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Friday, October 16, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 42
GUIDE TO ROSLYN
SWASTIKAS FOUND ON PORT BUILDING
HOFSTRA ALUM WINS STANLEY CUP
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Moms craft for a cause The Roslyn roots of BKeeperNYC BY D U FF Y ZIMMERMAN When Andrea Heitner and Andrea Weisbach created BKeeperNYC Mask Chains in July, they agreed that proceeds from their product should benefit charities. “With so many people out of work, and people hungry it’s such a dark time for so many people,” Heitner said. “To launch something and not give back PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CRIFO FAMILY in that capacity felt extremely wrong to us.” Roslyn resident Paul Crifo, who designed over 120 film posters for classics like “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” Ten percent of BKeeperNYC’s profits are donated to a chariand “The Producers,” stands before his poster for “In the Heat of the Night” at an exhibition of his work. Crifo died table organization each month. last month at age 98. See story on page 2. Their first donation went to City Harvest and provided an additional 570 meals to food insecure New Yorkers. BKeeperNYC has since worked with the Global Medical Relief Fund, Sharsheret and Sunrise Association Day Camps. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this month’s donation will be given B Y R O S E W E L D O N discuss the proposed rezoning of company would submit an ap- Island Railroad’s Roslyn station to Go With Courage, a cancer Warner Avenue in a Zoom meet- plication for a transit-oriented and provides for a mix of uses research organization based on The Village of Roslyn’s Board ing on Tuesday, this time with a mixed-use development, com- appropriate for its unique locaContinued on Page 19 of Trustees will again meet to draft of the proposed law. prising one floor of retail and tion.” Permitted principal uses listJ.K. Equities, headed by three floors of 60 residential ed in the proposed law include Roslyn resident Jerry Kar- apartments. The proposed law’s text residential apartments; conlik, has asked for a zoning change for 281-301 Warner states that the purpose of the venience and “specialty retail” Ave., which currently houses change would be “to encourage establishments; service retail a strip mall of empty store- development that takes advan- establishments like barbershops, Continued on Page 33 fronts. If it is granted, the tage of its proximity to the Long
Trustees to further talk Warner Ave. Move to rezone area around LIRR station to be presented at Tuesday’s meeting
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