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G.N. officials bash LIRR for service change Call for express trains during peak hours

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

PHOTO BY ROBERT PELAEZ

Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reinstate express service on the Long Island Rail Road for the Great Neck train station on Tuesday.

Elected officials throughout the Great Neck peninsula, Town of North Hempstead and Nassau County made a unified call to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reinstate express service on the Port Washington line of the Long Island Rail Road on Tuesday.

The bipartisan call to action was made following the MTA outlining the proposed schedule changes in June as part of the agency’s $11.2 billion East Side Access Project. The proposed changes, residents and officials said, are providing commuters on the Port Washington branch of the LIRR with a decrease in express service.

“Every day, thousands of Nassau County residents depend on the Long Island Rail Road to commute to work and come home,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said during a Tuesday press conference. “Their new schedule plan makes it much harder for people to plan their schedule. In effect, they’re cutting service.”

Stops on the Port Washington Line, which also includes the Great Neck, Manhasset and Plandome stations, would increase by more than 20% during morning peak hours, according to the schedule.

While Long Island Rail Road officials said a majority of Port WashContinued on Page 38

Blakeman warns Jersey car thieves

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said 75% of stolen cars throughout Nassau this year were done so by Newark residents during a press conference on Thursday.

From Jan. 1- March 31 of this year, more than 300 stolen vehicle reports were filed to the county’s police de-

partment, a 255% increase from the same time frame last year, according to statistics.

Ryder and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman criticized New York’s bail reform and Raise the Age laws, saying they are putting the safety of New Yorkers at risk.

“Because of laws like cashless bail and Raise the Age, people in the whole

state have been less safe,” Blakeman said. “We have people who commit crime after crime in New York. They steal a car, they’re out the same day.

The next day they steal a car, they’re out the next day.”

In 2017, New York raised the age of criminal responsibility to individuals who are at least 18 years old. Ryder said crime rings throughout Newark

are sending younger individuals to steal cars since they will not be prosecuted as adults.

“You can’t keep letting people out of jail,” Ryder said. “They know if they come here, they will not get arrested, but still, they also apply to Raise the Age. They send 15 and 16 and 17-year-old kids to do these acts and they know if they get caught… they’re

going to get out.”

Blakeman signed an executive order earlier this year which cites a need to “increase transparency by disclosing in daily reports the pending criminal case data and bail status of those rearrested” by the Police Department. He said the reports will be made available online.

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Blakeman blames rise Dog park hearing in crime on bail reform sees calls for unity ‘These criminals are allowed out without having to post bail’ Proposal would create 2 new locations

BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R

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County Executive Bruce Blakeman addresses rise in crime in first three months of 2022 in Nassau at a press conference.

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman attributed New York’s bail reform laws to the 75% increase in major crime Nassau County saw in the first quarter of 2022 compared to last year during an interview with Blank Slate Media.

Blakeman, who has been outspoken in his displeasure with the bail reform laws since he launched his campaign for county executive last year, said there is a “state of lawlessness” throughout New York and it has resulted in repeat offenders coming back to Nassau County to commit crimes.

“We have to get serious about changing the laws so that we don’t give criminals more rights than victims,” Blakeman said. “Unfortunately, that’s the way it is now. We’ve got people committing crime after crime and judges are not given the discretion whether or not to hold these people and I think it’s a huge mistake.”

Until the laws are modified, Blakeman said, police departments throughout New York will have a more difficult time doing their jobs.

“These criminals are allowed out without having to post bail, without

any accountability for their actions and the number of crimes they have committed,” he said. “It’s dangerous and its made us all less safe.”

Statistics showed that 1,662 major crimes were committed throughout Nassau County from Jan. 1-March 31, up from 950 crimes during the same time frame last year.

In Nassau’s 3rd and 6th Precincts, which make up a majority of North Shore communities, 645 major crimes occurred during the three-month span this year, compared to 333 last year, an increase of 93%.

The list of major crimes includes murder, rape, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, commercial robberies, other robberies, assault felonies, residential burglaries, other burglaries, stolen vehicles and grand larceny.

Blakeman signed an executive order earlier this year which cites a need to “increase transparency by disclosing in daily reports of the pending criminal case data and bail status of those rearrested” by the Police Department.

The order also said more than 2,000 repeat offenders across the state were subsequently arrested for a violent felony while another case was pending. More than 400 of those

repeat offenders were rearrested for a violent felony involving a firearm, according to the executive order.

The county has yet to release the daily reports or a monthly or quarterly summary of the pending criminal case data and bail status of those rearrested.

Blakeman said there are some “isolated instances” where defendants have been held on bail for an “unusually long period of time,” but said those are outliers of a trend of individuals released on cashless bail and becoming repeat offenders.

The county executive said a potential solution could be to give discretion back to the judges but also monitor the defendants and the judges. Every 30 days, if someone is not released on bail, they would have to go back before a judge.

“That way there would be some accountability and that would solve the problem,” Blakeman said. “Instead, our lawmakers in Albany made these crazy and bizarre laws that take away the discretion the judge has had for over 100 years.”

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As the saying goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

The Great Neck Parks Department meeting on Thursday night was mostly identical to the first one two weeks earlier.

Currently, Great Neck only has one dog park on Colonial Road. They would create two extra ones as part of the pilot initiative, which has been in the works since July 2021, in Allenwood Park and Village Green.

The latest public hearing was more civil than the previous one on June 30. The last meeting had 100 attendees create a nearly three-hour battle that featured verbal altercations, threats of legal action and the ejection of people.

Yet, the greatest difference was the noticeable amount of calls for compromise. In the wake of continuous online arguments, many expressed frustration with the situation.

“I want to hear other people in the community coming up with creative solutions instead of just being angry and saying no. The world changes all the time and we have to change and work together and be a community and respect each other and I do not see that happening,” said resident Andrea Katz. “And personally, that

saddens me very much because Great Neck used to not be like this. But it is now and I think this is a good opportunity for us to do something about it.”

Individuals who didn’t speak on June 30 could do so first. After, those who spoke last time could address the audience once more.

Many comments referenced or expanded on the topics addressed last time. But most responses reflected personal experiences or already-expressed ideas.

People opposed to the pilot program said the issue wasn’t about dogs.

Instead, their problems stemmed from its proximity.

“If you do a Google Map Search on dog parks, you will find that none of the dog parks are this close to residential homes,” said Yunpeng Sun. “Which is also why you should not believe the false claim that this dog park will improve home value. Homes that are this close to dog parks were not in this study because they don’t exist.”

Leslie Hirschhorn, a resident, said those complaining should understand what living near a park entails.

“I bought my house knowing that I would have noise from trains and now they’re increasing the trains so we’re gonna have more,” she said.

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Allenwood Park. The Great Neck Parks Department hosted a second open forum on a dog park pilot program on July 14.

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Hildebrandt’s history key for new owners Great Neck native Spencer Singer wants to tell eatery’s unique story to patrons

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Spencer Singer, the Great Neck native and half of the new ownership duo that recently purchased Hildebrandt’s in Williston Park, has made a career in the fashion space re-launching brands and creating a narrative through men’s apparel.

At 84 Hillside Ave., he begins his first chapter in the food space and has a lot he wants to say.

“This place really has such a story,” Singer said. “I want to be able to tell that story when you walk in.”

Singer and close friend, or “cousin,” Randy Sarf of Great Neck recently signed a 10-year lease with Hildebrandt’s new landlord, saving the iconic restaurant from an uncertain fate.

The two partners began talking in late April after Sarf found out about Hildebrandt’s unfortunate situation earlier this year.

The 14-table candy confectionery, restaurant and ice cream shop said in a post on its Facebook page in July 2020 that it would “no longer be in business within the next few months.”

The statement said that the closing was due to the building’s landlords deciding to sell it, and the new

owners “creating something different,” and explicitly stated that the closure was “unrelated to COVID-19.”

On Feb. 2, the restaurant’s Facebook page posted an update saying that the new landlord is looking to increase monthly rent from $4,500 to $6,700. With nearly 100 years in business, the business had urged former and current village residents to help the store gain landmark status and preserve the Hildebrandt’s name.

The current team, consisting of previous owner Bryan Acosta, manager Tom Bauman and Acosta’s daughter Hunter will stay with Hildebrandt’s for at least a year.

First opened by Henry Hildebrandt in the late 1920s, the restaurant was sold to Alma Steffens in the 1950s. Steffens then sold it to Helen Baum in 1974, and Baum sold it to Alfred and Joanne Strano in 1975.

The Stranos later sold it to their daughter Susan, who owned and operated it with her husband, Bryan, from 2007 until her death in 2015.

Since then until recently, Acosta has kept the store going with Hunter.

Now with a new lease on life, figuratively and literally, Singer says Hildebrandt’s can take steps towards modernization while keeping the same charm that Long Island has

whelming.

“Whether it’s talking to a table of four different generations or someone stopping me outside and telling me their grandfather built the building, and the whole block, it makes me realize this responsibility we have,” Singer said. “Not as business owners but for these people. Responsibility for these stories and what it means to them.”

Films like “The Book of Henry,” starring Naomi Watts, and, most notably, Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” have used the shop’s frozen-intime interiors to evoke a cozy soda fountain aesthetic.

In 2011, the restaurant was featured on the Food Network program “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” with manager Tom Bauman showing host PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN and chef Guy Fieri a process for making butter pecan ice cream. Former Hildebrandt’s on Hillside Avenue was recently purchased by two new owner Joanne Strano also appeared, making sauce and fried mozzarella owners, who also signed a 10-year lease at the location. with the chef. Fieri praised the location as “timeless.”

Singer also said there’s a “sleepPossible additions may include a come to love.

“For us, it’s about how we bring new air-conditioning system, outside er” for his favorite flavor on the menu this place back to its glory and make seating, a take-out window and infra- among the ice cream made from it feel the way it did back in 1929,” structure improvements, Singer said. scratch in Hildebrandt’s basement.

“The banana ice cream. So good,” In the brief time he and Sarf have Singer said. “Our plan is not to change what it feels like inside, just owned Hildebrant’s, Singer says the Singer said. “Take your best banana community support has been over- bread and put it in an ice cream.” to make it better.”

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Nassau basketball legend loses $250K Roslyn’s George Beamon falls in overtime during Ones Basketball League championship

BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R In a thrilling matchup, Roslyn’s George Beamon lost in overtime in the Ones Basketball League’s championship game, missing out on the tournament’s $250,000 in prize money.

Beamon, 31, has played around the world since his time at Roslyn High School and Manhattan College.

He booked his ticket to the OBL finals in Las Vegas on July 15-16 after taking first place and $10,000 in the Los Angeles regional tournament on June 19.

In a pre-game interview prior to the championship game, he dedicated his performance to God. All Beamon does, he said, is “pray and work.”

“Whoever is in front of me, I’m going to go out there and give it my all, use the God-given talent that God gave me to manifest my dream,” he said. “You know what I’m saying? Let that continue to take me. I walk by faith, always.”

In an intense title match, John Jordan defeated Beamon 10-9 in sudden-death overtime. The game ended with Jordan hitting a contested shot to win the title and the

PHOTO COURTESY OF ONES BASKETBALL LEAGUE

George Beamon. He was defeated 10-9 in overtime in the championship game of the Ones Basketball League.

$250,000 prize.

Basketball legend Tracy McGrady established the OBL to recognize the top players in one-on-one competition. It gives individuals who did not play in the NBA for a long time the chance to show off their abilities.

Beamon received All-Long Island and All-New York State accolades as a Roslyn High School Bulldog during his junior and senior years. He had the highest scoring average on Long Island as a senior, with 34.2 points per game. In 2008–2009, he guided Roslyn to the Class A Nassau County Championship.

While a Jasper, he twice made the first team of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. He led them to the MAAC championship as well.

They went to March Madness in 2014 because of this.

Beamon spent a year in the NBA G League, the NBA’s official minor league, after being undrafted out of college. During that season, he played for the Texas Legends and Oklahoma City Blue.

Since then, he has competed in Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Iceland and the United Kingdom.

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Four rob Greenvale jewelry store Assailants smashed cabinets, stole watches before fleeing toward Northern Blvd.; police

BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R

Police are looking for the four men responsible for the robbery of a Greenvale jewelry store on Saturday afternoon.

