Each day I review the chart in Newsday indicating the number of Covid-19 cases in all the villages in Nassau and Suffolk County and, to my dismay, the Village of Great Neck consistently shows the highest growth rate on all of Long Island.
Why do we hold this distinction? This is terribly frightening and frustrating for the residents of this Village, most of whom try to abide by all the recommended actions to keep down the transmission of the disease. Â Obviously there are many who are not and, despite their protestations about lack of authority or resources, the mayor (himself a physician) and the trustees must vigorously respond before the whole Village is infected.
Investigations should be undertaken to determine the causes and locations of the recent outbreaks and strong steps taken to shame or prosecute those responsible.
Steven Markowitz
Great Neck
Answer: the train station. The LIRR was a facilitator in spreading COVID from the epicenter of the crisis: New York City.
I have spoken to our Town Supervisor, Judi Bosworth, about the lack of compliance in GN with social distancing and mask requirements. She is also concerned about the case numbers rising, and she wants as many of us to email her as possible.. Anyone you know. Tell her all your concerns about what is happening and negligence of our police to do anything about it. Details will be helpful.
She will forward these to county and/or state officials and try to go above our town for help.
We will have strength in numbers.
Her email is BosworthJ@northhempsteadny.gov
Just to clarify – currently in NY it is up to local jurisdictions to enforce the mandates, and in our town it’s the health department and the fire marshal. Of course Judi Bosworth always wants to hear from her constituents… but to report violations, you can call directly:
Nassau County Dept of Heath
Weekdays to 5 pm – 516-227-9697
After hours, weekends- 516-742-6154
The Fire Marshall can go there while the event is occurring.
Masks are required to be worn when not social distancing. A party without masks or social distancing, even if under 50 people violates the covid19 regulations.
Maybe if the private cops were doing their jobs and enforcing the rules(parties) there would be no problems
There are no private cops in VGN.