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VOL. 33 NO. 16 Wednesday, April 16,1986 30c PER COPY
Lynbrooli Organization Night
By Annette Ling
DO YOU REMEMBER? Shown in this undated photo is
the Lynbrool( Movie Theatre, featuring "The Nth Com-mandment"
starring John Gilbert and Truxton King. Did
any of our readers see this movie? What was the price of
admission? of popcorn? Please write to the 75th Anniversary
Publicity Committee at the Village Hall. And, by the way, is
the police officer in the photo by any chance Shorty the Cop?
(Photo courtesy of Lynbrook 75th Anniversary Publicity
Committee)
The East Rockaway
School District announced
today that its proposed
1986-87 Budget Insights
issue will be mailed to ail dis-trict
residents well in
advance of the April 21st
budget hearing.
The proposed budget,
based on the latest data
regarding school state aid
from Albany, will increase
total spending from $9.49
million to $10.63 million.
The average school tax
rate will increase from
$32.93 to $34.70, an increase
of $1.77 per hundred.
Major increased in spend-ing
are caused by a 103%
increase in our liability insu-rance
premiums, an addi-tional
$62,900 in rental fees
to Oceanside for temporary
quarters, $140,000 in added
transportation expenses
related to the Rhame
Avenue fire and the first
principal payment on the
1984 bond issue for
renovations.
The tax rate increase of
$1.77 (based on current
assessed district valuation
subject to change by August
1) has been limited by the
infusion of additional state
aid, by the transfer of pro-jected
fund balance monies
and by transferring a signifi-cant
portion of the interest
earned in the capital funds
account to offset the debt
service principal and interest
payments due in 86-87.
The proposed budget and
tax rate increase would
result in a school tax
increase of:
$88 per year for home
assessed at $5000
$124 per year for home
assessed at $7000
$159 per year for home
assessed at $9000
The proposed budget
does include a commitment
to district maintenance of
existing facilities. In addi-tion,
all current education
programs are continued and
improved supervision of
math, science and writing
programs is provided for.
Grants for gifted educa-tion,
computer education
and a drug and alcohol
social worker are continued
in the new budget.
The "budget in develop-ment"
has been reviewed
with the Citizens' Budget
Committee and PTA repre-sentatives.
Parts of the
"budget in development"
were reviewed with the
community at regular Board
of Education meetings in
February and March.
The formal district budget
hearing is scheduled for
April 21st at 8 PM in the
auditorium of the East
Rockaway High School.
The budget vote and elec-tion
of Board of Education
trustees will be held on
Tuesday, May 13th, from 6
AM to 9 PM in the Gym of
the East Rockaway High
School.
The meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the Village of
Lynbrook held at Village
Hall on April 7, 1986 at 8
p.fn. included the 1986
Organization Night for the
announcement of new vil-lage
appointments.
Trustee Norman Dreyer
was appointed as Board Lia-son
with the Recreation
Commission, Non-Contrac-tural
Employees, Drug
Abuse Council; Trustee
Stephen T. Grogan was
appointed Board Liason to
the Police, Building and
Assessing Departments;
Trustee Leo Lanning was
appointed Liason with both
t h e Library and the
D e p a r t m e n t of Public
Works; and Trustee Peter
Ledwith was appointed Lia-son
for Village Insurance
and Safety (OPSKA and
TVASNAC).
The East Rockaway/-
Lynbrook Observer and the
Local News were appointed
Official Village Newspapers
for the ensuing year.
It was resolved that the
Deputy Treasurer may
invest in the following
f i n a n c i a l i n s t i t u t i o n s:
N a t i o n a l Westminster
Bank, U.S.A. of Lynbrook,
Chemical Bank of Lyn-brook,
Bank of New York in
Valley Stream, Citibank in
Rockville Centre, European-
American Bank in Lyn-brook,
Manufacturers Bank
in Valley Stream and Chase
Manhattan Bank in Lyn-brook.
No more than
$5,000,000 shall be held in
any one bank at any time.
The following Village
Appointments were made:
Shirley Moskowitz, Village
Clerk and Tax Collector and
Chief Budget Officer (2 yrs);
Jay F. Korth, Village Attor-ney;
Robert Barra, Deputy
Village Clerk; Michael
Foley, Village Treasurer (2
yrs); Jack Libert, Deputy
Village Attorney; Mary Ann
Hughes, Secretary to. the
Mayor and Board; Michael
Your Suggestions Wanted
Each year, the Village of
Lynbrook recognizes two
outstanding residents as
"Man and Woman of the
Year." The individuals
selected for this distinction
exemplify Lynbrook's spirit
of community involvement.
This year, the Man &
Woman of the Year awards
will be presented as part of
the Village Hall ceremonies
on June 14th. The 75th
Anniversary Committee
needs your suggestions.
If you know of Lynbrook
residents who should be
considered for Man &
Woman of the Year Awards,
mail your suggestion to the
75th Anniversary Commit-tee,
Village Hall, One
Columbus Drive, Lyn-brook,
New York. Please
include a brief statement of
the reasons for your recom-mendation,
and your tele-phone
number.