At around 4 p.m., the group broke into London Jewelers at 180 Wheatley Plaza. They smashed the glass display cases with a sledgehammer, stole an unknown number of watches and then fled towards Northern Blvd.

There were five employees and no customers inside the store during the incident. No one was injured.

The stolen jewelry’s worth is unknown.

An investigation is still ongoing.

Police are requesting anyone with information to contact them.

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London Jewelers at 180 Wheatley Plaza in Greenvale. On Saturday afternoon, four men robbed the store.

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Hillary Clinton endorses Zimmerman Ex-U.S. secretary of state, Congresswoman Grace Meng back Great Neck resident for Congress

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left) endorsed Robert Zimmerman (right) for Congress on Monday.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed fellow Democrat Robert Zimmerman for the 3rd Congressional District Monday.

Clinton, who was the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election against Donald Trump, announced her support for Zimmerman on Twitter. Clinton said the Great Neck resident and co-president of the public relations firm ZE Creative Communications will “defend our democracy… against an extreme right-wing Republican,” George Santos.

“I am proud to endorse Robert Zimmerman for Congress in NY03,” Clinton tweeted. “Robert has a proven record of standing up to the gun lobby and protecting abortion rights.”

Zimmerman said he was honored to receive Clinton’s endorsement, acknowledging her advocacy to defend women’s rights.

“Long Island and Queens residents deserve a real Democrat who isn’t afraid to stand up for our values,” Zimmerman said in a statement. “As a lifelong Democratic activist and leader, I have

the experience, values, and commitment to take on this fight in Washington and deliver results for our communities.”

Last week, Zimmerman also received an endorsement from U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, who serves the state’s 6th Congressional District in northeast Queens. Meng, who has represented the 6th District since 2013, was the first Asian American to be elected to Congress throughout New York and has pushed for more diversity among representatives.

If elected, Zimmerman would be the first openly gay member of Congress from Long Island and Queens.

“Robert understands that our diversity is our strength. He will bring thoughtfulness and inclusivity to all that he does,” Meng said in a statement. “Whether it be supporting a woman’s right to a legal and safe abortion, combating the gun violence raging through our country, or protecting the sanctity of our elections and institutions, Robert will stand with us.”

Other endorsements for Zimmerman’s campaign have come from former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Assemblyman

Charles Lavine and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Zimmerman is seeking the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who is running for governor. Also running for the Democratic nomination in the district’s Aug. 23 primary are former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan, Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington and Oyster Bay’s Reema Rasool.

George Santos is seeking the Republican nomination.

New district maps were submitted recently by a court-appointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court earlier this year.

While the 3rd Congressional District under the new proposal does not extend as far west as the Bronx or Westchester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa. The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

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Lafazan 1st in quarterly fundraising Nassau County legislator raises more than $530K from April-June, leading CD3 candidates

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (D-Woodbury) raised the most money in the second quarter of 2022 among qualified candidates running in the 3rd Congressional District, according to the Federal Election Commission.

“I feel so confident about the direction our campaign is going,” Lafazan said in a statement. “Everyday I meet people in Nassau and Queens who simply want representatives who will rise above the divisive rhetoric and infighting in Congress and use common sense to work with anyone who will get things done.”

Lafazan raised $532,219.50 from April through June, bringing his campaign fund-raising total to $1,535,002, good enough for second among all candidates and first among Democrats running for the district. Of individual contributions to Lafazan’s campaign, $798,935 has come from New York residents.

Financial disclosures for this period, which were submitted by July 15, track contributions, money spent and cash on hand from April 1 to June 30.

Robert Zimmerman, a businessman and longtime Democratic National Committee member from Great Neck, raised $324,342.39 in the second quar-

ter, bringing his campaign fund-raising total to $1,241,256.27. State residents contributed $705,273.25 to Zimmerman’s campaign. In the first quarter, Zimmerman raised the most money with $916,913.88.

Economist George Santos, the lone Republican vying for his party’s primary, raised $312,050.33, bringing his campaign total to $1,930,103.62, the highest among all candidates. Santos has received $439,159.26 in individual contributions from residents of the state.

Former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, who currently is Suffolk County deputy executive, raised $196,466 in the second quarter. The quarter brings Kaiman’s campaign total to $582,271.20. Kaiman’s in-state individual contributions total $324,449, according to FEC filings.

Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington raised $79,357.20 in the second quarter, giving her a total of $376,329.05 raised since the start of her campaign.

D’Arrigo has raised $139,132.38 in individual contributions from the state.

Oyster Bay’s Reena Rasool raised $20,390 in the second quarter, bringing her campaign fund-raising total to $82,946. Rasool has raised $25,500 from in-state individual contributors

throughout her campaign.

The candidates are running for the seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who just lost the Democratic primary for governor to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Suozzi recently endorsed Lafazan to replace him in Washington.

Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, First Lady and U.S. senator from New York, endorsed Zimmerman this week. Zimmerman was also endorsed by Queens Congressman Grace Meng last week.

New district maps were submitted recently by a court-appointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court several weeks ago.

The changes removed state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi from running for the 3rd District. She is now running against U.S. Rep. Sean Maloney in the state’s 17th Congressional District While the 3rd Congressional District under the new proposal does not extend as far west as the Bronx or Westchester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County, such as Hicksville and Massapequa. The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

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The Capitol in Washington, D.C. According to the Federal Election Commission, among qualifying candidates running in the 3rd Congressional District, Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan raised the most money in the second quarter of 2022.

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North Shore Community Arts Council awards Before any of the presenting organizations and schools of the arts that now enrich the cultural life on long Island, NSCAC began in Roslyn in 1948 and flourished in Great neck from 1960 to 1983.

It brought to the community the best in music, dance, theater, cabaret, film and the visual arts.

Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor Ruth Laredo, Alexander Calder, Harold Clurman, Elizabeth Swados and many others brought their artistry to NSCAC. The School of the Arts was legend and offered instruction by artists such as Merce Cunningham and Carol Fijian. It ran 150 classes taught by 40 instructors in art, photography, dance, music, dramatics, etc.

In 1978, NSCAC sold its building at 236 Middle neck Road and moved to St. Paul’s Church. Here classes and performances of the same quality continued until 1983. No longer a Center, the Board was determined to continue of supporting the arts and artists. It co- sponsored concerts, dance programs, offered grants, had art tours and presented a gala banquet each February to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Since 1983, NSCAC has presented Certificates of Merit and Plaques to graduating seniors in North Shore High Schools who have excelled in the arts. The Morton Gould, Lenore Chapman and Eugene Brusiloff, and Rebecca Levy awards go to students who have been recognized for their talent in music. Since 2009, one student in North High School, and one student in South High School are recognized for their proficiency in poetry…the Rhea L. Poserow award. There is also a Special Achievement Award for the one student in his/her school who has excelled more than any others in the Arts.

The awards this year from Great Neck South High School go to: Elena Zhang… Rhea L. Poserow Award for Poetry (plaque) Kathy Chan and Lauren Kim… Opera (certificate) Katherine Wang... Band (certificate) Laura An… Orchestra (certificate) Sophia Woman… Eugene Brusiloff Award in Brass (plaque) Dana Siong Sin… Lenore Chapman Award (plaque) Ella Li... Special Achievement Award in Music (plaque) Derek Yu… Art (certificate) Victoria Monroy and Ross Williams… Drama (certificate) Gabriella Sanchez… Dance (certificate)

The awards this year from North High School go to: May Tun… Rhea L. Poserow Award for Poetry (plaque) One of May’s poems will follow below.

Trinity Wu… Dance (certificate) Sara Rafaeil... Special Achievement Award (plaque) Samantha Becker… Vocal music (certificate) Christopher Yang… Vocal Music (certificate) Tiantian Wei… Music (certificate) Sahar Tartak… Lenore Chapman Award (plaque) Joshua Li… Morton Gould Award for Composing/Conducting (plaque) Shifan He… Rebecca Levy Award (plaque) Here is one of May’s poems: an end to a phone call hide behind the red white and blue i am comfortable behind democracy ignore the yellow, green and red they are not comfortable behind steel bars hide behind a screen twitter hashtags facebook messages flipping through pictures praying that your face isn’t one of them 550.550 and counting. bodies pushed into trucks limbs out of windows a pink pacifier lies on the street with a long red trail behind it guns shooting feet running ears ringing

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Kaplan raises Internal poll shows Lafazan’s over $200K in lead, others question legitimacy filing period

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

An internal analysis from the congressional campaign of Josh Lafazan showed more than $205,000 during the that the Nassau County legislator is tied

BY R OB E RT filing period from Jan. 15 — July for the best chance to win the 3rd ConPELAEZ 11. Her Republican opponent, gressional District’s Democratic primary State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D- Jack Martins, had $41,000 cash in next month, but some opponents exNorth Hills) announced Tuesday his war chest, according to filing pressed concerns about the survey’s legitimacy. she has more than $504,000 cash reports.

Results from the analysis showed that The incumbent expressed her on hand during the most recent gratitude for the financial support Lafazan and former Town of North Hempcampaign filing period.

Continued on Page 30 stead Supervisor Jon Kaiman each had Kaplan said she has raised 20% of surveyed voters’ support. Great Neck businessman Robert Zimmerman was in third with 10% and other Democratic candidates Melanie D’Arrigo and Reema Rasool each had 4% of votes. A total of 43% of surveyed voters were undecided, according to the results.

The analysis was conducted by the Mellman Group, an organization that has advised political leaders, Fortune 500 groups, public interest organizations and government entities with opinion research and strategic advice for more than 30 years. A total of 400 primary voters throughout the state’s 3rd Congressional District were surveyed between June 12PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN 16 through live phone interviews and cell surveys done online.

State Sen. Anna Kaplan raised more than $205,000 in Candidate positive descriptions were the most recent campaign finance filing period. also included in the survey, which led to

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Internal poll revealed he is in a virtual tie with former Town of Nolth Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman in Democratic primary race for the 3rd Congressional District.

Lafazan taking a 4% lead over Kaiman, 27%-23%, according to the results. Zimmerman received a 7% increase from voters while D’Arrigo received a 5% increase.

The number of undecided voters went from 43% to 22% following the descriptions.

The analysis also showed that Kaiman had a 44% favorability rate, the highest among the Democratic candidates. La-

fazan was in second with 35%, followed

by Zimmerman with 31%, D’Arrigo with 27% and Rasool with 20%, according to the analysis.

Chaser Serota, Lafazan’s campaign manager, touted the resources the legislator has to not only win the Democratic primary in August, but the general election in November.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

N.S. University Hospital Manhasset Bay Kayak Auxiliary’s annual golf classic Run on July 23 Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Councilmember Veronica Lurvey attended the North Shore University Hospital Auxiliary’s 43rd Annual Golf Classic.

They presented proclamations of recognition to Dr. Laurence Epstein and Mr. Michael Morici, Sr. for their ad-

vocacy for North Shore University Hospital and dedication to making a difference in the lives of others.

The Auxiliary has been a part of the North Shore University Hospital for over 70 years. During that time they have worked to support the endeavors of the hospital including its programs and services.

The Community Chest of Port Washington and the Town of North Hempstead invite all to participate in the annual Manhasset Bay Kayak Run on Saturday, July 23 at 10 a.m.

A family-friendly event, participants will launch from the North Hempstead Town Dock or Manorhaven boat ramp in Port Washington and will then proceed for a leisurely paddle around the bay. The event is a fundraiser for the Community Chest of Port Washington, a nonprofit grant-making organization that provides funding to charities that benefit Port Washington residents.

Participants may choose whether they would like to participate with kayaks, paddle boards, or canoes.

Kayak rentals are available to those who do not own their own kayak for discounted rates at Atlantic Outfitters,

405 Main St., and Kostal Paddle, 158 Manorhaven Blvd.

A raffle drawing of a brand-new kayak will be held at the conclusion of the event at Town Dock.

The entry fee for adults over 20 years of age is $30 or $45 on the day of the event, July 23. Young adults and children pay $15 or $25 on July 23. Visit www.portchest.org to register and pay online. In addition, registration forms are available at the Town Dock, Atlantic Outfitters and can be dropped off at the Community Chest (382 Main St.) or Atlantic Outfitters (Inspiration Wharf, 405 Main St.) A “rain” date for the event is scheduled for Sunday, July 24 at 10 a.m. For more information on this year’s Kayak Run, please call the Town of North Hempstead at 311, or the Community Chest at 516- 767-2121.

