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Friday, November 16, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 46
PLAN FOR L.I. WITH DEMS HOLIDAY GIFT, PALTROW’S GOOP DINING GUIDE COMES TO AMERICANA IN CONTROL OF STATE PAGES 37-44
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In reversal, Curran OKs 6th Precinct
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HONORING VETS
County executive had threatened lawsuit over budget amendment
BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Just last week, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran moved to sue the county Legislature over changes made to the budget to add $1.6 million to reopen the 6th and 8th police precincts. But on Monday, she stood beside Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams to announce that the county would begin opening the closed precincts next year. “When I ran for county executive, I recognized the need to reopen the 6th and the 8th precincts,” she said at a news conference in Manhasset. “Today I announce that becomes a reality.” The 6th Precinct in Manhasset was absorbed into the 3rd Precinct in Williston Park in 2012 under County Executive Edward Mangano as a cost-saving measure. Politicians and residents have pushed for its return over the past six years.!But Nassau County, continuing to operate under the Nas-
sau Interim Finance Authority, has not been able to find money for it. Curran’s original! $3.075 billion budget did not include money to reopen the precincts. But the Nassau Legislature voted unanimously last month to reopen the 6th Precinct and the 8th Precinct in Levittown and set aside the money to do so. Shortly after the measure passed, Curran said she would veto the precinct openings, saying that the county did not have the money to do so and that it would be an “empty gesture,” adding that the county Police Department did not have enough detectives. Curran’s threat to sue came over the Legislature’s increasing the estimated revenue reaped from the sales tax. Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said that the county had the money to reopen the precincts and that Curran’s lawsuit was “a colossal waste of taxpayer money.” Continued on Page 66
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH
Daniel Cataldo, a sophomore at Manhasset High School and a Life Scout, performs taps at a Veterans Day ceremony Monday at North Shore University Hospital.
Northwell honors surgeon who died in aviation crash BY T E R I W EST Dr. L. Michael Graver would often describe his heart operations as “magic,” so much so that his operating room earned the nickname, “the
magic kingdom,” his colleagues said. Friday morning, those colleagues filled an auditorium at North Shore University Hospital to standing room capacity to honor Graver’s life nearly
two months after he and his wife, Jodi Cohen, died in a Massachusetts plane crash. Graver and Cohen lived in Manhasset and were the only two aboard Graver’s plane on Continued on Page 66
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