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Friday, October 1, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 40
Port WashingtonTimes HOME & DESIGN
HOWARD WEITZMAN, EX-COMPTROLLER, DIES
CURRAN GETS POLICE UNION BACKING
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Manorhaven trustees seek building pause
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Popeleski worried about overcrowding, says ‘greedy builders are destroying the town’ BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The Manorhaven Board of Trustees will consider a building moratorium in the coming months. The suggestion was made last Wednesday night by Trustee John Popeleski, who said he was concerned about overcrowding in the village. “Greedy builders are destroying the town, and they are all about their pocketbooks,” Popeleski said in an interview Friday. A moratorium would require a law, which will have to go through a process including a public hearing that will take a few months, said village Attorney Jonathan Fielding. At a board meeting, Popeleski said: “We need to sit as a board, with all the boards, and to look at the future of Manorhaven, the overcrowding and all that. I feel that it’s time to do this to, you know, save Manorhaven in some way. You know, a nice place to
live before we’re so overcrowded that we’re literally living on each other.” The board also announced a public hearing to create a handicap parking space on the west side of Hickory Road in front of No. 63. The public hearing will take place on Oct. 27 and has arisen from residents’ desires to control certain aspects of parking, Mayor Jim Avena said. “We have a major problem with parking, it’s sacred around here,” Avena said in an interview last Thursday. One of the methods he implemented to try and fix the issue was to eliminate alternate street parking. Instead of alternate street parking between Dec. 1 to March 15, he changed it to only in declared snow emergencies. Also suggested Wednesday night was the implementation of parking permits, distributed only for residents and allowing unmarked cards a certain amount of Continued on Page 59
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON ATHLETICS TWITTER
Port Washington tennis player Emma Sy committed to West Point.
Thousands attend Greek Festival on the Harbor BY R OB E RT PELAEZ The 10th annual Greek Festival on the Harbor saw a record number of attendees after a one-year absence caused
by the coronavirus, according to the Rev. John Lardas of the Archangel Michael Church of Port Washington. Thousands came to experience Greek and Hellenistic culture through food, dancing,
music, rides and more food during the event from Sept. 24 to 26. The event, which is organized each year by the church, attracts people from across Long Island. Continued on Page 59
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