Friday, December 1, 2017
THE PULSE OF THE PENINSULA
Vol. 92, No. 48
.\PKL [V
6KRSSLQJ +ROLGD\ 3DUWLHV 'LQLQJ ( )SHUR : SH[L 4LKPH
3P[TVY 7 \ISPJH[PVU
Z :WLJPHS :LJ[PVU ‹
$1
HOLIDAY GIFT, PARTY GUIDE
ROTARY SETS RECORD IN DINNER DONATIONS
NIFA EYES IMPOSING BUDGET CUTS
PAGES 33-40
PAGE 2
PAGE 6
+LJLTI LY
REACH FOR THE SKY
G.N. residents raise alarms about housing 400+ sign petition calling for more affordable options BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
PHOTO BY NINA WURZEL
Members of Dance Visions NY, a Great Neck-based dance company, will be performing in a New York City venue for the first time this December. See story on page 4.
Kimber Simchayof, an 18-year-old senior in Great Neck North High School, said that as she and her friends have prepared to go to college and her cousins have gotten married, she has been thinking about how she will be able to aord housing in Great Neck. Simchayof said she loves the area and wants to live there with her own family someday — but the big question is “how?â€? “I want to come back here. I love Great Neck, I love the community, I love the close net that we have. I love the schooling systems and everything about it,â€? Simchayof said.
“I’m just worried that after I’m ďŹ nished with my four years, there’s not going to be a place for me here.â€? Simchayof is just one of the more than 400 signers of a petition presented to the Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees last Tuesday night, calling on them to tackle what they call a “crisisâ€? of young people moving out because they cannot aord to live there. The petition says that young adults and families are moving out at “an alarming rateâ€? and that between the aging population and “mass exodusâ€? of young people, it will “negatively impact our property taxes, schools, housing values, economy and our growth.â€?
It attributes the situation to limited options when it comes to purchasable housing that can appeal to younger people. It goes on to suggest that the board incentivize denser development, such as condominiums, to provide “a greater range of housing choices at a greater range of price points than the existing stock of available housing.â€? “We can no longer maintain the status quo and neglect our responsibility to future generations,â€? the petition says. “This crisis should serve as a wake-up call to the BOT [Board of Trustees] to stem the tide of young adults eeing, and ensure they can realize the Continued on Page 51
Libby, longtime physician, G.N. resident, dies sity Hospital — now known as Northwell Health — and longtime Great Neck resident, died Nathan Libby, a founding on Nov. 22. He was 104. physician of North Shore UniverLibby, the son of poor Polish
BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
immigrants, became one of the many doctors that helped shape North Shore University Hospital, his son Daniel Libby said, and practiced medicine until he was 81, helping countless lives in the process. Daniel Libby also described his father as a “big family man,� having moved from NYU Langone Medi-
cal Center to Great Neck so he could both practice medicine and be close with the family he had always wanted. “He thought medicine was the greatest thing that ever happened,� Daniel Libby, a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center and attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said in an inter-
view. “He really tried to get all ďŹ ve of his children to be doctors.â€? Nathan Libby, the youngest of four children, was born on May 22, 1913, to Ethel and Solomon Libby, two Jewish immigrants from Poland. He spent the ďŹ rst years of his life in Brooklyn, his son said, but Continued on Page 59
For the latest news visit us at www.theislandnow.com D on’t forget to follow us on Twitter @Theislandnow and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow