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A&P agrees to sell local supermarkets By J oe N i k i c The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. auctioned more than 100 of its supermarkets, including a Waldbaum’s in Great Neck, at a Manhattan law office last Thursday and Friday. The financially beleaguered company also tentatively agreed to sell 12 A&P, Pathmark and Waldbaum’s stores, including the Pathmark at 2335 New Hyde Park Road in New Hyde Park, to ShopRite parent company WakeFern Food Corp. for $40 million, according to documents filed in United States southern district bankruptcy court on Sept. 29. The WakeFern-purchased locations will be placed for auction on Oct. 8 if competing bids emerge. If they are outbid, WakeFern will receive a $1.2 million “Termination Payment” from the successful bidder, according to court documents. Staten-Island based Key Food Stores Co-operative Inc. recently modified their offer to purchase Continued on Page 48
PHOTO BY JOE NIKIC
These Model A Fords were in display at Sunday’s Great Neck Plaza Autofest that included Camaros, Matadors, Corvettes and other classic American and European cars. See story on page 4 and more phots on pages 44 and 45.
Manhasset woman found dead in NYC Kiersten Cerveny believed to have died of cocaine overdose By B i LL S A N ANToNio ANd Joe Nikic
A police source told the Daily News on Monday that preliminary autopsy findings show that Kiersten Cerveny, 38, who A Manhasset woman was practiced at Prohealth Care Asfound dead Sunday morning in sociates LLP at 2 Hillside Ave. in the lobby of an apartment build- Williston Park, was not a homiing in New York City’s Chelsea cide victim, but instead died of a cocaine overdose. neighborhood. “Based on the preliminary finds, we are not treating this as a homicide case,” the source told the Daily News. “There is nothing at this point to suggest crimi-
nal activity. We have no indication, so far, of any force issue in her death.” A law enforcement official told Newsday on Tuesday that the preliminary autopsy revealed that Cerveny had cocaine in her system but further toxicology tests were needed to determine how much was in her system and whether there were other drugs present as well. Cerveny was discovered “unconscious and unresponsive” around 8:30 a.m. in the vesti-
bule of the building, located at West 16th Street near Seventh Avenue, according to published reports. She was later pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Hospital. The cause of her death will be determined by the city’s medical examiner. A New York City police department source told Newsday that authorities have obtained video that purportedly shows two men carrying Cerveny down Continued on Page 48
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