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THE L.I. PIERRPONT & CL BBOOBfcYW % t u. y. €8 A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920 Afff\ An Official Newspaper far the Village of Farmingdale Vol. 58 No. 41 Second Class Postage Paid in Farminodale, N.Y. 11735 Thursday, August 4, 1977 Copyright 1977 by The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $5 per year WHAT'S THE PITCH? Trying her luck at the recent penny carnival at the Florgate Park Recreation Center is Allison Passible. The penny carnival was one of (he events scheduled this past week by the Far- mingdale Youth Council. [Photo by Robert Bisberg] Seek Tri-State Labeling it the \planned destruction of the suburbs and the annexation of Nassau County to New York City,\ Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Colby in consultation with Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor Francis T. Purcell has called for a meeting of Nassau's Super- visors to form a battle plan aimed at stopping the Tri-State Regional Plan from obtaining official recognition. \The proposal which Tri-State is intent on turning oyer to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is nothing more than a plan to force this County and probably every other suburban county in the tri- state region into becoming a continuation of the center cities,\ Colby charged. According to Colby, the housing element of the planning proposal of Tri-State contains \the exact form of blackmail currently being practiced by HUD and even goes further in that it suggests that ultimately the over-riding of local zoning powers must be considered a viable alternative if we refuse to cave in to the black- mail by following the guidelines for housing being established by this appointed body.\ Both Purcell and Colby pointed out that the Tri-State plan, which is expected to be submitted to HUD by August 22, sets low- income family housing requirements that are not only unrealistic for Nassau County's needs but seek to force true high rise development in every area of the County. \The plan calls for the required construction in Nassau of low- income housing projects totaling almost 1,900 units per year for the next 25 years or the cutting off of federal grants in other programs to all municipalities not showing evidence that this goal is actively being achieved,\ Colby said. [Continued on page 8] Main St. Fire Guts Deli, Damages Capt. Andy's Fire of undetermined origin gutted Jo Jo's Italian Delicatessen and partially damaged Captain Andy's Restaurant on Main Street, Farmingdale, early last Thursday morning. The blaze, first reported at 3:02 a.m., burned out of control for over an hour as the efforts of the Farmingdale volunteer firemen were hampered by burning gas from the ruptured gas meters in the building. Ken Martin, a village fire commissioner, told the Post that firemen had to delay extinguishing the fire burning from the gas meters until the Long Island Lighting Company turned oft the gas at the street. Otherwise, he said, the escaping gas would build up and be touched off again and we could lose the whole block. The gas was allowed to burn off as it escaped from the meters until LILCO was able to turn it off. LIL£0 crews were hampered, on the other hand, because the gas valves were paved over during a street widening project. The crew had to search for the gas valves, digging up the sidewalk with a jackhammer, while firemen fought the blaze around them. The volunteer firemen from the Village of Farmingdale, South Far- mingdale and East Farmingdale fought the fire, while Bethpage was on stan<J*by call at the Main Street Firehouse. The firemen were commended for their fine work in containing the blaze and saving the main dining area of Captain Andy's Restaurant and the Sch- midt Hardware Store, which is adjacent to Jo Jo's Deli on the other side. Charles Schmidt, proprietor of the hardware store, wrote a special letter of com- mendation thanking all involved for their efforts. Schmidt said he expects to find a loss of about $10,000 to $15,000 in smoke and water damaged mer- chandise. Fire Marshal James Holmes of South Farmingdale told the Post that they have not yet been able to determine the cause of the fire because it is too dangerous to work inside the damaged building. The burned and weakened floor of the deli is sagging and there is a danger that it could collapse, even though attempts were made to brace it. We'll have to wait until we can bring in a crane to remove some of the debris, he said. Holmes said the fire apparently started in the basement, shared in common by the deli and Capt. Andy's. He told the Post that it seems to have started in the area under Capt. Andy's party room that was used mostly for storage. Although we don't know yet what did start the fire, we have all but completely ruled out the possibility that it was electrical. The main restaurant area of Capt. Andy's suffered only smoke damage and was reopened yesterday after a clean-up to eliminate the odor. Town Seeks New Funding ForSr. Citizen Housing Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Colby announced that he has assigned his executive assistant, Patricia McGuire, to work with the Oyster Bay Town Housing Authority to develop alternative means of financing and constructing senior citizen housing without federal aid. \Although we have in effect been cut off from any financial assistance from the federal government because we refused to abdicate our zoning authority to HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development),\ Colby said, \we must still find a way to provide the much needed housing for our seniors. \I have asked Miss McGuire, who has considerable planning experience, to develop with the Housing Authority a feasibility plan whereby the Town and the Housing Authority can undertake the construction of senior housing complexes as soon as possible.\ Such housing is one of the Town's most pressing needs, Colby noted, as evidenced by the Housing Authority's current waiting list of over 1,200 names of seniors needing apartments. The Supervisor also cited the recently released \Population Sup- plement\ prepared by the Nassau County Planning Com- mission. \The report projects a sub- stantial increase in the Town of Oyster Bay's elderly population,\ Colby said. \Ac- cording to this study, in 1070 there were 20,846 persons aged 65 and over in the Town, representing 5.81 percent of the total population. By 1985, this age group is predicted to increase by 18,354 or 88 percenUo 39,200. We must be prepared to meet this challenge.\ The Town has been forced to seek other means of financing senior citizen housing because of a change in HUD's housing policy that would have required the t Continued on page 8]
