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Friday, December 21, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 51
NEW YEAR’S DINING GUIDE
MEDMEN ABANDONS REASSESSMENT HEARING MANHASSET DRAWS A CROWD
PAGES 31-34, 39-42
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Roslyn OKs changes to parking regs
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STUDENT CODERS
Responds to chamber requests to make village more customer-friendly BY T E R I W EST The Roslyn Board of Trustees agreed! at its Tuesday meeting to some of the village parking improvements that the Chamber of Commerce requested, including changing the day that parking is free and loading zone hours. It said parking can be free on Sunday instead of Monday and loading zones can become public parking after a certain hour. The board also said it would be possible to create parking on Lumber Road for employees to use throughout the day and to ensure that employees are respectful to patrons, two other chamber requests. “It’s in everybody’s interest to get the employees out of the meters in front feeding the meters and doing that because they’re taking spots where customers are
going to come up,” said chamber President Steven Blank, who also owns this newspaper. The board will not, however, replace parking meters yet, integrate mobile applications for parkers to pay with or limit how late paid parking hours extend. The chamber’s parking committee had drafted a list of 11 recommendations, seeking to improve the experience for shoppers and diners in the village. The Board of Trustees reviewed them with a parking consultant. The biggest point of contention at the meeting was meters requiring payments until 8 p.m. Glenn Falcone, the owner of Gatsby’s Landing, a restaurant on Old Northern Boulevard, said that he has received letters from people saying they will not return to his business because the meters exContinued on Page 59
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE SCHOOLS
During the Hour of Code, students use multiple coding applications to code a small drone under the directions of Keith Slack at North Shore Middle School. See story on page 49.
New Bow Tie owners discuss theaters’ future BY D E M I G U O
theater in its current state. Though “maintaining a The lawyer for the compa- movie theater is not off the tany that purchased the Manhas- ble,” part of the space will have set and Roslyn Bow Tie cinemas to be devoted to other uses, the said that it is “not financially lawyer, Paul Bloom, a former viable” to leave Manhasset’s Great Neck village justice and
trustee, said at a meeting of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations last Wednesday. He represents Cinemas GMC LLC, the new owner of! the two theaters. Continued on Page 59
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