The Village Times Herald - March 23, 2023

New vision for East Setauket begins to

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The work to clean up the harbor near East Setauket Pond Park is the beginning of a larger vision held by local elected officials and civic group leaders for years.

Recently, two water quality units were installed at East Setauket Pond Park to help capture road runoff, such as floatables and sediment, from Route 25A and interconnected town roads before debris enters Setauket Harbor. It’s a move that many hope will help to clean up the waterway.

The funds for the work came from a $1 million clean water grant acquired by former state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) in 2016. The grant along with an additional $620,000 in matching funds from the Town of Brookhaven also have gone toward the reconstruction of a pier bulkhead on Shore Road.

Last year, before he left office, then-state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) secured a grant for nearly $1.5 million for the Town of Brookhaven to buy the more than 1-acre property where East Setauket Automotive Center is located currently. The hope is to create a Founders Park, according to Englebright.

Don Magurk, the former property owner who inherited the parcel, sold it to the town in late

December. He said he looks forward to the future parkland and people getting a clear view of the harbor. He called the view “wonderful.”

The lease of the automotive center’s owner, Mike Innusa, expires in 2025, and he will continue operating the business until then, according to Town of Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook).

George Hoffman, co-founder of the Setauket Task Force, said the time would allow leaders to plan the future park properly.

“It could be a real asset to downtown,” he said. Englebright called the town acquiring the parcel key in creating a Founders Park in East Setauket. The former state legislator said it’s believed that Gen. George Washington’s first view of the Long Island Sound was at that point, as it has been documented that he traveled down Gnarled Hollow Road when he visited Setauket. It was believed Washington had traveled to Setauket to thank the Culper Spy Ring members.

Englebright said it would be a “dream to find some way to go back and visit that moment in time.”

Magurk’s grandfather, Carl Ruhland, built the garage and opened it in 1929. In addition to running a business, in 1931, he was elected Brookhaven justice of the peace. He sat on the Town Board until he resigned in 1955.

Ruhland also was a charter member of the Setauket Fire Department and served as vice

president and a director of Tinker National Bank until 1962.

“He wanted to see the area with parks, etc.,” Magurk said, adding his grandfather was known for planting numerous trees.

Magurk said Englebright and town representatives approached him in 2017 about selling the land, and he talked to his wife and daughter about it. He said the whole family agreed it would be a good idea.

Magurk credited Englebright with starting

the conversation and getting town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) in on the plan.

“That was the nice thing about it,” Magurk said. “There were no politics involved. Everybody was trying to get to the end of the road.”

Englebright said while he and others are looking forward to the future park by the waterway, they are also “sensitive to the fact that it’s a working harbor.” Kornreich said the town would be aware of the needs of business owners in the area.

Elected officials and local civic leaders aim to create a park that will provide a clearer view of Setauket Harbor for residents. File photo by Maria Hoffman

Sunrise Wind Project takes another step toward becoming a reality

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

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On the first day of spring, with cool breezes and a propeller plane flying overhead at Smith Point County Park, Suffolk County officials celebrated a Host Community Agreement with Sunrise Wind, an energy project that will use windmills to provide power to about 600,000 homes.

The offshore wind project, which will be developed 30 miles east of Montauk, marks the second such effort to use renewable energy as a power source. South Fork Wind is currently under construction and will provide energy by the end of the year.

The Sunrise Wind farm, which Denmarkbased Ørsted and east-coast-based Eversource is leading, will make landfall at Smith Point County Park on the South Shore. The lines would feed under the Smith Point Bridge and under William Floyd Parkway.

The effort is a part of New York State’s goal of increasing the use of renewable energy to 70% by 2030 and to 100% by 2040, lowering the state’s carbon footprint and slowing the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming.

In addition to celebrating the environmental benefits of the agreement, officials stood with labor leaders to recognize the job and

“We know that this clean energy future is also about job creation and creating new industries that will put people to work,” County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said at a press conference announcing the agreement. “We are going to have not just jobs; we are going to have careers for people here on Long Island for years and decades to come.”

