The-Leader_1980-08-28

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NEWSPAPER
45th YEAH. No. 18 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. AUGUST 28.1980 -1 PRICE 20* PER COPY
Court Fines Oblects To Elimination
C h ^ S S l r d Of Suni^ike Highway Spots
S ^ '
Two New G .M^
-FREEPORT - Fdlowing a trial
in Freeport Village Court Thurs­day,
Aojpist 21. Judge Ralph
Franco found the landlord of a
storefront. church • guUw of
viobting -a village ordtaance
barring Its usie as a place of public
sj^tjasscnAly without the required
n-a number of off-street parting
spaces.. -:-;•. :•: '- "- ;•
Hemy Hochman.^ the landlord
of the premlsdi at 302 North Main
Street; was fined :S2S0 with: the
stipulation that the fine would be
xeduoed to SlOOif the premises
'was cletnd odtt^iUegal^nsue
«iabti«0'»4l>ri^<it«^tpreaei%
oocop(e<)^t9^.NdrrHi^;Church
j ; . , ' . ' ,-V -.. 'AV-V- ^ .s-^'«Cjp/--*', r-jC^fiod. ••'^ •••"'^fr •^.-"'"••'-•^ V''
,A replica of''TheHulk.VtJSe famed TV character,-stands •'Jf after the 60 days, the drarch
^ , rfaf Mark ChoeianowsM'sHarrlsdn Avenue residence. Made of hasj; not. ^Vacated, • Hochinan's
6lytl^^and v','r*all«tlcally.'* pointedVtront and back.—,The Hulk^fine is".S2S0'and the vOlage's .
iocmw overChMiiaftfmkski'anetghtior'a ton, John. TteCllDCianm^ Building'Department'can issue
>,hay» lived in Freeport for nearly four years. TheiiWraBd «Hi«t n em— another suTrnnony and condnue
pl^^.wlih th\LIRR and his arf work. In rnanfiSfWintttylea, is his' issuing a summons for each day
Wroeationrr , ^.^-..K^LEADER photo) that the illegal use continues.
Each sommons'could concdvably
be foDowed with a fine of S2S0.
- Several 'other North ' Main
Street storefront dmrches liave
also reoeived'nbtices cC violation
of the same village ordinance
(Section 210.172IA1).
lnEd)rQaiy;i980the owners of
the premises 288 North'Main
Street which was ihen occu­pied
by^Ta Ha'Dar-Ul-Islam
Mosque —> entered a guilty plea~
changing it from a' not guilty plea
entered two months prior.' Mrs.
Barry Baines, .representing the
-Estate df Barry B^es, indicated
at tliat tune that the'^Mosque had
vacated 'the premises.^ She re­ceived
a S75 fine, also imposed'
by Judge Franco. * ' ^ '
_ Another groop, Igjesia Pente­costal
La Vid Venders, was found
gnQty fai June, 1980 of violating
the same off-streef paiidng sec-don
of the village code. Owner of
the buOduig b listed as "The
Ught of the Worid" Pentecostal
- Chuch, Inci at the same ad­dress;
The' summons was :first
issued in-DTOei^^J^_andl
^ FREEPORT • A plan to f^rao^ on-street pairing 6ma ttie sooth side',
of asection of Sunrise Highway was ccitidzed l^ tiie village Board of
Trustees Ms week. Th,« proposal was one of several 'alternafives sug­gested
by Storch Assoclatos, which had made a study of traffic .witi^
the village for presentation to the New York State Departmient of
Transportation (DOT).
. The Sunrise Highway altema-tWes
were explained by'a Storch
representative at a Village Board
legislative session : Monday,'
August 24. Present at the meet­ing,
wUdi was open to die public^
were'also representatives OIDOT. 1
In Maytr WQUam H.- White's
absence ~from 'tiw .•meeting,
.Mayor .Dorothy', Stonn
.tt^^,bgi(d>jipelii>flpl;
abgst any ma^t«^ddiTwaiiId re^
'movent.joiiandtag'^- Mj^£6£,^fi6ta:
, Sunrise ftlgfawqr.' 'the board ap-,
pears relnctant,^-:sbe saM, "to
_ ,oi-„ ng
i" !*^?a!*^#*^rt. -fpREiroRT .-^A ^&iM^^':Tetaggjgs0£»pte^oS a groap called Oti
xmfJUSMOiAmd tii^^lst<pabBeniSe^ Moulay dg^t, August 2S.
aMHe'Xittl£^33A^^pttti4i.,Craiid'Aveaae and^eiOiylon Tampftb fai
F|ee^ncU^TlH|t^6^^ local residents, but
""*"'* '" "idij-to^leave bi^iore the end of the merting after
Jabout the-. , " . ;' • , ^
^funding and OroinDes.'^Doaglas'Mayers, Joe
, Mcdaney, - ' JuHa ^MoClaoey,
'Ophelia Dabney,' Linda Adamsr
. Sallie. GrifBdi.^Cbmns Gritfidi,
Bariura Thompson,-. Dorott^
: Sutton. Cheryl-Cantoir, RocheUe
"Jenkins. ^Ttiomas F ^ , . - Anne
"Gmnwich, lillisn Bnder,
' Thelma Owens, Michaele Wash*
ington,' JeCGrey Jackson,' Fran
Thomas. Vivian [MliKxr. Wayne
'Alexander, Lonbe Townes, Helen
Jenkins, Althea McCall and Mrs.
Small. ' . - ' ' " : '.
Parts' of the meeting were
chaired by Mike Pratt a ^ Lucy
Kogler; staff persons-fw the Long
Island office <rf Crtkens^Iiance.
T H B ^ S S ^ ^ f ^ S ^ Tail~Shiriene RusseD.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ T r & ^ l S " sideAvemie.waiacting«temp.
