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________________ GLEN COVE _______________ JOIN US AT OUR OPEN HOUSE: HERALDSUNDAY, NOV. 11 Gazette AT 1 P.M. Daylight saving time ends Election Guide 2018 18/21 itc FG this Sunday WHERE. HERE. Demi Condensed Remember to set your clocks back, and change your smoke look Inside MOLLOY.EDU Page xx and CO detector batteries Vol. 27 No. 44 NoVEMBER 1-7, 2018 $1.00 994190 MOL728_OH_PostIt_3x3_4C.indd 1 ‘We are not 10/19/18 3:35 PM alone in this’ Interfaith clergy react to the Shabbat shooting in Pittsburgh By JEFFREY BESSEN notice,” said the Rev. Roger Wil- and ZACH GoTTEHRER-CoHEN liams, of the First Baptist [email protected], [email protected] Church of Glen Cove. “Words of comfort are needed, but a “We can’t allow ourselves to direct finger at the problem is become numb to tragedies.” essential.” North Country Reform Temple When President Trump Rabbi Janet Liss’s voice rang unabashedly call himself a c l e a r i n t h e “nationalist” at crowded sanctu- a recent cam- ary. “We deserve paign rally, Wil- better than this.” ords of liams said, “He Hundreds of W comfort was bringing attendees of var- forth an old idea ious faiths and are needed, but a that has served denominations t o u n d e r g i r d gathered at the direct finger at the slavery, segrega- temple on Tues- problem is essential. tion and the jus- Joe Pantaleo/Herald Gazette day evening for tification for the RICHARD lANDRY, 71, of Glen Cove, did a dead lift in his home gym. a n i n t e r f a i t h evisceration of memorial ser- REV. RoGER WIllIAMS o u r J e w i s h vice prompted by First Baptist Church brothers and sis- the Shabbat- of Glen Cove ters.” Williams morning massa- further took aim Raising the bar(bell) cre of 11 mem- at what he con- bers of the Tree sidered a funda- of Life Congregation syna- mentalist theology aimed at One Glen Cover’s long life of lifting gogue in Pittsburgh. And while divisiveness rather than unity. the service centered on the “I want us, tonight, to look to By JoE PANTAlEo his homemade gym. real weight work had begun. shooting — which the Anti-Def- that which brings freedom, joy, [email protected] After working “like a ham- Landry, a retired teacher amation League has called the peace, love and uplift,” he said. ster,” as he described it, for a and gymnastics school owner largest anti-Semitic attack in “Not that which tells us who Richard Landry, of Glen few minutes, he moved to the who has been pumping iron U.S. history — those who led it doesn’t belong. All of us Cove, began his workout like curl machine. “I can’t stand since 1966, is not only a world- did not hesitate to attribute the belong.” he always does. First, he sit-ups,” he explained in mid- class Olympic-style weightlift- tragedy in part to the country’s Several clergy members, grabbed the elastic cables tied er, but also a former world rep, “so I do these.” increasingly virulent political including Liss, called for stron- around his squat rack and After he demonstrated the record holder in the pentath- rhetoric. stretched out his broad upper other elements of his lon. And over the past year, he “I come here tonight to serve CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 body. Staying flexible is one of warmup, he finally took a has become one of the top the most important aspects of moment to pause. Then the competitors in the country in his regimen, Landry said. 71-year-old moved on to the another weightlifting disci- Next he moved to the station- barbell, eager as a teenager pline, powerlifting. Different ary bike, ducking under the with a sugar rush, and began from Olympic weightlifting, miniature train tracks that pumping out dead lifts. Thirty which comprises two lifts — wrap around the perimeter of minutes into his routine, the CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 2 Congratulations! To The Glen Cove Cardinals Baseball Team 10U! November 1, 2018 — GLEN COVE HERALD GAZETTE 2018 — GLEN COVE 1, November Standing L to R: Coach Dave Milanese, Ryan Lebowitz, Michael Mammone, Coach Rich Clark, Daniel Rottino, Joseph Damiano, Coach Ryan Nardone Kneeling L to R: Michael Cervini, Joseph Travaglia, Christian Milanese, Patrick Annello, Kyle Demosthene, Richard Clark, Matthew Milano, Nicholas Nardone Missing: Jack Ortiz and Dylan Dimaggio, and Coach Michael Cervini Fall lsw Hot stove National Champions 2018 law offices of Michael a. Cervini, P.C. www.cervinilaw.com (646) 236-6000 000000 3 GLEN COVE HERALD GAZETTE — November 1, 2018 1, HERALD GAZETTE — November GLEN COVE Zach Gottehrer-Cohen/Herald Gazette a model oF the billion-dollar waterfront project shows what the development will likely end up looking like. Hearing the cases on Garvies