The effort will include 100 jobs in an operations and maintenance hub in East Setauket.

Sunrise Wind agreed to pay $170 million over 25 years. Brookhaven will get over $5 million from the project each year, starting in 2025 for the next quarter of a century.

The announcement of the agreement came on the same day that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the world would likely pass a dangerous temperature increase within the next decade, driving global warming to deadly levels unless countries cut back on fossil fuels.

Such an unchecked temperature increase could lead to famine, disease, an increase in violent storms, and a reduction in farmable or habitable land.

The UN report urged nations to cut the use of coal, oil and gas, which contribute to the majority of the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

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report and the announcement about the Host Community Agreement in the county, Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, suggested that the county was doing its part.

The UN “declared that we need to make sustainable, meaningful changes in this decade,” Esposito said during the press conference. “That’s exactly what Suffolk County and the state of New

York are doing. We have the low carbon tools to live in a world with lower emissions and now we must use them.”

Changing the way the county produces energy “changes the world” and the “future for the better,” Esposito added.

Julie Tighe, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, applauded the practical and forward-looking element of a concrete plan that includes the start of construction later in 2023.

“Unless we turn these commitments into projects on the ground, it’s just a piece of paper,” Tighe said. This agreement is “one step closer to reality.”

Tighe congratulated political leaders from both parties, including Bellone and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) for coming together on this environmentally, ecologically and economically favorable project.

“Clean air and clean water are non-partisan issues,” Tighe said. “This is a promise we need to keep for our communities.”

The wind farm plan will also include courses at Stony Brook University and SUNY Farmingdale, as well as a National Offshore Wind Training Center in Brentwood. The center will expand access to job opportunities and educational advancement, particularly for high school and college-age New Yorkers entering the job market. The training center includes a 22-year license agreement with Suffolk County.

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine and County Executive Steve Bellone announced a Community Host Agreement with Sunrise Wind. Photo from Suffolk County

Couple from Pakistan improve daughter’s life by uprooting their own

BY MALLIE KIM DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

When baby Insha didn’t support her neck or roll over on time, new parents Sarah Sajjad and Muhammad Qasim Akhtar were concerned.

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Labor in their Lahore, Pakistan, hospital had been long and exhausting, with forceps and a vacuum, Sajjad said, and Insha hadn’t cried at birth. As a new mom, she didn’t know that could be a bad sign, but they were discharged with no suggestion anything was amiss. Checkups provided no new insight.

“Doctors were not sure what was going on with her,” Akhtar said. “They were saying, ‘Oh, maybe she’s too little or too weak, let’s wait.’”

Tired of waiting, Sajjad and Akhtar took their daughter to a specialist and got the diagnosis — cerebral palsy, a neurological condition affecting physical development and motor skills. The disorder can be caused by abnormal brain development or damage to the brain from, for example, a lack of oxygen during a difficult labor. Insha would never speak or walk on her own.

Uninterested in bitterness or blame, Sajjad and Akhtar took this new challenge as a mission to help Insha, who is now 14, live her best life — a 7,000-mile journey that would inspire Sajjad to become a voice for parents of children with special needs in her North Shore community — the family resides in South Setauket — and on the Mrs. Pakistan USA pageant stage near Washington, D.C.

In their Lahore home, baby Insha was surrounded by love, acceptance and family. Insha’s grandmother assured the new parents that whatever had happened was Allah’s, or God’s, will. “‘He must have [a reason] he chose you as her parents,’” Sajjad remembered her mother-in-law telling them. With the benefit of

hindsight, Sajjad said, “We cannot see why we are the chosen ones, but definitely it’s for the betterment of all of us. With time, we both feel that that’s true.”

But in Pakistan, services for children with disabilities were not easy to find. So, they resigned from their jobs at a telecom company in Lahore, sold their assets and settled in Suffolk County, where Akhtar began job hunting in earnest. They’d left behind their entire social support structure, but Sajjad said they weren’t worried since they faced settling into a new country and finding services for Insha with faith.

