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AN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAGE OF FARMINGDALE
SERVING THE GREATER FARMINGDALE AREA, BETHPAGE AND MELVILLE
Trees Grow on Main Street
VOL. 10 N O . 6 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published by THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, S e p t . 2 8 , 1 9 7 2 » 1 5c
Civic Association Calls for
Session on Multiple Housing
The Dolphin Green Civic Association which lately has been in the forefront of
the battle to preserve what is left of rural tranquility in Farmingdale will hold a
public meeting this Friday, September 29 at 8: 30 p. m. at the South Farmingdale
Public Library. The topic of discussion will be the impact that the proposed
multiple dwellings would have on the community.
After some 30 or 40 years of the bare look, trees are being
planted by the village to replace those that were cut down for the
widening of Main Street before World War II. To make sure that
the pavement of the sidewalks is not affected, columnar maples
which have roots going straight down instead of spreading out
were selected. At present the tree planting is restricted to both
sides of Main Street between Conklin Street and the railroad
tracks. As soon as the village treasury can come up with some
more money, the rest of Main Street, between Conklin Street
and the post office, will get them. And instead of being an
unattractive main drag, Main Street will eventually be a shady
promenade.
Multiple dwellings are
proposed by the Town of Oyster
Bay Planning Commission in two
Farmingdale areas, one on
Hempstead Turnpike near the
Dolphin Green residential sec­tion,
the other on the corner of
Motor Avenue and Merritts
Road. Residents in both areas
have made it clear that they are
opposed to the proposal and that
they would prefer two- family
homes to go up on those sites.
" Our intentions are not to
create any panic in Far­mingdale,"
Dolphin Green
president Frank Ranieri told the
OBSERVER, " but we have to
consider the impact of multiple
dwellings on our area, if the town
board should decide to adopt this
particular proposal of the
planning commission."
If a multiple dwelling project is
funded either by the federal
government or by the State, a
number of problems could arise,
according to Ranieri.
First, there could be an in­crease
in school taxes, if these
multiple dwelling units were tax-exempt.
With additional children
moving into the area, the tab of
increased education costs would
have to be picked up by the
present taxpayers.
Farmingdale U. Graduates Are
Located Throughout the World
State University at Far­mingdale,
the oldest public in-situationof
higher education on
Long Island ( founded in 1912),
has alumni scattered throughout
the world, according to Dr.
Charles W. Laffin, Jr., President
of the college.
In referring to an in- depth
survey pepared by John T.
Coyne, Seaford, Director of the
college's Office of Institutional
Research, and David Lombardi,
Executive Secretary of the
Alumni Association, Centereach,
Dr. Laffin reports that out of
16,779 alumni and alumnae
reporting, Farmingdale
graduates are to be found today
in 47 states, the District of
Columbia in Washington, 37
countries and six Canadian
provinces. Missing from the
nationwide locales are only
Idaho, North Dakota and
Wyoming.
As expected, the most number
oi Aggie alumni are located in
New York State, with a figure of
13,936. New Jersey is next with
566, while following in order are
Florida, 366; California, 273;
Connecticut, 265, and Penn­sylvania,
252.
Nassau County boasts the
largest number of total graduates
in the State, 6,084. Suffolk is next
with 4,636, giving Long Island a
total of 10,720 alumni. This figure
gives Long Island a 77 percentage
of Farmingdale graduates in the
overall New York State picture.
New York City has 1,700 Aggies
living in the five boroughs, with
Queens County holding the
number one spot, with 985; Kings
County next with 341, and
following are Manhattan, 168;
Bronx, 156, and Richmond, 50.
Residing upstate are 1,516
Farmingdale alumni.
The survey breaks down
Farmingdale graduates in the
following order: 21 in the Near
and Middle East, 18 in Canada, 16
in Central America, 15 in Europe,
12 in South America, 7 in South
Asia, 6 in Africa, 5 in the Orient,
and the remainder includes 10 in
the West Indies, 4 in the Virgin
Islands, 3 each in the Philippines
and Mexico and one in Australia.
In analyzing the extensive
geographic location of Far­mingdale
University graduates,
Dr. Laffin said, " This dispostion
of our alumni reflects the world­wide
impact of the college's
diversified career program of
more than a half a century."
Old Hawk Photos, Anyone? A
The Farmingdale Hawks are in the process of gathering
material for the publication of their Tenth Anniversary Edition of
the Hawk Journal. If there is anyone who possesses pictures of
any phase oi Hawk History, be it game action, sideline shots, or
just plain human interest stuff, the Hawks are interested in
borrowing the pictures. This appeal is mainly directed at those
who were connected with the Hawks since they were hatched in
1952, but are no longer associated. Anyone who has something to
contribute, please contact Joe Moore at MY 4- 1892, or mail to
Farmingdale Hawks, P. O. Box 152, Farmingdale, attention
Journal Committee. The Hawks will set'to It that everything is
returned, if so desired.
The other anticipated
problems, all consequences of an
increase in population, could be
water shortages, lack of land fill
areas for garbage and increased
crime rate and an even greater
traffic congestion.
" We do have a lot of problems
already, " Ranieri concluded,"
let's solve them first, before we
start looking for new ones."
There are still grumblings
among residents of Farmingdale
about the way the planning
commission handled the recent
public hearings of their master
plari proposals. Those hearings
were held in Massapequa and -
Bethpage and did not focus in on -
Farmingdale as much as Far-mingdalers
would have liked.
The grumblings may very well
turn into a demand to have a pub­lic
hearing on the master plan
during Friday night's meeting, a
hearing strictly geared to the
interest of Farmingdale.
Tobay. councilman Lewis Ye-voli,
the lone Democrat on the
town board, has accepted an in­vitation
by the civic association
to attend the meeting. All
residents concerned about mul­tiple
housing in their community
are invited to attend, too.
School Tax Rate Is $ 14.29
97* Higher than Last Year
At a special meeting of the
Board of Education last Wed­nesday,
the Farmingdale School
District officially set its tax rate
for the 1972- 1973 school year. The
rate was exactly as estimated at
the time of the budget vote and
the rate for schools will be $ 14.29
up 97 cents from last year, in the
Oyster Bay section of the district
and $ 20.17 in the Babylon portion.
The district experienced a
slight increase in the assessment
rolls for the Town of Oyster Bay
and a major decrease in the Town
of Babylon. The latter decrease
was due to two major factors: the
Metropolitan Transit Authority
takeover of property at Republic,
and a reduction in the assessment
of the Fairchild- Hiller ( Republic)
Corporation.
The Oyster Bay increase
helped offset the decrease and
was combined with a reduction of
$ 140,000 in the school tax levy to
keep the rate as anticipated. A
favorable end- of- year balance as
of June 30,1972 was applied to the
current year.
The Fairchild reduction in
assessment adds onto the burden
of the MTA takeover of certain
Republic properties. These
properties became tax exempt
when absorbed by the state
agency. The Fairchild settlement
reduces the assessed value of the
firm's Conklin Street property by
$ 750,000.
GOP FUND- RAISER: Guests at recent fund- raising cocktail party
for 10th Assembly District Republican Candidate Stuart Levine
included, 1 tor., Oyster Bay Town Councilman Gregory W. Carman
of Farmingdale; Judge Martin Ginsberg, Family Court; and State
Senator Ralph Marino, 5th Senatorial District. Affair was held
recently at the Beau Sejour Restaurant in Bethpage.