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Friday, October 14, 2016
Vol. 4, No. 42
Guide to Roslyn
HILLS • ROSLYN HARBOR • HARBOR • EAST HILLS • ROSLYN ESTATES ROSLYN • ROSLYN HEIGHTS • NORTH HILLS GREENVALE • OLD WESTBURY
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14, 2016 media special section • october
Y O U N G AT H E A R T
Sound water near Roslyn gets F rating Report cites high nitrogen levels and poor water clarity BY ST E P H E N ROMANO The quality of the water in Long Island Sound near Port Washington, Manhasset and Great Neck received an F rating in a report card released last week by Save the Sound, a program working to preserve the Sound. The report classifies the area as the Western Narrows, stretching from New York City to Sands Point, and said it “is affected by the highly populated suburbanurban communities surrounding New York City, and received a very poor grade.” The report evaluated water
quality on five criteria: overall quality, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll and water clarity. The overall health index, nutrients and water clarity all received a rating of 60 or below. The dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll a received a grade between 70 to 80. “I thought the community was making progress cleaning up the Sound,” Port Washington North Mayor Bob Weitzner said. “This is very disheartening to see we’re not. We need to turn this around and figure out what’s going on and whether it’s dumping or boating.” According to the report, the
Western Narrows “is shallow, has a high tidal range, but the flushing is fairly inefficient between the East River and the rest of Long Island Sound.” The bottom of the Western Narrows, the report said, is a muddy area that’s highly contaminated from industrial activity, and there are “chronic dissolved oxygen problems.” “The pollutant of greatest concern is definitely nitrogen,” said Tracy Brown, the director of the western sound program at Save the Sound. “It’s grouped into the failing amount of nutrients in the water.” Brown said nitrogen pollutes Continued on Page 55
Smithsonian label adds musician from Roslyn Roslyn resident Bobby Susser as a young boy in his baseball uniform. Susser, 74, writes music for children.
BY M A X Z A H N Paul Simon and Bobby Susser met on a schoolyard in Queens when each was 11 years old. They became fast friends and stay in close touch to this day, said Susser. Simon, of course, gained music immortality singing alongside Art Garfunkel in
the 1960’s. Susser, an influential musician in his own right, waited for posterity’s embrace until a month ago, when Smithsonian Folkways published his entire catalogue under its imprimatur. A nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States, Smithsonian
Folkways collects and republishes music of educational and cultural value. “Once they put a record out, it’s available to people forever, no matter how popular it is,” said Susser of Smithsonian Folkways, which has acquired the music of other notable artists like Pete Seeger and Woody Continued on Page 55
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