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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 58 No. 43 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, August 18,1977 Copyright 1977 by
The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $ 5 per year
MSBA Drops
Staples St.
Bus Route
The Metropolitan Suburban
Bus Authority, faced with
community opposition and a
petition drive by residents,
decided to drop their proposal for
a bus route along Staples Street
to the Sunrise Mall. They will
consider alternate possibilities
for extending their present
Hempstead to Republic bus.
The residents of Staples Street
gathered signatures on a petition
to oppose the bus route down the
narrow residential street. They
objected to 24 buses per day,
twelve in each direction from 9
a. m. to9 p. m., trying to negotiate
a street where cars often have to
yield the right of way to on­coming
cars because of the
street's width. They expressed
concern for the safety of their
children walking to school and
playing in their own neigh­borhood.
Norman Silverman, MSBA
representative, informed Mayor
John T. Hallahan that the
proposed route would be dropped.
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EA. Bank Changes
Local Manager
European American Bank has
announced two management
changes in Farmingdale. Frank
Bondietti, formerly manager of
the bank's Farmingdale branch,
has been promoted to manager of
their Coliseum branch in
Manhattan. He is succeeded by
Frank Fattoruso, formerly a
district manager.
Bondietti joined the bank in
1968 and the following year was
named manager of the Far*
mingdale branch, a position he
held until his recent promotion.
Bondietti attended SUNY and
the New York Institute of Credit.
He and his wife, Madeline, reside
in Farmingdale with three
children, Annamarie, 17, Vin­cent,
15, and Frank Jr., 6. Bon­dietti
is a member of the Far­mingdale
Rotary and Quar­termaster
of the local V. F. W.
Fattoruso joined the bank in
1970 as a customer service
representative in East Far­mingdale.
He subsequently was
promoted to marketing manager,
manager and assistant vice
president while at this office,
then district manager of the
Southwest Nassau territory.
Fattoruso and his wife, Jean,
reside in North Lindenhurst with
their daughter, Lisa Marie, 8.
Fattoruso is a member of the
Advancement for Commerce and
Industry in East Farmingdale.
He also has been active in the
Cancer Society and United Way.
Carey Vetoes
MTA Tax Bill
Farmingdale taxpayers have been shot- down again
by the governor. Gov. Hugh Carey vetoed the MTA bill
that would have given the Farmingdale School District
$ 180,000 a year in compensation for the tax revenue lost
because of the takeover of Republic Airport.
This was the fifth time since the Metropolitan Tran­sportation
Authority took the property off of the tax rolls
that a New York governor vetoed a tax measure, passed
by the assembly and senate, designed to provide relief
to the school district. If the airport were operated by a
private firm, it would have to pay taxes to the district.
£ t I f_ j The bill provided that the MTA
sales lax
THE CHORUS LINE might need a little practice before they're ready
for the Broadway stage, but the girls enjoyed themselves par­ticipating
in the Farmingdale Youth Council's summer program
talent show at Albany Ave. School ast week.
[ Photo by Robert Bisberg]
Train- Bus Accident
Only For Training
By Kenneth Martin
At 8: 17 a. m., Sunday morning
the dispatcher of the East Far­mingdale
Fire Company received
a call that a school bus and
freight train collided at the New
Highway Rail Road crossing just
North of Conklin St. The
dispatcher sounded the depart­ment's
alarm and immediately
set into action the Town of
Babylon mutual aid disaster
plan.
Of course this was a drill, but it
was one of the most realistic ever
held in this area.
Within minutes the first am­bulance
arrived followed by Dr.
Steinhart, of the Melville F. D.
Then rescue units from Melville,
Village of Farmingdale, Lin­denburst,
North Lindenhurst,
South Farmingdale, Copiague,
Amityville, North Amityville,
Babylon, West Babylon, North
Babylon and the Wyandanch Fire
Departments began arriving
bringing rescue personnel and
fire police units. Also responding
were T. O. Babylon's Fire
Coordinators, Bill Daly and
Marty Alberts, along with a
helicopter and paramedic from
the Suffolk Police Dept.
