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PORT TIMES RECORD P O R T J E F F E R S O N • B E L L E T E R R E • P O R T J E F F E R S O N S TAT I O N • T E R R Y V I L L E

Vol. 35, No. 28

June 2, 2022

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The price of freedom American Legion Post 432 hosts Memorial Day service to honor the fallen — A4

One-on-one with Ana Hozyainova

Also: Port Jeff train station, mental health awareness, local history & more

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Also: Cooking series heads to Smithtown, Mather Hospital’s Kenneth Roberts retires

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Mayor Garant addresses benches and traffic near train station

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Mayor Margot Garant has responded to concerns about seating availability at Port Jefferson train station.

The village mayor believes the issue of seating availability cannot be divorced from public safety. “We were getting a lot of complaints about the homeless population,” Garant said.

“They were using the off and on ramps and sleeping in them. And our ridership — whether it was people from Port Jeff Station or Port Jeff village — they were complaining to us about the safety at that time of getting on and off the train, especially in the early mornings and in the evening hours.”

During the 2019 redesign of the Port Jefferson train station, the village had discussed both seating availability and public safety with Long

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Island Rail Road. During those deliberations, the mayor said LIRR had pitched an idea to add redesigned benches to prevent individuals from sleeping on them.

“The discussion was held at that time about what the renovation plans would look like and I believe they had commented to us that they were introducing some of these other types of benches which would allow for seating but don’t allow for overnight sleeping,” she said, adding, “Since then our complaints have gone down, I would say, like 85%.”

Despite the decline in complaints from residents, there remains the problem of userfriendliness at the station for some riders. As reported last week, there are only two outdoor seating areas at the station, which can present an unnecessary obstacle for people with disabilities and the elderly.

Garant acknowledged that greater accommodations at the station should be made to ensure these populations can rest comfortably while waiting for a train.

“I feel for the complications that people have,” she said. “So, yes, seating should be made available if they can’t sit inside the booth or they want to sit outside, but it may be the type of seating that does not allow for you to lie down on it and that’s for a reason.”

The quantity and style of seating at the station is largely determined by LIRR, according to the

‘So, yes, seating should be made available if they can’t sit inside the booth or they want to sit outside, but it may be the type of seating that does not allow for you to lie down on it and that’s for a reason.’

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mayor. The decision to add armrests along the benches, however, was a coordinated decision between LIRR and the village to curb sleeping at the station.

“Yes, there was a conversation with respect to that because we’re trying to prevent people from using the station as a sleeping area,” Garant MAYOR GARANT CONTINUED ON A14-15

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The Port Jefferson School District will hold a special board of education meeting for community members to discuss the proposed capital bond projects slated for a December 2022 vote.

At the meeting, the community will be apprised of the proposed projects and cost; receive feedback from the district’s Community Advisory Panel; and in addition, allow for public comment.

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American Legion Post 432 honors the fallen on Memorial Day

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Members of the American Legion Post 432, based out of Port Jefferson Station, held a series of services throughout the community to honor the sacrifices made by American servicemen.

The day began at Steven J. Crowley Memorial Park in Terryville. Cpl. Crowley was a security guard for the United States Marines.

In 1979 Crowley made the ultimate sacrifice when he died in the line of duty when the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was besieged by a student riot.

Kevin Powers, sergeant at arms at Post 432, grew up with Crowley. The two later served together in the Marine Corps.

“He was a good man,” Powers said. “I knew Steven since elementary school and we graduated together. I miss him dearly.”

The memorial service at Crowley Park is an annual tradition at the post. Powers suggested that this event is a yearly reminder of Crowley’s legacy of service and helps to keep a fallen comrade’s memory alive.

“We do this every year,” he said. “It’s an honor to do that for him and for all of the men and women in the service who gave their lives to protect our freedom.”

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Ron Romaszka, commander of Post 432, reflected upon his own experiences during the Vietnam War and his brothers in arms who died in combat.

“I lost a lot of guys over in ‘Nam,” he said. “I don’t talk about it all the time. That’s mine and I keep that inside.” On the importance of the day in hand, he added, “Memorial Day has always been a very important day for me. For all of the veterans here, they all have a special feeling inside, and that’s why it’s an important day for all of us.”

Romaszka also touched upon the role of the American Legion in serving veterans throughout the community. “We stand behind every veteran that’s out there,” the post commander said. “For any veteran that needs assistance of any kind, we’re there to assist them. Whether it’s financial, whether it’s medical — whatever it is, we’re there for them.”

The post held a similar ceremony at the Port Jefferson Memorial Park in the village.

Trustee Bruce Miller, who also serves as 2nd vice commander of Post 432, shared that freedom is inextricably linked to the sacrifices of American veterans.

“We come to honor the fallen on Memorial Day,” he said. “It is important to look back and remember that our freedom is not free, that we have our freedom because people have fought and died for it.” He added, “It is important to recognize their sacrifice and the sacrifices of

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While it may be a solemn occasion, Miller said veterans can find solace this Memorial Day in knowing that American forces are not currently in the line of fire.

“This is the first year in the last 20 that we are not at war,” the village trustee said. “Veterans can rejoice that none of our soldiers, sailors or marines are coming under fire. But as the Ukrainians have shown us, we must always be ready.”

Mayor Margot Garant offered her own take on Memorial Day. She said she witnessed firsthand the sacrifices of American veterans as several of her family members, including her brother and father, have served.

“I feel that every day in our community is Memorial Day,” she said. “It gives us a time to pause and remember and be thankful for all of the great things that we have.” The village mayor added, “Port Jefferson is a great place to live and people have worked hard to create that freedom.

I’m very thankful for their service, for those who have lost their lives, and we honor them.”

The day concluded with one last service at the post, followed by refreshments. To learn more about Post 432 and its various offerings, visit www.americanlegionwilsonritchpost432.org.

— Photos by Raymond Janis

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Bellone, Kornreich visit veterans home for Memorial Day service

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Public officials gathered before a room of vets at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University for a Memorial Day service Friday, May 27.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) gave the keynote address for the event.

He continued the theme raised during his State of the County address a week earlier, invoking the example of the Greatest Generation as a model for Americans today.

“I can’t help but think that it’s just at the moment when we see our World War II veterans unfortunately slowly, but inevitably, fade into history, that 80 years later we now see war raging in Europe,” he said. “It’s so important that we never forget what they did.”

For Bellone, American veterans should be honored not only for their service abroad but for the work they perform for communities after they return from the battlefield.

“It’s what veterans always do — they come home after fighting for our country

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and they build and they strengthen our community,” the county executive said, adding, “To all our veterans who have served, you all have picked up the baton of service. From the Revolutionary War right up to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, American veterans have served and have sacrificed.”

Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) was also in attendance. Saying that he was inspired

by Bellone’s address, the councilmember commented on the need for policymakers to temper their power to wage war and monitor their decisions that threaten peace.

Without memory of the great global conflicts of the 20th century, leaders today may be less cautious in their use of force.

“Maybe people now who are making decisions, who didn’t live through it, maybe they don’t have the same reluctance to engage in war and the same urgency to avoid it,” Kornreich said. “Especially right now, with all of the conflicts that are going on, that’s a very good lesson. I can’t think of a better way to honor the memory of those who have died in war than to try to fight for peace.”

