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Friday, January 24, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 4
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Buckley a ‘bad neighbor,’ say residents
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School application hearing sees Acorn Ponders object to project BY R O S E W E L D ON The Buckley Country Day School is a “bad neighbor,” according to a group of North Hills residents. The comments were made at a Jan. 15 public hearing during a North Hills Board of Trustees meeting on an application from the school that would include, among other elements, the addition of 197 parking spots to the existing 120. Attorney Bruce Migatz of the Garden City firm Albanese and Albanese, representing Buckley in the matter, presented the application, the result of a $5 million capital campaign. “The proposal was based upon what the school feels they require,” Migatz said. “If the board has concerns about the size of the parking lot, we can certainly look at that and see if we can’t make that a little bit smaller and still accommodate special events, by all means.
Buckley wants to be a good neighbor. The school wants to work with the neighborhood.” Migatz’s presentation was preceded by Buckley’s head of security, John Drago, who said that the need for more spaces was based on safety concerns following a 2018 Nassau County Police Department security survey of the campus and a 2019 U.S. Department of Homeland Security self-assessment survey of the school. Drago also said the school recognized “the concerns of our neighbors.” “We are therefore balancing the need of security measures against the impact of the community,” Drago said. “In regards to the parking plan, the proposed designated visitor parking lot is a second layer of security. The Nassau County P.D. and Department of Homeland Security surveys recommend that vehicle access to Continued on Page 52
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY
The Roslyn Grist Mill, pictured circa 1909, was to be raised for the first time in years on Thursday.
Old Northern-Broadway corners still blocked off BY R O S E W E L D ON Four months after construction began on the intersection of Old Northern Boulevard and East Broadway in Roslyn, the sidewalk’s four corners remain blocked off
with pylons. Repairs began in late September at the intersection, which the Village of Roslyn says is Nassau County property. It has been closed to pedestrians since, and has yet to see an end date.
Rich Branciforte, publisher of Good Times Magazine and a member of the Roslyn Chamber of Commerce, said Tuesday at a meeting of the Village of Roslyn Board of Trustees that the four corners had been Continued on Page 52
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