“We came with the belief that if we’re going for our daughter, the motive in us is quite clear, we have Allah’s blessings, and he’ll make things easy for us — and he did,” she said.

Those first few years were still a struggle. American companies discounted Akhtar’s IT experience, he said, requiring a degree incountry, so he took any job he could to support his family — first at a gas station, then a used car dealership, then a pharmacy. Eventually he landed as a Port Jefferson Department of Motor Vehicles security guard, where he’s worked the past several years.

Meanwhile, Sajjad strove to figure out services and medical care for Insha, and their family quickly grew. Twins Ibrahim and Mikayeel were born in 2012, and daughter AzmehJehan about a year after that. Sajjad trekked around Long Island for errands and appointments with four children in diapers while Akhtar worked. Despite the lack of social support structure, she said, she didn’t feel isolated or bitter.

“We didn’t have any time to think about, ‘Oh, we don’t have [an extended] family,’” she said. “I wanted to be with my kids, and that was actually the world we had — all six of us.”

Life for Insha did improve. She now has a wheelchair, a customized standing and walking aid, and an electronic communication device that

allows her to respond to basic questions. And she attends a school that accommodates her needs.

“She knows every day that, ‘I’m going to the same group of people,’ and she’s very comfortable there,” Sajjad said, adding that in Pakistan, Insha would’ve likely spent all her days homebound.

From the North Shore to Mrs. Pakistan USA

Once the children were all in school, Sajjad turned her attention outward. Her first Long Island job was at the Developmental Disabilities Institute in Medford, assisting children with special needs, and currently she works in the Three Village Central School District as a special education aide. Outside of work, Sajjad said she has set her sights on supporting parents of kids with special needs, including those who do not speak English as their first language.

Even speaking English fluently as Sajjad and Akhtar did when they arrived, disability support systems in the United States had been like a maze — they said it took them four or five years to learn about the handicap parking placard, for example — and she strives to help families navigating the system as she once did.

“We forget the fact that parents need some services and support too,” Sajjad said, explaining her efforts to share what she’s learned with other parents and to provide

practical support when she can — something she said would have made her early years in the United States easier.

“I really want to give it back to this community, to this country, what they have given my daughter.”

And when Sajjad learned about Miss and Mrs. Pakistan USA, a pageant to recognize women who want to improve their communities while representing Pakistani heritage, she applied just for fun. As she progressed in the process, her children would ask her to rehearse her walk and practice her talent, which was with a poem on female empowerment and resilience, in front of them to make sure she was ready.

When her kids heard she won the Mrs. Pakistan USA 2022 title, they were thrilled. “I kind of jumped around the whole house,” her son Mikayeel said. And after Sajjad arrived home, she greeted the children sporting her crown and sash. “At that point I was like, ‘Thank God I got it,’” she said. “I wanted to see those lit faces.”

More than a title and a crown, Sajjad felt she had shown her children the driving force behind her and Akhtar’s choice to change their lives with a leap of faith. “When you have your will in it and you work hard for it, just do your best and then leave it on God,” Sajjad said. “And he’ll make the best decision for you.”

Sarah Sajjad, right, of South Setauket, with her husband and four children. Below, Sajjad reenacts the moment she told her children she won Mrs. Pakistan USA. Photos by Mallie Kim

The following incidents have been reported by Suffolk County Police:

Centereach man pleads guilty in beating death of friend

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John Mann IV, 20, of Centereach, pleaded guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree for the premeditated fatal beating of Henry Hernandez, age 16, of Hempstead, whose skeletal remains were found in Centereach in 2020.

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This past week in Albany, New York State Sen. Dean Murray (R-Patchogue) and state Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio (R-Riverhead) joined with Republican colleagues from the state Senate and Assembly at a press conference calling for the crackdown on improper and deceptive packaging practices for edible products with THC infusions. The lawmakers said there has been

a dramatic increase in cases of children mistaking these products for regular candies and snack foods, with dangerous and sometimes deadly results.

