good season by continuing to move forward,” said Love. “If we focus on chemistry, results will come.”
Babylon’s captains are Grace Varley and Riley Altman. Coming off of a season in which she earned second team All-State honors, Varley is expected to have another big season as a forward. Altman, a center-midfielder, aims to lead by example in her season. “She’s a really tough player,” Love said. “She plays the whole game which is really valuable to us.”
Sarah Klienitzke is the only returnee on defense. Her leadership in that area of the field is going to be crucial in Babylon’s success. Starting center back, Chelsea Gersbeck, has a great partnership with Klienitzke. “The two of them have great chemistry together,” Love said. “Chelsea has had a really good start to the season and we’ve loved to see that.”
Another key contributor that’s back for her senior season is midfielder Hazel Bivona, who was the team’s top returning goal scorer a year ago. “She’s very composed with the ball,” said Love. “Very rarely does she turn the ball over and has become so good at timing her runs to arrive at the penalty box at the perfect moment.”
One big question mark coming into the season was the production that Babylon would get out of Shayden Kenedy. The junior tore her ACL in 2023. “She’s worked her way back surprisingly quick,” said Love. “It’s been such a huge boost to the team seeing
her out there. She’s really exceeded expectations on how soon she got back out there on the field with her teammates.”
As for newcomers, there are multiple players the coaching staff is excited about. Emma Muccioli is a sophomore who made the varsity roster. “Emma has really made a good impression on the coaching staff,” Love said. “She’s got great stamina which is important.”
The only freshman on the roster is midfielder Julia Wider. In her first season, she already has three goals in the first three games. As Love mentioned, chemistry plays a large role in this group’s success and Wider has done her best to provide that “She fits in well with all the older players on the team,” said Love. “The seniors have taken her under their wing.” While off the field, Wider has done a great job, the goals she’s buried in the back of the net on the field have come from hard work and determination in practice. “She’s put in some much time and effort at practice.”
The 10th Annual Suffolk County Marathon, Half Marathon and 10 K will be taking place on Sunday, October 20, with a 5K taking place on Saturday, October 19. Saturday races will start and finish at Gardiner County Park in West Islip and Sunday’s races will start in the Village of Babylon and finish in Gardiner Park. Marathon organizers are currently seeking volunteers and have a variety of opportunities available. Please visit suffolkcountymarathon.com and click on the “volunteer” tab to learn more.
St. Martin’s CYO basketball is holding registration at St. Martin’s Gym, 30 Union Ave., Amityville, on Sat., September 21, 10 a.m. to noon; on Sunday, September 22, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Monday, September 23, 7 to 9 p.m.
Forms will be distributed in the schools and may be returned by mail. There is an Instructional Program for girls and boys in Grades 1-3 that starts in November at St. Martin’s gym. Boys Travel, grades 3-8, starts in October. Volunteer coaches are needed, especially at
younger levels. The cost of registration is $200 for travel teams grades 5-8 and $175 for travel grades 3-4. The fee for the Instructional Program is $100. There is a procedure to request financial assistance to either enter into a payment plan or request reduced fees based upon economic hardship.
For more information, contact Mike Mehary by email: mehazh@optonline. net or call 516-623-1111 ext. 218, or call or text 631 835-9780 for more information.
(Route 110, Just North of Merrick Road, In the Heart of the Historical District) Tel:
Handicapped Accessible Pre-Need Information Available
The Great South Bay Society is holding its 18th annual bay clean up in Amityville on Sat., September 28. Those participating should meet at Yacht Service Ltd., 132 Ocean Ave., Amityville at 8 a.m. Volunteers are needed.
The participants of this event have done a tremendous job over the years to clean up tens of thousands of pounds of debris from the islands. The refuse has gotten much smaller over the years due
to ours, and other’s success. However, volunteers will continue to carry forth the effort.
Since 2021’s cleanup, all proceeds of the event will go towards a specific fund that was established at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. This fund was set up to help those receiving cancer treatment that need services that are not affordable or covered by insurance.
ST. PAUL’S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
147 Park Ave., Amityville Office Tel. 631-264-0763
Rev. Thomas W. Cusanelli
WORSHIP SERVICES: Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m. Wednesday Worship 7:30 p.m.
Accessible to the Physically Challenged “The Friendly Church” www.stpaulsamityville.com
175 Broadway, Amityville 631-264-0004
Fr. Randolph Jon Geminder, Rector www.facebook.com/ StMarysAmityville
Sunday: Matins
SIMPSON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
30 Locust Ave., Amityville 631-789-2569
Rev. Akio Iyoda, Pastor SUNDAY
Worship Service • 11:00 am “Here you are a stranger but once” Handicapped Accessible
• ROMAN CATHOLIC •
Rev. Gerard Gordon Pastor Masses : Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 Noon, and 5:00 pm
Tips and True stories about navigating the heartbreak of a missing pet
When a beloved pet goes missing, it can become an owner’s worst nightmare. Before diving into true lost-andfound dog stories, here are some general guidelines and tips for both pet owners and those who find lost pets.
Guidelines for Dog Owners:
• Microchip your pets and keep your registration information up to date.
• Consider using Apple AirTags, which have become more affordable. These can help track a lost dog via Bluetooth if the dog is wearing the tag.
• When your pet goes missing, distribute as many legible flyers as possible, contact social media lost-and-found sites, follow up on every lead, and expand your search area. Check local shelters in person frequently, and don’t be quick to assume your search is in vain. Recovery can take time. Once you find your dog, be sure to remove your flyers.
True Tale #1:
About 30 years ago, an ad in Newsday reported a missing dog from Valley Stream wearing a costume. Coincidentally, a stray dog in a costume was brought to the Babylon Shelter. Upon calling the ad, it was revealed that the Valley Stream home backed up to the Southern State Parkway. The dog likely got through a fence, and the costume helped identify it.
The rescuer, who lived in Babylon Town, must have driven the dog home after rescuing it from the parkway but was hesitant to mention “Valley Stream.”
On Long Island, if you find a lost dog without ID, take it to the municipal shelter in the town where you found it. If shelters are closed, the Town of Hempstead accepts stray dogs 24/7 if you go to the back door. Be honest about where you found the dog. Hempstead will contact the appropriate town shelter for transport the next morning. The Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island (VMCLI) in West Islip will hold stray dogs found in Babylon and Islip towns overnight, with the correct town shelters picking them up the following morning. These measures help prevent stray dogs from being hit by cars.
True Tale #2:
Dogs can get lost through no fault of their owners. For example, a landscaper or delivery person might accidentally leave a gate open. Dogs may also escape from pet sitters, particularly when staying at the sitter’s home, as they may believe their owners have abandoned them.
This was the case in 2011 when Kirek, a Border Collie, bolted from her sitter’s home in Lindenhurst while her owners were at an agility trial in Georgia. Two weeks later, a kayaker spotted Kirek on uninhabited Indian Island in Copiague. Babylon Shelter Animal Control Officer Kristin, who knew Kirek’s family from agility trials, rescued the dog from the island by canoe.