Local history in perspective: Memorial Day — Photos courtesy of Long Island State Veterans Home

This week, communities all across the North Shore reflected upon the importance of Memorial Day. It is an opportunity to appreciate the past, present and future sacrifices of our armed forces. Right now, American servicemen and women are stationed overseas in every continent. With each passing generation, people throughout our communities have exemplified the values of duty and service to this nation. This Memorial Day, we remember their sacrifices.

Fairfield, Connecticut. Tallmadge, a native of Setauket, sent this information to Gen. George Washington, who closely monitored enemy activity on Long Island.

In 1780, Tallmadge landed at Mount Sinai with a small force to attack and overrun a military base near Smith Point.

Undetected by the British, this group marched through parts of Mount Sinai, Coram, Middle Island and Yaphank as they headed toward Mastic. There, Tallmadge and his men set a major British outpost ablaze, depleting this valuable resource to the enemy. Some accounts by Tallmadge’s soldiers had suggested the fire could be seen by townspeople several miles away.

At the dawn of the Revolution, the residents on the North Shore of the Town of Brookhaven defended themselves against British troops. Many of these citizens lived in immediate proximity to the enemy as the British refused to relinquish control of New York City and Long Island. Local patriots of this area operated as the Culper Spy Ring, sending valuable intelligence to spy chief Benjamin Tallmadge in

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. At the time, the government decided that Camp Upton in Yaphank would be a suitable place for a military base.

Quickly, trains full of supplies were sent to help build the barracks that would house thousands of soldiers for basic training.

Soon this section of the Pine Barrens was transformed into a 14-week training ground that would transform ordinary American

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Local heroes of the Revolution

‘Yip Yip Yaphank’

citizens into soldiers. When these men arrived at Yaphank, they were taught how to march, salute, make beds, handle weapons and explosives. Camp Upton was indeed an ideal location as the Long Island Rail Road could easily resupply this base.

Famous songwriter Irving Berlin wrote the musical revue “Yip Yip Yaphank” about his time in the Army at this military facility, which today is the site of Brookhaven National Laboratory. In time, 40,000 soldiers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut would be trained at Camp Upton. Although the United States joined the fighting late, American soldiers, many of whom were trained at Camp Upton, made important contributions to bring an end to the global conflict.

Long Island’s legacy of service

As local residents head east toward Riverhead, they will notice the former Grumman national defense facility in Calverton. This huge property once housed a key corporation that built many fighter planes for the military.

Another sprawling location for this company was built at Bethpage. During World

War II, there were about 20,000 workers who built 12,275 F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft that battled Japanese forces in the skies. Many of these Grumman aircraft aided the island-hopping campaign of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz, who moved American troops across the Pacific Ocean from 1942-45.

For several decades, the Long Island workforce supported American servicemen and bolstered American strength around the globe. Grumman continued making fighter planes during the Cold War, supporting the Space Race against the Soviet Union and helping get Americans to the moon. Today, the Calverton Grumman facility is mostly used as a nature and fitness trail.

On this Memorial Day, there were numerous local stories of pride, heroism and service that continue to make the residents of this area proud. It is a time for us to honor those who have protected this proud nation, and continue to do so.

Rich Acritelli is a history teacher at Rocky Point High School and adjunct professor at Suffolk County Community College. Written in conjunction with members of the high school’s History Honor Society.

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A man entered the store, allegedly cut the security cord from an iPhone 13 Pro Max on display and fled. The cellphone was valued at valued at $1100.

County Park in Miller Place on May 27 returned to her car in the parking lot to find that someone had stolen a backpack containing her wallet from her unlocked car.

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■ A pocketbook containing cash and credit cards was stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked at Cedar Beach on Harbor Beach Road in Mount Sinai on May 27.

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the driveway of a residence on Long Beach Drive in Sound Beach on May 27. The vehicle, which according to the owner was locked, was valued at $9,000.

Mount Sinai ■ A woman called the police on May 28 to South Setauket report that while visiting Heritage Park on ■ Stop & Shop on Pond Path in South Mount Sinai Coram Road, Mount Sinai someone entered her car and stole a diaper bag containing cash and credit cards. The credit cards were later used at a local Walmart.

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■ Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove called the police on May 20 to report a petit larceny. Two people entered the store, chose assorted Nike clothing, removed the sensors and allegedly walked out without paying. The clothing was valued at $880.

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Setauket reported a shoplifter on May 28.

A woman allegedly stole miscellaneous grocery items valued at $350.

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Part I: Mental health strain for Long Islanders

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The first in a two-part series, this article highlights the ways COVID-19 exacerbated an already difficult mental health landscape on Long Island, particularly for adolescents.

Amid isolation and uncertainty, residents had an increase in anxiety-related and mental health crises. Additionally, residents in acute distress who arrived at the emergency room sometimes had to wait hours or days for an inpatient psychiatric bed. In the second feature, which will appear in a future edition, mental health workers describe the challenges of their work during the pandemic.

COVID-19 has taken its toll on mental health throughout Suffolk County, as people in a range of ages confront challenges related to isolation, depression, anxiety and grief.

Area hospitals report that inpatient psychiatric beds are rarely empty. Indeed, patients have had to receive treatment in the emergency room at times for a day or more as they wait for an available inpatient psychiatric bed.

“Our emergency room has two behavioral health beds, but often, we have more patients waiting for admission to [the] inpatient psychiatry unit,” said Dr. Adnan Sarcevic, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Huntington Hospital.

While patients receive the same treatment in the emergency room that they would in an inpatient unit, some types of intervention, like group psychotherapy “cannot be provided in an emergency room setting,” Sarcevic said.

COVID also exacerbated the shortage of beds when some units had to close after an outbreak of the virus.

“We had periods when some psychiatric inpatient units were closed for a variety of different reasons including COVID outbreaks” which created a shortage of beds, Sarcevic added.

At St. Catherine of Siena in Smithtown, beds filled up as soon as one opened, said Dr. Michel Khlat, chief medical officer.

Adolescent strains

The pandemic exacerbated trends that already reflected the mental health strain among youth and adolescents.

For the previous decade, youth presentations for mental health crises in the emergency room had been increasing.

During the pandemic, those numbers climbed nationally and on Long Island.

Estimates of anxiety among youth increased to 20%, which is dramatically higher than the 12% prior to the pandemic, said Dr. Vera Feuer, associate vice president in the School Mental Health program at Northwell Health.

Depression has also reached about 20%, which was previously below 10%.

Additionally, the pandemic caused a

Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler and Dr. Stacy Eagle from St. Charles Hospital and Dr. Adnan Sarcevic and Dr. Vera Feuer of Northwell Health, discuss the state of mental health on Long Island.

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three-fold increase in children with eating disorders, which is consistent with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, Feuer added.

“There’s a real big increase in presentation to the emergency room” with youth who are considering suicide, particularly for girls who are 10 to 13 years old.

Additionally, adolescents are showing an increase in tic disorders, which are involuntary movements of the neck, eye or facial movements, Feuer said. While some studies suggest a link between depression and these movements, other research has linked them to the increasing use of social media.

As for the availability of mental health services, adolescents are continuing to find it difficult to become outpatients for an overburdened mental health care system, which increases the need for emergency services.

Community services are often “saturated,” Feuer said. “There are not enough child psychiatrists” which means that children go without care for longer, she said.

On Long Island, the wait for inpatient beds is not as long as it reportedly has been in other areas of the country.

“We do have kids waiting at least a day or over the weekend,” said Feuer. She suggested that access to beds and to crisis programs in school have mitigated some of the adolescent demand.

