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Friday, January 3, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 1
HEALTH & WELLNESS
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Self-storage site plan OK’d by Town Board
GRIST & GRIT
4-story building to be erected on long-vacant brownfield area BY R O S E W E L D ON A site plan to build a self-storage structure on long-vacant property in Roslyn Heights where industrial products had been manufactured has been unanimously approved by the North Hempstead Town Board. The Syosset-based Blumenfeld Development Group (BDG) said at a Dec. 17 town meeting that the current one-story structure at 71 Jane St., originally built in 1949 and left vacant in 2013, would be replaced with a four-story, 98,000-squarefoot building that would house storage units, and 22-foot-wide landscape buffers. BDG is best known for developing big box stores like B.J.’s in Farmingdale and outlet malls like Tanger’s The Arches in Deer Park. The site, which sits at the end of a residential block, is bordered by a park, a condo complex and train tracks leading to the Long Island Rail Road station in Roslyn. It is considered a brownfield, a property that was abandoned and may contain hazardous substances after
years of industrial product manufacturing. Former tenants of the site include the Tiffen Co., which produced filters and lenses for movie and TV cameras, and Darmex Industrial, which made lubricants and cleaning products. Its most recent occupants were a company that restores furniture and a company that produced equipment for General Motors. BDG said at the meeting that it had been accepted into the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program in August. Jane Street resident Michael Monica asked if the contaminants would be airborne during construction, and Rafaella Petrasek, BDG’s director of community and government affairs, replied that the contaminants were in the soil and would not migrate near residential homes. Public comment on the proposal’s work plan is expected to take place at one of the town’s meetings in early 2020.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY
The Lumber Road grist mill, circa 1900. The Roslyn Landmark Society has recently received a state grant in its efforts to restore the mill. See story on page 2.
Former Temple Beth Sholom rabbi dies at 55 BY R O S E W E L D ON
become a leader in the Jewish community in Princeton, Rabbi Adam Feldman, New Jersey, after leaving Long a former associate rabbi at Island, died on Dec. 24 in HaTemple Beth Sholom in Roslyn waii while on vacation with his family, according to informaHeights, has died at age 55. Feldman, who went on to tion from Golda Och Academy
in West Orange, New Jersey, where he was a frequent speaker and a former member of the school’s board of trustees. The school said that Feldman had “died while on an Continued on Page 44
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