True Tale #3:
Lost flyers can be highly effective. You may need to hang up hundreds, but it only takes one to bring a dog home. Years ago, a friend boarded her Shepherd at a kennel and left her Lhasa with a friend. The Lhasa, who had a history of running away, escaped through an air conditioner vent. Despite a frantic search and many flyers, the dog was found after a flyer was seen at a deli. The finder had discovered the Lhasa shortly after its escape. The Lhasa was safely housed at Last Hope until its owner returned.
True Tale #4:
The following are a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week: Please note: All meetings are subject to change without notice.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22
•Town of Babylon Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting: 6 p.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, please call (631)-957-3012.
•Amityville Rotary Club Meeting: 8 a.m., Brownstones Coffee, 55 Merrick Road, Amityville. For more information, please call (516)-659-3489 or email amityvillerotaryclub@gmail.com
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24
• The Long Island Dahlia Society: 9 a.m., Bayard Cutting Arboretum, 440 Montauk Hwy., Great River. All are welcome. Come and learn how to care for your dahlias. For more information call (631)-972-8829 (leave message) or visit www.longislanddahlia.org.
MONDAY, AUGUST 26
“Dashing Dan” rode the train all by himself from Wyandanch to Farmingdale in April 2011.
In 2011, a chubby Lab mix with a pink nose and a sunny disposition boarded the Long Island Rail Road at Wyandanch Station without a ticket and was escorted off at Farmingdale. The police took him to Long Island Veterinary Specialists in Plainview, where a veterinarian publicized the dog’s plight on TV news. The next morning, Babylon Shelter retrieved the dog. A young couple, unaware of the media attention, came to the shelter to reclaim their dog who had slipped out when a gate was left open. They lived near Wyandanch Station and quietly left the shelter, avoiding the media.
Despite media coverage, Dashing Dan was reunited with his owners solely because they reclaimed him at their local shelter. Some Long Island residents may hesitate to turn found dogs into town shelters, but this is often the best way to ensure the pet is reclaimed. If social media ads don’t yield results quickly, a dog has a much better chance of being returned if it’s taken to the shelter in the town where it was found, rather than being kept in a private home.
•Copiague School District Board of Education Meeting: 7 p.m., Everett E. Newmann III Administrative Offices at Copiague Middle School, 2650 Great Neck Road, Copiague. For more information, please call (631)-842-4015
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
•Emotional Health Recovery and Support Group: 7:30 to 9 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9592, 55 Hickory Lane, Levittown. Free weekly, in-person meeting of Emotions Anonymous, a 12-step support group for anyone experiencing emotional difficulties. For more information, call Steve at (631)-332-0552 or Jill at (516)-220-7808. All calls are confidential.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28
•Town of Babylon Board Meeting: 3 p.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, please call (631)-957-4292.
•Town of Babylon Rental Board Meeting: 6 p.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, please call (631)-957-4434.
• Emotional Health Recovery and Support Group: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Free weekly, virtual meeting of Emotions Anonymous, a 12-step support group for anyone experiencing emotional difficulties. For more information, call Steve at (631)-332-0552 or Jill at 516-220-7808. All calls are confidential.
• The Long Island Dahlia Society: 9 a.m., Bayard Cutting Arboretum, 440 Montauk Hwy., Great River. All are welcome. Come and learn how to care for your dahlias. Tubers will be available for sale starting in April. For more information call (631)-972-8829 (leave message) or visit www.longislanddahlia.org
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Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts (BACCA) has provided a cultural resource center for the arts serving the needs of residents, artists and art organizations in Babylon. Its goal is to promote and encourage artists in their endeavors through consulting, promotion, technical assistance, and other resources and to present quality cultural programs for the community and opportunities for local artists to promote their craft.
This year, the organization is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a Harvest Moon Gala on Thursday, October 17 at The Piermont, 494 Fire Island Ave., Babylon.
Incorporated in 1974 by a group of volunteers with a vision, BACCA has grown to become a year-round sponsor of many activities including art classes and workshops, exhibitions, live theatre productions, concerts, public arts projects, cultural presentations and children’s recitals. Major recurring annual events include the Paumanauke Pow-Wow, the Long Island Bluegrass and Roots Music Festival, the annual Judged Art Show and Student Art Show.
“We are fortunate to have developed many new relationships with organizations and community groups, artists, municipalities and small businesses and that, along with our member is what makes what we do possible,” said Liz Mirarchi, BACCA’s executive director. “It has been a joy to work with our partners on new programs, public arts projects and the many ways we plan to continue to advocate for the arts and artists in our communities well beyond our 50 years.”
Recognized with the Owen H. Johnson Lifetime Arts Achievement Award are Mark and Dylan Perlman, the owners and operators of the Argyle Theatre who will be honored at the event.
BACCA’s board of directors includes Shawn S. Cullinane, president; Alice Cromarty, vice president; Rene-Joshua-Porter, corresponding secretary; MaryAnn Weckerle, recording secretary and Donna Gellineau-Matone, treasurer.
For tickets to the event on October 17, go to: babylonarts. org/50years or call (631)-5873696.
Father and son team Mark and Dylan Perlman purchased and renovated the historic Argyle Theatre on Main Street, which held a grand reopening in the Spring of 2018 with the musical “Guys and Dolls.”
The much-anticipated performance venue has been brought back to life by the Perlmans, Seaford residents who had a dream of bringing high-quality live theatre to Long Island’s South Shore.
Renovations of the Suffolk County theatre have been extensive, ranging from demolition of down walls, building a massive stage, painting, updating carpeting and curtains, installing stateof-the-art sound and lighting systems, adding a bar to the upstairs lounge, and refurbishing the nearly 500-seat theatre’s iconic marquee and sign.
Today, the theater sits in the heart of Babylon Village drawing theater goers from throughout Long Island, Queens and Manhattan.
The theater is at 34 West Main Street, Babylon. It can be reached online at (631) 844 5483 or at argyletheatre.com
By Danielle Schwab
An artist’s life can take many twists and turns. Certainly that is case of Yonia Fain. He reinvented himself repeatedly, yet his dedication to art remained unwavering throughout his 100 years.
Hofstra University Museum of Art welcomes fall with a look at the esteemed artist, poet, author and educator, through its new exhibit, “Yonia Fain (1913-2013): Tracing History.”
The museum’s assemblage of Fain’s art and personal ephemera offers a comprehensive view of his life and global influence, on view through Dec. 16. Fain was a member of Hofstra’s Fine Arts, Design and Art History faculty from 1971 until his retirement in 1985; he was named faculty emeritus on his 100th birthday.
Around 50 of his works — he bequeathed his archive to the museum — are on display, curated by Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Collections Kristen Dorata, including paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and poetry.
• Now through Dec. 16
• All programs require advance registration; call (516) 463-5672 or visit events.hofstra.edu to RSVP
• Emily Lowe Gallery, behind Emily Lowe Hall, Hofstra University’s South Campus, Hempstead
“This exhibition is focusing on his journey, offering a vision of the human spirit,” says Museum Director Sasha Giordano. “We wanted to emphasize the aspect of being a refugee, being a displaced person having to move from place to place. The works of art that were chosen are from the many different places he traveled.”
Born in Ukraine in 1913, Fain fled Bolshevik Russia with his family to Warsaw, Poland. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he and his first wife fled on foot to Vladivostok, Russia. There he was conscripted into the Russian army as an artist.