Temple Judea honors adult students Quails released to combat ticks Officials from the Town of North Hempstead including Supervisor Jennifer DeSena, Council Members Peter Zuckerman, Veronica Lurvey, and Mariann Dalimonte joined with Ranger Eric Powers from the Center for Environmental Education & Discovery at the Hempstead Harbor Trail for the Town’s sixth annual quail release, during which over a hundred Northern Bobwhite Quail were released into the forest to combat ticks.

The town has released Northern Bobwhite Quail for the past six years to help several of the Town’s parks combat ticks without the use of pesticides. The quail release is part of the

Town’s broader environmental initiative to use natural methods to control invasive species and disease-carrying pests.

The North Hempstead quail program is led by Ranger Eric Powers of the Center for Environmental Education & Discovery.

Ranger Powers also works with dozens of schools across Long Island who set up quail education programs in their classrooms teaching students to raise the quail as part of their animal life cycle studies that teaches science, environmental studies and responsible stewardship.

For more information call the Town’s 311 Call Center.

On a recent Shabbat, Rabbi Todd Chizner of Temple Judea held a special service honoring his Adult Education classes.

The challenge for the students was to plan and present parts of the Shabbat service that reflected the knowledge and insights they had gained over the past several years of study together. Rabbi Chizner suggested they could use the Torah portion of the week, Leviticus XXV as a possible starting point.

Or they could choose selections from the Shabbat prayer book on which to base their presentations.

Rabbi Chizner teaches these classes every week. The morning Torah study involves reading directly from the Hebrew bible to gain an understanding of the words and meanings of the many books and stories that have guided Judaism for thousands of years.

The evening class explores the Jewish prayer book, known as the Siddur. The participants learn about the origins and meanings of the prayers, the parts of the services and how prayers have changed over the years. All members of the congregation are welcome to attend; classes are on zoom A D’var Torah was given by two of the students. Each gave their own interpretation of the weekly Torah portion. This week’s portion dealt with Moses receiving directions from God on how to deal with the use and care of the land in anticipation of reaching the Promised Land.

A beautiful prayer, Hashkiveinu, which is recited at night asking for God’s protection as we sleep, was given a modern interpretation by one student. She illustrated how we can contemporarily interpret this prayer, incorporating the comfort of the

Rabbi Todd Chizner of Temple Judea. prayer with how we today can bring comfort to ourselves in these troublesome times. Her presentation was via Zoom.

One student discussed how he enjoyed going into the classroom; asking the Rabbi challenging “questions that would cross the Rabbi’s eyes”, borrowing the line from “Fiddler on The Roof”.

Another student described polishing the silver candlesticks her father had left her and thus being able to hold on to memories “for a little while.”

Some students read prayers found in the Shabbat prayer book, both in Hebrew and in English. Another sang one of the songs that are part of the Shabbat service.

It was an inspiring Shabbat service for the students and for the congregants who attended, both in person and “virtually.”

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Opinion

OUR VIEWS

LIRR goes off the rails once more

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n 2011, the LIRR told North Shore residents that the East Side Access Project could cut commute times by up to 40 minutes for passengers headed to the East Side who had to take lengthy subway trips to work after arriving at the lone New York City stop at Penn Station on the West Side.

At the time, the LIRR was trying to persuade the Village of Thomaston to replace the Colonial Road Bridge and build a pocket track extension as part of its plans to create an LIRR stop at Grand Central Station on the East Side by 2019.

The LIRR, which is part of the MTA, got the village’s approval backed by virtually every public official in office at the time and the bridge and the pocket track extension needed for trains to turn around.

But the village and the rest of the communities on the Port Washington branch of the LIRR have yet to get access to Grand Central Station, while the project’s estimated cost has risen from $8.24 billion to $11.2 billion.

That’s almost five times the project’s original estimated cost of $2.6 billion announced in 2006 when the undertaking was supposed to be completed by 2009.

And last week — surprise, surprise — we learned of LIRR schedule changes that would reduce express service into Grand Central Madison Terminal when the project is completed in December, adding 20% more stops during morning peak hours.

Which would add up to eight minutes per ride.

North Shore officials and residents were justifiably outraged.

“It’s vital that our communities make their voices heard about our displeasure with the loss of peak express service,” Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said during a press conference. “As

a Manhasset resident for 22 years whose family has relied on the Port Washington branch daily, I believe that these recently announced proposed changes are totally unacceptable.”

Port Washington resident Ian Rasmussen correctly said that adding three additional stations to the line is “adding insult to injury.”

“Considering how many more people commute to the easterly stations and that before now express and local trains were roughly full to the same extent, it’s obvious that Port Washington trains will be terribly overcrowded if express service is eliminated,” Rasmussen said in a letter to state Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Port Washington).

Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg and Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin said express service into New York City has been a longstanding part of LIRR service that Great Neck should not have to be deprived of.

“Currently there are six trains to New York between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. Under the proposed schedule there would be only two,” Lopatkin said. “This is totally unacceptable.

Likewise, reducing the off-peak service to Penn station to hourly only is equally problematic to our residents.”

Lopatkin is right on both counts.

Residents and officials also pointed out that the extra commute time would impact property values boosted by short commute time for the many residents who travel into New York City.

The reduction in express trains and reduction in off-peak service would also encourage some commuters to forego the LIRR for their automobiles at the worst possible time. Train ridership is already 60% of what it was pre-COVID. But let’s not put this past the MTA — especially when it comes to the East Side Access Project, which

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has widely come to be viewed as a boondoggle and a symbol of the authority’s ineptitude.

“Costs have also ballooned on other MTA projects, especially compared to international standards — the recently completed Second Avenue subway on Manhattan’s Upper East Side cost $2.5 billion per mile and the 2015 extension of the No. 7 line to Hudson Yards cost $1.5 billion per mile,” The New York Times reported in 2018. “Elsewhere in the world, a mile of subway track typically costs $500 million or less.”

The cost of large projects in New York is a problem that, as the East Side Access project demonstrates, has existed for decades and is a stain on the state’s political leadership.

And with the MTA’s decline in ridership the authority has less money for the LIRR. This likely means higher prices, less service or both.

While we are sympathetic to the MTA’s plight, commuters on the North Shore should not have to bear the burden of the MTA’s decades of ineptitude and cost overruns.

For its part, the MTA has said it would reconsider the schedule changes but at a price.

MTA spokeswoman Joanna Flores said in a statement the agency is “prepared to work with the town” to “provide even more service” on the Port Washington branch if the town supported efforts to expand train storage along the line.

In 2011, the LIRR said it was seeking to build a track expansion at its Port Washington station, which it said would provide more express service to Citi Field as well as Grand Central Terminal once the East Side Access project is completed.

The LIRR said the expansion would also improve train service in Manhasset and Port Washington.

But at the cost of lost parking spaces around the Port Washington train station.

The MTA has scheduled meetings to discuss the draft schedule and hear residents’ concerns.

But the authority is not exactly built to respond to local concerns with a service area comprised of 12

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counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

Four members as well as the chairman and the CEO are directly nominated by the governor of New York, while four are recommended by New York City’s mayor. The county executives of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties nominate one member each.

Each of these members has one vote. The county executives of Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Putnam counties also nominate one member each, but these members cast one collective vote.

Local residents and their residents should not let the size of the bureaucracy deter them from doing all they can to get the MTA to reverse its misguided schedule changes.

But even if authority officials say they will respond to North Shore residents’ concerns, just exactly why should we believe them?

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KREMER’S CORNER

Supreme Court is our newest divider

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t is no secret that America is a divided nation. Its divisions have increased, thanks to the four years of Donald Trump. But historic factors, such as race, gender and resentment of immigrants, have also caused our politics to become toxic.

On top of all the old grievances, there are now new players contributing to national tensions. Those players include the U.S. Supreme Court, elected members of the U.S. Congress, plus a governor or two. Sadly, the Supreme Court is now the divider-in-chief as a result of its recent decisions on abortion, climate change and guns.

Abortion has caused a national schism for the past 50 years. The court’s 6-to-3 decision in the Mississippi case has sparked an openly bitter battle between the two very entrenched sides. It has encouraged red state governors to push for laws to outlaw abortion, with few exceptions. A handful of red state governors has also suggested a ban after

15 weeks, but the bulk of the crowd has voiced support for total bans and criminal penalties for doctors and women who travel out of state for an abortion.

Before pouring gasoline on the abortion fire, the court decided that New York’s gun carry law was unconstitutional and that there were few restrictions that would stand up under challenge. This decision has triggered a battle at the state level.

New York has passed a new carry law and has designed numerous places as “gun free zones” that is already being challenged. Other blue states are in the process of passing their own versions of a carry permit law, but it’s the Supreme Court that created any new barriers to sanity.

Not to be dissuaded by the outcry from their two June decisions, the court then decided that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the power to regulate greenhouse emissions from the power plants. In simple terms, if the agency

differ over what is causing the violent changes we are experiencing all over the country, but the ice is melting, the storms are getting more and more vicious and much of our most treasured natural resources are being destroyed.

According to reliable court watchers, there is more damage on the way.

The court will soon be considering a case that deals with which body can decide whether an election is conducted properly. At the present time, if there is a questionable election result or ballot issue, the aggrieved party can seek relief in the courts.

A new case is on its way which may result in the court deciding that only Kremer’s Corner a state legislature can decide which complaint is valid. That decision will created by Congress to keep the air no doubt stir up new rancor and lead clean isn’t allowed to regulate dirty to stolen elections. air, then who is going to do it?

The various Republican goverThat is an example of another de- nors around the country are doing cision that creates more tension over their share to stir up as much bitthe battle against climate change and terness as possible between various its effects. Reasonable people can interest groups. Florida’s Gov. Ron

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DeSantis has targeted the LBGT community and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has made all immigrants his No. 1 target. Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have decided that just about every minority group is the enemy and their pronouncements prove it.

Cruz is so hung up on LBGT people that during his recent questioning of our newest Supreme Court Justice Ketani Brown Jackson, Cruz created a slide show about a book taught at a private school where the justice was a board member. The book was on LBGT subjects and Cruz tried to embarrass the justice with his mocking questions. That was another nonproductive way to send signals that anger fair-minded people and capture the attention of the bigots.

There is no question that we do not have a quick fix for any national healing of our bitter divisions. But it is sad that some of our greatest institutions are now a party to further cleaving the nation into bigger and bitter rivalries.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Not quite nonstop summer fun for me

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hen you are young, summer is non-stop fun: visiting a family cottage, sailing on somebody’s boat or just spending a day at the beach.

Fun, fun, fun!

It’s only as you get older that you realize: Somebody had to put a lot of work into those places before the fun could begin. And more and more — that somebody is you.

I have lowered my sights. All I wanted was a barbecue. After a long, exhausting week, I thought a barbecue for friends would be a nice way to relax.

I could not have been more wrong.

First, there was deciding the menu. Burgers are easy to eat, and cook, but not so easy to make, unless you use the pre-made patties that I can never find in the store when I want them. Steak is too expensive, fish falls apart—that leaves chicken.

I remembered a recipe a friend of mine used, a marinade with ginger and soy sauce, and decided to

try that one. So I ran to the store and bought chicken cutlets and salad fixings, and raced home to start the marinade.

Oops! I forgot to check my spice cabinet before I began. Halfway through the recipe, I ran out of soy sauce and ginger. Back to the store.

Oh, and olive oil. And Ziploc bags to marinate the meat in, because that really works much better than the Corningware my mother used.

Finally, the food is prepared and waiting in the fridge. Time to go out back and check on the table and chairs.

Here’s something else I forgot — I haven’t used this furniture since last summer or cleaned it. Everything’s filthy and dusty, and needs hosing off. Which then means it must also be towel dried, by hand, as now there isn’t enough time for it to dry in the sun. This step would be great for developing biceps and abs — if I had any.

Now, where is that charcoal grill? It was somewhere in the garage when last seen, also last sum-

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side mer — but we’ve had a contractor making that garage his center-ofCasa-Judy-operations since then, and nothing is where we left it.

At last I find it, sitting in a corner, under a stack of rakes and snow shovels. (Truly, a garage for all seasons.)

It is another hour before my

two boys — whose simultaneous visit home I am trying to celebrate — think to ask if we still have any charcoal briquettes.

