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Vol. 35 No. 50
DECEMBER 5 - 11, 2024
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Long Beach set to create a planning board blocks. Plats may also include streets, highways and other infrastructure. Once members The Long Beach City Coun- of the planning board are cil passed a resolution at Tues- appointed, they will be responday’s meeting granting authori- sible for ensuring that both ty to a soon-to-be-appointed new and existing subdivisions planning board to review and comply with zoning laws, safety standards and enviapprove plans for ronmental regulaproperty subdivitions. sions in the city. The board will “I got to tell you, also review older when you go outplats filed before its side of Long Beach establishment, and tell people that where proper ty there’s no planning may be undevelboard here, they’re oped or only parshocked,” City Mantially developed. In ager Dan Creighton t h o s e c a s e s, t h e said. “People are board will detershocked, even develmine whether opers are shocked updates are needed that we don’t have a t o m e e t c u r re n t planning board. I DAN CREIGHtoN planning standards really believe it’s City manager and safety guidenecessary to have a lines. planning board, and “The planning board will we’re nearly there, and this is basically step one to start giv- have authority to basically say, ing them the authority that ‘Does that fit into the characthey deserve and that they ter? Is it the appropriate develneed, and follow up from here opment use for that parcel? Is it after we get approval from the what we want for our commuNassau County Planning Com- nity?’” Creighton explained. “And it’s a necessary process mission.” Subdivision plats are maps that we do not currently have.” The board has not yet been that detail how land is divided into sections such as lots or Continued on page 4
By ANGElINA ZINGARIEllo
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Mount Sinai South nassau president adhi Sharma welcomed the public to the hospital’s newest health care location in Long Beach.
MSSN boardwalk center opens in Superblock complex By BRENDAN CARPENtER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Mount Sinai South Nassau opened an ambulatory medical facility in Long Beach in June 2023 on the grounds of the old Long Beach Hospital on East Bay Drive, expanding its reach on the barrier island. The hospital widened its presence on Tuesday, celebrating the opening of a walk-in primary care center on the boardwalk. The staff of the no-appointment-needed, full-service facility (which also accepts appointments) began seeing patients on Nov. 4, but marked its full opening this week.
City officials joined Mount Sinai executives including its president, Adhi Sharma; Alan Wong, senior vice president and chief medical officer; and Physician Director Haran Ratna for the ribbon-cutting, along with representatives of B2K Development, the company that built the new condominium and apartment towers on the Superblock, between Riverside and Long Beach boulevards. The center, at 106 Boardwalk, is located nearest to the apartment complex known as the Breeze. “We’ve been committed to the Long Beach community ever since the hospital has been Continued on page 10
really believe it’s necessary to have a planning board, and we’re nearly there.