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Friday, June 3, 2016
Vol. 76, No. 23
N E W H Y D E PA R K
GUIDE TO HARBORFEST
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Seniors, young split over $15M pool project
R E M E M B E R I N G T H E FA L L E N
Backers cite need to boost members; skeptics say plans leave little for seniors B y N oah M anskar Most New Hyde Park residents agreed Tuesday the pool at Clinton G. Martin Park needs an update, but seniors and younger people disagreed on how it should look. “We understand that it’s your money that we’re going to be spending on this project, and we don’t take that lightly,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said during a public meeting at the park. Town officials, architects and engineers presented a nearly $15 million plan to revamp the pool deck and replace infrastructure to more than 150 people on Tuesday. The plan would resurface the deck and adjacent eating area with concrete pavers, install plants and water spray features, add 6,000 square feet of shade canopies, move and update the kiddie pool, and add space for concerts and public events, said architect Jeremy Linzee of the Patchogue-based firm bld architecture.
The pool itself would get a new vinyl lining but would not be moved or otherwise altered, a priority for a committee of seven residents who advised planners on the project. Designers also made room for a water slide, an idea the committee pushed but many residents booed at Tuesday’s meeting. The men’s and women’s locker rooms would be consolidated in the eastern pool building to create space for a meeting room in the north building, which would be insulated and air-conditioned for year-round use, said engineer Bob Holzmacher of the Ronkonkomabased firm J.R. Holzmacher engineering. The park’s tennis courts would also be resurfaced, he said. The project would also gut and replace the pool’s aging pumps, pipes and electrical system, which town workers are “keeping ... together with glue and duct tape,” New Hyde Park civic activist and committee member Marianna Continued on Page 67
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The New Hyde Park VFW and American Legion’s annual Memorial Day parade and ceremonies last Saturday honored those from New Hyde Park who have died at war. See story on page 4.
Indian music teacher finds home in New Hyde Park B y N oah M anskar
Park. Sejal Kukadia runs the Long Island branch of the EdiOnly a handful of women son, N.J.-based Taalim School worldwide play the centuries- of Indian Music in the baseold Indian tabla drums profes- ment of her Eric Lane home. sionally, and one of them lives She teaches individual and — and teaches — in New Hyde group lessons there and across
Nassau County. Her classes have grown steadily since she started teaching there in 2007, she said. New Hyde Park’s Indian population has grown in that time, too. Continued on Page 73
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