Refusing to create propaganda art as demanded by the Nazis and Russian authorities, Fain, with his wife, obtained falsified documents, traveling from Siberia to Japan, eventually landing in the Shanghai Ghetto for the remainder of World War II.
Fain continued to use art as a form of expression, making a living painting portraits of Japanese soldiers and their families, also writing poetry.
“Firsthand experience is key to understanding Yonia Fain’s prolific artistic oeuvre, from his early drawings in prewar Warsaw to the many paintings in New York after 1953,” Jan Burzlaff, postdoctoral associate in Holocaust Studies at Cornell University, writes in the exhibit catalogue. She continues: “To paint is to share the experience,” Fain reflected in a testimony given to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 1999. His work seeks to lend voice to all Jews who experienced Nazi rule, the vast majority of whom did not leave a trace. … The exhibition allows for precisely such a window into historical experience. In the process, because his creations do not fit neatly into the two dominant categories of abstract or realist representations, they also invite a much-needed reevaluation of Holocaust and postwar art.”
After the war ended, Fain set his sights on mural painting in Mexico, becoming friendly with fellow artists Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo. In 1953, he immigrated to the U.S.; his works featured in prominent museums. Fain also continued writing, authoring five books of Yiddish poetry and serving as the president of the Yiddish Pen Society.
“His journey speaks to those who are displaced and pushed to the margins and stripped of identity in society,” Giordano says.
Fain’s art mixes representational technique with elements of abstract expressionism, employing
broad brush strokes, diagonals and dark marks.
“He really can’t be put comfortably into one style of art,” Giordano adds.
One of Fain’s prominent pieces “Occupied City, 2008,” shows an abstract landscape with overlapping buildings drawn in the background.
“It gives a sense of people living on top of each other in an enclosed space, in a trapped space, which reflects his lived experience,” Giordano notes.
Fain also used color to invoke deeper reflection. “Despite the subject matter being very traumatic, he uses a lot of bright and soft pastel colors. It plays to this dichotomy that exists in his work. He’s showing you hope, but he’s showing you despair. He’s showing you betrayal, but he’s showing you empathy.
Museum visitors can also interact with biographical material, including a timeline of the artist’s life and a video recording in which he discusses life in the Shanghai Ghetto. Additionally, everyone is invited to read Fain’s poetry and then submit a poem in response to the exhibit experience.
Fain’s extraordinary conviction to art during a time of adversity shows the enduring strength of human resilience and beckons us to explore the past.
“We should revisit history. We should re-examine these stories. We should consider people whose stories may trace a similar path of hardship today,” says Giordano.
As always, related programming enhances the viewing experience, including an exhibit tour on Oct. 23.
‘The “British Invasion” returns anew, when “1964 The Tribute” takes its audience on a musical journey back to that unforgettable era in rock history. Since the early 1980s, this reincarnation of the Fab Four has been thrilling folks all over the globe with what Rolling Stone Magazine has called the “Best Beatles tribute on earth.” Choosing songs from the pre-Sgt. Pepper era, “1964” astonishingly recreates an early ‘60s live Beatles concert, with period instruments, clothing, hairstyles, and onstage banter. The band focuses on the quintessential moment in history, when The Beatles actually played before a live audience. Only a precious few got to experience when The Beatles toured the world in the early ‘60s. Who actually felt the “mania” that brought them to world acclaim. “1964” meticulously re-creates the “magic of those live performances with artful precision and unerring accuracy.
Friday, Sept. 20, 8 p.m. $65, $40, $30, $19.64. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com or ParamountNY.com.
‘… Rollin’ on the river’
Step into a virtual time machine and journey back to the glory days of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s with Commotion — the electrifying Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute band. The musicians pride themselves on their commitment to faithfully reproducing the iconic CCR sound. From the soulful voice of Steve McLain to the mesmerizing guitar solos of Jimmy Ryan, every riff, melody and rhythm comes to life with precision. McLain possesses a vocal prowess rivaling the one and only John Fogerty. With his husky timbre, emotive delivery and uncanny ability to recreate Fogerty’s raw energy, be transported back to when CCR ruled the airwaves. They are joined drummer Mark Ellis and bassist George Foster, who deliver those infectious beats that were CCRs trademark.
Friday, Sept. 20, 8 p.m. Tickets start at $45. Madison Theatre, Molloy University, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. Tickets available at MadisonTheatreNY.org or (516) 323-4444.
Take out that neon once again and give your hair its best ‘80s ‘do. Those crazy days are back — as only Jessie’s Girl can pull off, on the Paramount stage, Saturday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m. The band of NYC’s top rock/pop musicians and singers gets everyone into that “Back To The Eighties” vibe with the latest edition of their popular concert experience. With a lineup including four pop-rock vocalists dressing and performing as ‘80s icons, backed by a dynamic band, this is the definitive 80s experience. Throw on top of that: a load of super-fun choreography, audience participation, props, costumes, and confetti — and you have a party that audiences don’t want to leave. Jessie’s Girl has mastered over-the-top renditions of the some of the most unforgettable songs, all while dressed up as the iconic characters of that decade.
Theater meets live music, covered in ‘80s glitz. There’s no decade like the ‘80s — and no one does that era quite like Jessie’s Girl Throw on your best neon, use extra hair spray and head to Back To The Eighties — because it’s time to party like it’s 1989. $45, $37.50, $25. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. Tickets available at ticketmaster.com or paramountny.com.
Participate in a Qigong class, at Amityville Public Library, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1-2 p.m. Qigong is an ancient, meditative movement practice that encourages physical and mental health in coping with some of the many stresses of daily life. Beginners are welcome. Wear loose clothing and soft shoes and bring water to the class. You are welcome to bring a mat as well, but it is optional. To register, visit the circulation desk with $20 cash, check or money order, and indicate if you would prefer in-person or virtual when you register. Amityville Public Library, 19 John Street, Amityville. For more information, call (631) 264-0567.
St. Martin of Tours Church offers religious education classes for grades 1 through 8. Classes meet once a week and sacrament preparation is offered for all ages, including high school level. Religious education begins in grade 1 and First Communion and First Reconciliation is a twoyear preparation. Sacraments are received at the end of the second year. All are welcome to register. Online forms can be found at stmartinamityville.com/ religious-education. 41 Union Ave.
Walk returns Get ready to lace up your sneakers and leash up your furry friends because the Paws Walk returns Sunday, Sept. 22 , starting at 9 a.m., at Belmont Lake State Park. Participants will be able to sign-in and grab a light breakfast at 8 a.m. Sponsored by Long Island Cares, the 5K route is perfect for runners, joggers and walkers of all levels. Please bring a non-perishable pet food item for a chance to win a BarkBox full of pet goodies or bring a nonperishable human food item to enter a raffle for a great human treat.
$40 per person in advance, $45 on day of the event. Includes a race t-shirt. Kids 12 and under can participate for free. To register, visit events. elitefeats.com/24pawswalk. For more information, visit licares.org or call (631) 5823663. 625 Belmont Ave., West Babylon.
