Board unable to make decision
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: Currently, some of the Trustees are refusing to approve distribution of the St. Paul’s survey because there are questions in the survey related to demolition. These trustees are taking the position that “demolition is off the table.” We feel that the non-binding poll October 21, 2023 was flawed and accordingly demolition is still on the table The […]
No Demo, Oh No!!
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: At the G.C. Board of Trustees meeting, June 20, 2024, Mayor Carter Flanagan made a surprising statement. The BOT is considering omitting the option for the demolition of St. Paul’s main building in future Trustee votes and upcoming resident votes in surveys conducted by BCI, Village consultants. The Mayor emphasized that no votes have yet been taken […]
St. Paul’s common sense
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: The Village has owned St Paul’s for ~30 years. Many administrations have tried to solve the St Paul’s conundrum, to no avail. While I respect anyone who gives their time and effort to better Garden City I think common sense should prevail and St Paul’s should be demolished. The latest opinion poll results were far from conclusive, […]
Senior citizen bait and switch
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: Senior Citizen Bob Wolff asked an insightful question at the July 20th, 2024 Board of Trustee Meeting. Mr. Wolff brought up the “Trustee Torino Tax Exemption” in light of Trustee Torino’s repeated presenting of this exemption at multiple meetings before the Opinion Poll and Election, and the support Trustee Torino received from Trustees Muldoon and Tai. Mr. […]
GC residents against casino
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: As a Garden City resident, I could not have been more proud of our Mayor, Mary Carter Flanagan, who spoke at the June 20 Nassau County Planning Commission open hearing about the Coliseum lease recommending a less controversial operator than Las Vegas Sands and her announcement that the village board unanimously passed a recent resolution opposing the […]
Where’s the Due Diligence?
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: If you were a corporate CEO who decided to partner with a company on a project on which the revenue split was $2 billion/year for them and $100/million a year for you, and you moved forward without first assessing the risks to your assets and major revenue streams, you’d be quickly dismissed. Yet that’s what our county […]
Choice for the residents
By Editorial Team | on June 27, 2024
To the Editor: Summer time but the livin ain’t easy in Garden City.The subject of whether demolition will remain on the survey as options questions 5, 6 was taken up at the last BoT meeting. The Board admitted to be divided. During the meeting the purported Senior tax exemption for any St. Paul’s project resulting from the current solve […]
Pineapples and hand grenades
By Editorial Team | on June 20, 2024
To the Editor: As an advocate of demolishing the St. Paul’s empty school building and adjacent cottages, replacing them with a park and a community / indoor activity center, I read last week’s letter by Donald MacLeod. with keen interest. (“We Need Facts, Not Spin” -GCN p.50). Some may dismiss his letters as somewhat strident, but his current letter […]
Give the gift of life
By Editorial Team | on June 20, 2024
To the Editor: I am writing to highlight the Blood Drive at the Garden City Libraryon June 24th. During the past year, I struggled with a blood disease during which I was transfusion-dependent.As part of my treatment, I had to have transfusions of red blood cells and platelets regularly,often two or three times a week. The nurses often said the […]
By Editorial Team | on June 20, 2024
To the Editor: The various advocates for demolition and facadism have sought to put their spin on various statistics related to St. Paul’s. First, they attacked the opinion poll where 4,339 residents took the time to vote. The vote was 61% in favor of preservation vs 39% in favor of demolition. The demolition advocates lament that this only represents […]
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