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Friday, June 29, 2018
Vol. 67, No. 26
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$300K in fake bags found Sold out of NHP store: Singas BY R E B ECC A K L A R A Queens man was arraigned after allegedly selling approximately $300,000 worth of fake designer bags out of his New Hyde Park shoe repair store, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced last Wednesday. Edid Yakubov, 56, was arraigned last Tuesday before Judge Maxine Broderick of Second District Court on one count of firstdegree counterfeiting. He was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court on Aug. 14. The district attorney’s office and the Nassau County Police Department started a joint investigation of Yakubov’s store, Ral’s Shoe Repair, located at 1633a Hillside Ave., in April, following a tip. The investigation found Yakubov was buying counterfeit Louis Vuitton and Michael Kors handbags for $25 to $30 and selling them for $45, the district attorney’s office said. Continued on Page 82
PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN
We did it!
A Sewanhaka High School graduate walks up to the stage at Hofstra University to get his diploma during last Satruday’s commencement ceremony. See graduation coverage on pages 25-28 and 69-71.
Third track construction begins Six projects set for New Hyde Park, Floral Park and Mineola in 2018 BY R E B ECC A K L A R
ground on the anticipated, and often contested, Main Line ExThe Metropolitan Trans- pansion project with major conportation Authority is breaking struction projects coming to New Hyde Park, Floral Park and Mineola later this year. There are 10 projects starting between now and 2019 as part of the $2.6 billion plan to build a third track on the 9.8-mile Main Line
that stretches from Floral Park to Hicksville, six of which are within Floral Park, New Hyde Park and Mineola. Among the projects is the removal of the Covert Avenue street crossing, the addition of an elevator at the Floral Park station and the creation of a new parking garage in Mineola. The groundwork for next
winter’s work on the Covert Avenue crossing elimination has already begun with utility lines relocated near the New Hyde Park crossing. The Covert Avenue street crossing is the first of seven crossings that will be eliminated along the Main Line, and is expected to be done in the winter of 2019. Continued on Page 82
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