Come on down to Venetian Shores Park Softball fields, Friday, Sept. 27, 6-9 p.m., to cheer on your favorite badge team. Participating will be the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, the New York City Police Department, Suffolk County Police Department and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Department. Sponsored by Babylon Town Councilman Terence F. McSweeney, tickets are $10 and children 12 and under enter for free. All proceeds will go toward L.I. Against Domestic Violence for prevention, support and healing. The event will also include concessions, raffles and lots of fun. Venetian Shores Park Softball Fields, 817 Granada Parkway, Lindenhurst. For more information, call (631) 957-3081.
Amityville Public Library is offering one-on-one informational appointments to discuss the general citizenship process and how to prepare for the citizenship test during September and October. Please note that no legal advice is given or offered at appointments. To make an appointment, call Mary at (631) 691-1619 ext. 117. 19 John St.
Check out the annual fall classic, Car Show Long Island, Sunday, Sept. 22 , 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at TOBAY Beach. Presented by Supervisor Joseph Saladino and the Oyster Bay Town Board, the event will have a free concert, food truck corral, awards, vendors and more. Additional parking and shuttle service will be available at Jones Beach Field 5. Show gates will open at 8 a.m. and the rain date is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 29. This event is free to spectators. For more information, call (516) 7974121 or visit carshowli.com. TOBAY Beach, Ocean Pkwy, Massapequa.
The 10th Annual Suffolk County Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, 5K and 1K Fun Run will be held Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19-20 . On Oct. 19, the 5K race begins at 9 a.m. and the 1K at 11 a.m., inside Gardiner County Park, Montauk Highway, Bay Shore. The 10k, Half Marathon and Full Marathon Start at 7:30 a.m., on Oct. 20 at the Babylon LIRR train station. The start line is on the corner of Railroad and Deer Park Ave. The best place to be dropped off is at Babylon Train Station, the North Side of the tracks (Park Ave). To register or for more information go to runsignup.com./
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Now through Sept. 30, applications are being accepted for the spring 2025 semester for the Hope For The Warriors Military Spouse and Caregiver Scholarship Program. Since 2006, Hope For The Warriors has awarded Military Spouse and Caregiver Scholarships twice a year.
The nationwide program recognizes and rewards post-9/11 spouses and caregivers for their strength, fidelity and resolve despite adversity as they assume critical roles in the financial well being of their families. Scholarships vary from $1,800 to $2,500 and are applied toward higher education at an accredited U.S. university, college, or trade school. To receive an application and learn about all scholarships offered for the spring 2025 semester, visit hopeforthewarriors.org and connect to services.
In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Art League of Long Island presents “Retrospect - The Individual Art of Collaboration in Reconstructive Surgery.” The exhibit delves into the interplay between personal artistry and collaborative efforts in the context of breast reconstruction, showcasing how the healing process can transcend medicine to become an inspiring narrative of restoration and personal resilience. This unique exhibition explores the intersection of medicine and art through the lens of two accomplished breast reconstruction surgeons, Dr. Ron Israeli and Dr. Jonathan Bank, whose careers and artistic endeavors are deeply intertwined.
The works on display show the multifaceted nature of artistic expression in medicine and surgery. Their work emphasizes the importance of collaborative creativity in the healing process, offering viewers a unique perspective on the emotional and physical aspects of breast reconstruction. On view Sept. 28 through Oct. 18. Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery at Art League of Long Island, 107 East Deer Park Road, Dix Hills. Visit artleagueli.org for more information.
Pursuant to Chapter 213, Article II of the Building Zone Ordinance of the Town of Babylon, notice is hereby given that the Town of Babylon Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing at TOWN BOARD ROOM (Located in the East Wing) at Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
BEGINNING AT 6:00 P.M. 6:00 p.m.
1.Application #24-163 of Chester M. Hazel, 24 Fulton Street, West Babylon, NY. Permission to diminish front yard setback from 30’ to 21’. All in connection with the erection of proposed second floor addition, a two-story addition and a front portico. Property located on the south side of Fulton Street, 278.78’ east of Straight Path, West Babylon, NY.
SCTM#0100-81-2-39
Zoning District: Residence 6:05 p.m.
Babylon, NY.
SCTM#0100-107-2-36
Zoning District: Residence B 6:10 p.m.
3.Application #24-167 of Michael and Veronica Romero, 301 West 18th Street, Deer Park, NY. Permission to increase total building area from 30% to 57.2% (over by 2,041.84 sq. ft.); increase total building area of the rear yard from 45% to 82.4% (over by 1,295.2 sq. ft.); diminish distance to rear lot line from 2’ to 0’ (for pavers); diminish distance to north side lot line from 2’ to 0’ (for pavers); increase area of the front yard used as a driveway from 40% to 44% (over by 83.6 sq. ft.).
All in connection with legally maintaining masonry pavers, an in-ground swimming pool and the expansion of a driveway. Property located on the east side of West 18th Street, 301’ south of Oakland Avenue, Deer Park, NY.
SCTM#0100-85-3-104
Zoning District: Residence C 6:15 p.m.
Zoning District: Residence B 6:20 p.m.
5.Application #24-160 of Abril Martinez-Arraya (applicant)/Target Corporation (property owner), 1 North Lexington Avenue, White Plains, NY. Permission to increase number of signs per parcel from one (1) to two (2); increase area of ground sign from 32 sq. ft. to 104.04 sq. ft.; increase area of ground sign from 32 sq. ft. to 138.04 sq. ft.; increase height of ground sign #1 from 15’ to 25’; increase height of ground sign #2 from 15’ to 25’. All in connection with legally maintain two (2) nonconforming ground signs (previously approved for five (5) years; expired January 5, 2011). Property located on the east side of Broadhollow Road, 208’ north of Milbar Boulevard, east Farmingdale, NY.
SCTM#0100-3-1-3.017
Zoning District: Industry G
2. Application #24-164 of Linda Pavlicko, 112 Bond Street, West Babylon, NY. Permission to increase building area from 20% to 25.57% (over by 613.1 sq. ft.); diminish distance to north side lot line from 8’ to 1.3’ (for accessory building (shed)); diminish distance to south side lot line from 6’ to 5’ (for pool); diminish distance to rear lot line from 6’ to 5’ (for pool). All in connection with legally maintaining an above ground swimming pool, two (2) sheds, and a rear yard paver patio. Property located on the west side of Bond Street, 200’ north of Barnum Street, West
4. Application #24-165 of Abdus Sabur, 110 Adams Street, Deer Park, NY. Permission to diminish front yard setback from 30’ to 27.6’ (for front portico); diminish rear yard setback from 40’ to 32.3’ (for basement entrance). All in connection with legally maintaining a modified front portico and an outside cellar entrance and egress window for a finished basement with threepiece bathroom. Property located on the south side of Adams Street, 100’ west of Ocean Avenue, Deer Park, NY.
SCTM#0100-61-1-4
Subject Premises: 2121 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, NY 11735
ALL PERSONS OR THEIR DULY APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVE MUST APPEAR IN PERSON AT THE ABOVE HEARING. ALL CASES WILL BE HEARD IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE ADVERTISED, TO BE FOLLOWED BY ADJOURNED CASES.BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
MICHAEL KANE, CHAIRMAN
Dated: Babylon Town Hall Lindenhurst, New York AUGUST 27, 2024 24-521. 9/18
Babylon Hibernians hosting Breast Cancer Awareness fundraiser
AOH St. Patrick’s Division 2 is holding its annual Breast Cancer Awareness fundraiser Sat., Oct. 5.
