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Friday, February 1, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 5
N E W H Y D E PA R K
GUIDE TO NEGOTIATIONS TURN VALENTINE’S DAY SOUR IN HERRICKS
BOSWORTH TOUTS NEW INITIATIVES
PAGES 33-40
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F.P. Centennial Hall plans need detailed updates
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Village’s architecture review group sends designs back to drawing board BY J E D HENDRIXSON Plans for the redevelopment of Centennial Hall in the Village of Floral Park have been sent back for more information by the Architectural & Preliminary Site Plan Review Board. At the review board meeting last Wednesday night, Guy Friedman, CEO of Hewlett-based The Friedman Group, presented updated renderings and architectural plans for the historic 93-year-old village building. Chairman Frank Gunther and other members of the review board said that they were pleased with how the building looked and the plans were coming along, but ultimately took no action on approving the plans, asking instead that Friedman provide more specific details on some of the project’s dimensions. The project is “generally headed in the right direction,” Gunther
said. “We want to see all the details.” The village purchased Centennial Hall, built in 1925, in 2005 for $1.5 million with a $2 million bond to attempt to revitalize the space. After determining it was unfit for governmental use, the village began a bidding process to find developers. The Friedman Group purchased Centennial Hall from the village in July for $1.2 million as part of a contract that would preserve the facade of the former Masonic temple and restrict it to residential uses for 30 years. The contract calls for 18 oneand two-bedroom apartment units in the 8,500-square-foot building and a triangular private park for building residents at the corner of Carnation and Tulip avenues. Though no prices have been established, according to Friedman each rental unit would cost approximately $2,400 to $2,800. Continued on Page 69
PHOTO BY JED HENDRIXSON.
Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello, right, flanked by Legislator Thomas McKevitt, announcing their call for County Assessor David Moog’s resignation. See story on page 2.
Gillen calls for department cuts amid potential aid loss BY J E D HENDRIXSON
lowing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s release of a state budget that calls for reductions in state aid Hempstead Town Super- that could cost the town $3.8 visor Laura Gillen last week million. At a news conference directed the town’s 28 departments to prepare for cuts to Thursday, Gillen called Cuotheir budgets of 5 percent fol- mo’s cuts to Aid to Munici-
palities “out of left field” and expressed disappointment that the announcement of cuts came with no warning after the town already passed its $432.5 million budget in November. “Unlike the federal governContinued on Page 69
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