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Friday, February 19, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 8
Port WashingtonTimes SPECIAL OCCASIONS
PORT DOC NAMED TO CUOMO ADMITS WITHHOLDING BIDEN TASK FORCE NURSING HOME DATA
PAGES 19-21
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Residents pen petition against development
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GONNA FLEX
Over 650 locals sign opposition to proposal at 145 West Shore Road BY R O S E W E L D ON Over 650 Port Washington residents have signed a Change.org petition against a proposed apartment and marina development. The estimated $120 million development is being shepherded by Southern Land Co., which filed a petition to rezone a 7.17-acre parcel at 145 West Shore Road, currently housing the construction supply wholesaler Bay Aggregates, from “Residence-AAA” to “Multiple Residence” to enable the construction of a seven-level, 176-unit residential building with a 29-slip public marina on Hempstead Harbor, not far from North Hempstead Beach Park. The petition opposing the development was launched by the Beacon Hill Residents Association several weeks ago and has collected 655 signatures. “The character and quality of life in Port Washington is once again being threatened by overde-
velopment,” the petition reads. Reasons cited in the petition include overpopulation; traffic congestion; stress on school, water and sewer district and police and fire departments, and the environmental health of Hempstead Harbor and Manhasset Bay. Comments from signers protest overdevelopment of the area. “I’m signing this petition in hope that no more of our waterfront is taken from the beauty of our town,” one wrote. “Leave the waterfront alone.” “The town is already severely overdeveloped,” another commented. “Traffic has increased dramatically in the last ten years. More and more Port Washington [is] looking like Queens. If I had wanted to live in queens I would have bought a house in queens and paid significantly lower taxes. Leave the waterfront alone. Cement everywhere is not a good thing.” Continued on Page 27
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
An unnamed teacher at Weber Middle School promotes the school’s digital book fair.
Soundview Cinemas
insurance suit dismissed BY R O S E W E L D ON A lawsuit filed by the Soundview Cinemas in Port Washington against its insurance company over economic losses sustained as a result of
having to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been dismissed. In a filing dated Feb. 10, Justice Timothy S. Driscoll of the state Supreme Court’s Commercial Division approved
a motion to dismiss the suit from the defendants, who included the Blue Point-based insurance brokers Five Star Coverage Corp. and Wilkinson & Krause Agency Inc. as well as Continued on Page 36
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