OCT82
40,000 Pairs Of
Eyes Scores Again
The builder of new homes in
the Village has asked that the
"Village News" be used to
publicly thank the two residents
who used Freeport's long-stand-ing
"40,000 Pairs of Eyes"
program to assist in the arrest
of a burglary suspect and prevent
the loss of more than $400
worth of new lumber.
The "good neighbors", had
observed two men apparently
carrying some lumber into a van
parked near the site of a new
house under construction. Police
responded and saw a van loaded
vitH lumber. Moments later,
a second call to police head-quarters
reported that the two
men had been seen running
through some adjacent property.
Police apprehended one man, a
res-dent of West Hempstead,
who admitted to owning the van
in which the lumber was found.
The "40,000 Pairs of Eyes"
program is long-established in
Freeport. with all residents en-couraged
to participate by re-porting
any suspicious activity
to the police. A resident calling
the police, at 378-0700, need not
identify themself.
Victim/Witness Center
Nassau County has established
a Victim/Witness Center which is
designed to assist the victims and
witnesses of crime, particularly
the elderly, indigent and lower
income people, by working
cooperatively with other Nassau
County agencies to fully utilue
the expertise and skills of victim
service providers.
The program offers crime
victims and witnesses of crime :(1)
reimbursement of loss of wages
due to appearance in court, in
accordance -with —established
guidelines; (2) aid in arranging
for transportation, or reimburse-ment,
for victims or witnesses
who must appear in Court, before
the District Attorney or police;
(3) a locksmith for damage
occuring during a burglary;
(4) reception areas for victims,
witnesses and their children in
Bicycle Registration ~~
Freeport's Bicycle Law, printed
in the August "Village News,"
was in error in that it stated
bicycles must be registered
annually.
Bicycles ARE REGISTERED
ONE TIME ONLY.
Registration is held each
Wednesday, 8:30 am to 4 pm, at
Police Headquarters, 40 North
Ocean Avenue. Cost is 25$ for
the metal identification plate
the Courts; (5) assistance in!
applying for New York State
Crime Victim's Compensation;
(6) a 24-hour informational
telephone number for crime
victims which is 535-3500; and
(7) direct contact for services from.
County agencies.
Participating agencies include
the Nassau County Police Depart-ment,
the District Attorney's
Office, Department of Mental
Health, Department of Social-
Services, Department^ of_ Senior
Citizen Affairs, Nassau County
Women's Services and the New
York State Crime Victim's
Compensation Board.
The Victim/Witness Center
is located in the Nassau County
Criminal Justice Coordinating
Council Staffs office at 320 Old
Country Road, Garden City.
which is affixed to the bike at Ate
time of registration. The owners
of new bicycles should bring their
sales receipt so that the serial
number may be recorded. A
signature is required on the
application for registration. A
parent must sign for those under
the age of 16.
The mandatory registration
was instituted for the sole
purpose of easing the return of
stolen or lost bikes to their
owners.
Cease And Desist Violation
Eugene Ferrero, representa-tive
broker, and Natalie Nash,
real estate broker, were found to
have demonstrated "untrust-worthiness
and incompetency"
under the State's Real Property
Law following a hearing before
the State's Division of Licensing
Services. (Ferrero and Nash are
also affiliated with Century 21
Brass Ring, Merrick - Road,
Freeport.)
As" a' result, Century 21
Carousel of Homes and Century
21 Loutown Realty Homes Sales,
both located at 255A Sunrise
Highway, Merrick, had a choice
of paying fines of $500 each or
have their real estate licenses
suspended for 30 days.
The hearing was held following
complaints by Freeport residents
to the Secretary of State that
real estate firms had approached
them through the mails regarding
the seiling of their homes. The
.complainants were Human Rela-tions
Director Michael Kirwan of
Delaware Avenue, William Crook
.of South Long Beach Avenue,
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Landau of
Moore Avenue and Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Cullin of Hubbard
Avenue. The Freeporters testi-fied
at the hearing that they had
signed the Secretary of State's
Cease and Desist Order. The
Order, which many Village home-owners
have signed and which
the Village government forwards
on to the Department of State,
attests to the fact that the
homeowners do not wish to sell
their homes and therefore may
not be solicited. A list of Order
signers is then provided to all
real estate brokers in the area
by the State as legal notification
that they are "directed to cease
and desist from all solicitation
of the homeowners on the list."