“Don’t tell me I have to go back to that store again for charcoal? Or anything else? They’ll be putting my picture up in the entrance….”

“Don’t worry, Mom, we can get it all.” And they’re off to the store.

I finally unearth the tablecloth I always used for that picnic table.

I remember cleaning it before putting it away, but somehow there is still a sticky patch of ketchup or barbecue sauce. (“Or maybe it’s blood” remarks my spouse, with far too much glee in his voice.)

The table is ready, and not a minute too soon, because here are my friends, with chips and appetizers (thank God, because I had forgotten all about those) and lemonade. “Oh. Ice!” I yelp. It’s only thanks to the miracle of dawdling that my sons are still in the store when I text them to get a bag of ice. They have remembered the ice cream and the beer all by them-

selves. (No, not to be served together.)

We are finally all sitting down, mouths watering for delicious barbecued chicken. This is the point at which I remember that I threw out all the paper plates to make room for toilet paper, at some point during the pandemic. So we all troop into the kitchen, each carrying out an actual china plate and silverware to the patio, “the better to eat with.” It’s rather a hike, out a side door and then around to the back, since this house was not designed to be barbecue-friendly.

Nor, when you boil it all down, am I. Oh, I loved the final result — with my two boys running the grill and all of us having fun. But it was exhausting.

I never thought that just “relaxing” could be so much work.

In fact, I’m all “relaxed out” and will remain so until this time next summer, when I will forget how tiring this was and will therefore go through it all again.

Some people never learn.

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THE BACK ROAD

Bipartisan gun safety law is a start T

he Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was signed into law July 11 by President Biden after Congress passed the first significant gun safety measure in nearly 30 decades.

It will enhance background checks for gun buyers under 21, support state Red Flag laws aimed at persons who are believed to be a danger to themselves or others, disarm domestic abusers, clarify who must run a background check, crack down on interstate gun trafficking, fund community violence intervention, invest in community-based children’s mental health services and provide school safety funding.

After the signing ceremony Biden tweeted, “With the Safer Communities Act, we’ve moved the mountain of obstruction and indifference that has stood in the way of gun safety laws for decades. Now – in the name of those we’ve lost in elementary schools, grocery stores, parades – it’s time to galvanize that movement.”

It’s a start!

Having worked in the field of children’s mental health for nearly a half century, I am often asked what I think are the causes in the explosion of mass

shootings by young men in America.

(1). First and foremost, I believe that poorly regulated access to firearms and weapons of war, in particular, is the No. 1 problem.

It is true that a person intent on mayhem and murder, if they have no access to guns, can find other means to carry out their deranged wishes.

For example, in 1995 Timothy McVeigh, then 27, bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. He killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children. More than 680 others were injured in the blast.

McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, was enraged about the 1993 siege in Waco, TX, that resulted in the deaths of 82 people, many of whom were children.

His aim in bombing the Murrah Building was to inspire a revolution against what he viewed as a tyrannical federal government.

McVeigh’s weapon of mass destruction was a 5,000 pound bulk industrial explosive, mounted inside a rental truck. Although, theoretically, anyone could have pulled this off, in 2022 America automatic weapons are much easier to obtain and conceal if one’s goals are to commit mass murder and arouse widespread terror.

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(2). Second, the question of mental health looms large in debates regarding the causative factors leading to mass shootings. It is an argument favored by those most averse to common sense gun reform. The argument is captured in this popular slogan: “Guns don’t kill people — crazy people kill people.”

Early screening for mental health problems and timely access to affordable, quality mental health care are critical under any circumstances.

However, let’s be clear that people

living with mental illness are disproportionately the victims and not the perpetrators of violence.

(3). Third, the Internet and social media offer alternative “communities” for alienated and disturbed young people seeking some semblance of acceptance and belonging. These include social networking sites that instigate violence. Increasingly, social media is weaponized through the use of misinformation and disinformation intended to influence users’ behavior.

Easy access to such fringe communities begs the questions: How can we best identify young people who are drawn to such social networks and what can be done to help them, early on, to build prosocial connections in school and in the community to mitigate against violence?

(4). Fourth, and finally, the taboo and norms against committing mass murder are gradually dissipating to the point that increasing numbers of disaffected young people are actively exploring executing violent acts.

Taboos are behaviors typically prohibited by social custom. Norms are standards of social behavior that are tacitly agreed upon.

For example, although coming to a

full stop before proceeding through a stop sign is the law, it is also a norm. It is an implicit agreement among fellow citizens to look out for one another.

More than a law, it is standard of a civil society.

Nevertheless, that norm—coming to a full stop at a stop sign, no longer exists. In my experience, it is serially violated and rarely enforced. Pedestrians no longer have the right of way.

Drivers do.

Similarly, the taboo against mass murder seems to have disappeared into thin air. Shadowy figures like Ted Bundy and David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, who operated under the cover of darkness, are being replaced by a new breed of mass murderers – lost yet emboldened adolescents and young adults with AR-15s, operating in the clear light of day.

Limiting ready access to weapons of war, instituting preventive mental health screenings and care, better engaging and connecting with alienated children and teens, more aggressively monitoring and regulating social networks, and restoring prosocial norms are all on the menu if the horrifying ocean liner of mass murder is to be incrementally turned.

VIEW POINT

Blakeman puts politics over science

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he COVID Omnicron BA4 and 5 variants are surging in New York City and Long Island, infecting even those who are boosted and who have already had COVID, but you would never know it from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

Blakeman would rather promote his “Nassau County is Back” concert on July 30, inviting thousands to Eisenhower Park (unmasked, not socially distanced).

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Nassau’s longtime health commissioner, Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein, is resigning as of July 29, after serving in his role since 2011.

And an examination of how Blakeman is handling the renewed surge of a COVID variant, along with a worrisome outbreak of Monkeypox, is significant because of who will take Eisenstein’s place.

It is entirely possible that Eisenstein is being forced out – by his own ethics because he is being muzzled from telling Nassau County residents to put their masks back on when going indoors or into crowded situations or being pushed out by Blakeman because he refuses to politicize health.

The situation is reminiscent of what happened in January, when the Omnicron variant was surging just as Blakeman took office, and immediately issued executive orders contradicting the state’s mask mandates.

That prompted Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams to write an angry letter to Eisenstein: “We do not see how you

can legitimately continue to function in your position of trust as Nassau County’s health commissioner.”

Apparently Dr. Eisenstein agreed, so he resigned and now, in the tradition of his supreme leader, Trump, Blakeman can appoint a lackey who will do his political bidding. (Efforts to get comment from County Executive Blakeman and Dr. Eisenstein were unsuccessful.)

TIME PERIOD? According to New York State data (which is still being reported), Long Island has a seven-day average of cases at 46.44 per 100,000, second highest in the state after New York City, which is at 49.89 (no surprise given the proximity).

This compares to a statewide sevenday average of 36.54 (which is being pulled up by New York City and Long Island); for comparison, the Capitol Region’s seven-day average was 20.30.

More data that should be relevant: 9.08% percent of the state’s reported cases are positive, patient hospitalizations rose by 63 to 2,460, with 506 patients newly admitted.

Just on July 13, Nassau County reported 786 new cases (totaling 464,264 residents who have had COVID), while Suffolk had 746 new cases for a total of 480,009. New York City on that day had 5,611 new cases for a total of 2,617,475.

Nassau on that day had three deaths out of the 14 statewide (bringing the total for New Yorkers who died from COVID to 56,740.)

Of significance, too, is that even those who experience a mild case of

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COVID can come down with debilitating and unknown effects of Long COVID (numerous diseases that emerge, like MS, are latent from earlier illness).

Long COVID has potentially affected up to 23 million Americans, pushing an estimated 1 million people out of work, and one in five American adults (or one in 13 adults, 7.5%, altogether) are experiencing Long COVID. Are you hearing Blakeman caution residents to wear a mask indoors or in crowded situations (as New York City is doing)? Be sure they are boosted? Urging parents to get their toddlers vaccinated? Nah. What is Blakeman really, really concerned about? Car thefts. Easing residents’ concern over shark attacks (it’s OK to go back into the water!). Lithium batteries. Toys for Tots for Ukrainian

refugees.

You know what else Blakeman could care less about? Monkeypox, perhaps because so far it mainly has impacted gay and bisexual men, and any compassion for this community would likely infuriate his rightwing religious base who gave him his narrow election win.

Meanwhile, the Nassau County Legislature Minority (that is, Democrats), sent letters pleading for the county to do something about Monkeypox.

By contrast, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new SMS-text notification effort to deliver the latest monkeypox information directly to New Yorkers.

(Sign up for text messages—which will include alerts about cases, symptoms, spread, and resources for testing and vaccination—by texting “MONKEYPOX” to 81336 or “MONKEYPOXESP” for texts in Spanish).The state is working with the CDC’s Monkeypox Response Team on vaccine distribution plans. s://www. health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/ zoonoses/monkeypox/).

State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said, “In public health, information is one of our most valuable tools.”

Blakeman’s policy is to have an information blackout.

Heaven forbid Nassau County will be hit with another pandemic before a vaccine and treatment is found. Blakeman would likely ignore it completely believing (falsely) that the county’s economy and budget will be immunized if he does nothing but let residents get sick.

Abrahams has urged the Blakeman administration to let the next county health commissioner do the job “without interference,” saying “medical science — not political science — must guide all decisions that impact the health and wellness of Nassau County residents,” Newsday reported.

Right now, Blakeman has been able to keep his head in the sand and evade responsibility because the COVID vaccine which the Biden administration made readily available has been keeping people from hospitalization and death in the horrifying numbers of 2020 (though impact of Long COVID on the health care system and economy is still to be determined). But the BA.5 surge shows the limits of vaccine protections.

What happens when there isn’t a vaccine or treatment sufficient to protect against a new variant or new pandemic?

What will Blakeman do then? Will he force workers into unsafe conditions as the Trump administration did to Midwest meat packers (who died by the hundreds) and Red State governors did when they canceled unemployment benefits to those who needed to stay home?

Will he ban corporations from requiring workers be vaccinated or wear masks as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did? Will he force children and teachers into schools without protection as Texas Governor Greg Abbott did?

It gets to the point that we can’t trust Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman to keep residents safe if it butts up against his politics.

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OUR TOWN

Behind scenes look at thoroughbred racing

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oseph Campbell, the noted mythologist, Sarah Lawrence professor and oracle to Hollywood directors, would instruct his students to “follow your bliss” when they asked him about career choices.

If you want to know what “following your bliss” looks like, get a visitor’s pass to the backstretch of Belmont Park Racetrack and talk to the folks devoting their lives to caring for thoroughbred racehorses. Their affability and good spirits are palpable because they have followed their passion for thoroughbred horses and the exciting world of horse racing.

My father’s family grew up in Ozone Park, just a short walk from Aqueduct Racetrack, which meant most of my uncles “followed their bliss” and got involved in the racing game as blood stock agents, trainers, ticket window workers or owners. Geography is destiny. They were all so wild that Damon Runyan almost did a story about the family. Last Sunday I called my cousin, Jimmy Ferraro, who trains horses at Belmont, and told him I was going to come visit him in the barns.

One of the uniquely appealing aspects of thoroughbred racing is that it demands a partnership between horse and rider. In horse racing, the rider takes second fiddle and the horse is

the one that gets all the fame or the blame.

When we pulled up to the backstretch barn used by my cousin, it was only about 7 a.m., but the place was all hustle and bustle with grooms, hot walkers and exercise riders doing their work. You get a glimpse of a farrier bent over shoeing a horse and a hot walker walking a stallion through the shed row. All around is the rich smell of horses, horse manure and hay.

When you get to watch these powerful beauties in training on the backstretch, you see why every backstretch worker falls in love with this sport.

Watching them run by on the soft dirt track is a feast for all your senses. You hear the hooves hit the dirt as they approach and then you hear their loud snorting breath as they blast by you.

On occasion you will hear the exercise riders urge them on with a little yelp or a smack of the whip.

My wife described thoroughbreds in the following manner. “When they walk about, they have the arrogant elegance of a pretty woman in high heels, but when you see them run on the track, they change into powerful masculine beauties.”

