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• January 8, 2016 ions Special Section / Litmor Publicat A Blank Slate Media
LIRR’s 3rd track is back
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Villages rail against Cuomo’s new plan By N o a h M a N s k a r Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans Tuesday for a third Long Island Rail Road track, resurrecting a proposed project several North Shore communities have strongly opposed in the past. The project, part of a downstate infrastructure package in
nHp village board sounds off on proposal pAgE 13 Cuomo’s proposed budget, would add a third track along 9.8 miles of LIRR’s Main Line between Floral Park and Hicksville. “Long Island’s future prosperity depends on a modern transportation network that eases congestion on our roads, improves service on the LIRR, helps this region’s economy and preserves the character of these great communities,” Cuomo said in a statement Continued on Page 62
The Dublin Pub, a longtime New Hyde Park watering hole that shuttered in 2013 after trouble with the state Liquor Authority, was demolished Monday to make way for a new retail building. It was sold at auction in August 2014 to Roslyn-based Tseng’s Holdings, Inc. see story on Page 2. PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR
Angela Powers, an NHP ‘institution’ Former Chamber prez, GOP leader known for civic engagement dies at 76 B y N o a h M a N s k a r pursued her passions “vigor- ess.” She was elected president led the group in 2012 and 2013. Angela Powers, a longtime New Hyde Park community leader and the first female president of the Chamber of Commerce there, died Dec. 29. She was 76. Powers was “an institution in New Hyde Park” who always
ously,” New Hyde Park Deputy Mayor Lawrence Montreuil said. “I absolutely had a lot of admiration for her, and for the values that she pursued there,” he said. “It’s a shame to see her leave us, and she’ll be greatly missed.” A resident of New Hyde Park since 1966, Powers joined the Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce in 1973, serving as the “Welcome Wagon Host-
in the 1990s. In Powers’ four-year term, the New Hyde Park Chamber joined the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce and fostered relationships with local businesses and charities. “Charity begins at home,” she said in January. The chamber was “a labor of love” for Powers, and she never missed a meeting until she became ill, said Mark Laytin, a New Hyde Park marketer who
“She was the kind of person that if she said she was going to do something, you could consider it done — the old-school handshake-agreement type person,” Laytin said. In her later years, Powers provided major financial support for the chamber’s annual golf outing, its biggest fundraising event, Laytin said. She was also an active supporter of the Katie McBride Foundation, which supContinued on Page 50
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