The fundraiser will be held from noon to 6 p.m. at the Hibernian Hall, 27 Locust Avenue, Babylon. The event will feature musical entertainment and special performances by Mise Eire Irish
Dancers and Saffron United Pipe Band. There will be drink specials and food for purchase, a giant Chinese auction and 50/50 raffles. Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds will be equally distributed to the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition and West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition for Long Island. For more information, call (347) 6249137.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, -againstHENRY THOMAS JR., ET AL.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on November 30, 2023, wherein U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST is the Plaintiff and HENRY THOMAS JR., ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the BABYLON TOWN HALL, 200 EAST SUNRISE HIGHWAY, NORTH LINDENHURST, NY 11757, on October 8, 2024 at 2:00PM, premises known as 17 PINE ROAD, AMITYVILLE, NY 11701; and the following tax map identification: 0100099.00-01.00-040.000.
ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF BABYLON, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND STATE OF NEW YORK
Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 602719/2020. Robert A. Macedonio, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.
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INDEX NO.: 622154/2018
Date Filed: October 18, 2023
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE MORTGAGED PREMISES: 36 Somerset Road East, Amityville, New York 11701
DSBL #: 0100-174.0004.00-002.000
Plaintiff designates SUFFOLK County as the place of trial; venue is based upon the county in which the mortgaged premises is situate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
Citibank, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. Suffolk County Public Administrator as Administrator of the Estate of John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams; John C. Abrams, Jr. a/k/a John Abrams, Jr. Individually and as heir of the Estate of John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams; Juanita M. Abrams a/k/a Martha J. Abrams as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams; Barry Abrams as Heir and Distributee of the Estate John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams, if living and if he be dead, his heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees, and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid defendants and all heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees, and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff, except as herein stated; Avery Abrams as Heir and Distributee of the Estate John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams; Unknown Heirs of The Estate of John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams, and all the heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid defendants, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and all of whom and whose names and places of residence are un-
known to plaintiff, except as herein stated; United States of America o/b/o Internal Revenue Service; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; Clerk of the Suffolk County District Court Traffic and Parking Violations Agency; Clerk of the Suffolk County District Court; Commissioner of Taxation and Finance; John Doe #1 through #6, and Jane Doe #1 through #6, the last twelve names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein.
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint.
NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME.
SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY.
SENDING PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.
THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $198,251.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Suffolk County on March 10, 2006 in Liber M00021251, Page 816, covering premises known as 36 Somerset Road East, Amityville, New York 11701, DSBL #: 0100-174.00-04.00002.000.
The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendants and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises.
TO the Defendants Barry Abrams as Heir and Distributee of the Estate John C. Abrams a/k/a John Abrams, if living and if he be dead, his heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees, and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid defendants and all heirs-atlaw, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees, and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff, except as herein stated, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Paul M. Hensley, J.S.C. of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk, dated and filed July 30, 2024 and filed August 2, 2024. Dated: August 27, 2024 /s/ Christhie M. Montero
Christhie M. Montero, Esq.
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC
420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840
New York, New York 10170 Phone: 347.286.7409
Fax: 347-286-7414
Attorneys for Plaintiff, Citibank, N.A.
HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE
NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.
SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE
ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE.
The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure.
In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.
To locate an entity near you, you may call the tollfree helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department of Financial Services at 1-800-342-3736 or visit the Department's website at www.dfs.ny.gov.
FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS
Be careful of people who approach you with offers to "save" your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner's distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.
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Notice of Formation of JUNAID RAJANI DDS, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/8/24. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The PLLC, c/o Junaid Rajani, 120 Broadway B, Amityville, NY 11701. Purpose: to practice the profession of Dentistry.
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Notice of formation of Lawrence “10” Wayne Enterprises, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) on 07/30/2024. offc located in Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 10 Leonard Place Amityville, NY 11701. Purpose: any lawful purpose.
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NOTICE In accordance with Notfor-Profit Corporation Law §1513-a, Beth Moses Cemetery Corporation, located at 1500 Wellwood Ave, West Babylon, NY 11704, is commencing the process to declare abandoned and reacquire certain unused gravesites on the grounds of INDEPENDENT SOCHOTZOWER YOUNG MEN’S SICK SUPPORT SOCIETY. Contact information: Beth Moses Cemetery Corporation c/o John Nolan (631-249-2290) September 2024 24-512. 9/4, 11, 18
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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, -against- LEROY R. HAMILTON AS HEIR OF THE ESTATE OF BEATRICE HAMILTON; ANNETTE LAVERN PRICE AS HEIR OF THE ESTATE OF BEATRICE HAMILTON; COMMUNITY CONSTRUCTION CORP.; KINGS COUNTY LAFAYETTE TRUST COMPANY; THE DARTMOUTH PLAN, INC.; UNITED STATES OF AMERICAINTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF BEATRICE HAMILTON, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants,
executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; and JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE #1 through #7, the last seven (7) names being fictitious and unknown to the Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the Complaint, and JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE #1 through #7, the last seven (7) names being fictitious and unknown to the Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the Complaint, Defendants. INDEX # 628335/2023 Original filed with Clerk 11/13/2023 Plaintiff Designates Suffolk County as the Place of Trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated Suffolk County. Premises: 79 S 32nd St Wyandanch, NY 11798. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED
DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 day of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The supplemental summons and amended complaint are being filed pursuant to Court order dated August 13, 2024. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATIONAND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Uniondale, New York, August 14, 2024 Respectfully submitted, Pincus Law Group, PLLC. By: Lili Roarke, Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 425 RXR Plaza Uniondale, NY 11556, 516-699-8902 24-504. 8/28, 9/4, 11, 18
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT SUFFOLK COUNTY THE STATE OF NEW YORK MORTGAGE AGENCY, Plaintiff against MARTIN ROBINSON AKA MARTIN D. ROBINSON, IF LIVING, AND IF DEAD, THE RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNORS, LIENORS, CREDITORS AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH SAID DEFENDANT WHO MAY BE DECEASED, BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE OF ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO THE PREMISES DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES, OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, AND EACH AND EVERY PERSON NOT SPECIFICALLY NAMED WHO MAY BE ENTITLED TO OR CLAIM TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT; ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF
