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Friday, December 30, 2022
Vol. 7, No. 52
PortWashingtonTimes HEALTH AND WELLNESS GUIDE
CHARLES MOSIEJEWSKI DIES
COUNTY, PBA REACH AGREEMENT
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Dems, GOPers blast serial liar Santos Call for probes of congressman-elect BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
PHOTO BY BRANDON DUFFY
Congressman-elect George Santos announcing victory in November.
Republican Congressman-elect George Santos has received criticism from officials on both sides of the aisle, including Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, for lying about his personal and professional background along with a challenge from the Democrat he beat in the race for Congress in November. Blakeman and newly-elected U.S. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-Bay Shore) called for the House Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Santos’ past riddled with discrepancies as outlined by the New York Times last week. Blakeman told Newsday that
the congressman-elect’s record has now come into question. “I think that he’s entitled to a hearing with the [House] Ethics Committee, and that they should do a thorough investigation to see if he violated any laws or any ethics rules,” Blakeman told Newsday. “I think that we have to let the process unfold, which I think will happen fairly swiftly.” “New Yorkers deserve the truth and House Republicans deserve an opportunity to govern without this distraction,” LaLota, who will represent the state’s 1st Congressional District, told Newsday. Continued on Page 38
East Side Access won’t open until 2023 BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that the agency’s East Side Access project will not be opened fully until early 2023 after projecting a start date before the year’s end. The 700,000-foot terminal to allow for Long Island Rail Road access into Lower Manhattan does not have a specific opening date in 2023, but the
agency has arranged for shuttle trains between the LIRR Jamaica station and Grand Central Madison to run in the interim. “It isn’t every day that customers get access to a world-class new train terminal, so we wanted to open up the opportunity to see the space weeks in advance of the full-scale new service going into effect,” LIRR Interim President Catherine Rinaldi said in a statement.
The new terminal will be able to handle increased capacity from the LIRR’s North Shore train stations as a result of continued express service on the Port Washington line and more commuters from the agency’s 3rd Track Project. After proposing changes to the Long Island Rail Road’s Port Washington branch that would have eliminated express service as part of the East Side Access project, transit officials
said they abandoned plans to do so in October. Overall, the branch will receive an 11% boost in service, with more trains becoming available for commuters on the Port Washington Branch, according to the draft schedules following the agency’s announcement. A total of 103 trains per day will be servicing the branch, 10 more than the current schedule has, officials said. On weekends, a total of five more trains, 81
in total, will be operating along the branch. The draft morning rush hour schedule includes 15 trains arriving in Manhattan between 6:16 a.m. and 9:51 a.m., a 36% increase from the current 11 that arrive at Penn Station between 6:21 a.m. and 9:34 a.m., according to officials. The branch’s afternoon and evening rush hour schedule will also Continued on Page 36
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