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THE PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Eternal Con returns L.I.

Court OKs teacher’s Scotto calls for Singas suit against state to return contributions

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Maragos calls for changes in IDA’s focus

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Cites lack of job creation tied to tax breaks granted in 2013

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos is calling on the county’s Industrial Development Agency to reconsider the criteria by which it grants tax breaks to businesses planning construction amid a recently issued report from the state comptroller’s office which showed that Nassau County’s tax breaks generated far fewer jobs off such projects in 2013 than in neighboring counties as well as IDA’s across the state.

In a letter to IDA Executive Director Joseph J. Kearney Tuesday, Maragos wrote the agency should “review their existing job creation strategies, personnel performance and to institute appropriate changes to achieve better results” than the 1,835 jobs the state reported Nassau netted that year when the county granted $43,325,571 in net tax exemptions.

“The [Nassau County Industrial Development Agency] plays an important role in ensuring that our county remains competitive within the region by maintaining and attracting new jobs. It is disappointing that we have fallen behind in these critical areas,” Maragos wrote.

Maragos in his analysis of Nassau’s IDA activity that year found the agency “appears to support smaller scale projects with less jobs potential,” suggesting it instead “favor higher quality projects that have the potential to create or retain a higher number of jobs.”

In 2013, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the Nassau County IDA approved 278 projects worth more than $2.9 billion and offered businesses more than $69 million in tax exemptions, according to the state comptroller’s May 18 report.

The Nassau IDA recovered Continued on Page 43

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Daniele Lee, Anastasia Benedetti, Rachel Wong and Sarah Wong dance to Orfeo ed Euridice.

VGN mayoral candidates clash on rezoning, hall Bral is running for lenger Pedram Bral. mayor on the Voice of Kreitzman is runVillage of Great Neck resi- ning for mayor on the E L E C T I O N 2 0 1 5 the Village Party ticket, Government along with Raymond dents will head to the polls Tues- Better Plakstis Jr. and Anne day to choose to either keep in- Party ticket, with trustcumbent Mayor Ralph Kreitzman ees Mitch Beckerman and Jeff Mendelson who are both running in the position he has held since Bass who are also running for re- for trustee.

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Judge recuses herself G.N. teacher wins from Friedman case right to sue state Cites potential appearance of partiality in ruling Says state evaluation system unfair

By A d a m L i d g ett A state Supreme Court Judge last week ruled that a Great Neck teacher has legal standing to sue the state Education Department over its teacher evaluation system, which rated her “ineffective” on a portion pertaining to student exam performance.

Acting state Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough ruled that Sheri Lederman, a fourth grade teacher at E.M. Baker School of 18 years, showed she suffered injury after receiving a 1 out of 20 on the “student growth” portion of the state’s three-pronged teacher assessment for 2013-14, according to court documents filed on May 28. In the 2012-13 year, she received a 14 out of 20 score.

“The drastic, statistically significant drop in a component that makes up 20 percent of petitioner’s 100 point annual rating strikes the court as adequate to constitute an injury in fact,” McDonough wrote. “Additionally, respondents have not established that said injury in fact is either incapable or unworthy of judicial resolution.”

The state Education Depart-

Jesse Friedman, right, will get a new judge in his actual innocence case.

By A d a m L i d g ett In a reversal of previous decision, Acting state Supreme Court Justice Teresa Corrigan has recused herself from presiding over Great Neck native Jesse Friedman’s claim he is innocent of a 25-year sex abuse conviction, according to court documents.

“The public deserves the right to believe that the case is being decided without concerns of partiality from the Court,” Corrigan wrote in a court filing on Tuesday. “There is now a potential appearance that the Court’s impartiality could be questioned.”

The court clerk’s office will re-assign the case to another judge, according to court documents.

Friedman, who along with his father Arnold Friedman was arrested and pleaded guilty in 1988 to sexually abusing boys enrolled in a computer class in his family’s Great Neck home, was granted a hearing on his

claims of actual innocence in September.

He was released on parole in 2001 and soon retracted on his guilty plea, saying his confession was coerced from law enforcement officials and that police manipulated false abuse claims from the alleged victims.

When he filed last year to have his claim of innocence heard, he included a motion for Corrigan to recuse herself from the case, arguing she is a close friend of former District Attorney Kathleen Rice, who in 2013 had reaffirmed Friedman’s conviction after a three-year review of the case. The review was conducted after a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2010 indicated that some evidence suggested Friedman might have been wrongfully convicted.

Friedman’s claims of actual innocence were chronicled in the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Capturing the Friedmans,” directed by Andrew Jarecki in 2003.

ment argued that Lederman didn’t have standing to sue because she wasn’t harmed by the rating. The state said Lederman was the only one who could publicize her score, as it is confidential, and that her overall “effective” rating would not adversely affect her employment.

Lederman argues that her one-point growth score did negatively impact her, reducing her Annual Professional Performance Review rating from “highly effective” to “effective,” hurting her reputation among certain parents and her relationship with her employer. She also argued that her low score demoralized her as a professional.

Lederman, a Jericho resident, said she is happy that she will have the opportunity to have her voice heard.

“I’m happy it has moved at least to a point where we can argue the merits of this scenario,” Lederman said. “Up until this time we’ve been prevented from even having a voice in this because the state Education Department wanted to block this from even going to court.”

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Rice had agreed to a court hearing on claims made by Friedman before she resigned as district attorney in January after being elected to Congress in November.

She said at the time she believed Friedman’s original guilty conviction should still be upheld.

Corrigan denied to motion to recuse herself in October.

Corrigan wrote in Tuesday’s filing that Joseph Onorato, one of the original prosecutors in the Friedman case, may be called to testify at the upcoming hearing.

Corrigan wrote that while she believes she can fairly evaluate him as a witness, she was also Onorato’s supervisor for a time in the county district attorney’s office.

She also said that the appointment of Robert Schwartz, the lead prosecutor in the case until recently, as a judge about a month ago could cause issues.

Corrigan wrote she could foresee an argument that she Sheri Lederman, a fourth grade teacher at E.M. Baker School, has may feel compelled to support won her right to challenge the state Education Department’s evaluContinued on Page 51 ation system.

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AvalonBay project breaks ground Apartments to replace former petroleum storage faciltiy

By A d a m L i d g ett

Commander Oil operator Joseph Shapiro had a dream 10 years that the former petroleum storage facility he owned at 240 East Shore Road in the Village of Great Neck would one day be redeveloped into something special.

“He just wanted to make something out of this property,” said Len Shapiro, Joseph Shapiro’s son. “We didn’t just want garden apartments. He wanted something to be proud of.”

Shapiro’s dream came true last Thursday when AvalonBay Communities broke ground for the construction of a 191-unit apartment building on the site .

Shapiro was not there to see it, having died in January 2014, but many others were inlcuding his son.

Len Shapior was joined at the groundbreaking by Village of Great Neck Mayor Ralph Kreitzman, village trustees Mitch Beckerman, Jeff Bass and Barton Sobel as were Great Neck Water Pollution Control District commissioners Deena Lesser and

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Elected officials and developers break ground at AvalonBay property in the Village of Great Neck.

Steve Reiter, Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck) and her husband Village of Great Neck Judge Mark Birnbaum.

Also present at the groundbreaking were North Hempstead Town councilwomen Anna Kaplan and Lee Seeman, Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Town Re-

ceiver of Taxes Charles Berman and Village of Great Neck Building Department Superintendent Bob Barbach.

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ees gave AvalonBay Communities final site-plan approval in December to build the complex, which will consist of 81 onebedroom units, 79 two-bedroom units and 31 three-bedroom units. Some 10 percent of the total apartments will be used for workforce housing.

In February 2014, the land the complex will sit on was rezoned for residential use.

Shapiro, who now runs Commander Oil with is sister Carol Engel, said his family is getting out of the oil business, selling off most of the parcels of land where they once owned oil facilities. He said he and his sister also both run Commander Enterprises, a real estate investment company.

Shapiro said that because the 240 East Shore Road property is one of the first things a visitor to Great Neck sees as they enter the peninsula his father wanted to do something special with the site.

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Sewer district replacing damaged pump

By A d a m L i d g ett The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District is replacing an above-ground waste pump station at the Saddle Rock Grist Mill damaged in Superstorm Sandy with a new underground pump, the district announced Tuesday.

“The devastation wrought

by Superstorm Sandy included massive flooding at the existing pump station. The only option was to replace it,” said district Commissioner Steve Reiter in a statement. “This gave us the opportunity to apply for a grant from [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] which supplied over $800,000 toward building the new Saddle Rock pump station underground.”

The new pump should enhance service reliability to the Saddle Rock area, the district said in a release.

Wastewater from Saddle Rock will continue to be pumped to the district facility on East Shore Road from the Grist Mill pump station.

“The new waterproof pump station will be state-of-the-art,” said district Commissioner Dee-

na Lesser in a statement. “We are purposely installing the new waterproof station underground which will be less prone to the type of damage incurred during severe storms like Superstorm Sandy.”

The pump station is located on the same site as the Saddle Rock Grist Mill, an 18th structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Grist Mill, which is located inside a small cove leading into Little Neck Bay off Grist Mill Lane, is owned by Nassau County and is under the authority of the county Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums.

Charles Schneider, vice president of external affairs for the Great Neck Historical Society, has said he has been told on two separate occasions that the historic building has significant flood damage that resulted from Hurricane Sandy.

Alice Kasten, president of the historical society, said the society is trying to pressure the county into allocating funds to restore the grist mill, but that her pleading has fallen on deaf ears.

She said she has written to Nassau County Executive Ed

PHOTO courtesy of Zimmerman/Edelson

The Saddle Rock Grist Mill property where the new waterproof wastewater pumping station is being built. Photo courtesy of Zimmerman/Edelson Mangano, but has gotten no response. She said she has gotten a response from Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Museums Commissioner Brian Nugent after she made a series of phone calls, but still has yet to hear from Mangano.

Nassau County Legislator

Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck) said in December she was committed to obtaining a grant to refurbish the Saddle Rock Grist Mill following a recent walkthrough of the historic building.

She has said she had attended a walk-through of the building with members of the Nassau

County Executive’s Office, the Department of Public Works and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums.

Birnbaum had said she was seeking money from the county to assess the Grist Mill’s current condition.

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AvalonBay Communities is proud to be working with Mayor Ralph Kreitzman and Great Neck Village Trustees Mitchell B. Beckerman, Jeffrey L. Bass, Norman Namdar and Barton Sobel in clearing up a brownfield site, eliminating a decades-old village eyesore and creating an exciting new waterfront community. We are committed to helping Mayor Kreitzman and the Board achieve their vision for a forward-thinking, vibrant village that benefits both the residents of the Village of Great Neck and the entire Great Neck peninsula.

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Scotto slams Bonomo DA donations Calls for Singas to return money donated by Manhasset man, firm tied to Skelos probe

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

Michael Scotto last week called on Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, who he is challenging for the Democratic nomination for district attorney, to relinquish a campaign contribution from Anthony Bonomo, a major political donor whose malpractice insurance firm was recently linked to a federal corruption probe of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre).

“The acceptance of money from Anthony Bonomo, who is currently under federal investigation, raises serious questions about the integrity of the DA’s office under Singas’ stewardship and once again shows that she is focused on being a politician and not a prosecutor,” said Scotto, of Port Washington, in a statement.

“Money is where all political corruption starts. This contribution begs the question of why the DA’s office never opened an investigation into Sen. Skelos and

Michael Scotto his son.”

According to campaign finance records, Bonomo, of Manhasset, contributed $5,000 to Friends of Madeline Singas on Dec. 31, 2014.

His company, Physicians Re-

ciprocal Insurers, which is based in Roslyn, donated $10,000 to Friends of Madline Singas on the same date, according to filings.

A spokesman for Singas’ campaign declined a request for comment on this story.

Dean and Adam Skelos pleaded not guilty last Monday to corruption charges alleging the state senator used his political power to help his son acquire jobs, money and benefits from a developer, environmental firm and malpractice insurance company.

The insurer, which has not been officially identified, allegedly provided Adam Skelos with $100,000 from a no-show job and benefits, according to the indictment against the Skeloses.

Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, which is the second largest medical malpractice firm in the state and is run by Bonomo, issued an emailed statement to Newsday saying: “We are aware that the U.S. Attorney is investigating Dean Skelos and his son Adam. PRI is cooperating with the U.S. Attorney and has no further comment at this time.”

Campaign finance records show the Bonomo family contributed more than $800,000 to candidates in the 2014 election cycle, including Skelos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Comptroller

Thomas DiNapoli and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Bonomo in April was tapped

by Cuomo to head the New York Racing Association, but took a leave of absence on June 3 — days before Saturday’s Belmont Stakes — amid the recent developments involving his company and Skelos.

“I do not want to have recent events distract from the ongoing work of NYRA,” Bonomo wrote to Cuomo, according to published reports. “I wish you and the NYRA continued success.”

Singas, also of Manhasset, who received the Nassau County Democratic Committee’s endorsement in mid May, raised $411,221.37 and had $28,814 in expenses as of January’s campaign finance filing, the most recent filing date.

Scotto, a former assistant district attorney in New York City who officially announced his candidacy in early May, had raised $6,400 and had $11,880 in expenses, according to campaign finance records.

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U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice said she never wanted to leave her former position as Nassau County District Attorney because she didn’t want to leave her father.

But two days after Christmas 2013, her life changed when her father died at the age of 89.

“Three days later Carolyn McCarthy says ‘I’m not running’ and in a snap of a finger, you’re life can change,” Rice said. “That door opened and I walked through it.”

Rice (D-Garden City) remarks came in a talk at a League of Women Voters of Nassau County convention dinner Thursday at Jonathan’s Restaurant in New Hyde Park about her first couple months in office.

Rice became Nassau County District Attorney in 2006, but left after being elected to Congress in 2014. She was replaced by Madeline Singas in January, who is serving as acting district attorney.

Rice edged Long Beach Republican Bruce Blakeman to succeed the retiring U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola) in the 4th Congressional District. Rice, who had McCarthy’s backing, defeated Blakeman with 51 percent of the vote to his 46 percent, in a race that was close for most of the evening.

Rice said being district attorney is the best job a lawyer can have, but eventually her life lead her in a different direction.

“Time and life sometimes changes,” Rice said. “I always said I’m not going to be DA for life. They tried to get me to run for Congress years before and I said I’d never do it.”

Rice said she liked being a woman succeeding a woman in office.

“We need more women at the table,” Rice said. “We need more diverse voices.

That’s how we get problems solved.”

One of the first things Rice learned in Washington D.C. she said was that it is a rule-driven place — something she likes as a rule-oriented person. She also said, however, that rules only apply to some people when they want them to apply.

She also said that while she wasn’t a believer in term limits previously, she now

thinks that term limits are not a bad idea.

“You should be able to run for two, maybe three terms,” Rice said. “If you can’t get stuff done in eight or 12 years, it’s time to go.”

She said the electoral system is broken because for the last 15 years, the only people who vote are at the polar edges of the ideological spectrum.

“You have a bunch of Republicans and Democrats sent to Washington polarized,” Rice said. “They don’t represent middle America.”

During her first year in office, she said she promised herself she would try to meet as many Republicans as she could.

“It’s important to be able to reach across the aisle and try to find some areas of commonality,” Rice said.

Rice is on two houses committees, she said – Veterans’ Affairs and Homeland Security.

She said one of the great failings of our time is that there are homeless and jobless veterans in America.

“They’re technical and leaders,” Rice said of veterans. “For them not to have a job is a crime.”

Rice also said campaign finance law also needs reformed. She said while she has taken money for her campaign it has also been within the bounds of the law.

“People don’t want to change a law to make it harder for them to raise money in a campaign,” Rice said. “You’re not going to get the legislature to point a gun at their own head.”

Rice used the example of the National Rifle Association lobbying for power as an example of how money distorts politics.

“There isn’t a more powerful lobby on this planet than the NRA. They make big donations and they have co-opted the conversation,” Rice said. “We are letting them set the tone for the conversation.”

Jane Thomas, co-president of the league, thanked Rice for speaking to the league.

“We are so proud to have yet another woman representing us in Nassau County,” Thomas said.

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U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) spoke to the League of Women Voters of Nassau County convention dinner Thursday at Jonathan’s Restaurant in New Hyde Park about her first couple months in office.

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A Mega Millions ticket sold in Great Neck Tuesday earned the $1 million prize, but the person who picked it has yet to claim the money.

Carolyn Hapeman, spokesperson for the New York Lottery, said Monday no person had claimed the prize.

Hapeman said the person who drew the numbers has a year from the date of the drawing, June 2, to claim the prize.

According to the New York Lottery’s website, a ticket sold at New Lime Lite deli, located at 170 Middle Neck Road, matched five out of six numbers. A ticket

drawn in Illinois matched all six winning numbers — 2, 9, 11, 22, 23 and the Mega ball number of 12 — earning the $260 million Mega Millions jackpot.

A second New York ticket — in Williamsville, a village near Buffalo — matched five numbers as well for a $1 million prize, according to the New York Lottery.

Some 14 tickets also matched five numbers.

Other winning tickets were drawn in California, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, according to the lottery’s website.

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By A d a m L i d g ett The owner of a Middle Neck Road jewelry store presented a plan to Village of Great Neck Plaza trustees at their meeting Wednesday to convert space above his shop originally intended for office space into apartments.

“I simply cannot rent the second floor as commercial,” said Danny Arbusman, president of Jewels By Viggi, located at 65 Middle Neck Road. “I’ve tried all kinds of trades, and it simply doesn’t work.”

Arbusman and his architect John Schimenti applied for a conditional-use permit from the board to renovate building. The plan calls for the second floor to be refurbished as two apartments, and for a third floor to be added, which would also be used for two apartments.

All the apartments would be one-bedroom dwellings, Schimenti said.

Arbusman also said he wants to renovate the outside of the

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John Schimenti presents plans to convert the office space above Jewels by Viggi into apartment spaces. building as well.

“The façade is limestone, and for whatever reason it is falling apart,” Arbusman said.

Great Neck Plaza Deputy Mayor Ted Rosen — who presided over Wednesday’s meeting in Mayor Jean Celender’s absence — said trustees amended the village’s zoning several years ago to provide incentives for property owners to redevelop their up-

stairs spaces as living spaces. He said the rezoning was intended to get more customers to shop downtown.

“It’s something we encourage,” Rosen said of the proposed apartments. “We are happy to see this type of project be planned.”

The board deferred a decision on the application , adjourning it until their next meeting on Continued on Page 42

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Buses replace trains between Great Neck & Port Washington June 20–21.

Expect additional service changes during the Long Island Rail Road’s year-long Colonial Road Improvement Project.

There will be no LIRR train service between Great Neck & Port Washington on the weekend of Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21 for track maintenance work and the demolition of Colonial Road Bridge. If you are traveling in the area on this weekend, please make note of the following: • Buses will replace train service between Great Neck & Port Washington • Port Washington Branch service will be reduced from half-hourly to hourly • Customers should allow an additional 30 minutes of travel time • Many Port Washington Branch trains will operate on alternate tracks and platforms – so play close attention to platform signage when departing For more details and project updates, visit mta.info/lirr/colonialroad. © 2015 Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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VGN needs Team Kreitzman re-elected

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ext Tuesday, June 16, Village of Great Neck Mayor Ralph Kreitzman, Deputy Mayor Mitchell Beckerman and Trustee Jeff Bass will be seeking re-election in this very important contested race.

I urge all residents of the Village of Great Neck to come out and vote to re-elect these three very capable and dedicated public servants.

Mayor Kreitzman and his

fellow trustees Beckerman and Bass have demonstrated during their many years in office that they have the knowledge and experience to deal effectively with the many complex issues involved in the running of a large village such as the Village of Great Neck.

These issues span a wide range — financial, public utility, zoning, legal, regulatory, legislative, security and public relations, each of which is compli-

cated and requires considerable expertise to resolve in the best interests of the village.

I have found Mayor Kreitzman and his colleagues to be dedicated to the difficult job of running our village successfully, frequently under considerable pressure.

For example, they have skillfully piloted our village through the dangers and consequences of hurricanes and unprecedented snowstorms, dealt with the fi-

nancial impact of business recessions, and have addressed the consequences of population shifts and related changes in our village.

Clearly this is not a job for novices.

Yet the challengers in this election, having no background or record of participation in village government, want to take over. In short, for the sake of the financial and physical health of our Village, we simply cannot, in

my opinion, afford to lose Mayor Kreitzman and trustees Beckerman and Bass.

Accordingly, I urge all residents to come out and vote for the Better Government Party and re-elect Kreitzman, Beckerman and Bass, and to call their friends and neighbors to join them. Vote at Great Neck House from Noon to 9 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th .

Leon Korobow Great Neck

Team Kreitzman Re-elect Kreitzman, earns support Beckerman and Bass

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have had the privilege of knowing and observing Ralph Kreitzman and Jeffrey Bass for more than 25 years.

I have seen them both in many roles, all related to business, family and community service. We are not close friends and that gives me the privilege to observe and comment without prejudice or bias.

Ralph and Jeffrey have always conducted themselves intelligently , professionally, ethically and selflessly with a pure sense of community interest and never a hint of self-interest.

Their village and by extension the entire Great Neck peninsula and beyond are truly blessed to have seasoned and experienced public servants who place community interest over self interest.

As we discover day after

day, most governments are far less fortunate. If government at all levels had people of such intellectual and ethical integrity the world would be a better, happier and far safer place.

Although we don’t need to always agree with government, we do need to trust that government leaders act in the overall best interest of their citizens. Ralph and Jeff can be trusted.

I hope the residents of the Village of Great Neck see and appreciate Ralph and Jeff and (by dint of association) Mitch Beckerman and do us all a favor and return these fine people to office to continue to serve our communities while setting a proud example for those who will someday follow.

Gary Sazer Great Neck

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have known Mayor Ralph Kreitzman, Deputy Mayor Mitchell Beckerman, and Trustee Jeffrey Bass for many years here in Great Neck. I have always found them to be most professional and fair in all of my interactions with them, as my father had before me.

Although I do not reside in Great Neck, my family business has been here for 55 years.

I feel my ties to this current administration and community to be strong and supportive.

They know what they are doing, and many of us don’t realize all of the work that goes into the

maintenance of a village as special as Great Neck.

I therefore would heartily support their re-election to continue the excellent work they have been doing.

Dale R. Landy President Kolson Korenge Inc.

Time for a change in the Village of Great Neck

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ver the past 30 years, I have attended many village meetings. I have also attended board of ed and North Hempstead meetings.

All of the above meetings have impressed me.

However, the Great Neck Village officials’ long tenure needs to be replaced by candidates who will bring new blood and progressive thinking.

Remember to exercise your civic responsibility.

Vote June 14 for the highly

qualified candidates who are seeking to replace the incumbents.

Neil Leiberman Great Neck Editor’s note: Leiberman is the husband of Great Neck News columnist Karen Rubin

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Helping to build the American dream In late May Habitat for Humanity celebrated the completion of its 17th home in Nassau County. This one was built in Roosevelt for a very grateful Walden family.

The teamwork that made this happen is nothing short of remarkable. “Countless” volunteers from the area — both skilled and not-so-skilled — put in thousands of hours.

The Walden Family, which has a home for life, put in more 100 hours of what Habitat calls “sweat equity” helping to build their home. They will pay it forward by finishing their required 300 hours at Habitat’s next build which is already underway in the Village of Hempstead.

Thanks to donations of money, materials and volunteer labor, Habitat for Humanity was able to make the home available to the Waldens at an affordable price.

Nassau County provided $250,000 Federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program

funds to Habitat.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano noted “Habitat helps individuals achieve the dream of home ownership while also helping beautify our neighborhoods. I look forward to working with Habitat for Humanity on future projects.”

Every story we hear about Habitat leaves us impressed. In April Habitat for Humanity of Nassau County helped to repair the home of six disabled members of the Clarkin family in Mineola.

Thanks the generosity of local contractors and the labor of volunteers, the family will be able to stay in their home.

The Clarkins had been forced to vacate their house after water pipes burst and it became uninhabitable.

At first they sought a state grant, but withdrew their application when it appeared hopelessly entangle in the state’s

state of chaos.

The family then turned to Disability Opportunity Fund for assistance, which asked the county for federal funds and made the connection with Habitat for Humanity.

“You have to give back. You want to do the right thing,” said Chrissy Cabrera, general manager of Reality Roofing in Mineola, which replaced the roof. “We’ve been blessed and we like to give back.”

Mangano hailed the cooperation between government, non-profits and the private sector that made the renovation possible. “It’s because of the hard work of so many volunteer that they will remain together as a family in the house they grew up in,” he said.

And Village of Mineola Deputy Mayor Paul Pereira, who taught members of the Clarkin family at Mineola High School, said, “This is a family that has lived here for de-

cades. The fact that we can keep the family here and support them is a great thing.

It’s great to see companies from all over the community contributing.”

We completely agree.

We are grateful to Habitat, the local contractors and the volunteers who are building and repairing these homes and we applaud the leaders of local elected officials who see the value of supporting this work.

Everyone involved should be proud.

One final note: Habitat for Humanity of Nassau County is part of a worldwide organization. College graduates from around the country can volunteer to spend time with Habitat building homes in third-world countries. Some of these kids – perhaps the children of lawyers and accountants — never held a hammer or a wrench. They are learning valuable skills while having what promises to be an unforgettable experience

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Home of the best Bernie Sanders raising public schools important questions Parents on the North Shore are fortunate to have the opportunity to send their children to some of the best public high schools in the State of New York According to state and national rankings compiled and recently released by U.S. News & World Report, six North Shore area high schools ranked in the top 50 in New York State.

They include: William A. Shine Great Neck South High School (No. 22), the Manhasset Secondary School (No. 23), Herricks High School (No. 30), Paul D. Schreiber High School (No. 38), North Shore Senior High School (No. 41) and Roslyn High School (No. 42).

The magazine analyzed 1,259 high schools from 663 districts throughout the United States on a variety of metrics, including its student-teacher ratio, the percentage of its student population that take advanced-placement-level courses and whether students are deemed proficient in math and English.

Congratulations to the administrators, teachers, students and their parents on this tremendous accomplishment.

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f Bernie Sanders continues to suggest ways to solve the many problems besetting our economy, other candidates may be forced to address them.

In this season, many college graduates are entering the job market saddled with huge tuition debts. Bernie has suggested, in a May interview with Wolf Blitzer, that, with a small tax on Wall Street speculative transactions, over $3 billion could be raised. That amount would allow us to eliminate college tuition.

Many progressive countries

offer free college educations.

Franklin Roosevelt’s administration in the depth of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, somehow managed to provide college educations to millions of students who went on to make enormous contributions to our society. We can choose to live under the delusion that this country is, in every way, dealing with our problems in the most rational ways, but more thought and planning has to look to the results in the future of our failure to plan.

The value of providing higher education is almost incalcu-

lable. Not only can the future earnings be spent on improving the economy instead of enriching lenders.

It then, of course, provides industry and the professions with badly needed employees for jobs that are going begging in this country for lack of qualified candidates.

Of course, the above leads to considering the value of educating everyone better, but we can save that discussion for another time.

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5 examples of immigration’s impact

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he American Dream is an old and dramatic story.

Our history continually illustrates that millions of foreigners vote with their feet to become choosing Americans.

One of Max Lerner’s excellent books was titled, “America as a Civilization.” It was 1,036 pages long.

While he was on a book tour in Japan in the late 1950s, a journalist asked Lerner if he could sum up his book, and what it revealed about America, in a few sentences.

Sure, replied Lerner, I can do it in one word: “Access.”

An immigrant himself, Lerner came to the U.S. at the age of 5 in 1907 with his parents from Minsk, Russia.

When he was 21, he graduated from Yale — an impressive journey for a young man whose immigrant dad had been a peddler.

I always have special feelings about 1907 for immigration history. It was the year my mom’s parents arrived at Ellis Island; they were part of the most numerous ever Italian migration.

1907 was also the largest single year for all immigrant newcomers (nearly 1.3 million) until the late 20th century.

Like many Italian immigrants in those times, my Tadone and Nonna had never learned to read or write — in any language.

While none of their eight children graduated from high school, many of the grandchildren had journeys into higher education that reflected Lerner’s expanding “access.” The rising generations went farther, faster, because they almost literally stood on the backs of their hardworking forbears.

Last week, five noteworthy developments showed the continuing impact of immigrants in our region, on Long Island and nationally.

In nearby New Haven, Lerner’s alma mater illustrated that “access” to the American Dream still stimulates newcomers to the U.S. Yale hosted the largest ever, single naturalization ceremony in the history of Connecticut.

Some 482 new citizens were sworn in on the New Haven campus.

Peter Salovey Yale’s president, said to the group, “As a product of the American Dream myself, I am inspired by it; I am committed to it.” He concluded by telling the 482 new citizens that being with them was “the most important and deeply moving experience I have had as a fellow American.”

As with many other families, Salovey’s grandparents came through Ellis Island; then they moved from the Lower East Side to the Bronx, “and they made sure that my father got a great

education.”

On Long Island, a new study showed dramatic demographics and economic significance of immigrants. Updating a report that had been made in 2009, the Fiscal Policy Institute indicated that 526,000 immigrants now live in Nassau and Suffolk. That is 18 percent of the 2.9 million population. Those who are here “illegally” are estimated at 98,000.

The report concludes that this increasingly diverse, immigrant population is “vital” to the region’s future.

The top countries of origin are El Salvador (14 percent), India (7 percent), Dominican Republic (5 percent), Jamaica (4 percent), Haiti (4 percent), Ecuador (4 percent) and Italy (4 percent).

A few days later, a Pew Research Center poll found that 72 percent of Americans favored “legal status” for “immigrants living in the country illegally.”

Most dramatic, 56 percent of Republicans supported that view, as did 75 percent of Independents and 80 percent of Democrats.

However, there are significant differences in ways to proceed.

While Hillary Clinton made a special effort this week to emphasize a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, most Republican candidates avoid that issue. Instead, they take Marco

Rubio’s approach of saying that no discussions can proceed until there is more significant “border security.”

In light of those differences, we can cite a fourth development of the week, and the most recent one.

The June 6-June 12 issue of The Economist focused on “Why Lindsay Graham Matters.”

Noting that the Republican presidential field is “full of security hawks quoting Reagan,” The Economist concludes: “Mr. Graham’s really distinctive contribution could involve teaching more timid rivals how to advance sensible views on immigration, without being driven from office by the far right.”

How that discussion proceeds remains to be seen, but this long-leaning, conservative magazine joins analysts from both parties in concluding that a Republican candidate will not be able to win the 2016 presidency unless he receives 30 percent of the “non-white vote” (that includes Latinos and “Asians,” who even eclipsed Hispanics with 73 percent support for Obama in 2012).

A fifth item of note regarding immigration this past week was the decision by the New York Supreme Court appellate panel to approve the application to the State bar by a Mexicanborn man “without legal status.”

Accepting President Obama’s DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) initiative, the court concluded: “Mr. Vargas did not enter the United States in violation of the immigration laws on his own volition, but rather he came to the United States at the age of 5 at the hand of his mother.”

So far, at least two other states have admitted unauthorized immigrants to the practice of law. Making its way through federal court reviews is President Obama’s more recent DAPA executive initiative (Deferred Action for Parental Accountability).

All five of these developments during the past week are alert signals for the 2016 presidential election, and indicators of how candidates within both parties, and in the coming Democratic-Republican showdown, will position themselves. How they proceed — and who takes the oval office in 2017 — will shape the future of immigration in the U.S. (for those who are already here, and in determining the ways forward).

Michael D’Innocenzo Professor of History and The Harry H. Wachtel Distinguished Teaching Professor for the Study of Nonviolent Social Change, Hofstra University

Steps to be take to combat cyber attacks

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ot a week goes by without news of another high-profile cyber attack — Target, Sony, JPMorgan Chase, just to name a few.

Not even the federal government is immune. Just this week, the U.S. government announced that hackers had accessed the personal data of more than 4 million current and former federal employees. And earlier this week the Internal Revenue Service announced that individuals used stolen data to gain access to the tax returns of more than 100,000 people through an application on the agency’s own website.

It’s clear that information theft is a constant threat that impacts companies on a daily basis.

For every big, public incident, there are scores more that

go unreported.

Cyber crime is a broader problem that’s not confined to tech companies and large corporations. The risks are very real for all companies.

The truth is, if you possess personally identifiable information on a lone employee or single customer, you have a cyber exposure.

That data doesn’t have to exist on a network, either. These days, holding any personal information — even if it exists only on paper — presents a potentially costly privacy risk that falls under the cyber umbrella.

Loss can occur as a result of access to networks via stolen credentials or breaches, unsecured or lost mobile devices, or malicious email or Web links.

Regardless of your size or industry, adequate controls are

needed to minimize the risks to your sensitive data. Here are five steps you can take to strengthen your cyber risk management strategy: 1. Perform a risk assessment.

A critical first step in enhancing your data security is to identify system vulnerabilities and understand how your data is managed and secured. You should have a thorough inventory of the kind of information you have, how much of it you have and where you have it.

2. Educate your team. Everyone is accountable in managing cyber risks, including temporary workers and contactors. Implement a sound internal communication and training strategy on the protection and proper use of sensitive data, including how to recognize and report security threats. Integrate cyber security

into employee orientation, with an emphasis on the consequences of sharing passwords, falling for email phishing scams, exposing laptops and USB storage devices to theft, and otherwise neglecting to observe data security policies.

3. Know your vendors. When entrusting personal information to third parties, implement reasonable measures to ensure they have the capacity to protect this information. This means selecting only service providers that are capable of maintaining safeguards for personal information equal to or better than yours, and contractually requiring them to maintain such safeguards. You should also require your vendors to show proof of insurance to provide you with protection if they are the cause of loss.

4. Address portable devices.

Accidental loss and theft of laptops, smartphones and tablets are leading causes of compromised data. It is crucial to always encrypt these devices to render the protected information unreadable and unusable in the event of a breach.

5. Make sure you’re properly covered. Insurance is an important weapon in this war.

According to the Ponemon Institute, the average security breach costs organizations almost $200 for each record that’s stolen, or about $5.5 million for the typical company breach. A claim that size could cripple a business without adequate insurance coverage. Ideally, it never gets to that point.

Bill Spitalnick Roslyn

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A look on the li g hter si d e

Driving Miss Crazy without a driver Imagine that you are Cinderella, about to go to the ball.

Your slippers are flawless, your dress is perfection, and the fairy godmother is about to conjure your carriage. And here it is, pulling up — without either horses or mice. It is a driverless pumpkin, courtesy of Google, because…well, why not? If a pumpkin can be a carriage, why not a driverless one?

Yes, Google is busy inventing a self-driving car.

Now, imagine that you are a 50-something woman, who instead of a ball is on her way to a root canal.

After the laughing gas and other drugs, it might indeed be handy to have a driverless car.

That way there is something to collapse into, and say “Home, James” when you’re finished.

But once you are home, you still need a friend or relative to help you with ice-water and straws; with figuring out the correct next dose of pain-killers; even with finding the dentist’s number and calling it if you’re

bleeding too much.

None of this is part of the driverless car’s “portfolio.” It will be in the garage, sucking down electrons.

It won’t even wonder why it hasn’t heard from you when you’re stretched out on the living room floor, dead for two days, because nobody was looking in on you.

Back to Google. Let’s say they get their driverless car into circulation. How many problems does it solve?

There might be a future for these things as Driver Ed cars.

I would certainly have paid serious money not to have to sit there and smother myself while my children scared the living daylights out of me.

It’s certainly one up on Über!

(Does that make it Süper-Über?)

Instead of a car and driver who come when you call, it’s just… a car. No waiting for the car.

No worrying about how many stars to give the driver, or how many stars the driver gives

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A Look on the Lighter Side you. It’s never going to say, “She made me wait for ten minutes while she looked for her purse, and it was right by the door the whole time.

And boy, could she ever talk the hind leg off a donkey.

All she did was brag, brag, brag about her genius sons, and they’re both so good-looking, and here, if you don’t believe me, just wait till the light turns red and look at these amazing pictures! Yeesh, I thought I’d

never get rid of her!”

And best of all, no tip.

Hmmm…maybe it’s not such a bad idea, after all.

Google is so sure that these things will drive better than any human that they don’t even want to put brakes or a steering wheel in the car. (Just like those warnings on the back of appliances, saying, “No user-serviceable parts.”)

Of course the State of California isn’t going to let them get away with that — who would get into something that didn’t even have a cord to pull in case of emergency? “Where are you taking me? I don’t want to go to the auto show! Let me out!.”

You look for a steering wheel, but all you find is a happy face sticker and “In Google We Trust.”

I have a funny feeling that Google doesn’t actually want to waste these things on people, at all.

Just look at what they call them: “autonomous cars.” It’s clear that all they really want is

the cars — just the cars — roaming around on their own.

Of course, that might come in handy when you’re watching the finale of “Dancing with the Stars,” and you need a quart of milk for the morning. “Suber, we need some milk. Fetch.”

Except that all the drive-thru stores around here are gone, so who’s going in for the milk? And come to think of it, how is Suber going to refill its tank?

Do you mean to tell me that I’m still going to have to get out and gas up a car I can’t even drive? As my boys would say, That ain’t happening.

But here is my biggest question: Do you see Google executives sitting patiently in these things, waiting their turn to get on the freeway?

Or are they going to secretly program our driverless bumper cars to make way for them… them, and the Lamborghinis and Maseratis they’ll be buying with all the money we give them?

It’s driving me crazy.

from the d esk of senator j ack martins

Ed commish has chance for do over Summer is upon us and I can’t help but think back nostalgically to our youth. Those wonderfully long summer evenings, playing in the street with our friends.

You’ll recall that no matter the game, there was always the possibility of the magical “doover.”

There might be a quick meeting on the manhole cover just to build consensus, then someone would declare “do-over!” and so began a new game.

Children were and still are hard-wired to understand that sometimes even the most well thought out plans just get screwed up and that the best response is to start over with no fuss, no muss.

Several weeks ago I wrote that I was asking for a “do-over” of sorts for New York State education policy.

Common Core, the dramatic move toward more standardized testing, and poorly planned teacher evaluations have been

nothing short of a train wreck.

For six whole years we in Albany have tried repeatedly to correct, and negotiate, and cajole, and rework infinite details and for all our head banging all we have are anxious kids, angry parents, and uninspired teachers.

I think it’s more than safe to say that we aren’t going to fix this train while it’s in motion. What should be done is a moratorium period– a pause if you will — that allows us to regroup, keep what’s good, throw out what’s bad and start over from the beginning.

This new approach has authentic support among Republicans and Democrats alike in both the Senate and the Assembly but I will bluntly tell you that such action won’t be possible without a state education commissioner who can show true leadership, the kind that admits mistakes and stands up against the status quo.

That quality is incredibly

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rare though, especially in the face of such entrenched bureaucracies and it certainly wasn’t the position of former education commissioner, Dr. John King, who I routinely tangled with over these issues.

In that light, the New York Board of Regents has unanimously appointed Ms. MaryEllen Elia as the state’s new education commissioner.

Ms. Elia is a career educator who hails from Western New York where she taught outside

of Buffalo for 10 years before becoming superintendent of the Hillsborough County School system in Florida, a very large district that includes the greater Tampa area.

In 2015 she was named Florida superintendent of the year and was recognized as one of four finalists for National Superintendent of the Year.

Her reputation is one of inclusiveness and a willingness to listen to all stakeholders, a dramatic turnaround from Dr. King to be sure.

That being said I remain cautiously optimistic at best and I refuse to mince words.

While I welcome Ms. Elia and look forward to working with her, I want to go on the record from the outset as being in favor of dramatic change, change that will most certainly make her job difficult.

But should Ms. Elia be willing to take on the powers that be, should she be willing to roll up her sleeves and begin

the tedious work of rebuilding, she can count me among her allies along with the millions of children, parents and teachers who look to her with great hope.

Ms. Elia, you have extraordinary opportunity to shape the education experience of hundreds of thousands of young New Yorkers and to help them love to learn.

You have the opportunity to build a system that recognizes that no one loves these children more than their parents which makes them educators in their own right, with real and valuable input. You have the opportunity to inspire thousands of present and future teachers and to help them to again find honest fulfillment in their efforts.

The ball is yours and we’re all right here, waiting at the manhole cover.

We just need you to yell, “do-over!”

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Get government out of railroad biz

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ome Democrats claim that even though Congress spent well over a billion taxpayer dollars last year subsidizing Amtrak, it still wasn’t enough.

They point their finger at that horrific train crash with its numerous fatalities as if spending even more money would have prevented it. Then they blame Republicans for actually questioning increasing Amtrak’s bloated annual federal allotment.

This is truly a disgusting strategy by a group of Liberals intent on finding a scapegoat and avoiding any real discussion into the efficacy of our billion dollar yearly infusion into this railroad. Blame Amtrak itself! Not the Republicans!

Was it their engineer ? Or their budget priorities? Or their bureaucratic incompetency?

Remember, considering our massive subsidies, Amtrak has more than enough money in their present budget to provide us with a safe ride, on time scheduling, and clean railroad cars.

Is not needing federal assistance anymore and streamlining its business operations too much to expect? From the Democrats

point of view, I guess it is.

From its inception, Amtrak was supposed to be a publicly funded railroad service, operated and managed as a “for-profit” corporation. They must be kidding!

Publicly funded? Yes ! For profit?

Never in a million years! At this point, we’d even settle for breaking even. It started in 1971 with $40 million dollars in direct aid and a $100 million dollar federal loan.

This “temporary” government bailout, has skyrocketed into a permanent $1.5 billion a year gift, each and every year.

Don’t blame the Republicans for this mess!

They are finally doing what any good parent does with an irresponsible, out of control teenager. Stop the excessive spending of our money, and ask for an accounting!

It goes to show you what happens when government tries to run a private enterprise. You end up with a massive, unwieldy, out of control, bureaucratic monstrosity.

Here is second example of failure when government tries to remedy private industry.

We all had the “pleasure” of riding in a NewYork City taxis.

Many are filthy with smells that defy description. Air conditioning and heat ? An option!

We have grown to accept drivers who are rude, can’t speak english, don’t know the difference between Madison Avenue and Madison Square Garden and insist on using their own set of traffic rules.

Don’t you just “enjoy”your ride, when your driver cuts in and out of traffic, ignores the speed limits, stops where he wants, blocks traffic, rips off tourists, makes illegal U-turns and drops you off in the middle of the street?

We New Yorkers have learned to accept this nonsense.

After all, they are, like delicatessen waiters and meter-maids, unfortunately a part of New York City’s folk-law.

For decades, every New York City administration has attempted to straighten them out.

They have tried new laws, more rules and regulations, heavy fines, and spending enormous taxpayer dollars on a massive cityagency, the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

Any idea how much this city

agency is costing? $62.2 million dollars a year! Do you believe that?

Unfortunately, city cabs are just as bad now, as they were 10 years ago. Maybe worse!

His name is Gene Friedman and he is the “taxi king” of New York City.

Amazingly, he owns 900 taxi medallions (taxicabs) and at a value of $950,000 per medallion, it’s easy to figure out how rich he is.

After all, he has a monopoly and a captive audience. But not for long !

Help for the beleaguered commuter is on the way!

But not from the city or any other government agency.

After decades of attempting to improve the system, good old American capitalism and private enterprise finally took over.

No taxpayer money was spent.

No new laws were passed. No new agency was started. Nothing helped until a new private startup company came along in direct competition with the taxi industry.

“Uber” was born.

This new company has made an immediate impact. Only a click

away on your computer, they offer us clean, well functioning taxis, appreciative drivers, pick you up and drop you off, any time, any place.

They know where you are going and how to get you there.

They even tell you exactly when they will pick you up.

Pay by a credit card. So easy.

It’s amazing to me that anyone still uses those yellow cabs anymore.

Guess what ? They don’t !

Citibank is suing Friedman to foreclose on 90 of his taxis to recoup $31 million dollars he owes them in unpaid back payments.

“Not enough business.” he claims. “Not enough drivers”.

Easy to explain. They all want to work for Uber. Do you blame them?

Want to fix Amtrak?

Get the government out of the railroad business!

Sell it to Warren Buffett.

Want to improve our taxicab industry?

Look what good old American, free-market, capitalistic competition has done.

Dr. Stephen Morris DDS North Hills

VGN gov, trustees have Let allies step misled, betrayed residents up to fight ISIS

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came to this country from Ethiopia by way of other countries. I know other cultures and speak several languages besides English, but I came here because I am a natural champion of democracy. Where some immigrants leave their native lands and are still afraid when they come here, I am thrilled by the

possibility of always being able to speak my mind and vote for what I believe in.

Here in the Village of Great Neck, my husband and I have watched and listened to our neighbors and friends, and we have come to understand their feeling that they have been misled and betrayed by the village government.

Obamacare even worse than letter-writer thinks

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would like to add some information to Dr. Morris’ letter to Great Neck News in the June 5, 2015 edition.

1. The $750 billion dollar figure President Obama cited was taken from Medicare.

2. He said we would not lose our doctor — good luck with

that!

3. He wants to take the law into his own hands by funding states that are not in the exchange program. He actually thinks he can walk on water. He created the law, now he wants to ignore it.

4. Dr. Morris states that our

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eputy Secretary of We do not understand how in State Tony Blinken’s an American village, the elected announcement that officers can change the law so they “10,000 ISIS fighters can stay in power. have been killed by American airWe are voting for Pedram Bral, strikes in Iraq and Syria in the past Anne Mendelson, and Raymond nine months” left me skeptical.

