Mayor William White has an-nounced
that, after six' years of
work by the Village government,
the former W.T. Grant's property
at the. head of the Freeport
Mall, has been sold.) South
Nassau Communities Hospital,
Oceanside, the original owner,
went to closing with the 280 West
Sunrise Corporation on Monday,
April 4, in Freeport Village Hall.
The corporation is headed by
Gerard; Binder,^President of
Jatir Kahn Music Company which
is headquartered in Freeport with
other retail outlets.in Manhattan,
Huntington, Centereach and
White Plains. , • - - . , .
- The site was vacated in 1975
in the nationwide bankruptcy
of W.T. Grant which had leased
the property from the hospital
for many years. ;
Binder first expressed interest
in purchasing • the property-" in
1979; According to Mayor White,
the Freeport Board of Trustees
and the, Village's Business De- >
velopment Office became active
participants in the years -of
negotiations since. because of
the complexities involving several
governmental levels. :
Binder plans on some $300,000
in renovations for the one-acre
site which will.be subdivided for
eight retail users. With the
The Arts Council at Freeport
and the Freeport Recreation De-partment
will- present their an-nual
Spring Festival, indoors
and -outdoors,"at "the • Freeport
Recreation Center on Sunday,
June 12, 11am to 5pm. ' - •
The Festival will include the
exhibition and sale of crafts,
fine art and photography.
•Included in the.free admission'
will be • performances, "paint
"happening," strolling musicians,
balloons, body painting, children
games, jazz exercise, old time
photos, •••the 'Make Your Own
Button machine (bring photo to
mount) and. a cake' sale. The
Council's "Affiliate Artist in
Residence,' actor Peter Phillips,
will perform. ' .
Special workshops will be
offered for children at $1.50 each.
At ll:30am a dance class for
preschoolers will be conducted
by Motion Potion, and again
at 12:30pm for grades 1 to 3.
closing now completed, the next
step will be final discussions on
the granting of a $87,000 federal
rehabilitation loan through the
Freeport Community Develop-ment
Agency. The payback
period will be 10 years at 6%
interest. This step is scheduled
to be completed this month.
The new .retail complex will
create 30 to ,40 jobs when com-pleted
in the spring of 1984.
. At the closing Binder, said,.
"As.' a" business ""organization
which has been part of Freeport
since 1930, we were especially
proud to finalize the purchase.of
the former. W.T. Grant property
on the Freeport Mall. I share
Mayor White's hope that this re-development
' effort, as modest
•as it is, will signal the overdue
start of. new beginnings for the
downtown area-." He .pointed
out that the complex real estate
transaction would not have been
consummated without the sup-port
and enthusiastic participa-tion
on the part of Village officials
and the Board, .of Trustees of
South Nassau Communities Hos-pital.
Binder said he will be
meeting with architects and en-gineers
in the coming weeks to
come up with plans for what he
termed "a complete facelift"
of the property which is bounded
Participants .should . dress . in
comfortable clothes and sneakers.
At l:30pm, art teacher John Holly
will conduct a Mask Making
workshop for grades 1 to. 4.
Pre-registration is. required,
through 223-2522, or at the Fest-ival
as space permits.
A Magic Show, for children
and adults, will be held at 3:30pm
at the cost of $1.50. . . .
by Sunrise Highway, the Mall,!
Newton Boulevard and Henry
Street.
"We are looking for pres-tigious
tenants," the new owner
stated, "who want to grow with
the new Freeport. I see the entire
area as a potential business and
commercial hub of the South
Shore. Binder pointed to the
site's easy access to the Meadow-brook
and Southern State Park-
. ways with Sunrise. Highway
serving as the" main belt which, •
he said, "should easily enable
Freeport to recapture the com-mercial
standing it enjoyed only
a generation ago."
Mayor White expressed his
gratitude to . Nassau County
Executive Franics Purcell and
various state and. New York
City officials who had cleared
the way for the closing. He
explained that through the efforts
of the County. Executive's office,
certain tax problems involving the
property were expedited in accord
with existing statutes which 're-quired
action by several county
departments. State Senator Nor-man
Levy as well as other state;
and city officials were involved
in the lifting of surface easements
necessary for the completion of
the property purchase.
involving structural safety, over-occupancies,
adherence to sani-tation
regulations, compliance to
zoning ordinances, etc. . .
A total of 412 summonses were
issued in 1981. The total for
1982 was 661. There was an
increase of 23% in the first
quarter of 1982 over the year
earlier; 10% in the second
quarter; 47% in the third; and
256% in the fourth.
In the first quarter of. 1983,
January 1 to March 31, the in-crease
was 212% over the same
"period in"19827"A-'t6tal of'284"
summonses were issued during
that period this year; 91 had been
issued in that quarter in 1982; and
74 in 1981. . .
Superintendent of Buildings
Godofredo Ruiz de Zarate has
"reported to,Mayor William White
and the Board of Trustees that
the number of summonses issued
by his department has increased-dramatically.
