The Times of Huntington-Northport - May 4, 2023

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Urban planner discusses new SBU-led Governors Island climate center

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

a new stage.

feet of refurbished space.

SOM will share information related to the process.

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When the City of New York and the Trust for Governors Island chose Stony Brook University to lead a collection of institutions to build a new climate solutions center on Governors Island, the moment marked both an ending and a beginning.

For Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which provided a concept-level design for the institution, the announcement brings SOM and the work it will do with the Manhattanbased landscape architecture firm MNLA to

“The work we have done is essentially through a concept level of design,” said Keith O’Connor, principal at SOM. “Now that Stony Brook has been selected, we’ll be doing much more detailed work in schematic design and design development.”

While the plans call for the biggest mass timber building in New York City, the developers of the project, which will start in 2025 and is expected to open in 2028, have not gotten into the details about all the materials they will use and where they will purchase them.

As with so many other decisions related to a center dedicated to understanding and combating the effects of climate change, the choices for the materials will reflect the center’s goals.

“It’s not only about how we come up with the best system and most important design,” O’Connor said. “It has to be a holistic picture. It’s all about the full life of the materials — everything from where they originate, how they are processed and how they are transported and shipped.”

The decisions will consider the future and the way the center, which Stony Brook has named the New York Climate Exchange, might reuse or adapt the materials.

In addition, SOM and Stony Brook are committed to executing changes in the construction of the 400,000-square-foot facility, which will include 230,000 square feet of new buildings and 170,000 square

“We need to help other people understand how they, too, can make intelligent choices,” O’Connor said.

SOM plans to implement tried and true technologies and push the envelope in doing things that haven’t been done.

“What we do with the Exchange can help move the market,” said O’Connor.

SOM has been working with mass timber in several projects, including for the Billie Jean King Library in Long Beach, California. SOM will also use mass timber as a part of the Moynihan Train Hall Connector, a pedestrian path between Moynihan Train Hall, Manhattan West and the High Line.

O’Connor explained that mass timber doesn’t need an additional finish on top of it, which allows builders and designers to use less material.

The design of the buildings will be 18 feet in elevation, which is 10 feet higher than the existing structures. Stony Brook and SOM wanted the buildings to have resilience amid future storm surges.

The goal of the Exchange is to use effective design techniques to enhance resilience.

Part of the proposal involves altering the stone sea wall, a hard-engineered armored edge of the island, and replacing it with a living shoreline that is ecologically and landscape based.

The island will have a variety of plantings to create a terrestrial and diverse habitat, O’Connor added.

Working with MNLA and West 8, SOM is

coming up with plantings that are appropriate for conditions ranging from elevations of five and eight feet with exposure to salt spray up to 18 feet.

O’Connor explained that the teams involved in the project are eager to start working. The next steps will include design engineering, procurement and construction, which will “take some time.”

O’Connor was pleased to be involved in a project that is “profoundly meaningful to our city and society.” He suggested such work might occur once or twice in a generation or a career.

Above, Keith O’Connor, principal at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Left, Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis, left, shakes hands with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Photo above by Lucas Blair Simpson/SOM; left by John Griffin/Stony Brook University

The Northport Hotel nears opening, begins taking reservations

BY LEAH CHIAPPINO LCHIAPPINO@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The long-anticipated Northport Hotel is nearing opening.

Guests can book on the hotel website for dates beginning in August, but co-owner Kevin O’Neill said he hopes to fill reservations beginning in July, depending on the opening day. He anticipates being able to set an official grand-opening date by the end of May. The other co-owner is Richard Dolce.

Those hoping to book into the hotel in July are currently on a waitlist. Once an opening date is fixed, those people will be contacted, O’Neill said.

Mike Lang, the hotel’s general manager, told TBR News Media that reservations are booked into 2024, and over 100 people are on the waiting list for July.

O’Neill said the team is “knocking down milestones every day,” and putting finishing touches on the project like paving the parking lot and putting in furniture.

“I feel like we’re getting close,” O’Neill said “So it’s exciting. It’s been a long time coming — a lot of people worked very hard to get it to this point.”

The hotel draws guests who are coming for different reasons, from those visiting relatives nearby, to guests wanting a midway point of a village getaway, without having to go all the way to the Hamptons. It’s one of the few hotels in the area not on or near Jericho Turnpike or the Long Island Expressway, O’Neill said.