RESIDENCE UNKNOWN, AND CANNOT AFTER DILIGENT INQUIRY BE ASCERTAINED BY THE PLAINTIFF, ARLICIA ROBINSON AKA ARLICIA S. ROBINSON A/K/A ARLICIA S. AGARD, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC, 28 Corporate Drive, Suite 104, Halfmoon, NY 12065. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered January 5, 2024, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Babylon Townhall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on October 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM. Premises known as 254 Albany Avenue, Amityville, NY 11701. District 0100 Sec 169.00 Block 02.00 Lot 032.000. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, North of the Village of Amityville, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $578,901.22 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 615235/2018. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District's Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding
facial coverings and social distancing. Sabita Hajaree-Ramsaran, Esq., Referee File # 21-001073-01 24-503. 8/28, 9/4, 11,18
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST LAWRENCE I DAVIDSON INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SURVIVING JOINT TENANT WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIP OF STELLA MARIA DAVIDSON, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered May 28, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on September 27, 2024 at 10:00AM, premises known as 3 North Emerald Lane, Amityville, NY 11701. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Amityville, in the Town of Babylon in the County of Suffolk, State of New York, District: 0100 Section: 174.00 Block: 03.00 Lot: 086.000. Approximate amount of judgment $249,475.63 plus interest and costs. Premises
will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #201555/2022. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in acco rdance with the District and SUFFOLK County Auction Plan in effect at this time. Richard Lavorata Jr., Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 22001731 81863 24-505. 8/28, 9/4, 11, 18
NOTICE is hereby given that the PLANNING BOARD of the Village of Amityville will hold a Public Hearing in the Court Room of Village Hall, 21 Ireland Place, Amityville, NY at 6:00 P.M. on THURSDAY, October 3, 2024, to consider the following applications: APPLICATION OF BRIAN CHEUNG for 229-233 Broadway. Applicant seeks architectural review and approval for a proposed facade renovation pursuant to Section 24-6 A (1) (g) of the Village of Amityville Code. Premises located on the Northeast corner of Broadway and Oak Street in a “B-1” Business District known as 229-233 Broadway a/k/a SCTM #101-4-3-50. By Order of the Planning Board, Village of Amityville Catherine Murdock, Clerk/ Treasurer 24-520 9/18, 25
St. Martin’s CYO basketball is holding registration at St. Martin’s Gym, 30 Union Ave., Amityville, on Sat., September 21, 10 a.m. to noon; on Sunday, September 22, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Monday, September 23, 7 to 9 p.m. Forms will be distributed in the schools and may be returned by mail. There is an Instructional Program for girls and boys in Grades 1-3 that starts in November at St. Martin’s gym. Boys Travel, grades 3-8, starts in October. Volunteer coaches are needed, especially at younger
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The cost of registration is $200 for travel teams grades 5-8 and $175 for travel grades 3-4. The fee for the Instructional Program is $100. There is a procedure to request financial assistance to either enter into a payment plan or request reduced fees based upon economic hardship. For more information, contact Mike Mehary by email: mehazh@optonline.net or call 516-623-1111 ext. 218, or call or text 631 835-9780 for more information.
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TQ. We were sitting in our living room and heard a loud clunk. We went to investigate, thinking something spooky or structural had happened, maybe in our attic. It turned out that a steel post in our basement had just rusted out and fallen over, probably from saltwater during the hurricane flooding we had. Should we be concerned? The floor seems to be level, and not bouncy or anything. What should we do? Can we replace the column to save money?
A. Sometimes things do go bump in the middle of the night. (People sometimes ask me if these questions are real. You actually called me about this, as a former client, and I was able to stop over and look at the problem.) You were right to be concerned, and to react quickly instead of waiting to see what could happen next.
I can report that your crawl space went through a significant amount of repair, but is in otherwise pristine condition after the flooding occurred. Unlike many people I meet with, you took pictures of the stripped bare structure, and could show me the ones you kept in a computer file. That was important in determining what to do next, because the main beam supporting the house is partially enclosed with marine plywood and has several adjustable columns, which I never recommend for permanently supporting loads, especially in a potential flood-prone crawl space under a home.
Now I have photos to prove what I have often said about adjustable columns, the ones with either pegs or adjustable screws or, like your columns, both pegs and a large adjustable screw at the top. I am in favor of full steel columns that aren’t lightweight, but rather have heavyweight sidewalls of ¼-inch-thick steel.
It isn’t that the adjustable columns aren’t strong enough. My concern is that they be installed correctly and how long they will last, especially in a corrosive environment. Almost every adjustable column I have ever seen is installed incorrectly, upside down. The manufacturer specifically instructs that the adjustment portion of the column should be at the bottom, not at the top. After installing a correctly calculated spread footing, the column is installed so that when the floor slab is poured in place, the concrete will enclose the screw adjustment section of the column.
In a flood zone, I always recommend that plastic be in place around the base of the column before the concrete pour is made, to keep saltwater from directly contacting the steel. Even though the steel must be coated with rust-preventive paint, concrete acts like a sponge, and the salt builds up and remains around the steel after each flooding episode. Even better, I recommend solid concrete block columns to support the beam in a flood hazardprone area. They will last a hundred years longer than the steel. You can do the work yourself and avoid things that go bump in the night. Good luck!
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It’s a good time to review back-to-school
As we enter the fall season, our roads are once again at full driving capacity. With school underway, the addition of buses picking up and dropping off students, kids on bikes hurrying to school, and harried parents dropping their children off before work or picking them up after school adds to that congestion. With that in mind, I thought it would be a good time to review some back-to-school traffic safety tips. Most of them aren’t new, but they can serve as a reminder to drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians as they navigate our busy roads.
School zone driving safety tips
n Always keep to the speed limit in a school zone.
n Watch out for school crossing guards, and obey their signals.
n Slow down, and follow all traffic laws when entering a school zone.
n Always stop for school buses that are loading or unloading children.
n Never pass other vehicles while driving in a school zone.
Riding your bike to school
n Keep your phone in your pocket, silenced, while riding.
n Always wear a bike helmet.
n Obey the rules of the road. They are the same for all vehicles, including bicycles.
n Stay on the right side of the road and ride in the same direction as traffic.
n If possible, ride with someone else. There’s safety in numbers.
n Never ride a bike while wearing headphones, talking on a cellphone or texting.
Walking to and from school
Dn Go straight home after school. Don’t go anywhere else without parental permission.
n Don’t talk to strangers, and never get into a stranger’s vehicle.
n Parents, teach your children to recognize and obey traffic signals and signage.
ownright scary statistics on accidents and deaths should give us all pause.
n Keep your phone in your book bag, silenced.
n Leave early enough to arrive at school at least 10 minutes early.
n Always use available sidewalks and streets.
n Walk with other students. There’s strength in numbers.
n Cross streets only at designated crosswalks.
n Always look both ways before crossing.
n Never cross streets between obstacles (parked cars, bushes, etc.).
ASchool bus safety tips for motorists
n If you are approaching a school bus from either the front or behind, and its yellow lights are flashing, the bus is preparing to stop.
n When a bus’s red lights are flashing, you must stop. It’s the law. This includes buses that are on the opposite sides of divided highways, on multiplelane roadways, in parking lots and on school grounds.
School bus safety tips for students
n Remember to look carefully in both directions — left, right and left again — when crossing a street.
n Wait for the bus at a designated bus stop, and stand well back from the curb.
n Make eye contact with the driver and wait for the driver to signal you before crossing in front of the bus.
n When getting off the bus, look to the rear of the bus before stepping off the bottom step.
To reinforce the important of traffic safety, recent data released by the state Department of Transportation shows that Long Island’s roads have become more dangerous and deadly. Last year alone, there were over 84,000 vehicle crashes on Long Island roads, an increase of 4 percent over 2022.
