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Greenport
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05.22.05Greenport Train Station IlluminatedAnita Thacher's Illuminated Station, a site-specific light-work, opens at the Greenport Train Station. Illuminated Station, a light-work by New York-based multimedia-artist Anita Thacher, has been created at the historic Greenport train station to evoke an earlier era of the Long Island Rail Road -- a time when, in storybook fashion, the soft glow of gaslight from the Victorian station house contrasted with the deep blue night surrounding it. To allude to this image and bygone era, the rooftop of the Greenport station house is outlined with blue LED illumination, and the ground surrounding the building is set off with deep blue light. ...
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01.20.05Greenport, The new Catskills18 months ago, a new rabbi came to town, with ideas to expand the synagogue, Congregation Tifereth Israel, and transform Greenport into a new Catskills. The rabbi, Gary Moskowitz, wanted to attract Jewish singles groups looking for weekend getaways, play host to retreats for other congregations and lure busloads of Jewish tourists. Rabbi Moskowitz and his supporters say they hope to open the new synagogue, the East Coast Jewish Center, by March, attracting unaffiliated Jews and converts. It will operate out of an old Masonic temple on Main Street and offer a theological fruit salad - "progressive traditional conservadox," the rabbi ...
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12.05.04Hedgesification of GreenportLast month, Greenport Mayor Dave Kapell proposed an ordinance that would limit the height of hedges to under four feet, citing a fear that high hedges -- which have come to symbolize wealth and privilege in the Hamptons -- would change the character of his unassuming North Fork village. The community resoundingly denounced it but have accepted ordinances that allow higher density housing. Read More: Newsday
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12.01.0420 million pounds of pollution each yearA subsidiary of Holcim, St. Lawrence Cement, wants to build a plant in Greenport, N.Y., less than 16 miles west of the Massachusetts border. Opponents say it would emit up to 20 million pounds of pollution each year, and that wind patterns would carry those emissions over Massachusetts and the rest of New England. Read More: Daily News Transcript
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11.26.04Subway. No Way.A group of Greenport Village residents is organizing to fight Subway’s effort to locate a sandwich shop at the former site of Christie’s Port of Pizza on Front Street. Villager David Nyce announced the formation of the group that calls itself COGA FACS (Citizens of Greenport Against Franchises and Chain Stores) at Thursday night’s Village Board meeting. Ms. Benton said allowing franchises to come into the village would threaten existing “mom and pop” stores that struggled through last year’s Front Street reconstruction and brutal winter. “They’re the ones who have sweated it out” and deserve not to have to compete with national chains ...
