CAPSULE CAPTIONS
Village Board'orders engineers to prepare comprehensive study
and to submit recommendations for improvements needed to correct
drainage, road and, tidal conditions from Westside Avenue to South
Bayview Avenue-in that area south of Casino Street. . .One tide gate
has already been installed onS. Bayview ;Sputh of Bryant Street and Bry-ant
Street has been paved.. .Village Counsel ordered to prepare ordi-nance
for adoption requiring property owners of low lots to bring same
up to established minimum grade with clean fill... Colonial Avenue
paving from Main Street to Babylon Turnpike completed.. .Prince Ave -
nue from Main Street to West Village Line underway and should be
completed before December 15th.. . Xmas Toyland Parade a gala event .
witnessed by thousands. . .Show merchants your appreciation by shop-ping
locally;.. Paving of Hud son A venue underway together with eleven
other streets running from S.Grove Street to Hudson in Harbor Civic
Area nearing completion. ..Mercury lighting program resumes in
Northeast area starting with Holloway Street and proceeding southerly
...New substation.:to serve Northeast and Northwest areas nearing
completion and will be energized before peak load season at Xmas
time. ..Raising of South Long Beach Avenue iiow under consideration
and property owner s being requested to sign waivers relieving the Vil-lage
of any possible consequential damages.. .Bryan Whitty and Francis
Metzgar okayed as provisional patrolmen having passed Civil Service
Examinations.. .Property on the W/S of South Main Street acquired by
Freeport Housing Authority for Senior Citizens Housing Project re-zoned
by Board of Trustees to apartment use on November 21st,..
Board also, went on record favoring return to original status of this
land.if for some reason housing project bid did not go through. .. Pro-ject
is anticipated to start this spring and Mayor Glacken has requested
the Public Housing Administration to demolish all buildings on the site
as expediously as possible. .. Village Board authorizes $12,000 expend-iture
to relieve drainage conditions on East Bedell Street and orders
engineers to prepare specifications for bidding in. order that work can
commence this winter... LittlefieldAlger Signal Company awarded pro-gressive
traffic signal coritractfor MerrickRoad at their low bidfigure
of $15, 841. 00... Commuter parking facilities soon to be enlarged with
the removal of contractor's service facilitiesat east end of the field...
Road pavings of RayStreet, St. Marks Ave, S. Bay Ave. andRoosevelt
Avenue completed on schedule.. .S. Main Street widening and paving
drawing raves as is the new look of Meister Beach with its new streets
and street lighting... Many more projects of a similar nature being stud-ied
by the Board which has a dedicated program tc improve streets,,
drainage and lighting with good fiscal policy. . .Happy Holidays to all...
The
Friendly Village
WILLIAM-P. GLACKEN. MAYOR
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THEODORE M. LANG '
ARTHUR R. MULLER
ROBERT-S. McLELL-AN
GEORGE H.FAIRBERG
FREEPORT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
FREEPORT, NEW YORK
Your
Home Town
ROBERT L. DOXSEE.
CLERK
LEONARD O. 8. SMITH.
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
Vol. 1.0 - 12 December I960
A FLOAT IN THE CHRISTMAS TOYLAND PARADE
The Freeport Village Hall will close at noon on the Friday
before Christmas and the Friday before New Year's
PRESENTING YOUR COMMISSIONERS
Bernard "Ben" Abbene has been
a resident of Nassau County for most
of his Iife0 Born in Brooklyn, he
has resided in Long Beach, Hemp-stead
and then 8 years ago he moved
to Freeporto He married Laura
Scully,, a former classmate who taught
in the Island Trees School System,,
They have six children: Lisa,, Bonnie,
Patrick, Beth, Victor and Virginia,,
Ben, a-founder of the Freeport Har-bor
Civic Association is currently
on the Board of Governors,, He has
been a member of the Waterfront
Committee since 1958 and as a mem-ber
of the Planning Board is extreme-ly
interested in the Urban Renewal
study now in progress,,
A graduate of Fordham Univer-sity
from which he was granted a BS
in Education and a Master of Fine
Arts, he is currently completing his
Ph0D at New York University,, He
was on the Faculty of Hofstra Col-lege
and then Fordham University
for a total of about sixyears0 He is currently the Director of the Nas-sau
- Suffolk Division of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation,,
Ben was an Armorer-Gunner on B-24's during World War II and
a member of the Air Force Active Reserve during the Korean War
where he served as Senior Information Officer,, He is anactive mem-
"ber of the Knights of Columbus0 When he gets the time,, he can be
found taking flying lessons out of Zahn's Airport,,
Ben's political philosophy is centered on the fact that every com=
munity is basically a collection of families who want the best available
for them within their means0 However, all planning must be done in
terms not only of the present but the iuture because eventually this will
be our children's town0 He recently returned from a trip to California'
and Hawaii where he made a study of the tremendous rebuilding pro-grams
in both of those areas and was particularly impressed with Kai-ser's
modern shopping center, the Ala Moana0 He'd like to seeasim-=
ilar one in Freeporto
He is very proud of his neighbors who over the past few years have
contributed much to the improvement and growth of Tfreeportandarevit-ally
interested and active participants in the many local civic and f rater -
nal organizations,, He is especially proud of the community tree planting
program carried out by his neighbors and the Freeport Harbor Civic
Association,,
Bernard Abbene
Commissioner -Planning Board
CHAIRMAN - BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE
George Isenberg, Chairman of the
vBeautification Committee is one per-
'; son who cannot go back and visit his
birthplace because they went and built
the George Washington Bridge over it0
Thus he came to Freeport in 1927
where there was no danger of this hap-pening
again,, He was graduated from
the old Seaman A venue School and from
Freeport High where he. was a mem-ber
of the 1935 track team,,
Oldsters may remember when
George, a boy of 13, received a ham
radio operators license, one of the
youngest to achieve this distinction,,
They may remember because they of-ten
received George's signals when
they wanted to hear The Happiness
Boys and the Cliquot Club Eskimos on
old W0E0A0F0 So the young Marconi
had to turn to other pur suits „
George was graduated from the
Long Island University College ofPodi-atry
in 1939 and he practiced for sev-
George Isenberg
eral years prior to entering the Army as a private,, He served in this
country and in the Mediterranean theater of operations and was sep-arated
in December 1945 as a first lieutenant with four years of mili-tary
service behind him0 Shortly thereafter he resumed his practice,,
In his role as chairman of the Beautification Committee, George
wants to see more trees inFreeport and more ornamental shrubs,, Few
know it but George was responsible for having the flowering dogwood named
as the official tree of Freeport and he feels there are a few sights as lovely
as this graceful tree flowering in the spring,,
George and the former Mildred Brockhaven of Jackson Heights were
married in 19460 Their daughter Adriane, aged 8, attends the Atkinson
Schoolo They live at 203 Mt0 Joy Avenue,,
George had an unusual hobby-per haps not so unusual in view of his
responsibilities for further beautifying Freeporto He collects dwarf
plants and he has an amazing collection of over 60 varities of azaleas,
weeping dogwood, birch, spruce, hemlock and others that only a horti-culturist
would even know existed,,
"My goal0" George says "Is to get folks more interested in the
appearance of the whole community and not merely their own property
and I also want to do more imaginative landscaping around our public
build ing So Every one benefits when a village becomes more attractive
and good landscaping is one of the keys to this,, "