Those crashes resulted in 216 deaths and more than 26,000 injuries, including 1,400 serious or life-threatening ones. In Nassau County, 66 people died in crashes, and in Suffolk County, which is larger geographically and has more roads, there were 150 deaths.
DOT data for the first five months of 2024 showed nearly 23,000 collisions, with 51 deaths and 356 people seriously injured. There were 379 reported pedestrian collisions and 185 collisions involving bicyclists from January to June.
Those are downright scary statistics, and will hopefully give all of us pause, and motivate us to make a concerted effort to keep traffic safety top of mind throughout the school year ahead and beyond as we carry forward with our busy lives.
John Giuffré represents Nassau County’s 8th Legislative District.
cold wind, as loud as a trumpet, whipped across the summit of Mount Marcy, New York’s highest peak in the Adirondacks, on Aug. 17. I could see only feet in front of me, because the mountain, at 5,344 feet above sea level, was enveloped by clouds. Then a light rain started to patter across the rocky slab at my feet.
I was in a dreamscape, surrounded by massive boulders and tall piles of rocks called cairns, intended to guide hikers through stormy conditions. Then, out of the fog, two 20-something hikers appeared like apparitions, wearing nothing more than shorts, T-shirts and sneakers, each carrying but one small water bottle. The two moved across the steep, slippery rock like cats, seemingly unfazed by the increasingly concerning weather. One pulled out a short joint and inhaled it all at once. He and his hiking partner stood at Marcy’s highest point and joked that they were the highest men in New
York. Then they asked if we — my son, Andrew, my soon-to-be son-in-law, Matteo, and I — would like our photo taken at the summit. We did, and the fellow toking the joint obliged.
The pair were from Massachusetts, but mostly hiked in New Hampshire, they said. They had never climbed Mount Marcy before. I remarked that I had last made the ascent 45 years ago.
“What were you, 3?” the smoker asked.
“Actually, I was 12.”
“Whoa.”
DI’m a nearly lifelong Long Islander accustomed to a virtually flat landscape, and the Adirondack High Peaks region has lived in my imagination since I first visited the area as a Boy Scout with Troop 79, in Suffolk County, during my middle school years. I could never reconcile in my mind the massiveness of the mountains, the sheer grandeur of them. Even as a child, I understood how special they were, and how fortunate I was to visit them.
take in the spectacular view (on a clear day, it’s said you can see Mount Royal, in Montreal, 65 miles away, from Marcy’s summit), but my older self understood how privileged I was to be in this place. To be consumed by the weather was an experience unto itself, one part eerie, one part mystical.
espite the fog atop Mount Marcy, I understood how privileged I was to be there.
I had decided during the coronavirus pandemic that I wanted — I needed — to return to Mount Marcy, and I wrote about that desire in a Herald column in March 2021, “Reflections on a pandemic year.” I was the Heralds’ executive editor at the time, and like so many people then, I was exhausted, mentally as well as physically, having covered the pandemic for a year. My mind often wandered to the forests of my childhood, both on Long Island and in the Adirondacks and Catskills. I longed for the quiet and solitude of the woods.
I climbed Bear Mountain, in New York’s Hudson Highlands, with my wife, Katerina, in June. It was a distressingly hot day, but we made it. Then Andrew and Matteo proposed that we climb Marcy this summer, and I was all in. I didn’t hesitate. Now it’s on to Katahdin, in Maine, hopefully in one of the coming summers.
The experiences of climbing Bear Mountain and Mount Marcy were made more special and lasting in my memory because I shared them with family. Only my daughter, Alexandra, was missing, but I’m certain she will be trekking with us into the mountains in the near future.
Like so many, I was hyper-focused on my work during the pandemic. It was all we had. I still love my work — now as a full-time Hofstra University journalism professor. But to this day, more than a year after the official end of the “Covid19 emergency” in May 2023, my mind often drifts to the woods, to nature. It is there that we find the psychic and spiritual healing that so many of us still so desperately need.
On the day Andrew, Matteo and I made our ascent, the weather was less than ideal. A younger version of me might have been disappointed not to
“I hope to climb Bear Mountain, Mount Marcy and Mount Katahdin again, and perhaps others as well,” I wrote. “I hope. I hope. I hope. We must keep hope alive to remember why we should do all we can to survive these terrible and terrifying times.”
Scott Brinton is an assistant professor of journalism, media studies and public relations at Hofstra University’s Lawrence Herbert School of Communication. ©Scott A. Brinton. Comments? scott.brinton@hofstra.edu.
History is often perceived as something static — a collection of events consigned to textbooks, memorialized in museums, or commemorated on anniversaries. It can feel as though history lives on dusty bookshelves, far removed from our daily lives.
But history isn’t merely a record of the past, frozen in time. Rather, it is a living, breathing thing, continuously shaping the present and influencing the future.
History evolves as it is interpreted, re-examined and passed down through generations. One way to understand its dynamic nature is by noting how institutions like fire departments are now hiring young people who were born after Sept. 11, 2001 — a day that still feels so recent and vivid to many of us.
This milestone is a potent reminder that history is an ever-evolving force that defines generational perspectives, values and narratives.
Many of us remember where we were and what we were doing on 9/11, as do members of older generations who remember where they were when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot, or that Pearl Harbor had been attacked.
For firefighters — and especially those who serve in New York City and on Long Island — no date holds deeper meaning than Sept. 11. The bravery of the many first responders who ran
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toward the hellish chaos at the World Trade Center, intending to save lives, has become emblematic of the courage and sacrifice inherent in their profession.
That fire departments are now hiring people who were not alive when the towers fell highlights the inevitability of generational change and the idea that history is always moving forward, even when it feels as if time has stood still.
These young recruits are entering a world shaped by the consequences of 9/11, yet they engage with it in a different way. For them, Sept. 11 is, yes, history, but not a memory — a chapter learned in school rather than a harrowing, indelible life experience.
This generational shift forces us to confront the duality of history: it is at once deeply personal and profoundly collective. For those of us who lived through 9/11 — and particularly the millions who could see the smoking wreckage from their homes or offices, with no need of a television screen — the event has become part of the fabric of our lives. For those born afterward, it is something learned about and appreciated through second-hand accounts.
Nonetheless, their presence in firefighting gear yet to be soiled signals that history is alive, breathing new life into the institutions that helped shape it. Eerily similar to the refrain repeated by Jewish people immersed in their
own living history since the Holocaust, “Never again,” fire departments across the United States, as far removed from New York as Alaska, echo the phrase, “Never forget.”
There, the Kenai Fire Department — more than 4,500 miles from ground zero — commemorates 9/11 every year as if its members, too, were just a truck ride from where the planes hit.
“The greatest thing we can do to honor the lives lost on 9/11 is to strive to be the people we were on Sept. 12, when we all came together, we all felt like one nation, one people,” Jay Teague, chief of the Kenai department, said at its Sept. 11 ceremony last week, as reported by KDLL public radio. “We get lost in the daily strife, the daily frustrations, and we lose that sometimes, but I think that’s probably the best sentiment we can end on, is that we should strive to be the people we were on Sept. 12.”
