THE 69th Year, Issue 10 THURSDAY JUNE 13, 2019 | www.islipbulletin.net | | 75¢ Make way for new housing The former LGBT Network Community Center at 34 Park Avenue in Bay Shore was knocked down on Monday to make way for affordable senior LGBT housing. In the photo are (left to right) Assemb. Phil Ramos, LGBT president David Kilmnick, New York State Sen. Phil Boyle, county executive Steve Bellone, and Assemb. Kimberley Jean-Pierre. Courtesy photo A new beginning LGBT Network begins senior housing project By LINDA LEUZZI ments. feet. The LGBT Network has had a presence in Bay Rent will range from $1,000 to $1,600. Shore for 27 years; the first decade on Main Street, the On Monday, the LGBT Network Community Center “We’re anticipating the lotteries will come in about remainder at the Park Avenue site. on Park Avenue in Bay Shore came crashing down, a a year from now for a move-in date of 2021, about an “The knockdown was put together very quickly,” bittersweet event for LGBT Network president and 18-month project from start to finish,” Kilmnick said. Kilmnick said. “We had to move out to prepare for it CEO David Kilmnick. “The D & F Development Group in Levittown is over- and opened the nation’s largest LGBT center in Haup- “It was home to tens of thousands of Long Island seeing the construction.” pauge last week and had over 400 people there.” families over two decades,” Kilmnick said, “but we re- The project received the green light in October 2017 An 8,000-square-foot community center has been alize it will be the new home for LGBT seniors, who when the Islip Town zoning board approved the appli- planned for the first floor of the senior complex in had to endure stigma and discrimination and felt they cation, which sought a zoning change from Business Bay Shore, Kilmnick said. “We’ll keep the one in Haup- had to go back into the closet to secure housing.” District to Downtown Development District. Commu- pauge as well,” he added. Out with the old, in with the new. With rainbow nity leaders like Chamber of Commerce of Greater Bay An 18,000-square-foot Patchogue LGBT Network flags affixed to the demo machines, the takedown Shore president Donna Periconi and Bay Shore-Bright- location near Gateway Plaza in Patchogue will hope- represented the start of the LGBT Network’s Senior waters Summit Council president Mary Louise Cohen fully break ground this fall, Kilmnick said, opening in Affordable Housing Project, the first of its kind in the supported the project. early 2021. It will provide a roster of services includ- entire tri-state area. The complex will offer 75 units, a It will evolve on the northwest corner of Park Ave- ing health care, social services, and other programs $30 million affordable housing facility funded by state nue and Mechanicsville Road. for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender com- and federal tax credits, state loans and private invest- The old community center was about 4,300 square munity. n Suffolk County Suffolk County Normandy Early airdrop voting Page 3 Page 4 WEEKLY PERIODICAL 2 ISLIP BULLETIN - JUNE 13, 2019 INSIDE Graduations COMMUNITY NEWS James William Kuhlmeier of Bay Shore graduated with a Master of Science Police Blotter....................... 5 degree in health, physical education, & recreation from Emporia State University Local Briefs .......................... 5 on May 10. SUNY Fredonia announced the follow- Editorial ............................... 6 ing students who were May 2019 can- didates for degrees. 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BOX 780, PATCHOGUE, NY 11772 ISLIP BULLETIN - JUNE 13, 2019 3 Skies over Normandy Former Islip resident helps celebrate 75th anniversary of D-Day BY ANTHONY PERROTTA ISLIP—Tim Molloy, an Islip High School graduate, re- turned from France earlier this week after parachuting over the beaches of Normandy to help mark the 75th anni- versary of the D-Day landings. Molloy’s journey to commemorate this historic occasion began a little over a year after he graduated high school, in 1974, when he joined the 106th Rescue Wing, a unit of the New York Air National Guard stationed at Francis S. Gabre- ski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach. “I was unemployed and needed a job at the time,” he laughed, “but I was also athletic in high school and the idea of res- cuing people interested me.” Molloy, now a Baiting Hollow resident, compared the experience to being in the Coast Guard. “But there’s a lit- tle more to it,” he laughed. Molloy worked with and per- formed pararescue missions with the unit for 28 years, and joined the Suffolk County Police Department in 2000. He retired from the police department last year. “I’ve always been interested in history, particularly mil- itary history,” Molloy said, citing the “Band of Brothers” book and TV miniseries. While doing research online, Molloy came across the Daks Over Normandy, which orga- nized the jump earlier this month. Daks Over Normandy, which takes its name from the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, or Dakota aircrafts that were used extensively by Allied troops during World War II, calls June 6, 1944, “one of the most important dates in modern his- tory.” “It marks the date on which almost 160,000 Allied troops stormed the Normandy beaches to start the liberation of Western Europe,” the website reads.