Ferrero and Nash had received
the list, bearing the names of
the Freeporters involved in the
case, in November, 1981.
. Ferrero and Nash admitted
at the hearing that they had
contracted with Val-Pak Direct
Marketing Systems, Inc. to dis-tribute,
by direct mail, 10,000
advertisements to homeowners
adjacent to their brokerage
activities, including the Freeport
area. They admitted they had not
.checked Val-Pak's mailing list
to assure that those covered
by a Cease and Desist Order
would not receive the mailing.
The hearing officer found "there
can be no doubt that the Val-Pak
advertisement is a solicitation"
and ordered the fines or sus-pension
of licenses.
Think "Freeport First"
REFERENCE ONLY
OCTOBER 1982
A Public Intonation
of The Village Of Freeport
46 North Ocean Avenue
Telephone FReeport 8-4000
William H. White, Mayor
Village
News
Public Meetings.on the 1st. and 3rd. Mondays.of .the Month, at 8:00 P.M.
New Trustee
The oath of office was administered to new Freeport Village Trustee
Vincent DiCostanzo (right) by Family Court Judge Patricia Collins,
also a Freeport resident. DiCostanzo was appointed by Mayor Willlarn
White to the unexpired term of the late Trustee Timothy Peternana. A
resident of Archer Street and currently president of the Freeport Lit-le
League, DiCostanzo is a 13-year resident of the Village.
Mayor White (right) congratulates the new Trustee. The rest of the
DiCostanzo family are (from left) Christopher, 14, Matthew, 4, wife
Kathleen, and Jeffrey, 13.
Parade And Bad
For 90th Anniversary
The 90th anniversary of the
incorporation of the Village will
be celebrated with a parade and
birthday ball.
The parade will be held on
Saturday, October 23, beginning
at 10 am.. Formation will be at
Freeport High School, South
Brookside Avenue. The parade
will go south on Brookside, east
on Merrick Road, and disperse at
the parking field at Merrick Road
and Liberty Avenue. A reviewing
stand will be located at 17 West
Merrick Road near Church Street.
All Village organizations have
been invited to participate with
floats and marching contingents.
Bands from throughout the area
will be marching in competition
for prizes of $1,000, $500 and
$250.
December Ball
The Freeport Recreation
Center will be the locale of the
,90th Anniversary Ball on Sat-urday,
December 4. Residents are
encouraged to wear costumes of
the 1892 era which is fairly
simple for women due to current
fashion trend.
Tickets, at $17.50 per person,
cover a complete dinner, drinks
and live music for dancing.
Tickets, which must be purchased
in advance, are available through
the Freeport Chamber of Com-merce,
70 West Sunrise Highway,
FR 8-7402, or from committee
members.
The 90th Anniversary celebra-tion
is being spearheaded by
the Chamber and the Village
government.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlln, James Clark, Vincent DiCostanzo
. Village Clerk : Thomas DeVincenzo; Attorney: Harrison J. Edwards Jr.; Treasurer: Thomas M. Molloy
Funds For Property
The Freeport Community
Development Agency, beginning •
a new program year, is currently
inviting commercial arid resi-dential
property owners to apply
for two property improvement
programs. " • _ , ' '
The Facade Improvement
Program is-to assist in- the re-'
vitalization of the appearance of
commercial properties within the
Village. Itt provides a direct
. matching grant of up to $5,000 for
the .renovation, refurbishment
and 'improvement: of facades.
Such improvements might in-clude;
repainting, 'signs, -awnings,
windows, doors, exterior lighting,
landscaping, sidewalks and
parking areas. Repairs, such as
the replacement of a defective
roof or heating plant, are not
covered under the program.
Pending prior approval by the
Agency and the Village Board of
Trustees, a grant of up to $5,000
is given to the property owner or
tenant with at least two years
remaining on a lease, when con-struction
is completed. •
For the program year of
1981-82, ten such grants were
given. Two others are awaiting
the finish of construction and an
additional four are pending final
approval. The 16. projects will
exhaust the $90,000 in federal
funds allocated for the program
last year. An additional $90,000
has been allocated for 1982-83.
