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GUIDE TO SUMMER
MY FATHER’S PLACE REOPENS
COUNTY HAS FISCAL CRISIS: SCHNIRMAN
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Expansion plan revised by Northwell
ROCK RETURNS
Top floor to be indented, mirrored facade added to reduce impact BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Northwell Health and Cannon Designs have released new plans for the $342 million advanced surgical pavilion planned at North Shore University Hospital after its neighbor Greentree Foundation and the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations voiced concerns about the height and design. Richard Bentley, president of the council, emailed members a copy of a new design plan on June 27, highlighting a few structural changes to the proposed building, including rearranging the structure of the seven stories as well as indenting the top floor to reduce the visual impact. In the latest designs, the mechanical floor, which was originally slated for the fifth floor, will be moved to the seventh floor. At its peak, the building would reach about 138 feet including
the rooftop cooling tower, and the roof itself would be about 111 feet high. The remaining levels will be the same, with the shell floors for the intensive care units to move into over time being slotted for the fifth and sixth floors instead of the sixth and seventh floors. The reason the mechanical floor was originally tucked between the different floor of intensive care units," Cannon Designs architect Andrew Pecora said in January, was for efficiency. However, since the mechanical floor will have no hospital rooms, there will be less interior light shining through the top floor at night, which will reduce the visual impact, he said. The first three floors will be connected to Payson Whitney Tower for ease of traffic through the lobby and for movement of surgical and intensive care patients. The north side of the advanced Continued on Page 114
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK SCHOEN
My Father’s Place had its grand reopening last weekend with Livingston Taylor performing on Saturday. See story on page 2 and more photos on page 26.
Flower Hill approves light display regulation BY LU K E TORRANCE
plays in the village. Called the “exhibitions law,” the new rule will require After months of debate, the homes that have “illumination Flower Hill Board of Trustees of an outside area” that resultpassed a law on Monday that ed in 20 or more people visitwould regulate lighting dis- ing on three days within a 10-
day period to obtain a permit from the village. While the law makes no mention of Christmas, its passage is a reaction to the holiday light display of village resident Continued on Page 125
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