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back 3rd track Mayors reach understanding BY N O A H M A N S K A R The two village mayors who have been most critical of the Long Island Rail Road’s third track project now say they’re on board. The villages of Floral Park and New Hyde Park have finalized memoranda of understanding with planners of the $2 billion project outlining how planners will assuage potential harm to their communiPHOTO COURTESY OF ANTHONY D’URSO’S OFFICE ties during construction, the mayors said last Friday. The agreements are the product of weeks of negotiations with project officials, the mayors said. State Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-Port Washington) recently attended the graduation ceremony for the Henry Floral Park’s memorandum Viscardi School at the Viscardi Center in Albertson and toured the school. See story on page 30. “gives us a seat at the table and a tangible and measurable input before and during construction,” Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi said in a statement given to project officials. “If we do this right, if we build it out right, [while] it may be very upsetting during the construction period, it could ultimately be an Sabet, a Floral Park resident, improvement to ... New Hyde Park,” B Y N O A H M A N S K A R be able to go three doors down home of the short-lived cafe Iropened Sweet to Lick in August to make all their meals animal- resistibly Good. Lawrence Montreuil, the New Hyde As Long Island’s first all-veg- 2013 after working as a restauAnyone grabbing a vegan friendly. Park mayor, said in an interview. Michael Sabet, the bakery’s an grocery store, Sabet said, the rant cook and in the retail indusContinued on Page 66 treat at Sweet to Lick, Williston Park’s vegan bakery, will soon owner and chef, plans to open shop will give vegan eaters one try. The bakery grew out of his Sweet to Lick The Market at place to find items they might 82A Hillside Ave. this sum- have get at several different efforts to create vegan dessert recipes for his wife, Kathee, standard grocery stores. mer. “We want to sort of take who has been a vegan since the The shop will sell fresh local greens and packaged some of that of bite out of be- 1990s. Continued on Page 67 vegan foods in the former coming vegan,” Sabet said.
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W.P. vegan eatery to open market Sweet to Lick owners seek to combat stereotype, create family-oriented place
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