The Department
has the power to summon into
Village Court violators of the
Freeport code of ordinances
ONLY
MAY 1983
A Public Information Bulletin
of. The Village Of Freeport
- . , - , . 46 North Ocean Avenue
Telephone FRee'p'ort 8-4000
William H. White, Mayor
"PurJIic'Meetirigs on" the 1st. arid 3rd ."Mondays of-the Month, at 8:00-P~M~.
Trustees C. James ,Clark and
Vincent DiCostanzo took the-oath
of office for Jour yearjterms on the
Freeport Board of Trustees
at , the Annual Organization
Night meeting held on Monday,
April 4. Mayor William White .
appointed Trustee Dorothy Storm ;
as Deputy Mayor to act in his
absence at the same meeting.
- Department, heads reappointed-for
one year terms were Budget
Director and Deputy > Assessor •
Thomas Molloy, Deputy. Village
Clerk Henry Gramlich, Deputy ,
Assessor Barry Dunn, Village
Counsel Harrison J. Edwards,
Acting Village Justice. Michael
Solomon, Superintendent of Pub-lic'Works
David Lovejoy,-Super-intendent
of Buildings Godofredo
Ruiz de Zarate and Superin-tendent,
-of Electric Utilities
Ludovic Long. Newly • appointed
were Deputy Village. Counsel?
William Glacken Jr. and Special
Counsel to Zoning Board of
Appeals Steven Malone.
.Oh the * Village's Boards? --.'
Commissions .-and Committees,
Rabbi Reuben Katz was.newly '.
appointed Chairman of the Com- -
mission on Human Relations and
Edward Voelker as Chairman of
the Water and Light Commission.
Chairpersons reappointed were
Robert Burger, Sewer and Sani-tation
Commission; Arigie Culliri,
Park Commission; Steward Yan-over,
• .Highway Commission;
Marilyn Roller," Commission for
the Conservation of the Environ-ment;
Milton Sanders, ' Zoning
Board of Appeals; John DiGrazia,
Planning Board; Frank McKenna,
Electrical Board; John. Marshall,
Plumbing Board; William Jaku-bowski,
Architectural Review
Board; and Robert Raynor,
Historic, Landmarks. Committee.
Michael Kirwan was reappointed
Stabilization Task Force Coord-inator
and Liaison Officer of the
Nassau County Rent Guidelines
Board'.
New members appointed were
Vito Tarulli, Sewer and Sani-tation
Commission; Ed Monroe,
Water and Light Commission;
Rev. Luis Lovelace,- Commission
on Human Relations; Mortimer
Albin, Commission- for the Con-servation
of the- Environment;
Bradley Midgette,. '- Planning
Board; and Anna 'Marie Hurt-aldo
and Ralph Smith, Stabiliza-tion
Task Force.
Reappointed members were
Hale Smith, Board of Ethics;
Emilio DeFilippo, . Sewer and
Sanitation Commission;1 Thomas
White, Park Commission; Olga
Dunning, Charles Friedman and
J. Lawrence Gumbs, Commission
on Human Relations; .• Peter
Reinke?-~"Commission -for. the
Conservation of the Environment;
John Travers, Jr., Zoning Board
of Appeals; Richard Dina, Plan-ning
Board; William Cominos,
William Hill, Ludovic Long,
Godofredo Ruiz de Zarate and
Bruce -Willets, Electrical Board;-
William Bateman and'Gil Kfog,
Plumbing. Board; Vincent Gam-bino
and Marion ' Gottschalk,
Architectural Review ' Board;
Clinton Metz and Wilfred Morin,
Historic Landmarks Committee;
and Rosemary Allwood, Thomas
DeVincenzo, Ruth Haack, Marion
Harvie, Velma Johnson, Godo-fredo
Ruiz de Zarate, Michael
Kirwan and Joanne Paradine,
Stabilization Task Force. : .
Appointed as Police • Surgeons
for the year were Bernard; Boss,
M.D., Benedetto Caruso, M.D.
and Howard Grill/ M.D. Jos-ephine
. Donnelly, Sharon Levy
and Mary Volpe were appointed.
Police Matrons. Canate and
Gerardi were selected as' Public
Auditors and the National Bank
of North America, Chase Man-hattan
Bank, Citibank, Long
. Island Trust and the Chemical
Bank as depositors of the Village
funds. The Leader was; desig-nated
as the official newspaper. .
The 9th Annual Great .Canoe
. Races sponsored by the Freeport •'
'Chamber of Commerce 'in co-'
: operation with the Village of
Freeport, have been scheduled
for Sunday, July 17.
Further information will appear
in .the June "Village News,"
the local media and may be ob-tained
by calling the Chamber
at FR 8-7402.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, Vincent DiCostanzo
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo; Attorney: Harrison J. Edwards, Jr.; Treasurer: Thomas M. Molloy
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Dlegal "landlords" are travel-ing
' to Village" Court in heavy
numbers and leaving poorer after
being fined by Judge Ralph
Franco, In most cases, the'guilty
party is told the original fine
could be reduced if the violation
.is corrected within the time
period specified.
.For instance, Elliott. Howard,
owner of the one-family house at
21 Lee Place, was fined the max-imum
of $250 on each of the 10
summonses issued to him by
the Village's Building Depart-ment.
