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Friday, October 23, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 43
ROSLYN DISTRICT ELECTION CLAVIN, CURRAN CLASH GUIDE 2020 RANKED 5TH IN STATE OVER TAX POLLS PAGES 23-28
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Board OKs rezoning of Warner Avenue Now a transit-oriented mixed-use district
BY R O S E W E L D ON The Village of Roslyn’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the rezoning of Warner Avenue to a transitoriented mixed-use district in a Zoom meeting on Tuesday. J.K. Equities, headed by Roslyn resident Jerry Karlik, had asked for a zoning change for 281-301 Warner Ave., which currently houses a strip mall of empty storefronts and was zoned for commercial use only. The company plans to submit an application for a
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Raphaela Levine, 2, a student at the newly opened Shorashim Preschool Academy, a project from the Schecter School of Long Island and the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation, snacks on cookies and fruit at the school’s ribbon cutting ceremony. More photos on page 47.
transit-oriented mixed-use development on the space, comprising one floor of retail and three floors of 60 residential apartments. Just before the board voted to pass the rezoning in a law, Mayor John Durkin reminded the 52 guests gathered that the issue at stake was not an application to build, but a law meant to rezone. “This is not an application for any particular project whatsoever, but it is application for changing the code of the village,” Durkin said. “So, we don’t really know what the
building will look like. Given the new parameters we’ve established we think it will be a better looking building more compatible with the neighborhood and safer for anyone.” Trustee Sarah Oral, a resident of the Roslyn Gardens building near the zone, said in her comments that no developments were going to “happen overnight.” “As a traffic engineer and an urban planner, a transitoriented development, in my opinion, is the appropriate use for the property there,” Oral Continued on Page 35
E. Hills’ Mackay House project moves forward Planning Board OKs environmental impact statement BY R O S E W E L D ON
Melby Lane is owned by Steven and Wendy Shenfeld, who in After months of back-and- 2017 sought to demolish the forth, an environmental impact main house and split the propstatement in a project to de- erty in half as part of a fourmolish and subdivide property house subdivision. Made of stone and conhousing a 91-year-old historical building was accepted Tues- structed in 1929, the house day by the Village of East Hills was originally built for John Mackay III, grandson of John Planning Board. The Mackay estate at 2A Mackay, who was among the
discoverers of the Comstock silver mines in the 1870s. His father was Clarence Mackay, owner of the 648-acre Harbor Hill estate, which made up much of East Hills from 1902 to the 1940s. Harbor Hill was left to the youngest Mackay upon his father’s death in 1938, and the Continued on Page 35
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