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WHERE THE HISTOR uK COMMUNITY IS RECORDED WEEKLY
An Officiaf Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale - Serving Greater Farmingdale. Bethpage and Melville
VOL. 9 N O . 4 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published bv THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y.-. T h u r s d a y , S e p t e m b e r 1 6 1971
Main Street Merchants Are
Unhappy With Parking Rule
" Welcome Back" was written on top of the agenda, prepared by village clerk
Jim McKenna for the first meeting of the Farmingdale Village Board of Trustees
after the summer vacation. Had the board known that its decision to institute
alternate side parking on Main Street would get the merchants so upset that they
packed village hall for the first post- vacation board meeting, its members might
have wanted to stay away indefinitely.
There was no doubt: After promised the complainants that
ALL ABOUT SAFETY: Representative James Grover of Babylon,
right, took time during the recent Congressional recess to visit
Fairchild Republic in Farmingdale. One of his stops during the visit
was at the Federal safety cars being produced for the Department of
Transportation. He is shown here being briefed by George
Hildebrand, experimental safety vehicle progam manager, while
Donald J. Strait, vice president and general manager, looks on.
Disapprove Rezoning
On South Main St.
Because the property " would
be better suited for housing," the
Nassau County Planning Com­mission
this week recommended
disapproval oi an application to
rezone a parcel of land in Far­mingdale
from residence to in­dustrial.
The property lies on the
Suffolk County border in the
Towns of Oyster Bay and
Babylon.
Citing the Nassau- Suffolk
Regional Planning Board's
recommendation that residen-tially
zoned land parcels be used
for residences to help alleviate
Nassau's critical housing
shortage, the Commission
recommended the parcel be
developed with apartments.
In addition, the Com­missioners,
in a resolution for­warded
Wednesday to the Oyster
Bay Town Board said, " To grant
the requested change would
likely result in requests for ad­ditional
industrial zoning in the
area. Further, the approval of the
application would probably lead
to the development of an in­compatible
land use because
Main Street, on which the parcel
is located, is predominately
residential, with supporting
neighborhood businesses.''
The applicant is the Main
Street Realty Company of
Plainview. The property is
located at 917 South Main Street
in Farmingdale.
The Planning Commission
reviews applications for zoning
changes pursuant to the General
Municipal Law.
The OBSERVER was told that
the applicant has plans to build
one or two stories office
buildings, should the request for
rezoning be granted.
The Town of Oyster Bay heard
the application on August 24 and
reserved its decision. Although
not bound by the recom­mendation
of the Planning
Commission the Town Board will
take the opinion of the Com­mission
into consideration.
was no
about two months im­plementation,
the rule
prohibiting parking on Main
Street on either one side or the
other is not popular with the
street's merchants. If there are
some who favor the new rule,
they were not at Monday night's
village board meeting.
Mrs. Jeanette Rudd of Collier's
Liquor Store expressed the
prevailing sentiment when she
said that " the- regulation has
been honored more by its breach
than by its observance . . . Our
receipts are being slowly eroded
by the opening of new large
shopping centers with unlimited
parking facilities. To now add to
our problems of trying to remain
solvent could be described as
cruel and inhuman treatment."
Concui ring with Mrs. Rudd and
enlarging on her complaint were
Ed Arnold of Eddie's
Delicatessen, Warren Sheffield of
Lee- Mar Stationery, Jim O'Neill
of The Outcast, Mrs. Marie
Schein of Irvel Jewelers, Mr.
Grudko of the Cheryl- Ann Shop
and the proprietors of the Far­mingdale
Deli and Annabella's
Restaurant.
Three ladies, however, not
merchants but customers and
speaking as such, expressed their
satisfaction with the new traffic
regulations. Mrs. Raymond
Jones, Mrs. Nancy Gillies and
Mrs. von Hasseln praised the
ease with which they now can
maneuver their cars through
Main Street and think that, given
a chance, the one side parking
only rule will be proven a success
yet - provided it is given a
chance.
Mayor John Hallahan
their objections would be taken
into consideration. The new
traffic rules, as he pointed out,
are thus far experimental only,
the board having stated publicly
that a thorough review of the
situation was to be undetaken
anyway after a six months trial
period. On one frequently voiced
complaint he assured immediate
action, however -- the ticketing of
cars parked on the " wrong" side
of Main Street after 6 p. m.
The ordinance enacted by the
village board limits the time of
prohibited parking on one side or
the other to the meter hours.
