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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. DECEMBER 12.1985
SlstYEAR." No.34
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Boldwin Realtor One Of Four
In Racial Discrimination Probe
Two Too Long Sfcife, Couniy & Freeport
^''AdiruTn?' Combine In Task Force
A STAND-IN FOR SANTA'S SLEIGH. With Santa's sleigh temporarily
cut cf service as It is readied fcr Its annual worldwide trip on Christmas
Eve, Santa Claus cculd net let that stop him .from visiting The Elk's
Plaza in Freepcrt en December 7.. The red-suited gentleman got In
tcuch with Captain Jchn Mirando cf Bayview Hose Co.-No. 3 of the
Freepcrt Firs Department and asked if the firefighters could usetheir
j3umpec ic bring him tc 'the shcpping mall. As they did last year,
the firemen brcughl the V.I.P. frcm the North Pcle safely to Elks Plaza.
Taking aqulcKbreaXfrcrh giving cut ccmdy canes to the many children
present, Sania (standing In rear) had hta photo taken with the fire­fighters
and their helpers (I- to r.): Firemen Rich Cantwell, Anthony
Furnari and Rich Hartig; "Mrs. Freepcrt" Carol Sparaco; Freepcrt
Village Mayer Dcrcihy Slcrm; Bey Scculs Sean O'Brien and Shawn
Eplcn; Shannon Epicn; Firemen Waller Vcgl and Dan Lehane, Free-port
F.D. Chief Lee TuchclskI, and Rreman Chris Fabrfzlo.
Holiday Party At Rec Center
FREEPORT - - The Annual
Holiday Festival, sponsored by
the Freeport Recreation Depait-menl
in cooperation with the
Freeport Chamber of Com- .
merce.will be held at the Recrea-
* tion Center on Sunday, Beceui-ber
22, 12:30-5 pra. There is no
fee for this event and a Recrea­tion
Card is not necessary for
admiltance.
Rides — a Spacewalker and
the Fire Engine — will be avail­able
for youngsters' enjoyment
in the lobby 12:30-5 pra. At 1 pm,
in the gymnasium, there will be
circus- acls, including a uni-cyclist,
juggler, clown, ring­master
and an aeto show.
Santa and Mrs. Claus will be
in Ihe Restaurant Lounge,
2T5 pm, with gifts for children
ages eight and younger. Dqring
Ihe -same lime, in the Youth
Lounge, there will be a Santa's
Arts and Crafts Workshop,
where children can make their
<rwn holiday ornaments.
Free skating, for adults as well
as children, will be offered 3-5
pm. Skales should be brought
from home as the number of
renlal skales is limited.
74-Year-Old Woman
Raped In Own Home
FREEPORT - A 74-year-old
Freeport woman was raped by an
intruder Wednesday night,
NcTvember 27, in her home in the
northeast section of Freeport.
The victim was in her kitchen,
ai about 9 pm, when a man broke
into Ihe house through a base-menl
window. The stocking-masked
inlruder dragged the
woman to the bedroom, where
she was raped.
Tl-e victim, who escaped from
Ihe h .use while the burglar was
supposedly looking for money
and jewelry, was treated at
Nassau County Medical Center in
Easl Meadow.
The subject has been described
as a male bbck about 21 years
old, and 5'8' tall. According to
police, he was said to be wearing
a gray, hixxJed sweat-shirt, and
dark pants and jacket.
FREEPORT - Three public
hearings extended Monday
evening, December 9th's Village
Board of Trustees' meeting to
10:50 pm. The Conference
Room was crowded, as residents
and local businesspersons
crowded in for the hearings on
/'satellite signal - receiving
antennas" and a change,in traf­fic
laws, for wtdei-body'iria Heavy­weight
trucks in south Freeport.
• Although both issiies -gene-"
rated much public comment, the
yiliage Board voted on neither,
adjourning both for future dates
Zone Change
A third public hearing, chang­ing
the zoning of •properly on
Broadway from "Business B"
to "Residence A" was approved
unammously -with no objec­tions
from anyone attending'.
The property is located on the
north side of Broadway between
Harding and Griffing {Haices.
Local resident Vince Campion
said he. is "100% in favor" of
the zoning change, a sentiment
echoed by Fred Tschoschke,
of the Northeast FreepOTt Qvic
Assodation, ' who said that
NEFCA's board had voted in
favor of the change.