Without boots on the ground, Plakstis on June 16. who and how were these numbers Mazi Melesa confirmed?

Do our drones and satellites Village of Great Neck have the technical capability to do this? It seems like only yesterday that Blinken’s predecessors, during the Vietnam War made similar pronouncements on the number of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed.

Like many in the Obama administration, they would claim we are turning the corner and winning the war was within our grasp.

Secretary of State John Kerry, congressman didn’t read the law before he signed it. Nancy Pelosi who served honorably in Vietnam, stated “Please pass this law so we knows better.

Both he and I, along with milcan tell you what’s in it.”

There is a perfect example of lions of Americans remember the outcome of that war, the loss of the binding leading the blind.

55,000 lives and hundreds of bilMorton Perlman lions of dollars.

History has a habit of repeatGreat Neck ing itself.

We have already lost several thousand lives and spent almost $2 trillion dollars over twenty years between Afghanistan and Iraq in unsuccessful attempts at nation building.

Let us not make the same mistakes again.

President Obama proudly proclaims we have a multi-national coalition in place to fight ISIS. Where are they?

We provide billions in military and non-military assistance to members of the United Nations, NATO and most Arab nations.

How many soldiers on the ground and aircraft have they provided to date?

If the United Nations, our European allies, NATO and neighboring Arab nations will not step up to the plate, why should we continue sending them billions?

These dollars may be better spent reducing our $18 trillion long term debt and solving our own problems at home.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Gov needed to protect against greedy biz

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enny Sweet was only 22 months old when he died.

The cause of death was his swallowing small magnets contained in plastic pieces from a toy building set. A toddler ingesting the plastic piece might have intestines which became twisted and a failure of blood reaching the vital organs. When confronted with allegations, the toy manufacturer denied any knowledge of instances similar to that of young Kenny, but ultimately withdrew 3 million sets of the life-threatening product.

The only problem was that these dangerous toys sat on store shelves for four months after the untimely death of Kenny Sweet.

When General Motors learned that 13 lives had been lost due to a defect in their ignition switches, they waited a decade to recall the 2.5 million vehicles affected.

When Bayer profited richly from the manufacture of toxic pesticides, they used the ill-got-

ten earnings to fund junk science research and to hire public relations experts to avoid culpability.

During the 2008 financial debacle, Bank of America sold $200 billion in defective mortgages and then received the fifth largest bailout under TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program.)

The American taxpayer shouldered the bailout costs and not one bank executive spent time in prison. It turns out that “too big to fail” morphed into “too big to jail.”

Each year 400,000 children join their families as migrant workers.

They put in 12- to 14-hour days and are subjected to serious injury, pesticide poisoning and heat related illness. Their fatality rate is four times greater than children working at other jobs.

On May 19, 2015, there was a massive oil pipeline disaster off the Santa Barbara coast. Thousands of dolphins, sea lions and pelicans died in the slick rivers of oil.

The pipeline that burst lacked basic safety features such as an automatic shut-off valve.

Plains All America, the company responsible, had over 175 violations in the past decade, while its CEO had a salary of $5 million the previous year.

What all these sordid incidents have in common is the failure to regulate the banks and businesses which are the culprits.

The lesson which corporate institutions learn is that they can get away with these nefarious practices.

Sadly, these are not aberrations.

On the contrary, they are commonplace, and hundreds of similar examples might have been cited. Why would otherwise decent and compassionate human beings commit such unethical acts?

The answer is the capitalist ethic.

Successful entrepreneurs know that the bottom line is

what counts . Businesses exist to make profits. Gordon Gecko in the movie “Wall Street” stated succinctly --- “Greed is good!”

Why do companies each year allocate huge sums for legal services?

Because they know that a few million paid to attorneys pales in significance compared to losses they are forced to pay by courts.

Five large pharmaceutical companies reported paying out over one billion dollars each in law suits. So why wouldn’t they consider it a prudent investment to spend a few million on legal fees?

One very honest executive admitted that annual allocations for legal expenses was just “the cost of doing business” The lesson to be learned is that the problem is systemic.

As long as America is an oligarchy with power vested in the hands of CEO’s, CFO’s, and politicians who do their bidding, we know for a certainty that deaths,

injuries, and environmental disasters are inevitable.

There are a few voices of sanity in the halls of Congress who understand the problem and posit solutions.

Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, is one of them.

She opines that “This country should not be run for the biggest corporations and largest financial institutions.”

The other is Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, who persuasively argues that “A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much while so many have so little.”

The question is…will we heed the counsel of these wise legislators or continue doing business as usual? The answer will determine our future.

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

Honor country by flying First Lady spoke old glory on Flag Day truth about racism

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he American Flag was originally adopted by a resolution by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.

Flag Day wasn’t official recognized until proposed by Congress and signed into law by President Harry Truman in 1949.

The week of June 14 is designated as,” National Flag week.” I therefore urge that the American Flag be displayed outside homes,

apartments, offices, businesses and stores throughout the United States.

We do this to honor all that our great nation represents, which is freedom, equality and justice for all. These principles and ideas are embodied in the American Flag.

We should do this also to show honor and respect for all our brave men and women who are serving our nation today. And also all those over the years who gave their lives

to preserve our cherished freedoms.

Our American Flag is the fabric of our country and by flying the American flag we can be reminded that we can prevail against all adversity.

So please fly the American flag on June 14 and remember this too: these colors of red, white and blue don’t run. Now God Bless America!

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

An apparent case of law enforcement ignoring laws

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n your issue of Friday, May 29, there was an opinion piece concerning the arrest of an alleged drunk by three police officers.

You wrote that a deal was made to reduce (possibly inflated) charges if the alleged drunk agreed not to pursue a brutality complaint against the police.

If your article is accurate, this represents a violation of a previous court ruling by the highest New York State court,

a decision that has been on the books for several decades.

The Court of Appeals ruled that if a District Attorney believed a reduction in the charge was merited, she could not constitutionally require the waiver by a defendant of the right to sue.

For years this ruling was followed in Nassau County.

Again, if your article is accurate, the actions in court are shameful.

The judge, the district attorney, the assistant district attorney, and the legal aide attorney are all to be chastised for depriving a citizen of a guaranteed constitutional right.

One might ask if they are aware of protections afforded citizens from gun toting authorities.

Marvin Zevin Village of East Hills

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generally ignore other letter writers’ comments about my contributions to the Great Neck News, but Rosanne Spinner’s comments in the June 5, 2015 issue require a rebuttal.

She references what I wrote about Michelle Obama’s Commencement speech at Tuskegee University.

She informs us …”I listened to it in its entirety with great interest….” I’m sorry Ms. Spinner, but that just isn’t true.

Had you been paying attention to her talk you would never have made blatantly erroneous statements such as the following: “Her claim of knowing how it feels to be thought of as part of the help when asked to reach for an item on a shelf for a shopper in a department store was a figment of her own imagination.”

No, Ms. Spinner. The First Lady never says anything about reaching up on a shelf for any item. Why would you fabricate such a fact?

I went back and replayed all 25 minutes and 35 seconds of the address and, around minute 19, she talks about two separate racist experiences she has endured.

First is being mistaken for the “help” at a social function, and second is having department store

employees keep a close eye on her.

Recounting these racist incidents is entirely appropriate.

Over the years I have had black students inform me how common the department store experience is.

One of them stated that when paying by credit card, she was asked to show a driver’s license.

She politely told the clerk that the white woman in front of her paid by credit card and did not have to present any corroborating document.

I don’t wish to be unsympathetic to Ms. Spinner.

I simply think we see the world differently. I have no problem identifying with Afro-Americans and I try to understand their plight.

Sadly, many whites believe the myth that, today, people of color have equal opportunities and that past inequities do not affect their outlook.

This is not the case.

The long history of slavery, Jim Crow, and second-class citizenship still adversely affects the psyches of black women and men.

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 55

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A Great Neck man is facing up to six years in prison after being charged Monday in six separate incidents of stealing packages left on people’s doorsteps in Queens, the Queens County District Attorney’s office said in a statement.

Yosek Loulai, 37, is charged with six counts of petit larceny, according to court documents. He was released on $6,000 bond or $3,000 bash bail and is due in court on July 30.

Between April and June, Loulai stole more than $800 worth of merchandise after it was delivered on doorsteps, according to court documents.

On April 1, surveillance footage showed Loulai taking a package with a pair of $111 women’s shoes inside it off a Fresh Meadows porch, according to court documents. Later that day, Loulai allegedly took another package off a another porch in Fresh Meadows that containing a bread maker, book on acupuncture and a

pain relief mat all valued at $140.

Then on April 8, he stole packages off two front porches, court documents said.

Loulai was first seen on surveillance footage taking a package with a $150 filter in it off a porch in Bayside, and later seen on surveillance footage taking a package with $130 worth of action figures in it off a porch in Oakland Gardens.

Loulai is also accused of stealing a package with a $183 toilet in it off a porch in Queens Village, according to a release from the Queens County DA’s office.

On June 3, Loulai was allegedly seen by a police officer taking a package off a porch in Bellerose that contained $135 worth of shirts, after which he was arrested.

Reach reporter Adam Lidgett by e-mail at alidgett@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x203 and on Twitter @ AdamLidgett. Also follow us on Twitter @ theislandnow and Facebook at facebook. com/theislandnow.

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BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O Four days before American Pharoah became the first racehorse in 37 years to win the Triple Crown, New York Racing Association Chairman Anthony Bonomo took leave from his post amid media reports his company secured a no-show job and benefits to state Sen. Dean Skelos’ son Adam.

Bonomo, of Manhasset, who runs the Roslyn-based Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers, wrote Gov. Andrew Cuomo last Tuesday requesting leave from his post amid the firm’s involvement in the extortion case against the former state Senate majority leader.

“I do not want to have recent events distract from the ongoing work of NYRA,” Bonomo wrote, according to published reports. “I wish you and NYRA continued success.”

Michael DelGiudice, the racing association’s vice chairman, assumed Bonomo’s duties in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.

Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers is not named in the indictment against the Skeloses, but various media reports have identified the firm as the malpractice insurer that allegedly supplied Adam Skelos with more than $100,000 in payments and benefits.

The Skeloses pleaded not guilty in

United States District Court last Monday to various corruption-related charges, including extortion under color of official right, the solicitation of bribes and gratitudes and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.

A spokesman for Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, the second largest medical malpractice firm in the state, said in an email to Newsday last week that “We are aware that the U.S. Attorney is investigating Dean Skelos and his son Adam. PRI is cooperating with the U.S. Attorney and has no further comment at this time.”

Bonomo, who was selected to run the NYRA in April, and his family are major political donors, having contributed to the campaigns of Cuomo, Skelos, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers, the second largest malpractice firm in the state, has also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and lobbying on behalf of malpractice-related issues, according to campaign filings and reports.

Reach reporter Bill San Antonio by email at bsanantonio@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x215 and on Twitter @ Bill_SanAntonio. Also follow us on Twitter @theislandnow and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

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Estates continues Playhouse hearing

By A d a m L i d g ett Village of Great Neck Estates trustees voted Monday to again continue a public hearing on a proposal to demolish the First Playhouse Theater and replace it with an apartment complex.

Village of Great Neck Estates Mayor David Fox said the owners of the First Playhouse Theater, First Playhouse of Great Neck Corp., requested to continue the hearing until the village trustees’ July 13 meeting. He said the developer is still waiting on plan approval from Nassau County.

Hearings on the First Playhouse have been postponed for months.

The chief executive officer of the First Playhouse of Great Neck Corp., Ely Sakhai, of Old Westbury, plans to redevelop the site with an apartment complex.

Sakhai also owns “The Art Collection” gallery at 39 Cutter Mill Road.

In 2004, an Old Westbury resident named Ely Sakhai pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in a 15-year art forgery operation that resulted in a 41-month prison sentence and $12.5 million fine.

The Ely Sakhai who owns the First Playhouse Theater said in an interview with Blank Slate Media that he is not the same Ely Sakhai who pleaded guilty to the art forgery, despite having an Old Westbury address.

Fox has said he was unaware of the

The First Playhouse Theater property in the Village of Great Neck Estates art forgery incident and was not aware of Sakhai’s background when the First Playhouse Theater proposal was introduced to the village, under the applicant name First Playhouse of Great Neck Corp.

He has said the board has not even communicated with Sakhai directly on the proposal, as the applicant’s representative in public hearings has been Jan Soleimani, identified as First Playhouse of Great Neck Corp.’s vice president.

Fox had declined to comment on whether an applicant’s criminal history

would influence a board’s decision on whether to approve a proposal.

“No one does background checks [on the application], ever – they just don’t do it,” Fox said at the time. “It’s not the policy of the village.”

In May, Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender sent a letter to the Village of Great Neck Estates highlighting the Plaza board’s concerns about the project, as the First Playhouse sits near the border of the two villages on Middle Neck Road.

While the First Playhouse is located in the Village of Great Neck Estates, the sidewalk in front of the property and the parking meters belong to Great Neck Plaza.

Celender said the Plaza did not want construction workers parking in on-street parking spots meant for shoppers. The Plaza, she said, has agreed to sell 15 parking spots throughout the village for construction workers.

Celender said during construction the sidewalk will be used as a staging area, requiring a temporary pedestrian walk area to be placed where some onstreet parking spaces are now.

She said the developers have agreed to reimburse the Plaza for the loss of about four to five spots.

Developers have also agreed, Celender said, to replace some of the trees that will have to be removed during construction.

She said she is hopeful redevelopment of the site will move forward.

“They’ve been working on that now over 10 years, seven years with the most recent application,” Celender said at a May Village of Great Neck Plaza trustees meeting. “We encourage them to move on with it and get it down.”

Celender said in May the property is an eyesore.

“Every day it sits vacant it’s a drain on our downtown,” Celender said. “It’s aesthetically very unappealing.”

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If the Parental Choice in Education Act becomes law, I can easily envision the scene on January 1, 2016: 50 billionaires huddled together with accountants, frantically making out waiver forms to secure a $1 million tax credit, saving $750,000 apiece on their taxes.

That’s because only the first $50 million in “donations” will be eligible for the tax credit and if more than the $50 million comes flooding in, they will only get a ‘prorata’ break, though the schools and charities can get an unlimited amount of money.

Before that, there will be a flurry of hundreds, even a thousand of newly formed 501(c)3s — perhaps an individual Catholic school or Yeshiva, or the Diocese, or a private school — to gratefully accept any and all “donations” which of course will go to scholarships.

Except for a requirement that only 10 percent go for “administration”, the other 90 percent has to be spent in a single year. But the law does not exactly provide for “oversight.”

And who get these scholarships? Poor kids? Or the poor little rich kids, whose parents will now find a way to turn a $25,000 “tuition” into a $50,000 “donation,” paying for two kids and still be ahead?

And who is benefitting?

You only have to look at who is is funding an expensive campaign — TV ads, robocalls.

These come from the Coalition for Opportunity in Education — in partnership with Students First and Families for Excel-

lent Schools (both for-profit charter-school olic Church that keeps him in the Church’s advocacy groups) — funded by six hedge- favor instead of excommunicated because of fund managers who are also big contribu- his backing of a woman’s right to choose.

And what a tax incentive. tors to Cuomo and, incidentally, have a stake Let’s say you donate $1 million to your in privatizing education.

The commercials promoting New York’s child’s parochial or private school’s “scholarship fund,” because it’s a tax “Parental Choice in Education credit (not a tax deduction) Act” are the feel-good variety. that’s worth $750,000 less They suggest that there tax you pay to the state, and will be a flood of money into $750,000 less into the state’s public schools to finance such coffers. That means the rest of things that have had to be us schmucks have to make up cut, like art, music and sports the difference — or not. programs (why were they cut “These bills divert hundreds in the first place?) and teachof millions of dollars away from ers will be able to get reimKAREN RUBIN public schools and services,” bursements (up to $10 milPulse of the Peninsula says the Alliance for Quality Edlion worth) when they have ucation, consisting of dozens of to go into their own pockets for school supplies (why do teachers have organizations representing education advoto pay out of their own pocket for school cates, religious and labor organizations and supplies?). But to say that is dishonest, is an parent groups. “Worse yet, this legislation does nothing to help low wealth, high-need understatement.

The bulk of the tax credits basically ben- students, or middle or low-income donors. efit parochial schools and private schools — Rather, it would allow the wealthy to avoid by diverting money that otherwise would go their tax liability while withholding the taxes they owe to support the public good. to the state (that is, the public).

“We cannot continue to divert resources The Education Tax Credit would not only shift funding from public schools into from our schools, communities and public private and parochial schools, but further services, while we ask our schools and stuincentivize a mass exodus away from public dents to raise standards and reach higher schools, leaving only the poorest and needi- expectations.

“New York’s public school children are est with the fewest resources.

Parochial schools could conceivably still owed $4 billion under the Campaign for slash tuitions altogether, in favor of “dona- Fiscal Equity lawsuit and $1 billion under the tions” so that families could basically take a Gap Elimination Adjustment. How can huntax credit — that is Cuomo’s gift to the Cath- dreds of millions of dollars in tax giveaways

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“The introduction of this proposed scheme would create an annual funding battle between public and private schools and a never-ending debate over expansion of such credits.

“The state Constitution also prohibits direct or indirect financial aid to private schools that are under the control of a religious denomination or where religious tenets are taught and mandates an adequately funded public school system. Private schools, their curriculum, and their funding structures are a choice.

“Public education is a constitutionally mandated function of state government, obligated to serve all children and accountable to all voters.”

Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (which is also in the Alliance) was even more direct in a letter to the New York Times “The right to a meaningful public education is at the core of our democracy, and educational opportunity must be available to all children on a fair and equitable basis, no matter how poor they are, no matter what their educational needs are, and no matter their race, religion or sexual orientation.

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BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

A desk clerk at the Town of North Hempstead’s Yes We Can Community Center in New Cassel was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing cash from the center’s safe.

Barbara Jean, 37, of New Cassel, was arraigned Friday in First District Court in Hempstead on grand larceny charges, police said.

Authorities said Jean removed three deposit envelopes from the

center between April 7 and May 22.

It was not determined how much cash was stolen from the center, located at 141 Garden St. Named after President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, the 60,000 square-foot Yes We Can Community Center opened in 2012.

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Eternal con takes center stage on l.I. Long Island Comic Con will return to Nassau for the third consecutive year, on Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14.

Eternal Con 2015 will once again takeover three floors of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, with more than 250 tables of pop culture madness.

Eternal Con brings together comic books, collectibles, gaming, sci-fi, cosplay and horror. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 13 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 14.

Eternal Con’s organizers will once again raise funds to benefit several local charities, including the Nassau County Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged. Operated with private sector donations, the Games provide differently-abled young athletes the unique ability to compete in the annual weekend of competition, with friends from across the State of New York.

“I invite all residents to visit Eternal Con 2015 – the largest pop culture event of the summer,” said County Executive Ed Mangano. “This special two-day event of fun also raises funds to benefit young athletes who compete in the Nassau County Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged.

I thank Eternal Con for their corporate generosity.”

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NASH FM’s Last Summer Blast Starring Kristian Bush & Gloriana Saturday, Sept. 19, 5 p.m.

Doo-Wop Concert Benefitting the Victory Games Challenge ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 • http:// aupac.adelphi.edu/ Saturday, June 13, 7:30 p.m.

The Conducting Workshop and Concert: From Classical to Contemporary Sunday, Aug. 2, 2 p.m.

San Francisco Opera’s Show Boat The madison theatre at molloy college 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.

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Saturday, July 18, 8 p.m.

10th Annual Long Island Comedy Festival

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Port Washington art guild to hold classes The Art Guild of Port Washington will be holding classes for children and adults this summer.

• After the pool or beach, kids can join us for Artful Afternoons - Children’s Art Studio (ages 8-12), Wednesdays beginning July 15, 4:30 - 6 p.m. with Nicole Thomas.

Thomas is an experienced art teacher who works in the Sousa and Salem Elementary Schools in the Port Washington School district. She will have projects planned emphasizing painting, drawing and more.

Students will explore different media and projects may include still life, self-portraits, learning perspective and working from their imaginations. Emphasis is on fundamentals of art in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Students should wear old clothes to class.

• Drawing and Painting for Adults (all levels) will be taught by award winning artist and instructor, Barbara Silbert on Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. beginning July 9. This class is for anyone who likes to draw and/or paint in oils, acrylics or pastels. Students will work from a still life, do portraits, figures and landscapes. Weather permitting, the class may be held outdoors at Elderfields.

• A one or two-day workshop for adults, Plein Air Landscape Painting with artist Howard Rose, will be offered on June 13-14. Rose will show students how to start a landscape painting in oil going from major shapes to smaller ones. Review simple mixing techniques using three to six col-

ors and discuss the elements that go into creating a good painting. Paint outdoors, weather permitting, on Elderfields’ lovely grounds or bring photographic references.

Artists bring their own portable easel. Some easels are available at The Art Guild.

• On the second Thursday of the month beginning June 11 from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m, The Guild offers Sip & Sketch. We provide the model – you bring your pencils, pastels, charcoal or paint. Model (clothed or nude) will take a variety of timed poses from short to long. Bring a beverage of your choice and a snack if you wish. Easels are available. This relaxed, non-instructional evening is $15 per session, pay-as-you-go, reservations required – please call or email.

(Sip & Sketch will also take place on July 9, August 13, September 10, October 8).

Registration forms as well as information regarding class descriptions and fees are available on The Art Guild website at www.theartguild.org or by calling (516) 304-5797.

The 2015 Members Showcase, featuring work by more than 50 members of The Art Guild is hanging the galleries at Elderfields until June 28. Gallery hours are Saturday-Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment.

The Art Guild is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization located at Nassau County’s Elderfields Preserve, 200 Port Washington Blvd., Manhasset For more information please call (516) 304-5797 or visit www.

TheArtGuild.org.

Art Guild Instructor Nicole Thomas (l) and Co-President Ilene Silberstein (r) at PortFest, May 16, at Schreiber High School.

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Photography exhibit, contest by art league The Art League of Long Island’s latest photography competition and exhibit revisits, after 60 years, the legendary exhibition curated by Edward Steichen.

“The Family of Man” (January 24-May 8, 1955) was composed of 503 photographs grouped thematically around subjects pertinent to all cultures, such as love, children and death.

The photographs included in the exhibition focused on the commonalities that bind people and cultures around the world and the exhibition served as an expression of humanism in the decade following World War II. In this global period of cultural alienation and radicalism, the Art League

asked photographers to look again at the commonalities that bind us as the human race.

Of the 323 works submitted, juror Rick Wenner selected 60 photographs for exhibition in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery.

The exhibit is on display June 13 through July 12. The opening reception takes place June 13 from 1 to 3 p.m..

The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery is open free of charge Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Art League is located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills. For more information call (631) 462-5400 or visit www.artleagueli.org.