“Northport has been undervalued for some time because I think it’s got the charm and appeal that most people look for,” he added. “They travel seven hours to go to Maine. Meanwhile it’s right here. I just don’t get it.”

Village relations

Northport Village Mayor Donna Koch has had an up-to-date tour. “I’m excited for the opening of the hotel,” Koch said. “I had a tour of it about a week ago and it is absolutely splendid. I think the hotel will bring in commerce for our downtown area and will offer much-needed accommodations for people looking to stay in the area.”

For 15 years O’Neill, who also co-owns the local John W. Engeman Theater with Dolce, has been trying to make the venue a regional theater, and a place to which people travel far to see shows. However, theatergoers always lacked a place to stay.

“We have people coming from Westchester or New Jersey to come see our shows, and now they have a place to stay,” O’Neill said “So there’s a very synergistic relationship between the two businesses.”

In addition, he said the hotel will be wheelchair accessible, and will be able to transport wheelchair users across the street to the theater with ease.

Small-town feel

O’Neill said the goal of the hotel’s design was to keep “the small-town feel.”

“It’s not a Hampton Inn,” he said. “It is a boutique-style facility that just feels like a large residence.”

“The Northport Hotel was designed to feel like it was always a part of Northport Village,” project architect Catie Vandrei and associate Karen Jahn at Hoffman Grayson Architects of Huntington said in a statement. “Traditional shingle style elements, such as wood shingle siding, dormers, doublehung windows, trim details and the brick base of the building, all tie in with the existing fabric of this waterfront village.”

Originally, O’Neill wanted to go for a brick look, inspired by The American Hotel in Sag Harbor but, wishing to keep the harbor village style, changed his mind.

“I just decided that I really wanted to do something a little more charming than the brick side,” he said. “There’s a lot of brick and mortar and the location of the hotel is in a transitional area where you’re going from the commercial district to the residential district. A lot of the buildings go from brick and masonry to more residential styles. And we just decided to make it a real harbor-town feel where you have this beautiful shingle style type of place.”

Hotel and restaurant features

The rooms include heated bathroom floors, 100% Egyptian cotton sheets, independently controlled heating and cooling, high-speed Wi-Fi and 55-inch HDTV with streaming.

Hotel manager Lang said rooms range from a standard king to two double beds, accommodating up to four. The next level of rooms are larger, and come with a queen size pull-out couch.

The suites facing Main Street also have a king bed and pull-out couch.

The hotel is in the “final planning stage” of offering a shuttle service. All stops will be in the Northport area, Lang said, and will be based on the needs of guests. The hotel is also partnering with local establishments such as gyms, spas, wineries and even a yoga studio.

The 26-room boutique hotel will also be home to a 175-seat restaurant, which will be open to the public and will feature Italian steakhouse cuisine.

“I am Irish, but I think the best food in the world is Italian,” O’Neill said. “Most people appreciate Italian food and steak is a pretty close second.”

O’Neill said the restaurant will be casual fine dining, “upscale, but not snooty.” The bar area will have woodblock tables. “It’s made for the public,” he said,

O’Neill confirmed the venue will not host catering events or weddings.

“We certainly will do rehearsal dinners and things of that nature because in the restaurant there’s space to do that,” he said. “But we’re not a catering hall, we’re a casual fine-dining restaurant, and a beautiful boutique hotel.”

Renderings of the Northport Hotel. Images provided by Michael Lang.

The following incidents have been reported by Suffolk County Police:

Wrong-way driver arrested for DWAI

Suffolk County Police arrested Marisa Soares, 66, of East Northport on May 2 for allegedly driving while ability impaired by drugs and alcohol after she was observed driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of Route 347, near Mount Pleasant Road in Smithtown, at approximately 7 p.m.

Arrests for selling vape products to minors

Suffolk County Police arrested four people on April 26 for allegedly selling cannabis products and vapes/e-cigarettes to minors in the Second Precinct. In response to numerous community complaints, Second Precinct Crime Section officers conducted an investigation into the sale of cannabis products, vapes and e-cigarettes during which seven businesses were checked for compliance with the law. During the investigation, four businesses were found to be allegedly selling cannabis/marijuana products, vapes or e-cigarettes to minors.

One of the businesses, Nirvana Vape Shop, located at 1153A East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington, has been cited four times since January. A second business, Gotham Smoke, in Huntington, had a previous violation in 2022.

