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Friday, July 12, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 28
N E W H Y D E PA R K
LIVING 50 PLUS
USA SOCCER CHAMP FROM NHP
STATE SEEKS FIRST CAP ON DIOXANE
PAGES 29-44
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LIRR station unveiled
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Cuomo announces plan for Belmont BY TOM M CC A RT HY A Long Island Rail Road station will be built on the Main Line as part of the Belmont Park development, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday. It is the first full-time LIRR station to be built in nearly 50 years. The new station will be located between the Queens Village and Bellerose stations just east of the Cross Island Parkway. Cuomo’s plans said that electric shuttle buses, which were already planned to run from parking lots within Belmont Park to a proposed new arena for the Islanders hockey team, will also serve LIRR riders traveling to the grandstand and planned arena, hotel and retail village. “The Belmont project will help drive the region’s economy forward while building the Islanders a state-of-the-art facility at home on Long Island, creating thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic output along the way,” Cuomo said in a news release. Continued on Page 71
PHOTO BY STEPHEN CIPOT
Participants in New Hyde Park-Mineola Championship start the 8K. See story on page 2.
Community leaders oppose, brace for Manhasset Square application BY T E R I W EST
scribed it as “everybody’s worst fear.” A development with three Richard Bentley, who leads the conglomerate of all of rental unit apartment buildManhasset’s civic groups, de- ings, an office building and hotel along Manhasset’s Northern Boulevard and Community Drive proposed by Macy’s and Brookfield Properties is simply far too big, he said. After Brookfield and
Macy’s debuted the plan for the Manhasset Square project to the Council of Greater Manhasset Civics Associations in May, discussion in Manhasset neighborhoods has manifested in early opposition. A digital petition against rezoning the property from commercial to residential has 1,145 signatures despite a formal appli-
cation not yet reaching the Town Board. “I don’t think anybody around the table has gotten any feedback from any resident that said, ‘Oh this is beautiful,’” Bentley said at the June meeting of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civics Associations. “The scope was far too large.” Continued on Page 59
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