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Gold Coast Dance Festival returns Aug.1 By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Courtesy Nicole Loizides Albruzzese
Wendi Weng’s performances will incorporate belly dance with traditional Chinese dance at the Gold Coast Dance Festival on Aug. 1.
World-class dancers from some of the nation’s most acclaimed companies will once again take the stage at Morgan Memorial Park as the Gold Coast Dance Festival returns, bringing together professional performers and emerging artists for a free evening celebrating dance from across genres and cultures. The festival, presented by New York Dance Theatre at 6 p.m. on Aug. 1, at Morgan Memorial Park, has a rain date of Aug. 8. The lineup includes performers representing Broadway, New York City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Ballet Nepantla, MorDance, the Jon Lehrer Dance Company and other organizations, alongside students from Long Island High School for the Arts. Although the festival has grown into one of Long Island’s premier outdoor cultural events, Nicole Loizides Albruzzese, artistic director and executive producer of CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Suozzi urges fair and legal path for Salvadorans By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi is urging the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans nationwide, saying that many of the immigrants he first came to know as day laborers when he served as Glen Cove’s mayor in the 1990s have since become homeowners, business owners and parents raising families on Long Island. During a virtual news conference Monday, Suozzi, a Democrat representing Long Island’s North Shore and north-
east Queens, called for the administration to extend TPS for Salvadorans and establish a permanent pathway to legal status for recipients who have lived and worked in the United States for decades. Roughly 60,000 Salvadoran TPS holders live in the New York metropolitan area, according to advocates who took part in the news conference. Suozzi said that his support for Salvadoran immigrants dates back to his years as mayor of Glen Cove, from 19942001, when many newly arrived immigrants from Central America gathered on street corners seeking work.
“Those folks that have been here since the 1990s and have had legal status since 2001 under TPS … now have their own businesses,” he said. “They own their own homes. Their kids went to school with my kids. They’ve lived great American lives. And they’re central parts of the fabric of our communities.” Many of the people he met while serving as mayor, Suozzi said, have spent more than two decades building lives on Long Island, which makes the prospect of losing their legal protections especially troubling. “The idea of taking away their status now and subjecting
them to possible deportation is not only inhumane, I would argue it’s un-American,” he said. Nabil Azamy, an organizer for the Glen Cove Rapid Response Network, said in a written statement to the Herald that Congress and the administration must create a permanent solution before Salvador-
an TPS protections expire. “For many of these individuals, TPS is the only thing standing between them and deportation,” Azamy stated. “Ending TPS doesn’t simply strip a status — it removes the one barrier keeping people who have lived here lawfully for decades out of ICE custody,” he added, CONTINUED ON PAGE 9