This, it seems, is not the way the
police sees it, which keeps on
ticketing even in the late evening
hours.
Another peace offer by the
village board was the suggestion
to make available to the mer-
Robert Gutheil won the
nomination as Democratic
candidate for Supervisor of the
Town of Oyster Bay, Carmelo
Tese the nomination as District
Court judge ( by way of a write- in
vote) against Francis Donovan.
The real winner, however, may
be a man who was not even on the
ballot: Republican John W.
Burke, incumbent Town of Oyster
Bay Supervisor.
Burke may be the winner
because Lewis Yevoli was partly
a loser. He lost in his attempt to
win the nomination as Tobay
Supervisor for the Democratic
Party, while retaining his con­servative
nomination, which was
also challenged. This now makes
the campaign for Tobay
Supervisor a three way race
between incumbent John Burke
and his challengers Robert
Gutheil and Lewis Yevoli.
I could have been worse for
Burke. Yevoli could have been
the Democratic as well as the
Conservative candidate. Going
strictly by numbers, Burke's
chances are now vastly im­proved,
since the Republican
party has the largest enrollment.
Numbers can be deceiving, of
course. Two years ago, even with
the GOP registration lead, the
Democrats candidate James
Rousmaniere came within 1821
votes of Burke's Republican
ballots.
Thus it would seem that the
race is really between Burke and
Guthiel, with Yevoli tagging
behind in any case. Burke and
Gutheil tend so see it this way.
Not so Yevoli, though. Speaking
for herself, but evidently ex­pressing
the view prevailing in
chants for their and their em­ployees'
use an additional
parking field directly north of
Main Street parallel to the
railroad tracks. Here the board
felt that the parking spaces lost
due to the alternate side parking
on Main Street could be
recovered by having the mer­chants
and their employees not
using the parking fields behind
their stores for themselves.
According to a computation by
trustee Norman Krasnow,
slightly more than 50 out of a total
of 631 short time- and 112 long-term
parking spaces are affected
by the restrictions on Main
Street. If, however, as one
merchant pointed out, one
parking space is used five times
during the day, over 150 parking
( Continued on Page 11)
Post Office Starts Overnight Deliveries
Postmaster Leo. J. Morgan
amplifying on a new mail service
program recently announced by
Washington headquarters, has
identified local areas which are to
receive overnight delivery of
first- class mail orginating within
the Farmingdale area.
Postmaster Morgan said 13
areas continguous to Far­mingdale
will benefit from the
next- day deliveries under a new
mail service goal announced by
Postmaster General Winton M.
Blount.
These areas, Postmaster
Morgan said, include the
following: Newark, N. J. 070- 073,
Paterson, N. J. 074- 075,
Hackensack, N. J. 076, Red Bank,
N. J. 077, Dover, N. J. 078, Sum­mit,
N. J. 079, Bronx, N. Y. 10401-
75, Westchester, N. Y. 105- 108,
Suffern, N. Y. 109, Long Island
Terminal, N. Y. 110- 114, Mineola,
N. Y. 115- 116, Hicksville, N. Y. 117-
118, Riverhead, N. Y. 119, The
numbers following these areas
are the first three numbers of the
ZIP codes for these offices.
The areas outlined by the
Postmaster are those within
which next- day delivery will be
provided for ZIP- CODED first-class
mail deposited by 5 p. m. on
weekdays in business areas, and
at collection points on main
thorofares.
The Postal Service set October
31st as the deadline for achieving
the 95 per cent goal.
Vote Result May Favor Burke
the Yevoli camp, Joan Jansen,
president of the Massapequa
Conservative Club, feels that
dissatisfied Democrats as well as
Republicans have finally a
choice, a flag to rally around.
Their numbers, she predicts, will
be so great that, when added to
the regular Conservative vote,
they will result in a plurality and
therefore a victory for Yevoli.
As to Carmelo Tese and his
upset victory, the primary seems
to have upheld the cross-endorsement
ban in the field as
well, after it was upheld in the
courts. The arithmetic, however,
does not favor him as much as
John Burke, because his op­ponent
is the candidate of the
Democrats as well as of the
Conservative. It would seem,
therefore, that Tese's fight has
just begun.
THE COMPLICATIONS of the write- in vote were not as big as they
seemed before Tuesday. The proof of the pudding is Carmelo Tese's
victory as write- in candidate over Francis Donovan. Carmelo Tese
( right), too, wanted to be sure to do the right thing and enlisted the
help oi Isabel Dodd, who as GOP Town Clerk candidate in November
has no write- in problems.