Friday, September 8, 2017
THE PULSE OF THE PENINSULA
Vol. 92, No. 36
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Howard Miskin, former mayor, judge, dies at 89
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Longtime resident leaves a legacy BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Howard Miskin, a founder of the Water Authority of Great Neck North, former village justice and former mayor of Great Neck, died on Aug. 25. He was 89. Family, colleagues and residents described Miskin as a gentleman, hard worker and role model who always gave back to the community. They also recalled him as patient and a truly good person. “He had a twinkle in his eye and always a smile on his face,” his daughter Deborah Lebodzic, a Great Neck resident, said. “I don’t think he had an angry bone in his body.” In addition to his mayorship and push to establish the water authority, which he served on until just last year, Miskin was a village justice in Kings Point and Great Neck. He also served as deputy mayor under Robert McIntyre, who died earlier this year. “We had a small staff and we did a lot of the work ourselves,” Miskin recalled to Newsday at the
time of McIntyre’s death. “And we never took money from the village except expenses.” During Miskin’s terms as mayor, from 1981 to 1985, he oversaw a moratorium on commercial development. This was so officials could “stop and look at where the village is heading,” The New York Times reported in 1981. Lebodzic said Miskin served on numerous committees in the village and played a big part in gaining senior citizen housing on Middle Neck Road. “He was quintessentially ethical and he was a mayor who understood he was serving the people and he wasn’t serving himself,” said Rebecca Gilliar, 74, who helped form a civic association at the time. “I actually can’t imagine a better mayor, a person more suited to public service and more capable of doing what the community needed,” Gilliar added. Kings Point Police Commissioner George Banville, a lieutenant at the time of Miskin’s judgeship, recalled Continued on Page 81
Haley Kleinn and Ophir Sabah of North Shore Hebrew Academy went to the Soto/ Sonnenschein laboratory at Tufts University School of Medicine. They said that people should never stop questioning. See story on page 3.
Temple joins Suozzi in aiding hurricane victims Cove) to bring relief to people suffering in Houston. Suozzi’s office began colTemple Israel is collect- lecting donations last Tuesday, ing items for victims of Hurri- with donation boxes set up in cane Harvey, teaming up with his Huntington and Little Neck U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen offices.
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Representatives of Temple Israel in Great Neck said the idea of joining the effort was first raised in Chesed – or “acts of love and kindness” in Hebrew – Connection, a comContinued on Page 81
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