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Friday, March 26, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 13
HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY GUIDE PAGES 25-32
GOP PICKS PHILLIPS FOR COMPTROLLER
LEGISLATURE APPROVES POLICING PLAN
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A victim of assessment phase-in
SPLIT DECISION
Roslyn Landng resident, others face high taxes in new developments BY R O S E W E L D ON When Patrick Silberstein moved to a townhouse in the Roslyn Landing development from a house in Kings Point, he and his wife intended to downsize. “We felt that it would be the absolute best place,” Silberstein said. “We waited for a long time to find the perfect place, and the Village of Roslyn was the place where we wanted to go.” But after settling into their 3,100-square-foot home, they received an alarming surprise when it came time to pay taxes. “We expected reasonable taxes,” Silberstein said. “And when the tax bill came we were very, very surprised.” The Silbersteins’ property tax bill came to “around $55,000,” and an additional $9,000 in village taxes, “which is absolutely enormously expensive,” he says, totaling about $65,000 a year, nearly 30 percent higher than the
$45,000 in taxes they paid in the final year of living in Kings Point. Silberstein’s bill, and those of many North Shore residents who live in new developments, came from an unintentional result of Nassau County’s countywide reassessment, first announced in 2018. A bill passed by the Nassau County Legislature in 2020 sought to limit immediate tax hikes because of reassessment, and allows most owners of residential properties in Nassau to phase in changes to taxes over five years. New homes and developments, however, do not count, and must be based on their full valuation since they’re being assessed for the first time, Conal Denion, special counsel for Nassau County, told Newsday. “To the extent that anyone receives an exemption for any purpose, it results in a shift in tax burden, to other property owners who don’t receive that exempContinued on Page 45
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Katie Murray of the Roslyn High School’s color guard practices her splits at a recent rehearsal. The color guard, drumlins and marching band are currently working toward returning to competition in the fall.
Board unanimously OKs Warner Avenue proposal BY R O S E W E L D ON
use development on Warner Avenue and ruled that its conEnding a saga, the Village struction would not cause any of Roslyn’s Board of Trustees negative environmental conseunanimously voted on Tuesday quences. In October, the board night to approve a proposal for a four-to-five-story mixed- 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. Continued on Page 45
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