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Photos clockwise from top left: heavenly tears of Joy by Robin Appel (Glen head). Just landing after being in sandstorms in iraq, the skies open to a very welcomed rainstorm homecoming. the Death of Mohammed V by Spencer Ross (huntington). Outpouring of grief at the funeral of Mohammed V, much loved King of Morocco, who died suddenly in 1960.

Prayer by yossi (Joseph) Manor (Coram).

Special Delivery by Deidre Elzer-Lento (Dix hills).

From Generation to Generation by Alissa Rosenberg (Commack). Another photo from the series with the photographer’s grandfather and nephew. this was taken a year before his passing when he was 93 years old. he was a holocaust survivor.

Community Calendar ProJEct InDEPEnDEncE suPPort & socIAl GrouP The Town of North Hempstead’s Project Independence would like to remind residents that they offer free support and social groups. Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information.

ProJEct sAFE sEMInAr The Town of North Hempstead will be hosting a Project SAFE seminar on Thursday, June 11, designed to educate seniors

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The seminar will be held at Shelter rock Public Library, 165 Searingtown road, Albertson from 1:30 to 3 p.m..

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Great Neck Library Marion Blumenthal Lazan: Her Holocaust Story Four Perfect Pebbles Author Talk/Book Signing presented by the Great Neck Library Hosted by Temple Beth-El of Great Neck Join Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Holocaust Survivor, for a message of perseverance, determination, faith and hope on Sunday, June 14 at 7 p.m. at Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, 5 Old Mill Road, Great Neck 11023.

Marion will discuss her award-winning memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story co-authored

by Lila Perl. Marion’s is a moving first-hand account of the Blumenthal family’s life in Germany from the events preceding Kristallnacht to imprisonment in concentration camps to liberation in April of 1945.

Mrs. Lazan was 11 years old when the family finally gained its freedom. Her presentation goes beyond the facts. She stresses the importance of positive thinking, creativity and inner strength to overcome adversity. It asks the audience

to be tolerant of others and not stereotype individuals based on religious belief, color, race or national origin.

She warns her listeners to be true to themselves and not blindly follow-the-leader.

Today’s generation is the last generation to hear a first-hand account.

Marion Blumenthal Lazan is an inspirational speaker whose unforgettable memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. She has been speaking out publicly about the Holocaust since 1979 at schools, organizations and other venues in the United States and all over the world. Upwards of one million students and adults have heard Marion’s story, told in person. Many schools are using Marion’s memoir in the study of the Holocaust.

Four Perfect Pebbles is in its 20th printing in hardback, with a total of over 500,000 copies in all editions in print. It has been translated into Dutch, German and Japanese.

Marion will sign copies of her book, which will be

available for purchase. Her website is www.fourperfectpebbles.com. Temple Beth-El parking is located on Old Mill Road near the side entrance of the Temple. This is a presentation for all ages.

The Honeymooners: Jackie Gleason and Company Presented by Keith J. Crocker at Station Branch Join Keith J. Crocker for a delightful trip down memory lane as he talks about The Honeymooners, America’s most beloved television show on Monday, June 15 at 2 p.m. at the Station Branch Library, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck shopping center.

Keith will discuss the career of actor, comedic-genius Jackie Gleason and his entourage Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph, and tell behind-thescenes stories. The classic series aired from October 1, 1955 to September 22, 1956. Enjoy a 16mm showing of a rare Honeymooners episode entitled Hello Mom, which aired on December 3, 1955. Keith Crocker is a film historian, filmmaker and director.

Board of Trustees Meeting The Great Neck Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Parkville Branch Library, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park.

All are welcome.

Join Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Holocaust Survivor, at Temple Beth-El of Great Neck when she presents a message of perseverance, determination, faith and hope. She will sign copies of her book, Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story co-authored by Lila Perl.

Film at Station Branch All film matinees are now held at the Station Branch while the Main Library prepares for renovations. The next film will be shown on Thursday, June 18 at 2 p.m. at the Station Branch, The Gardens at Great Neck, 26

Film historian Keith J. Crocker will talk about Jackie Gleason, his entourage and the beloved television classic The Honeymooners at the Station Branch Library.

Great Neck Road, 2nd level (above Waldbaum’s).

Refer to the Library Newsletter, film brochure or website for information on the films scheduled. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Arrive early as seating is limited.

Priority seating is given to Great Neck School District residents. Please bring your Library card, driver’s license or other ID showing your Great Neck School District address.

Interviewing: Know Yourself, The Job and The Questions With Career Coach Stan Broitman at Station Branch Career Coach Stan Broitman will present Interviewing: Know Yourself, The Job and The Questions for job seekers on Thursday, June 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Station Branch Library, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck shopping center.

This workshop is a comprehensive review of the inter-

view process. Learn about answering the three types of questions: traditional, behavioral, and personally challenging. Stan will review the weakness question. The three P’s of Interviewing are: Prepare, Practice, and Perform.

Registration is suggested, but not necessary. Phone (516) 466-8055, ext. 277.

Building Advisory Committee Meeting The Great Neck Library Building Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, June 18 at the Parkville Branch Library, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park.

All are welcome.

Seeking Prospective Candidates Library Board of Trustees and Nominating Committee At the end of January 2016, terms will expire for one four-year seat on the Board of Trustees (currently held by Francine Ferrante

Krupski) and two three-year seats on the Nominating Committee (currently held

by Stacee Bernstein and Andrew Dorf).

The Nominating Committee invites members of the community, who wish to be considered as candidates for the above seats, to send a resume and letter so stating by June 15, 2015 to: The Chair of the Nominating Committee, c/o The Director’s Office, Great Neck Library, 159 Bayview Ave., Great Neck, NY 11023. If hand delivering, please bring to the Station Branch Library at 26 Great Neck Road, Great Neck NY, 11021 in the Gardens at Great Neck Shopping Plaza.

Any nominee for a position on the Board of Trustees or the Nominating Committee must be a member of the Great Neck Library Association or a registered voter with the Nassau County Board of Elections by the Record Date of October 5, 2015.

Great Neck Community Calendar FREE ESL/CITIZENSHIP CLASSES Free access to legal counsel at St. Aloysius R. C. Church, 592 Middle Neck Rd. Great Neck. Classes run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register, please call (516) 867-3580.

ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL Great Neck Episcopal Ministry

welcomes all to the 99th Annual Strawberry Festival .

The festival will be held on the grounds of All Saints Episcopal Church, 855 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, on Sunday, June 14, from 12 to 5 p.m.

Come for activities, food, and fun! Have a pet? Bring your furry friend and enter the 2nd annual SuperPet contest. The most super pet wins a prize.

Enjoy a tea tasting and then

stick around for a Korean music workshop and live jazz performance. The Food Court, the Book Nook and Thrift Shop will be open. And, of course, let us not forget about those delicious strawberries and shortcake. For more information,call The Reverend Deacon Connie Lorenz at (516) 482-5392.

19TH ANNUAL BLESSING

OF THE FLEET Celebrate the beauty of the Steppingstone waterfront, learn about the various activities available and view the parade of boats in the 19th Annual Blessing of the Fleet, Sunday, June 14, at 11 a.m.

For vessels of all sizes and types – power, sail or even self-propelled. Jet skis, kayaks, daysailers, fishing boats and cruising vessels are in-

vited to participate. In addition to local mariners, there will be official vessels from New York City, Nassau County, the Town of North Hempstead and the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Vessels will rendezvous north of the mooring field in preparation for the parade of vessels.

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TUESDAYS WITH REAP REAP, retired, energetic, and active professionals meets Tuesday, June 16 at Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck,. At 9 a.m., various members of the group will discuss Significant Issues. At 10:30 am the Business Meeting takes place.

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L. Success lawyer Unknown animal named bar president spotted in G.N.

BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O East Hills resident Steven J. Eisman, a partner at the Lake Success law firm Abrams Fensterman, has officially been installed as the 113th president of the Nassau County Bar Association.

Eisman, who has chaired numerous committees within the county’s legal community, will serve for one year in succeeding John P. McEntee, whose term ended on May 31.

“It feels good to have gotten here. I know we have a lot of work ahead of us,” Eisman, a county bar association officer for the last five years, told Blank Slate Media after he was named its president-elect last summer. “Each year has been a fair amount of work.”

In a news release from the bar association, Eisman said he would focus on sustaining the bar association’s financial stability as well as its headquarters in Mineola, and seek to unite young lawyers and judges in ways that would ease their relationships in the courtroom.

A senior litigator of matrimonial law, Eisman co-chairs Abrams Fensterman’s divorce and family law practice and has

extensive experience in divorce cases involving child custody and high net worth.

“The fascinating thing about being a divorce lawyer is that you learn so many different kinds of businesses,” he said. “I have to be an expert in whatever business my client or my client’s spouse is in. It’s certainly a stressful practice. You’re dealing with people’s lives.”

Eisman graduated from C.W. Post in 1976 and St. John’s University’s School of Law in 1979. He was admitted to the bar in 1980.

In the 1990s, Eisman served as lieutenant governor of the New York District Kiwanis International and has served as its counsel for more than two decades.

He is past president of the Nassau County Jewish Lawyers’ Association and of the St. John’s Law School Alumni Association’s Nassau County chapter.

Eisman is also a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, delegate-at-large to the executive board of the New York State Bar Association’s Family Law Committee and is a member of the state bar association’s matrimonial committee and New York Family Law Inn of Court.

SAFEGUARD YOUR ASSETS

By A d a m L i d g ett What appears to be a fox has been spotted in a Village of Lake Success, but the wild animal didn’t cause much concern to the owner of the property.

Linda Handsman, a Village of Lake Success resident, sent photos of what she believes is a fox to the Great Neck News.

She said sometime last week she saw an animal that appeared to be a fox sleeping on a cushion on her back patio. She said she has seen it maybe three times at her house in total.

“My first thought was that it was a fox,” Handsman said. “It just sits there and if someone disturbs it, it runs.”

Handsman said the fox looked very scraggly, as foxes molt their fur at this time of year.

“I kept thinking something was going to happen to the cats outside,” Handsman joked. “I wasn’t scared though.”

She said she sent the photos of the fox to the Village of Lake Success Police.

She said when after looking at the photos, police were not 100 percent sure it was a fox.

Handsman said she knew foxes lived

on the Lake Success Golf Club course.

Ken Parker, a Nassau County Police officer, said he has not heard of any complaints about foxes or coyotes in the area.

An officer at the Third Precinct said they have not fielded any complaints about foxes, and that it isn’t a high priority for them.

Photo courtesy of Linda Handsman

What appears to be a fox was spotted in a Lake Success backyard.

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Firm selected for septic investigation

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

septic systems in various North Shore communities that officials said are responsible for the A White Plains firm has been contamination that has closed a selected to investigate private Glen Cove beach for more than

five years.

Dvirka and Bartilucci will spearhead a feasibility study for sewage management options in areas located near Hempstead

Man arrested for allegedly stealing from hospital

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO A 24-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing cash and an Amazon Kindle device from St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn last Sunday while disguised in a pair of scrubs.

Sean Thomas faces burglary charges for allegedly entering

the hospital’s closed cardiac imaging area and taking a master key and identification card from a nurse’s station, giving him access to a nearby lounge where he was able to change.

Hospital personnel noticed Tuesday that the items and cash were missing, police said.

The subject was later identified in surveillance video by hospital security.

Photographs provided by police depict a man believed to be Thomas wearing a patterned short-sleeve shirt, jeans and white headphones as well as hospital scrubs.

Thomas was charged with 3rd degree burglary and two counts of 4th degree criminal possession of stolen property. He was due to be arraigned Thursday in First District Court in Hempstead.

Harbor that are not protected by public sewage systems, among them Glen Head, Glenwood Landing, Flower Hill, Roslyn Harbor, Sands Point and Sea Cliff.

Cesspools from these areas likely caused the contamination that closed Crescent Beach in Glen Cove in 2009 and ended shell fishing in the area, officials said.

“I am pleased that the county is moving forward with this important study. This study will give homeowners and sewer districts the tools to make appropriate decisions,” Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) said in a statement. I look forward to working with the mayors to use the information determined by this study to protect the harbor and aquifer.”

North Shore residences make up the 10 percent of households and businesses in Nassau County

that not connected to public sewers, officials said.

Untreated water containing bacteria and nitrogen — which in the past was believed to be naturally absorbed into the soil — has been known to make its way into nearby bays and aquifers due to high ground water levels, changes in ground water movement and poorly-designed septic systems, officials said.

“This is exciting news,” said Eric Sewnson, executive director of the Hempstead Harbor Committee, which partners with protection committees for Manhasset Bay, Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor and Friends of the Bay to form CESSPOOL, also known as Coordinated Environmental Solutions to Septic Problems Occurring on Long Island.

“The county study will give the CESSPOOL program and our committee some solid data to work with,” he added.

Mineola vets inducted into hall of fame

By J a m es Galloway Tom Scardino could see the smoke rising from the Utah Beach sand, blurring the view of the bunkers flowered with German machine guns about a football field back from shore.

Looking into the eyes of the soldiers with him in the landing craft on June 6, 1944, Scardino said he made his peace.

“I said my prayers fast and accepted death,” Scardino, a Mineola resident, said of D-Day. “Everything was quiet. We just looked at each other. Nobody opened their mouth except the sergeant, and all he said was get up that effing hill.”

“I ran up that hill like you wouldn’t believe,” Scardino said.

A little ways back, Ray Vaz, also a member of the 90th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, prepared for his turn to sprint up Utah Beach.

And 70 years later, as Scardino and Vaz were inducted together into the New York State Senate’s Veterans’ Hall of Fame, Vaz gave his close friend the DDay credit he was due.

“He should have cleaned up that place (before I got there),” Vaz said. (Scardino affectionately called Vaz a “pain in the ass.”)

State Sen. Jack Martins (RMineola) inducted the two Mine-

Senator Martins (second left) congratulates Tom Scardino (seated left) and Ray Vaz (seated right) on their induction into the New York State Senate’s Veterans Hall of Fame. Family and friends joined them at the event. ola residents into the Hall of Fame last Friday, citing the veterans’ bravery and valor.

“Tom Scardino and Raymond Vaz are among the greatest of the ‘Greatest Generation.’ When our country needed them, they answered the call,” Martins said.

“Both men are heroes in every sense of the word and most deserving of this honor. Congratulations to Tom and Ray on being inducted into the New York State Senate’s Veterans’ Hall of Fame.”

For their service, both Vaz

and Scardino received Bronze Stars, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign, the World War II Victory Medal and Purple Hearts with Oak Leaf Clusters, signifying the two times each was wounded.

Scardino was shot in the hand during the Battle of St. Lo and hit with shrapnel while in the basement of the medical station surrounded by cognac.

“All I know is I was screaming. I was burning, and I just passed out,” Scardino said. “And

the next time I came to consciousness, I was on the beach going back to the jeep.”

During his rehabilitation process, Scardino, who moved to Mineola in 1975, began bowling and eventually became a professional bowler.

Vaz was shot in the leg by a German sniper during the Battle of Normandy and hit by artillery shrapnel while fighting to cross the Moselle River after liberating the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

Vaz said his memory of Buchenwald stays with him stronger than any other.

“There was a lot of things I can’t remember, and some that I can. But Buchenwald will stay in my mind forever,” he said.

“We walked into that miserable place, and there was nothing but people on the ground — dead people, alive people. Skin and bones begging us for water, but we couldn’t give it to them.”

Both Vaz and Scardino are active members of the Mineola Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion posts.

Though Vaz served in the 358th Company and Scardino in the 359th during the war, Scardino said the two didn’t meet until 60 years after D-Day, when Scardino saw an article about Vaz in the Mineola American.

“I never knew him or saw him and never heard of him. And when I saw the 90th Division, I called the Mineola American and they gave me his information,” Scardino said. “I called him the next day; we had lunch and from there on, we’re inseparable.”

At the induction ceremony, the two bickered over who should have footed that first bill.

“See that give and take?

That’s love,” Scardino said. “The romance goes on and on.”

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Plaza to host Asian-American cultural night The Village of Great Neck Plaza is pleased to announce it will be hosting its first AsianAmerican Cultural Night on June 16, at 8 p.m, at Firefighters’ Park (Jon’s Park), kicking off the Plaza’s first concert of the 2015 Summer Concert Series.

After a long winter season, Mayor Jean Celender is one of the many concert-goers who is looking forward to this first concert of the season.

“Having endured such a bitterly cold winter, it’s an exciting time in the Plaza as we are able to finally get back to Firefighters’ Park for what is sure to be a wonderful summer of music in Great Neck Plaza,” Celender said. “For our first concert of the 2015 summer, recognizing our rising Asian population, we are thrilled to be celebrating our first Asian-American Cultural Night, complete with traditional Asian musical and dance performances presented by the Asian-American Cultural Circle of Unity, as well as performances by Great Neck Plaza’s own, Community Church of Great Neck. It should be a great night, and we hope you will be able to join us.”

Providing entertainment with an Asian flair is the Asian-

American Cultural Circle of Unity, a Long Island-based nonprofit that seeks to build awareness and appreciation of the many different cultures represented in the area by hosting festivals, programs, seminars, exhibits, films and lectures.

The group will be presenting Shih-Hua (Judy) Yeh, a musical performer from Taiwan, who specializes in multiple Chinese instruments including guqin, guzheng, and nanguan chamber instruments. She will be playing the guzheng (Chinese zither) accompanied by a vocalist. Following Yeh’s performance, concert-goers will be treated to a lively and spirited performance by the Chinese Drum Ensemble from East Wind Percussion Music Academy.

Additionally, the first concert of the summer will see musical and dance performances choreographed by the Community Church of Great Neck, located at 2 Stoner Ave. Founded more than 100 years ago in May 1914, the Community Church has been the home to many congregants over the course of their history.

Since February 1998, when the Cornerstone Church merged

with the Community Church, the church has seen a steady rise in Asian congregants.

For the kickoff concert, under the watchful eye of Pastor Stephen Na and Musical Director Clai Williams, the Commu-

nity Church will be showcasing several musical acts and dance numbers performed by their congregants, both young and old.

In the case of inclement weather, the concert performance will be moved to the

Great Neck Social Center (80 Grace Avenue). Check with staff at the Village Hall on the day of the concert, visiti www.greatneckplaza.net or call (516) 4824500 after 5 p.m.

The Steppingstone Blessing of the Fleet Committee, a partnership between the Great Neck Park District, the Steppingstone Yacht Club and the Stepping Stone Sailing Club, invites the entire community to its 19th Annual Blessing of the Fleet on June 14.

The festivities take place at the dock in Steppingstone Park beginning at 11 a.m. (rain or shine).

The Blessing of the Fleet is intended to serve as a commemorative celebration marking the opening of the boating season. It provides the community with an opportunity to wish all mariners and vessels in the Steppingstone

Marina a season of fair skies and safe boating.

Greetings, benedictions and good wishes will be offered to the vessels that pass in review before the dock and to all vessels moored or anchored in the marina. Dignitaries on shore will include members of the local clergy, Great Neck and Nassau County officials and legislators and other community representatives.

The Blessing of the Fleet is open to all local mariners, from Great Neck and surrounding communities, with vessels of all sizes and types - sail, power or even self-propelled. There will be jet skis, kayaks, daysailers,

fishing boats and cruising vessels.

In addition to local mariners, there will be official vessels from New York City, Nassau County, Town of North Hempstead and the United States Merchant Marine Academy. The public is invited to participate in the good wishes and enjoy the spectacle.

This special day will also provide everyone in the community with an opportunity to learn about the various activities that take place around the Steppingstone Marina and to celebrate the beauty of the Steppingstone waterfront.

Blessing of the Fleet to kick off boating season

Historic Great Neck house to be honored Gloria and Norman Gersman always had an interest in antiques. So, when they had the opportunity to purchase a Great Neck house that dates back to the early 1900’s, they jumped at the opportunity.

The house, at 17 Arrandale Ave., needed extensive restoration to return it to its former grandeur. But their painstaking labor, lasting for several years, has made their house an anchor on the street of stately homes just off of Middle Neck Road, near Great Neck House.

Their 20-plus year effort to bring the house back to its original look will be recognized by the Great Neck Historical Society June 17, at 7:30 p.m. at Great Neck House, when they will be awarded the group’s first Outstanding Restoration Award.

The Historical Society’s annual meeting will also review the group’s accomplishments during the past year, including the conducting of an awareness campaign throughout the North Shore to draw attention to the condition of the Step-

“It is so gratifying when somebody cares enough to bring back a part of it.”

On hand to accept the award, in addition to the Gersmans, will be the daughter of Elaine and Saul Kessler, the previous owners of the house.

A 1910 U.S. census lists many houses along Arrandale Avenue, but Nassau County records show that the house was built in 1912. The original owner of the Victorian Queen Anne-style home was Mary and J. Fred Faigle, a prominent Great Neck resident, owner of Faigle’s Meat Market on Middle Neck Road, and a director of the Bank of Great Neck.

The house was sold by the Faigle family in 1952 for $23,500, and sold again in 1965 to the Kesslers. The Kessler family sold it to the GersThe stately home of Gloria and Norman Gersman on Arrandale Avenue will receive the Great Neck mans in 1994.

Historical Society’s first Outstanding House Restoration Award.

“We knew from the moment A business portion of the of the program including the we saw our house that this was ping Stones Lighthouse, their first walking tour of a part of meeting, which begins at 7 presentation, which begins at the one for us,” Norman Gersthe peninsula, and bringing the p.m., will elect new officers of 7:30 p.m. man said. “I would like to see “Great Neck has a very more older homes preserved.” history of Great Neck to many the organization and review the area organizations as part of a group’s bylaws. The community graceful past,” Historical Sociis invited to the public portion ety President Alice Kasten said. “speaking tour.”

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AvalonBay breaks ground in Great Neck Continued from Page 3 something on the site themselves, but soon realized they did not have the ability. That, he said, is where AvalonBay came into the picture.

“They were willing to come into the village and make it a centerpiece of the village,” Shapiro said.

“Ten years ago my father had a vision,” Len Shapiro said. “He wanted a development project we could all be proud of.”

The parcel the building will sit on is 3.85 acres once included six above-ground petroleum tanks, which were demolished in March.

Developers were required to remove contaminated soil from the site and treat any contaminated soil that could not be removed from the property.

AvalonBay hopes to have tenants moving into the building by fall 2016.

Len Shapiro said his father helped make the “dream” of AvalonBay a reality.

“In the words of Joe Shapiro, ‘gentlemen, job well done,’” Shapiro said.

Kreitzman described Jo-

seph Shapiro as a mensch, and thanked both the Shapiro family and the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency for their helping in bringing the project to fruition.

“I wish you a speedy construction, and another ceremony in two years,” Kreitzman said.

The IDA granted tax breaks to AvalonBay for the construction of the building.

