1965-07-29

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Vol. 2 No. 37 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, July 29, 1965
DALER STREETS
GET MORE LIGHTS Long Island Lighting Company crews are at work on a
complete overhaul of the Farmingdale street lighting system
to bring Farmingdale streets up to modern illumination standards.
Scheduled to complete the initial phase by mid August
of what will be a three year project the lighting company is
now installing the new lights in the area east of Main Street,
between Conklin Street and Route 109. A total of 482 new
mercury fixtures will be set up in the entire program, in­creasing
by 79 the number of lights in the Farmingdale system
and replacing 403 old units with modern lamps.
Inception of the lighting modernization plan for Farmingdale
occurred last December when the Village Board began consulta­tions
with the Lighting- Company's Street Lighting Division.
The Board became convinced that good street lighting pays
lasting dividends by combating crime and juvenile delinquency,
reducing traffic accidents and encouraging community pride.
District 22 Gets GM Rather Than Bethpage
The Farmingdale school dis­trict
has a windfall of tax relief
for its property owners with the
erection of a one million and a
half dollar new General Motors
plant off the Wantagh- Oyster Bay
Expressway on the east and by
Bethpage Parkway on the South
and bordered on the south by the
Long Island Railroad. Up until
last week, many people thought
that the new building fell within
the confines of die Bethpage
School district, but through in­vestigation
the Town of Oyster
Bay Building Department pin­pointed
the location more pre­cisely
and found that it was
District # 22; rather than 21 who
had the gain.
According to a spokesman
from the Department of As­sessment
of the County of Nas­sau,
the property will only have
a partial assessment on the tax
rolls this year since the building
has not been completed.
It was learned, however, from
an official source that approxi­mately
150 employees would
work in this new Parts Distri­bution
Center of General Motors.
The plot area is 513,976.16
feet and the building area has
been designed for 135,272 feet.
Although there is no access road
at the present time from Cen­tral
Avenue, Bethpage, there will
be such a road built.
Any increase in assessed val­uation
will also be a tax boon to
the Farmingdale Library District
and the Farmingdale Youth Coun­cil
as well as the school district.
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After extensive study, including inspection of test instal­lations,
the Board authorized the company to start the project
this summer by relighting the residential streets east of
Main Street. Next year work will begin in the residential area
west of Main Street, and the following year main thorughfares
and parking fields will be relighted. When the program is
completed, ' Farmingdale will join a group of 20 municipalities
in the country whose streets are lighted to American Standards
specifications,' according to a Lighting Company spokesman.
The new mercury lamps being installed in the residential
sections each provide 7,600 lumens of light while those to be
set up on the main thorough fares and in the business area
are rated at 20,500 lumens. These replace old fixtures pro­viding
1,000 to 4,000 lumens of light. The new units are also
equipped with improved refractors, directing their light on the
roadway with a greater efficiency than the old lamps.
The new General Motors parts di­vision
now being erected which falls
within geograpip limits of Union Free
School District # 22 and which is ex­pected
to be an assessed valuation
aid to the school, library and youth
council tax picture in Farmingdale.
Award Contract
To Farmingdale Firm
Hydrosystems Inc. of Farmingdale was a-warded
a $ 29,423 contract by the u. s. Army Farmingdale Trustee Norman Krasnow ( left), Chairman of
Material Comman's Engineer Research and De- ^ e village Lighting Committee, examines a new mercury
velopement laboratories in Fort Belvoir, Vlr- , , , , , , , , i „ , , T T i J T * u*.*
ginia. The official announcement stated that street light about to be installed by a Long Island Lighting
the contract was for the modification of the Company crew on Clinton Street. Construction Supervisor Alfred
U?£ to tnfKydraft b° a t ' Pre" teSt Md * de" Brosky ( right) explains the features of the modern type fixture,
482 of which will be set up in the Village's relighting program.