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Friday, July 10, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 28
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PAGES 25-32
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Judge finds for ExteNet
LIGHT THE NIGHT
in town case
Judgment may include building cell nodes in Plandome Manor area BY R O S E W E L D ON A federal judge has decided in favor of wireless infrastructure provider ExteNet Systems in its case against the Town of North Hempstead. Judge Edward Korman of the Eastern District of New York granted the company’s motion for summary judgment in a June 26 order. ExteNet, which had been contracted by Verizon Wireless to build cell nodes across the North Shore, argued in the suit that the town’s council failed to act on the company’s applications to install 16 nodes in areas including Port Washington Estates, Manhasset Bay Estates, Bayview Colony and bordering the Plandome Manor area, according to paperwork filed with the Town of North Hempstead on Aug. 23, 2019, within a “reasonable” time frame. The company said that 14 days after the filings, on Sept. 6, the town paused the 90-day “shot
clock” by “requesting additional information, indicating that the town did not consider ExteNet’s application to be complete.” ExteNet added that North Hempstead received the additional information from the company on Oct. 1, and with the “shot clock” reset by Federal Communications Commission rules, the town had until Dec. 30 to act on the applications. Over the course of the town’s meetings in the ensuing months, the applications were not brought up in public session by the board, “triggering the filing action within 30 days thereafter,” the suit says. A planned public hearing on the applications for March 19, announced the same day as the lawsuit was filed, was canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus. “As the town has produced no reasonable explanation for this delay, ExteNet is entitled to summary judgment on its claim that Continued on Page 13
PHOTO BY KATIE SABBATINO
Mark Sabbatino of Manhasset waves a sparkler on July 4.
Castagna, developer of Americana, dies at 91 BY R O S E W E L D ON
Americana Manhasset, a crown jewel of retailing on the MiraFrancis “Frank” Castagna, cle Mile, has died. Castagna died at his home one of Long Island’s most prominent real estate devel- after a nearly yearlong battle opers and philanthropists who with cancer, according to an counted among his projects the obituary posted online on Tues-
day that did not specify the day he died. He was 91. Castagna was born on Sept. 19, 1928, the son of Italian-born hospital builder Ferdinand Castagna and his wife, Continued on Page 53
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