Volume XXVI No. 17 Hometown Newspaper for Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Glen Head, Glenwood, Locust Valley and Brookville Week of 1/5/17 75C Russian Upper Brookville mansion gets hit with a sanction U.S. government closes age-old compound By Nakeem Grant
[email protected] Glen Cove Mayor Reggie Spinello still remembers the procession of cars, includ- ing the black limousine, that brought Nikita Khrushchev to Killenworth, a Russian com- pound on Dosoris Lane in Glen Cove. “I was 8,” said Spinello, a lifelong Glen Cove resident. “And it was the height of the Cold War. I watched as everyone lined the streets and threw tomatoes at Khrushchev. No one was happy about him visiting Glen Cove.” Spinello doesn’t know if the former lead- er of the Soviet Union ever visited again, but he has seen cars with diplomatic license plates heading for the compound several times over the years. At first, he believed, like many others, that the federal government shuttered Kil- lenworth last week, and that its inhabitants were included among the 35 unnamed Rus- sian officials expelled from the U.S. But that was not true. It was Norwich House, a Russian com- pound in Upper Brookville, that was shut (Continued on page 3) Photo by John Abate House fire kills Glen Cove The federal government did not close Killenworth, a Russian compound in Glen Cove. woman By Laura Lane CPR was initiated, and when the Glen Cove Fire Department arrived she was tak-
[email protected] en to Glen Cove Hospital by ambulance. Archambault was pronounced dead at the hospital.