The-Leader_1986-01-16

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Village of
Freeport •
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Freeport
School pistrict
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Baldwin
School District
FREEPORT, NEW YORK. JANUARY 16,1986
51st YEAR, No. 39 t'tv^-^" "^ '* '
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FREEF03T MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Baldwin Library
Expansion Wins Big
New 6-Cah Fleet Gefs Nod;
CBD Parking field Proposed
FBEEPOST -. Reddest*, as weU.M people wip ;ratk is tiie viil«ge,
will soc^ find mote taxlcabs available in Fteejpott; and tJaoHi WIM 4rive
their own can br^diait^qg .. or. to ofPces in tbe Central Business
district ml^ttoaii find paiking an easiei task.
At the vati^ Soi^af.TtBstees Moodaj. erenins, Janoai; 13A
meetutg, U'vas agtiied to.issue
Woman Raped
In Apartment
House Garogd
. FSEEFORT • A Freeport
woman was' raped in lier cfr at _
11 am Friday, Jandaty 10, aflfr.'
she p*Ae& uie' auto in thejbase-meht
.^rage "of an apartment
honse on Nor^h' Long Bea^
Avenue, Freeport,.
'The woman WHS accosted by an
unknown man with a lodfe.: who'
— according to- the iep«t — .
punched her in the face iknd
forced her back'lnta'the tear seat
of her car. Tying Ids 33-year-old
victim trilh tlioe. laoes, the. vain.
removed her cloltang and forcibly. '•
rapedher.
The subject.fled the scene on
foot, with the woman's po^et-book
• containing an^onknowii -
. am.ouQtpfinoney. , /"^^
. FcUce were caUed and the
victim was transported by ambu­lance
to Nas^u Coonty Medical
. Center, East Meadow wbe^ she
is being treated.
The suspect is .described as a
(Cent, en Page 16)
Purchase Of Building Has
Support Of 77% Of Voters
BALDWIN r In a tomoat'oaiciidered by veteran library.vot« ob.-
servers as "very big,'' the residents of, (he Baldwin Scliiqi.District
overhelmingly voted for a proposal.to ekpand the.Baldwin Public
Library by acquiting tbe adjacent qow-efflpty boiidiflg, whidi fixrietly
housed a branch of European-American Bank. .
Some T?% of the 2,698 voters; who turned out Tuesday, January 14,
agreed whhtb^^conpept.of.'pnr'
cfaasingthebnadisgfer.$434,000,
oortsiructufg a' ootmectiog coici-dor
between it>^d the present
Jibraiy.bliilding'aBd refiiitisUng
U, U a cost ofabout $426,000. The'
$860,600 tot^ cosi, the voters,
fenced, world be financed t^ *
bqndissue. ,
Only 607 voters turned down
the proposal wUle 2,091 vot^
f'yes." library Board president'
Leonard Melinan said be was
"pleased at the cosununity turn-
0Bt,V - . • . • • ••
According to the plans, the
•library's CUldren's Department-would
be moved to the new area
and the drculation d£sk would be
telocatedforeffidency. .
- There bad been litileorgarnzEd
.oppostiob to the lilinry'a ^lan.
The members of botli flse libta^y
and icbotd-boanls were in agree­ment
and support bad ooine &om
Baldwin PTA g ^ p s . -
The- oppo^tidiv expressed by
several In^vidnals bad appwr
ent§^ centered around fiittre _
operatingoostsandadsliadbeen •
placed in an atteihpt to cQiivince
the public that a neij^borini lib­rary
had doubled its bwlget after
expansloit. ttds'assninpS(»! was
categOiically denied by a neigh­boring
iibraiy wtddi had rwenily
eiparaled. Baldwin Public Lib-laty
sources also explained, that,
addhional Bti% aiM maisters
'ance fees were expected to add
less than three cKnts per $100 of
assessed valuatioit to tbe tax rale.
On a home assessed at. $7,500
that would add less tfau 19* per
month.
BaUwia-Library trustees and
staff members present as the vote
was tallied expressed pleasure,,
with niembet Oarles Bogan staV'
ing they were "gratified" with
t}ie resnlli.
six taxi inedafikn^ to a opinpany
wlddi - hu been operating in
.'BteniwoQiI.
Pendixig tikfr opnipietioit of.cer-
-tais legal lieiqidrenMttts (e,g.< Ae
Cdmlnal BccGcd cbedk), UJiJi.
TKd Inc. dA>/a ReBabk Taxi
Co. wiU Otttaiatfae ds B(«dtlUci9-
Preseoily ody oiie ottieT princi­pal
(Cam^. Taxi or. 'Ed<fie^
a Roosevelt firm) has Freq^
itb taeitlStm. Tbe somi-ta-be
issued ones wiU bring the nsmber
upta~32. • . ..