Thoroughbreds are born to run fast, having been bred from English mares and Arabian stallions back in

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the 12th century when knights needed speed to win battles. Since then they have been bred to be even faster and when you watch them race, you can see that they run for the joy of it.

Gambling is a part of racing and gambling revenue is about $115 billion annually. When we walked through Belmont grandstands later in the day, I saw that the crowds were not as they were when I was younger.

It seems that off track betting keeps the crowds away, which is a shame because the bliss of this sport can only be felt up close and personal with the sounds of the horses’ heavy breathing, the pounding of hoof to dirt and the

lash of the whip.

The racing game demonstrates the magic of human creativity. Thoroughbreds have taken 1,000 years to be bred like this and by now are the personification of the line in “Top Gun” when Maverick looks at Goose and says, “I feel the need…the need for speed!” All these animals have the need for speed.

Over the centuries the racing industry has gone beyond being the sport of kings. True there are kings and celebrities who partake in the action. Years ago, I sat next to rapper MC Hammer at the Belmont Stakes and will never forget the experience. He was attired in a white leather suit and gold chain, no shirt. That day he had a horse running and he bet the guy in the next box $1 million that he would win. MC lost that bet.

After he lost MC put his head on the table as if he was about to cry. I put my hand on his shoulder and said not to worry too much. There will be more days and more races. Nowhere do you see such things except at the racetrack.

The human mind has created the best of things for us to see. Things like the Metropolitan Opera House, which allows us to see dancers in the American Ballet Theater perform Balanchine

dances. Things like The Open Championship at The Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. Things like Saratoga Racetrack and Belmont Park.

And that is why the workers in the backstretch who are underpaid and have dirt all over their clothing, all seem to have smiles on their faces.

All those guys and gals have followed Joseph Campbell’s advice to follow their bliss. They all are getting up at 5 a.m. every day, seven days a week to go take care of all those beautiful thoroughbreds and then every afternoon go experience “the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowds.”

Nothing but fun, fun, fun. Just don’t bet the favorites.

A thoroughbred working out on the backstretch

E A R T H M AT T E R S

Plastic is no substitute for grass I

t’s interesting to think about how many of our serious environmental problems are a direct result of thinking we can do better than nature. Virtually every time we try to improve on what the natural world has worked out over billions of years, we find that nature was actually smarter than we thought.

Our modern solutions often don’t consider all the potential consequences, and as a result, we’ve got environmental problems that need solutions.

Take, for instance, grass. The lowly grass plant has evolved over billions of years to survive and thrive in a variety of settings, including the climate and soils of North America.

It’s rugged — and given the right soil conditions, will out-compete most weeds. In California, where they cultivate dandelions as a food crop, they routinely spray pesticides to control grass.

Grass is soft, strong, resilient, and like most plants and trees, helps with carbon capture. But grass isn’t good enough for some people. They don’t like the fact that it’s not indestructible — that you can kill a grass plant by running or stomping on it after a heavy rain, especially on a sports field, where we demand fulltime access and playability. Grass just isn’t making the cut.

Enter American business ingenuity. You want grass that can withstand almost any amount of abuse, that you play on even during a heavy rain event without damage? Well, the synthetic turf industry has the solution: plastic grass.

Of course, plastic isn’t soft like grass. So to cushion sports fields made from plastic grass, tons of used and ground-up tires — up to 40,000 on a typical field — are dumped into the plastic grass. Tires that were made with some pretty toxic chemicals, including known carcinogens arsenic, benzene, carbon black (which makes up to 40% of a tire), 1,3 butadiene, TCE, and cadmium, as well as neurotoxins, lead and mercury. These chemicals can volatilize into the air (you can smell the strong odor of rubber on a warm day) or run off fields with heavy rain and find their way into nearby water bodies, contaminating drinking water sources and harming aquatic animals and wildlife along the way.

To make the plastic grass, manufacturers need to use PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances) to help the plastic go through the extruders more easily in the factory. PFAS is a family of over 6,000 different synthetic chemicals that are widely used in consumer products and industrial processes. Often referred to as “for-

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ever chemicals,” they are persistent, bio-accumulative (they build up in our bodies) and are highly toxic to humans and other living things. As with the tire chemicals, PFAS migrate readily through our environment, leaving their poison footprint everywhere they go.

The “good” news about plastic fields, used as a major selling point by the turf industry, is that we don’t have to use pesticides to control weeds (not that a properly maintained field needs pesticides, but hey, It sounds like a great environmental selling point!). On the other hand, there is no soil biology on a

plastic field to take care of the various body fluids that are produced during sports play, tiny organisms quietly but consistently taking care of us without payment or notice.

Without nature’s help, we need to use heavy duty chemicals to make sure the plastic fields don’t become hot beds of pathogens that can cause nasty diseases.

So, now we have a giant plastic field, tons of toxic crumb rubber, toxic chemicals leaching into the environment and the need for more toxic chemicals to do what nature usually does for us. What else is great about plastic fields?

Well, disposal is something the plastic field salesmen rarely talk about because the news is all bad.

You can’t just take tons of plastic and ground up tires to the dump.

For one thing, it’s really toxic. Most landfills won’t allow you to dump your old field there, so you need to transport the old field hundreds of miles to a place where environmental regulations are more lax – usually an economically depressed area with a minority population where local leaders have decided to trade the health and safety of nearby residents for the lucrative fees they can earn from allowing toxins to be dumped there.

All of this environmental night-

mare is because we want to be able to play on our sports field even when there has been a heavy rain? We’re ready to accept all this toxicity and all this environmental degradation so our budding athletes can play on a “state of the art” plastic field?

I haven’t even mentioned the numerous injuries that can result from synthetic turf. Because of the unforgiving surface that occurs as the infill becomes packed down, concussions are more prevalent and excessive heat on hot days puts players at risk for second-degree burns on their feet as well as serious heat illnesses. Sports fans were startled when Odell Beckham Jr. pulled up short on a passing run in the last Super Bowl, having injured his ACL as his cleats got caught in the plastic grass.

Most professional athletes don’t like plastic grass — they prefer the real thing.

And, of course, I haven’t even mentioned the astronomical, mindbending cost of tearing up a grass field and replacing it with a plastic one. It’s in the many millions of dollars—money that could almost always be used for something that would benefit all kids, our communities and our environment.

But plain old grass just isn’t good enough. We think we have a better idea.

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MY TURN

Is Cancel Culture alive, well in classrooms?

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university or college is by mission an intellectually restive place probing ideas that are challenging and disruptive. It is a place that puts a premium on science and evidence, even when long-held beliefs and options are challenged.

Unfortunately, it is not unusual these days to hear pundits and politicians claim that college faculty members are imposing their political views on students and that students are not exposed to diverse viewpoints. We often hear and read such comments when an appearance by a right-wing provocateur evokes protests by those opposed to his remarks ridiculing Islam, feminism and social justice movements.

Another conservative speaker who provokes protests is best known for his complaints about teaching the history of racism, slavery, and colonialism.

When students and others protest such speakers, counter protesters complain of a “cancel culture” atmosphere on campus that limits the right to speak. These counter protesters complain that such speakers are being denied their freedom of speech.

But no one has denied their right to speak. Freedom of speech does not guarantee that a speaker will be paid by student fees to negate – cancel —

the lessons of history.

Must students be silent when a group on campus engages a Holocaust denier as speaker? Must students be silent when a group wants to use student tuition and fee money to hire someone who denies the legacies of slavery and lynching in America?

In my experience as a university president for 30 years at two institutions, such incidents are few in number.

Yes, campuses through classroom instruction and administrative policies have tried to promote social justice, i.e., the ethical treatment of all people. And they have tried to develop programs to expose discriminatory practices in the present as well as in the past.

Some people on and off-campus have protested these efforts at antiracism as radical and unbalanced.

They mock them as being “politically correct.”

But, by and large, in my experience these actions have been sincere attempts to promote knowledge of and respect for people with backgrounds and perspectives different from the majority, even if sometimes not well thought out.

To understand the dynamics on a college campus, we must consider the role of higher education and the nature of the student body.

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The role of advanced education is to foster critical thinking and openness to new ideas as well as mastery of subject matter. Such an education encourages questions, even of beliefs and opinions that seem to be ironclad.

Thus, in the teaching of history, we must ask the source of the information. Is it history as recorded by the master or the slave, the Brahmin or the Bohemian, the husband or the wife? Whose history is being recorded and told? The answer to this question matters, even when the results are uncomfortable or disquieting.

A good teacher provides mate-

rials with different perspectives to encourage debate. Such a teacher fosters questions and often models the Socratic or scientific method by challenging student assertions, not as punishment but as encouragement.

However, some conservative commentators object to a critical analysis of American history or public policy because it exposes damaging behaviors and policies of our country.

These facts will not go away if the lessons are canceled or ignored, and the accomplishments of the nation will not be negated by understanding the whole story.

Such commentators also ignore the various forces on a campus to promote effective teaching instead of preaching. These include academic program reviews that involve interviews with students and alumni, course evaluations, post-tenure reviews, and the “Rate My Professor” website as well as word-of-mouth comments by students about faculty.

The other dimension to campus life that should be understood is that students and their parents have become more interested in career preparation and a first job than in critical inquiry. Some students and parents complain about degree requirements in the humanities, arts, and social sciences when they want to focus on career preparation.

At the same time, there are other students, a minority in my experience, who exhibit the enthusiasms and certitudes of the young who think they know the “truth” and will brook no dissent. They, too, need to be encouraged to question assumptions and not attempt to cancel those who question their assertions.

Both sets of students are influenced by the broader culture where political divisiveness promotes canceling rather than communication.

Unfortunately, the divisiveness offcampus is being found more often in the board rooms of our institutions.

One of the major functions of higher education is to provide an environment in which young students can engage with learned faculty to debate and discuss the big questions of the age and the ages.

It is the role of the faculty and the administration to ensure that such an environment is supported, that it is OK to question the orthodoxies of the right, left, and center, and that the pursuit of knowledge is a process that is ongoing, a journey that will last a lifetime.

Dr. Robert A. Scott, Professor Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus, Adelphi University, and author, How University Boards Work, Johns Hopkins University Press.

READERS WRITE

Offended Ed Mangano: Nassau’s last Republican by point I of view A dear friend passed along the July 8 issue of the Manhasset Times.

I thought I would be reading about local issues involving the very affluent villages on Nassau County’s north shore.

Silly me! Little did I know that I was reading a far-left appendage of the National Democratic Committee!

The editorial position and the screed of the op-ed writers was an eye opener.

I guess the sky is falling and freedom in America is dead. Shall we all plan to move to another country?

My view is that all I read was, well, just rubbish!

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t is the curse of our age to actually pay attention. Let me set the table for you.

This week, Rep. Tom Suozzi endorsed Josh Lafazan to replace him in Congress in the 3rd CD. As this paper quoted Suozzi as saying: “We need someone who has a proven record of getting things done, someone who will stand up to people who say they want to defund the police, someone who will use common sense to get things done on behalf of the people they serve.”

I have to say after decades of living with this guy, Tom Suozzi has proven to be a monumental disappointment, and his career trajectory is both familiar and tragic. There’s a time to leave the stage and running for the Governor’s office with no clear reason to replace the incumbent left me wondering why he would even attempt it.

But his consistent use of race baiting using the sham “defund the police” rhetoric, his willingness to work with seditionists in the Koch funded “Problem Solvers Caucus” and his naked threat to derail the Biden Administration’s entire agenda over what is, at bottom, reinstating a tax cut for the wealthiest, was un-

acceptable behavior. Even the term “common sense Democrat” is a nod and a wink to the worst impulses in our community.

At this moment in our history, a Democrat in the Oval Office is an imperative. By comparison, a Democratic Congressman is expendable.

But one comment stood out. Mr. Suozzi said the “progressive” Democrats should leave and form their own Party. How the irony of this was lost on a man whose policy stance was to the right of a Rockefeller Republican, and made open threats to betray his own Party, is beyond rationalization.

Now let’s get to the crime issue that has all of you delicate little flowers curled up in a fetal position.

As this paper has noted, crime is being used to reverse Lincoln’s urging to appeal to the “better angels of our nature.” Instead, it’s being wielded like a blowtorch. It’s bad enough Republicans do it. They’re animals, anyway. But to see Democrats do it to whip up fear over this is disappointing and is an immediate disqualifier to anyone running in the Democratic primary for the 3rd CD. Some are still flogging bail reform, even though two modifications

have already passed. These people had you rubes thinking that 98% of the crime surge was due to bail reform, while it wasn’t even responsible for 2%. But they knew you would think that. Feeding on your fear and hate is their most potent weapon.