Under an agreement with the IDA, AvalonBay will make $9,278,456 in payments in lieu of taxes to the village during the next 15 years.

The payment in lieu of taxes — known as a PILOT — will start at $95,000 in the first year and increase to $958,110 in the 15th and final year, according to the agreement.

Property taxes on the development would cost about $1 million a year.

Chris Capece, senior development director for AvalonBay, said at the time that if the IDA had not approved the tax breaks, AvalonBay would have looked to develop housing in other areas of Nassau County.

Nicholas Terzulli, director

of business development for the IDA, said after the project is completed, the tax benefit will be $8 million, and that the project will create 315 full-time construction jobs.

“This is a testament to the private and the public sector working together,” Terzulli said.

Capece said Thursday that without the help of the Shapiro family, the cleanup of the site and the “complex” construction could never be done.

Matt Whalon, senior vice president of development for AvalonBay, said the village trustees were tough but fair with the developers through the application process.

“From day one when we came in to talk to the mayor and trustees, we said we invest dollars in communities that appreciate our investment,” Whalon said.

He said once the project is finished, he “guarantees” it will be a remarkable waterfront community.

But not all residents are pleased with the project.

Sam Yellis, a Village School teacher running for Village of

Great Neck trustee in the June 16 elections, said in a statement that the AvalonBay project is a “perverted priority” for residents.

“I’m glad the century old Commander Oil site is being converted to housing at last,” Yellis said in the statement. “But how many local residents will be able to afford the $4,000 and $5,000 rentals AvalonBay will charge? Nobody I know would be able to live there.”

Yellis said there is a cry for affordable housing in the area, and that he wondered why trustees did not testify on behalf of Academy Gardens residents before the village Planning Board.

“This is just the typical behavior of the Better Government Party and its service to developers of all kinds,” Yellis said in a statement. “It’s time for a change.”

Yellis is running for village trustee on the Bridge Party ticket.

He is running against trustees Beckerman and Bass, both on the Better Government Party ticket, and Anne Mendelson and Raymond Plakstis Jr., both on

the Voice of the Village Party ticket. Kreitzman is running for village mayor on the Better Government Party ticket and Pedram Bral is running for mayor of the Voice of the Village Party ticket.

Kings Point Gate Associates, a management company based out of Manhattan, proposed two years ago to demolish the Academy Gardens apartment complex and replace them with market-rate units. Many of the tenants of Academy Gardens are low-income minority families who have said they could not afford to live in Great Neck if they were evicted from the apartments.

Queens College professor Andrew Alan Beveridge was hired by the village to determine if the proposed demolition of the rent-stabilized apartment complex, located at Middle Neck and Steamboat roads, and the construction of market-rate units in its place would be in violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which makes it illegal to deny residency to a person because of their background.

Great Neck teacher wins right to sue state Continued from Page 2 Department has a “take what you get mentality” when it comes to teacher evaluations.

The lawsuit was filed last year in Albany through her husband Bruce Lederman’s Manhattan firm D’Agostino, Levine, Landesman & Lederman, LLP. It names state education Commissioner John B. King Jr., Assistant Commissioner Candace H. Shyer and the department’s Office of State Assessment as defendants.

Bruce Lederman said a hearing in the case is scheduled for

Aug. 12 in Albany.

“It is my hope that out of that day we will get some of the information we’ve been looking for from the state Education Department in terms of what information they used, what data specifically they used to formulate scores for the teachers, because our contention is the whole model is faulty,” Sheri Lederman said.

Jeanne Beattie, spokesperson for the state Education Department, said the department does not comment on pending litigation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo drew the ire of parents, educators and administrators with his proposal to base 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation on standardized test scores, instead of the prior 20 percent base, saying current subjective evaluations let poor teachers skate by. The state would also use test scores to identify failing schools under his proposal.

But Cuomo dropped the 50 percent idea due to the backlash during state budget negotiations, and instead deferred to the state Education Department

to establish revised evaluation criteria, which will still incorporate test scores in some fashion — tests most administrators call deeply flawed.

State teacher evaluations are based on student performance on standardized tests, a series of locally set assessments and a variety of other benchmarks, including classroom observations.

According to the lawsuit, 72.2 percent of Lederman’s students in 2013-14 met or exceeded state standards in math and 61.1 percent met or exceeded standards in English, about twice

the state average for fourth graders. They scored slightly higher in English and slightly lower in math the previous year.

Great Neck Superintendent of Schools Thomas Dolan and E.M. Baker School principal Sharon Fougner have submitted affidavits in support of Lederman.

In his affidavit, Dolan wrote Lederman’s record as an educator is “flawless,” and that the district has not received an explanation for her score from Albany.

Biz owner wants to convert office space Continued from Page 10 June 17.

Trustees also voted to authorize RBA Group, an engineering and design firm, to do preliminary design work for the village’s Welwyn Road/Shoreward Drive Project, which looks to calm traffic in the area as well as beautify it.

The village agreed to pay $30,000 to RBA for preliminary design work and data collection.

Village trustees have already hired another group, Lockwood, Kessler & Bartlett, Inc., to do

design work on the project for $245,000.

Rosen said at the meeting that trustees thought it was important to get a second firm to give critical input on the project.

Celender called the approach to having two design firms a “design competition.”

She said while the village liked some of the proposals LKB made, they also liked some of RBA’s proposals.

“We wanted to have competitive design to get the best

possible preferred alternative,” Celender said. “The two firms will come up with designs, we will work out with how to mesh the two and then we will make presentation.”

Celender said the project is estimated to cost a little more than $1 million, but that the village got a Transportation Enhancement Program grant for about $838,000 from the state Department of Transportation for the project. The village will lay out all the money first, and be reimbursed later. The village

will pay for what the grant does not cover.

Celender said the project will include calming traffic in the area and adding new brick sidewalks.

Also discussed at the meeting was the possibility of a new apartment complex at 15 Bond St. Michael Sweeney, commissioner of public services for the village, said the proposed project is a multi-family residential dwelling and is set to have 60 to 62 units. It is proposed to have

four stories of residential apartments with a fifth story where a recreation room would be.

The project was first presented to the village trustees in May. The applicants, 14 Park Place, LLC, was set to present their plans to the village Board of Zoning Appeals June 10 Sweeney said the site is currently occupied by a one and a half story medical building, a parking lot and a two-family home. He said two people currently live there.

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Maragos calls for changes in IDA’s focus Continued from Page 1 just 37 percent of the exemptions through payment-in-lieuof-taxes agreements with businesses, less than the 59 percent recouped by Suffolk and the 67 percent in Westchester.

The $43,325,571 Nassau County issued in net tax exemptions — tax exemptions minus payments in lieu of taxes — was far greater than the $13,164,205 issued in Suffolk and $25,730,802 in Westchester.

Suffolk County reported that its tax breaks had created 14,080 net jobs and Westchester County reported that its tax breaks had generated 7,982 net jobs..

According to the state comptroller’s report, the Nassau IDA granted $23,611 in net exemptions per job, more than 10 times the state median, which the state comptroller’s office found to be $2,095 per job gained.

The Nassau County IDA did not immediately return a request for comment.

In a statement last week, Nassau IDA spokesman Alan J. Wax defended the agency’s performance, saying it focused its efforts in assisting 58 businesses affected by Superstorm Sandy the previous year.

Though it typically awards tax breaks in exchange for job creation and retention, Wax said the IDA in 2013 provided tax breaks to businesses shuttered by the storm that pledged to reopen in Nassau County.

“The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency works tirelessly to create new job opportunities to ensure that companies and their employees stay in Nassau County,” he said, touting that the IDA retained 12,771 jobs and created 3,886 jobs in 2013.

In his letter, Maragos cited a recent telephone conversation with Kearney in which the director was said to have disputed the accuracy of the job creation numbers in the state report and said that “updated NCIDA performance data” would be submitted to the county comptroller’s office by June 15.

A spokesman for state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli told Blank Slate Media in June 2014 that the 109 active industrial development agencies in villages, towns, cities and counties across the state voluntarily report their own data to Albany each year, but noted the figures may not always be completely accurate.

Jobs created and retained through IDA-supported projects were down across the state in 2013 while agencies approved more in tax breaks than they

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North High student paper wins 15 LI Press Awards North High School’s student newspaper, Guide Post, recently took 15 top Long Island Press Awards, including five individual first place awards and two group first place awards.

The 200th Anniversary Special Edition (84 pages in full color) took First Place for Special Issue/Magazine. Layout Overall earned a First Place and Online Site took a Third Place.

First Place awards went to Julia Kaluta and Julia Margalit for Layout/Single Page; Graelin Mandel for News Design; Ashley Radparvar for Q&A; and Deborah Soufian for both Arts Feature and Arts Review.

Danielle Ajodan and Won Jung won Second Place for Sports; and Ling-Ling (Sally) Bishop took Second Place for Column General.

Third Place awards went to Danielle Ajodan for School Feature; Keva Li for Government Local; Natalie Metaxas and Ashley Radparvar for Editorial; Joshua Nouriyelian and Alec Rich for Technology; and Matthew Wigler for Column School.

Guide Post’s faculty advisor is Jodi Kahn, journalism teacher and study skills department chair.

did the previous year, the state comptroller’s office found.

Businesses were granted $660 million in net tax exemptions, a $105 million increase, while jobs decreased by about 23,000 from year-to-year, according to the report.

DiNapoli in a statement accompanying his report acknowledged the impact industrial development agencies can make in generating economic development but called on local governments to increase oversight on the application process “so that taxpayers know if their community is receiving promised jobs and economic benefits.”

Maragos’ letter is the latest in a series of critiques from public officials on the scrutiny with which the county IDA reviews and approves applications and the benefits the tax breaks generate.

Members of the Mineola Board of Education recently opposed tax breaks and paymentin-lieu-of-taxes plans for both recently approved and forthcoming apartment buildings within the Village of Mineola, citing a potential hardship for the school district.

Village of North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss opposed a 20year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes plan on a luxury condominium that sought $4.6 million in tax breaks, but later agreed to a revised plan.

In 2013, the IDA dropped an application by the Bristal at North Hills for an extension of tax breaks following a firestorm of criticism by local officials objecting to a potential loss of revenue and lack of job creation, including Natiss, Great Neck and Herricks school officials and then Nassau County Legislator

Road repaving for Thomaston

By A d a m L i d g ett The Village of Thomaston will begin repaving some of its roads this week, according to a release from the village.

The repaving will begin June 15 and run through June 24. Roads that are being paved will include Schenck Avenue, Gilchrest Road, Susquehanna Avenue, Clent Road and a portion of Knightsbridge Road.

The village advises that all cars be kept off these roads during the repaving.

Great Neck Community Calendar Continued from Page 38 is Anita Bloom whose topic is, “German Expressionism.”

We have lunch together at approximately 11:45 am. Please feel free to bring your lunch and join us. At 12:30 p.m., there is a roundtable discussion of current events to be led by Irma Wolin.

Coffee, tea and refreshments are served. The Science club meets at 1 p.m. The Short Story Club will also be meeting.

DINNER & INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION Singles Connection 40+ presents speaker Kenneth J.

Landau Sunday, June 14, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Temple Israel of Great Neck at 108 Old Mill Road, Great Neck. $25 per person For information call Estelle or Cindy at (516) 482-7800. Dietary laws observed. Dress appropriately.

No jeans.

WOMANSPACE A discussion group devoted to issues concerning women.

Weekly meetings are held every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Great Neck Senior Center, at 80 Grace Ave, Great Neck. New members welcome. For more info call Joan Keppler at (516)

487-5844.

LIONS CLUB HEARING AID PROGRAM The Great Neck Lions Club is pleased to announce their participation in “Lions Lend An Ear,” a program of the Nassau County district of Lions Clubs International. The program provides hearing aids and related products and services at no cost to hearing impaired individuals who qualify based on financial need and communication need. Great Neck Lions Club is asking the local places that

accept donated eyeglasses to accept used hearing aids as well. Note: The hearing aids should be placed in the eyeglass collection boxes located in all the Great Neck Libraries as well as offices of the Village of Russell Gardens, Village of Great Neck Plaza and the Village Hall on Baker Hill Road.

FREE EXERCISE CLASSES Ongoing Program - FREE Silver Sneakers Exercise Classes For All Levels: Balance, agility, strengthening,

endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors. Monday through Saturday. Garden City, Roslyn and Great Neck.

Call for more details, including seeing if you are eligible and class times, (516) 745-8050.

LIONS CLUB OF GREAT NECK Lions Club of Great Neck meets the first Monday of each month at Pearl East Restaurant, 1190 Northern Blvd., Manhasset at 12 p.m. If you would like to attend a meeting and learn more about our club, please contact fernweiss@aol.

com or call (516) 829-5192.

ROTARY CLUB MEETINGS The Rotary Club of Great Neck currently meets every Wednesday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the boardroom of TD Bank, 2 Great Neck Road. Community residents and business members are welcome to visit Club meetings and discover how meaningful and satisfying it is to give back service to the community while networking through Rotary. For further information please see: www. clubrunner.ca/greatneck/ or call (516) 487-9392.

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Tax credit plan threatens education

Continued from Page 24 tion for all children. It is not about choice.

“It is about allowing hedge funds and millionaires to siphon money away from public schools to support their narrow idea of what education should look like.

“This includes private schools for the 1 percent, religious schools that can throw children out and dismiss teachers for having the wrong faith — or no faith — and privately owned and operated charter schools that operate without accountability and would turn our underfunded public schools into a dumping ground for New York’s neediest and most challenging students.

“Let there be no mistake: The New York Civil Liberties Union does not oppose private schools.

We do not oppose charter schools.

And we defend the right of religious groups to educate their children in accordance with their faith, instead of in the public schools.

“But subsidizing private and parochial schools at the expense of public education is fundamentally at odds with our democratic values, and using public funds for religious education breaches the separation of church and state.”

Cuomo’s new version of the Education Investment Tax Credit, renamed “Parental Choice in Education Act” would cost taxpayers $150 million a year: $50 million for Scholarship Organizations to Private/ Parochial Schools — this would require “donations” to be made to newly formed 501(c)3s, which would have to apply for a waiver; only the first $50 million would get the tax credit, and the credit would be apportioned on a pro-rata basis. If this sounds like a bonanza for a new version of SuperPACs, it should - 10% of the funds can be used for “administration” while 90% has to be apportioned in that year. $20 million for Donations to Public Schools — this can go to public schools, districts, school improvement organizations, local education funds for the purposes of supporting extended day, pre-k, sports and other programs for atrisk youth. This is what is shown in those feel-good commercials, about art, music and little league being restored (all the kids in the ads are “of color”).

A lot of these programs had to be cut by districts because of the property tax cap and cuts to state aid at a time of increasing mandates and high-stakes testing.

Question is: why would schools have to beg for money - why should budgets for art, music and sports be cut at all? there are over 4000 public schools — so that

works out to $5000 per school sure, that will work. $10 million to reimburse teachers at public and charter schools for buying supplies. this is the biggest affront — school budgets are cut so thin that teachers — who work for a living - have to go into their own pockets to pay for supplies. This would provide $10 million of the “donations” toward reimbursement. That teachers have to beg for money for school supplies is as handa (sin).

And what does $10 million mean?

There are 1 million public school students, so that works out to $10 each. $70 Million for tuition assistance for families — this provides up to $500 to parents who send children to Pre-K, elementary, secondary private or parochial school, but family income is limited to $60,000 “The issue isn’t how it benefits parochial schools, it’s how it benefits (or rather doesn’t damage) public schools,” Jake Adler, New York State policy director of the Orthodox Union, who wants to convince me that diverting public money to parochial schools will not harm public schools and that education spending now is a huge (disproportionate) amount, $32 billion, of the state’s budget ($150 billion). (What should cost $32 billion, when one-fifth of the population of the state is in school-aged?)

“There are tens of thousands of parents in this state who cannot afford simple tuition for their kids to go to the school of their choice — they are subsisting on private donations and largesse of the school, which is then losing money - begging, taking out loans,” he says.

So, the idea is that more people will be able to send their kids to parochial school? What will that do to public school? I ask.

Adler insists that the tax exemption would not trigger an exodus to parochial schools.

“The idea that parents are suddenly going to rush from public schools is erroneous,” he charges back. “99 percent of children are in private, nonpublic, parochial schools are for religious reasons - not for exclusivity or bourgeois reasons.”

But isn’t it true that private school provides a faster track into the Ivy Leagues, so parents might be incentivized to send their kids to those schools?

He insists, “public school budgets are increasing — as they should. Education is increasing.

This will not harm public schools, this will give new money to public schools, and allow students not in public school.”

But an op-ed in the New York Times by Merryl Tisch, New York Regents chancellor, “When a School Board Victimizes Kids,” provides a more fact-based map of what happens when parochial school population exerts control over the public school population (and here in Great Neck, about 20% of the school-age population attends parochial school): h t t p : / / w w w. n y t i m e s . com/2015/06/03/opinion/ when-a-school-board-victimizeskids.html?ref=opinion “The East Ramapo school board, dominated by privateschool parents since 2005, has utterly failed them,” she writes.

A report based on an investigation of the district’s finances “documented the impact of the board’s gross mismanagement and neglect. Since 2009, the board has eliminated hundreds of staff members, including over 100 teachers, dozens of teaching assistants, guidance counselors and social workers, and many key administrators. Full-day kindergarten, and high-school electives have been eliminated or scaled back. Music, athletics, professional development and extracurricular activities were cut.

“While slashing resources in its public schools, the school board vastly increased public spending on private schools.”

And the result was “dismal outcomes for East Ramapo students” - only 14% proficient in English Language Arts, only 15% proficient in math, and a graduation rate of 64%, well below the state average of 76%.

And here’s another fact: states have systematically been stripping public education of funding in favor of privatized education - that is the heart of Common Core, which becomes the excuse for highstakes testing, which is then used to justify shifting public resources to privatized alternatives, like charter schools, private schools, and yes, parochial schools. (See New York Times, http://www. nytimes.com/2015/06/06/us/ arizona-school-budgets-stretchedby-recession-politics-and-policy. html?_r=0 The New York Times (June 6) reported, “The needs of the nation’s schools have grown since the recession began: There are now 458,000 more students enrolled in public schools than in the fall of 2007.

But while total state revenues have mostly rebounded to prerecession levels, state education funding per pupil is still down 3.6 percent across the country, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan Washington think

tank.

“At least 30 states spent less per student this school year than in the year before the economic downturn began, and 14 states, including Arizona [one of the states that has instituted the Parental Choice Tax Credit], have cut per-pupil funding by more than 10 percent over that period.

“The drop is not simply a reflection of state economies still struggling to recover. Experts say politics and policy have also played a role.

“Of the seven states with the deepest cuts in education from kindergarten to 12th grade, six — Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Wisconsin — also cut income tax rates, leading to a series of vigorous protests and public disputes between lawmakers and educators that are still playing out.”

But while red states are more reliably the ones systematically undermining public education, what is unusual is that New York is a blue state (ostensibly).

You also can’t look at the tax giveaway separately from the property tax cap that Cuomo championed all of which shrinks funding to public schools — locally the funding is capped, and from the state, revenue side, they intend to reduce the “pot” of revenue available. And the outcome can only be to weaken public schools.

It is another step toward “privatization” — effectively pushing aside funding for public programs - (art, sports, music) to the (capricious) kindness of strangers.

But these “strangers” aren’t really strangers to Cuomo - the ones funding a multi-million dollar campaign for the tax cuts are the very hedge fund billionaires who gave so lavishly to his campaign. And lest you think this is altruism, their philanthropic side, what I have noticed is that while billionaires used to buy real estate and sports teams, now they get into the education business.

There is no sunset to Parental Choice and the fear is that once it is on the books, they will just increase the tax credit, raise the caps from $150 million (the initial version that increased over 3 years to $675 million).

Let’s be clear: there is nothing to stop a billionaire from giving a million dollars to his favorite school, educational or religious organization — you just don’t get to bilk taxpayers out of $750,000 that would otherwise go to the state for the public good.

Republicans love the Education Tax Credit — I mean, it shelters taxes from their donors and

provides the long-sought means to fund parochial education at the expense of public education.

As a result, it is likely to pass the Senate . In fact, versions of an education tax credit to benefit parochial schools have passed three years in a row.

The question is the Assembly, which is still in Democratic hands, and Democrats have traditionally stood up for public education. but this year Cuomo offered his own version of the tax credit, renamed it “Parental Choice” and made it part of his budget message.

I can imagine strong pressure on state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel to support such a move (she is listed as a sponsor of an early measure).

After all, about 20 percent of Great Neck school district students attend parochial school.

Those families seem to resent paying school taxes since, they say, they do not personally benefit. But that is not really the case, since school taxes also subsidize transportation, textbooks, school nurses at private and parochial schools - an average of $2,000 per student comes from public funds. (Isn’t it amazing how people don’t blink at $20,000 tuition for private and parochial schools, but they get hysterical if per pupil costs in public schools approach $15,000?).

In fact, out of $10.5 million spent on contract transportation, $4.5 million goes to transport Great Neck students to private and parochial schools. And that’s just transportation.

“We are proud to say these are our children also, and taxpayers,” school board President Barbara Berkowitz said at the budget review.

Schimel, had the courtesy to return my call asking for perspective on the proposed tax credit and convey her angst in deciding whether or not to support it; on the other hand, repeated calls and emails to state Sen. Jack Martins office over more than a week were ignored. The Senate Republicans are expected to easily pass the law. After all, it supports religion and cuts taxes while curtailing a public good.

I find it amazing that such an important policy issue — one that impacts the budget and sets a new course for education — could be swept up in the frenzy of end-ofterm mania. That seems a political ploy so that individual items don’t get the attention they should.

Let your legislators know you are paying attention. Tell them: Oppose this blatant, destructive giveaway.

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NS-LIJ patient saved by new heart implant tech A tiny implantable device in the heart is offering lifesaving help to patients at North Shore University Hospital who suffer cardiogenic shock following a heart attack. Such patients face a greater than 50 percent chance of dying because their heart can no longer pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs.

The device – the Impella RP – received FDA approval in January and was used for the first time in New York State on May 26 to save the life of a 74-year-old woman at Manhasset hospital. Had this been six months earlier, the patient’s outcome could have been much different.

“Options that were available prior to this were really drugs or surgical interventions with machines that take over the work of the lungs and heart.

These types of approaches took time and manpower when time was of the essence,” said Dr. Rajiv Jauhar, chief of Cardiology at NSUH. “The bottom line was many patients were too sick for these interventions and by the time we mobilized the surgical team it could take 2 to 3 hours and so we just tried to ride it out with just medications, and it didn’t really work in a majority of our patients.”

The female patient had a right-sided infarction, meaning the right-side of her ventricle didn’t move very well and had a hard time pumping blood into the lungs to get oxygenated. She also had a blocked right coronary artery and dangerously low blood pressure.