M.A.R. Taxi is owned by two
Glen' Cove teddette: Kobnt v>d
Angello Koque, wlio have oper­ated
the cab service in Brentwood
for (bur years. '
Pttrimgln The CJ.D.
owned by Jacob Post Inc., which
also owns the OGve BniUiag. t>te
four stay office and retail store
bunding, wfaicb also r&mrls os
Suiorise Highway, jnst.east of the
ptoposedM,
Tbe public prpiect wooJd,
according to the proposal, provide
additional paring for. the
buuness dijiiiet areas of. the
Mall, Chnidi iStreetand Soniise'
Highway and, by dai4rig '.'i little
Pine Street arid adding it .to. the
monidpal parking field, it pro­poses
to.. aUeviate^ traffic con-.
gestioa at. the iotenectkii of
that stteet.with Sunrise ICglnhiy.
. . No dc^.gguies.for the pur­chase
of tbe lud have yet beep
nudepubOc.
Tbe. parking problems in the AforeCafri
Central Business' District of die
village ii4gbt also be at iMst one ' . under the pnscaii cEtttd by.
.step closer to iisdatioii.' ~^"' • the owners ol.ReBable Taxi .0>..
The. Village Board has '. Uie ca^ to be put.oii ?teeport*s
scheduled the necessary public
hearing thai, tqust precede any
acquisition (dpdgfittf to ^ used
as a mu^^wl paricing fiisld.'
The hearing, set for 8-pm
Monday, February 3, at .Village
Hall, U to detere^ne "the seed
and locatkm for. a nmiddpal
parking field."
. Tbe prraerfy proposed 6x..&^
parking &id is a triaiq^ular-streets
woidd 'be' '1982 white
station wagoo^', iJl radio-:
eqnippeil.Iheooinpanypnaqases -
2<-boar service and says it is loiA-'
ing f(» office space Sar^tele-p&
ne-equ^ped - borne ~ base,
Rellible biiies to start its Free-,
port operatios^ within oiic iziQQ|fh.
The • Board "of truitec'5__
search fbr increased taxi aeryice
in Freeport 'was appareirily. .,
shaped bbck bounded tgr Suntise. .^pBried t? residents' oornpUinis.
itigfaway, Church Street, and lit- ' . . '
tie Pine Street. It. is presently |Ccm.onPage16)
Levy Vows To RgKt To
Save "Save Harmless"
PICTURE OF A RAPIST. Police
are seeking Information about a
man who 'allegedly raped a
woman In her ear In the parking
garage of a Freeport apartment
house. (See storVi this page.)
An artist'i composite of the
suspect la reproduced abova. The
.'suspect Is described aa 20-25
- years old, thin, with bulging eyea.
. ALBANY - StAie Senators Horr
man J.'Levy and Dean Skelos
have caOed Governor, Mario
Cuomo's. plan "to totally and-immediately
eHmhtste yttal Save
Harmlesa Aid to local sebocjf
catastrophic to Nassau' Coqn^ '
sebool districu, the children they
serve and theb taxpayers."
The two Loqx bland State Sena-tors
have pledged to 'Wigonx^
oppose and defeat the Govenyc''s
proposal." • • '. •
AcconUns to Levy, the Baldwin
Sebool Dbfrict would kite
$1,S52;3S3, or ZfiK ot their
total Opeiiting Aid" under the
Cnornopropoxa].
- Levy, Lcsig Island's senior
mcmbet of the Senate Education
Cotardttee. stated, dni, .'.'Of the
.Gfiyetnor^a 'fttifiafie^ niv.nOl-lion
elimiiation in Save Harmless
Aid, about 50% would be exacted
by Nassau and Suffolk County
school lUstriets and theb ddl-dren-"
Levy said COOQO'S pro­posal,
if enacted; "woidd emas­culate
the elucatknt of our chil­dren
and the abOi^'ef \oetl tax­payers
to pay for this edncatioit."
- Save HsRsIesa guarantees that
a sebool district cannot, receive
less Operatiag Aid ttatit in prev­ious
years. Levy and Skelos
noted that 'tSO cf Nassau Coun­ty's
56 scbod distrieU, and 43 of
Snffoft Coup's 65 acba4. dis­tricts,
depend oi) Save Harqless
to .Goothjse qnijity .educatkxvl
siervices to local sebool cliQdffit."
Levy added that "Save Hato-
,'(Cent! on T^age'e)" ••••';••'
A COOKIE CUTE- Brownie filrl Scout Mallnda Ward (e.) of Freeport,
top cooUs aaller In Nassau County laat year with mors than 700 boxea
aold, helpa Iwtneh th« 1 sea Girl Scout Cookie Sale of NiMMi Council of
Girt Scouts. Mallnd* and her mother (r.) ahars aonM Mlling tlpa with
Barbara White 0.) Naaaau Couftcll Praaktont, al the rKwit ittfi Sale
Kickoff. The Girl SC9ut Q o ^ $aie f lnani^pi;*nivf a c ^ i l t^ f or.eiri*'
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