The following people were charged with alleged Unlawfully Dealing with a Child 2nd Degree and Criminal Sale of Cannabis 3rd Degree, both misdemeanor charges: Nader Ilyas, 27, of Dix Hills, an employee of Nirvana Vape Shop, located at 1153A East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington; Fazal Khan, 44, of Brooklyn, an employee of Huntington Smoke Shop, located at 517 East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington Station; Umar Majeed, 40, of Brooklyn, an employee of Venom Smoke Shop, located at 469A East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington Station; and Gerard Turnier, 26, of Huntington Station, an employee of Gotham Smoke, located at 681 East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington.

Holtsville man pleads guilty to stealing car with child inside

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced on April 27 that Paul Ludeman, 56, of Holtsville, pleaded guilty to Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, Driving While Ability Impaired, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child, after he stole a vehicle while there was a 14-month-old sleeping baby inside.

Wanted for Melville petit larceny

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Second Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the woman who allegedly stole items from Dick’s Sporting Goods, located at 870 Walt Whitman Road in Melville, on April 17.

Wanted for Commack petit larceny

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police

Fourth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly stole electronics from Target, located at 98 Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack, on March 4.

On Feb. 14 Ludeman stole a vehicle with an infant inside and drove away while his ability to drive was impaired by his consumption of alcohol. Despite Ludeman’s attempt to flee from the owner of the vehicle and the police, the infant’s grandmother, along with a good Samaritan, were able to follow Ludeman and get the 14-monthold child out of the vehicle without injury, before Ludeman continued to flee and eventually crash the vehicle into a guardrail in Greenport. He faces two to four years in prison.

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS.

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Do you recognize this woman? Photos from SCPD

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More candidates running for town board

BY LEAH CHIAPPINO LCHIAPPINO@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

As reported by TBR News Media, April 13, the Huntington Town Board will have two open seats in November, with Councilwoman Joan Cergol (D) and Councilman Eugene Cook (R) deciding not to run for reelection.

The Huntington Republican Committee has nominated two candidates: attorney Theresa Mari, and town director of labor relations, Brooke Lupinacci.

Democrats have put forward Don McKay, deputy commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation, and Jen Hebert, program director of Kerber’s Farm School and former Huntington school board president.

TBR News Media spoke to Mari and Hebert for the April 13 edition, and subsequently had the opportunity to sit down with McKay and Lupinacci to discuss their thoughts on the election, their background and what motivated them to run.

Don McKay

Running on the Democratic ticket, McKay was born and raised in Eaton’s Neck, prior to moving to Dix Hills 24 years ago.

Always interested in current events, he decided to pursue a career in journalism, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications in 1987 from Bethany College in West Virginia.

“I started reading Newsday since I could read,” he said, noting he served on his high school paper as a photographer, further fueling his passion for the industry.

After graduation he worked as an admissions officer for Bethany for a year, before returning to Huntington to launch his journalism career as newspaper reporter for the North Shore News Group in Smithtown, covering the towns of Islip, Brookhaven and Huntington.

“You just learn so much,” he said of his time in journalism. “It’s really one of the best jobs to prepare you for your future.”

Two years later, he was hired as the government reporter for The Saratogian, a daily newspaper in Saratoga Springs, through a college friend who took over as sports editor. After four years there, McKay returned to Long Island to run The Huntington News.

McKay said several local topics he wrote about as a newspaper reporter still remain unresolved.

“It’s affordable housing, it’s taxes, it’s public safety, it’s quality of life, maintaining Huntington’s outstanding quality of life, and it’s protecting the environment, our bays and harbors to preserve and protect our marine environment,” he said. “So a lot of issues back then remain constant today.”

McKay, who worked as a commercial

fisherman on the weekends while working as a journalist, said the transition out of the profession came when he was getting married, and a reporter’s salary became unsustainable. Still wanting to serve, he said getting into town government was the perfect fit. He served as a legislative aide to then Huntington Councilman Steve Israel (D), and joined the staff of former Supervisor Frank Petrone (D) as the town’s public information officer.

“I’ve always enjoyed public service,” McKay said. “I’ve always enjoyed helping people, resolving issues, resolving community issues, neighborhood issues, helping people get through issues of concern.”

In 2006, he was appointed director of Parks and Recreation for the town, overseeing the expansion of Veterans Park in East Northport, Manor Field Park in Huntington Station, Breezy Park in Huntington Station and an expansion of the Dix Hills Ice Rink.