Dr. Stacy Eagle, director of Psychiatry at St. Charles Hospital, cautioned that the potential for addiction and substance abuse is “concerning. Even marijuana is dangerous, because you don’t know what it’s laced with and it can become incredibly addicting.”

Broader challenges

The shortage of inpatient beds predated the arrival of COVID, with mask mandates, social distancing, remote learning and athome work altering routines and creating stressors that often increased anxiety and triggered the kind of self-medication that led to substance abuse.

“I’ve seen it step up on a daily, weekly, monthly basis” in terms of generalized anxiety

disorders and panic attacks, said Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler, director of the Emergency Department at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson.

Eagle said she has seen more anxiety, mood disorders and substance abuse, with more acute patients coming in from schools.

Doctors suggested that COVID itself can contribute to the worsening of a person’s emotional well-being.

“COVID certainly plays a role in mental health, both as a psychosocial stressor and due to the neurotropic nature” of the virus, said Sarcevic.

The types of treatment varies according to the severity of the symptoms, the underlying conditions, and any ongoing treatment plans.

“Some people come in who are in need of medication to be stabilized for depression,” said Khlat.

To accommodate the increasing need for non-acute psychiatric services, health care professionals have been offering

telepsychiatry help.

In the last three months, St. Catherine of Siena expanded their telepsychiatry services, which had been offered primarily on the weekends, to seven days a week.

“Due to the influx of patients we’re having, with COVID depression we had to [expand that] to the rest of the week,” Khlat said. These services “helped us out a lot.”

Silver lining

Feuer suggested a few silver linings amidst the health care crisis.

“The attention to something we know has been a problem for a long time” will help the community, she said. “I’m hoping the right resources and interventions will come.”

Additionally, the increased vigilance of mental health challenges has enabled people to feel that asking for mental health resources is something they can, and should, do.

“It has normalized these conversations,” Dr. Feuer said.

Available resources

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, urged people who think they need help to get it right away.

Those people seeking help for substance abuse or mental health can visit www.SuffolkStopAddiction.org to find a network of providers in the 2022 Suffolk County Directory of Behavioral Health Services guide.

The following are resources available to those in crisis: — Family Services League’s Diagnostic, Assessment and Stability Hub (DASH) program. This is a 24hour stabilization response program for children and adults in crisis due

to substance abuse, mental illness and other life stressors. They are located at 90 Adams Avenue in Hauppauge. Their phone number is (631) 952-3333.

— A free 24-hour hotline: (631) 7517500, or www.responsehotline.org.

— A Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) at Stony Brook Hospital at 101 Nicolls Rd in Stony Brook is available at (631) 444-6050.

CPEP has voluntary and involuntary emergency psychiatric services for children and adults every day.

“It is important for individuals to engage in self-care,” Pigott wrote in an email. “Listening to each other and recognizing the signs of mental illness and substance use can help mitigate a developing crisis.”

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One-on-one with Ana Hozyainova Port Jeff village trustee candidate on her global approach to local issues

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Ana Hozyainova is a candidate for trustee in the upcoming village election on June 21.

During a recent interview, she discussed her background in social work, her experiences abroad, the threat of climate change to Port Jeff village, the East Beach Bluff and more.

What is your background and why would you like to be involved in local government?

I would like to answer that in reverse order — why I would like to run and then how my background is beneficial in the service to the village.

One of the key things is that I would like to build upon and preserve the legacy that the village has already created. I see that the village, just like the rest of the nation and other municipalities, faces a number of challenges that are way outside of our control.

For example, we are a coastal community that will suffer significantly with the worsening impact of climate change. The flooding will become only worse.

We are a community that changes in its residential structure. The nation is aging and the nation is shrinking in certain ways, and this will have an impact on the village and the way the village works. We also as a village observed decline in our tax revenue, mainly through the LIPA gliding path. Any one of those challenges is already an issue that would require significant adjustment, but three of them together compound the issue and require a long-term vision and long-term

The sunrise over a landscape in Bamyan, Afghanistan, where Hozyainova worked for seven years. Photo taken by Hozyainova in 2011.

solutions to the way the village functions.

I hope to be able to engage in that process because I would like to make Port Jefferson my long-term home. I have a family here and I would like that family to continue to grow and stay in the village. For me, the role of the trustee is a person who sets the policies, sets standards and hires people to implement those policies. This is where I believe my skills and my background are incredibly useful for the village.

I come with nearly two decades of experience of human rights work, international work. I worked in fields as diverse as countering violent extremism to working with mental health issues to doing community organizing to developing policies to address such thorny issues as: How do we still torture?

The issues I mentioned before are very difficult to address and they require creative thinking and problem-solving in order to develop a viable, functional solution. I believe that I have those solutions. I also have an education that is very helpful for that with a degree in social work from Columbia University. Part of the reason that I chose that school is that at the core of the teaching in my school, the person was put front and center.

Hozyainova and a friend dance to the tango after a full day of reviewing and commenting on human rights reports, 2013.

Photo courtesy of Hozyainova

With a lot of the political decisions — be it raising of the taxes or changes in the code or restructuring the zoning of the village — it is very easy to forget the human that will be impacted by those decisions. I have the skills

that would be required to actually look at who would be those people who would be affected and what can we do to make sure that our decisions serve the greatest good of everyone involved, that we’re not just doing quick and dirty “let’s fix this” and forget about the unintended consequences that might come out of those decisions.

Given your experiences abroad, why did you turn your focus inward toward local issues?

Again going back to my time at Columbia University — and the reason I mention it is because when I was there, I found it incredibly frustrating when my teachers would say, “Think small. Think of the impact that certain actions would have on people at the local level. Engage with the small steps first. Don’t try to change the whole system at the same time. It will become overwhelming and unmanageable. Think about issues that affect people on the ground, and from there start building up your intervention.”

As the years passed by, I’ve learned — despite my frustrations — that that’s indeed the true way to bring real change into the lives of the people. At the moment, my residency ended up in Port Jefferson by virtue of the people who I met, the person who I married. I feel that the work that can be done at the local level is no less important than any of the work that I could have done elsewhere. Right now, the moment has brought me to Port Jefferson and this is where my skills can be most useful

and could be applied right now.

You have been a vocal proponent of reconfiguring roadways in the village.

In your opinion, what is wrong with these roadways and how can they be improved?

The issue of walkability in Port Jefferson, especially pedestrian safety, is an issue that is very dear to me. I live in a residential neighborhood with two main roads that kind of hug the area. I walk those streets every day and I personally experience the impacts that speeding cars or reckless driving could have on pedestrians.

It is the issue that I personally experience and that’s how I start organizing the work. I’ve heard too many people say this is dangerous and unsustainable, that they’re fearful of walking but it’s the only exercise that they have. So I rallied the community for stop signs on California Avenue as an interim measure to assess what other possible solutions can be brought in to improve pedestrian safety.

As I did that work, I also got in touch with other residents in the village who also voiced their concerns and discovered that it is a systematic problem, that many people face issues about safety on the roads. What I hope to do is a systematic assessment of what can be done in Port Jefferson to make it more walkable as a village because our ability to ONE-ON-ONE CONTINUED ON A11

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LEGALS NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2010-1, Plaintiff, vs.

RAFAEL A. NUNEZ, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on March 15, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on July 5, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 692 Old Town Road, Port Jefferson, NY 11776. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0200, Section 311.00, Block 01.00 and Lot 005.00. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 602078/2019.

COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale.

Edward Heilig, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, & Peddy, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff 8283 6/2 4x ptr

To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on June 29, 2022 at 09:00 AM premises known as 5 Smith Lane, Middle Island, NY 11953. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Suffolk, State of New York, District 0200, SECTION: 527.00, BLOCK: 04.00, LOT: 011.000.

Approximate amount of judgment is $251,583.84 plus interests and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 604392/2019.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the Suffolk County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Office of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2. nycour ts.gov/Admin/oca. shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale.

James Edward Gathman, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 8363 5/26 4x ptr

U.S. Bank National Association, not in its Individual Capacity but Solely as Indenture Trustee for the CIM Trust 2017-8 MortgageB a c ke d Notes, Series 2017-8, Plaintiff

Notice of formation of M AT T S I N N OVAT I V E CONSULTING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New Yo r k SSNY on 3/09/2022. Office located in Suffolk. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 5141 Nesconset hwy #1007, Port Jeff Sta,NY 11776. Purpose: any lawful purpose

AGAINST

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NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Suffolk

Ann Brusca, Salvatore Brusca, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 23, 2019 and entered on January 06, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee for Residential Accredit

Loans, Inc., Mortgage AssetBacked Pa s s - Th r o u g h Certificates, Series 2006QA1, Plaintiff AGAINST Michael Limoggio as Administrator of the Estate of Dorothy Limoggio and Michael Limiggio Individually; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 23, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville NY 11738 on June 15, 2022, at 11:30AM, premises known as 17 Dale Avenue, Patchogue, NY 11772. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Township of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section 952.00 Block 04.00 Lot 032.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $218,547.51 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 611323/2015. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the 10th Judicial District.

Daniel Fox, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: April 15, 2022 8442 5/12 4x ptr

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES C O R P O R AT I O N MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH C E RT I F I C AT E S , SERIES 2006-BC4, Plaintiff, AGAINST SALMA ASHRAF, KASHIF ASHRAF, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly

entered 2016.

on

November

4,

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill Farmingville, NY 11738 on June 24, 2022 at 11:00 AM premises known as 2 Bucks Hill St, Medford, NY 11763.

Please take notice that this foreclosure auction shall be conducted in compliance with the Foreclosure Auction Rules for Suffolk County and the COVID 19 Health Emergency Rules, including proper use of masks and social distancing.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York. District 0200 Section 608.00, Block 01.00 and Lot 015.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $927,178.00 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #013930/2009.

Christopher Hahn, Esq., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff - 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747

premises known as 6 Landing Lane, Port Jefferson, New York, 11777 and described as follows; ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Port Jefferson, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York.

District 0206 Section 005.00 Block 01.00 Lot 031.000. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $997,737.81 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 603323/2015. Anthony M. Parlatore, Esq., Referee.

MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC,10 Midlanve Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573.

Dated: 3-11-2022 File Number: 272-9983 po 8717 5/26 4x ptr

Public Notice Inc. Village of Port Jefferson COLLECTION OF TAXES PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the tax roll and warrant for the Village of Port Jefferson for the fiscal year 2022-23 has been completed and is filed in the clerk’s office for the purposes of collecting property taxes in the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE LEHMAN XS TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH C E RT I F I C AT E S , SERIES 2005-5N Plaintiff, Against JAMES MCCANN A/K/A JAMES K. MCCANN, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 5/29/2019, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingv i l l e, NY 11738, on 6/28/2022 at 9:00am,

Taxes may be paid at Port Jefferson Village Hall, 121 West Broadway, Port Jefferson, New York between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday or online, for a nominal fee, at https:// p o r t j e f f. c o m / p a y m e n t s , from June 1, 2022, through July 1, 2022, without penalty.

Taxes paid after July 1, 2022, will be assessed a 5% penalty for the month (or any part thereof) of July and an additional 1% per month (or any part thereof) for each additional month that the tax is not paid.

Joseph Palumbo Village Administrator

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS TRUSTEE FOR SAXON ASSET SECURITIES TRUST 2003-3, MORTGAGE LOAN A S S E T B A C K E D C E RT I F I C AT E S , SERIES 2003-3 Plaintiff, Against DEBORAH E. HARTMAN A/K/A DEBORAH HARTMAN, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 3/8/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingv i l l e, NY 11738, on 7/7/2022 at 11:00 AM, premises known as 6 Sutton Place, Ronkonkoma, New York 11779 and described as follows; ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Holbrook, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York.

District 0200 Section 763.00 Block 02.00 Lot 043.000. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $310,088.17 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 608646/2015 Vincent J. Messina Jr., Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, Suite 3C20, 1 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747. Dated: 3.21.22 File Number: 14-300254 po 8834 6/2 4x ptr

NOTICE TO BIDDERS BOILER

R E P L AC E M E N T PROJECT COMSEWOGUE PUBLIC LIBRARY PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NEW YORK

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NOTICE OF SALE

LEGALS con’t on pg. 102

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 91 The Comsewogue Public Library will receive separate, sealed bids for the construction contract for the Boiler Replacement Project to the Comsewogue Public Library building located at 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776.

Bids must be sealed with “Boiler Replacement Project” written on the outside of the envelope.

Bids must be received no later than 2:00pm on June 16, 2022 at the Administration Office of the Comsewogue Public Library, located at 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776, at which time all bids will be opened and read publicly aloud.

Plans and specifications may be obtained beginning on June 2, 2022 at 12:00pm, as follows: Upon request, an electronic copy of the bid documents will be emailed to the requesting bidder. Contact the following person (via email) to obtain a Bid Package: John Tanzi, Project Architect John Tanzi Architects email: jtanzi@jtarchitects. net The request must specify the name of the person requesting the bid package and provide a US mailing address, an email address, and a telephone number for such requestor. Bid packages will be emailed to the requestor, within two (2) business days of the receipt of the written request.

No telephone requests for bid packages will be accepted, as all requests must be in writing (via email).

Bid security in the form of a certified check or money order payable to the Comsewogue Public Library or a satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder in an amount equal to 5% (five percent) of the total amount of the bid shall be submitted with each bid. The surety issuing the bid bond shall have a minimum

To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com policyholder rating of “A-” as listed in AM Best’s Insurance Guide and be licensed to conduct business in the State of New York.

A pre-bid conference/walk through to review the scope of work and visit the project site will be held at the Comsewogue Public Library, located at 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776 at 10:00am on June 9, 2022.

Participants will meet inside the building’s front entrance. The project site visit is recommended for all bidders.

All questions and requests for clarifications must be submitted in writing via e-mail and received no later than 5:00pm on June 10, 2022 to: John Tanzi, Project Architect John Tanzi Architects email: jtanzi@jtarchitects. net The contract will contain a provision that every laborer and workman employed on or about the work contemplated by the contract shall be paid not less than the rate of wages which are set forth in the prevailing wage rate schedule from the New York State Department of Labor.

Each bid must be submitted on the official forms furnished in the bid package.

All bids shall include noncollusive bidding certification or statement required

by Section 103-d of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York and shall also contain a nonsegregated facilities certificate which shall provide that the bidder does not maintain or provide for his employees facilities which are segregated on a basis of race, creed, color or national origin, whether such facilities are segregated by directive or on a de facto basis.

The c o nt r a c t will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, or the proposals will be rejected within 45 (forty-five) days of the date of opening proposals. Each bid shall be firm for a period of forty-five (45)

days after the date set for submission of bids. The Board of Trustees of the Comsewogue Public Library reserves the right to waive any informalities/ irregularities in any or all bids, except with respect to the time limitation for submission of bids, reject any or all proposals, accept any bid in whole or in part, or to advertise for new proposals, if, in the opinion of this Board of Trustees, the best interest of the Comsewogue Public Library will thereby be promoted.

This invitation is an offer to receive proposals for a contract and not an offer of a contract.

Failure or refusal to execute a contract and deliver the required bonds and insurance certificates within ten (10) days after the date of notice of acceptance of the bid shall constitute a breach of the agreement and the Library, at its option, may proceed against the bid bond and take such other action as may be deemed in its best interest.

Board of Trustees Comsewogue Public Library June 2, 2022

Please take notice that this foreclosure auction shall be conducted in compliance with the Foreclosure Auction Rules for Suffolk County and the COVID 19 Health Emergency Rules, including proper use of masks and social distancing.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Smithtown, County of Suffolk and State of New York. District 0800 Section 165.00, Block 01.00 and Lot 030.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $565,398.93 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #602571/2016.

Daniel Russo, Esq., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff - 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 8897 6/2 4x ptr

Town of Brookhaven RFP 22-09 Request for Proposals (RFP)

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE SECURITIES C O R P. , CSFB MORTGAGE-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-10, Plaintiff, AGAINST TREENA ANN K RO P P SOMOZA AKA TREENA A. KROPP-SOMOZA AKA TREENA KROPP-SOMOZA, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on April 30, 2018.

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Smithtown Town Hall, 99 West Main Street, Smithtown, NY 11787 on June 30, 2022 at 1:30 PM premises known as 37 Sunhill Rd, Nesconset, NY 11767.

The Division of Purchasing on Behalf of the Parks Department is Issuing a Request for Proposals for the Concession Franchise Agreement at the Medford Athletic Complex, Horseblock Road, Medford, NY 11763

Download the documents Timeline - Ad Date: June 2, 2022 - Technical questions due by: June 15, 2022 by 4:30 PM - Must be in writing: email to: K K o p p e n h o e f e r @ Brookhavenny.gov cc: gmanzolillo@ brookhavenny.gov pmazzei@brookhavenny.gov cschroder@brookhavenny. gov Contact number: 631-451-6252 - Q&A Addendum Issued: No later than June 17, 2022 - Proposals due: June 23, 2022 by 4:30 PM Submitted to Town of Brookhaven Purchasing Division One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York 11738 The Town of Brookhaven reserves the right to reject and declare invalid any or all bids and to waive any i n f o r m a l i t i e s o r irregularities in the proposals received, all in the best interests of the Town. The Town of Brookhaven welcomes and encourages minorities and womenowned businesses and HUD Section 3 businesses to participate in the bidding process.

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Proposal Due Date: June 23, 2022 by 4:30 PM (Advertised: June 2, 2022)

TERRYVILLE FIRE DISTRICT Port Jefferson Station, New York

SCOPE OF WORK:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Fire Commissioners, Terryville Fire District, in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, being duly convened in the regular meeting on May 26, 2022 after due deliberation thereupon did adopt the following resolution: “ R E S O LV E D T H AT an expenditure not to exceed the sum of $7,500.00 to be made from the Terryville Fire District Purchase of Equipment Capital Reserve Fund in order to purchase: Computers.

The Town of Brookhaven is soliciting proposals from qualified Proposers to operate and maintain an eight (8) month (from April 1st to November 15th) food and beverage (non-alcoholic) service facility at the Medford Athletic Complex in Medford, NY. The specifications for this RFP are available beginning June 2, 2022 and may be obtained by: - Preferred Method: Accessing website: b r o o k h a v e n N Y. g o v / Purchasing : Register and

FURTHER RESOLVED that this expenditure of funds

from the Terryville Fire District Purchase of Equipment Capital Reserve Fund shall be subject to a permissive referendum and that the Fire District Secretary shall, within ten days from adoption of this resolution, publish the required notice and otherwise take any steps necessary to effectuate the same.”

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TERRYVILLE FIRE DISTRICT Dated: May 26, 2022 Port Jefferson Station, New York Marilyn Peterson District Secretary 8927 6/2 1x ptr

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One-on-one with Ana Hozyainova

and the lowering of the tax base are the crucial aspects that we are facing as a village. The issues that I would like to address if I were elected are the questions of transparency in the village.

was designed, what other issues have been explored or addressed, also to hear what the rest of the residents want to say or have priorities for, and how they conceptualize and prioritize that as an issue.

walk is one of the prerequisites for developing strong, friendly communities. That is how my activism on pedestrian safety has started.

By this, I mean that we have a number of pretty large projects that are developing in the village that have not received adequate public consultation, and the village has not made the effort to engage the community in the level that it should have. For example, the question of the $10 million that was borrowed to stabilize the [East Beach] Bluff. I personally have a lot of questions about how the project

I believe that the village has not had adequate engagement on those issues. The presentation on the bluff is available on YouTube, but that information does not adequately reflect the complexity of the issues that we are facing. For example, when we have a Dickens Festival, we don’t just publish a legal notice that there will be a festival and forget about it. We actually make a campaign, we engage people, we invite people over and over and over again, and the festival is a success.

Continued from A8

What are the most critical issues facing the village?

I mentioned earlier that climate change, the change and declining population nationwide

So similar things need to happen when we are making decisions about the village such as the bluff or as small as figuring out the budget.

What are the priorities for spending that would be in the residents’ interests?

Transparency is one of the core areas to be developed if I were elected.

The other issue is climate change. Coming back to the question of the bluff, part of the reason why we have this situation is the way that climate change is exacerbating the storms and thus speeding up the erosion of the bluff. It’s a man-made issue: The harbor where the bluff sits used to be salt marshes. The movement of water in the salt marshes is significantly slower than when it was dredged up and created Pirate Cove.

We are dealing with a double whammy of the harbor that we’ve created.

I love this beach, I enjoy having access to that beach, but that beach is exacerbating the erosion of the bluff along with the more severe storms.

I believe we will need a greater consultation about how we spend the rest of the money that has already been allocated for the upper part of the bluff. If elected, that will definitely become one of my priorities.

How can residents play a more active role in decision-making?

Ana Hozyainova drinks tea in Istanbul after a long day of interviews with community members and traders, 2018, above. Hozyainova (left) mediating a family conference, below. Photos courtesy of Hozyainova

Part of it is the way the village engages with the

Hozyainova collaborated with the policeman above to investigate and eradicate torture in the community and to facilitate public engagement, 2016. Photo courtesy of Hozyainova

village. For example, the Village of Port Jefferson doesn’t have a civic association.

It has a range of working committees, but it doesn’t have a civic association that will collect or take the views of residents who might not be able to attend the public meetings held once a month at 6 o’clock.

Until I became engaged in the traffic safety issues, I found it very difficult to make my way to those meetings. It’s only after I rallied the community and took on the weight of their trust that I started making the time to go to those meetings.

If I were elected, I would explore a range of issues to engage more with the residents.

One of them would be, for example, having a weekly time slot at the farmers market where one trustee can man a booth every week, so the residents wouldn’t have to go out of their way to engage the government. At the moment, I feel that the local village government is not doing enough to engage with the residents.

