The-Leader_1983-04-21

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FBEEPORT. NEW YORK, APRIL21,1983
47thYEA«.No.52^
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Will Re-assess Rooming House Lour
Chiaro Gets FinaH
Arrest Solves
Two Robberies
FREEPOBT - Two Nassau
County detectives luve attested a
17-ycu-old Boosevclt yooth, .
apparently solving not only an
armed rc^bety in Fteepott In
March, but an eatliet one as well
inMertick.
Closing On Baldwin School
Sale Due Nexf Week
BALDWIN - The last mioor impediments to the cooversion of
Oxdidge ScbooHoaZO-gaSKoadoTnininTn hivfcbeea deaied away and
final dosing oo the sale of the building to Baldwin builder Ralph Chiaro
Is expected witUn a week. '--•»-.- -.—
The Town of Heinpsfead Board of Zoning'Appeals approved Ouaro s
appUcatJoos for variances' im
freeport Board Sets Public
il^lng^rirConsider Repeal
FREEPOKT-The six-year old village ordinance that was.passed to
phase out toonting houses in Fteepott in 1987 win probably be lepealed
following a public bearing to be held on Moiiday evening. May 9,
according to the opinion exptessed by Mayor Vmiam H. White at the
Board's meeting this past Monday, Aptil 18.
The Board haid just voted to have village counsel prepare for a
May 9th public meeting which is
Detectives Byron Bartlett and
Raymond Maybeny of Nassau
County's First S<^ad attested
Barry S. Cbnyers, 17, of 221
Ftederick Avenue, Roosevelt
on Aptil 12.
Cooycrs has been dtaiged with
holc&g up a 32-year.old Freeport
woman on March 8 as she exited
her car in front of het home on
Sooth Ocean Avenue in Fteepott.
Allegedly armed with a gun,
Conyets demanded her jeweby,
getting away with five'tings.
The other robbery, of whkh
Conyets has been acciued,
htppeived oo Febtuaiy 7 when he
allegedly held up a Belhnare
woman as she waued bom a stote
to het cat on Smith Street and
Babyton Turnpike' in Menidc
'Again armed with'a gun, he
allegedly took bet pocketbook,
which contained S37.
Apr3 12, following the Board's
public meeting on April 6.
Baldwin Scbotd Board presi­dent
Lorraine Deller, in express­ing
her pleasure that the year­long
matter was finally coming to
a satlsbctocy Gondusion, said she
believed CUaro wanted to start
work on the building's rehabili­tation
"as soon as possibte."
The Town Zoning Board
gtanted vatiabces dealing with .
side yaid and rear yard s^a(±s,
paikbg in setback atcas; the
height of the bnilifiag and conver­sion
of the sdiool to a multiple
dwellisg. While diiaio's plans do
not alter the ootsde of the stmc-ture
in relation to its height or
size, Mrs. Deller explained that
the variances were necessaty
because the buOifing's use was
. being dianged. ,
'The variances wete gtanted
with cettaln cooditiaas st^nlated,
induding the 'nptoval of the.
installatioo of an parking areas
by the . Town% Engineering
Department, the' maintenance
and care of all shrabs and plant,
ings, and the following of the
plans as submitted.
The Hempstead Town Board
bad approved a zoning diange for
Co^dge Sdiool last November,
rezonhig it to Residempe C-A
to allow for coadominWms.'
- h is expected that the entire
interior of. the vacant building
win be gutted to provide for the
constntctioa inside of 20 units of
one bedtoom and two-bedroom
apartments^ The apartments,
Chiaro has been saying, win be'
priced from S75,<X)0 upwards
to probably $85,000.
, The next ptopetty on which the
Baldwin School Board win
ptobably be tiegotiating wiO be
the Junior High/PiDspect School
compiez and Mrs. DeQer
indicated that there had also been
interest expressed for oonverskn
of those buildings to condo­minium
imits.
''Freeport School
- Budget Hearing
Thurs., April 28
FREEFOBT - A pubEc meeting
on the Freeport SdiooT District's
1983-84 budget win be heU on
Thursday evening, ApiS 28. ;
The meeting is scheduled to
begin at 8 pm in the Freeport
i. High School anditotiom.
aAC PARTY. Baldwin Board ol Eduealioo candldatesLofralne Deller
Rtid I.) and.Ira Matetsky (2nd r.) are welcomed by hostess Mickey ; Ibe vote on the proposed
Rapaport 0.) and Baldwin Action Commillee chairperson Elaine budget win be on Wednesday.'
Haip«m(r.). . ' May .11.
be'ing advertised by a legal notice
placed in this week's LEADER..
• White tcdd one resident present-at
the Board's 8 pm public session
that "we win undoubtedly .
repeal" the law.
The Village Board's move came
after two weeks in court on a suit
brought against the village "by
four of the rooming bouse opera-tots,
Richard K. Jones, Fat
-Hattis,'Habett'BaneT and John
LEn^ish. . '
The rooming house ownets,
"TS^esetnea ^ atti>tt>ey Alan
Manning MiUer, who bad also
successfoUy represented apart­ment
boose owners in that smt
against one of the village's tent
petmit laws, were soing to have
the ordinance dedaied uncon-stitntional
daiming that phasing
out of aU rooming bouses by 1987
would create an undue hardship
both on them and their tenants.
In the four year case, which
is now being heard in Nassau
Supreme. Coert. MHler had
contended that an existing
business can't be legisiatrd oat of
existence without good valid
. reasons to do so and dumed
the ot£nance called fot confisca­tion
of property without eminent
domain.
,The case is be'mg heard before
Justice Arthur D. Spatt who, on -
May 4, adjourned it because both
sides seemed to indicate that a.
settlement could be readied.
Although the case was^adjoumed
luitS May 9, MSler has indicated
that he would agree to a further
postooement' tOj-*ilow foe the
village's pnbHc hearing on repeal
ofthelaw. • - .
Wlute 'has indicated that
several of the rooming houses
that prompted the passage of the
ordinance have themselves
been eliminated and he died as
examples at least two fotmetly
owned by Maiio Blanco and
several in the Lena Avenue/
North Main Street/daurome
Flacearea.
. According to Jones,'who spear­headed
the drive by his fellow
tooming house ownets, tbete are
approximately 200 tenants Eving
in the presently existing 23
tooming houses. Under VjSIage
law, says Jones, aO robmiag
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IN APPRECIATION o'( her continued support of the Baton Twirling
Program. Village Deputy Mayor Dorothy Storm (r.) recehres » plaque
from the program's director, Jill Comerford. The honor, also bestowed
on Jo Cona, past president 'of the Freeport Chamt>er of Commerce,
was awarded at the annual Freeport Re-Creationa Long Island Baton *
Twirling competition held last month at the FrsepoctRccrealion Ccn-.
ter. Hundreds cf twirlers' from the Long Island areapartictpated in a
variety o> categories IrKluding team and individual compelilion.' Both'
tha Freeport Re-Creations Junior small and Jonlor large teams placed
first in Dance Twirl Team categories. Natalie Comerlord placed second
In the Junior Modeling division and Lee Ann Moltzen placed first in the
11-year-otd solo category and first in the n!ns-lo-11 year old d'r»i!lorval .
solo category- . . . ,