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Friday, March 19, 2021
Vol. 96, No. 12
GUIDES TO SCHOOLS, CAMPS PAGES 23-42
DISTRICT MOVES BUDGET, ELECTION
BLAKEMAN TO CHALLENGE CURRAN
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Incumbents retain seats in G. Neck Six elections all uncontested BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The incumbents in elections throughout the Great Neck peninsula won their uncontested races on Tuesday. In the Village of Great Neck Plaza, Trustees Gerald Schneiderman, who received 77 votes, and Lawrence Katz, who received 82 votes, both won their races. Schneiderman has served as a trustee since 2000 and was chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals from 1982 to 2000. Katz, a certified public accountant and attorney who previously served three years on the village’s zoning appeals board, has served since December 2012. In Great Neck Estates, village Justice David Schaffer received 14 votes, enough to retain his seat for a four-year term. Mayor William Warner’s seat and the seats of Trustees Jeffrey Farkas and Ira Ganzfried were not on the ballot after a law was passed in 2018 that increased the term length for the mayor and trustees from two years to four. Continued on Page 52
PHOTO COURTESY: OFFICE OF LEGISLATOR JOSHUA LAFAZAN
Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (I-Woodbury) outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building during the “Stand Up To Hate” rally on Sunday, with many elected officials and community leaders coming together to condemn anti-Asian incidents. See story on page 2.
VGN tables decision on 777 plan Board to vote on Middle Neck Road multifamily project’s site plan April 6 BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
a multi-family dwelling at 777 Middle Neck Road on Tuesday night. The proposal is a three-story The Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees unanimously multi-family project with 38 voted to postpone making a final units (13 one-bedroom units, decision on the site plan, archi- 21 two-bedroom units, and four tectural and facade review for three-bedroom units) and 80 parking stalls, according to updated plans presented by Paul Bloom of Harras, Bloom and Archer LLP. This is a shift from the most recently presented plans with
44 residential units and 79 parking spaces. The project’s developer is Lions Group LLC, with architectural aid from Newman Design. Village officials reiterated that the proposal is an as-of-right project and that the developer is not seeking any variances. Before a motion to vote on the project’s site plan, architecture and facade review, the village asked the developer to provide a rendering of all sides
of the building and physical samples of materials being used in the building, and identify the location of a sound barrier. Village Attorney Peter Bee said that the board is also permitted to conduct a vote on the SEQRA review, though that has not occurred yet. More than 65 people logged on to hear the most recent updates on the project, with a handful being residents of Continued on Page 52
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