FREEPORT IS GROWING
Continued Expansion of Water Department Facilities
Colonial Avenue - 12" water main, 3100 ft. continuing the line on Bab-ylon
Turnpike from the Northeast Elevated storage tank direct to N.
Main Street. Installed this past month and ready for service soon.
Will add greatly to the water supply in the northerly section.
Roosevelt Avenue - replaced old 2" water main with new 6" main, 1
block of 400 feet. Installed and in service this past month. A local
improvement.
E. Bedell Street - replaced old 4" water m^in with new 6" main, 800
feet. Installed and in service this past month. Old line worn out.
South Brookside Avenue - installed new 8" water mainfromW. Merrick
Road to Southside Avenue giving continuous 8" line from West tank.
Also connecting 5 dead end lines on Juanita, Frankel, Morton, Archer
and Southside Avenues. Should greatly improve water service in south-west
area. Will be in service this month.
Willowbrook section - Developer has installed 6" mains in Willowbrook
Lane extension, also in Moore Circle and Delaware Circle to serve 32
new homes. Placed in Service last month.
East First Street - Bay Estates. Developer has installed 1100 feet. -
8" and 6" mains on East First Street to serve 47 homes. In service
and many of the homes already occupied.
East Second Street - Bay Estates -.A duplicate of East First, now un-der
way, water main installed and homes now being built.
Wiltshire - Developer'has installed 6" main. 27 homes completed and
inhabited. An empty field a year ago.
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SEASONS. GREETINGS
To the residents of Freeport: On behalf
of the Village Board and all officials, we
wish to extend our best wishes for a happy,
healthy and prosperous holiday season.
William F. Glacken
Mayor
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FREEPORT
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Home Town
The
Friendly Village
Published monthly by the Village of Freeport
Vol. 5-12 December, 1956
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CHURCH STREET PARKING FIELD
This is one section of the New Metered Parking FieldSouth of
Woolworths on the East. Side of Church Street. This field is
most convenient to the shopping center.
The field is for parking from 8A.M. to Mid-Night. The
meters are for ten hours at 5 cents per hour.
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RECREATION DEPARTMENT NEWS
Membership in the Recreation Department's Teen-age Social Pro-gram
is available to all teen-agers of Freeport who are 14 years of age
or older. All you have to do is to attend any one of the Friday night ac-tivities
at the Bayview Avenue school and fill out an application blank.
As a member you will be given a membership card which will entitle
you to take part in many various types of activities for teen-agers which
are sponsored by the Village Recreation Department.
Some of the activities that have already been announced are the
informal activities at Bayview Avenue school each Friday night witha
dance complete with band once a month. Two ice skating parties have
been planned, one for December 14th and the other for February 22nd
at the artificial ice skating rink.
A group of 40 Freeport teen-agers and a band have been contact-ed
'and will appear on the "Ted Steele Bandstand" TV show Channel 9
December 4th from 5 to 6 p.m. On December 8th a group of 20 teen-ager
members will be invited to attend a double header basketball game
at Madison Square Garden at ho cost to them.
Other activities that are still on the drafting board are a mid-win-ter
swimming party and the production of an old-fashion melodrama.
Members of the teen-age Junior Council are: Joan Henningsen,
President; Marianne Nigro, Vice President; Susan Everett, Treasurer;
Betty Jane Bianco, Secretary; Elaine Zipper, Larry Murray, Roger
Ciotti, John Seeley, Lynn Murray and Mark Shefferman. Kent Thom-son,
Recreation Supervisor, is Council Advisor.
A Recreation Social Program is being added to the Schedule to
accommodate the 7th and 8th grade boys and girls on Friday even-ings
7 through 10 p. m. at the Atkinson Cafeteria and Gymnasium. The
activities .will include volleyball, basketball, tumbling, quiet games,
social dancing and square dancing.
The Women's Recreation Basketball League is being formed and
will meet each Monday night from 7 to 10 p.m. at Columbus Avenue
gym. Any Freeporters 16 and over are welcome to participate.
Square dance instructions for 5th and 6th graders have been chang-ed
to Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Atkinson Cafeteria and Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
at Bayview Cafeteria. A class has been inaugurated at the Holy Re-deemer
Auditorium Tuesdays at 3 p.m. for boys and girls in the 6th,
7th and 8th grades.
The annual children's Christmas party will again be co-sponsored
by the Chamber of Commerce and the Recreation Department.
The FreeportRecreationDepartment has been requested to assist
with the Village Bicycle Safety Program and will distribute materialand
administer the required test to all youngsters residing in Freeport who
attend Baldwin and Roosevelt Schools. All other youngsters will be ac-commodated
through Freeport Schools.
"As Mayor of the Village of Freeport I call upon all members of
this community to give their wholehearted support to the Bicycle Safety
Program which starts inFreeport under the joint direction of our Board
of Education and Our Police Department in cooperation with the Bicycle
Safety Committee P. T. A. "s and Recreation Department.
The purpose of the program is to reduce the hazards of bicycle
riding for both young riders and others, by training our boys and girls
in riding skills, and in the observance of safety rules.
Increasing congestion of our streets and highways daily increases
the hazards for the careless or unskilled. Hundreds of death and thou-sands
of non-fatal injuries each year, due to collision between bicycles
and motor vehicles, alone, warn .of the need of such a program.
In particular, I call for the support of parents and their children
who ride bicycles. I urge that parents encourage their children to par-ticipate
in the program and I urge that children obey the rules of safety
on the road.
WILLIAM F. GLACKEN
Mayor
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ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
November 21st meeting
1. Appeal and application field by Jacob Waldorf, 17 Dodford Road,
Russell Gardens, N. Y. , and Petra Thorsen, 5213 - 19thAvenue, Brook-lyn,
N. Y. (Wm. S. Cohn, Attorney, 37 Broadway, Lynbrook, N.Y.) for-variance
from Ordinance 10. 1, Sec. 12 (b), to permit erection of one-family
dwelling on plot 40 x 80 feet, situated on west side of Stirling Ave-enue,
219. 15 feet south of Meister Blvd. , Freeport, without required
plot area. DENIED
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BUILDING REPORT
The following is the Building Re port for the month of October,1956.
38 Permits issued for New Construction Cost $285, 675. 00
17 Permits issued for Additions & Alterations. . . ." 23, 222. 00
TOTAL 308,897.00
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