Low interest rehabilitation
loans are available to home-owners
to (1) correct code
violations, (2) for = preventative
maintenance, a:;d,' as a last
priority, to make general improve-ments.
The property owner
obtains a property improvement
loan from a lending institution,
up to $10,000 with a ten-year
payback, with federal funds used
to reduce the interest on that
loan. Certain homeowners, on a
• fixed or very limited income,
may qualify for an outright
grant of up to $3,500. Such
grants, which require no re-payment,
apply only for work
required to remove code viola-tions.
A total of $100,000 has
been allocated for ibis program
in the current year.
Applications are available
through the Freeport Community
Development' Agency, Village
(cont. next page, col. 1,
Vornado To Develop Business Center
Freeport's Sunrise Highway
will soon see a sign marking the
site' of a national company,
Bulova Systems and Instruments,
a subsidary of the Bulova Watch
Company. Following a Village
Hall 'meeting between the Free-port
Board of Trustees and
Steven Roth, Board Chairman ol
Vornado, Inc. (Garfield, N.J.),
verbal agreement was reached to
allow 62,000 square feet of the
former Two""'Guys " retail' store
in the Village to be leased to
the Bulova operation. Bulova
will be the first tenant in a 13-
acre Business Center to be
developed by Vornado.
The Board directed the Village
Attorney to draw up a stipula-tion
of agreement between the
Village and Vornado settling
several contractual disputes
arising from the original contract
signed between the two parties
when the former municipally-owned
site at Liberty Avenue
between Sunrise and Merrick
Road was sold for the construc-tion
of a 110,000 square foot Two
Guys Department Store.
The new agreement specifies
that plans for a new 30,000
square foot building to be con-structed
on the site must be filed
with the Village's Building De-partment
by February 1, 1983;
construction begun on or before
August 1; and construction com-pleted
on or before April 1, 1984.
Additional landscaping and
screening, to the Village's
specifications, must be provided
to beautify the existing building.
Vornado indicated that they hope
to build a third structure on the
property, up to 70,000 square
feet. Under the agreement, if
the third building is constructed
the Village would receive pay-ment
of S1.5CLper-square, foot in
addition to the taxes realised from
the property and structures.
Uses permitted on the site are
specified under the agreement
and are identical to those allowed
in the Village's Service Business
(SB) zoning with one exception.
SB zoning allows assembly/
manufacturing. The Vornado
agreement specifies assembly/
light manufacturing. In addition,
SB zoning allows for all uses
permitted in Business A and B
Districts, such.as offices, and
stores, shops and establish™ne!ros
for conducting retail or service
business; gasoline sales and
accessory automobile servicing
limited to the same premises as
the gasoline sales, car washes;
warehousing and distribution
facilities; printing plants; data
processing; nurseries and'garden
shops; freestanding restaurants;
and public and quasi-public
institutional uses.
Bulova will lease the 62,000
square feet in the existing
building under a five-year lease
with Vornado with an option to
renew. Located on .Sunrise
Highway'in -Valley Stream, the
expansion to an additional facility
in Freeport was necessitated by
the acceptance of a long-term
government defense contract.
Small precision parts manufac-tured
elsewhere will be assem-bled
at the Freeport location
by skilled and semi-skilled
workers. Management super-visors
and some personnel will
be transferred from Valley
Stream to Freeport. A total of
200 to 250 will be employed
at the Freeport plant and quali-fied
Village residents will be
given preference in filling avail-able
positions. Bulova's salary
scale is commensurate with
the skills necessary including
manual dexterity with small
instruments.
An auto muffler operation will
continue to remain in one portion
of the 110,000 square foot build-ing.
Vornado is currently seeking
tenants for the remainder of the
space as well as for the 30,000
square foot building to be con-structed.
Chairman Roth told the
Board of Trustees that they
are seeking to utilize the
-majority of the-.new Center for.,
offices and would particularly
try to interest firms in such fields
as engineering and data process-ing.
Freeport's Two Guy's Store
was opened in the spring of
1980. It was closed, along with
outlets in New Hyde Park, Coram
and elsewhere, early this year
when Vornado moved to divest
itself of its retail operations
and concentrate on its real estate
holdings.
