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HEALTH, WELLNESS MAN KILLED IN OLD & BEAUTY GUIDE WESTBURY CRASH
LEGISLATOR’S ARREST ROILS COUNTY POLITICS
PAGES 31-34, 47-50
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N. Hills cuts ribbon
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WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Dealertrack open for business BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss and New York Lt. Gov. Cathy Hochul celebrated the Dealertrack Technologies’ ribbon-cutting last Wednesday, ďŹ nishing a two-year construction PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI project to bring the company’s corporate headquarters to North Roslyn High School salutatorian Abigail Flyer addresses the Class of 2017 and the crowd at the graduation ceremony Hills from Lake Success. last Friday at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. See graduation section, pages 35-46. The four-oor, 230,000 square-foot facility at 3400 New Hyde Park Road has been a plan in the making for 14 years, and Nattis said he does not yet know how the new headquarters will aect the mostly residential North Hills community until it is fully occupied in early July. “This was something that was approved many years ago, Some 65 percent of the ing it, followed by public corrup- appeals of Nassau residents’ and it goes back way before my B Y N O A H M A N S K A R 800 surveyed homeowners who tion with 11 percent, according property tax bills, commissioned time. They were waiting for the Nassau County homeowners are likely to vote in this year’s to poll results obtained by Blank the poll, which has a margin of right tenant,â€? Natiss said. “What error of 3.46 percent. I’ve promised my residents is think taxes are the county’s most countywide election chose taxes Slate Media. The poll only surveyed peoBoth the Democratic and once it’s in operation, Nassau pressing issue and do not trust as the most important issue facple who own homes, so it does Republican parties are viewed ing the county, according to the either major political party to County will do traďŹƒc study of serve their interests, according poll conducted by the Parkside unfavorably by half the respon- not reect the opinions of NasGroup, a Manhattan political dents, and more than half said sau’s total electorate. HomeownContinued on Page 20 to a poll conducted last month. consulting ďŹ rm, from May they do not trust either party to ers account for about 80 percent stand up for their best interests, of Nassau’s residents, according 18 to 21. to the most recent available U.S. Roads and traďŹƒc prob- the poll results show. The Maidenbaum Property Census data. lems are the second most “The ďŹ ndings of the survey pressing issue, with 13 per- Tax Reduction Group, a Cedarcent of respondents choos- hurst-based ďŹ rm that handles Continued on Page 66
Taxes top issue for Nassau residents
65 percent of homeowners most concerned with levies, traffic second concern
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