Now it’s time to hold some people to account. I remember a guy by the name of Ed Mangano, who, regardless of his flaws, acted according to his Party’s political principles.

Knowing that law enforcement took up almost half of County taxation, Mangano sought to curb costs by closing two precincts. He was a real Republican who actually BELIEVED all that stuff about shrinking the size of government.

The policy worked. Crime rates kept going down despite the closures.

But a coalition of the former Supervisor of the Town of North Hempstead and some over moneyed matrons, along with the PBA, colluded to re-open the Sixth Precinct.

And whaddya know, despite all that extra manpower larded on us, crime still went up. I ask you: how did the manicured and coiffed Ladies Who Lunch, whose expertise in law enforcement logistics remains unchal-

lenged, miss that one?

Not only did no one “Defund the Police,” Laura Curran lavished even more money on them on top of the precinct re-openings, and crime still went up.

Ain’t Democracy grand? When “leaders” can spend your money to get support at your expense, it shows they’re not worth holding office. It also shows they cower in fear over saying no to certain interests. But I expected nothing less from someone who gave a judge’s wife an $80,000 a year job as a tourism director for the town. Her husband is also running as one of those “common sense” Democrats. Ignore his candidacy.

He’s looking for a gold watch.

Give Mangano credit. At least he had the courage of his political convictions, and he’s the one going to prison. The others won’t, because THOSE bribes are perfectly legal, while you’re left holding the bag for decades!

You poor chumps. You can be sold anything.

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Santos endorsed by Rep. Kevin McCarthy

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Republican George Santos has been endorsed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as he bids for the 3rd Congressional District.

McCarthy has been in his current post since 2019 and represents California’s 23rd Congressional District.

“I am excited to announce that GOP Leader @kevinomccarthy has officially endorsed my campaign for Congress,” Santos tweeted July 7. “I look forward to working with him to take America back. Together we will help preserve and protect the American dream for generations to come.”

Santos’ fundraising totals in the first quarter of 2022 earned him second place among all candidates behind Democrat Robert Zimmerman and ahead of Democratic candidate Joshua Lafazan.

Santos is running for the seat currently held

by Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who is coming off a failed run in the gubernatorial primary, losing to Gov. Kathy Hochul in late June, and will not be running to retain his seat in Congress.

New district maps were submitted earlier this year by a court-appointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by the state Appeals Court several weeks ago.

While the 3rd Congressional District under the new proposal does not extend as far west as the Bronx or Westchester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa. The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

Santos, who ran against Suozzi in 2020, was named an “On the Radar” candidate in the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns program earlier this year, his campaign said.

Also running for the Democratic nomination in the district’s Aug. 23 primary are former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington and Oyster Bay’s Reema Rasool.

If elected, Santos would become the first openly gay member of Congress from Long Island and Queens.

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND DINING

SOUNDS OF CLAPTON TO ROCK GERRY PARK

On Wednesday, July 27, Roslyn will once again come alive with the sound of music for the first time in three years.

Mark that date on your calendar, it’s a fun night of great music that will thrill the entire family. Brought to you by the Greater Roslyn Chamber of Commerce and the Town of North Hempstead, Gerry Park (The Roslyn Duck Pond) will be the site of the first local appearance of the Classic Clapton Band.

Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived, and Classic Clapton will perform the

best of his music, including his hits, and music from Cream, Blind Faith and everything in between including “Layla,”, “White Room,”, “Sunshine of your Love,” “Beautiful Tonight” and much more. Sound by wellknown Dare Studios guarantees a clean, crisp sound.

Gerry Park is perfect for this outdoor event, located right next to Bryant Library and in the center of Roslyn Village with everything within a short walking distance.

Chamber Vice-President of Events, Lou Federico promised, “ This will not only be a great night of mu-

sic but an opportunity to hang out with your friends and neighbors, many who you may not have seen from before the Pandemic.”

Admission to the event is FREE so bring the whole family. For parking, try the new parking lot at Old Northern Boulevard and East Broadway, or the big new lot by Skillman Street Park. Bring your own chairs, sit back and enjoy.

Rich Branciforte, president of the Greater Roslyn Chamber of Commerce said, “ Come out for the music, but don’t forget to dine local, before or after the concert.”

The show runs from 6-8 pm, Raindate is Thursday July 28th at 6 pm.

Also, don’t miss the upcoming Halloween Hoot and the Christmas Tree and Menorah Lighting.

This free concert was made possible by sponsors Penn Toyota, Abeetza Pizza, Delicacies, East Hills Cleaners, Good Times Magazine, Holiday Farms, The Roslyn Times, Pierce Day Camp, The Atria on Roslyn Harbor, The Paint Place and Sara Companion Home Care Service. Patronize the sponsors, and let them know you appreciate their support for our community.

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Joan Jett set to rock Eisenhower Park

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z After a two-year hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Nassau County’s free summer concerts are set to return headlined by Joan Jett on July 30.

Jett, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is a longtime resident of Long Island and even served as a legislative delegate for Nassau County during the 2004 general election. Jett and her band, the Blackhearts, had a handful of top 40 hits, including “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll,” “Bad Reputation” and others.

Jett thanked County Executive Bruce Blakeman for helping organize the concert series and

said she was excited to play in front of a hometown crowd at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park later this month.

“We’re happy to be playing for all the hometown fans in a place that helped start it all for the Blackhearts,” Jett said in a statement. “After a few tough years, great to see this community coming back together for some fun, thanks to Bruce Blakeman!”

Blakeman, in an interview with Blank Slate Media, said county officials were discussing the summer concert series in February and that he wanted to do “something special” to show Nassau residents and visitors that the county is back in business following the pandemic.

“We decided to really have a great summer and to let everybody know that Nassau is back and we’re open for business,” Blakeman said. “We want people to use our beaches, to shop in our stores, eat in our restaurants and basically enjoy everything Nassau County has to offer.”

Those who battled on the front lines throughout the pandemic, Blakeman said, will also have access to a special VIP area, where spots will be on a first-come, first-served basis for veterans, doctors and first responders with valid identification.

“I want to encourage everyone, especially our veterans, doctors, nurses and first responders, to come out and enjoy a full night of great music in celebration of all we have overcome and all we are still to achieve,” Blakeman said.

The county executive also lauded the resiliency of Nassau’s residents to stay healthy and vigilant, not just throughout the pandemic, but other natural disasters in recent memory. The county’s diverse population and ability to unify

in the face of adversity, he said, is always a cause for celebration in the form of a summer concert.

“We have a hearty population here in Nassau,” Blakeman said. “We’ve endured hurricanes, superstorms and a pandemic. It just shows that our people are strong and united and that we have a sense of community, which is very important. I’m very proud to be leading such a great county.”

While Joan Jett and the Blackhearts may be a headlining act for Nassau’s summer concert series, other notable bands including The Smithereens and The Gin Blossoms are also scheduled to grace the Lakeside Theatre stage on July 23 and Aug. 27, respectively. Other musical performances at the park include a Zac Brown Tribute Band on July 29, Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” on Aug. 13 and a smattering of heritage nights throughout the remainder of July and all of August.

More information is available online at nassaucountyny.gov

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE

Joan Jett. She and her band are set to play at Eisenhower Park on July 30.

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4 tips for backyard barbecue success

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Barbecuing is enjoyed around the world and is especially popular in the United States, where even presidents have touted the virtues of cooking outside. Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter and even Ronald Regan hosted barbecues with tasty grilled or smoked food during their terms.

Barbecues are especially popular in spring and summer. Memorial Day often marks the unofficial kickoff to the summer barbecue season. After Memorial Day weekend, the smell of barbecue often can be detected on a nightly basis in suburban neighborhoods. Follow these tips to make backyard barbecues even more successful this year.

1. Make food safety a priority. A successful barbecue is one in which everyone goes home sated and stuffed with delicious foods. However, ensuring people don’t fall ill also is vital. Keep in mind that the temperature outdoors impacts the rate of spoilage for raw and cooked foods. Always keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold (place items on ice or in coolers). The Food and Drug Administration, advises moving leftovers indoors

promptly and discarding any items that have been sitting outside for longer than two hours at room temperature. Items should be moved indoors or discarded even more quickly in especially hot conditions.

2. Learn how to smoke. Grilling is one skill, and smoking is another. As the popularity of food smokers has increased, prices have come down.

Novices can visit barbecue competitions and talk to professionals about their tips for smoking foods, or learn more by watching tutorials online. Smoked foods take a lot of time to cook, allowing hosts an opportunity to mingle with guests.

3. Keep things simple. Serve only a handful of items to cut down on the amount of preparation required.

Two main proteins and maybe three side dishes is adequate. Chips or other pre-made snacks can fit the bill. Condensing options also reduces how much you have to manage. Be sure to have options for those with food allergies or intolerances when planning the menu.

4. Set up clusters of seating. Grouping sets of chairs at tables around the yard encourages guests to mingle. Also, it helps space out people for social distancing and avoids a bottleneck around the food.

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How to make grilling healthier S

ummer is synonymous with many things, including family vacations and relaxing days at the beach. For foodies, perhaps nothing evokes the spirit of summer more effectively than grilled foods.

Grilling is a beloved tradition, but it’s not necessarily the healthiest way to eat.

Traditional backyard barbecue fare like hot dogs and hamburgers likely won’t make physicians’ hearts flutter, but there are ways to enjoy the flavor of grilling without compromising a nutritious diet. · Replace burgers and hot dogs with healthy proteins. The occasional hamburger or hot dog won’t do much damage, but people who regularly grill should skip these summertime staples and replace them with healthy proteins. The American Heart Association reports that fish and skinless chicken breasts are healthy alternatives to hamburgers and hot dogs. Burger devotees can still enjoy their go-to grilled food, but replace ground beef with lean ground poultry, which contains less saturated fat than red meat.

· Avoid overdoing it. Most people have overindulged at a backyard barbecue at one point or another. The relaxed, partylike atmosphere of the backyard barbecue makes it easy to snack on chips and other unhealthy fare before moving on to burgers and hot dogs. Hosts can do guests a favor by replacing snacks and sides like chips and potato salad with healthier fare like celery, fruit salad or chickpea salad. Keep portions of grilled fare as close to a healthy size as possible. The AHA notes that a healthy portion of meat is around three ounces and no more than six ounces. · Create a salt-free rub. There’s no denying salt makes food more flavorful.

But that flavor comes at a high cost. The health care experts Piedmont note that excessive amounts of salt can contribute to inflammation from fluid retention and increase a person’s risk for hypertension, or high blood pressure. Salt may be a go-to for many grilling enthusiasts, but it doesn’t have to be. A salt-free rub made with chili powder, garlic powder, paprika, and/or other spices is an effective and salt-free way to add flavor to meat, chicken and fish.

· Grill more vegetables. Grilled vegetables, whether they’re part of kebabs or simply grilled alongside the main course, add significant flavor and provide all the health benefits of veggies cooked in more traditional ways. The AHA notes that coating vegetables in a healthy oil like olive oil makes it easy to grill them directly over an open flame without

sticking. Cooking in this way imparts that signature smoky, grilled flavor to vegetables.

This summer, grilling can be as healthy as it is flavorful. All it takes is a few simple strategies to make the menu at your next backyard barbecue one any doctor would love.

Oven-free summer dinner ideas Mid- to late-summer is appropriately known as "the dog days of summer" because it can be so doggone hot. The humid, sticky conditions of late summer can make people feel sluggish and looking for ways to cool down. The idea of warming up the house by turning on the oven to cook a meal may be especially unappealing.

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Savory salads Cool salads can be refreshing and light on hot summer evenings. Salads can range from tradition lettuce- or greensbased salads to pasta salads and chicken or tuna salads. Mix ingredients in advance and store them in the refrigerator. Serve chilled with toppings like shredded cheese, bacon bits and croutons to dress up the salads.

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READERS WRITE

The Sun as Parable $33B Gateway Project Across morning the sun blazes its glory.

Despite the tired old blue metaphors and euphemisms embraced since childhood, it is of its own accord whatever we believe.

