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g FREEPORT. NEW YORK, JANUARY 23.1986.
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m 51st YEAR, No. 40
FREE?0.1T L'EISORIAL UTR^RV
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Announce Gordon Place Agreement
Arraign 2 In Fotol
Baldwin Robbery
Village, Marina Seffle;
Residents "In Shock"
FREEPORT - A meeting .called by Village.Mayor Dorothy Storm
Tuesday evening, Januaiy 21, has resulted in what Village officials
are callingan agreement between the village and Fred Chall, owner of
a marina at the end of Gordon Place. -. . .. •
. However, neither Chall nor his attorney were present at the meeting,
which was attended ,b^ residents
Village Acquires
More Land For
CBpParlcing
.-:.FREHX)RT'..The Wilage \rili
tecriye a'l^iod'.ofland in ttie
'Central ..BnsiiiMS. Kstrict - on
whidi it plahs'.to build another
niuiddpal parking lot,'t • !
"Fiff the price rf Jl, Freeport is
purchasing from Nassni Cminty a
. triangtilai shaped lot, 16-18 Spgth
Mdn Street, wtdch fronts on-the .
north side of. Saorise Highway.
The property, on wMch jam^ca
Tifes and Canon Tad are present­ly
located,.lies across'Sunrise .
from the new — and recently pro­posed
expanded '^— Utile Pine
Street Parting Lot,
Conftmutioii of the 'agreement
between the vQlage • and the
county came during the Village
Board' of Tnutees qpen..legula-'
tive session this past Monday
evening, January 20. .
According to Village Public
Iitfdnnation Office Jean Peters,',
the village plans to use the land
for metered patting and also to
widen the traSic lane in that area.
' Village Counsel Joe Edwards
confirmed that the village has no
legal responsibility to relocate
tenants of the buildings, but "we
certainly will assist within the
° boundaries of the law," be said.'
The property was taken over
by the county for non-paymeirt-of
.' taxes.Inrecentye'ars.ithas been
rumored that a consortium was
interested in acquiring land in
that central section of Freeport
in order to construct oSice
bu'ildings, possibly condomin­iums
for professionals:
Fees Updated
The Board discussed a memo­randum
from the Superintendent
of Buildings recommending .up­dating
various fees to match those
of the Town of North Hempstead.
The board agreed with the high­er
fees but, upon the advice of
village Oetk Tom DeVincenro,
did not vole on them. Instead,
Village Counsel was directed to
prepare an amendment to the VD-lage
Code giving the Board of
Jail I9-Year.Ofds In Deafh
Of Elderly Woman
BALDWIN - Two 19-year-old men have been arrested in coimection
with the fatal robbety.of a 73-year-old Freeport woiiian in a Baldwin-sh<
mpbg center on December 28. ....:... r... :r
-... Nassau Coiinty Homicide Squajl detectives bavi; arreted Free'porter
Joseph tewis of 131 East Miltan Street •; and charged him with robbery,
lewis is in jail with bail set at
of Gordon Place, Mayor Storm
and Village Coonsd Joe Ed-
. warids.Kesrdents of some 40
houses on Gordon Place'had been
invited, by letter, to the tneeting;
18 luimes were represented by
those who showed up.
The letter to the residents had
said they would receive an update
on the Chall matter. For some
time, a group, of'Gordoit.Place
ly pending in the courts, and that
the situation had created a fire
hazard.
- Village Counsel Joe Edwards
discussed the imn-oonforming
us*ge of the whole parcel, the
bulkheading, parking, the Jires-eiice
and use of gas pumps, the -
concern for'fire, traffic and navi-gationai
hazards. ' (EDIFOS'S
NOTE: THE LEADER had not
$100,000.
On Januaiy 16, alter, fbrther '
.investigation. HomicideDet, Sgtv.
John Nolan reptsted the arrest
of a second subject; Glemi John-soix,
of 1522 Agat^' Street, Bay
Shore, has been diarged with
Murder Second-.Degree and Rob-
' bety EHrst Degree, and is being
hii)d without bail.
