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Friday, November 29, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 48
HOLIDAY GUIDE
NORTH SHORE CAT CENTER OPENS
CALL FOR HOUSING DISCRIMINATION PROBE
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Warner Ave. project said to add 6 students Study by developer sees minimal impact; district says it’s ‘operating at capacity’ BY R O S E W E L D ON An impact statement from the company proposing a mixed-use development on Warner Avenue estimates that only six students would be added to the Roslyn school district. The district has argued against the project, saying it cannot serve any more students. J.K. Equities, headed by Roslyn resident Jerry Karlik, has asked for a zoning change for 301 Warner Ave., which currently houses several empty storefronts. If it is granted, the company would submit an application for a mixeduse development on the space, comprising one floor of retail and three floors of 60 residential apartments. The school board has been against the proposal since July, when President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy claimed that the district was “functioning at capacity.” BenLevy, school board Vice President Cliff Saffron and other members
were also present at a Village of Roslyn Board of Trustees meeting last month where they continued to say that the district could not accommodate more students. Statistics in an impact statement from J.K. Equities estimate that only six students would reside in the proposed Warner Avenue development. The statement also cites findings from Stony Brook University, which found that only 14 multifamily apartment complexes had been constructed on Long Island since 2003, with nine in Suffolk County and five in Nassau County. Presence of public school students in each unit averaged .09 for all 4,211 units in the study. Ben-Levy was unavailable for comment. A Freedom of Information Law request submitted to the district on Oct. 31 for the district’s student enrollment numbers for the 201516 through 2019-20 school years Continued on Page 61
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Rafi Pergament of East Hills Elementary School speaks before the Roslyn school board on Thursday. Pergament and five other Roslyn students were present to attest to the success of the Beautiful Me program, which encourages self-esteem in young girls.
From tragedy comes celebration at schools BY R O S E W E L D ON
School social workers Stephanie Leibowitz from East A program on self-esteem Hills Elementary School and is seeing positive effects for Julie Lomot from Harbor Hill Roslyn students, as seen at the Elementary School and six studistrict’s Board of Education dent members of the Beautiful Me program made a presentameeting last Thursday.
tion to the board. The Beautiful Me program was created by Warren and Jackie Hance of Floral Park after their three daughters Emma, Alyson and Katie were Continued on Page 61
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