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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. JULY 11,1985
51st YEAR. No. 12
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New So.
Police Seek Driver
In Baldwin Hit-Run
Dnig An«»t Leads Mother Of Two Severely
To Stolen Ring Injured On Grand Ave.
Planning Board Cool On
Plan For So. Ocean Ave.
FREEPORT - The question of what would be the best iise. for a
large vacamt piece of proptrty in South Freeport. has again sutfaccd.-
The new owner of a large plot which goes from South Ocean Avenue
through to Wooddefl Avenue, south of Suffolk Street, suggests.Ahat
the Ocean Avenue side might male an excellent site for condominiums
..or a factory!
-FREEPORT - Two vfllage
police officers, observing a man
rolling a dgarette on Leonard
Avenue; and;North Main,Street
Wednesday, June 26, attempted
to question him. - , •
" As P.O. Al Gros' and Steven
Yodice, on plainclothese detail,
approached Harold Thompson,
the Freeport man ran off, through
neighborhood bac^ards.
ButUros and Yodice were right
behind him, in pursuit, and
apprehended him al Harris and
Jay Streets. The two policemen
allegedly found on Thompson's
possession a nickel bag of mari­juana,
as well as a Qass of 1984
Freeport High School ring, identi-
• fied as having been stolen during
a burglary in September, 1984.
BALDWIN - A 31-yeaT-oId mother of two lies severely injured in
Soiith Nassau Communities Hospital, as the result of a hit-and-run
accidentj while police continue. to seek the driver and/or car
responsible. .—; .;•_- .....c,. -, , . - - . -, - , :,
AccortUng to Nassau County police, Diane Davenport of Baldwin was
crossing Grand Avenue, near the
Burger - King restaurant last
Wednesday, July;3. at about .
11 pm. when she was hit by a'car
which, then left the scene.
- Mrs. Davenport was crossing
the street from the east to the
west side while the car was_
apparently northbound on Grand
Avenue, police say. . ^
-Police describe the car as
probably a 1974 to 1976 light blue
Cadillac with a dark blue top and
say that it might have sustained
front-end damage.
A Davenport family member
told THE LEADER that they were
told that the car stopped after it
hit the victim and then drove on.
Mrs. Davenport was taken to
the hospital and admitted in
serious condition with fiactiires
to her entire body. Relatives say
she is now out of danger, but at
one point her condition was so
poor that she received last rites.
Police ask that anyone wth any
information or knowledge of the
acddent should call 223-1100.
Calls will be kept confidential. -
Thompson, 26, of 34 Union
Street, Freeport, has been
charged with criminal possession
of marijuana in the fifth degree,
unlawful possession of mari­juana,
and possession of stolen
property in the third degree. •
Another -arrest by the Gros/
Yodice team resulted in injuries
for Officer Gros, as they tried to
question a man they observed
smoking a hand-rqiled dgarette,
believed to contain marijuana.
Gros and Yodice watched the
man Tuesday, July 2, about
10:45 pm at Brooklyn Avenue and
North Main Street.
As they approached Ronald A-King,
a 21-year-oId man whose
address was giver as 50 North
Bergen Place, Freeport, King
allegedly struck P.O.Gros.in the
face and wrestled him to the
ground.
Village P.p. George Stephen­son
and Chris Wilson, as well as
LIRR P.O. Crofty. arrived at the
scene to help with King, who was
charged with resisting arrest,
assault second degree, and
criminal possession of a con­trolled
subsunce seventh degree.
~ -'^-Tis suffered contusions and
DeSolvo Named ZBA Chaiiperson
^•:.oi,t^arm.
. FREEPORT - Martha DeSalvo,
anative-bom Freeport resident
ana a member of the Village's
Zoning Board of Appeals for
more than ten years, has been
named that board's new chair­person.
Mrs. beSalvo, a resident of
New York Avenue, was appoint­ed
by Mayor Dorothy Storm at the
Village Board of Trustee's meet­ing
of Monday evening, July S.­Mrs.
DeSalvo will replace Chair­man
Milton Sanders, whose
resignation ftt)m the Zoning
Board was accepted with regret
that same evening;
Sanders has resigned from the
Board, after a ten year stint, for
persona] reasons.