projects By Zach Gottehrer-cohen for — would have dramatically different impacts than [email protected] those studied under the initial EIS. In 2016, the Glen Cove-based environmental non-profit, In the latest development in a legal face-off over the The Committee for a Sustainable Waterfront, submitted Facts and Figures 28-acre, $1 billion luxury residential and commercial devel- comments to the Planning Board in which detailed “empir- opment at Garvies Point, attorneys for three parties ical evidence” of “incontrovertible discrepancies” ■ 1,100 residential units argued their cases on appeal before a panel of judges in the between the amended site plan and the original, and state court system’s Appellate Division, Second Depart- repeatedly recommends additional study. ■ 56 acres total ment in mid-October. In a legal filing responding to Marion’s appeal, Michael The two cases — one filed by over 100 residents of Glen Zarin, who is working with Schwartz on the case, argued ■ Cove, Sea Cliff, and the surrounding area, that the Planning Board did in fact take the 28 acres of public amenities and the other by the Village of Sea Cliff — necessary, “hard look” at the potential envi- were thrown out by a Nassau County judge ronmental impact of the amendments, and ■ 545 post-construction jobs* in 2016. Now, they’re hoping to convince the supplemental determined that they would not be signifi- appeals judges to overturn that lower cantly different from the original plan. The ■ $24 million added to the local economy* court’s decision. a environmental “hard look,” according to the board’s Amy Marion, attorney for the residents, 23-page resolution adopting the amended said that based on the length of the lower impact statement plan, included four months of deliberation, *Economic impact figures are projections compiled by the court’s decision, she suspected that the judg- is not required public comment and expert consultations. Glen Cove IDA/CDA, provided courtesy City of Glen Cove es hadn’t really read through the hundreds Marion’s case goes on to claim that the of pages of legal arguments that the parties every time there’s discovery in late 2017 of contaminants on a had submitted. “The decision is so few parcel of land in the development area sug- village and the city. The MOU, according to Village Admin- lines,” she said, “that it is hard to tell wheth- a change of plans. gests a change in environmental conditions istrator Bruce Kennedy, was meant to improve “good er they read [our filings].” The judges also that should necessitate a new study. Further, faith” cooperation between the two municipalities on did not address all of the issues that the doc- Brad SchWartZ she claims that the city’s attempts to reclas- development projects that would affect them both. uments raised, she said. Attorney, sify the contaminated area as part of a “The agreement clearly states that no building would Brad Schwartz, a lawyer from Zarin & Zarin & Steinmetz remediation site were efforts at “subter- Steinmetz representing the city in this case, fuge” by the city. exceed 65 feet,” Kennedy told the Herald Gazette. “They’ve said that the judges at the hearing “clearly She told the Herald Gazette that while doubled that.” He added that the plan, as it exists today, understood the issues,” and added that they “seemed to building her case, “I felt like I was writing a criminal “more than tripled” the agreed-upon gross square footage recognize in their questioning that a supplemental envi- appeal, like there was a conspiracy going on here.” She of the project — 700,000 square feet. ronmental impact statement is not required every time said that several attempts from the state’s Department of In a separate brief, Zarin argues that the MOU is not a there’s a change of plans.” Environmental Conservation in which they attempted to binding legal document, and that Glen Cove’s then-mayor, clarify the lot’s status and borders were evidence that the now Congressman Tom Suozzi was not authorized to sign the residents’ case city was trying to mislead the public. the agreement because the City Council never voted on it. The crux of Marion’s case revolves around Environ- Zarin’s brief claims that the residual contamination Nevertheless, Kennedy argued, “both mayors sent out mental Impact Studies. A three-year long EIS was conduct- was acknowledged by the planning board and the DEC press releases,” at the time, and that, “the [Glen Cove] City ed in 2011, in advance of the Glen Cove Planning Board’s during the 2011 EIS period, and that the recently uncov- Council was aware of it, and they didn’t object to it.” approval of Master Development Plan for the project, ered contamination constituted nothing new.