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Friday, June 22, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 25
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Civics propose mirrored facade for expansion
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Northwell’s surgical pavilion still in planning stages, needs 5 variances BY G R E TC H E N KELLER Manhasset civic members proposed last Wednesday the use of a mirrored facade at the back of Northwell Health’s planned $342 million surgical pavilion project at North Shore University Hospital as a possible solution to Greentree Foundation’s concerns that the building could hurt the rural atmosphere of the historic estate. In the organization’s February meeting, Greentree Foundation President Nicholas Gabriel said the nonprofit was concerned that they would be able to see the new seven-story surgical addition from different points across the expansive former Whitney estate property. Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civics Associations, said he came up with the idea of this redesign to make the building less visually obtrusive to neighbors. Bentley explained how the me-
chanical floor, which is currently planned for the fourth floor, could be moved to the seventh floor. North Shore University Hospital Chief Operating Officer Derek Anderson and architect Andrew Pecora from Cannon Designs have said previously that the mechanical floor is centralized in the building for efficiency. Bentley said the mirrored facade would be beneficial to Greentree because the mechanical floor will not be illuminated by inside lights during night time, showing less light at night. “That’s why they’re taking the third floor mechanical and moving it up to the top floor, so there aren’t lights behind it in the night time,” Bentley said. “The occupied floors will be down lower, so that the upper floors will not be illuminated from the inside lights. This strip of dark of the mechanical floor intends to make the building look not as tall,” he said. Continued on Page 58
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH
Savana Patterson, right, gives Dr. Nicholas Bastidas a celebratory high-five after her facial reconstruction surgery. See story on page 3.
N.S. author pens novel of old-fashioned love story BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
works — two collections of poetry and one collection of literary essays by her mother, Mitzi North Hills’ Pauli Libsohn Libsohn — readers became never expected to write a book entranced with the story of Mitzi and her husband, David in less than a week. After publishing three Libsohn.
“It tells the entire story from beginning to end,” Pauli said. “The reason why I wrote this story, which I wasn’t going to do because I didn’t think I was capable of doing it, is beContinued on Page 69
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