Is there anything else you would like to say to our readers?

To summarize my message, I believe that I possess the skills and experience that are required to serve as a trustee. If elected, I would be putting the residents front and center of my work in making sure that they are consulted and engaged, and that the best interests of all of the residents are considered.

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Port Jefferson Pierson

Royals win Class C Championship

BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM After trailing by two runs, the Royals of Port Jefferson rallied back to retie the game six all to start the 7th inning. Still deadlocked in the bottom of the inning, Frank Andriani sprinted home from third on a wild pitch to score the go-ahead run to win the

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game 7-6 against Pierson for the Suffolk County Class C Championship title at home May 27.

Port Jeff senior Luke Filippi pitched the last two innings for the win along with three hits.

Teammate Ruairi Rago the sophomore had four at bats with three hits.

The win lifts the Royals to 20-3 and advanced them to the conference V championship.

Photos by Bill Landon

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Pictured clockwise from above, Royals win Championship; a diving play at the plate; Port Jeff senior Luke Filippi slides home; Port Jeff senior Abigail Rolfe bunts; Port Jeff sophomore Nathaniel Mullen throwing heat; Port Jeff junior Daniel Owens sprints to 1st base.

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Ruth Rositzke

Ruth Rositzke passed away on May16, at age 96. She was predeceased by Ernie, her husband of 73 years. They were longtime residents of Stony Brook and Jefferson’s Ferry.

Ruth was born in 1926, attended Andrew Jackson High School and The Berkley School of Business in New York City. She worked at the Port Jefferson Junior High School. She was active in the Stony Brook PTA and spent many enjoyable years with the Three Village Garden Club. Ruth was also involved with the residents’ council at Jefferson’s Ferry.

Ruth loved the natural beauty of Stony Brook and she especially loved the beaches where she spent many enjoyable hours with her family.

She will be lovingly remembered by her children, Christine DeAngelo (Lou), Ernest T. Rositzke, Jr. (Lynn) and Karen Rositzke (David Fink). She is also survived by four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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Mayor Garant addresses benches and traffic near train station Continued from A3

said. “There is a significant, conscious effort in making sure that when our ridership gets up there in the early morning to take the train to work, they are not having to step over people or deal with a certain population up there that’s going to panhandle and make them feel unsafe. That was a conversation that we had.”

Garant added that user-friendliness has not been part of her agenda primarily because she does not see the public demand to alter the present layout of the station.

“In three years, nobody has come to us at a public meeting or raised this as a concern of theirs that they feel that the station is not user-friendly for them,” she said. “It’s not something that was brought to our attention.”

She added, “Since we worked with Pax Christi and the station was renovated, it’s been a very peaceful coexistence.”

Because the railroad is not a village property, the mayor also said she is limited in her ability to change the layout. However, she agreed that if this becomes a persistent problem for riders and residents, then she would coordinate with LIRR to remedy it.

“We will certainly discuss with the Long Island Rail Road — because it is not our property — what we can do together to try and alleviate that concern,” the mayor said. “I have to be honest, that concern has not come to my desk in over three years.”

Station Street

Questions surrounding the layout of the station will continue as the village embarks upon its latest project to introduce Station Street, a one-way road that will begin at Main Street, cut east near the parking lot and end at Oakland Street. This planned

terminal will mitigate congestion on Route 112 and facilitate traffic coming in and out of the station.

The Station Street project has been in the works since 2016, when the village approved a master plan to revitalize Upper Port. As part of joint efforts between the village, the Town of Brookhaven, LIRR and the state Department of Transportation, the proposed Station Street would create a plaza that will help channel traffic from the main thoroughfare, alleviating congestion as drivers enter the village.

“We did a traffic study,” Garant said. “The traffic study and the DOT comments said the more that we can get people off of Route 112 as they’re going toward the east to work at the hospital, the better.” She added, “That will eliminate a lot of the buildup, the people waiting in line to get into Port Jeff village.”

The plan, if implemented, would eliminate two traffic concerns for the village. First it would relocate the bus stop currently placed along the train crossing into Station Street, eliminating a public safety hazard for people getting off of the bus. Relocating the bus stop will “make it much safer, get the pedestrians off that train intersection there and alleviate the traffic,” Garant said.

The plans would also introduce a driveway into the train station parking lot, where taxis and cars will have a better drop-off and pickup area.

Behind the scenes, these plans are falling into place, according to Garant. Although still without a developer, the plans have been put out to bid and contracts are expected soon.

“The bid is out right now for contractors to come in and do the installation of that street,” the mayor said. “Everything is lining up and the plan is coming to fruition as we speak.”

Three-dimensional renderings of the proposed Station Street plaza. Graphics generated by Campani & Schwarting, courtesy of Mayor Margot Garant’s office

MTA spokesperson defends layout of Port Jeff train station ‘We are committed to working closely with the community to give our riders the best possible experience, including through the siting of station benches.’

— Sean Butler

BY AMANDA OLSEN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Recent reporting on benches at the Port Jefferson train station [Port Times Record, May 26] prompted further investigation into this practice in public spaces throughout the area.

When reached via email for comment, MTA spokesperson, Sean Butler, defended the present layout of Port Jeff station.

“Long Island Rail Road’s Enhanced Station Initiative brought transformative renovations to the Port Jefferson station in 2019,” he said.

“We are committed to working closely with the community to give our riders the best possible experience, including through the siting of station benches.”

Butler pointed to the various changes made to the layout of the station, which he suggests

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“The ESI project installed three benches inside the station house in 2019,” he said. “One existing bench was also provided inside the new platform shelter shed. In response to customers, LIRR added an additional outdoor bench this year.”

This seating arrangement seems to be the standard for railroad stations across Long Island.

Browsing photos on the LIRR renovation website reveals divided benches at every building.

Hostile design in perspective

While employing design elements to manage public behavior is nothing new, modern hostile architecture gained momentum in the 1980s and ’90s as homelessness in the United States reached crisis levels.

Hostile architecture in seating is about more than just benches divided by armrests. Sometimes a bench can be too deep or too shallow, or it slopes.

Often through choice of material, such as rounded metal pipes, these benches are made intentionally uncomfortable. Through hostile design, the shape of the bench causes eventual discomfort to the user, and the person moves on.

It can also mean opting for seats that aren’t seats. Select subway stations in New York City have added “leaning bars” instead of more benches.

These wooden blocks are supported by a metal frame along the wall that provides little support for the elderly or the physically disabled.

Surfaces that would normally be flat can also receive this treatment. Ridges and spikes keep people from sitting or leaning against walls and also deter skateboarders. Sloping or rounding the surface has a similar effect. Longer spikes, reminiscent of bird barriers, keep people from sleeping on warm exhaust vents.

Cordoning off doorways, windowsills and stairs to prevent people from resting or loitering is a common practice, but hedges can also act

as barriers. Fences with points keep dogs from investigating shrubs and other plants.

These measures are usually implemented to keep people from lingering or sleeping in public spaces. But they also have the unintended consequence of making spaces uncomfortable for other populations.

Changing the configuration of benches can often render them unusable for those who need them most. Seating is of particular importance for the elderly and disabled. Someone whose limitations do not allow them to get up easily might struggle in the space created by the dividing armrests. Larger people also cannot use this narrow seating.

The only guidance for outdoor bench armrests outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act states, “Benches will be most useful if they have full back support and armrests to assist in sitting and standing.” Placing armrests at intervals along the seat of the bench is a convenient manipulation to skirt this advice.