Johnson -allegedly accosted
Ct^otle Neidorf-of South Ocean
Avenue, FreepOTt, in the vfdrity
of Woolworth fnd Gala Shoes, on
' Grand ' Avenue in Baldwin, - at
4:20 pm ..on Saturday, December
28. According to police he took
the elderly Woman's podetbopk
and then ran'doMvn a nearby alley­way,
where he got.inlo a waiiing'
car, allegedly beiiig driven by
Lewis, and the two drove oEf.
residents had-been comriaii^r J*?? gi'*""''^* <?f ^^w "**t-'
to the village that deljveiy of wide •"« *^ was not presenl.-Eifptma
.boats to ChaS's Marina had
created a traffic problem, and tin-safe
conditions on the narrow
blbdc. The residents also claimed
that Chall had ezpaiided the uses
tion was obtained from Edwards
and other village sources, as well
as a resident, after the.iiieetihg.)
After. nearly three hours, -
when Mayor Storm'called the
Mrs. Neidorf, who bad fillen or
been pushed to the .ground at'
the time of the robbeiy, was taken
to South Nassau .Coimniirities
Hospital in Oceanside, where she •
was protioimced dead shortly
afterwards, at 5:17 pm.
An-antop^ and mddical tests
are being performed in order; to
determine the exact cause of Mrs.
Neidorf s death.
of his non-conforming pfC^ierty, a -, meeting\to an end,. Edwards felt
matter that the'village had t^ken I he h'd explained to the rdsidents
to litigxtJop and whidi is present--^ (Cbnt. on Page 16)
Freeport Activist Honored- ,
By President
Settlement In Firing Case
FREEPORT - An'out-of court,
settlement -has resulted in an,
ex-plumbing inspector for the
Village of Freeport and his law­yers
getting $37,000 in back pay -
and leeai fees.'
Joseph Petrozza, who is still a
Freeport resident, claimed he was
fired in August, 1984^ finm his
job in Jhe village's Building de­partment
because he was friendly
with a p<ditical opponent to the
village administration.
Petrozza, who is now serioc'
building inspector in Westbniy,
says he was sever involved in
viUage politics, but faad'beooine
personally friendly with Sal -
Imborgio while they worked to
gether in the Building depart'
meat. Imburgio,'WIKJ is now with
the vilUge's Community Develop­ment
Agency, ran fot Mayor b
1981. petrozza was tdied by the
viQaKe!oJnIy,1982.
According U> Petrozza.Fieeport
Superintendent of Buildmgs
G. Ruiz de Zarate had warned
him that associating with Imbur-gk)
would cost him us job.
. Imbnrgio. says that "to. do
Trustees the aiithori^ to set fees ssi^ethisg ditectiy to me would
(Com. on Page 16)' . ' Aiyt been even fbbre difficult for
them (0 justify."He bad nin
against then-Mayor William H.-
Wh'ite and daims VIHiite "re­fused
to shake my hand" fallow-ihg
the election, .' '
Petrozza's dismissal was re­commended
by de Zarate in a
written communication to White
on March 21.1983. Ihe letter
cited below standard work,
ezcessrre sick days, and a habit
of gomg Iwme during the work
day, including one specific
meeting with Imbnrgio.
But Petrozza says from
July,1982 t(t Apri],1983 when be
was dismissed, he look "5 or 6
sick days, iododing several
of them at the end because the
situation upset him so that he
had to go to the doctor. Ai
to Petrosa, there waj nothing in*
his file that proved below stan-dard'worit.
Three days before de Zarate
reooiiimeoded to ttie mayor that
Petrozza be ..dismissed, the
Superintendent sent him a note,
warning tarn that,"Afier numer­ous
verbal warnings, about
associating ai^or meeting with
. Mr. Sal I^burgio of the'CommuT
(Cent, on Paae 4)
FREEPORT .- A Fifeeport
tenants' activist was one of 13
individuals and .groups from
Long.Island, recipients of presi-denUal
recognition awards for
volunteer and community service.
' Ethel Dorman, president of the
Freeport Tenants Association, the
Village's tenant representative
and active in the '*40,000 Pairs of
Eyes" program, was selected
ojit of more than 300 nominations.
The awasds are parchments
with gold seals signed by Presi­dent
Rotiald Beagzn. (See stoiy,
th'ispage.)
FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE.IFcBeport Ethel Dorman (2nd I.) was
presented, with an award from, President Ronald Reagan for her
"exemplairy community service." Present at the ceremony In the Free-port
Memorial Ubrary were State Senator Norman J. Levy (r.), Kendall
Lampkin (2nd r.) and Freeport Village Mayor Dorothy Storm 0-), who
' presented Mrs. Oorman with a Villags Proclamation. Mrs. Dorrrvan has
\ been a fotig-term.tenants' advocate and president ot'lhe Freeport
Tenants Association. (See story this page.) '