Krawchuk, Consultant to
the Mayor and Board;
Marie Kehr, Court Clerk;
Philip Marino, Village
P r o s e c u t i n g Attorney;
Kevin Murphy, Deputy Vil-lage
Prosecuting Attorney;
Eugene Na^le, Acting Vil-lage
Justice; Bruno Arena,
Supt., Building Depart-ment;
Chuck Sabella, Dep-uty
Building Supt.; Mutliple
Dwelling Inspector, Larry
Ferraiolo and Mort Weit-man,
Inspector Building
Dept. and also Sign Inspec-tor;
Sam Miceli, Street and
Sidewalk Inspector; Jack
W o e s s n e r , Supt. of
D e p a r t m e n t of Public
Works; Tony t)'Andrea and
Sam Zaccoli, Deputy Supts.
of the Department of Public
Works; Stanley Kaplan and
Chuck Sabella, Plumbing
Inspector; John Calderone,
Animal Control Officer;
Michael Shindler, Commis-sioner
of Communications;
Main Hardman, Village
Auditors; Cameron Engi-neering,
Village Engineer;
Raymond Mathie, Assessor
and Village Auditor; Fire
Committee (1 yr.) the fol-lowing:
Pat Cestone, Robert
CitKovic, William Cosenza,
Dominick DeCarlo, WaUer
Brooks, Robert Forte, Don
Maffucci, William Quinn,
Thomas Ryan, Sandy
Shindler, Fine Arts Com-mittee
Chairman (1 yr.),
John Cribbin, Village Pho-tographer;
John Termini,
P a r k s C o m m i s s i o n e r;
Annette Ling, Press Liason
Coordinator; Dr. Robert
Abel, Police Surgeon; Wil-liam
Hahl, Director of Civil
Preparedness; John Jaye
Markos, Special Attorney
f o r Inter-Government
Affairs and Public Utilities;
John Connolly, Mary Col-way,
Leroy Fitzgerald,
Library Board of Trustees;
(5 yr. Ter); Peter Fitzpa-trick,
Thomas McGoldrick,
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Reminiscences of Lynbrook
This is the first of a two
part article about the Origi -
nal Henri Restaurant, and
its founder. Master-chef
Henri Charpentier. The res-taurant,
located in Lyn-brook
from 1906 into the
1930s, was world renowned
for its fine cuisine, which
attracted a most famous
clientele.
This article was compiled
and written by Dorothy Per-rich
of the Lynbrook 75th
A n n i v e r s a r y Historical
Committee as part of Lyn-b
r o o k ' s 75th Birthday
Celebration.
Compiled & written by
Dorothy Perrich
Lynbrook Historical
Committee
Do you know what J.P.
Morgan, Rudyard Kipling,
William K. Vanderbilt, Wil-l
i am Jennings Bryant,
T h e o d o r e R o o s e v e l t,
Woodrow Wilson, Florenz
Ziegfeld, Marshals Joffre
and Foch and New York
Citys Mayor " J i m m y"
Walker and Diamond Jim
Brady all had in common?
The association begins
with one Henri Charpentier,
born in 1880 in Nice, Fran-ce...
The same Henri who
would begin "his distin-guished
career as a ten-year-old
page boy on the Riviera,
and served his apprentice-ship
as a master-chef in the
major dining capitals of
Europe: Hotel de Paris
...Maxims...Tour d'Argent
...Cafe Royale...Savoy...
Metropole...He was a stu-dent
of Escoffier, Jean
Camous and Cesar Ritz, the
famous hotelier."
"Among his European
patrons and friends were
Queen Victoria who fed him
bon-bons, Sarah Bernhardt,
who offered her silk-edged
handkerchief soaked in oil
when he burned himself with
hot soup, and King Edward
VII, for whom he created
Crepes Suzette."
"Adventurous and ambi-tious,
Henri came to Amer-ica
in the early 1900's with
his new bride. He worked in
the dining rooms of New
York City's most distin-guished
hotels until 1906
vyhen he opened The Origi-nal
Henri Restaurant in his
home in the (then) rural vil-lage
of Lynbrook, Long
Island. The small dining
room had only two tables.
Felomena, his wife, was in
charge, while Henri con-tinued
to work in the city
during the day to finance the
new undertaking."
"During its first year. The
Original Henri's took in
only $500, but the Charpent-iers
were not discouraged.
They were certain their res-taurant
would ultimately be
successful."
"The turning point came
when J.P. Morgan, one of
the most notable financial
figures of the time, disco-vered
the delightful little
dining place in the country,
rumored to serve finer cui-sine
than in New York City.
Other equally distinguished
patrons soon followed."
Henri's grew and pros-pered
until it occupied a
rambling mansion on many
acres, with sunken gardens
and promenades. Over the
next twenty-five years it
attraqted the wealthiest and
most noted of the world's
celebrities."
Diamond Jim Brady was
to be seen almost every Sun-day
and several times during
the week at Henri's and
never without his enormous
appetite. The world famous
Dolly sisters often accom-panied
him; watching him
eat gigantic meals while
touching nothing themselves.
Theodore Roosevelt on
his way between New York
City and his home in Oyster
Bay would stop invariably
for his favorite, onion soup
and declare it better than
any he had eaten in France!
Alfred Gwynne Vander-bilt
came to Henri's one day
near the end of April in
1915, to say goodbye and
enjoy luncheon with some
friends. Mr. Vanderbilt was
leaving for Europe and
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