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Special Section • September 30, 2016
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What:
Mineola Street Fair 2016
Where:
Jericho Turnpike from Mineola Blvd. to Nassau Blvd.
$1
Friday, September 30, 2016
vol. 65, no. 40
paGE 6
paGE 2
When:
Sunday, Oct. 2 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
debate turns nation’s eyes to long Island Media converge on Hofstra for Trump, Clinton face-off By N o a h M a N S k a r aNd STEPhEN roMaNo
PHoto By noaH Manskar
former new york city mayor rudy Giuliani, a prominent surrogate for republican presidential nominee Donald trump, speaks to a crowd of reporters after Monday’s first presidential debate at Hofstra university. See more photos on page 21.
“Mr. Trump! Mr. Trump! Mr. Trump!” Hundreds of reporters shouted at the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, as he came down “spin alley” inside Hofstra University’s physical education building Monday night. Media outlets from across the world converged there for the first presidential debate between Trump and the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, on the Uniondale campus. For a night, Hofstra and Long Island were at the center of the election that has
consumed the nation and that many on both sides of the aisle say is critical to its future. Trump’s walk through the corral lined with microphones, cameras and iPhones was unusual for a presidential nominee, but he took questions for more than half an hour. Clinton did not come through herself, but more than a dozen surrogates walked the floor touting their candidate’s performance, trailed by workers carrying tall posts bearing their names. A Newsday/News 12/ Siena College poll published last week shows Trump leading Clinton on Long Island by four percentage points. Trump’s promises to bring
jobs back to the U.S. from overseas and to bring “law and order” to city streets strike a chord with Long Island’s middle-income voters, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-Shirley), one of Trump’s surrogates, said in the “spin room” after the debate. “He resonates with middle-income voters. He resonates with people who live in neighborhoods, who live in communities — hard-working people,” King said. Trump hit those points hard, pledging to grow jobs by cutting taxes and crack down on crime, while Clinton promised to bolster the middle class and improve police relations with minority communities. Continued on Page 58
Tax breaks OK’d for 4th Mineola complex B y N o a h M a N S k a r Nassau County Industrial Devel- million in sales and mortgage- chase of the land on Searing pastor.
opment Agency, setting the stage Mineola’s fourth large, tran- for construction to start. The agency’s Board of Direcsit-oriented apartment complex has won tax breaks from the tors on Tuesday approved $2.24
recording tax exemptions and a 20-year property tax deal for Mill Creek Residential Trust’s $70 million, 192-unit development at the former site of the Corpus Christi Elementary School. The deal allows the Texas-based company to close the $6.7 million pur-
Avenue, which will allow the Corpus Christi parish to pay off its $400,000 debt to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. “It’s a real good win for everybody — a win for the community of Mineola and a win for Corpus Christi,” said the Rev. Malcolm Burns, Corpus Christi’s
The church is financially stable now, but many young families left when it closed the school in 2010, Burns said. The IDA agreement puts the Catholic parish’s land back on the tax rolls. Local municipalities will get more than $10.8 million in tax revenue over 20 years Continued on Page 67
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