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Friday, October 19, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 42
GUIDE TO ROSLYN
EAST HILLS PARK CHIEF STEPS DOWN
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Call to update parking Chamber seeks village fixes BY J E S S I C A PA R K S The Roslyn Chamber of Commerce approached the Board of Trustees on Tuesday night with requests to make village parking more convenient for customers." Steven Blank, the president of the chamber and editor and publisher of Blank Slate Media, told the board that chamber members would like another parking system to be implemented but “most importantly they would like the meters to work.” The chamber provided a list Alek Kucich, 23, started boxing in college and opened BOUT Boxing in Roslyn last month. of suggestions, which included a more modern system to pay for parking such as “pay by plate” instead of the current “pay by display” method, and the ability to pay through an app or web browser. Glen Falcone, a member of the chamber and owner of Gatsby’s Landing, said that these transformation that many take one side of the room opposite BY T E R I W EST practices were recommended by decades to accomplish: ditching windows that face a brick wall. the village’s parking consultant. Just a year after graduating the corporate city lifestyle for an The 23-year-old operates the Blank emphasized that vil- from college, Alek Kucich has entrepreneurial passion project. business almost entirely on his Continued on Page 66 already been through a career It was halfway into his first own and is the motivating and job in the city that he started challenging trainer whom pardreaming of an out, a dream ticipants keep coming back for. He offers group boxing that’s materialized in BOUT Boxing, a fitness studio in classes and one-on-one sessions meant to be adaptable for particRoslyn. Mirrors and bags line ipants of all ages and skill levels.
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Full body workout, minus the bruises BOUT Boxing offers classes and training for fitness enthusiasts of all ages BOUT Boxing doesn’t train for combat, and the space on Lumber Road is meant to be “the least intimidating place you could ever go to,” he said. “I wanted to create a class where someone who’s never done it before and myself I could do it and still get a good workout out of it,” Kucich said. “I Continued on Page 67
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