Mayor Stortn also appointed
Ed Yamin, an attorney and the
newest member of the Zoning
Board, as its deputy chairman.
Sanders* resignation leaves
the five-person board short one
member and Mayor Storm later
said she will be making another
appointment.
Mrs. DeSalvo is the only real
. veteran of the Zoning Board. Two
• of its members, William White,
Jr. and Kenneth Bagatelle, were
appointed by Mayor • Storm on
Organization Night, the begin­ning
of April. Yamin was appoint- *
ed several weeks ago to replace
John Travers, who had resigned
because of illness.
Mrs. Storm made another ap-pointmentMonday
evening, nam­ing
Mabel Mitthauer to the vil­lage's
Housing Authority.
In other matters on the agenda,
the Board transferred SI ,500 to
the budget of the Property Im­provement
Committee to pay for
planters and other activities.
Presented with three possible
plans to deal with the now-vacant
• Prince Avenue Camp­grounds,,
which the village is
landbanking for possible future
use as the site of a well, the Board
dedded'on the middle proposal.
It agreed to spend S7,6S0 to de­molish
the building and founda­tion.
The other proposals were to
just demolish the. building
(S5,5S0) and to dear the property
completely ($12,200).
The Freeport Community De­velopment
Agency was authoriz­ed
to convey four parcels of
land to Nello Homes for $1 each.
-The plots-will be used for one-family
homes and are situated on
Babylon Turnpike and on North
Columbus Avenue.
The property in question had
been an open Mr market on the
west side of Wooddefl Avenvie
and a parking lot and storage area
on the east side of Ocean Avenue.
Now, apparently, Tom Masot-to,
purchaser of the plot, wants to
use the Wooddefl Avenue side to
house his boating interests. And,
according to,a letter his attorney,
. V. Rcy Cacciatore, senl to the
' Planning Board,'wants to sell the
South Ocean Avenue side to
Waterview Realty for construct­ion
of 24 condoimniums.
The South Ocean Avenue par­cel,
however, is not zoned for
condominhims, so Masotto's firm
.(Broughm Enterprises) and
Waterview Realty have applied to
the Planning Board as a first step
towards a zoning change.
In Cacdatore's letter, he notes-that
the Ocean Avenue's plot is
zoned ' for manufacturing and
intimates thai, if the zoning is
not changed to allow for condo­miniums,
a factory could be bmlt
there.
The proposal made by the ap­plicants
is for 24 condominiums.
Half of them would be one-bed­room
units on the first story of
tiie building; the other 12 would
be two-bedroom, duplex units.
The condominiums buildings,
therefore, would attain a three-story
height.
A change of zone to allow for
condominium/apartments did not
sit well with the Village's Plan­ning
Board and. at their June 25
meeting, they recommended that
the Village Board deny'the ap­plication
when they hear it.
The Planning Board called the-proposed
zoning change "spot
zoning", arid said it would in­crease
the traffic problems in the''
area. Instead. Hie Planning
Board — recogniang the short­age
of housing — recommended
that the property be rezoned
"Residential A" for one-family
home construction.
The developePs next step is
the Village Board, which has the
say in zoning changes. Al the-
Board of Trustees' July 1st meet-
- ing. it was notified of the Plan­ning
Board's recommendations.
Mayor Dorothy Storm said she
would prefer to have 'the neces­sary
public meeting on the issue
held after the Board receives the
consultants' report and the report
: from the Committee on the Stad-
.iiim. Waterfront, etc., which is
due around July Is.
To allow for time, the Board set
August 12th for the -necessary
public hearing.
VILLAGE POLICE OFFICER HONORED. Freeport P.O. William
Hastings (c.) was honored by the Nassau County Municipal Pollco
Chiefs Association at lis recently held second annual Distinguished
Service Awards Luncheon. Hastings' award was based on the police
officer's heroic actions at an expIoslon/flre on East Merrick Road In
December, 1984. Without regard for his own safety, P.O. Hastings
pulled 'a severely Injured man from the fire. Present to sea Hastings
honored were Capt. David Meehan 0 ) , of the Freeport Police Depart­ment,
and Garden City Police Commissioner Ernest Cipullo (r.),
president of the Nassau County Municipal Police Chiefs Assoc'iation.