It was found that 15 jper^
sons were living in the
house, including in the attic,
and that^ the house has structural
defects.Vroden't^infestation, faulty
electrical..and .ventilation equip-ment
and rubbish strewn around.
Hilda Fawls, a resident of 1402
Forest Avenue*; Baldwin, and .the
owner of the one-family house
located at 154 Church Street in
the'Village, was fined $1,000..
This was the second time she had:
been in Court, and fined, "for
running a lodging house in the
one;family- .house. Other sum-monses
were issued for the con-struction
and maintenance;'of
four kitchens in the house, rodent
infestation and .the occupancy
of a bedroom. by three people
without sufficient air.
Charles Tobin of 74 Hudson
Avenue, Roosevelt, the owner of
40 Stevens Street, was fined
$400. He was found guilty of
renting ;the boarded up premises
without sufficient heat, ventila-tion
and light. Also the owner of
245 Commercial. Street, he /was;,
fined an' additional $250 for the
furniture, clothing, paper, card-board
and garbage strewn about
the premises and' leaves piled on
the curb, sidewalk and road.
William Valencia of 211 Smith
Street was.-fined $.250 for renting
the one-family house he occupies
with his family,to three other
men. Joseph Robinson, owner of
60 Steven .Street, was fined the
maximum of $250 for renting the
house without first obtaining the
mandatory rental permit from the
Building Department. -
Arnulfo Tejada, owner of
L.456 Atlantic Avenue, was fined
. $3,500. Tejada received 13 sum-monses
from the Building -De-partment
when it was uncovered
by an inspector that he had con-verted
the one-family house into
'a dwelling for three families. "
The specific' summonses were
for allowing two rooms in the
basement to 'be occupied by four
persons ' without sufficient' ceil-ing
height and air; .for installing
'a bathroom and kitchen in the
basement and a kitchen on the
second floor without obtaining the
necessary permit; for creating a
separate heating zone in the
basement without a permit; fail-ure
to have a rental .permit;
'having an electrical box in the oil
burner - room without a cover
. plate and with exposed wires;
and having a front porch with
rotted wood and holes.
The one-family house at 39
Wilson Place was also found by
the Building Department to have
been occupied by two families.
Its owner, and occupant, Mustafa
Turhan, was fined the maximum
of $250. .
Waterfront businesses also had
their day in Court. Jerry Bracco,
.owner of Captain Ben's Fish
Dock, 319 Woodcleft',Avenue,
had his second round'in Village.
Court. This time he pleaded
guilty and was fined a total of
$400 for the construction of a
wood and fiberglass structure on
the ' firm's -dock without the
permission of the Building De-partment,
and to amended
charges, having to do with junk
and "debris "on ": the property.
Bracco also pleaded guilty to
electrical defects at the site and
received a conditional fine of an
additional $250. Other matters
concerning structures at Captain
Ben's are currently pending in
a higher court. . . .
Cardinal Fisheries Corp"., -217
Woodcleft: 'Avenue, was fined
$500 for installing. refrigeration
equipment without the necessary
permit' and for allowing' fish
juices to'flow from a trailer on the
property which collected on the
ground producing an odor.
The Village .has been notified
by the Department of State's
licensing services division that
the real estate licenses of Eugene
Ferrerp and Natalie Nash will be
suspended from May 1 until June
30 unless they ichose to pay a fine
of $500. • Ferrero and Nash are
brokers associated with Century
21 Brass Ring Corp:, 20 West
Merrick-Road, Freeport, as well
as:Century 21 offices located in
Merrick (Carousel" of -Homes of
Long Island)" and Hicksville
(Lou-Town House Sales). The
suspensions were ordered by the
Secretary of State on March 24
following a hearing held before a_
Department hearing • officer on
'January 20.'The brokers had had.
their licenses .suspended -for 30
days beginning September 30,
1982 following another State De- •:
partment hearing held in July last
.-year. • ' ' . • - " : • • ' •••'...
'- In both cases the hearing of-ficer
found Ferrero and Nash to
have "demonstrated' untrust-worthiness
and incompetency."
The Village of Freeport was the,
complainant in both instances.
The charges were that. . the
brokers had solicited Freeport
homeowners although they had
knowledge that the property ownT:
. ers had filed a "cease and desist"
order with the Secretary of State..
' Such orders are meant to protect
homeowners from 'being solicited
by real estate brokers. -
Last year's hearing involved
the brokers' contract with Valr' '•
Pak Direct Marketing Systems,
•Inc. to distribute 10,000 adver-tisements
by direct mail ad-dressed
to residents, including
those .in the Freeport area.
Four Village residents, testified
at the hearing that they had re-ceived
the mailing despite the
fact that., their names appeared -
on the "cease,and desist" list
which had been provided to the.
brokers prior to the mailing.'
The recent hearing, was on-.
charges that Ferrero and Nash
again allowed a mailing by Val-
Pak, in April,, which, was again
received by Freeporters whose
names appear on the "cease
and desist" list. ;
Freeporters -testifying at the
hearings were Anita Landau,.
Michael Kirwan, William Crook
and Janet Gabler. ,