“What the Impella device does is it has a motor on it which takes blood from the large vein outside the heart and forces the blood into the lungs,” said Dr. Jauhar. “It essentially bypasses the right ventricle completely. “ Dr. Jauhar, along with Dr. Perwaiz Meraj, an interventional cardiologist, and an advanced hemodynamic team implanted the device through a catheter requiring only a small hole in her leg.

The device can stay in a patient for up to 14 days, as the heart begins to stabilize on its own.

“She got markedly better within a matter of a few minutes,” said Dr. Jauhar, who also put a stent into her right coronary artery to open it. “This is a dramatic innovation because it allows an interventional cardiologist to take care of very sick patients under dire time constraints to fix a blockage and also support the patient in the critical phase that they are in.”

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Commuter Council opens Mineola office Nassau County Executive and forging even closer rela- strong voice in behalf of all LIRR was formed in 1981 by the State Legislature, and was designed Edward P. Mangano and mem- tionships with other advocacy riders.”

The LIRR Commuter Council to improve communications bers of the Long Island Rail groups on Long Island to give a Road Commuter Council - which serves as the voice of all LIRR riders - this week announced the grand opening of their first Long Island office, located in the Ralph G. Caso Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola.

“The Long Island Rail Road Commuter Council’s new office will provide a great resource for commuters,” Mangano said. “My administration looks forward to working with the Commuter Council to help enhance the rider experience for residents utilizing the Long Island Rail Road.”

“The Long Island Rail Road Commuter Council extends its thanks to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and the Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano cuts the ribbon with Supervisor, Kate Murray, LegislaCounty of Nassau for providing tor, Rose Marie Walker, Legislator Ellen Birnbaum, state Assemblyman Dave McDonough, state the LIRRCC space for our first Senator, Michael Venditto, state Assemblyman Joseph Saladino, state Assemblyman Ed Ra, Legislaoffice on Long Island,” stated Mark Epstein, chair Long Island tor Monica Martinez, LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski, Mark J. Epstein, chair of LIRRCC, Larry Rail Road Commuter Council. Rubinstein, vice chair, Mike Godino,, LIRRCC Council member, Sheila Carpenter, social worker and “The LIRRCC looks forward to Suffolk Rep of LIRRCC, Raymond Pagano, council member, Bryan Peranzo, representative council working with all elected officials member and William Henderson, permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA.

LICADD charity golf tournament slated for Aug. 3 The Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD) will be holding the 35th Annual R. Brinkley Smithers Golf Invitational charity tournament Monday, Aug. 3, at Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove and The Creek in Locust Valley.

Named for LICADD founder, R. Brinkley Smithers, the tournament’s proceeds ensure that the services LICADD provides - from screening, intervention and referral services, to recovery support, an Employee Assistance Program and mentoring- all remain accessible to the individuals and families who are most affected by drug and alcohol abuse on Long Island.

Prizes will be awarded in team and individual categories, and participants will have their chance to “Beat the Pro.” With dozens of silent auction, live auction, and raffle prizes, everyone will feel like a winner, even if their scores are well over par.

The live auction boasts playing opportunities at some of the country’s top courses, while the raffle features golf and vacation packages to the far-away destinations of Scotland and Southern California.

“Rest assured this is not your run-of-the-mill golf tournament,” said Executive Director Steve Chassman. “It is an opportunity to provide hope and healing to at-risk individuals and the families who support them.”

Foursomes and individual tickets are already on sale and expected to sell out before the event.

For more information, or to reserve your spot today, please contact Cynthia Doerler at (516) 747-2606, ext. 103 or visit LICADD.ORG.

between the LIRR and its customers as well as to strengthen operational efficiencies to create a more pleasant passenger experience.

The legislation, which created the LIRR Commuter Council established the organization as the official representative of riders and originally only included representation of riders from Nassau and Suffolk Counties, but in 1999 the Council expanded to include New York City riders as well.

The council is made up of volunteer members who are appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Nassau and Suffolk County Executives as well as the Brooklyn and Queens Borough Presidents.

The new LIRR Commuter Council office is fully operational and functions on an as needed basis for commuters who have concerns regarding their rider experience. For more information or to contact the LIRRCC please call (516) 571- 5780 or email: mail@pcac.org.

Town historian honored for service North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board honored Town Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission Chairman Dr. George Williams at Town Hall on June 2, for his many years of service to the Town and the community.

Dr. Williams was one of the first three members appointed to the Commission on Dec. 4, 1984 and was very active in

drafting the Town’s historic preservation code.

Among other roles, he was also president of the Town’s Historical Society, authored several books and was a teacher in the Port Washington School District from 1973-1990.

The Town issued a proclamation to Dr. Williams declaring June 2 a day of special recognition throughout the Town in Town officials and community members honor Dr. George Wilhis honor. liams at Town Hall on June 2.

Report filing qualifies Town for tax rebates Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board this week filed the Town’s Efficiency Report with the State, a requirement for residents to qualify for tax rebates under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Property Tax Freeze Credit initiative.

The Property Tax Freeze Credit is a two-year tax relief program that gives qualifying New York State homeowners a rebate for any increases in their local property taxes on primary residences.

In order for the credit to be available to the homeowners in a local taxing jurisdiction, the jurisdiction must comply with the New York State Property Tax Cap and, after the first year, must also develop an efficiency plan. The Town of North Hempstead’s 2015 budget stayed under the State’s allowed two percent tax cap.

“The cost-cutting measures reflected in the Town’s Efficiency Plan are the result of much brain-storming and creative thinking on the part of my entire team,” said Bosworth. “I am proud to report to the taxpayers of North Hempstead that we will be saving over $3 million over the next four years and that we have met all of the State’s requirements for the Property tax Freeze Credit.”The Town’s Efficiency Plan highlights cost cutting across multiple departments totaling $3,458,500 over four years. The savings plan includes many cost-cutting measures that have already been implemented: • The consolidation of the Commissioner roles for the Department of Services for the Aging (“DOSA”) and Community Services: Saved a full year’s salary plus fringe benefits.

$144,000 in savings for 2015 • Renegotiation of Progressive Waste Contract $230,000 in savings for 2015 • Engagement of NAPA for Inventory Management $61,500 in savings for 2015 • Bringing legal work in-house $363,000 in savings for 2015 • Combining Public Safety and Public Parking Commissioner $20,000 in savings for 2015 In addition, North Hempstead is also working with six villages in the Town to strategize about ways to cut costs and share services, to make village residents eligible for the governor’s Property Tax Freeze Credit.

To view the Town’s Efficiency Plan, visit: www.northhempsteadny.gov/efficiencyplan

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Supers honor county’s top students Crest Hollow Country Club’s Grand Ballroom was filled with Nassau County’s most accomplished and brightest students during the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents’ annual Celebration of Excellence Breakfast.

During this cherished event, superintendents, principals and parents gathered to pay tribute to the Class of 2015’s valedictorians and salutatorians from 44 Nassau County school districts. The keynote speaker, New York University President Dr. John Sexton, told the students that they had “won the lottery” by being smart and gifted and possessing extraordinary talents.

“You have a great obligation to use your talents and to expand your great gift of intelligence,” he said.

NCCSS President Dr. Phyllis Harrington also expressed her confidence in the students’ will to succeed and encouraged them to be not only lifelong learners, but also kind and caring individuals.

In addition, Deborah Wortham, the chairperson of the breakfast committee and emcee for the event, encouraged the students to dream big and “not lose sight of their own stories” and to make their own decisions. She encouraged parents

NCCSS President-Elect Dr. Lorna Lewis

NCCSS President Dr. Phyllis Harrington

New York University President Dr. John Sexton

and administrators to wrap their arms around their children to keep them safe from “dream stealers.”

In the closing remarks, NCCSS President-Elect Dr. Lorna Lewis reminded the students to be mindful that everyone they

encounter in life is important.

Each valedictorian and salutatorian was presented with a plaque to commemorate his or her achievements. As they were acknowledged, the universities the students plan to attend were announced,

along with their intended majors.

This was a unique event in which the Class of 2015 valedictorians and salutatorians from Nassau County were honored together, marking a truly memorable occasion for all in attendance.

IRISH HONORS

Each year, Irish Americans in Government offers scholarships to eligible high school students entering college. Honored at this year’s Scholarship Reception were Declan Byrne, Virginia Clark, Mary Kate DiNorcia and Jack Aughavin for their outstanding academic records, community activities and volunteer service. The recipients were joined by family and friends and area officials. Pictured from left: Michael Hopkins, Nassau County Clerk Maureen O’Connell, scholarship awardees Declan Byrne, Virginia Clark, Mary Kate DiNorcia and Jack Aughavin, Nassau County District Court Judge Joy Watson, Nassau County Legislator Rose Walker and Irish Americans in Government President Judge Timothy Driscoll.

Hofstra 5K run marks end of spring season Marking the end of their Spring season with the afterschool running program, 144 girls in grades 3-8 in 10 Nassau schools, completed the Lynbrook Runner’s Stop Girls on the Run 5K on May 31 at Hofstra University. The girls were joined by nearly 200 additional runners, including their Running Buddies and runners from the community.

Each fall and spring season, the Girls on the Run program culminates with all participants completing a celebratory 5K event together: a joyful and festive occasion where the girls’ perseverance throughout the season is honored, families witness the impact of Girls on the Run firsthand and the party atmosphere inspires all who attend.

Completing a 5K gives the

girls a sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. The results are the same—making the seemingly impossible, possible.

Led by volunteer coaches, Girls on the Run program participants meet twice a week for fun, engaging lessons and conversation-based running games.

The Spring and Fall 5Ks are open to the public. Ten schools participated in the event: Searingtown School, Albertson; Denton Ave School, New Hyde Park; Center St School, Williston Park; North Side School, East Williston; Friends Academy, Locust Valley; McKenna Elementary, Massapequa; Forest Lake, Wantagh; Lakeside School, Merrick; New Visions School, Freeport; and Steele Elementary, Baldwin.

Schimel hosts annual student Summer Reading Challenge Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel is encouraging elementary school students to continue learning throughout the summer by challenging them to take time to read in July and August.

Though students are not in the classroom during the summer, it does not mean that their learning should come to a halt. Her 2015 Summer Reading Challenge is part of the New York State Assembly’s commitment to provide a quality education for our students.

The 2015 Summer Reading Challenge rewards elementary school students for their efforts with an Ex-

cellence in Reading certificate from the New York State Assembly.

Students must read by themselves or with a parent for a minimum of just 15 minutes a day for at least 40 days throughout July and August. The days can be marked off on a calendar provided by the Assemblywoman and distributed by the schools.

In order to receive the Excellence in Reading certificate, the calendar must be returned to the Assemblywoman’s office at the end of the summer. This year’s Summer Reading Challenge theme is: “Every hero has

a story.”

“With a good book and imagination, you can travel across the world without ever leaving your backyard!”

Schimel said.

So whether your children are at home, at camp, or at the beach, encourage them to pick a book and travel while staying right where they are.

For more information or to request an application for the 2015 Summer Reading Challenge, please contact Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel’s District Office at (516) 482-6966.

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Port couple donate $875k to Adelphi unteers of New York City.

The Jaggars are also the co-founders of the Angela and Scott Jaggar FoundaAn Adelphi University trustee and tion, which funds projects related to eduher husband are gifting $875,000 to the cation and social services, and members school’s Community Fellows Program, of Adelphi’s Million Dollar Round Table which provides students with training in and Ruth S. Harley Society, which recognizes people who endow the university as leadership and professional skills.

The university announced the endow- part of their estate plans. ment, made by Port Washington residents Reach reporter Bill San Antonio by eAngela and Scott Jaggar, in a news release mail at bsanantonio@theislandnow.com, Tuesday.

In exchange for the donation, Adelphi by phone at 516.307.1045 x215 or on has agreed to rename the program the Twitter @b_sanantonio. Also follow us on Jaggar Community Fellows program.

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“I have had many opportunities to meet with community fellows who talk about the value of this experience in their lives,” Angela Jaggar said in a statement.

“I’ve also had the chance to speak with a number of executive directors who have said that their organizations have done things they would not have been able to do without our Adelphi students’ talents and skills. Hearing of the impact this program is having is our motivation to help sustain it.”

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Location, location, school district The old adage for real estate was “location, location, location.”

However, I have said for umpteen years, “Location, Location, School District.”

My logical conclusion umpteen years ago was the pure common sense notion that families with or without children would always try to gravitate towards a community, that had a great location, superior transportation and access to highways to their workplace and major city, in our case, “The Big Apple,” safe environment with low crime, things to do, parks, lower taxes and superior schools!

This will also depend on the location and the return for what you might derive for your purchasing dollars long term.

Although real estate taxes, of which your schools portion, comprises over 60 percent of the total have been getting out of hand in most communities on Long Island.

However, most school budgets pass in those towns which have above average curriculums.

Because of this, I surmise that is the major reason they have con-

sistently contributed and provided a better return for real estate, than any other investment over the long run in those towns that have a superior education system. Relatively speaking, I believe if you were to go around the country, this would be true the majority of the time; with exceptions in those areas around the U.S. that are more transitional or vacation/second home environments, (down south and out west) where prices are more supply and demand oriented and not as affected and dependent on schools.

Adding to my conclusions was the article from Friday June 5 in the Great Neck News, that ranked a number of our elementary schools,

by Nich.com, in the top 100 (in the top 99 percent echelon) in the nation as well as in New York State.

Surveys can be taken every year making these comparisons, but the end results speak for themselves.

We surely produce some of the smartest and most successful individuals in the nation.

However, the higher the scores in math, english and science be-

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come a contributing factor, and will add to the value of local real estate in those towns, where families are willing to pay the higher prices.

So, looking at home prices over the long run through the various cycles, when they go down in those towns that are more resilient, due to their high education standards, tend to come back faster and increase at a better pace, than those areas that may not score as high.

This is not to say, that smart children do not come out of lower

scoring areas, but those are exceptions and have less of an effect on increasing home prices.

I am fairly sure that if you look at the average income of those individuals coming from towns with superior education curriculums, that they are above average compared with those towns that are not as competitive scholastically.

There are many studies and articles that have shown that there is a direct correlation between amount spent per student in higher income and home priced areas compared with those in lower performing and lower valued towns.

A contributing factor is the amount of money provided by the state and federal government to those areas.

I could write an entire dissertation on the many problems with this inequity and many other factors contributing to the differences in education and go on a rant, but I need to stick to the point of the value of education contributing to the value of real estate.

If you want the value of your home and property values of real estate in your community to in-

crease over the long haul, then you must first and foremost, focus on your education curriculum (again mental and physical) and try to figure out how to improve it and to raise the overall test scores. I am quite sure and would almost like to guarantee, will make your real estate more valuable down the road.

So, we are graduating many, many smart people.

But, we also need to create better higher paying jobs to slow down the “Brain Drain” and those higher achievers from leaving New York because of the cost of housing and taxes.

The following links are to two articles you might want to read that will provide some ideas on the whys and contributing factors to the disparaging differences in our education: h t t p : / / w w w. n y t i m e s . com/2013/11/06/business/a-richchilds-edge-in-public-education. html?_r=0 http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ salas.356/more_money__better_ grades

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ELECTION 2015

5 candidates vie for 2 VGN trustee seats

By A d a m L i d g ett Voters will decide Tuesday between five candidates vying for two trustee spots in the Village of Great Neck elections — the only contested race among the three villages holding elections in Great Neck.

In Kings Point, trustees Ron Horowitz and Hooshang Nematzadeh are running unopposed as are Village of Lake Success trustees Adam Hoffman, Gene Kaplan and David Milner.

Village of Great Neck trustees and Better Government Party members Mitch Beckerman and Jeff Bass are running for their spots against Voice of the Village Party candidates Anne Mendelson and Raymond Plakstis Jr. and Bridge Party candidate Sam Yellis.

Mayor Ralph Kreitzman is also running on the Better Government Party ticket for Mayor, while doctor Pedram Bral is running for mayor on the Voice of the Village Party ticket.

Bral, Mendelson and Plakstis have said that a prime reason for the challenge is their dissatisfaction with the rezoning of parts of Middle Neck and Steamboat roads.

The rezoning, which was intended to revitalize the downtown business district, permits apartments above commercial businesses in the central business core and apartments and townhomes at the northern and southern ends of Middle Neck Road.

Under the rezoning, townhomes are also allowed on portions of Steamboat Road.

Yellis said the first thing he would do if elected would be to overturn the rezoning and create a more pedestrian friendly plan for reviving the business district. He said he wants to offer incentives for businesses to come to the village, but wasn’t sure what they would be yet.

“You don’t save it by shrinking it,” Yellis has said of the business district. “We need more stores and customers, and their plans will eliminate stores that have been around for generations.”

In defending the rezoning, Kreitzman was pointed to the Smart Growth Award that Vision Long Island has awarded to the village for the rezoning. Vision Long Island, a smart growth advocacy non-profit, has said the rezoning improves downtown walkability in the Village of Great Neck, enhancing the resident and community experience.

Yellis has criticized the award, saying that the issue of walking

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downtown is not related to walking from the southern to northern ends of Middle Neck Road. He said the issue with downtown walkability is trying to cross the street.

“No ‘calming’ of the street is included in the plans; nothing to help pedestrians cross the everbusy Middle Neck Road,” Yellis said in a statement. “Indeed; their plan calls for hundreds of housing units, meaning hundreds more cars, using Middle Neck Road, making it that much harder to cross.”

He also said he wants to work more closely with other villages, special districts and the Great Neck School District to provide more services in the Village of Great Neck, such as possibly using the Village Green for a farmers market or high school band concerts.

Yellis said he would also try to put in a mini-mall at the current Department of Public Works facility, located at 765 Middle Neck Road. He said by creating a destination such as the mini-mall, the village can attract more shoppers.

A teacher at the Village School, Yellis said that while he doesn’t have experience in government, but that he does have experience in dealing with many different peoples’ concerns.

“I deal with 50 parents every year,” Yellis said. “I’m dealing with children of the community. Right there I’m dealing with two generations of people every year.”

If elected, Yellis has said, he

would try to get town, county, state and federal funding to bring in five electric shuttle buses to bring people into the village to shop.

“There is nothing in the [rezoning] plan that calls for using the Village Green, a jewel in the heart of the village, that could serve as a destination, a place where ‘something is always going on,’” Yellis said in a statement.

Mendelson, a technical software product manager for Thomson Reuters, has also criticized the rezoning of parts of Middle Neck and Steamboat roads, saying they will burden village.

“The zoning has changes such that it expanded residential areas so that apartment buildings can be put in,” Mendelson has said. “As a result, we will have greater traffic and greater stress on our aquifers.”

Mendelson has said she also opposes the sale of the current Village Hall and building of a new Village Hall and Department of Public Works facility at 265 East Shore Road. She said the village can currently work with what it has, and that the current Village Hall only needs renovated.

“I don’t want any unwanted expenses,” Mendelson has said. “It’s needed renovation for as long as I can remember.”

Mendelson worked in defense and software development for years before she got her teaching certificate in 2003, after which she taught math at Great Neck North High

Sam Yellis School. She worked as a teacher until 2013 when her job was eliminated due to budget cuts, she has said.

She said her willingness to work with residents and help the community, coupled with her familiarity with the village, will help her serve as trustee if elected.

“After 10 years of having the current people in power, they have been dismantling everything we hold dear in this village and turning it into a place we don’t recognize,” Mendelson has said.

At a meet and greet event held by the Voice of the Village Party at Great Neck House Tuesday night, Bral addressed concerns that his party wants to close all stores in the village on Saturdays because he is an orthodox Jew. Bral said to the crowd of about 25 people that while he is orthodox, his running mates are not orthodox, and he does not want to close any businesses.

Bral called the email “racial slander” and a “desperate move.”

Mendelson said at the meet and greet that the candidates on the Voice of the Village Party ticket all come from different backgrounds, but that they are a unified group.

She said being a trustee is about moving the village forward and dealing with the larger issues.

She said the day-to-day operations of the village should be left up to the full-time village staff.

Voice of the Village supporters at Tuesday’s event said it is time for new people to lead the village.

Daniel Rahmani, a 16-year village resident, said developers who want to start projects in the village are treated better than village residents.

“No good government can stay the same this long,” he said. “There isn’t anything good that can come out of it.”

Bob Meheizadeh, a village resident for 12 years, said he wants to see a younger generation of people on the Board of Trustees.

“We need new blood in the system,” Meheizadeh said.

Continued efforts to reach Plak-

stis, a former Great Neck Alert Fire Company chief, were unavailing.

According to a platform sent by the Voice of the Village Party’s campaign manager Rebecca Gilliar, Plakstis lead teams of volunteers at Ground Zero after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, according to the platform. He has decided to run for office because “current mayor, with the approval of his trustees, has interfered in decisions by the zoning and planning boards, lobbying on behalf of developers.”

He also said, according to the platform, the village has a pattern of withholding information from residents.

Plakstis ran for Great Neck Park District Commissioner in 2011, losing to current commissioner Dan Nachmanoff. Plakstis came in second with 368 votes, Neil Leiberman, husband of Great Neck News columnist Karen Rubin, received 347 and Great Neck resident Martin Markson received 342.

The Better Government Party has received an outpouring of support from a wide range of state, federal and village officials.

Letters to the editor submitted to Blank Slate Media over the past several weeks have included endorsements from Congressman Steve Israel, state Sen. Jack Martins, state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel and a number of village mayors.

Endorsements have also come from Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender, Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin, Kings Point Mayor Michael Kalnick, Russell Gardens Mayor Steven Kirschner, Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg and Saddle Rock Mayor Dan Levy.

While many of these endorsements were intended specifically for Kreitzman, some were also for Beckerman and Bass. In their campaign advertisements, the Better Government Party states the elected officials have endorsed the whole party.

While Beckerman and Bass have said that neither of them asked for endorsements, Kreitzman has said he had separate conversations with Israel, Martins and Schimel about his campaign and that one out of the three of them offered their endorsement without him asking first, while the other two he asked. He would not specify which official offered their endorsement unsolicited.

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Bral, Kreitzman battle for VGN mayor spot Continued from Page 1 Kreitzman and Bral have clashed over the village’s recently approved rezoning of Middle Neck and Steamboat roads and the proposed sale of the current Village Hall to build a new Village Hall and Department of Public Works facility at 265 East Shore Road.

Kreitzman, who was elected mayor in 2007 after serving as a trustee since 2001, has defended the rezoning and said he wants to oversee its implementation.

The rezoning, passed by Village of Great Neck trustees in October, condensed the village’s business district in an effort to revitalize the downtown area. The rezoning permits apartments above commercial businesses in the central business core and apartments and townhomes at the northern and southern ends of Middle Neck Road. Under the rezoning, townhomes are also allowed on portions of Steamboat Road.

“I want our rezoning to prove fruitful,” said Kreitzman, who served on the villages’ Architectural Review Board and on the Planning Board before being elected a trustee.

