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Friday, June 7, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 23
Port WashingtonTimes GOP LEGISLATORS’ OVERRIDE BID FAILS PAGE PA GE 2 24 4
PORT POLICE WELCOME THREE NEW OFFICERS
MANGANO’S TOP DEPUTY COPS PLEA
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Grumman owner eyes 2nd studio in Port North
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Farahzad bought former Publishers Clearing House headquarters BY J E S S I C A PA R K S A vacant building in Port Washington North may become Long Island’s next television studio. The commercial property on Channel Drive, now owned by East Setauket developer Parviz Farahzad, was the former headquarters of Publishers Clearing House. Farahzad is the founder of Little Rock Construction and the owner of Grumman Studios, a studio space that sits on a 30-acre site in Bethpage. It is the former property of Grumman Corp., which made the lunar modules that carried the first man to the moon. The Channel Drive site sits on over 13 acres and currently includes two empty office buildings. Farahzad is proposing to convert the single-story building to Grumman’s sister studio, according to Newsday. No application has been filed in the village, according to village Clerk Palma Torrisi. Farahzad said in an interview
with Newsday that the Port Washington site is “an ideal location for another studio on Long Island.” He cited the property’s size, proximity to New York City and short distance to the train as contributing factors for it to be a successful studio. He plans to demolish the ceiling, eliminate the columns and “build the new studio within the footprint of the one-story building” and then divide the space into six separate units to lease to production companies, according to Newsday’s report. He told Newsday that the studio would bring economic benefits to the area. Efforts to reach Farahzad were unavailing. Farahzad approached the village board earlier this year to request that it allow him to use the site’s parking lot to store cars from a nearby dealership to obtain revenue while the site was vacant. Patchogue-based bld architecture is the contracted architectural firm for the studio project.
PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS
Hundreds turned out under sunny skies to celebrate HarborFest, Port’s 29th annual street festival which spanned from lower Main Street to the Town Dock. See story on page 3.
Sands Pt.’s Epstein elected Northwell board chairman BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
He has served as a Northwell Health trustee for 14 years, and before that filled Michael A. Epstein, a resi- the role of an associate trustee dent of Sands Point, was elect- on the board since December ed last week as the new chair 2002. The 24-year resident of of the Northwell Health Board Sands Point has also been a of Trustees.
board member of Northwell’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research since 2002. Epstein said that he has always had an interest in health care and when the time came where he could think about Continued on Page 69
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