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vol. 90, no. 2
SHAtNeR tALKS ABOUt SHAtNeR
mANHASSet ReSiDeNtS BOSWORtH, mURRAy NAmeD ACtiNg D.A. OPPOSe CASiNO
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G.N. park district to talk parking needs District wants to talk about future of commuter lots By A DA m L i D g e t t
With the plan to make the Long Island Rail Road run into Grand Central Station in the next couple years, the parking situation by the train stations may have more of a demand put on them, said Dan Nachmanoff, Great Neck Park District Chairman.
The Great Neck Park District will be looking this year at ways to improve parking in the district, especially for commuters, Park District Superintendent Peter Renick said. Renick said the Great Neck Park District Board of Commissioners acknowledged at their Dec. 30 work session the need to talk about parking in the coming year, but only in a general sense. He said no clear decisions were made on when parking would be talked about. “We want to get the community involved,” Renick said. “Residents in the park
district acknowledge that community-wide it’s a problem. Parking is at a premium here.” Board Chairman Dan Nachmanoff said the need to talk more about parking comes from the extension of the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Station during the next couple of years. He said the extension may create extra ridership, putting more of a demand on the parking lot by the LIRR station in Great Neck. Nachmanoff said the commissioners suggested the parks district contact the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the near future. Nachmanoff said the district
would like an MTA officials to talk to them about what exactly is going to happen with the LIRR Grand Central extension. Nachmanoff also said the district would like to get a timetable of the project to be better prepared for when it is finally done. The project that would bring the LIRR directly into Grand Central has been in the planning for years, and originally had an opening date of 2009. “We need to start bringing [parking] to the forefront,” Renick said. “We need to get some of the other players involved – [Great Neck] Plaza Continued on Page 32
102 years old and still full of life By A DA m L i D g e t t Most people don’t believe they could ever reach their own centennial, let alone make it past 100 years old. But on Christmas Day 2014,
Syde Zwern, a resident of Grace Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, turned 102 years old and celebrated the occasion at her daughter’s home in East Hills, according to a release from the center. Zwern said she doesn’t think
about her age, according to a release from the Grace Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. “I just do what I have to do and try to be thankful for all I have,” Zwern said Zwern, who was born in Queens on Dec. 25, 1912 to Jacob and Celia Olch, stays young by staying active at the center, located at 15 Saint Pauls Place, said Gina Irwin, marketing specialist for the center.
Irwin said she participates in many of the center’s programs. “She loves reading,” Irwin said. “She read books all the time, and we have entertainment, and kids come in, and we have games.” Zwern married her husband Louis in 1942, and raised two daughters, Jacqueline and Reina in, Queens, the release said. Louis died of cancer in 1986, Irwin said. Her daughter Jacqueline also died, Continued on Page 32
Syde Zwern
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