Kreitzman said that according to estimates, the sale of the current Village Hall should pay for the cost of building a new Village Hall and DPW facility at 265 East Shore Road. The Great Neck School District has expressed interest in buying the current Village Hall building, which is located at 69 Baker Hill Road across the street from the E.M. Baker School.

He said he could not disclose how much the estimates were for.

Bral and his running mates have criticized the board for both the rezoning and the proposed sale of Village Hall, while Kreitzman has defended the moves.

“They’ve said they just don’t like what we’re doing,” Kreitzman said of his opponents. “But there’s not much projection about what they want to do in the future.”

He said it will cost less to build a new Village Hall than refurbish the old one.

“Otherwise, we would have to spend over $1 million to refurbish

it and we’d still have old facilities,” Kreitzman said.

In defending the rezoning, Kreitzman pointed to the Smart Growth Award that Vision Long Island has awarded the village for the rezoning. Vision Long Island, a smart growth advocacy non-profit, has said the rezoning improves downtown walkability in the Village of Great Neck, enhancing the resident and community experience.

Rebecca Gilliar, campaign manager for the Voice of the Village Party, has said the business district was already walkable and that “thanks to our village officials, no one walks there because there is nothing to walk to, the storefronts being empty.”

Kreitzman, along with Beckerman and Bass, has received an outpouring of support from a wide range of state, federal and village officials.

Letters to the editor submitted to Blank Slate Media over the past several weeks have included endorsements from Congressman Steve Israel, state Sen. Jack Martins, state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel and a number of village mayors.

Kreitzman has said he had separate conversations with Israel, Martins and Schimel about his campaign and that one out of the three of them offered their endorsement without him asking first, while the other two he asked.

He would not specify which official offered their endorsement unsolicited.

Many of the letters in support of the Better Government Party have focused on Kreitzman and his work both in and outside Great Neck as a member of the executive board of New York Conference of Mayors and the Nassau County Village Officials Association, as well as his role as mayor and member of the Great Neck Village Officials Association.

Kreitzman has also received the endorsements of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender, Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin, Kings Point Mayor Michael Kalnick, Russell Gardens Mayor Ste-

Dr. Pedram Bral

Ralph Kreitzman

ven Kirschner, Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg and Saddle Rock Mayor Dan Levy.

He said he began speaking with other mayors after he began to think the Village of Great Neck might have a contested election.

He said the opposition candidates ran on a “stealth” basis last time, so he assumed they would be back for this election, but on the ballot.

Bral, Mendelson and Christine Campbell were part of an underthe-radar write-in campaign in the 2013 elections, which resulted in hundreds of residents lining around the block to vote for the challengers.

Campbell was originally set to run for trustee on the Voice of the Village party ticket, but declined the nomination after her name was submitted on the petition. Plakstis then accepted the nomination to replace her and run for trustee.

On voting day in 2013, trustees stood for hours making phone calls outside the polling station to residents, contending with rain as they shored up support against the surprise challenge, officials said at the time.

In one instance, Kreitzman called former Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-Great Neck), who put out a robocall to encourage supporters to vote for the reelection of Kreitzman, Beckerman and Bass, as well as the election of Trustee Mark Birnbaum as village justice.

Kreitzman defeated challenger Bral 325 to 232. Beckerman took 316 votes and Bass won 320 votes,

with opposition trustee candidates Christine Campbell and Mendelson receiving 226 votes each.

Bral said he decided to be part of the write-in campaign because he didn’t like the direction the village was going in.

“I saw a lot of things changing in [the Village of] Great Neck and saw a lot of people upset about many things as far as how their lives are being controlled,” Bral said.

He has said Kreitzman has been in power for many years, and that it is time to “empower the people and let them have a voice.

I really want to contain wasteful spending and the moving of the Village of Great Neck Village Hall to East Shore Road,” Bral said. “We would spend a lot of money doing it and I really don’t want to sell off the assets the village has.”

He has said he wants to revitalize the village’s downtown to bring merchants to the closed shops.

He also said he is willing to cut back his work days to 15 a month so he can serve the village, if elected.

Bral has downplayed the endorsements Kreitzman has received, saying it is more important to be endorsed by people in the village than mayors and other elected officials who don’t live in the village.

A gynecologist, Bral was born in Tehran, Iran, but left in 1985 with his mother and his sister, following his brother’s direction. His father would leave Tehran two years later as well, Bral said.

Bral said his family left Iran because of the anti-Semitism they saw while there, moving first to Italy, then to Great Neck about 21 years ago.

A graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Bral is currently the director of Minimally Invasive & Robotic Gynecologic Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, he said. He said he continued to live in Great Neck because he likes the quiet, suburban nature of the area.

“It’s a beautiful, calm, quiet, serene place,” Bral said. “It’s lively but at the same time we have trees, parks, houses, backyards.”

At a meet and greet event held by the Voice of the Village Party at Great Neck House Tuesday night, Bral addressed concerns that his party wants to close all stores in the village on Saturdays because he is an orthodox Jew. Bral said while he is orthodox, his running mates are not orthodox, and he does not want to close any businesses.

Bral called the email “racial slander” and a “desperate move.”

“I’m trying to be the voice not just for the good of one community but the entire community,” Bral said to a crowd of about 25 people Tuesday.

Voice of the Village supporters at Tuesday’s event said it is time for new people to lead the village.

Daniel Rahmani, a 16-year village resident, said developers who want to start projects in the village are treated better than village residents.

“No good government can stay the same this long,” he said. “There isn’t anything good that can come out of it.”

Bob Meheizadeh, a village resident for 12 years, said he wants to see a younger generation of people on the board of trustees.

“We need new blood in the system,” Meheizadeh said.

Voting will take place from 12 p.m.-9 p.m. at Great Neck House at 14 Arrandale Ave. The Village of Great Neck Mayor is paid $10,000 a year and trustees are each paid $4,800.

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Schwartz’s positions made as a prosecutor.

Paul Leonard, deputy communications director for acting DA Madeline Singas, said the conviction should stand.

“The DA’s comprehensive reinvestigation of this case, overseen by a distinguished independent panel of experts, found that Jesse Friedman committed the crimes to which he plead guilty and admitted on national television,” Leonard said. “The DA’s

office consented to this hearing, and we are confident that Friedman’s conviction will be upheld by any judge.”

Ron Kuby, Friedman’s attorney, said in a statement he is pleased Corrigan has removed herself, and that he hopes the

new judge assigned to the case will review the evidence without bias.

“Judge Corrigan realized that the appearance of impartiality is crucial to the integrity of the legal process, especially in a case as important and public as

this one,” Kuby said.

Friedman said in a statement he looks forward to his hearing.

“I am eager for my new hearing to start as I am certain a fair review of the evidence will prove my innocence beyond any doubt,” he said.

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In defense of myself and the overwhelming majority of my fellow gun owners, kindly be advised that, not only do we secure our weapons in a locked vault, permanently anchored, and completely hidden from view, when not in use, we also train regularly at our respective shooting ranges to maintain our proficiency in the use of our weapons. Many of us, including myself, have been trained by a Certified Firearms instructor.

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A COMPANION​/​HOME HEALTH AIDE Live out, 12 hours okay; nights or days. 20 years experience in home care & nursing home seeking to take care of sick​/​elderly. Experience with Parkinsons, Alzheimers, dementia, stroke. References available, Own car. English speaking.

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A NURSES AIDE​/​COMPANION SEEKING position to take care of your elderly loved one. Experience and very good references.

Live in or out. Driver. Light housekeeping, shopping, doctor appointments, etc. Please call 516-353-9686

CAREGIVER AVAILABLE Experienced woman seeks full time position to care for your sick or elderly loved one. Live in. Very reliable, non driver, references available. Call May 516-292-2662

CLEANING TEAM AVAILABLE: English speaking Polish women available to clean homes, apartments and offices. Also available to help with your parties at home, serving, setting up, clean up. Excellent references. Please call 516-564-0139

BABYSITTER / NANNY Experienced babysitter for all ages.

Elementary Education​/​Special Education major and Early Childhood minor. Elon University student looking for position for the summer. Available from May until end of August. Own transportation. Please call Bridget 516-521-0812

CAREGIVER P/T WEEKENDS available for Saturday and Sundays. Bright, compassionate, reliable lady seeking to care for your loved one. Call 516-422-1758

BABYSITTER / NANNY Kind, loving, patient and reliable nanny​ /​babysitter seeking full time position. I have over 10 yrs experience caring for newborns to 6 yrs old. References available. Call Ann 917-544-6108 CAREGIVER / HHA VERY HANDS ON LOVING, CARING, COMPASSIONATE HHA with over 10 years experience seeking FT live in or live out position. Great references.

Licensed driver. Please call Shawn 516-424-0091

CERTIFIED HHA with LIJ​/ Regioncare experience seeking part time position to care for elderly. Flexible hours. References. Call 347-525-6999 or email JJKafarski12@gmail.com CHILD CARE: Parent Support person available to assist with the home, children, transportation. Experienced. Lives locally. Contact 516-488-1346 CLEANING SERVICE available full time or part time with flexible hours. 20 years experience.

Excellent references. 516-3769365 or 516-519-8370

COMPANION / HOME CARE Long time GC resident seeking part time position as a companion to take care of loved one. Prepares meals, light housekeeping & grocery shopping.

English speaking. References available. Contact Patricia 516-887-7026 ELDER CARE: AIDE​/​COMPANION with 15 years experience available to care for elderly. Days, nights, weekends. Own car. Excellent references.

Call 516-353-1626 ELDER CARE: EXCELLENT IRISH HEALTH AIDE seeks part time position in Garden City and surrounding areas. 25 years experience, very good with elderly. Patient and caring.

Own car. 516-326-2496 EUROPEAN HOME CARE attendant available for live in or live out.

Garden City resident with 12 years experience. Excellent references.

Very reasonable rates. Please call Jeanette 516-741-6347 or cell 516710-7271, leave message.

Reporter Wanted Blank Slate Media seeks a self-starter with good writing and reporting skills to cover the Willistons, Mineola, North Hills and New Hyde Park.

Our goal is to produce a daily newspaper once a week in terms of quality and depth of coverage for the communities we serve and up-to-the-minute coverage online.

Newspaper experience and car required. Familiarity with digital media strongly preferred.

Position provides opportunity to work with editors with many years of weekly and daily newspaper experience at a fast-growing group of 5 award-winning weekly newspapers and website.

Compensation: Salary, health insurance, paid holidays and sick days.

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▼ real estate, service directory Situation Wanted EXPERIENCED BABYSITTER College student looking for a babysitting​/​mother’s helper position.

Has own source of transportation.

Please text or email Katherine: 516-660-8597 or email Katherine. vaughn@scanton.edu EXPERIENCED NURSING AIDE seeking position to take care of elderly. Evenings or weekends. Own car and good references. Please call 718-525-6942 or 917-796-5917 HOUSE CLEANER AVAILABLE Good references. Monday​​Saturday.

Experienced. Own car. Will provide own supplies. Free estimates. 516485-3543, cell 516-661-5282 HOUSEKEEPER / HOME HEALTH AIDE PROVIDER with over 25 yrs experience seeking live in position. Honest, caring & skilled. References readily available upon request. Please contact Margaret 860-574-1236 NANNY AVAILABLE Our caring and reliable nanny of 17 years is looking for a full time position. Clean license.

Can be reached at 917-704-9248 NANNY F/T with 15years experience seeking position to care for your newborn & older children.

References available. Trustworthy, loving, reliable. 15 years with 3 Garden City families. Driver’s license.

Call 516-776-1808 SUMMER NANNY​/​SITTER College student w/7+ yrs experience with kids of all ages seeking summer babysitter​ /​nanny position. Responsible, caring, active & creative. AED​/​CPR Certified.

Flexible hours. Available immediately until end of August. Wonderful Garden City references. Good Driver.

Please call Sam 917-825-6400

Business Opportunities AVON CAREER or pocket money​​ you decide. Call Brandie(Ind Sls rep) 1-800-305-3911 or sign up online: www.startavon.com Reference code: gsim for award winning support

Career Training ATTEND AVIATION COLLEGE Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance training. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM or free information 866-296-7093

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Adoption UNPLANNED PREGNANCY? Caring licensed adoption agency provides financial and emotional support. Choose from loving preapproved families. Call Joy toll free 1-866-922-3678 or confidential email: Adopt@ForeverFamiliesThroughAdoption.org

Marketplace

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ESTATE SALE GARDEN CITY CONSIDER IT DONE ESTATE SALE Friday 6/12 10am-4pm Saturday 6/13 10am-4pm 76 Second Street Partial contents of beautiful home. Full dining room set including breakfront. Pair of club chairs, couches, rugs and coffee tables.

Credenza, lamps, art and more!

View photos online at ESTATESALES.ORG

AUCTIONS, TAG SALES & CONSIGNMENTS INVITED SALES by TRACY JORDAN Live and Online Auction House, Estate Sales, Appraisals and Consignment Shoppe.

839 Stewart Avenue Garden City 11530 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales.com Mon-Fri 10-6pm Sat 105pm, Sun 12-5pm Located next to the La Quinta and behind the Garden Gourmet Deli. Live Auctions Monthly! Free walk-in evaluations for items to be considered for Live Auction every Tuesday and Thursday 10am-2pm. No appointment necessary. Auctions are live every Wednesday from 8am-8pm and pre-bids are accepted at anytime.

Visit www.invitedsales.com and click on the online auctions tab.

Visit www.invitedsales.com to see pictures and information regarding our upcoming tag sales and estate sales. Our 50% off room is open everyday and includes items that have been in our shoppe for more than 60 days. To receive discount coupons and promotional information, join our email list. Text “invited” to 22828 and enter your email address when prompted. Consignments are taken by appointment to provide you with the best service.

Please call the shoppe at 516-2796378 to schedule an appointment or email pictures of your items to info@invitedsales.com. We can provide fair market values on any item that you may want to sell, consign or enter into auction. If you need advice on hosting a sale, selling an item or liquidating an estate, please call Tracy Jordan at the shoppe or directly at 516-567-2960

DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call 631-317-2014 Today!

OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Best selection of affordable rentals. Full​ /​partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Real Estate. 1-800-638-2102. Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com

GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY 12 Kenwood Rd (off Washington Ave) Thursday through Saturday June 18, 19 & 20 9am​​6pm Multi family sale.

Artifacts from France, clothes, music CD’s, purses, bric-a-brac, household items. Too much to mention!!

GARDEN CITY MULTI FAMILY GARAGE SALE FOR CHARITY Saturday June 27th 9am-4pm 73 Brompton Rd (corner of North Ave) Household items, furniture, accessories, etc. Something for everyone!!

MOVING OUT GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY Saturday 6/13 9:30am to 5:00pm 32 Osborne Rd Everything must go! Furniture, baby items, electronics, toys, clothes, sports equipment, books and much much more! All in excellent condition!

Come on over and name your price!

OFFICE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE Desks, chairs, filing cabinets, copy machine, etc. Phone 516-741-6135

Wanted to Buy CASH BUYER! Buying ALL Gold & Silver coins, Stamps, Paper Money, Comic Books, entire collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY 1-800-959-3419 LOOKING TO BUY! Records, oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Tag Sale *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-7468900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@atstewartexchange.org www. gardencityhistoricalsociety. org TAG SALE GARDEN CITY Contents of charming home. Double pedestal mahogany table & chairs, Art Deco bedroom & other bedrooms, contemporary kitchen, eclectic furniture throughout, king headboard, interesting bric-a-brac, wall decor, costume jewelry, linens, books, records & much more! PLEASE JOIN US!! 144 Kilburn Rd (off Stewart Ave W) Saturday 6/13 9am to 4pm

YOU’RE INVITED! Thursday, June 18 9:30am 7 Orchard Road Great Neck, NY 11021 Furniture, books, decorative, housewares, outdoor, bedroom, collectibles......Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

YOU’RE INVITED! Tuesday, June 16 9:30am 186 Hemlock Rd Manhasset, NY 11030 Mid Century and Asian inspired decorative items, collectibles, books, records, furniture, dressers, basement and more....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

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Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away. Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability. Book early! Annmarie 516-775-4256

DOG TRAINING Doggie Day Care & Walks Backyard Clean-up GC Resident 516-382-5553

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Automotive Auto For Sale 2014 JETTA SE Black on black, 3k, Bluetooth, backup camera, mint condition. $18,500. Please call for more information 516-457-6070 BUICK CENTURY 1995: 47K miles, 4 new tires, new parts, A/C, runs like new! $3,400. 516-7475799 or 516-747-3463

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Apartment For Rent FRANKLIN SQUARE Top floor, 1 bedroom, move-in condition.

Great location, utilities included. Credit report required. No smoking or pets. $1,200​/ ​m th.

Call 516-747-8139 GARDEN CITY BORDER: Sprawling 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment. $1,970+ Electric, gated parking, laundry room, air conditioning, dishwasher, hardwood floors, LIRR, NO BROKER FEE. www. gcbapts.com / 516-742-1101 GARDEN CITY S.E. SECTION Unfurnished second floor 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, large living area.

Cable, wi-fi, utilities, parking. No smoking. No pets. $1500. Please call 516-650-5144 GARDEN CITY WYNDHAM: 1,430 sf, balcony, LR, DR, Kitchen, 1 Bedroom, 1.5 Baths, Laundry Room, Garage, Gym, Pool, 24 hr. concierge. $3,750​/​month. Owner​/​ Broker. No Fee. 516-816-3253

Homes for Rent GREAT NECK​/ KINGS POINT Glamford Road. Totally renovated, 4 bedroom, 4 bath, finished basement, 2 car garage. Great Neck North​/​Baker School District. $4600​ /​month. Owner 516-482-3210

Office Space GARDEN CITY SOUTH Ideal location, mint, large office space, 1st floor. Must see to appreciate.

Available now. $1,750​/​mth.Call Owner 516-538-7474 or 538-7476 WILLISTON PARK Office Space: 1300 & 2000 sf. available on Hillside Ave. Professional Building.

Parking Lot, near LIRR & parkways. Full commission Paid. Tony 516-248-4080 WILLISTON PARK: Hillside Avenue, upstairs, 3.5 rooms, fully carpeted, lighted parking. 3 blocks west of LIRR. $900 month utilities included, heat, electric and air conditioning. 516-205-9593

Commercial Property for Rent GARDEN CITY: Walk-In Office space available. New Hyde Park Rd. Suitable for attorney, accountant, mortgage broker. CAC, 2 half baths, private garden, Handicap accessible, full basement. $4,000​ /​month. Call Carmel Quill, Broker 516-732-6049

Vacation Rental BERKSHIRE TIME SHARE Vacation Village: sleeps 8. First week in August. $1,200. Call 516-385-3133 EAST QUOGUE Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with CAC, heated IG pool, private patio, access to bay and ocean beaches, boat slip available. 1 hour from Garden City. Will consider 2 week rentals. Please call 516-2480079 or 516-732-9435

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Where to Turn to When Your Home Doesn't Sell Before re-listing your home, order this Free Report that reveals 4 critical issues to ensure that your home sells fast and for top dollar. www.expiredagentpro.com

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MINEOLA RANCH GARDEN CITY SCHOOLS JUST LISTED! 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath, CAC, Wood Floors, Updated Roof, Walk Up Attic, Full Basement, 2 Car Garage.

50 x 100 lot.

Asking $349,000.

Hurry.... Won’t last!!

Connor J Maffucci Real Estate 516-599-0707 Homes for Sale GARDEN CITY ESTATES FOR SALE BY OWNER One of a kind Tudor with many unique features.

Asking $1,299,000. For appointment call 917-370-8517 GARDEN CITY WESTERN SECTION 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Ranch.

Eat in kitchen, LR, DR, full unfinished basement, next to park, LIRR. Principals only. $799,000.

Call for appt 516-581-0769

Lots for Sale UPSTATE NY LAND LIQUIDATION! Foreclosures, short sales, abandoned farms, country estate liquidations. Country tracts avg over 10 acres from $12,900. Waterfront, streams, ponds, views, farmhouses!

Terms avail! Call: 888-905-8847 NOW! Newyorklandandlakes.com

Open House JAMESPORT Sunday 6/14 1:003:00 pm 34 Lockitt Drive Deeded beach rights! Large 4 BR, 3 Bath Colonial in private beach community.

IG pool with deck & brick patio. Gourmet granite EIK. HW floors, fireplace, CAC, generator & gas heat. Basement & 2 car garage. $659,000 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

Open House NEW HYDE PARK “THE OAKS” EXCLUSIVE LISTING: Sunday 6/14 1:00 to 4:00 pm 31 Magnolia Drive Expandable “Dorchester Model” renovated 3 bedroom, 1 family Cape. Well maintained by same owner. LR w/ wood burning fireplace, formal DR, custom gourmet EIK, Stainless Steel Appliances, family room, siding doors to rear yard, gorgeous bathroom, 1 car garage, 60x100, manicured garden. Asking price $599,000.

Northeast Real Estate Co Inc. 718-428-8877 WESTBURY Sunday 6/14 12:00-3:00 pm 138 Land Lane Totally redone! 5 BR, 2 Bath expanded Cape. New SS appliances, flooring, carpeting & furnace. Freshly painted. Master BR with walk in closet. LR with fireplace.

Fenced yard with patio & shed. Must see! $445,000. Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572

Out Of Town Real Estate LAUREL Custom 3400sf Ranch with beach rights! 4 BRs, 2.5 Baths. LR, Family Room, EIK & laundry room. Full basement with high ceilings. 1 car garage. HW floors, CAC, deck. Built in 2011.

Just listed! $749,000 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623 MATTITUCK Waterfront lakeside setting with panoramic views & sunsets. Large LR w/ wood burning fireplace, dining area, EIK, 3 BRs, 2.5 Baths. Full basement, 2 car garage, salt water IG pool. HW floors, gazebo & fishing dock. A must see ! $799,000. Colony Realty Carll Austin 516-658-2623

Mortgages YOUR HOMEWONERSHIP PARTNER. The State of NY Mortgage Agency offers funds available for renovation. www. sonyma.org 1-800-382-4663

service directory

Computers MICROSOFT TRAINING & MORE for individuals or groups. Local college teacher will help you build skills in WINDOWS, WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT. Please call Jim Kaplan 347-673-1785 or email: help@jim-kaplan.com

Home Improvements AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Repairs & Maintenance *Handyman & Remodeling *Vanity & Kitchen Cabinet Installations *Furniture Assembly & set up *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 22 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Owner Operated Call BOB 516-741-2154 GARY MARC DESIGNS: Interior design, fabric​/​furniture selections, paint color consultation, wall coverings, flooring, kitchen​/​bath designs, custom window treatments, accessories and more. Free Consultation. Gary M. Schoenbach gary@garymarcdesigns.com / 516-680-0144 / www. garymarcdesigns.com GRACE ROOFING: Est. 1977. slate, tile flat roofs, asphalt and wood shingle roofs, gutters and leaders cleaned and replaced, professional new roof installation. Free estimates, expert leak repairs. lic​/​ins, local references, residential​/​commerical 516-753-0268

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Meticulous & Reliable Serving GARDEN CITY & Surrounding Area since 2003 Repairs & Installations of all Types Built-in Bookcases, Woodworking, Carpentry, Crown Moldings, Lighting, Painting, Wallpaper and More. 30-year Nassau County Resident. Many References Lic #H01062800 Insured Call Friendly Frank 516-2382112 anytime E-mail Frankcav@ optonline.net

ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314

NORTH SHORE PAINTING & CLEANING SERVICE: Spring​/​ Summer Specials! Residential​/​commercial. We clean full house, floors, upholstery, windows, gutters, post construction clean up, power washing, fire & flood damage. Weekly or Bi-weekly cleaning. 4th cleaning Free. 516-359-3748 or 516-728-1836

A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www.ajmoving.com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405

LACROSSE TRAINER EXPERIENCED boys lacrosse trainer.

