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East Rockaway Lynbrook Malverne
Vol. 5, No. 29 E n t e r e d H8 S«i oii<l-« " l a s s M u t t e r , j
P o s t O f f i c e , I.y>i)>rook. N. T i Lynbrook, New York, Thursday, March 31, 1966 LY 3-1300 10(ji P e r Copy
SEN, LENT GETS GOV TO NIX EXPRESSWAY
THEY DID IT: At the meeting held last Thursday night, which was called by Senator Norman Lent to
gather data on the Atlantic Expressway, Mayor George Mangravite points out the monstrosity as de-
.. picted by Fred Meyer of Carman-Dunne. Senator Lent (left) and Franklin Gatland, President of the
^^ Lynbrook Board of Education, look on. The data gathered at this meeting and presented to Governor
Rockefeller on Monday by Senator Lent led to the Governor's action in squashing the proposal.
Last Thursday night, at the
request of State Senator Norman
F. Lent, Village Officials, State
Legislators, School Officials and
others met in the Lynbrook Vil-lage
Hall to discuss the proposed
Atlantic Expressway and present
all available facts and figures to
Senator Lent. Among those pres-ent,
in addition to host Mayor
George Mangravite and Senator
Lent, were the Mayors of Valley
Stream, Rockville Centre and
Freeport, Town Supervisor Fra-ncis
Purcell and six Legislators
representing affected areas.
Mr. Fred Meyer of Carman-
Dunne Engineers discussed the
recommendations of Bertram D,
Tallamy Associates, Consulting
Engineers, in their feasibility
report to the Long Island Bridge
Study Commission. In this report
they came up with 14 plans for a
bridge across Long Islahd Sound
but only ONE plan for a road.
Sunrise Highway. The cost fig-ures
in the report were so re-diculous
they defied the imagin-ation.
As an example, they ex-pected
to acquire the land, some
of the most valuable in the co-unty,
for $1.50 per square foot.
(Can you imagine the Congress-ional
Building or the new Liberty
Mutual being torn down for this
price?) Their estimates to adjust
all utilities, move water mains,
etc, were just as preposterous,
and for the land fill portion, they
would need 1 million cubic yards
of fill for every mile but they
didn't say where this could pos-sibly
be obtained. The figures
were prepared by an engineer,
without the consultation of an
appraiser.
appraiser. (Actually, Lynbrook
had little cause to worry because
if the reports figures were used
the road wouldn't get out of Val-ley
Stream.)
At the meeting. Mayor after
Mayor and village engineers pre-sented
figures to show the econ-omic
loss to their villages.
In Lynbrook, Mayor Mangra-vite
said that $5 million of ass-essed
valuation would be lost.
This is 12% of the tax income of
the village. The Lynbrook School
District would lose 30% of their
valuation. For each taxpayer in
the village, it would have meant
an additional $105 per year in vil-lage,
school and town taxes.
At the conclusion of the meet-ing,
Senator Lent said that he was
taking the figures from the var-ious
villages to Governor Rocke-feller.
On Monday, he met with
the Governor, who reviewed all
the evidence and studied the ad-verse
effects this road would have
on the affected communities and
he committed himself to discon-tinuance
of the proposed express-way.
Now, because of Senator
Lent's presentation to the Gover-nor
the residents of the South
Shore can breathe a little easier.
PRAYERS ANSWERED: At a special Board of Directors meeting of the Lynbrook Chamber of Commerce,
prior to the scrapping of plans for the expressway. President Morton Shumsky points out the route of the
road to (left to right) Fred Danning, Vice President; James Gambee, Acting Mayor of Lynbrook, who
spoke on the project; and Robert Schweitzer, Vice President. The Chamber went on record as being op-posed
to the route which would have wiped out much of the village.
'Snapped' during the recently held 14th annual Council Tea, a
membership drive in behalf of the 40-member-units of the Council
of Auxiliaries of United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau
County, are (1-r) Harry B. Fischer of Lido, Association Presi-dent;
Mrs, Arthur Schwartz of North Woodmere, President of
the Council of Auxiliaries^ and Robert G. Becker of Lynbrook,
Association Vice-President.
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| Rating | |
| Title | The-Helm_1966-03-31; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a newspaper distributed locally within Lynbrook, Malverne, & Nassau County |
| Creator | Islander Publishing Co. |
| Publisher | Islander Publishing Co. |
| Contributors | Scanned and Prepared by Hudson Microimaging, Port Ewan, NY 12466 |
| Date | 1966 |
| Type | Weekly Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Lynbrook Public Library; Arthur Mattson; HSERL |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | The Newspaper is in the public domain and Digital Rights held by Lynbrook Public Library and the Historical Society of East Rockaway & Lynbrook |
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