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Macy’s property development plan unveiled Mixed-use design includes apartments, hotel, office building, retail and dining BY T E R I W EST
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Members of the Greater Council of Manhasset Civics Association were the first to see the site development plans at a meeting last Wednesday.
Macy’s and international development company Brookfield Properties have designed plans for a mixeduse development on the department store’s Manhasset property that includes three apartment complexes, a full-service hotel, an office building and additional retail and dining space, company officials told local community leaders last Wednesday. The mixed-use development, which they are calling Manhasset Square, is intended to be a new cen-
ter for the community that enhances the area surrounding the department store. The project would cost over $400 million and require the Town of North Hempstead to approve a number of variances, Brookfield representatives said. Brookfield would be the owner and operator of all buildings except for Macy’s, which would remain the same size and in the same location. “There’s a place-making opportunity in Manhasset,” said Chase Martin, senior vice president for mixedContinued on Page 71
Candidate alleges Terry misconduct BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
Party chairman who is serving a prison term for tax evasion, of having propositioned him to A Great Neck lawyer has ac- have sex when he was a young cused Gerard Terry, the former political activist. The lawyer, Michael WeinNorth Hempstead Democratic
stock, 47, who served as an assistant district attorney in Kings County for five years, made the allegations in a letter made available to Blank Slate Media and interviews. He made the claims in announcing that he would run against incumbent Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) for the Democratic nomination in the 3rd Congressio-
nal District. He said he was running in part over unhappiness with Suozzi’s backing of Terry. Weinstock alleged that the first instance happened in 1996, when Terry allegedly said that as his mentor, “I want to spend lots of time with you. I want to take you on overnight trips and open doors for you,” and “I want to do things with you that you’ve never done before.”
Another alleged instance came after Weinstock volunteered for a friend’s political campaign after he graduated from law school in 1998, he said, when he went into Terry’s office. “After a little chit chat, Terry grasped my forearm and told me, ‘I want to see more of you.’ I squirmed away and ran to the door,” Weinstock alleged. Continued on Page 55
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