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Friday, September 4, 2020
Vol. 69, No. 36
N E W H Y D E PA R K
BACK TO SCHOOL
LORD & TAYLOR TO CLOSE
DiNAPOLI WARNS OF THREAT TO MTA
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Village touts completion of underpass New Hyde Park officials say months of construction was ‘traffic nightmare’ BY E LL I OT W E L D For decades, the Village of New Hyde Park has dealt with the traffic and safety hazards of a railroad grade crossing on New Hyde Park Road. When construction began to remove the crossing and the road was closed to traffic, those inconveniences were exacerbated. Now, the removal has been completed and the road is open to traffic. “Right now, everyone seems to love it,” Rainer Burger, a New Hyde Park village trustee, said of the completed underpass. The new underpass has two lanes going each way with a steep drop going under the Long Island Rail Road tracks. It has concrete walkways on both sides of the road for pedestrians to traverse under the tracks. New Hyde Park Mayor Lawrence J. Montreuil said the people who live on and around New Hyde
Park Road should be recognized since they have been subjected to large amounts of inconvenience with traffic as well as noise and vibration from the construction. Burger said since construction on New Hyde Park Road started, they have had “a lot of traffic issues.” Burger is the main contact the village has with Third Track Constructors, the contractors undertaking the Long Island Rail Road expansion project to add a third track from Floral Park to Hicksville, and all the grade crossing eliminations and station renovations that come with it. He said when the road was closed for construction on Feb. 3, everything was diverted onto Covert Avenue and South 12th Street and sometimes traffic spilled onto residential streets. “We had a traffic nightmare beContinued on Page 35
PHOTO BY ELLIOT WELD
Piccola Bussola, owned by former Mineola Chamber of Commerce President Tony Lubrano, was destroyed in a fire last Thursday. See story on page 3.
Curran advocates for playing high school sports BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
the county council of superintendents’ unanimous vote to postpone them until next year. “I supported Governor Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said she is an Cuomo’s science-based guidadvocate for high school sports ance allowing the resumption being played this fall, despite of high school sports, and I be-
lieve it’s vital that our independent school districts implement plans to safely get student athletes back on the field this fall,” Curran said in a statement Tuesday night. Continued on Page 34
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