The scene looked like a
disaster. A bus- borrowed from
the Wyandanch F. D.- was pulled
up to a freight car at a siding
simulating an accident where the
occupants were thrown around
the area by the impact. There
were 10 people trapped on the
bus, 8 people on and along side
the locomotive, 4 people on and
along side the freight car and 3
people thrown into debris along
side the tracks.
The 25 victims were junior
members of the East Far­mingdale
and North Lindenhurst
F. D.' s who were outfitted with
special training aids that look
like real wounds complete with
blood ( red dye). Enjoying their
roles, the juniors yelled and
screamed, adding to the realism
of the scene.
The first rescue units to arrive
made a survey of the injured and
started treating the most
seriously injured first. Dr.
Steinhart established a command
post, treatment ( triage) area and
ambulance assembly area and
dispatched rescue crews to the
most serious victims. As soon as
the victims were treated, they
were removed to the field
hospital set up by Dr. Fleming of
the Amityville F. D. at the East
Farmingdale F. D. headquarters.
Upon arrival at the hospital, Dr.
Fleming examined each victim to
certify that the correct first aid
was given. By 9: 16 a. m. all
victims were rescued and
treated.
Upon completion of the drill all
units reported to the fire
headquarters for a critical
review presented by Doctors
Fleming and Steinhart. Both
gave praise to the men for doing
an excellent job. The Fire Police
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Farmingdale Merchants
received public notice signs this
week to display in their stores to
notify the public that Nassau
County's eight percent sales tax
will be reduced back to seven
percent on September 1.
The notices, listed as an im­portant
sales tax advisory from
County Executive Ralph G. Caso,
urges the public to contact the
Nassau Consumer Affairs
Department if they encounter
any problems or have any
questions on the one cent sales
tax reduction.
The notices are also signed by
James E. Picken, commissioner
of the Nassau Consumer Affairs
Dept. The number to call is 535-
3100.
pay the school district one half
the gross rent from commercial
and industrial^ leases at the
airport. At present that would
amount to approximately
$ 180,000 per year. The MTA
claims that the property operated
at a deficit of $ 415,000 last year.
In his veto message, Carey said
that payments to compensate a
locality of district for property
removed from tax rolls would be
costly to the state. " The overall
fiscal impact of such measure, if
enacted, is difficult to estimate
about what would probably be
substantial." He said the veto
had been recommended by the
authority, which operates
Republic, and by the state's
dormitory authority, power
authority, board of equalization
and assessment and budget
division.
MTA Chairman Harold Fisher
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Stepped- Up Sewer Projects
Will Save Taxpayers Money
Nassau County Executive
Ralph 6. Caso announced that
the county has accelerated its
sewer construction program to
Se point where it is qualifying for
ore federal sewer aid than any
other county in the United States -
- funds that will directly benefit
hundreds of thousands of
homeowners.
Caso revealed that the county
will have by mid- September a
federal commitment totaling
$ 270,000,000 for lateral sewer
construction. Involved are 40
lateral sewer contracts in Far­mingdale,
Hicksville, Bethpage,
Plainview, Seaford, Levittown,
East Meadow and Carle Place -
Westbury.
" This money, which we
aggressively went after by
cramming four years of sewer
design into one year, benefits
each and every homeowner in the
areas involved," Caso asserted.
" Until the breakthrough in ob­taining
75 per cent of the cost
from the federal government,
homeowners had to bear the full
cost of lateral, street- by- street
sewer work."
Caso added that without the
federal aid for lateral con­struction
the tax rate in a
collection district such as
Hicksville would have been in the
area of $ 4.00 per $ 100 of assessed
valuation.
" The county's initiative in
obtaining more than a quarter of
a billion dollars to finance 75 per
cent of the cost means that the
Hicksville sewer tax rate can be
reduced to about $ 1.25 - a cut of
more than a 300 per cent," he
explained. " It will mean similar
tax rate reductions for
homeowners in the other areas
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