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Friday, May 3, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 18
GUIDE TO MOTHER’S DAY
SECONDARY SCHOOL IN TOP 300
CURRAN PRESSES TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLAN
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School district has county’s priciest sales $1.6M median home value reflects perceived school quality: experts BY T E R I W EST The Manhasset and Great Neck school districts, which both have nationally ranked high schools, had the two highest median home sale values in Nassau County last year, according to Multiple Listing Service statistics that Oxford Realty agents compiled. At $1.6 million, Manhasset school district’s median home sale value was the highest in Nassau County and was second Long Island-wide only to the Quogue school district in Suffolk County. Next in Nassau County were Great Neck at $1.2 million, East Williston at $1.15 million, Jericho at $1.05 million, Roslyn at $1.04 million and Port Washington at $982,634, according to the statistics listed on the new website NY Long Island real estate. Herricks, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, Floral Park-Bellerose and Mineola had median sales prices of $840,708, $653,724,
$612,727 and $592,271 respectively. The website did not include Sewanhaka. The perceived quality of a school district tends to be the most significant determinant in where Long Islanders choose to live, said Mitchell Pally, the CEO of the Long Island Builders Institute, which unites members of the building industry. “The home values go directly up and down depending upon the perception of the quality of the school district,” he said. “That’s why we have so many school districts, so that values can go up and down based on it.” Across the island, that plays out as de facto school segregation. “When there’s a lack of affordable housing throughout Long Island and you put it all in a few areas, those areas have poor services, and that’s about the schools,” said Lisa Tyson, director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, which Continued on Page 75
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
For the second consecutive month, Manhasset Library brought in therapy dogs last Friday for children to read books to.
Library offers children a patient audience: dogs BY T E R I W EST
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“She fell in love with this Isabelle walked into the dog last time she was here,” room clutching “Junie B. Jones Isabelle’s mother, Neyeree Is a Beauty Shop Guy,” and Demirdjan, said. Isabelle timidly greeted Roxy’s floppy ears and whitening nose were there to greet Roxy and her mother encour-
aged her to start reading. The second-grader burst into a flurry of words, consumed in another world while the dog sat patiently as her audience. The 8-year-old’s second Continued on Page 62
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