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Landlord plans for B&N loss Lease runs out at end of the year BY M A X Z A H N C & B Realty, which owns the Northern Boulevard property occupied by Barnes & Noble, is bracing for the bookstore’s possible departure when its lease runs out at the end of the year. Last August, the real estate company said it was abandoning plans to develop the property for alternate tenants. But those efforts appeared back on track at the North Hills Board of Trustees meeting last Wednesday, when C & B sought permission to expand its parking lot for prospective medical or retail tenants. Edward Glackin, chief operating officer at Colin Development LLC, a subsidiary of C & B Realty, said the company is “still in talks with Barnes and Noble” to extend its lease but pointed to Barnes & Noble’s recent financial woes as a likely impediment. “Look at Amazon and Kindle and people reading on their phones,” he said. “It’s a changed business.” Continued on Page 65
PHOTO COURTESY OF DR. BERNARD FIALKOFF
Dr. Bernard Fialkoff and Camille Sims, Miss NY 2016, on the Drug Free World float at last year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Roslyn dentist fights opioid epidemic ‘I realized there was a drug culture developing and I had to do something’ BY M A X Z A H N Bernard Fialkoff, a dental implant surgeon and educator on opioid abuse, said he first witnessed the consequences of drug addiction in high school. His friend, a star athlete, forfeited a football scholarship
to play at Ohio State after being expelled for drug use, Fialkoff said. He received a second chance, but was soon expelled from junior college, he said. “It was my first introduction to the role of addictive drugs in destroying someone’s life,” Fialkoff said. Fialkoff, of Roslyn, has operated a dental implant and cosmetic laser surgery office in Bayside, Queens, for more than 34 years.
In the course of his early work he noticed a lax attitude among his colleagues when it came to prescribing narcotics like Oxycodone and Percodan, he said. “I realized there was a drug culture developing and I had to do something about it,” he said. In 2006, he started a chapter of the international nonprofit Foundation for a Drug Free World. The organization empowers youth and adults with factual
information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live drug-free, according to a statement from the foundation. Fialkoff estimated his chapter, which encompasses all of the Americas, has held 1,200 educational events. “We go to schools, YMCAs, churches and synagogues educating people about the consequences of drug use,” he said. In addition to the United Continued on Page 66
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