In February 2018, McKay was appointed deputy commissioner of the Suffolk parks department where he oversees 50,000 acres of parkland, 14 major active parks and more. If elected, he said he would likely step down from the county due to ethics laws.

High taxes are among McKay’s motivation to run.

“I just think that this current administration and Town Board is not being responsive to the community’s needs,” he said. “I feel that I can bring a new perspective.”

Brooke Lupinacci

The new Republican candidate said she is a lifelong Huntington resident, whose family has lived in the area for generations.

Originally a journalism major at NYU,

she decided to go to law school after being inspired by a media law course she took.

“I had a phenomenal professor,” she said. “I was totally intrigued by the law and I wanted to write about cases and legal proceedings. It was at that time that I decided that maybe I could have a better edge in my journalistic writing, if I went to law school to get a legal background.”

Then, Lupinacci took an oral advocacy course at Touro Law Center, inspiring her to delve fully into the legal profession.

Her first job out of law school was as a Suffolk County assistant district attorney, working on misdemeanor level offenses, such as graffiti infractions, assault, bias crimes and vehicle traffic violations. She then joined the county’s Domestic Violence Unit, before focusing on white collar crimes, such as embezzlement, fraud, home improvement scams, welfare fraud and money laundering.

“I really did enjoy my time in whitecollar crime because it was more than just a one witness-type case, or ‘he said, she said’ type thing, if you will,” she said “ It was a real challenge intellectually, because I got to work with forensic auditors and I had a specialized team of detectives when I was prosecuting prevailing wage cases.”

When Lupinacci had her first son in 2015, she decided to leave the county District Attorney’s Office to become a Huntington Town assistant attorney. Mentors also told her that after a decade as a prosecutor, it would be a good time to step down.

“Being a Huntington resident, I thought it would be great to be working for the town that I grew up in,” she said.

Throughout her time with the town

Attorney’s Office, Lupinacci helped prosecute zombie homes, hoarder properties and squatter houses, and served as counsel to the town’s elected officials, departments and staff, her campaign said. She said she enjoyed appearing in District Court and, since she loves to write, drafting legislation.

Lupinacci now serves as town director of labor relations in the Office of Personnel, with responsibilities including negotiating collective bargaining agreements, handling complaints and managing recruitment.

“It’s very fulfilling,” she said. “I find that I’ve so far have been able to, I think, make connections between management and the employees. I’ve also been able to help the department heads in building their departments, and establishing some new titles while working with the Suffolk County department of civil service. And it’s really been great.”

For Lupinacci, public service at an elected level was the next logical step in her career.

“I think that I’ll build on the great things that have already been started,” she said. “I know the people in Town Hall that make the wheels turn.”

One issue she said motivated her to run, was Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) proposal to build 800,000 new homes over the next decade, which requires municipalities to rezone around train stations.

“I definitely plan to stand ground on and protect Huntington from overdevelopment and some of the initiatives that Hochul seems to be trying to put upon us,” Lupinacci said. “Local control is important. We here know our counties better than those that are far removed in Albany.”

Don Mckay and Brooke Lupinacci are two of the candidates running for town board. Photos from McKay campaign and Huntington GOP, respectively

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Large crowd at SBU’s annual pond regatta

BY DANIEL FEBRIZIO DANIEL@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The 34th annual Roth Pond Regatta at Stony Brook University took place Friday afternoon, April 28. Participating students had to make boats out of cardboard, duct tape, string and paint in order to be eligible to race. The theme of this year’s event was “A Fairy Tale Regatta: This is Our Swamp.”

A press release for the event stated that the event “customarily draws about 3,000 spectators.” However, Riccardo McClendon, dean of students, said, “It’s probably more than that right now. This is one of the largest student events that we have on campus.”

“The beauty about this is that their whole purpose is to be in community with each other,” McClendon added. “The designs are really cool that we see throughout the entire race, and it’s a lot of fun. We’ve got faculty, staff, students, community members all around enjoying the event, and it’s one of those kind of traditional events that everyone comes out for.”

The regatta included individual award categories for the boats that displayed the best “design, appearance, apparent seaworthiness, originality, spirit, environmental sustainability, endurance and adherence to the rules,” according to the press release.

The event featured races for two different

categories of boats. One was the “speedster” races, where two people would ride in a small construction, while the other was the “yacht” category, where four people would ride in larger boats.

