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Friday, June 7, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 23
GOP LEGISLATORS’ OVERRIDE BID FAILS PAGE PA GE 2 24 4
CONTRACTOR BLAMES TOWN FOR POOL OVERRUNS
MANGANO’S TOP DEPUTY COPS PLEA
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Legislature to form aircraft noise panel Nassau legislators also announce plans to hire consultant to study issue BY T E R I W EST
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Nassau County Legislator C. William Gaylor III (R-Lynbrook) speaks at a news conference announcing new county initiatives to address airplane noise.
The Nassau County Legislature is creating a new committee on aircraft noise, an issue that county and village officials said has been worsening in recent years. The Legislature also plans to introduce a resolution for the county to hire a consultant to study the problem, Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) told a news conference last Thursday. The consultant would review reports from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the local airports,
and advocate for the county, he said. The bipartisan aircraft noise committee will have its first hearing near the end of June, Nicolello said, to provide residents with a chance to hear from officials and voice concerns. “I’ve lived in the New Hyde Park community my entire life and there has been airplane noise all that time, but in the last several years it has become exponentially worse,” he said. “Planes are coming in lower. They are larger planes. They are louder. They wake you up at night as if you hear thunder.” Continued on Page 57
L.I.’s 1st liver transplant program OK’d BY T E R I W EST
has been approved by the New York State Department of Health, Manhasset will be the first and the network plans to begin location on Long Island to host operations at North Shore University Hospital’s Sandra Atlas liver transplants. Northwell Health’s program Bass Center for Liver Diseases,
according to the health network. It will list its first patients later this month. “Nearly five people die each day in the United States waiting for a liver that will never come,” Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling said in a news release. “By establishing an adult liver transplant program on Long Island, we’re changing the
narrative for thousands of New Yorkers living with this fatal disease.” Northwell opened a new surgical and transplant intensive care unit in March designed to host the liver transplant program. The space has 20 rooms and was a nearly $26 million investment. Northwell also hired 50 new employees to work in the liver
transplant program, according to the health network. Without a liver transplant program, Long Islanders have had to travel back and forth from New York City for the operations, said Dr. Lewis Teperman, Northwell’s director of transplant services who is leading the new liver transplant program, after the unit’s opening. Continued on Page 57
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