Soaking up all our referents.

The truth of light and warmth.

The truth of day.

The truth of light against the universe of night and dark.

What drives the weather, the world we know, life as we know it.

A beacon sourcing the wind that fills my sails.

How do you account for a phenomena that seems to not know its perfection, the enormity of it?

Who like me wants to be a proper point of light for eternity, what I will never be.

Of course I note the silence of the stars.

But I, by definition, am given the ample chance to dream and cry out in the night that my life be fruitful, too.

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Once again, my friend kindly shares another amazing photograph, and notes that it was taken recently when the Earth reached aphelion, or the farthest point in its orbit around the Sun. The telescope used has a special “hydrogen alpha”, or “H-alpha” filter. According to Sky and Telescope magazine: “H-alpha light is emitted by hydrogen atoms, by far the most common element in the Sun, when electrons within those atoms absorb energy and rise to a higher energy level or orbit. When they cascade back to their original orbits, they release that energy as crimson light with a wavelength of 6562.8Å (656 nm).

The process occurs with great efficiency in the 1,250-mile-thick layer of solar atmosphere located just above the photosphere called the chromosphere. Here, the temperature rises from about 11,000°F to 36,000°F, hot enough to excite hydrogen to emit its singular red light.”

You can see a couple of nice solar prominences at the edge of the Sun, each of which are larger than the Earth. The image was captured with a monochrome sensor, which gives better resolution than a color sensor.

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far from done deal

here is more to do after Govs. Phil Murphy of New Jersey and Kathy Hochul of New York signed a Memorandum of Understanding for funding the local share of the $33 billion Gateway Project. This is before the Federal Transit Administration will enter into negotiations with the project sponsor to approve a $14 billion Capital Investment Grant Full Funding Grant Agreement for the first phase of work.

FTA might contribute up to 50%, or $7 billion.

This would pay for two new tunnels across the Hudson River to Penn Station plus rehabilitation of the two existing tunnels damaged by 2012 Superstorm Sandy. Who will oversee engineering, contractors and procurement? Will it be the Gateway Development Corporation, NJ Transit, Amtrak or the Port Authority?

Are Govs. Murphy and Hochul, or GDC, Amtrak and NJ Transit prepared to pay for the unanticipated inevitable cost overruns? There is also contract change orders due to unforeseen site conditions and last-minute scope changes. How much money is budgeted under project contingency to pay for these costs?

Under any FTA FFGA, the recipient of funding is legally responsible for all cost overruns as the federal share is capped.

Have they updated the project budget to account for this years 8% inflation rate? What about ongoing supply chain issues, rising material costs and labor shortages, especially in special trades such as tunnel boring needed for this project. Has this been incorporated into the latest proposed budget and schedule?

Amtrak, Port Authority, NJ Transit and Gateway Development Corp. must make public the details which justify both the $14 and $33 billion budgets.

Without this information, riders, taxpayers, trans-

portation advocates and elected officials will remain skeptical.

Was Gateway Tunnel ridership modeling dealing with promised significant increases over coming decades re-evaluated in 2022?

In 2015, the estimated cost for the full scope Gateway grew by $3.9 billion to $23.9 billion, In 2017, the new cost estimate grew another $5.2 billion to $29.1 billion. The estimated cost today is now $33.4 billion. Will this cost continue to grow over time by billions more? Will Gateway be completed by 2040 rather than the promised 2033 date?

The FTA, prior to any approved FFGA, will ask its own Project Management Oversight engineering consulting firm to conduct an independent project risk assessment for budget, construction feasibility, schedule and technical capacity of the project.

This report would make for very interesting reading if ever made public. It might reveal that either the no frills $14 billion or the full build $33 billion Gateway Tunnel project has potential risks to become the New York version of the infamous Boston “Big Dig.”. Don’t be surprised if FTA doesn’t come to agreement with the project sponsors and offers a formal Full Funding Grant Agreement until 2023 or 2024. This FFGA if approved, would be the largest in FTA history.

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.

Larry Penner Retired Former Director, Federal Transit Administration NY Region Office of Operations and Program Management Larry Penner — transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

Kaplan raises over $200K for re-election bid Continued from Page 11 she has received since the beginning of her re-election campaign.

“Nassau residents have made it clear that they want a representative who will stand up and fight for women’s choice, common-sense gun safety laws and affordability for Long Island families,” Kaplan said in a statement. “And Nassau residents have made it clear that they want a representative who will fight back against the extremist voices who are trying to take over our community and spread their dangerous agenda.”

Efforts to reach Martins for comment were unPHOTO BY DR. JAMES HAKLAR availing.

Kaplan was elected to serve the Town of North Hempstead’s 4th District as a councilwoman in 2011.

In 2016, she sought election to the House of Representatives but lost to current Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) in the Democratic primary. Kaplan defeated former Flower Hill Mayor Elaine Phillips in 2018 to represent the 7th Senate District.

Martins, an Old Westbury resident who represented the 7th District from 2011 to 2016, announced his campaign in late March.

A former Mineola mayor from 2003-2010, Martins restructured the village’s finances, debt and property tax assessment system, and improved

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government transparency by broadcasting meetings on TV and publishing information online. In 2008, Martins ran an unsuccessful congressional campaign against former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy before defeating incumbent 7th District Senator and Democrat Craig Johnson in 2010.

The race against Johnson was one that did not get resolved until early December due to Johnson demanding a recount of the votes, ultimately having his appeal denied by the state’s Court of Appeals.

After another failed attempt to get into Congress in 2016 when he lost to Suozzi, Martins shifted his focus to becoming Nassau County’s new county executive after former County Executive Edward Mangano was indicted on federal corruption charges.

Martins ultimately lost that race to Democrat Laura Curran, who served as county executive before being defeated by Republican Bruce Blakeman this past fall.

The 7th Senate district includes Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Mineola, Garden City Park, North Hills, Albertson, Old Westbury, East Hills, Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, Roslyn Estates, Albertson, Searingtown, Lake Success, Manhasset, Munsey Park, Plandome, Plandome Heights, Plandome Manor, and the Great Neck and Port Washington peninsulas.

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A look inside rentals, purchases, gambles We were living in Little Neck from 1975 (when we got married) through 1977. Our first rental was a two-bedroom, one bath on the first floor for $225. After one year we moved up to the second floor to a three-bedroom and one bath with a terrace and a garage that we paid $275 per month for. We were ecstatic to gain such excellent space and a terrace, too.

Our utilities were all-electric (heat and hot water), however, and were in addition to our monthly rent. Our Con Edison electric bill back then was around $125 per month. Those same rentals today would easily be $2,000-$2,700 per month an eightfold to tenfold increase.

In 1977 we moved back to my hometown of Great Neck. The price of our first home in the Village of Great Neck was $83,500 on North Road. I remember the interest rate was 8.1% and our mortgage and taxes were less than $600 per month. It was a small colonial a bit over 1,000 square feet in Great Neck with what I thought at that time was a decent owner’s suite with two very small additional bedrooms and only one bathroom next to our kitchen.

There was a small living room and a very small family room in the front of the home where in 1981 we watched MTV’s first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Bugles. We had a good-sized deck

in the rear. Our basement was unfinished where I ran my business. We had an oil burner producing hot water heat in our one zone system. However, the majority of the time, we heated our home during the winter with our amazing wood-burning stove in the living room.

At the time I had a landscape design, professional lawn-tree-and-shrub application business and was generally able to get my wood for much less than the price of oil and many times for free. The only improvements we had done were the bathroom and wallpaper in the kitchen.

Although the rates back then were much higher than our current rates, the price of a home was one-fifth the price of the average price of a home in the United States today. But 45 years later, our local Long Island prices—depending on the town and location—are higher by four to ten times what they were back then.

In 1981, we bought our first twofamily investment property on Steamboat Road for $83,200 and rented it out.

It was on 27,000 square feet of property.

We renovated the two kitchens and vinylsided the exterior. I ran my business out of it for several years and then sold it for $385,000, used the proceeds to purchase another piece of property in Hempstead in 1985 and built our own facility to house our trucks and materials.

In 1984, I took the real estate licens-

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ing course in Port Washington, as I was thinking of selling my current business and wanted real estate as an option to pursue as my next venture.

By 1986, we sold our first home for $176,250, which provided a 47% gain that we rolled over to our next home, which at the time was allowable on primary residences as long as you moved those gains within a two-year period. My kids were elated to know that our next home would provide them with much larger bedrooms, so they couldn’t wait to move.

In 1986, through many negotiations, we paid $404,000 for our next home located in Kings Point, owned by Charles Ward, who owned a surveying company called Ward and Webber on Great Neck Rd. We stayed in that home for only 18 months as we found it way too large for two adults and two children. Before selling the only improvement made was the replacement of the oil burner. At that time the market was on fire! We sold it for approximately $695,000.

I started to realize and surmise that the real estate business was a very lucrative one without any employees. I determined that this was my next calling.

Our Next home was back in the Village of Great Neck where we paid $400,000. A few years later a buyer rang our bell and wanted to purchase our home. The market was definitely softening, so we decided to sell. However, we decided to rent for a while as our gain was only $30,000 and we felt we would wait and see what the market would do in a year or two. However, we ended up renting two different homes for four years and invested our proceeds in rentals, waiting to see a change in the market to consider purchasing once again.

October 1987, was a huge turning point as the stock market crashed and we were extremely happy that we had sold and not bought again. Although I nor-

mally don’t recommend renting, at that time it was one of the best decisions we had made to date. Prices tumbled while we were renting.

By 1993, we finally bought once again for $287,500 and the seller provided us a mortgage so we saved all the bank fees. We are still happily in the same home after 29 years, the kids are married with grandchildren. We probably won’t be selling in the foreseeable future, but our current value is around $975,000, being somewhat on the conservative side. The last time I checked, a little less than 90% of the homes in Great Neck are listed above $1 million. Eight months ago 92.4% were listed above $1 million. So prices have come down slightly.

The future is always hard to predict, but things are changing and price increases will definitely not be as they were previously and appreciation will be much less, too, as inventory slowly increases.

But for now, the severe lack of inventory and still stronger than normal demand will still keep prices in a strong position, but that could change, too.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com

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The new alliance will be paramount in Northwell’s effort to transform digital and connected experiences with the cloud and artificial intelligence to increase the efficiency of care and allow the health system more opportunities to better deliver equitable care in the communities it serves.

Leveraging Google’s advanced technology will give Northwell the ability to enhance ex-

periences in digital scheduling, automate payer interactions and provide intelligent summarizations of medical information.

In addition, Northwell will leverage Google Cloud’s AI and machine learning capabilities for predictive insights to help with capacity planning and scheduling, and to identify risk indicators to help with early interventions.

“Digital transformation is critical to our long-term goals of further advancing clinical excellence in our health system,” said Michael Dowling, president and CEO, Northwell Health.

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well-being, and equity in care for our patients.”

As part of this partnership, Northwell Health will leverage Google Cloud as its preferred cloud platform for infrastructure modernization, and to build an interoperable data platform with AI and ML capabilities.

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Poll shows Lafazan leads, others question Continued from Page 11 “The polling, as well as outside analysis, shows that Democrats in Nassau and Queens are connecting with Josh’s commonsense message on protecting a women’s right to choose, fighting to enact gun reforms, pushing back against the misguided ‘defund the police’ faction in the Democratic party, and lowering taxes,” Serota said in a statement.

Michael Bloomfield, executive vice president and managing director of the Mellman Group said Zimmerman “still lacks the kind of base support that Josh Lafazan has built over the years.”

FiveThirtyEight, an opinion poll analysis created and run by Nate Silver and an ABC News subsidiary, projects that Lafazan is “slightly favored” to defeat Republican George Santos in the 3rd District election. The analysis, which simulates the election 40,000 times, provided a sample of 100 outcomes based on incumbency, fundraising, endorsements, other polls and prior political experience. Lafazan defeated Santos 57 out of 100 times in the analysis.

Jason Kaplan, a spokesperson for Zimmerman, raised questions about the legitimacy of the analysis, saying the poll was “designed to show [Lafazan] as the front runner and ultimately mislead voters.”

Robert Zimmerman is the only candidate in the race with overwhelming support from labor groups like the AFL-CIO, Hillary Rodham Clinton, progressive activists, members of Congress, and local elected officials,” Kaplan continued. “Meanwhile, Josh Lafazan has a better conservative track record than some of his Republican colleagues in the county legislature.”