Murray and Giglio have introduced legislation that would target this practice, mandating that THC-infused edibles on the market are marked and packaged plainly and increasing penalties for violators.

Incumbents reelected in Old Field

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

As voters cast their votes for trustees in the Village of Old Field March 21, only two names were on the ballot, current

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A police investigation established that Mann and Hernandez became acquaintances in March 2019. A short time later, Hernandez went to Mann’s home located on Jay Road in Centereach and stole his father’s truck. On or around June 2, 2019, Mann lured Hernandez to a location known as the “Sand Pit,” where he duct-taped the victim and struck him multiple times with a blunt object. Mann placed Hernandez’s body in a hole on his property and covered it with debris. The defendant later moved Hernandez’ skeletal remains into a plastic tub and placed it on his next-door neighbor’s property, where it was ultimately recovered on March 15, 2020.

Mann is due back in court on April 19 and is expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.

Bronx man indicted for shooting two men at pool hall in Port Jefferson

Alexander Castillo, 26, of the Bronx, was indicted on March 15 for allegedly shooting two individuals following a dispute in a Port Jefferson pool hall over losing money in multiple games of pool.

According to the investigation, on Dec. 28, 2022, Castillo was playing pool at a pool hall on Main Street in Port Jefferson for several hours. Over the course of the evening, Castillo allegedly became angry as his financial losses mounted after he placed wagers on each game.

Wanted for criminal mischief

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Fourth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a man who allegedly damaged a vehicle in a Lake Grove parking lot on March 4.

A man exited a white Mercedes Benz SUV in a parking lot on Alexander Avenue at 8:10 p.m. and allegedly scratched the side of a 2023 Rivian R1S parked in the lot. The man got back in the Mercedes and left the scene.

Castillo allegedly shot one victim in the groin area and shot the second victim in the chest. After shooting the two men, Castillo fled before police arrived. Both victims were taken to local hospitals and received emergency medical treatment for their injuries. Castillo was discovered hiding out in New York City and was arrested on Feb. 10 by the Suffolk County Police Department. He is due back in court on April 13.

Motorcyclist killed in Islandia crash

Suffolk County Police Fourth Squad detectives are investigating a motor vehicle crash that killed a motorcyclist in Islandia on March 17.

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At approximately 7:05 p.m., Castillo left the pool hall and returned approximately three minutes later wearing a ski mask and hat, and carrying a loaded firearm. Castillo allegedly attempted to forcibly take back his losses from his opponent by displaying the loaded firearm and demanding the money back that he had lost playing pool throughout the night.

A struggle ensued where Castillo’s opponent and another male tried to wrestle the gun away from Castillo.

Michael Laskaris was driving a 2019 Hino box truck westbound on Veterans Memorial Highway at 7:35 a.m. when he attempted to make a U-turn at the intersection of East Suffolk Avenue in front of an eastbound 2005 Suzuki motorcycle operated by Joshua Taylor. Taylor hit the brakes and the motorcycle skidded on the pavement causing the motorcyclist to be ejected.

Taylor, 20, of Islandia, was pronounced dead at the scene. Laskaris, 66, of Selden, was not injured. Anyone with information is asked to call the Fourth Squad at 631-854-8452.

— COMPILED BY HEIDI SUTTON

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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Pictured above, New York State Sen. Dean Murray (R-East Patchogue), left of poster, and state Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio (R-Riverhead), right of poster, along with Republican state legislators. Photo by New York State Senate Photography

Caroline Church set to dedicate restored carriage shed

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Photographers and camera buffs have been taking pictures of the Caroline Church carriage shed for many years in all seasons. Since it was completed in the spring of 1887, at a cost of $273, this simple open building had aged gracefully until inappropriate changes to its structure almost resulted in its destruction. Its utilitarian construction of white oak beams, white pine boards, cedar shingles and black locust posts allows us to see the construction methods that date back beyond when the shed was constructed, to the beginnings of our community when our homes, barns and out-buildings were built using these same local materials.