The two benches above — which include armrests to prevent people from sleeping on them — are the only available outdoor seating options at Port Jefferson train station. Photos by Raymond Janis

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In a small school, we recognize the passing of a recent alumnus can have a profound impact on our students and staff. The District has been working today to enact our emergency crisis plan.

Tomorrow, our support staff will be ready to assist anyone who may need it.

On behalf of our Royal family, I offer my deepest and most sincere condolences to the family, staff and friends who suffered this great loss earlier today. Please do not hesitate to reach out to our principals or team of guidance counselors, social workers and psychologists individually if you have specific concerns for yourself or a student.

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Editorial

We walk with you

Last week, students nationwide walked out of their schools to stand up against gun violence and to demand stricter gun laws, including young people in the TBR News Media coverage areas.

It’s crucial for students to know that we journalists walk with you. We may not always be there physically, but we are always there in spirit. As community watchdogs, it is our duty to help educate people on what’s going on in their towns, and to let those in charge know that we are watching them too.

Parents, teachers, administrators and lawmakers must understand that young people are terrified by the headlines of the lastest mass shootings at schools. Our youth are being targeted, as our grownups stand by without solutions.

Yes, many school districts along the North Shore have several security measures in place. Visitors are often required to ring a buzzer before entering a front door, where an attendant will buzz them in. Once inside the main entrance, they cannot walk through the school without showing ID first. Often, a security guard or hall monitor will escort them to wherever they may be going.

While we applaud district administrators who have taken extra precaution to secure their buildings, protecting the lives of children and teachers goes beyond locked-door policies.

To prevent mass shootings — such as those in Uvalde, Texas; Sandy Hook, Connecticut; and Parkland, Florida — it is time for our nation to stop avoiding the deeper conversations about gun reform.

The horrifying headlines we see every day will not disappear until there are real changes.

If a parent visiting a school to see their son or daughter receive an award is required to go through a few steps just to walk through a school, then someone buying a gun of any kind needs to go through several measures. The procedures in place are simply not enough.

We know that there are some in this country hellbent on committing senseless harm who yearn to leave a mark on this world by depriving it of what is good and pure. Our nation needs stricter gun control laws so that these deranged individuals can be denied the opportunity to be remembered for the carnage they inflict upon humanity.

The fight against gun violence goes even deeper than stricter laws, though. The battle begins with making mental health services available to everyone who needs them, including our youngest citizens. Children should always know that there is someone to talk to and help them navigate whatever they are going through in life.

Sometimes one’s journey in life may feel like a deep, dark tunnel. It’s up to parents, journalists, educators, administrators and elected officials to show our young people that there is always a light at the end of any tunnel.

Most of all, students need to know that the adults in their communities are there for them. We encourage students to attend board of ed meetings and to step up and speak out. We also invite our young readers to write in and let us know how they feel about the current gun laws, school safety and whatever else may be on their minds.

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Letters to the Editor History revision of Port Jeff train station

As per Carolyn Sackstein’s article of May 26 in the Port Times Record [“An evaluation of seating availability at Port Jefferson train station”].

The apocryphal story that famed architect Stanford White designed the Port Jefferson Railroad Station will just not go away. Mysteriously sourced and repeated again and again in print, the White folktale has morphed into “fact.”

In 1902, the Port Jefferson Company, a group of prominent Brooklyn investors, selected the innovative real estate developer Dean Alvord to build an exclusive private residence park known today as Belle Terre.

The experienced Alvord had created Brooklyn’s visionary Prospect Park South and hired architect John J. Petit to design homes in the planned community.

Pleased with Petit’s work, Alvord then brought him onto the Belle Terre project.

Petit and his business partner James C. Green were commissioned to design a new Port Jefferson railroad station to replace the existing depot with an attractive structure that would welcome prospective land buyers to Belle Terre.

Opening in July 1903, the station was constructed by Loper Brothers, built of red brick and finished with stucco panels between the windows. The waiting room had a tile floor and a large fireplace.

Partially fluted columns supported a roof that projected over the wide platform.

Petit and Green matched some of the architectural features of the depot, such as its pillars and rafter tails, in two classic pergolas that Loper Brothers constructed at the terminus of Belle Terre’s Cliff Road. The common elements in the unified design symbolically linked the Port Jefferson railroad station with Belle Terre’s northernmost point.

The unsung architects Petit and Green, not Stanford White, should be properly credited for designing the Port Jefferson railroad station. But so often in local history, some seem to prefer the myth over the reality, reminding us of a line from Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Kenneth Brady Port Jefferson

Reaction to recent gun violence

Ten dead in a mass shooting in Buffalo, 21 dead in a school shooting in Texas. The shooting in Texas was actually the 27th school shooting this year in the U.S. It’s all too predictable.

It’s the logical outcome of our worship of “Second Amendment rights.” We abhor

the practice of human sacrifice. But how many more humans will we sacrifice on the altar of the great god of gun rights?

There’s no such thing as an individual right to gun ownership in the Constitution.

The epidemic of mayhem and death we’re now experiencing and will continue to experience is the inevitable result of the creation of such a right by the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court stacked with activist judges appointed expressly to legislate from the bench in order to achieve the political objectives of the Republican Party. A Supreme Court twisting the plain meaning of the Second Amendment. “A well-regulated militia” – is that phrase so hard to understand?

Not really – for more than two centuries it was understood to mean exactly what it said.

We’re living in a cloud of delusions.

What do we expect if buying a semiautomatic weapon is easier than being licensed to drive? What do we expect if there are more guns than people in our country? You don’t have to be a gambling genius to figure out the odds. How many lives is it worth to make buying a gun so easy? 10,000? 100? 1?

Spare me talk of mental illness. The truth is there will always be people with psychological problems. Devoting more resources to treating psychological problems is a great idea, although our politicians seem in no hurry to actually spend the money to do this. But if we think that will eliminate or even significantly reduce gun violence, we’re living in a dream world. The Buffalo killer openly stated his intention to kill.

He then disclaimed that as a “joke.”

You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out that he should not have been allowed to have a gun, much less a semiautomatic weapon.

Spare me the talk of “a good guy with a gun.” The fact is that the police, who were well-armed and specifically trained in how to respond to school shooters, failed miserably in the Texas shooting. The armed security guard who tried to stop the Buffalo killer was shot dead when he confronted him. The truth is that a determined and suicidal killer armed with the “best” of today’s easily obtained weapons and the “best” tactical gear can wreak havoc and death no matter how many teachers are forced to double as armed security guards. Or maybe we should be arming 10-yearolds to defend themselves.

Spare me talk of making schools “the single hardest target,” heard at the recent NRA convention. What kind of insanity is this? Are we all to go to

school, shop, go to the movies as if we’re at war, liable to be attacked at any time, just because some among us can’t put up with the inconvenience of delays, background checks, and licensing and training requirements when they decide to get a gun?

Above all, spare me the talk of “evil.”

It’s so easy to denounce and condemn the killer after yet another all-too-predictable incident of someone with a gun run amok. The simple fact is that there will always be disturbed or angry individuals among us. But there’s no law of nature that says they need to be armed with easily obtained weapons of mass death.

That’s our own decision, as citizens of the only country in the world that has this problem. We have to live, or in some cases die, with the consequences. The fault, as has been said, is not in our stars but in ourselves.