Things were not so cut and dry
for the other two public hearings.
The first one dealt with a pro-
|>osed ordinance to ' regulate
Ihe construction - of television
satellite dishes in Freeport.
"It is -not an anti-satellite
law," . explained Assistant
Village Counsel William Glacken,
but is intended to balance the
various needs of ihe community.
Glacken introduced Dr. AUbnse
Fennelly, a physicist bom
Alabama, who he had broaghl to
Freeport as an expert witness.
Fennelly, under questioning by
Glacken, substantiated . the
validity of the legislation's
provisions limiting the sizes of
satellite dishes to 10 feet in
diameter and to a maximum
height of 12-feet, if ground-installed;
and a maximum four-and-
a-half feet in diameter and
five feel above the roof, if roof-inslalled.
But later, when questioned
by several local businesspeopie
in the field of satellite dishes,
Fennelly agreed that the New
York/Long Island area had
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MINEOLA - A Baldwin realtor has been named in a Federal lawsuit
filed by the State Attorney General alleging that he and three other
Nassau County brokers routinely deny blacks .the opportunity to pur­chase
homes in while areas while, at the same time, encouraging them
to move to already-integrated or bla* areas.
The civil suit against Mahler
Realty, 130 Merrick Road in Bald­win;
La Rosa Realty of West-buiy;
Esjiosito Real Estate of
East-' Meadow, and Gaffney,
Realtors,' Floral Park, followed
an 18-month investigation by
a Task Force on Racial Discrim.-
ination in the Nassau County Real
Estate Industry.
The Task Force was praised
by two <^ its members, Nassau
County District Attorney Denis
Dillon and State Attorney General
Robert Abrams, as a first in the -
cooperation between many dif­ferent
levels of government deal­ing
with the problem of racial
steering.
Michael . Kirwan, Freeport's
Human Relations Commissioner,
was a member of the Task Force
and. at a press conferemx held
Wednesday, December It, Kir­wan
was praised as being in the
forefixint- of the Task Force's
efforts.
"His efforts," Liz Abzng, at
the New York State Division of
Human Rights said of Kirwan,
"sparked this off in the first
place," recalling how Kirwan
had {Ued complaints several years
before.
Besides Abrams, Dillon,
and Kirwan, the other members
of the Task. Force were Doaglas
White, Commissioner of the
State-Division of Human Rights;
and James Rice, Executive
Director, Nassau Cbunty Com­mission
on Human Rights.
In the prepared report made
public by the Task Force Wednes­day,
alleged examples of the dted
discriminations were specified.
In the case of Mahler Realty,
the report states that testing by
pairs of white and blade couples,
began in May and continued
through July, 1985.
The Task Force alleges that re­sults
of the testing show that
blacks were routinely shown
homes in integrated areas of
Freeport and Baldwin, while
whiles were only shown homes in
almost exclusnely white areas.
In addition, the report claims,
while blacks were sometimes
shown homes in the non-inte­grated
areas of Baldwin, they
were rarely shown the selection
of -homes made available to the-white
couples. ' -
The report dies a test made in
eariy May, when allegedly a
white couple was sent with in­come
and cash adequate to pur­chase
a home priced between
$170,000 and $190,000. The
testers were taken on this first
visit to view six homes, the re­port
states, four in Baldwin, two
in Baldwin Harbor, and all lo- •
cated within census tracts that in­dicated
TIO more than a .3% bla*
population in the 1980 census.
According to the report, the
testers 'daim the salesperson
ended the session by saying that
she would contact them when
additional homes became avail­able.
The following day, alleges the
Task Force report, a bUA couple
visited Mahler with the same
housing needs, but ihax financial
background included a household .
income of $5,000 more than the
previoas"white testercouple.
The .blad cooole allegedly •
were shown only three houses, in
Baldwin Harbor, one of wMch
had been shown to the -white
couple. The third was house was
in Freeport. The Baldwin Harbor
houses were in census tracts that
the 1980 figures indicated had
less than a ^% black population,
" but the house in Freeport was in -
an area that the same census in­dicated
had a 65% black popula­tion.
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After offering these homes to
the black testers, the sales­person
allegedly suggested the
couple return the following week­end
to see additional houses.
This they did, by appcnntment.
The report goes on that the
salesperson greeted the blaA
couplie and then explained to
them that the homes they had.
seen the week before were now
unavailable, because they had
either gone to contract or binders
had been placed on them.
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