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Friday, November 29, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 48
HOLIDAY GUIDE
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Modera Metro Mineola open for business Strauss touts revitalized downtown BY TOM M CC A RT HY
PHOTO COURTESY OF MILL CREEK RESIDENTIAL
Community leaders in Mineola and Nassau County celebrated the grand opening of Mill Creek Residential’s apartment complex Modera Metro Mineola at a ceremony last Thursday.
Community leaders in Mineola celebrated the grand opening of Mill Creek Residential’s apartment complex Modera Metro Mineola at a ceremony last Thursday. The Mineola Board of Trustees attended the ceremony along with Mill Creek officials and Long Island business leaders. The project, built on land purchased from Corpus Christi Church, was approved in 2016 as part of the village’s plan for revitalizing the downtown area. “Mineola launched a significant effort to transform the village and its
downtown years ago, taking advantage of its substantial workforce and convenient transit to become a true live-work-play destination,” Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said. Strauss commended Mill Creek, saying it had played an integral part in bringing new residents into the village at the apartment building on Searing Avenue. The building’s strength is its proximity to numerous offices, government buildings, restaurants, shops and cultural offerings, Strauss said. “With a shared vision on lifestyle and development, Mill Creek Continued on Page 50
North Shore Animal opens cat center BY R O S E W E L D ON Cats and kittens on the North Shore will have a new place to go with the opening of North Shore Animal League America’s Bianca’s
Furry Friends Feline Adoption Center. The latest major addition to the league’s headquarters in Port Washington, the center comprises a newly constructed second floor,
where over a dozen rooms allow rescued cats to wander in cage-less surroundings. Joanne Yohannan, senior vice president of operations for the league, said the addition is not meant to be evoke a “traditional” shelter. “This is more of a habitat for cats, so to be able to have the opportunity to provide a natural, stress-free environ-
ment for the cats is just great,” Yohannan said. The “Bianca” in Bianca’s Furry Friends is Bianca Stern, the late bulldog of Beth Ostrosky Stern and her husband, radio broadcaster Howard Stern. Upon the dog’s death in 2012, Beth Ostrosky Stern, a frequent foster parent and adopter of North Shore rescues, approached Yohannan with an idea.
“She said to me, ‘Joanne, I want to do something special for Bianca in her memory,'” Yohannan said. The same year, North Shore received hundreds of animals displaced by Hurricane Sandy and the cages in the cat rooms became full. Stern and Yohannan thought up a cage-less solution, one that would allow rescues to roam in Continued on Page 51
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