Jce Skating Rink Open
The 1982-83 ice skating season
at the Freeport Recreation Cen-ter's
bubble-enclosed rink has
begun. The rink will remain open
until March 31, 1983.
Individual admissions are $1 -
i'or children and senior citizens
and $1.50 for adults. Discount
tickets for 15 sessions are $10 and
$15 respectively. Non-residents
pay. a higher fee. All must hold a
current Freeport Activity Card.
- Figure and hockey skates are
available for rental. The Skate
Lounge includes coin lockers and
a refreshment area.
Public skating sessions are
Tuesday, 3 to 5 pm; Thursday,
Important Notice:
LI RR Resident
Parking Stickers
In response to complaints
.from residents regarding misuse
of commuter parking stickers by
non-residents, the following pro-cedure
has been adopted.
The 1983 parking stickers,
necessary for use of commuters'
parking lots in the Village, will
go on sale on December 6 for
use beginning January 1, 1983.
In order to obtain a sticker, it
will be necessary for residents
to present their current auto
registration for the car they will
be using at the lots, AND THEIR
CURRENT ELECTRIC BILL. The
annual $10 fee per car will
remain the same.
3 to 5 pm and 7:30 to 9:30 pm;
Friday, 12:30 to 2:30 jm and
7:30 to 9:30 pm; Saturday, 12:30
to 2:30 pm, 3 to 5 pm and 7:30 to
9:30 pm; and Sunday, 1 to 3 pm
and 3:30 to 5:30 pm.
Puck..shooting is allowed on
Wednesday and Friday, 3 to
5 pm. A free Youth Hockey Clinic,
for Freeport residents, ages 10
to 17, is held on Monday, 3:30 to
5:30 pm.
Skating lessons are available
for all ages and at all skill levels.
Cost is $20 for Freeport residents
and does not include skate rental.
Lesson registration is held at the
Rink Manager's office during
public sessions on specified days.
Registration for Session II,
which runs from November 13 to
December 16, will be held
November 9-12. Registration for
Session III, January 11 to Febru-ary
6, will be held January 4-7.
Registration for Session IV,
February 22 to March 20, will be
held February 8-11.
Adults have four, one hour les-sons
per ..session and children
eight one half hour lessons.
Adult lessons are given on Thurs-day
evenings only. Children, age
four through 17, have a choice
between Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons or Saturday.and Sun-day
afternoons. . . -'
Illegal To Walk In Street
At the suggestion of the
Freeport Police Department,
students at Freeport High School
are learning an additional lesson
these days: It is dangerous, and
illegal, to walk in the middle
of the street. High School
Principal William McElroy has
arranged for periodic public
address system announcements
to get the message across.
Officers are stopping offending
youngsters to tell them they are
breaking a State law that carries
a maximum $50 fine for the first
conviction. .
The drive came about in re-sponse
to complaints from resi-dents
and motorists about
youngsters, sometimes three or
more abreast, walking in the
middle of the roadway. This
illegal practice not only impedes
traffic but poses a threat to the
safety of both the youngsters
and the motorists.
Scooper Pooper Law
Dog walkers are warned that
the special scooper pooper patrol
will issue a summons to Village
Court when the walker does not
clean up after his dog.
Warnings of being in violation
of the Village law will only be
issued in the case where a dog
walker is seen without the neces-sary
cleaning equipment.
Anti-Graffiti Program
Non-residents may not use the
commuters' parking lots. There is
a $50 fine for illegal use of a
commuter parking sticker for
each violation.
The,- stickers, may be obtained „
at the Registrar's window, Village'
Hall, 8:30 am to 4 pm, week days.
Funds For Property
(cont. from proceeding page)
Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue.
The phone number is 378-4000.
Under the guidelines of the
U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development, both
property improvement programs
are designed to assist low and
moderate income people.
As in past years, two seasonal
laborers were employed by the
Village during the summer
months to paint over graffiti on
privately-owned structures. Per-mission
for the work to be done
was received from the owners of
66 locations including the Long
Island Railroad. In five instances,
the owners did their painting to
remove the graffiti.
As this anti-graffiti program
.continues from year to year, it has
been noted that many structures
which are painted remain graf-
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