David Friedman St. James

Protecting schools

Regarding the school shooting in Texas, which was a terrible tragedy. I was a Suffolk County police officer for 31 years and now retired. For the last 14 years of my career, I was a D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) instructor. My fellow D.A.R.E. officers and I spent 17 weeks in the elementary schools, five days a week, teaching students about drug abuse consequences, peer pressure and many other related subjects. I was known as Officer Richie and the school administrators, teachers and children were safe.

We were in uniform and we were armed. Also the community knew we were in schools and we were a deterrent to anyone thinking about attacking our schools, knowing we were armed. We were the best police community relations for the public as well as role models for students. We served as security and educators for the schools and this was provided at no cost to the school district and therefore not a financial burden.

Unfortunately the powers to be decided that we, as police officers, were better off on the street. It’s time for the school administrators and the police department to decide how best to protect our children before a tragedy occurs on Long Island.

Richard Esopa Miller Place

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Opinion Seeing teachers through the eyes of an appreciative child

O

nce upon a time, a girl named Fiona read the book “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

She thought it was funny and charming that a child could see what no one else admitted.

But then, something strange happened: she thought she could also see things that no one else could.

“That’s sweet, Fiona, but focus on your school work and let your imagination run wild at other times,” her father told her that night.

D. None Fiona did as she was told because she wanted of the above to please her parents

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF and her teachers. It was her teachers that caused problems for her.

It started with Mrs. Butler in her third grade class. A tall, thin woman with white hair and glasses, Mrs. Butler always wore high-heeled

shoes. She looked directly in the eyes of every student. One day, her friend Simona fell and hit her head. When Mrs. Butler bent down and checked on her friend, Fiona saw the kind of coat doctors and nurses wear appear around her shoulders. Fiona rubbed her eyes, but the coat was still there. Mrs. Butler calmly told the class to go to their seats, sent Bill to get the nurse and kneeled on the floor near Simona.

When the nurse left with Simona, Mrs. Butler’s white coat disappeared.

The next day, Jeff couldn’t understand a math problem. He wrote numbers all over the paper, but he didn’t have the answer.

Fiona noticed a change again in Mrs. Butler’s clothing. Instead of her powder blue blouse, she had an orange vest and white gloves. With numbers on the smartboard, she directed Jeff away from all the dead ends.

When he got closer to the answer, Jeff smiled. Fiona looked back at Mrs. Butler, whose orange vest and white gloves disappeared.

Later, Doug and Andrew got into an argument near the stack of books at the back of

the room. When Doug swung his arm to make a point, he knocked over several books.

Fiona saw Mrs. Butler’s clothing change again, this time into the kind of black and white stripes that referees wear in football games.

She could even see a whistle dangling from her teacher’s neck.

The next morning, Jill and Amanda couldn’t agree on how to do a class project. Jill marched to the front of the classroom to complain.

Amanda followed closely.

While Fiona couldn’t hear everything, she saw a black robe form around Mrs. Butler.

When the conversation ended, Mrs. Butler said something that made both girls happy. They shook hands and walked back to their desks, where they returned to work on their project.

One day, Fiona arrived early to class. She and her teacher were alone and she felt like she had to say something.

“Mrs. Butler?” Fiona asked.

“Yes?” Her teacher replied.

“I see all the clothing you wear,” Fiona said.

“I don’t think anyone else sees it.”

Mrs. Butler narrowed her eyes and looked carefully at her student.

“What do you see?” Mrs. Butler asked.

She described the medical jacket, the orange vest, the referee’s coat and the judge’s robe.

“What do you think of all that?” Mrs. Butler asked.

“Is it real?” Fiona asked.

“Thank you for seeing,” Mrs. Butler grinned. Other students walked into the room and class started.

Just then, Fiona heard an alarm. Mrs. Butler reacted immediately. She held up a shield and directed everyone to the back of the room.

While they waited, Mrs. Butler told everyone to remain quiet. The class waited for the all clear.

“It was a drill,” Mrs. Butler said. “You can return to your desks.”

Fiona was the last to leave the classroom that day.

“Fiona?” Mrs. Butler asked. “Is everything okay?”

“Yes,” she said. “Thanks for … everything.”

A book that lets us consider what might have been said

“

What if,” is always an intriguing question.

This is true for our personal lives, as well as for history. And one way to consider many historic “what ifs” is through a newly published book by Jeffrey Nussbaum, one of President Biden’s speechwriters, called, “Undelivered.”

This is a compilation of speeches, never given, by historical figures, whose words Nussbaum tracked down over 20 years.

These speeches include, among others, Between the draft of apology you and me that was prepared

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF for General Dwight Eisenhower, had D-Day ended in failure, and Hillary Clinton’s victory speech.

Civil rights leader John Lewis’ original speech for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, in which Martin Luther King Jr.

spoke his iconic “I’ve got a dream” words, is also revealing of the tension among the civil rights leadership. PBS, the television news hour, interviewed Nussbaum this past Monday, and he said that Lewis had originally intended to declare, “We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did. We shall pursue our own scorched-earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground — non-violently” but was dissuaded from those words. The sponsors of the March, who feared looking too extreme and harming the chances of passing the civil rights bill, begged him to withdraw that particular rhetoric Lewis, with his back to the wall, most reluctantly changed his words that night, writing and rewriting his draft at the base of the Lincoln Memorial until it was acceptable, but the earlier text is in the book.

One of the most fascinating speeches never given was the one awaiting the arrival of President John F. Kennedy on the lectern in Dallas on November 22, 1963. In that text was Kennedy’s warning of the existence of “a rise in the far-right wing camp of voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality.” He

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would have said that “we are the watchmen on the wall of world freedom looking outside and INSIDE. [Capital letters are mine.]”

The subtitle of Nussbaum’s book reads, “The never-heard speeches that would have rewritten history,” suggests that had Kennedy’s words been heard, history might indeed have been altered. As it is, people who read it after the assassination just regarded that speech as generally one of foreign policy.

These speeches demonstrate how outcomes rest on the razor’s edge of history. Fascinating are “those warnings made in their moment of time,” according to Nussbaum, “that resonate even more clearly today.”

Another historic instance mentioned by Nussbaum was of the three speeches written for Al Gore in the 2000 election. Gore was to give none of them that night. One was a victory speech, the second was a concession, and the third was in the event Gore won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote — prescient of the 2016 election. Nussbaum was one of those speechwriters, and that experience inspired him to write the book about other undelivered speeches.

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Not all the speeches included in the book are about politicians and policy. There is the one

by Barry Jenkins, the director behind the 2017 award-winning movie, “Moonlight.” Some of you may remember the flub that night, in which the wrong picture was initially announced as the winner and the wrong cast mounted the stage at the Academy Awards before the correction was made. In the chaos, Jenkins never got to say what winning that award meant for him. But here, in Nussbaum’s book, he does get to tell what he would have said.

“They were filming in Liberty City, Miami,” explained Nussbaum, “and as in many poorer neighborhoods, there wasn’t sufficient lighting.

They had to bring in lights, which attracted children to the set. At one point during the filming, [Jenkins] looks over to Video Village, where all the monitors and editing equipment were, and he sees a young man wearing his [Jenkins’] headset who’s just planted himself in [Jenkins’] chair.”

“And in that moment, I saw in this child the possibility which I hadn’t believed I could ever see for myself,” Jenkins, who is Black, would have read. How poignant. And missed.

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