Now lovingly restored, the seven-bay carriage shed will be dedicated on Sunday, March 26, at 11 a.m. to the men and women who joined together to fund and build an enclosure designed to provide shelter for their horses and carriages.

The carriage shed was funded by Mrs. Mary Smith, Mr. Thomas Hodgkins, Mrs. Margaret Dickenson and Miss Sarah Dominick, General Francis Spinola, Shepard Jones, Mrs. Frank Norton and Mr. William Edwards. In November of 1892, Thomas Hodgkins, who built the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library for the community in memory of his niece, wrote a note to library trustee Israel Tyler.

“It has just occurred to me that my horse shed at the [Caroline] Episcopal Church may be of some use to yourself and family, and as I shall never again have any use for it, I hereby

offer it to you as a free gift. Very Truly Yours, Thomas G. Hodgkins.”

Hodgkins died in December 1892 and is buried along the entrance walk in the Caroline Church graveyard.

Brief stories about each of the carriage shed owners will be presented at the March 26 dedication. One was, briefly, a professional baseball player, another a candy manufacturer in New York City. These men and women and their families also included a lighthouse keeper, a Civil War brigadier general, a farmer, a merchant and a schooner captain turned

general store owner and postmaster. Five of the owners are buried in the Caroline Church graveyard, one in the Setauket Presbyterian cemetery and one in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The burial locations of two of the nine carriage shed owners are unknown.

Barbara Russell, a member of the Caroline Church Historical Commission, wrote, “What appears to some as a building that outgrew its original use about one hundred years ago is ... a rather unique parking place, the vehicles just changed. I always preferred it on rainy Sundays, as I could exit my car, open my umbrella and make my way to the church vestibule without getting wet. In the summer months, my car stayed cool in the shade. Those Victorians knew what they were doing when they planned and built a simple structure to make their life just a little more pleasant. The sliding windows on the west wall just gave their horses a little air and a view while harnessed to a wagon, and tethered for an hour or more. Horses like to see what is going on around them.

“What does it look like to residents who travel Main Street or Dyke Road, and pass it every day? What does it look like to a newcomer, maybe shopping for a home in Setauket? What does it look like to a child who sees it for the first time? To know the answers, you will have to ask your friends, your new neighbors, and the 10-year-old who lives down the street. But the most important question is: What does it look like to you?

“Is it a humble structure that reminds you of a simpler life? Life may have been simple, but it wasn’t easy. We can rush through the morning, jump into the car and drive to church in a temperature-controlled car. In

1887, in addition to getting ourselves ready, we would have fed, groomed and harnessed the horse to our carriage. Then we made our way to church, rain or shine, hot or cold.”

In 1991, the church and cemetery, including the carriage shed, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The criteria for the National Register includes age, integrity, and significance. The carriage shed, still in its original location, easily meets all of these.

In April each year, all fourth-grade students from the Three Village Central School District tour Setauket’s Original Settlement area, including the carriage shed. They learn about the shed and about the horses and carriages that were a part of life here for more than 300 years. They also discover that before the carriage shed was built, a colonial one-room schoolhouse stood on the site. From 1700 until a new school was built in the center of the Setauket Village Green in 1869, all of the children from Setauket, East Setauket and Drowned Meadow (now Port Jefferson) attended school here, including all the local children who later became members of the Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring.

Tours of Caroline Church and the churchyard, as well as tours by the Three Village Historical Society, include the historic Caroline Church carriage shed and speak to the many centuries when horses and carriages were essential to our lives. For more information, call Caroline Church at 631-941-4245.

Beverly C. Tyler is a Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-751-3730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

Above, Three Village fourth-grade students learning about the carriage shed and the horse and carriage days just prior to the start of reconstruction. Below, students with Founders Day guide Katherine Reuter, following completed reconstruction. Photos by Beverly C. Tyler

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Democratize parking

Port Jefferson has a parking problem. This problem is not the fault of any one administration but the natural consequence of maintaining a bustling downtown with limited parking capacity.

