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Friday, June 7, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 23
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COUNTY ANNOUNCES AIRCRAFT NOISE PANEL
MANGANO’S TOP DEPUTY COPS PLEA
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Olive Market’s Willis Avenue store closes Final small business to leave center BY T E R I W EST
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Everything at Olive Market was half price on its final day at the shopping center on Willis Avenue.
Most of Olive Market’s loyal customers who visited the grocery store last Friday evening did not know it would be their final time there. They entered to find two-for-one deals storewide and a notebook at the register, where they could add their email to a list for updates on the business’ next chapter. After nearly 26 years at a shopping center on Willis Avenue in Roslyn, Friday was its final day there, making Olive Market the last of the center’s independent businesses to vacate as new owners raise the rent
and prepare for renovations. CVS and Starbucks remain, and two new tenants, a boutique fitness center and a fast-casual eatery, will move in this year, said Louis Silverman, who bought the property in 2018 with Adam Mann. Olive Market co-owner Jack Chin said he has been on the lookout for a new space in the area but has not found one yet. “They all want to try to help to find us another location to go into,” he said of his customers. “I’ve really looked.” He had stayed longer than neighContinued on Page 58
Pool contract was flawed: Gramercy BY T E R I W EST
that completed the repairs. Discrepancies between what The Clinton G. Martin Park was presented in the contract pool renovation contract did not and what was present on site correctly represent conditions repeatedly arose as Gramercy of the pool, which resulted in moved to execute the repairs, increased costs and delays, said company President Vincent ParGramercy Group, the contractor ziale wrote in a letter to the pub-
lic works commissioner dated May 15. From underrepresenting the amount of asbestos to not providing steel needed for the bathhouse, errors by the town caused weekslong delays that made it difficult to complete the project by the contractually agreed upon date of April 24, 2018, he wrote. The May 15 letter came in response to one from Public Works Commis-
sioner Paul DiMaria informing Gramercy Group, which declared bankruptcy May 17, that the Town of North Hempstead was planning to hold it in default for not completing the project in New Hyde Park by April 24 and having outstanding work to do. “It is true that the Project was not opened until mid-June, 2018,” Parziale replied. “However, your letter does not even attempt to present a fair picture
of why that happened. Candidly, given all of the Town’s issues. It is amazing that the Pool even opened at that time.” One issue was asbestos. The original contract called for a “limited amount of asbestos removal,” Parziale wrote. When Gramercy Group evaluated the space it discovered an additional 5,500 square feet that had asbestos, the letter says. Continued on Page 69
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