• ^^^ oraiydiairpersca... :
Questions 'frton' die audience
dealt': with the.'Jormation- of the
group', and the hddihg of elec-tiohs.'
even tliough for temporary,
offices^-/-"' ':'-' :,y:r
Oiie member of the organiang
committee, KOchaete . Washing-ton^
told THE LEADER the nett
day that she fonndthe iheeting
disappointing 'because of the
V- (Coht.onPaoe12)
of tlMTNew
Researdi
IG), described-as,
a Ralphs
ation. Flyas<
! af the meet-ated
to residenb
NbcdiiEast forseveral
pria^„ describe NYPIRG
r%y«k State's largest
Idrganizati^." . ^
"AUianoe group.'
'NYPIRG's^'leaflets.
-minimuin''df 25
''mefflDers in a com-
|!;A£nuaI 'dues are $15
itet
ID
niembers'are prombed
^^-bulletins, bumper-tmtftm
and notice of.
aad .local meetings. The
'^pier's, duirpersad sits
»}esgianal board. NYPIRG
at the Freeport
•tii^'ezidained.
According to the agenda db-ibut^
atthe ttieting.the NOTth:
Chiipt(»''s organizing com-'
b cpmpoud <if James
-after'tEe'c*>rp<a*ti6n7'5iK to'
show up in conrisevenl dines.
Judge Franro • fined 4 t . $250.
Ttte village b now .taking step^
to' obtain a judgement agaiiu>t
- the corpioradoc.
AT-foorth .storefront diurch.
Church jof God and True Holiness
at 306 North Mahi Street.' has
filed with the -village's Zoning
.Board of Appeab ftn' a"variance
^ahd wiQ Ix; on that 1)«ard'sr-Sep­tember
calendar. • . •
Summonses against three other
(Cont.onPagelS)
talDe'awqr atty padihg. spaces/' ,
She noted that WUte had abo -
qcptessed that^'^yiew to' the'
board.'Referring to nqr plans that
would hdp traffic'flonr eisier'
through Freeport, wfdle sacri-fidAg
parking spaces,'she said'
tiut thie mdn impact of'those'
plana would be to benefitpeople
from Patdiogue through RodviOe
Centre, and not Freepbrtera of
~)ocal shoppers.
Trustee Jim Clark add of the
altetnatives: "I can't see how yon
win speed nptrafiic by widedng
the lanes.. The-botdenedc has
been down^by-TWo Guys,"-he
said, referring to the area near
the deiHtftment store whidi b
significandy east of the section of
Sunrise Highway proposed-for
Widedng,^- - - ' 'J: I
' - Oarictdd die Storch represent-^
- adve,, 'The' commercials neei
every space they can get. You are
taking away very valuable proper­ty."
•
Trustee Tim Petemana called
the plan to remove the parking
spaces tnxa Sunrise Higliway
one wliich "nught be t>ert fixnn
your point of view," referring to
; DOT, "hvi it ^could be most
'.. detrimental to die yiSage." ,
Canning
parking' . spaces ' on ..^'Sunrise
Highwiiy. . ?'Ma%, .of . these
loudnesses ate not tiiat deep into '
profib. that diey^conld afford to
lose that inwoitf t£ business,"
nplainied SQIiag. pdnting , to
siidi .'bodnesses.- as '.Star.:-Trek
Travd, Chnhboek's Drug Store,
the Cold and Silvier Exchange and
the'prafesiond affices..iin the
e^ prd[>leQn l e en on
Sunrise .ISghway, acconfiog'to
Stotdi's report, are heavy traffic
nseage, a^.'cwv^ - digiunent,
left-fairn^ lancsi'-vvx^ 'OC^'^^'C^
^mf|4tig akmg the'.curb/which
causes accidents and dows
trafBtf.
Stordi suggested . severd
dtemadvesi The 'fixst would
remove an 48 paridng spaces on
the-sonth dde of Sunrise Ifighway
from Ocean Avenue to Henry
Street. ^ ' c . ' ^
Another ~ proposal would
remove some 28 spaces between
Guy 'Lombardo < Avenue and
MdnStreet,
- The first dtemadve, Storch's
representative sdd^ would have
the biggest impart on the traffic
flow. In> liothj proposab, the
roadway would be widened.
- Other' posdbiOtles . indude
removing parking idthont widen-
'ing the roadway^ or a more limit­ed
removd of on-stieet paddng
spaces.-' .
Thdr - dtemate Eight, for
'example, suggesb the removd of
16 paridng spaces between the
(ConLonPagelB)
Freeport Vamps
'ff~the-Baiining of -left turns,
except where there are specific
left-turn Ianes.Land. adjostaasts—
of traffic.dgndOfi^ts could im-.
. prove the SOT? soEcieiidy."'r '~
Vniage Director f^'Budness
Devekspment Bifaitin S2berg abo
. spoke against ai^ plan that woold-^
eBnunate paridng from Sunrise
Highway, fimn the Freqxxthfan
^•sOMODdi He o^^n^^^rtj^^Assaiatien^ fee-S«e-arBew
die merdiattts <» the nocdiem Yodc Fanufc took place Sunday
end cf die M^daim that a sig--ifienioon. August 24. '•'
nffifant portion of their business The Fieepwt vanms totic first
b dependent upon the six place last year^.
FBE^pRT 1 - jndsLi=Mnaie:s,=:
Vidadteer' FMi'Department todc
s«5oia;.piace-is •die-, dttegocy -
••best ^ipearing. large-size de- .
partment'-' at the annnd state
paiadejield tn^Bd^win this past
weekeffil.' .'•-'.•"
Hosted by; the Baldwin' Fire
Department, the ISSO-Flreman'r^