It is a problem that has been with Port Jeff for decades and may soon affect various other municipalities throughout the area. As the towns of Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington look to expand sewer capacity and revitalize downtowns, local leaders should learn from Port Jeff’s parking struggles.

In Port Jeff, as in other communities, parking decisions matter. Parking administration is an expression of a community’s values and priorities. Managing parking requires a delicate balancing act between the various stakeholders seeking access to the community — residents, visitors, shoppers, employees and business owners, among others.

At root, parking decisions are about equitable land use. For other land-use decisions, we have planning departments and zoning boards whose members negotiate and compromise before rendering judgment. We also have committees for various other areas of local governance, such as parks and recreation, communications, conservation and architectural review.

However, municipalities often lack committees for an issue as central as parking. Without a parking committee, parking management seems estranged from the political process, the community stakeholders lacking the forum necessary to translate their interests into sound policy.

Moreover, the existing dynamic is inequitable to those who make parking decisions. Without a committee to channel the community’s wants and needs, the burden of policy falls upon a select few. In Port Jeff’s case, the parking administrator unfairly bears the responsibility of making representative decisions for the entire community, suffering alone the slings and arrows from all competing parties. We regard this arrangement as increasingly untenable and ineffective.

History informs us that uniformity of opinion is not possible. For this reason, a functioning democratic system works to channel the many interests of the people into the political process. Only through that process can a representative policy outcome arise. Parking is no different.

We are committed to the premise that fair policies emerge from an open, deliberative process. It is, therefore, necessary for municipalities throughout our coverage area to form parking committees, opening the decision-making process to all concerned parties. Let us democratize parking here on Long Island. It’s vitally needed.

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to the editor

New York State’s bail reform is a success

Under the law, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Under the law, every person is guaranteed the right to a speedy and fair trial by jury. These tenets are the bedrock of our justice system.

Unfortunately, our system has too often failed to live up to these premises. In New York, almost three out of every four people incarcerated are people of color, which is disproportionate to the population. Many of these people are poor, and until the 2019 bail reform law, too many sat in jail awaiting trial because they could not afford bail.

The most tragic example is that of Kalief Browder, who as a teenager was incarcerated at Rikers Island for three years, two of those years spent in solitary confinement, for allegedly stealing a backpack. His family could not afford to bail him out. He committed suicide after his release. The young man’s story, and the families who are impacted by the overlap of incarceration and poverty, are why the 2019 bail law was enacted. The criminal justice system failed Browder and countless others.

As soon as the 2019 bail reform law was enacted, before there was even any data on the impact of the law, the Republican Party began a campaign of fearmongering. Former U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin [R-NY1] made this the theme of his failed 2022 gubernatorial campaign, and other candidates like freshman Assemblyman Ed Flood [R-Port Jefferson] followed suit. It was a campaign that was deeply racist in rhetoric, never addressing the root causes of crime and how to correct these causes.

A recent study refutes the lies of the Republican Party. The results of the two-year study show the opposite of the Republican talking points to be true, with recidivism and re-arrest rates dropping. “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, in a statement.

The data is clear: Bail reform is a success. The tragedy is that too many elected Democrats refused to push back against the Republican lies and fearmongering. In that vacuum of leadership, misinformation has taken hold.

We must demand leaders and candidates who will stand up for justice. We must also call out politicians like Zeldin and Flood who built their campaigns on lies and ensure they never hold elected office again. We deserve a system of true justice with moral leaders, and Republicans have utterly failed the electorate on the issue of public safety.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

Waiting for Rinaldi to be made permanent LIRR president

Just over 12 months ago, Long Island Rail Road President Phillip Eng retired effective Feb. 25, 2022. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Janno Lieber immediately appointed Metro-North President Catherine

Rinaldi as interim LIRR president.

After 12 months on the job, she has developed a good working knowledge of the agency organization, staff, operations, facilities and customer needs. She is familiar with ongoing capital projects in the LIRR portion of the $51.5 billion 2020-24 Five Year Capital Plan.

If Lieber is happy with Rinaldi’s performance to date, why hasn’t he made her the next permanent LIRR president? Is there something we don’t know?