“After two years of COVID and trying to come back and build community, that’s what this is about,” McClendon said. “We try to keep these traditions going just to remind students that we are a campus, we are thriving, we are engaged in everyday life with each other. So this helps with that.”

Townline Rail is a proposed alternative to trucking locally generated incinerator ash from the Huntington-Smithtown waste-to-energy facility as well as Construction & Demolition (C&D) debris off Long Island once the Brookhaven landfill is closed.

C&D, by DEC definition, is uncontaminated debris generated from construction, demolition, remodeling and land clearing

Typical C&D debris includes brick, concrete and other masonry products, drywall, lumber and roofing materials

Materials not accepted as C&D include: asbestos, corrugated cardboard, fluorescent lights, electrical fixtures containing hazardous materials, furniture, tires, fuel tanks and household waste C&D debris in an enclosed facility or sitting short-term in covered rail cars does not present a threat to the aquifer

Harborfields salutes art and music programs at board meeting

The Harborfields Central School District’s thriving art and music programs were highlighted at the board of education meeting on April 19.

First up was a live performance of an excerpt of Harborfields High School musical “Newsies,” featuring a showcase number from the entire theater company and pit orchestra.

This was followed by an appearance by the Harborfields High School Marching Band, walking through the audience and auditorium to put on a bravura performance. Several student-musicians addressed the audience, describing their positive experiences in the marching band.

“When you look at who was up here, you had your vocal students, string students, band students and faculty members,” K-12 Music Department Coordinator Dan Bilawsky said. “This really was a wonderful thing that tied together the whole music department in one package.”

In art recognitions, the board honored Harborfields High School students Sarah Ahlsen, Giada LoPorto, Liza McPherson and Nora Sweeney-Gladen for their selection in the 16th annual Go APE Advanced Placement Exhibition at the Art League of Long Island; Alex Braunstein (winning a Silver Key award at the

April 19 board of education meeting.) and Liza McPherson (winning Gold Key, Silver Key and honorable mention) for their success in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers; and Sophia Rose (who won second place), Nora Sweeney-Gladen and Samantha Urmaza for being chosen for the 27th annual “Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum” gallery show.

Upper left, the Harborfields High School Marching Band put on a bravura performance at the April 19 board of education meeting. Bottom left, Harborfields High School’s theater company and pit orchestra performed a showcase number from the musical ‘Newsies’ at the April 19 board of education meeting. Above, Harborfields High School students Sophia Rose (who won second place), Nora Sweeney-Gladen and Samantha Urmaza were recognized at the April 19 board of education meeting for being chosen for the 27th annual “Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum” gallery show. Photos from Harborfield Central School District

Cold Spring Harbor National Honor Society grows

On April 26, proud families and invited guests joined administrators and staff at the Cold Spring Harbor High School Performing Arts Center to witness the induction of 75 new members into the National Honor Society. These outstanding students have not only made a commitment to academic success but have also made a positive impact on their classmates and the community. They join 78 current members bringing the total number of students in the National Honor Society to 153.

Selection for the National Honor Society is based on outstanding scholarship, character, leadership and service. Once inducted into the society, members have the responsibility to continue to demonstrate these qualities.

“Recognizing students for their accomplishments is one of the most rewarding parts of being an educator,” Cold Spring Harbor High School Principal Daniel Danbusky said. “This group of young men and women distinguished themselves through not only their commitment to achieving academic success but also making a positive impact on those around them.

They are recognized as leaders in their school and community and have accepted the charge to continue to demonstrate the values that earned them the recognition of the National Honor Society. I have no doubt that they will continue to use their talents and abilities to make a difference in their school, their community and the world.”

Cold Spring Harbor High School inducted 75 new members into the National Honor Society increasing the membership to 153 students. Photos from Cold Spring Harbor School District

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The Huntington girls spring track and field team traveled to powerhouse Connetquot on Tuesday, May 2.

The Lady Thunderbirds, who had a team with twice as many competitors as visiting Huntington, beat the Lady Blue Devils, 105-34. Despite the score, Huntington had some standout performances.

Long Distance runner Sophie Bradford, a senior, finished in third place in both the 1500-meter and 400-meter runs, while freshman sprinter Dana Saramago set a personal best in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 19 seconds flat.

She placed third in this race.

The Lady Devils are now 2-2 in dual meets this spring and are tied for third in Suffolk League II.

On May 8, the girls will host Smithtown East in both teams’ final dual meet of the year. This meet is in advance of the multischool invitational circuit that will kick off later this month and will determine county and state qualifiers.

