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Friday, July 12, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 28
LIVING 50 PLUS
LEADERS BEMOAN MACY’S PROPOSAL
STATE SEEKS FIRST CAP ON DIOXANE
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E.W. board asks for tag sale feedback
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Trustees weigh changes for event BY TOM M CC A RT HY
PHOTO BY STEPHEN CIPOT
Participants in New Hyde Park-Mineola Championship start the 8K. See story on page 2.
The East Williston trustees are seeking feedback from residents about the annual villagewide tag sale and are not planning any changes until they hear more. Mayor Bonnie L.S. Parente asked residents to give their opinions about the tag sale at a trustees meeting on Monday. While some concerns were expressed, she said, “I was hoping more people would offer some input. Maybe at a future meeting we’ll get more support or criticism.” After the meeting, Parente said in an interview that a “decades old”
rule in the village bars residents from holding garage sales unless they are moving. The village, Parente said, allows residents to hold a yearly villagewide tag sale where people register to participate. “Pay the fee, you’re on the map,” Parente said about registration. This year 55 homeowners participated on June 8. Parente said at the meeting that the board is not making any decision about organizing the next tag sale for now. She noted the low attendance of the meeting, amounting to fewer than a dozen people. Continued on Page 59
Cuomo announces new LIRR station BY TOM M CC A RT HY
nounced on Monday. It is the first full-time LIRR station to be built A Long Island Rail Road sta- in nearly 50 years. The new station will be lotion will be built on the Main Line as part of the Belmont Park devel- cated between the Queens Vilopment, Gov. Andrew Cuomo an- lage and Bellerose stations just
east of the Cross Island Parkway. Cuomo’s plans said that electric shuttle buses, which were already planned to run from parking lots within Belmont Park to a proposed new arena for the Islanders hockey team, will also serve LIRR riders traveling to the grandstand and planned arena, hotel and retail village. “The Belmont project will help drive the region’s
economy forward while building the Islanders a state-of-the-art facility at home on Long Island, creating thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic output along the way,” Cuomo said in a news release. The cost of constructing the new full-time station on the Main Line and upgrading the existing spur is estimated to be $105 million. Cuomo’s announcement said
that the Empire State Development team will cover $97 million, 92 percent of the total, and the state will invest the remaining $8 million. The LIRR station is expected to have service approximately every half hour during peak hours and every hour during off-peak hours, according to the news release. Continued on Page 58
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