Remember that Lieber, just like his predecessors, will need the blessing of the governor. Just like past history, Gov. Kathy Hochul [D] will play a behind-the-scenes role in the selection of a permanent LIRR president.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Opinion

No time to literally die and other attempts to awkwardly split infinitives

nfinitives appear to be like peanut butter and jelly for me. I don’t want to add bananas, nuts or anything else between the two spreads, because peanut butter and jelly represent a taste combination that agrees with me and my digestive tract.a reader to add a verbal hiccup. Maybe some English — or language arts in modern educational parlance — teacher back in my days at Ward Melville High School shared his or her dislike for split infinitives that makes me want to cringe when reading an otherwise effective sentence.

Let’s pause to consider Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Perhaps an infinitive splitter might want to add an adverb, such as “To Treacherously Kill a Mockingbird” or “To Slanderously Kill a Mockingbird.” Both options struggle to add an unnecessary word.

got to do with it?” If we split the infinitive, she might sing, “what’s love go to accurately do with it?” Turner doesn’t want to encourage love when she’s enjoying the physical connection. Would “accurately” threaten to trample on the song’s meaning?

D. None of the above

The combination of the word “to” and a verb belong together, without adverbs, adjectives, nouns or other parts of speech jammed between them. I want to love, to live, to eat, to sleep, to play and to laugh without any additional words attempting to clog up the ideas or to interfere with the narrative flow.

And yet, in modern prose, people increasingly chose to split infinitives, jamming words in between “to” and a verb. For me, that’s like forcing

To make my point, I’d like to consider (yes, this is a column about infinitives so prepare to be amazed) how several important quotes, phrases, book and movie titles might read with a split infinitive. To begin, let’s explore Thomas Jefferson’s words from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self evident.” Those words would falter if he had chosen to write: “We hold these truths to fundamentally be self evident.”

Would you like to consider Shakespeare?

Hamlet’s soliloquy in which he ponders whether “to be or not to be” would fall flat if he said, “to kind of be or not to comfortably be.” That not only sounds wrong, but it loses the power of a pithy line about the nature of existence and his willingness to continue to live (yup, two in a row) in a world of treachery.

How about James Bond’s “License to Kill?” Would a split infinitive change that to “License to violently kill?” It’s already a Bond film, so you’re prepared to witness violence. Would you prefer to imagine “License to vengefully kill?” Would that have affected its ability to win at the box office? I tend to doubt that.

Another Bond movie with an infinitive is “No time to die.” An adverb addict might want to convert the title to “No time to literally die.” Well, yeah, Bond films force the titular character to confront death. These days, people are inclined to overuse the word “literally” anyway, as in, “I literally ate all the food on my plate.” I suspect few people would interrupt to ask if you’d figuratively or literally eaten everything.

How about Tina Turner’s song “What’s love

The book by Ernest Hemingway, who preferred to use simple prose, would lose some of its resonance if we added anything to the title, “To have and have not.” Borrowing from a vastly overused word that could become “To fully have and have not.”

So, to sum up the idea, to get to the point, to address the important issue, and to make myself clear, I still believe, no matter how acceptable it might be, that splitting infinitives jams an unnecessary word where it doesn’t belong, threatening to dilute its meaning, to alter its trajectory and to cause unnecessary misdirection. Let’s agree to keep infinitives together, giving them room to be, to love and to bask in their original meaning. Now, to return to where I began, I’d like to find some peanut butter and jelly.

Was that Dear John letter you received from your heartthrob written by a bot?

To see how it worked, when I got the link for ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence or OpenAI software sent from my grandson, I asked it to write 650 words about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Why FDR? I had just finished reading a book about FDR’s “Splendid Deception,” the ways the president hid his polio infirmity from the American public, and he was on my mind.

Between

So, I am going to let you see what was written immediately, on command, in less than five minutes before my disbelieving eyes. Remember, this was authored by a robot.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, is remembered as one of the most influential and transformative leaders in American history. During his 12-year tenure as President, he led the United States through some of its most challenging times, including the Great Depression and World War II.