Plays lacrosse at Washington & Lee University. Will train kids of any ages (midfield or attack). I am available June through August.

Flexible hours. Please call or text Connor 516-474-2951

Cleaning

COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL​/​ DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential​ /​Commercial.

Bonded​/​Insured.

Free estimates. 516-538-1125

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LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard 646-996-7628

SPRING INTO ACTION LET US CLEAN YOUR HOUSE WINDOWS GARDEN CITY WINDOW CLEANING Home Window Cleaning Service by Owner Free Estimates Inside & Out Fully Insured 25 Years Experience 631-220-1851 516-764-5686

SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain​/​rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands.

Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience. 631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

Health & Fitness ADVANCED AT HOME PHYSICAL THERAPY HOUSE CALLS: Unable to travel to physical therapy? We’ll come to you! Services covered by Medicare. Scheduled with a geriatric specialist near you!

Call today: 516-399-0051 www.Advanceathomept.com IF YOU USED THE BLOOD THINNER XARELTO and suffered internal bleeding, hemorrhaging, required hospitalization or a loved one died while taking XARELTO between 2011 And the present, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800-535-5727

Painting & Paperhanging JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing. Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378

Party Help LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

Tutoring ENGLISH TUTOR: Diane Gottlieb M.Ed., M.S.W. SAT​/​ACT, College Essays, AP, Regents, ELA Test Prep, Reading comprehension and writing proficiency. 917-5998007 or email: dianegot@gmail. com LongIslandEnglishTutor.com Providing one-on-one professional support to build confidence, knowledge and skills in every student.

TUTOR: CERTIFIED CHILDHOOD​/​SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER GRADES 1-6th: I am currently a fourth grade teacher willing to tutor students in any subject. Flexible hours and prices. Can also work with students with special needs. Experienced with State Test Prep and Common Core. If interested call 516-592-0719 for more information.

Instruction MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, Pre-Calc, AP Calculus.

Norm 625-3314

PIANO LESSONS By Ira Baslow.

Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty. 516-312-1054 www. iwantmypianolessons.com

MASTER CLEANING: A complete home service by reliable professionals. Home, apartments, offices. Carpet cleaning, window wash, floors stripped and waxed, move in, move out, attics, garages, basements, rubbish removal. All cleaning supplies included. Free estimate. 516-829-8137.

Call 516-829-8137 or 516-770-0514

STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs. Free estimates.

Bonded and insured. 516-538-1125 www.strongarmcleaningny.com

OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE: Owner operated sine 1989. 24 hour emergency service. Licensed​/​insured. Free estimates, member LI Arborist Assoc.

Please call 516-466-9220

NEED A CLEANOUT OR A MOVE? We can move it, sell it or haul it away! 2 Guys and a Truck Just $150​/​hr Call 516-279-6378 NEW YORK MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS: Joan Atwood, Ph.D. An experienced therapist makes all the difference. Individual, couple, family therapy and anger management. 516-764-2526. jatwood@optonline.net www.NYMFT.com

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▼ LEGALS GREAT NECK PARK DISTRICT NOTICE TO BIDDERS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Commissioners of the Great Neck Park District will receive sealed bids at the District Office, Five Beach Road, Great Neck, New York 11023, until 1 p.m. on June 19, 2015, for the rental to the Park District of the following: Rental of Audio and Theatrical Lighting Equipment The Board of Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to accept the bid which it deems to be in the best interest of the Park District.

Bid specifications and forms of bid may be obtained at the Park District Office during normal business hours, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Dated: Great Neck, New York June 11, 2015 Board of Commissioners Robert A. Lincoln, Jr. Daniel M. Nachmanoff Frank S. Cilluffo GNN 141715 1x 6/12/​2 015 #141715 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Name: AUNT KAREN LLC Arts. of Org. filed by the Department of State of New York on: 04/01/2015. Office loc: County of Nassau. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 82 Arleigh Road, Great Neck, NY 11021 GNN 141562 6x 5/15, 22, 29, 6/05, 12, 19, 2015 #141562 Notice of Formation of Justin Naim, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/5/15. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 6 Hamptworth Drive, Great Neck, NY 11024.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

GNN 141560 6x 5/15, 22, 29, 6/05, 12, 19, 2015 #141560 Notice of Formation of G. Naim, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/5/15. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 2 Cow Lane, Great Neck, NY 11024. Purpose: any lawful activity.

GNN 141561 6x 5/15, 22, 29, 6/05, 12, 19, 2015 #141561 Notice of formation of FINE STAR PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/15/15. Office located in Nassau County.

SSNY has been designated for services of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: 42 Plymouth Rd Great Neck NY 11023. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

GNN 141677 6x 6/05, 12, 29, 26, 7/03, 10, 2015 #141677 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North Hempstead​—​ Board of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town will meet at Town

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Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, to consider any matters that may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #20013 ​​Joyce Wang, variances 70-29.B, 70-30.A, 70-31.A & 70-32 to construct additions exceeding permitted floor area in required front, side and rear yard setbacks; W/side #6 Rose Ave., 140’ S/of Vista Rd., Great Neck, Sec. 2, Blk. 178, Lot 28, R-A District.

APPEAL #20014​—​Bruce Boyd, variance 70-100.2.A(2) to maintain fencing beyond the front building line; W/ side 72 Virginia Dr., 187.37’ S/of Thompson Shore Rd., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 60, Lot 10, R-C District.

APPEAL #20015​—​Bhagyavan Umpathy, variance 70-50.B to construct additions within a required front yard setback; N/E​/​ cor. 1672 New Hyde Park Rd. and Baxter Ave., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 171, Lot 152, R-C District.

APPEAL #20016 ​​ Maria Cristina Zaccarini, variance 70-50.A to maintain an enclosed porch within a required front yard; W/ side #22 Tuxedo Ave., 205’ N/ of Vale Ct., New Hyde Park, Sec. 9, Blk. 493-1, Lot 8, R-C District.

APPEAL #20017​—​Sonia Ceballos, variance 70-100.2.A(4) (a)(5) to maintain fencing exceeding the permitted height; SE​/​cor. 2 Park East & Hillside Dr. S., New Hyde Park, Sec. 9, Blk. 510, Lot 1, R-C District.

APPEAL #20018 ​​ Paul Katz, variance 70-100.2(G) to maintain a portable shed exceeding permitted area; N/W/C #61 Barnyard Ln. & Bucket Ln., Roslyn Heights, Sec. 9, Blk. 541, Lot 12, R-AA District.

APPEAL #20019 ​​ Anthony Amalfitano, variance 70-100.2.A(4)(b) to maintain fencing exceeding permitted height and forward of the building line; N/side #27 Cromwell Rd., 784.69’ E/of Langdon Rd., Carle Place, Sec. 9, Blk. 595, Lot 13, R-B District.

APPEAL #20020​—​Syed Ahsan, variances 70-32.6 and 70-101.B to maintain an expanded driveway exceeding the permitted front yard paving area and a planter within a required front yard setback; E/ side 126 Birch Dr., 160.65’ N/ of Cedar Dr., New Hyde Park, Sec. 9, Blk. 608, Lot 15, R-A District.

APPEAL #20021 ​​ Estate of Frank Lee, variances 70-208.F, 70-195.16.D, 70-52.5 & 70-51.A to maintain an exterior cellar entrance, insufficient side yard setbacks and front yard paving exceeding the permitted maximum on a non-conforming dwelling; S/side #626 Roman Ave., 50’ W/of Wright St., Westbury, Sec. 11, Blk. 15, Lot 32, R-C District.

APPEAL #20022 ​​ Elrac, LLC, conditional use 70-126.D & variance 70-196.J(1)(b) to permit the continued use of premises for the parking, storage, sales & rental of automobiles, & to maintain signs exceeding permitted dimensions & area; N/side #131 Northern Blvd., 433.82’ E/of Great Neck Rd., Great Neck, Sec. 2, Blk. 50, Lots 236 & 240, B-A District.

APPEAL #20023 ​​ C&P Real Estate Holdings, LLC, appeal for determination, or in the alternative, conditional use 70-184.3.B & variance 70-103.A to permit interior alteration of office space to food use with insufficient off-street parking; End​/​of #99 Seaview Blvd., 597.69’ W/of Osprey Ct., Port Washington, Sec. 6, Blk.

89, Lot 54, MPIP District.

APPEAL #20024​—​Anthony Coppolino, variances 70-44, 70-100.2.A(4), 70-229.A, 70-196.J(1)(a), 70-197.H to maintain signage exceeding the number permitted on a wall and attached to a fence and to maintain a tow terminal (not a permitted use), with fencing exceeding the permitted height and beyond the front building line, and non-compliance with previous appeal #6856; W/side 1011 Lakeville Rd., 160.64’ N/ of White Ave., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 10, Lot 40, R-C District.

APPEAL #20025​—​Joseph Valentine, variances 70-194, 70-192.A to permit the continued use of existing steel fencing exceeding the permitted height and the maintenance of entrance gates with insufficient setback; W/side 51 Kinkel St., 375’ S/of Main St., Westbury Section: 11, Block: 75, Lot: 69, I-B District.

APPEAL #19913 ​​ Manuel Valente, variances 70-48, 70-49.B, 70-51.A, 70-100.1.F, 70-100.1.A, 70-100.2.A.4.b & 70-100.2.A.2 to maintain a one-story addition to singlefamily dwelling exceeding the permitted lot coverage and floor area, within required side yard, a garage in a side yard and fencing exceeding the permitted height and in a front yard; S/side #214 Roslyn Ave, 200’ E/of Jamaica Blvd., Carle Place, Sec. 10, Blk. 6, Lot 13, R-C District.

APPEAL #19972​—​Jose Martinez, appeal for determination, or in the alternative variance, 70-231 and variances 70-103.A, 70-103.B, 70-103.O, 70-195.15.E, and 70-208.F to construct a frame addition to a non-conforming structure in a business district for conversion to mixed use with insufficient off-street parking, stall sizes and stall to curb dimension; S/W​/​cor. #814 Prospect Ave. & Sherman St., Westbury, Sec. 11, Blk. 89, Lot 87, B-A District.

APPEAL #19809​—​Anjali Kakwani (Owner)​/​Jogendra S. Bagga, variances 70-49.B, 70-50.B, 70-100.2.A(2), 70-100.2.A(4)(b), 70-100.2.H and 70-208.F to maintain additions to a non-conforming dwelling exceeding the permitted floor area, a deck within a required front yard setback, an A/C unit within a required side yard setback, fencing exceeding the permitted height and fencing beyond the front building line; N/side 355 Glen Cove Ave., 200’ W/of Rushmore Ave., Carle Place, Sec. 10, Blk. 268, Lot 323, R-C District.

(9-17-14)(12-10-14) All interested persons should appear and will be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting and​/​or hearing.

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5 vie for 2 spots in VGN trustee race Continued from Page 50 tion. He said the opposition candidates ran on a “stealth” basis last time, so he assumed they would be back for this election, but on the ballot.

Beckerman, a certified public accountant, said part of being trustee is making sure the village runs effectively and that most don’t know the day-to-day operations — such as cleaning the streets — take a lot of work.

“I want to continue to maintain the services of the village,” Beckerman said. “Garbage, infrastructure; all these things that everyone wants.”

Beckerman was first elected as trustee in 2001, has said he is running for re-election because he is committed to making the village a better place to live.

“It’s not just about Village Hall,” Beckerman said. “It’s about the day-to-day operations of the village.”

Beckerman said if re-elected he wants to continue to move the village forward.

“I want to continue to listen to residents and make government work for them,” Beckerman said. “It’s keeping the village running, the [Department of Public Works] moving, keeping village services going and improving infrastructure.”

Bass said he wants to see things he has helped implement as trustee come to fruition, such as the rezoning of parts of Middle Neck and Steamboat roads. He said the rezoning will create more housing, increase commercial opportunities and make Middle Neck Road more walkable.

Bass, who is CEO of Executive Strategies Group LLC, a strategic advisor to business owners and executive management, was first elected to be a Village of Great Neck trustee in 2007. He said he had previously served on the village’s planning board from 2000 to 2002 and the village’s zoning board of appeals from 2002 to 2007.

Bass began his career as a transportation planner in New Jersey during the early 1970s.

He returned to New York and became the first district manager appointed by Community Board 11 in Queens where he supervised the delivery of municipal services to the area.

He then worked in the administration of New York City Mayor Ed Koch as the director of the Bureau of Management Analysis in the Department of Sanitation.

He is the chairman emeritus of the Long Island Capital Alliance, a member of the Manhasset Bay Protection Committee and on the Board of Governors for the American Jewish Committee.

Bass said he also wants to continue the routine work that comes with being a village trustee as well, such as making sure the roads are cleared and the trees are maintained.

“I don’t need to do this, I want to do this,” Bass said. “Being an official at a local level is a very personal thing. Chances are you know most people.”

Being a trustee, Bass said, requires experience and skill, and that if someone wants to run for trustee they should join one of the smaller village boards first.

“I would rather those running for office attend meetings on a regular basis and get

deeply involved in the ongoing operations in the village,” Bass said.

Bral, Mendelson and Christine Campbell were part of an under-the-radar write-in campaign in the 2013 elections, which resulted in hundreds of residents lining around the block to vote for the challengers.

Campbell was originally set to run for trustee on the Voice of the Village party ticket, but declined the nomination after her name was submitted on the petition. Plakstis then accepted the nomination to replace her and run for trustee.

On voting day in 2013, Trustees stood for hours making phone calls outside the polling station to residents, contending with rain as they shored up support against the surprise challenge, officials said at the time.

In one instance, Kreitzman called former Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-Great Neck), who put out a robocall to encourage supporters to vote for the re-election of Kreitzman, Beckerman and Bass, as well as the election of Trustee Mark Birnbaum as village justice.

Kreitzman defeated challenger Bral 325 to 232. Beckerman took 316 votes and Bass won 320 votes, with opposition trustee candidates Christine Campbell and Mendelson receiving 226 votes each.

Voting on Tuesday will take place from 12 p.m.-9 p.m. at Great Neck House at 14 Arrandale Ave. The Village of Great Neck Mayor is paid $10,000 a year and trustees are each paid $4,800.

Nematzadeh said that as an IranianAmerican he feels an obligation to serve his community and run for trustee in Kings Point.

“The Iranian-American community has an obligation to serve on local boards — community members need to step up and serve,” Nematzadeh said.

Nematzadeh, president of Nemat Homes Inc., was first appointed as a Village of Kings Point trustee in September 2012 after former Trustee Peter Aron resigned. He was then elected to his first full term in 2013.

He has also been Great Neck Chamber of Commerce President for four years.

“I care for my village. I don’t need this for any other reason than I want to serve my community and my village,” said Nematzadeh.

Nematzadeh also served as vice president of the United Mashadi Jewish Community of America from 1998 to 2001 and as executive vice president of the Iranian American Jewish Community of America from 2003 to 2014.

He also has served on the Village of Kings Point Planning Board since 2001.

If re-elected, Nematzadeh said he wants to continue to maintain the quality of life in his village. He said he also wants to keep taxes low for village residents all while not compromising on the quality of village services.

Voting will take place from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kings Point Village Hall, 32 Steppingstone Lane.

In Lake Success, trustees Adam Hoffman, Gene Kaplan and David Milner will all run unopposed. Trustees are paid $1,800 a year.

Voting will take place from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lake Success Village Hall, located at 318 Lakeville Road.

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stormcats topple Fire Dragons, 5-2 Led by coaches Alan Cooper, Mark Wasserman and Ken Gensch, the New Hyde Park BU11 Stormcats demonstrated their skills this weekend in a commanding 5-2 win over the Westbury Fire Dragons.

Within the first few minutes of play, Dino Vidaich placed the ball in the net on an assist from Colin Coope. Just a few minutes later, Luke Notine outwitted the Fire Dragons’ goalie on a penalty shot by shooting the ball to the lower right side of the goal. The Stormcats went into halftime leading 2-1 and emerged from halftime with determination.

Colin Coope amazed with a spectacular header into the net off of a corner kick

by James Asmus. Just a few plays later, Colin placed a ball high in the air over the heads of the defensemen, allowing James Asmus to tap the ball into goal. Finally, James Asum sealed the deal with a goal on a game-ending breakaway play.

James Gensch, Daniel Garcia, and Ryan Oommen excelled on defense, while Brendan Cooper, Joseph Vienni, Michael Windischmann and Wafiq Rakib showed their skills on offense. As always, Ryan Kunak’s athleticism helped him to make some fabulous saves in goal.

Intramural New Hyde Park Wildcats Soccer, Boys U7 GALAXY (Coaches Scott Liewehr and Sam Thomas): The Galaxy earned their third win in a row on Saturday, 4-0 over the Sounders. Simon Thomas started things off with a great run down the sideline and a beautiful cross in front of the net, allowing Christian Reger to power in a shot for the 1-0 lead. Reger had two additional shots on goal in the first half, but the Sounders’ keeper kept the Galaxy at

bay for the remainder of the half. The Galaxy defense, led by Gianluca Glavic and Nico Liewehr, suffocated the offensive attempts by the Sounders, and midfielders Samuel Hu and Ewan Zehnter controlled the pace of the game. Albert Kuo was excellent in goal.

In the second half, the Galaxy played some of their best team soccer all year, showing great ball movement and headsup passing. Will Handley went on the attack, firing three shots on goal in the half, two of which found their way to the back of the net. Daniel Cho and Gavin Dugger also applied pressure on offense, while Ethan Moy was relentless in battling for possession from the midfielder position.

Reger filled the keeper duties in the second half and was an absolute barricade, at one point rejecting a free kick that went through the defensive wall and would have gone just under the crossbar were it not for his fast reflexes. With a 3-0 lead and an afternoon of tireless offense, Zain Begawala’s hard work paid off with a nice goal to close out the game.

REVOLUTION (Coaches Kurt Anschlowar and Kevin Sequeira): The Revolution played tough on Saturday against the Red Bulls. Parv Shah, Clayton Wong, and Zachary Chen were solid in defense and in offense. Jonah Beniquez, on his 7th birthday, played a stout defense. Michael Farruto and Harrison Accosta were both tough in the net for the Revolution.

Aiden McNeely and Thomas Anschlowar both played sturdy as well. Goals were

Cosmos look to clinch on giveaway night

The Cosmos can clinch their first NASL spring title on June 13 at Hofstra University’s Shuart Stadium.

With a win or draw at home this Saturday against Jacksonville Armada FC the New York Cosmos will become Spring Season champions of the North American Soccer League.

Be there to cheer on the boys in green in their quest for a spring title.

It’s also Marcos Senna bobblehead night at Shuart Stadium. Get there early to pick yours up while supplies last.

Senna, 38, announced this week that he will retire as season’s end.

Kickoff at 7 p.m.

scored by Brandon Sequiera and Chris and Aiden Hom handled the midfield.

Rodgers. Despite this total team effort, Thomas and Benjamin McNulty continue the Revolution fell short in goals, losing to grow each week. Lucas Correle had to the Red Bulls. some burst of good dribbling and play as RED BULLS (Coaches Rob Honovic well. Michael Tagios scored off of a nice and Boris Ribaric): The Red Bulls bat- right-footed shot to tie the game at 3. The tled the Revolution and came away with Crew should be proud of coming back a well-deserved 8-3 victory. The team twice to finish the match 3-3. started off shorthanded but stayed in the game until reinforcements came. In goal, Intramural New Hyde Park Wildcats Vasilios Dallas again displayed sound Soccer, Boys U6 goaltending by helping the Red UNITED (Coaches Scott Liewehr Bulls stay in front and mak- and Rafael Gonzalez): The United duing great saves throughout. eled a great Dynamo team on Saturday Giovanni Salmeron led and ended up with a hard-fought 3-3 tie. the attack by scoring four Mathias Campuzano scored early to give goals. Gio continuously the United a 1-0 lead. The Dynamo came advanced the ball with back to score three unanswered goals his speed and created in the half, but not for a lack of offenmany scoring chances. sive might by the United. Daniel “Duke” Kaleb Dyasi continued his Morley and Jacob Boldur had numerous great play as he chipped in shots on goal, but the Dynamo keeper with two goals of his own. was relentless. Mikey Russell played hard Kaleb also controlled the ball and in goal, and Antonio Bucobo gave great generated many scoring prospects for the effort on both offense and defense. team. Joseph Teetz and Arnav Kohli each Down 3-1 in the second half, the scored a goal of their own. Joey provided United applied consistent pressure up many scoring opportunities by using his front. Campuzano scored the first goal of speed and knowing where to be at all the half after a long run past the defense, times. Arnav played great on both sides and Morley followed with a second off an of the ball, helping out the defense when assist by Boldur. Justin Liewehr played needed and showing great hustle. Devon strong in goal and kept the Dynamo Shah played a solid game, making great scoreless in the second half. The United defensive reads and continuously shut- played great as a team and they look forting down the opposition’s attack. With ward to making more strides next week. only one more game remaining, the Red Go United!

Bulls are looking to close out the season with another great match.

New Hyde Park Soccer Club’s Roaring CREW (Coaches Kieran and San- Tigers Looking for Players dra Griffin and Mary DelloIacono): The The 2015 Division 1, New Hyde Park Crew had to regroup and fight hard this Wildcats’ Roaring Tigers (Girls U16 fall weekend as the opponent jumped out to season) are actively looking for talented a 2-0 lead. Despite being down early, the and motivated players to add to our team.

Crew persevered. Eamon Griffin tallied Interested players, please contact Coach the first two Crew goals as Dale DelloI- Phil Lugo at (516) 775-8120 or nhp_roaracono and Gabriel Padilla paced the de- ingtigers@hotmail.com to arrange a tryCHERRY - 1/8 Page-H - 06-12-15_Layout 1 6/8/15 4:25 PM Page 1 fense and Liam Dempsey, Niko Koutsoftas out.

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