Kim Devlin, an advisor for Lafazan’s congressional campaign, said the legislator will not be concerned with others’ criticism for the polls and analysis and focus on the issues at hand.

“Some of our opponents can continue talking about their insider endorsements like they are the holy grail, but Josh will stick with his message of less guns, legal abortions, lower taxes and pushing back again ‘defund the police,’ which accounts for not only the Mellman Group poll showing him winning the Democratic primary, but also the highly-respected ABC News’ FiveThirtyEight projection that Lafazan will be the Democratic nominee,” Devlin said in a statement.

A statement from the D’Arrigo campaign said that, despite the analysis’ results, the momentum remains with their progressive candidate from Port Washington.

“We have the largest ground game, carry the most endorsements, and built the strongest coalition leading up to the election—from everyday folks across the district to national leaders and organizations,” according to the statement. “And we accomplished all this by running unabashedly on our values, not taking a single dime of corporate PAC money or allowing dark money interests to buy our stances. In short: We’re excited about the campaign we are running.”

Suozzi, the district incumbent who lost in the gubernatorial primary race to Gov. Kathy Hochul, has not disclosed what his plans are going forward. The congressional primary is scheduled for Aug. 23.

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While the 3rd Congressional District does not extend as far west as the Bronx or Westchester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa. The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

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6 Cary Road, Great Neck

6 bd, 7 ba, 6,800 sqft, Sold On: 5/27/22, Sold Price: $3,850,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

4 bd, 2 ba, Sold On: 5/27/22, Sold Price: $1,200,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

14 Polo Field Lane, Great Neck

2 Shore Park Road, Great Neck

6 bd, 5 ba, 6,145 sqft, Sold On: 5/27/22, Sold Price: $2,600,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

5 bd, 6 ba, 4,500 sqft, Sold On: 6/6/22, Sold Price: $1,800,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in Great Neck and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Great Neck officials united in LIRR criticism Continued from Page 1 ington line commuters would benefit from the updated schedule, saying that there will be a 70% increase in service during the morning and 43% increase during the evening, local officials and town residents said the agency should prioritize the travel time of its daily commuters.

Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral said the LIRR is a “lifeline” for many of the peninsula’s residents and local officials who work throughout New York City.

The proposed schedule changes, he said, are going to negatively impact the property values of homes along the Port Washington Line, which even include parts of Plandome and North Hills. The extra few minutes each way on the train, he said, add up to hours per month where adults are away from their families.

“These are minutes that are going to pile up and become hours we are not spending with our loved ones,” Bral said. “We urge, collectively for everyone… to fight and ask the MTA… to bring us higher quality transit because we’re paying premium prices to live here.”

Village of Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg said it’s not often when there is true bipartisan support to combat an issue, such as a lack of express service on the Long Island Rail Road.

Under the current schedule he said, there are currently six trains that run from the Great

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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman called on the MTA to modify their proposed schedule for the Long Island Rail Road’s Port Washington branch.

Neck station between 7-8:30 a.m. Under the changes, that will go down to just two trains during the same rush hour weekday period, he said.

“That is just a travesty,” Weinberg said.

“This express service has been in place for over 100 years. People bought their homes and apartments here…they made their investment.

I call on the LIRR to make the investment to actually improve service on this line.”

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena called the proposed changes “unacceptable” and has been involved in preliminary talks with agency representatives to try and remedy the issues.

“Discussions will continue between the

Long Island Rail Road and the town regarding the desire to see certain infrastructure improvements, and the town is open to these discussions,” DeSena said. “But in the meantime, the Long Island Rail Road must show some good faith and restore these express service cuts.”

MTA spokeswoman Joanna Flores said in a statement the agency is “prepared to work with the Town” to “provide even more service” on the Port Washington branch, noting that improvements would rely on the town supporting efforts to expand train storage along the line.

Pocket tracks, typically located at or near stations, are a place for trains to pull over and park without using the main tracks.

Flores, in another statement to Blank Slate Media, said the agency’s investment allows for an overall increase in service by 40% and will provide hundreds of Long Island residents with enhanced travel opportunities.

“A key to this huge service increase is the completion of the historic third track project — and that project is on time, under budget and already providing benefits after decades of NIMBY opposition from some elected officials,” Flores said.

State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills) and state Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Port Washington) said more than 2,200 responses were submitted in a survey conducted over the past three weeks, with an “overwhelming majority” being in opposition to the draft schedule.

“The proposed schedule changes and elimination of peak services will negatively impact thousands of commuters who rely on the Long Island Rail Road for their daily commute,” the assemblywoman said. “We’ve heard from countless residents who decided to move to North Hempstead because of the fast and easy commute to Manhattan, which is why we’ve seen such an overwhelming response to these proposed changes.”

“At a time when we’re trying to get people safely back to the office and using mass transportation, we should be working to make commutes easier, but this proposal by the Long Island railroad does the opposite, and we’re not going to accept it,” Kaplan said.

Blakeman blames rise in crime on bail reform Continued from Page 2 county over the past year.

The 3rd Precinct reported 35 stolen vehicle incidents in 2022, nearly a 170% increase from 13 last year, while the 6th Precinct saw a 750% increase in stolen vehicles with 51 this year, compared to six last year, according to the statistics.

Blakeman said the issue with the state’s bail reform laws is that bail is not required regardless of how many cars someone steals.

While judges throughout New York have the option to set bail in almost any case involving a violent felony, they may also release individuals in almost all other cases on their own recognizance or enact certain terms to make sure they ultimately return to court.

What judges cannot do, under the new bail reform laws, is consider an individual’s “dangerousness” when setting those terms.

An article by the Brennan Center for Justice, a policy institute that “works to strengthen democracy, end mass incarceration and protect liberty and security,” said there is no evidence that links bail reform to the 2020-21 crime increase that occurred throughout New York.

The article referred to a Times Union analysis, which was cited in the county’s executive

order Blakeman signed earlier this year, says findings were too “preliminary” to have any concrete connection between bail reform and a crime surge.”

Other increases in the Nassau’s major crimes this year included nearly 400 more grand larceny incidents, according to the statistics.

During the first three months of 2021, a total of 592 grand larceny incidents occurred throughout Nassau County.

That number rose by nearly 65% to 972 cases this year. The 3rd Precinct reported a 78% increase of grand larceny incidents with 296 this year, while the 6th Precinct reported a nearly 90% increase of grand larceny incidents with 113 in 2022.

During the first three months of 2022, Nassau County saw a 55% increase in all robberies, a 45% increase in all burglaries and a 34% increase in assault felony incidents, according to the statistics.

The 3rd Precinct reported 12 residential burglaries this year, compared to 12 last year, while the 6th Precinct reported 20 residential burglaries this year, 12 more than last year, according to the statistics.

Nassau County spends $1,148 per capita on police and fire protection while the nation-

al median is $359, according to U.S. News & World Report finding in 2020 that named Nassau County the safest community in America.

Public safety professionals account for 1.26% of the county’s population, compared with the national median of 0.70%.

The county again received that distinction as the safest community in America from U.S. News & World report in 2021.

Blakeman lauded the work of Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and the entire department for their work and believes that the money is being appropriated effectively for law enforcement officials to continue making Nassau one of the safest counties in America.

“I think Nassau is in a much better position than many places in the United States, but we have a crime wave going on statewide,” Blakeman said. “I think we’re doing a great job in Nassau County, but if the judges are forced to let these criminals out, all we can do is keep arresting them.”

A total of 5,230 major crimes were reported throughout Nassau last year, with 3,201 being grand larceny incidents, according to numbers obtained by Blank Slate Media from a Freedom of Information Law request submitted to the

Nassau County Police Department.

More than 16,000 “other crimes” were reported throughout the county in 2021, according to the statistics.

While grand larceny accounted for more than 60% of the county’s reported major crimes last year, more than 1,000 assault felonies and misdemeanor incidents were reported in 2021.

A total of 10 murders, 11 sexual abuse instances, 10 criminal sexual acts and 19 rapes were also reported in 2021, according to the county police.

Additionally, more than 640 burglaries were reported, nearly 300 of which were residential, along with more than 320 robberies.

The police department’s numbers also showed that 560 stolen vehicles were reported.

Ryder and former County Executive Laura Curran announced last July that major crimes throughout Nassau decreased by more than 10 percent from 2020, which reflected a decadelong decline in major crimes throughout the county.

The police commissioner said last year that major crime in Nassau had dropped 36 percent since 2011. A decade ago, Nassau saw 7,191 reports of major crime compared with 4,983 last year, he said.

G.N. dog park public hearing sees calls for unity Continued from Page 2 “I’m not going to call the Long Island Railroad and complain because I bought a house on the train tracks. I have to take what brings with it.”

There is no proven connection between dog parks and home values. However, neigh-

borhood amenities often lead to higher assessments.

Some spectators jeered and yelled at the speakers. But the loudest reactions were the standing ovations for those who advocated for unity.

“How can [we] work toward a solution

when people are shouting at you and demonizing you? If you’re against the program then you are anti-dog, you’re selfish people, you think that my furbabies are less than your human baby — who’s actually putting dogs against humans?” said Mancy Cheung. “I don’t understand. Can we work together?”

The pilot program will run through this November. According to the park department’s website, the use of the parks and visitor feedback monitoring will determine the program’s success. They will conduct an online poll and set up a direct email address for consumer input.

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Blakeman, Ryder warn Jersey car thieves Continued from Page 1 Officials said nearly 90 percent of the 11,000 people arrested in the county in 2021 were released without bail. More than 300 of those individuals were released without bail following a weapons-related offense, according to officials.

Ryder referred to an April incident where five police officers were injured when a stolen car from Great Neck with three New Jersey teenagers in it crashed into patrol vehicles.

Police received multiple reports of suspicious males attempting to break into vehicles throughout the North Shore of Nassau County, including Flower Hill, East Hills, Manhasset, Plandome and Greenvale.

Ryder said a Nassau detective noticed the stolen Mercedes in Roslyn and attempted to stop the car, but the driver of the Mercedes rammed into the detective’s car, according to officials.

Officials said the three teenagers fled in the Mercedes, which had a flat tire after hitting the detective’s car before all three were taken into custody on the Long Island Expressway.

Ryder said one of the officers was

treated at the hospital for a concussion along with injuries to his neck, hip, wrist and back. Another, he said, was treated for wrist damage and a third officer was treated for neck and shoulder pain. One detective was also treated for a concussion and another was treated for a cervical strain, Ryder said.

The three teenagers from Newark – two 16-year-olds and one 17-yearold – were arrested, officials said.

Several police officers remained out of commission nearly three months later, Ryder said.

During a public safety forum at the Village of Great Neck in March, Ryder said the problem of stolen vehicles was evident throughout the Great Neck peninsula.

In 21 of the 23 cases of stolen vehicles throughout the peninsula, he said, key fobs had been left in the cars and he urged residents to be more cautious when locking their vehicles for the night.

Ryder said a majority of stolen cars that have been recovered are located in Newark. He also said car thieves will drive the car around, and leave it somewhere and if nobody comes near the car and it is not impounded, then

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Stealing cars that have garage door openers inside are also ways to attract repeat offenders, Ryder said, as criminals will sometimes rent the car but keep the garage door button to come in and burglarize an individual’s home.

Ryder said the county’s police department is working with Newark to catch the offenders after they committed their crimes on Long Island and flee back to New Jersey.

Ryder also said the Nassau County Crimestoppers are offering rewards of up to $5,000 for information that leads to arrests of car theft criminals.

He and Blakeman assured Nassau residents that the county’s police department is doing everything in its power to keep residents safe, warning PHOTO BY ROBERT PELAEZ criminals to commit crimes elsewhere.

“We’re going to keep locking them up,” Ryder said. “That’s what we’re go- Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (right) and Police Coming to do. That’s all part of the deal. We missioner Patrick Ryder (left) spoke on the recent car thefts throughkeep our commitment to the people out the county on Thursday. in Nassau County, and we’re going to are coming after you,” Blakeman said. message that doing a crime in Nassau keep doing it.”

“If you come to Nassau County to “We will hunt you down. And we’re County is not a good idea, because we steal cars or commit another crime, we going to be proactive until you get the will not give up.”

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