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Friday, June 21, 2024
Vol. 73, No. 25
N E W H Y D E PA R K
GUIDE TO GRADUATION
DeSENA AIDE HIGHEST PAID IN TOWN
TRUMP ENDORSES LiPETRI IN CD3
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2 Dem rivals vie to take on Jack Martins
W AT E R B A L L O O N D AY
Kim Keiserman, Brad Schwartz to compete in June 25 primary BY C A M E RY N O A K ES
As New York voters head to the polls on June 25 for the state’s primary election, the election headlining the North Shore will be the Democratic primary race for state Senate District 7. Kim Keiserman and Brad Schwartz are going head-to-head in the race to challenge District 7 state Sen. Jack Martins, a Republican endorsed by the Conservative Party, who is running for re-election. The primary winner will face off against Martins in November. The district, which includes much of the North Shore and the Town of Oyster Bay as far east as Woodbury, is currently represented by Martins, who flipped the district red in 2022. Keiserman is an education consultant and serves as a commissioner for the North Hempstead Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, chairwoman of the Baxter Estates Planning Board and a board member of the Come to Believe Network. She is also president of the Port Washington Democratic Club, a zone Leader for the Nassau County Democratic Committee and co-president of the Baxter’s Pond Foundation. Her campaign platform encompasses advocating for reproductive
rights, investing in public education, fostering gun safety legislation, lowering taxes and bolstering affordability, protecting the environment and standing up against bigotry. Keiserman’s intent in running is to give Long Island a seat at the table at the state level to ensure their voices are heard, according to her campaign. Schwartz, who ran in the 2018 race but dropped out before the primary against former state Sen. Anna Kaplan, is a former television editor and producer with a Ph.D in public policy. He is a lifelong resident of Long Island’s North Shore and lives in Roslyn. He is the founding chairman of Sid Jacobson JCC’s Community Needs Bank. Schwartz’s campaign is focused on addressing the district’s high cost of living, bolstering public school funding, developing housing, supporting reproductive rights, healthcare affordability, combatting hate and antisemitism, protecting the environment and bettering public safety. In a candidate forum hosted by the Port Washington–Manhasset League of Women Voters, both Keiserman and Schwartz touted their ability to unseat Martins in the general election this November. Continued on Page 46
PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS SCHOOL DISTRIT
Center Street students played outside with water balloons and ate ice cream as a reward for hitting their Boosterthon fundraising goal.
Vacant Nathan’s, Sweet Pea lot to house CVS B Y T A Y L O R H E R Z L I C H CVS, smaller CVS storefronts in Wil- location: The store will be open from 7 A CVS Pharmacy will be moving into the vacant lot on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Herricks Road, builders announced at a Lakeville Estates Civic Association meeting Wednesday night. The vacant storefronts on the Hillside Avenue and Herricks Road lot, previously home to Nathan’s, Sweet Pea and a medical building, will be knocked down to make way for a large CVS Pharmacy. With the addition of the spacious
liston Park and another on Hillside Avenue will close, according to the developers. “I like this change. That was a deserted area. This is something helpful to the community. It is not controversial,” Councilwoman Christine Liu said. “This is a wonderful improvement and no longer an eyesore to this community.” Liu said the CVS Pharmacy fills a need in the area, since a Rite Aid across the street from the empty lot closed a few years ago. The CVS store will not be a 24-hour
a.m. to 10 p.m., or possibly to 11 p.m., the builders said. CVS has a 20-year lease on the property, the builders said. While Liu said the building plans are still in the “infancy stage,” developers presented a tentative blueprint of the building, which includes a drivethru, expanded parking and two exits and entrances. Both of the exit and entrance points are as far as possible from the intersection to mitigate traffic and Continued on Page 47