As young recruits join firehouses in New York City, on Long Island and across the country, they bring with them a new understanding of public service, informed not only by the legacy of 9/11, but the challenges they have faced in the post-9/11 world, marked by heightened security, shifting global politics, a pandemic and a divided country.
This generational handoff underscores the vitality of history. It is not static; it does not belong solely to the past. Rather, it lives on through the people who reinterpret it and shape it anew.
As election season heats up, the League of Women Voters of Central Nassau and partners such as New Yorkers for Equal Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union continue to advocate for and educate about Proposal 1, appearing on state ballots in the upcoming election, through postcarding, phonebanking, canvassing and public appearances. We remind New York voters to “flip their ballot” on Nov. 5 and vote on Prop 1, which expands on the current state Equal Rights Amendment to include protections against discrimination for all New Yorkers.
Moreover, LWVCN recently joined the Sign4ERA. org team — which advocates for the long-overdue certification and publication of the federal ERA — when the organization’s chair, former New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and her colleagues visited Garden City on Sept. 1 to ask U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito for his support. D’Esposito, who represents the 4th Congressional District, is one of a few remaining members of Congress needed to sign a House discharge petition that would bring HJ Resolution 25 — removing the deadline for
immigration has been a contentious topic for the past few years, as the migrant crisis at the southern border has continuously grabbed headlines, prompted intense debate and served as a major policy point for candidates in elections across the nation.
While Americans have always, and likely will always, disagree on how to handle this issue, there’s no denying the increasingly vitriolic, outlandish and in many cases outright racist language used to describe these immigrants.
Every American is a descendant of immigrants, whether your ancestors came here on the Mayflower, through Ellis Island or, in recent decades, on a plane. My ancestors came from Italy, Scotland, England, France and Germany, some as early as the 1600s and some as late as the early 1900s.
So it’s disappointing, as someone who was raised to take pride in my family’s history, who learned about the struggles that my Italian and Jewish relatives faced when they arrived, to see how willing many Americans are to assume the worst about all immigrants.
There are some who will say, “I don’t hate all immigrants — just the illegals who come to our country to steal our jobs and murder us.” While I can appreciate the very real worries about gang members or criminals arriving in our neighborhoods, I’d like to ask a simple question.
How do you think your immigrant ancestors would feel if someone accused them of eating dogs?
iI can promise you, most of our ancestors did face discrimination when they came to this country. In the mid-1800s, when waves of Germans and Irish arrived, and decades later, when Italian, Greek, Russian, Jewish and more people came here in droves, they faced the racist backlash that many immigrants are still facing today.
their journey over. They drew caricatures, published cartoons calling Irishmen “wild beasts,” and ran political campaigns on a platform that the Irish were not fit to be members of civilized society.
t’s frustrating to see many Americans assume the worst about immigrants.
According to Kevin Kenny, a professor of history at Boston College, “Native-born Americans criticized Irish immigrants for their poverty and manners, their supposed laziness and lack of discipline, their public drinking style, their Catholic religion, and their capacity for criminality and collective violence. In both words and pictures, critics of the Irish measured character by perceived physical appearance.”
Sound familiar?
The Know Nothing Party of the 1850s was a nativist political movement that opposed Catholic immigration into the country. They ran on a platform of keeping America Protestant and “pure,” rejecting the notion that Catholics and non-Anglo-Saxon peoples had anything to offer our young nation.
The Know Nothings used slurs to insult the many Irish immigrants who had fled the Great Famine, many of whom endured hellish conditions on
I’m not saying people don’t have a right to be concerned about illegal immigration. It’s a serious issue that has remained unresolved through far too many administrations of both parties. But we must remember that our words have meaning, and that when we make blanket judgments about people or groups, we are, as the adage goes, cutting off our nose to spite our face. Because immigrants have always been the backbone of this country, from the day of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence — which features the signatures of eight immigrants — to today. From early arrivers like Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who built Fort West Point and helped the Americans win the Battle of Saratoga, to later ones like Andrew Carnegie, the tycoon who dominated the steel industry in the 19th century — neither of whom had ‘legal’ documentation when they arrived — immigrants have always had an outsized impact as workers, innovators and leaders.
Arguably the most famous immigrant in our history, Alexander Hamilton, came to New York as a boy with nothing, and ended up one of our most influential Founding Fathers. I wonder what people these days would call the immigrant orphan child of a prostitute from the Caribbean with no formal schooling.
Immigration is difficult. It is a quagmire that provides immeasurable benefits while, conversely, creating serious social, economic and political pressures. But we should never resort to reductive and hateful stereotypes.
Every immigrant, no matter how he or she came here, is a human being, and should be treated as such. Don’t make the same mistake the people who called my relatives “wops” and “dagos” did, and assume they have less to offer.
Will Sheeline is a senior reporter covering Glen Cove, Glen Head, Oyster Bay and Sea Cliff. Comments? WSheeline@ liherald.com.
the ratification of the ERA — to the House floor for a vote.
Since Virginia was the 38th state to ratify the ERA in 2020, we have the threefourths majority of states needed to affirm it as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. As of Sept. 1, the discharge petition had been signed by 214 House members, and needed 218 signatures to move to a floor vote. So if you live in District 4 — which includes Atlantic Beach, Baldwin, Carle Place, East Meadow, Elmont, the Five Towns, Floral Park, Franklin Square, Freeport, Garden City, Garden City Park, Hempstead, Long Beach, Lynbrook, Malverne, Merrick, New Hyde Park, Ocean-side, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, Seaford, Uniondale, Valley Stream, Wantagh, West Hempstead and Westbury — and you support the ERA, contact D’Esposito’s office, at desposito.house.gov, as soon as possible, and ask him to sign Discharge Petition No. 6. This federal equal rights legislation is long overdue, and we are close to making history by seeing it finally published in the Constitution, where, arguably, it always should have been.
On Tuesday, which, auspiciously, was both Constitution Day and National Voter Registration Day, representatives of the LWVCN, the National Council of Jewish Women and the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women were scheduled to visit D’Esposito’s office to
discuss the urgency and significance of the federal ERA, not only for New Yorkers but for all Americans.
SUSAN CUSHMAN, PH.D. LWVCN advocacy chair
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The Long Island Rail Road still needs to reach a state of good repair for its existing fleet, stations, elevators, escalators, signals, interlockings, track, power, yards and shops. That also includes more stations reaching compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act. Maintenance programs for all operating assets also need to be fully funded, and completed on time, to ensure riders safe, uninterrupted, reliable service.
Since its creation in 1964, the Urban Mass Transit Administration — which since 1991 has been known as the Federal Transit Administration — has provided billions of dollars to pay for many of these capital improvements. The LIRR’s share of the FTA’s annual grants to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
averages 15 percent. In 2024, this should total $270 million of $1.8 billion in federal grant funding.
The state Department of Transportation also provides Statewide Transportation Operating Assistance on an annual basis to the MTA and the LIRR. Let’s give thanks to both Washington and Albany for continued financial support for our LIRR, the
nation’s largest commuter railroad. LARRY PENNER Great Neck
Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously served as a director of the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office of Operations and Program Management.