Pictured clockwise from above, Dana Saramago, left, and Rachel Morina running the 100-meter hurdles; Sophie Bradford in the 1500-meter; and Grayson Dunn in the 100-meter dash.

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The landfill election: Brookhaven voters to decide Long Island’s waste future

Long Island has an impending garbage crisis, and the Town of Brookhaven is at the center of it. As Brookhaven voters prepare to elect their next town supervisor and town council representatives, they must keep this garbage issue at the top of their minds.

Given the complexity of municipal government and the scope of its influence, a local election can never be reduced to a single issue. Still, the Brookhaven Town landfill will have an outsized role in townwide elections this year, affecting every resident in the town and citizens across Long Island.

Opened in 1974, the Brookhaven landfill is the largest on Long Island and the centerpiece of waste collection for the region. In a 2019 thesis paper, Katlin Stath wrote, “the landfill isn’t isolated from the rest of Long Island since it is an integral part of the functioning of the Island’s waste management system.”

However, the landfill is near capacity, with plans in place to close the facility to construction and demolition debris by next year, and expectations to close the site completely two years later. The impending landfill closure, therefore, represents one of the great environmental, governmental and social dilemmas of our time.

Brookhaven Deputy Supervisor Dan Panico (R-Manorville) and Village of Port Jefferson Mayor Margot Garant, a Democrat, have won their respective party’s nominations for this year’s contest for town supervisor. Six months from Election Day, it is time for both candidates to begin preparing comprehensive proposals for this facility.

Though the exact figure is difficult to pinpoint, the landfill is estimated to represent two-fifths of the town’s public revenue. How do the candidates for supervisor plan to make up for the loss of income? Will the town increase taxes on residents? Are there other ways to boost revenue without raising taxes amid this inflationary period?

While the plans are imprecise, officials across levels of government seem poised to begin shipping our trash off the Island by rail. Though garbage-by-rail occurs in other places around the country, is it the optimal

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solution to our problem? We remind leaders that any plan for shipping trash on train lines must be environmentally and ecologically sustainable.

Our mass transit network on Long Island is dilapidated to begin with. Many residents along the North Shore commute to Manhattan via Jamaica in railcars powered by diesel, a 19thcentury-era technology. Will our garbage crisis compel the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to electrify the Port Jefferson Branch once and for all?

How will moving garbage by rail affect other facets of our transportation network, such as our roadways, waterways and airways? It seems plausible that adding greater volume to our rails will incentivize riders to drive, potentially compounding our traffic congestion troubles.

Finally, we suspect the landfill may have harmed generations of residents of North Bellport and Yaphank, who have endured the possible detrimental health and environmental impacts of living in close proximity to this site.

We regret that the Brookhaven Town Board voted unanimously last year to gerrymander Council District 4 — which includes North Bellport and Yaphank — disempowering the most important voices in this landfill closure dialogue, potentially denying them a true champion on the Town Board to expedite the facility’s closure.

We nonetheless encourage both candidates for town supervisor to coordinate closely with the residents of that hamlet and members of the Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group, an advocacy organization that has fought for years to close this facility.

While decisions over the landfill closure are ongoing, Brookhaven citizens will have a stake in this effort. The November election for supervisor and Town Council represents a unique opportunity for the public to guide this process.

We encourage residents to start preparing their questions and for candidates to start preparing their answers. With six months until Election Day, let the landfill conversation get rolling. Permanent closure is just around the corner.

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A recent letter by Jim Soviero [“Dem Albany County DA Soares criticizes bail reform,” April 6] essentially reprints a New York Post op-ed piece by Albany County DA David Soares deriding bail reform. Soviero takes great pains to emphasize Soares’ political affiliation (Democratic) and race (Black).

As I’m sure Soviero would agree, even Democrats can be wrong sometimes. And regardless of Soares’ race, neither he, nor Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, nor even Soviero himself are better equipped to decide what’s best for New York’s African-American community than that community itself. Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Blacks support policies reducing incarceration. If bail reform is as terrible for the African-American community as Soviero’s crocodile tears seem to suggest, there’s a simple remedy — they can vote out of office their representatives who voted for it. That’s not about to happen. Instead, the voices most stridently denouncing reform are those exploiting the politics of fear and division.

If just jailing people made our streets and communities safer, the United States should be the safest country in the world. After all, we lead the world in incarceration, both absolutely and per capita.

