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Friday, February 19, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 8
SPECIAL PRIVATE WATER HEARING CUOMO ADMITS WITHHOLDING OCCASIONS NEXT WEEK: GOV NURSING HOME DATA PAGES 19-21
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2nd hearing on Warner Avenue moves to March
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LUNAR NEW YEAR
Discussion of proposed development postponed from Tuesday trustee meeting BY R O S E W E L D ON A second hearing on a proposed four-to-five-story mixeduse development on Warner Avenue before the Village of Roslyn’s Board of Trustees will take place next month, after being postponed from the board’s meeting on Tuesday. The hearing was one of two adjourned at that meeting, which Mayor John Durkin announced soon after it began. “We will be, at the request of the applicants, adjourning the public hearings … and we’re going to continue them to our March meeting,” Durkin said. In October, the board passed a change of zone for 281-301 Warner Ave. from commercial to mixed-use. The property currently houses a strip mall of empty storefronts and was zoned for commercial use only. J.K. Equities, headed by Roslyn resident Jerry Karlik, has sub-
mitted an application for a transitoriented mixed-use development on the site, comprising one floor of retail and either three or four floors of 54 residential apartments. The plans have been widely discussed due to the Roslyn school board’s stance against the proposal since July 2019, when President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy claimed that the district was “functioning at capacity.” Ben-Levy also successfully asked the board to change the date of a public hearing on the zoning change in 2020. “[We] have reduced the density, eliminating one residential floor, decreased the retail component by 50 percent, increased parking, and I’ve reserved 20 percent of the apartments as affordable workforce housing,” Karlik said at the first hearing, held in January. “We will also be making a sizable monetary contribution to the village to defray costs associated with this project, as well as Continued on Page 36
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Roslyn High School world language teacher Huichee Yeh celebrated the Lunar New Year with students in her Chinese 3, 4, 5, and AP Chinese classes. The students commemorated the Year of the Ox with the lion dance and by creating hong bao, red envelopes traditionally filled with money and given on special occasions.
Stern, who led Roslyn ed board post-scandal, dies BY R O S E W E L D ON Stanley Stern, former president of the Roslyn Board of Education, has died at 86. Stern’s death was announced in an email to the
district’s community by current Board of Education President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy, who was first elected to the board when he served as president. A date of death was not given. “It is with sadness that I
write on behalf of the Roslyn Board of Education to inform you of the passing this past weekend of former Roslyn Board of Education President Stanley Stern,” Ben-Levy Continued on Page 37
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