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HEALTH, WELLNESS LUIGI’S OWNER EYES LEGISLATOR’S ARREST & BEAUTY GUIDE ROILS COUNTY POLITICS SECOND EATERY PAGES 31-34, 47-50
Taxes No. one issue for voters
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Homeowners cite concern in poll BY N O A H M A N S K A R Nassau County homeowners think taxes are the county’s most pressing issue and do not trust either major political party to serve their interests, according to a poll conducted last month. Some 65 percent of the 800 surveyed homeowners who are likely to vote in this year’s countywide election chose taxes as the most important issue facing the county, according to the poll conducted by the Parkside Group, a Manhattan political consulting ďŹ rm, from May 18 to 21. Roads and traďŹƒc problems are the second most pressing issue, with 13 percent of respondents choosing it, followed by public corruption with 11 percent, according to poll results obtained by Blank Slate Media. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are viewed unfavorably by half the respondents, and more than half said they do not trust either party to stand up for their best interests, the poll reContinued on Page 66
PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR
New Hyde Park Memorial High School graduates enter the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex for their commencement ceremony on Sunday. See graduation section on pages 35 to 46.
3rd track goodies don’t sway NHP Locals still oppose LIRR project even with efforts to address concerns At a public meeting last ners are negotiating with village Thursday, more than two dozen oďŹƒcials. “Everything in there is sugar Many New Hyde Park and residents said any eorts to Floral Park residents still oppose sweeten the deal do not negate on a nasty pill,â€? Virginia Licari, the Long Island Rail Road’s third the potential harm to those liv- a New Hyde Park resident, said track project even with recent ing along the project’s 9.8-mile to the crowd of more than 200 eorts to address their villages’ corridor between Floral Park and during Thursday’s meeting at the New Hyde Park Road School. Hicksville. concerns. The project, proposed by Many also expressed a lack of trust in the LIRR and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, would add the Metropolitan Transpor- a third track to a key stretch of tation Authority to live up to the LIRR’s Main Line, which the memorandums of under- project oďŹƒcials say would instanding that project plan- crease railroad capacity and give
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trains a path around problems on the tracks. The $2 billion project, estimated to take three to four years to build, would also eliminate seven street-level railroad crossings, upgrade stations and build sound-deecting walls. LIRR and state oďŹƒcials have been negotiating memorandums of understanding with the nine aected municipalities to address local oďŹƒcials’ concerns Continued on Page 66
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