As far as the cherry-picked statistics Soares relies on and Soviero repeats to denounce reform, they’re all wet. A study released this March by John Jay College, the preeminent criminal justice school in the state, shows that the 2020 bail reform law has actually reduced the likelihood of someone getting rearrested. “Fundamentally, we found that eliminating bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies reduced recidivism in New York City, while there was no clear effect in either direction for cases remaining bail eligible,” said Michael Rempel, director of John Jay College’s Data Collaborative for Justice.

All of this obscures the fact that the purpose of bail is for one thing only — to restrain those judged to be a flight risk. It is not to lock up people, sometimes for weeks or months in horrible conditions, who are legally innocent. Unless we are willing to drop the presumption of innocence

from our legal system entirely.

I’m sure that Soviero would agree with me that the recently indicted former president is legally entitled to the presumption of innocence. So why is it that he, who is rich and powerful, is entitled to this, but someone who is poor and powerless is not? I don’t know what to call that, but I certainly wouldn’t call it justice.

David Friedman St. James

Editor’s note: We are publishing this letter because it responds to an earlier letter. In the future, we ask that letters mainly speak to local issues.

Sunrise Wind projections questionable

The Sunrise Wind project, as we were told in a March 23 TBR News Media article, “will use windmills to provide power to about 600,000 homes.” But what does this mean, exactly? It appears that 600,000 may have been selected as an arbitrary number, which may represent the number of homes that will derive 100% of their power requirements when all of the windmills are generating power at their maximum capacity, although this is not specifically stated in the article. But this raises the obvious question: For what percentage of the time will this be the case? We can only guess. A much more helpful and meaningful terminology, in my opinion, would be to present these concepts in terms of energy, rather than power. Power is the rate at which energy is produced, or expended. To state that a windmill farm can produce a certain amount of power under ideal conditions, but neglect to mention the percentage of time this may be in effect, is to provide a very limited ability to understand the issue. A much more useful characterization would be to specify the total amount of energy generated in a fixed time, such as a year, compared to the total amount

of energy required. For example, we might say something like, “The Sunrise Wind project will provide 45,000 MWh per year, which is 22% of the total energy required by Suffolk County.” (These are, of course, made-up numbers.) In this way, the complex variability of the wind strength becomes included in the energy notation, making the whole issue considerably easier to understand and evaluate.

Surely this issue is well understood by Sunrise Wind, and why they would choose to muddy the waters, as they have, is a matter for speculation. As Honest Abe Lincoln would have told us, a windmill farm can provide some of the power some of the time, or possibly all of the power some of the time, but it can provide none of the power most of the time.

George Altemose Setauket

Congrats, TBR News Media

Dear Leah,

You must be very proud of your continued recognition from the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest from your team’s work by receiving 11 awards this year. This is also a testament to your success as the founder and publisher of a weekly newspaper.

I believe hometown papers are an essential means to keep residents updated on what is happening in their community as they report on local government, schools, sports, entertainment, news and other items of interest.

I join with all of your readers in congratulating you and your staff and look forward to your continued success.

Rob Trotta Suffolk County Legislator (R-Fort Salonga) 13th Legislative District

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Students in the pivot-empty-stadium-online generation prepare to graduate

The clock didn’t care about COVID-19. Time marched forward at the same pace that it always has, and yet, the pandemic, which altered so much about our experiences, seemed to alter the fourth dimension.

Initially stuck in homes, we developed new routines, worked at kitchen tables or desks and spent considerably more time with family members and our pets throughout the day than anticipated.

graduation speakers and glance at their supportive families who are thrilled to mark the milestone, celebrate their achievement and come together, what will be going through the minds of these new graduates?

Some may reflect on the typical academic stresses and achievements that helped them earn their diploma. They will consider the hours spent on lab experiments, the latenight workouts at the gym before a big game, and the endless rehearsals for shows and performances. They may bask in the attention of friends they made from around the country or around the corner.

As the weeks and months of uncertainty caused by a pandemic that gripped the country for more than two years progressed, some students recognized that they would not have some opportunities, like studying abroad. They might have filled out forms, learned important words in a different language, and chosen classes carefully that they couldn’t take.

Student-athletes, actors and artists, many of whom worked hard for months or longer together, were on their own as fields and stands stood empty.

about lowered expectations and abridged syllabi, with American History classes designed to go to 2016 that stopped in 1945, at the end of World War II.

It will be up to students to fill those holes and to recognize the opportunities to become lifelong learners.

Indeed, as people search for a label for these graduates, perhaps the list will include the pivot generation, the empty stadium generation, and the virtual learning generation.

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF

For students, the pandemic altered opportunities and created challenges unseen for a century.

And yet, each year, as in this one for our daughter, the annual rite of passage of a graduation following an amalgam of typical and unique experiences awaits.

As these students march to “Pomp and Circumstance,” listen, or half-listen, to

They also might consider the parts they missed or the sudden change from their expected pathways.

Students, who were studying abroad, suddenly needed to return home as quickly as possible. They had to make sure they had their passports and visas, booked flights, and cleared out of rooms that might have just started to feel like home.

Others, like our daughter, raced back to their dorms from spring break, packed everything up and drove home.

These students may recognize, more than others, that plans may need to change in response to uncertainty caused by health concerns, storms or other issues.

Amid these disruptions and changes in routine, students and their families needed to pivot. They connected with friends online, entertained themselves at home, often on electronic devices, and tried to learn online.

Undoubtedly, they missed learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom. I heard from numerous students

Historically, commencement speakers have exhorted graduates to embrace the opportunity to learn, to question the world around them and to seek out whatever they need.

After the pandemic adversely affected some of the students, perhaps some of them will learn and develop a stronger and more determined resilience, enabling them to keep their goals in sight even amid future uncertainties.

In the meantime, they and we can embrace the normalcy of a routine that allows them to watch the familiar clock as it slowly moves through the minutes of a commencement address.

Alimited series, “A Small Light,” now streaming on Hulu and on Disney+, tells of Miep Gies and her husband, Jan, the Dutch couple who risked their lives hiding the family of Otto Frank from the murderous Nazis during WWII. We know of them from his younger daughter, Anne Frank’s diary that she kept while in their “annex” above the Frank’s business in Amsterdam. This film marks what would have been Miep’s 114 birthday and relates the familiar story from a different perspective, that of Otto Frank’s courageous secretary and would-be savior.

While I have read “The Diary of Anne Frank,” and seen the play, I was riveted by an email I received from a friend, Steve North, who is both a broadcast journalist with CBS and a member by marriage of my extended family. He contacted me to urge that I watch the film, which I will as soon as I can figure out how to get onto Hulu. Meanwhile, I would like to reproduce an abridged version of what he wrote.

way to New York.

The dark-haired girl was Anne Frank, whose extraordinary diary, written in the years before her death at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has made her the single most recognizable victim of the Holocaust.

someday.”

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF

In the first half of 1929, two baby girls were born to Jewish families living in and near Frankfurt, Germany. One, sweet and dark-haired, had an older sister; the other, a smiling redhead, was an only child. As they turned 4 years old, the safe worlds their parents had created for them began to crumble. Hitler had come to power, and life for every German Jew was rife with danger. The dark-haired girl’s father decided to flee the country with his wife and children to Amsterdam. Some time later, the red-haired child’s parents made the same decision, eventually making their

The red-haired girl is my mother, Brunhilde Bachenheimer, and when I climbed the narrow stairs to Anne Frank’s hiding place 35 years ago, I was overcome with the realization that my own family had so narrowly escaped a similar fate.

On a return trip to Amsterdam in 1998, I felt an intense need to connect with Anne’s life and story on a deeper level. I wrote a note to Miep Gies, who had become an employee and friend of Anne’s father, Otto, in 1933. Back then, Miep took an immediate liking to the vivacious and intelligent Anne, thinking, “This is the kind of child I’d like to have

In 1942, the brutal oppression of Dutch Jews by the Nazi occupiers of Holland escalated, with an increase in deportations. After Anne’s sister was ordered sent to Germany, Otto Frank approached his loyal bookkeeper and asked if she and her husband, Jan, would be willing to risk their lives by hiding the Franks and four other Jews. Miep’s immediate reply: “Of course.”

The rest of the overall story is well-known. Miep found and hid the diary until she could give it to Anne’s grieving father, the only survivor of the eight hidden Jews. Steve connected with Miep some 50 years after the war and, delighted to have met her, wrote his interview shortly before she died.

While I have yet to see the drama, which has received excellent reviews, it surely poses the question to the viewers: What would you have done?

D. None of the above

“I must do this to save the people, for my ‘Gewissen … for my conscience.”