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Friday, September 13, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 37
GUIDE TO STREET FAIRS
FLOODGATE MEET RESCHEDULED
SCHNIRMAN GIVES BACK MONEY
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Town recalls 9/11
Manhasset event honors victims BY R O S E W E L D ON Town of North Hempstead Clerk Wayne Wink glanced overhead before addressing the dozens gathered Wednesday at the Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset. “For those of us who remember the day 18 years ago, it was a day not dissimilar to the one we’re experiencing right now,” Wink said. “Gorgeous sunshine, perhaps a few degrees warmer, perhaps a little less of a breeze. Really, in so many ways it was a day like the one we’re experiencing right now. A day full of hope and promise, a day full of anticipation.” Those present at the town’s memorial for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, including North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, town council members Viviana Russell, Peter Zuckerman, Angelo Ferrara, Veronica Lurvey, Lee Seeman and Dina DeGiorgio, state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) and countless residents and families, listened as Wink Continued on Page 87
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Thomas Devaney, a chauffeur in the East Williston Fire Department’s truck company and a 9/11 first responder, stands as taps is played to conclude the Town of North Hempstead’s commemoration of Sept. 11, 2001.
N. Shore offers landmark operation Gender confirmation surgery now available for trans patients in Northwell system BY R O S E W E L D ON
pital in Manhasset, Northwell Health announced last week. The procedure was perLong Island’s first genital gender confirmation surgery was formed by plastic surgeon Dr. performed at North Shore Hos- David Whitehead, who conferred with a team of colorectal, urological and gynecological surgeons beforehand. “I do most of the procedure myself, but I make sure that the team is available
if there is an issue,” Whitehead said. The surgery was a form of vaginoplasty, using existing male genitals and tissue to craft the look of a woman’s genitals between the prostate and the rectum. A pelvic floor physical therapy team then works with the patient before and after the operation, and the patient recu-
perates in the hospital for one week. Dr. David Rosenthal, medical director of Northwell Health’s Center for Transgender Care, which is based out of North Shore, said the first procedure was performed in “spring of 2019.” He added that Whitehead Continued on Page 20
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