FDR was born into a wealthy family in Hyde Park, New York, in 1882. He attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School before

beginning a career in politics. He served as a New York state senator from 1910 to 1913, and later as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson.

In 1921, at the age of 39, FDR was struck by polio, which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Despite this setback, he remained active in politics and was elected Governor of New York in 1928.

It was during the Great Depression, however, that FDR’s leadership would truly shine. When he took office in 1933, the country was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history. Millions of Americans were out of work, banks were failing, and confidence in the government was at an alltime low.

FDR responded to the crisis with a bold and ambitious plan to revitalize the economy, which he called the New Deal. The New Deal included a range of programs and policies designed to provide relief to the unemployed, stimulate economic growth, and reform the financial system.

One of the most famous New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which provided jobs to young men in conservation and reforestation projects. Other programs included the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which sought to stabilize crop prices and support farmers, and the National Industrial Recovery Act,

which established codes of fair competition for businesses.

FDR’s New Deal was not without its critics, who argued that it represented an unwarranted expansion of federal power and an infringement on individual liberties. But for many Americans, especially those who were struggling to make ends meet during the Depression, FDR’s bold leadership and willingness to take decisive action were a source of hope and inspiration.

FDR was also a key figure in American foreign policy during World War II. When the war broke out in Europe in 1939, he declared that the United States would remain neutral. But after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, he led the country into the war with a resolve and determination that would help turn the tide against the Axis powers.

FDR was instrumental in building the alliance with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, which would eventually lead to victory in Europe. He also played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb, which would be used to end the war in the Pacific.

Despite his many accomplishments, FDR was not without his flaws. Critics have accused him of overreaching in his use of executive power, and of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses committed by the Soviet Union during the war. But his legacy remains one of visionary leadership and

bold action in the face of crisis.

FDR’s famous quote, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” has become a rallying cry for leaders in times of crisis. It reflects his belief that the American people had the strength and resilience to overcome even the most daunting challenges, and that with the right leadership and the right policies, anything was possible.

Today, as the United States faces new challenges, from economic inequality to political polarization to climate change, FDR’s legacy remains a source of inspiration and guidance. His commitment to bold action in the face of crisis, his belief in the power of government to make a positive difference in people’s lives, and his unwavering faith in the American people, continue to resonate with us today.

How do teachers distinguish what was written by a student or by the bot? By the same token, having a bot help in other contexts, such as planning a schedule or working up a travel itinerary can be a huge help. ChatGPT, launched this past November, can analyze content from a wide range of information on the internet and then create original content. But is it always correct information? Will the bot take jobs from humans? Or will it merely offer a baseline of information upon which humans can then add more nuanced input?

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ELEGANT EATING

Passover 2023 easter 2023

“Whoops wrong Holiday! Finally lightening up a little. It has been a long year!”

“Don’t worry Myra I got this covered!”

Passover Family Dinner for 8

Chicken Soup with Matzo Balls

Chicken Breast Filled with Savory Kugel or

Braised Short Ribs (Boneless)

Triple Berry Sauce

Roasted Potatoes

Green Beans with Garlic and Oil

Box of Matzo

Macaroons

$275 (Chicken Breast) • $340 (Short Ribs)

Food is not Kosher.

Please Place Orders by March 29 Wednesday, Pick up:

April 5th, Wednesday ~ 12 pm to 4 pm

April 6th, Thursday ~ 10 am to 4 pm

Easter Family Dinner for 8

Caesar Salad

Honey Baked Ham

Topped with Caramelized Pineapple with Honey Mustard or

Braised Short Ribs (Boneless)

Green Beans with Garlic and Oil

Herb Roasted Potatoes

Assorted Dinner Rolls

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting or Harvest Berry Bindi Tart

$300 (Ham) • $345 (Short Ribs)

Please Place Orders by March 31 Friday, Pick up:

April 7th, Friday ~ 12 pm to 4 pm

April 8th, Saturday ~ 10 am to 4 pm

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