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Friday, July 7, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 27
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Waiting game continues for Bayview Ave.
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Village, town, county will need to work together during sea wall project BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A Manhasset road has been waiting for some much-needed infrastructure work for more than two decades, but that wait could be nearly over. The land between Bayview Avenue and Manhasset Bay has been slowly eroding for years, and president after president of the Bayview Civic Association has fought to get the Town of North Hempstead and Nassau County to come together and put funds toward the project. “We as a civic association have come up with plans and tried to work with the town and county since 1996 to do something along the waterfront that would not only improve safety along the road for cars and some form of pathway for pedestrians and bicycles, and it’s never gotten enough traction,” Bayview Civic Association past president Eric Monroe said.
The roadway itself is owned by the Town of North Hempstead, but the land between the road and the bay is Nassau County property. Former Bayview Civic Association president Victor Sostar authored the original 1996 grant proposal for a study and has been following the project closely since his administration ended in 1998. Along some stretches, there is a foot or less between the edge of the roadway and the water. Monroe said $50,000 had been appropriated by the town for the project in the 1990s, but he said the civic association at the time lacked the relationships between council members and then Town of North Hempstead Supervisor May Newburger to bring it to fruition. Sostar said the original proposal was to mitigate some erosion as well as to address some aesthetic and environmental concerns. Some utility poles along the road Continued on Page 67
PHOTO COURTESY OF MOTHERS’ GROUP OF MANHASSET
The Mothers’ Group of Manhasset kicked off summer with a visit from Giuseppe, Manhasset’s ice cream man, on June 20 at Mary Jane Davies playground. See story page 20.
Greentree Foundation keeps community roots BY J ES S I C A C H I N Richard Schaffer, the president of the Greentree Foundation, said that although the foundation created by the Whitney family focuses primar-
ily on advancing peace and human rights around the world, serving the community is still a priority. “We believe in continuing the Whitney family’s support of the community and being
a good neighbor so, we make a grant each year to Manhasset community fund,” Schaffer said. The foundation continued that practice on June 19 when Continued on Page 67
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