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Planning Board rejects AT&T antenna plan Greenberg were absent. AT&T sought to install a canister-style tri-sector antenna A proposal to install an extending roughly 20 feet above AT&T wireless antenna atop the existing roofline, a total the Glen Cove Shopping Center, height of roughly 41 feet. Utilion Forest Avenue, was denied ties would have run through on Nov. 18, ending six months existing conduits, with no of contentious public hearings ground disturbance. According and intensifying debate over to AT&T, the landlord, Bruce cell service needs Waller, deemed the and their potential Northwest corner impact on city of the shopping neighborhood. center roof the only The application viable location. — a request for a Attor ney Anna special-use permit Mercado Clarke, and site plan representing AT&T, approval — drew said the antenna dozens of residents would be the “least to Planning Board intrusive means” meetings in Sepof addressing what tember and earlier she described as an this month. Many “undisputed” gap LIA LEONE urged the board to i n t h e c a r r i e r ’s Glen Cove reject the project, wireless coverage. citing health con“This facility cer ns, potential declines in consists of essentially a 16- by-2property value and what they inch tri-sector canister antenargued would be a permanent na,” Clarke explained, noting change to the character of the that the visible portion would neighborhood behind the shop- be painted to blend in with the ping center. building and be minimally Board members Philip Pulas- noticeable. “It is the least intruki, Andrew Kaufman, Michael sive means to meet this gap.” Corigliano, Richard Maccarone AT&T, Clarke said, had and Ellen Pantazakos voted explored a number alternative against the application. Ken- locations, but other property neth Weinstein and James M. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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Courtesy Locust Valley Central Central School District
After frightening collapse, a player returns Francesco Allocca, third from right, a senior at Locust Valley High, suffered cardiac arrest during basketball tryouts on Nov. 17. His teammates, above, coaches and family members celebrated his recovery at Cohen Children’s Medical Hospital on Wednesday. Story, more photos next week.
Glen Head man has plan to make cider mill parking safer By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
For decades, Glen Head resident Fritz Trinklein has watched cars line the shoulder of State Route 106 as crowds flock to the historic Jericho Cider Mill each fall. To Trinklein, the scene isn’t simply one of seasonal congestion. It is a dangerous pattern that nearly cost his family dearly. “My brother was almost killed,” Trinklein said. “He was in the hospital a long time.” Fritz’s then 25-year-old brother Hans was driving from his home to the family Thanksgiving gathering in Brookville in 1984 when a vehicle leaving the cider mill broadsided him. After recovering from the accident, Hans left his accounting job to become a Lutheran pastor and professor, and now works at a ministry in Indiana. Fritz, 71, is an entrepreneur. In the decades since the accident, Fritz said,
nothing has been done to make parking in the area safer. “We always go by there, especially around Thanksgiving, very nervous, because of all those cars all along the road there, and moms are pushing baby buggies and old people are walking,” he said. “Meanwhile, cars are going 60 miles an hour past them.” The mix of speeding traffic on the route no available off-road parking and crowded pedestrian crossings has made the attraction a longstanding safety concern for the community. Muttontown Mayor James Ligouri, who was one of the elected officials Trinklein has reached out to in an effort to address the problem, acknowledged the chronic traffic problems in the area, especially around the holidays. “It’s just the parking for it is right on 106 during busy times like now — at Thanksgiving and CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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his decision is going to have impacts on our health and safety, our property values.