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Beginnings: There were only a few farmhouses in the area north of East Islip as the 19th Century ended. In 1914, as World War I began, Andrew Wolpert Sr., a Bavarian native who had been a real estate agent in New York City, and his three sons began building houses in the woods between East Islip and Central Islip State Hospital. The Wolperts wanted to attract people of German origin, according to historians. The place was known as Germantown, but the war brought pressures to change the name of the community. Many people who moved there worked in the state hospital.
Beginnings: There were only a few farmhouses in the area north of East Islip as the 19th Century ended. In 1914, as World War I began, Andrew Wolpert Sr., a Bavarian native who had been a real estate agent in New York City, and his three sons began building houses in the woods between East Islip and Central Islip State Hospital. The Wolperts wanted to attract people of German origin, according to historians. The place was known as Germantown, but the war brought pressures to change the name of the community. Many people who moved there worked in the state hospital.
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TOWN HALL AGENDA: ISLIP
ISLIP Unless specified, meetings are at 655 Main St., Islip. TOWN BOARD 2 p.m. Tuesday CHANGE OF ZONE 7 p.m. Dec. 18 PLANNING BOARD 7:30 p.m. Thursday ZONING BOARD 7 p.m. Tuesday ACTIONS At its Oct. 15 meeting, the Islip Zoning Board of...Tags: Bay Shore, West Islip, Interior Policy, Bayport, Housing and Urban Planning
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POLICE BEAT
Reports from county or village police, Nov. 16-22. Amityville Construction equipment was stolen Nov. 18 from a job site on Merrick Road. Babylon Police reported Nov. 16 that a van and tractor trailer were set on fire on Broadway. A burglary was...Tags: West Islip, Transportation, Police, Road Transportation, Crimes
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ISLIP TERRACE: Two men charged with spray-painting graffiti
matthew.chayes@newsday.comPolice say Islip Terrace residents awoke Thanksgiving morning to find their own neighbor spray-painting the community with curse words. One of the witnesses flagged down a police officer around 6:30 a.m. and pointed out the man, who was still using...Tags: Central Islip, Police, Thanksgiving, Police Arrests, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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2 arrested in spray-tagging in Islip Terrace
matthew.chayes@newsday.comThanks for nothing. Cops say neighbors in Islip Terrace awoke Thanksgiving morning to find their own neighbor spraypainting the community with curse words. One of the witnesses flagged down a police officer around 6:30 a.m. and pointed out the neighbor,...Tags: Central Islip, Police, Thanksgiving, Police Arrests, Prosecution
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Islip task force tackles incidents of hate
jennifer.maloney@newsday.comFacing one another in a wide circle of chairs, about 20 community leaders yesterday asked themselves: What do we do when the Ku Klux Klan is pamphleting in our town and a man has been killed because of his ethnicity in the town next door? "I don't know...Tags: East Islip, Assault, Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency, Marcello Lucero
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Levy must be bolder
This is Steve Levy's leadership moment. It's his time to take some of the political capital he amassed in winning re-election by 96 percent last year, and spend it by making grand and meaningful gestures to slap down racism. On Saturday night in...Tags: Racism, Steve Levy, Immigration, Crimes, Migration
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A hospitable environment
Jeffrey L. Reynolds is vice president of BiasHELP, a nonprofit serving hate crime victims and offering violence prevention programs.Those who committed the killing in Patchogue should be held accountable for their actions. But we also need to address the confluence of social, political and economic factors that have made Long Island a hospitable environment for this and other bias...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Election Day, Racism, Long Island, Laws
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ASKING THE CLERGY: What are you most thankful for?
Rabbi William Berman, Commack Jewish Center, Commack: My wife and family, of course. You learn that you're part of a unit, that compromise and negotiation are part of life and not a sign of weakness. You also learn that children are their own people, not...Tags: Melville, Virginia, Health and Safety at School, Judaism
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Ku Klux Klan literature dropped at Islip Terrace homes
A newsletter for the Ku Klux Klan was dropped on driveways and in front yards in Islip Terrace this week, the third area in Suffolk to be papered with white supremacist literature in a month. The six-page pamphlet, called The Klansmen's Voice, was left...Tags: Literature, Mass Media, New Jersey, Censorship, Michigan
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East Islip store clerk helps nab robbery suspect
carl.macgowan@newsday.com; joseph.mallia@newsday.comA small East Islip supermarket may have looked like an easy target to a would-be thief. But employees had other ideas, police said yesterday. A teenage checkout clerk Tuesday pushed the suspect into a pair of vending machines as he tried to escape with...Tags: Employees, Police, East Islip, Assault, Police Arrests
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Cops seek gas station robber
Suffolk County police detectives Friday asked for the public's help identifying and finding a man who tried to rob an Islip Terrace gas station. Photos of the man, taken by security cameras during the robbery attempt, were also released Friday by the...Tags: Theft, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Crimes
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Friends remember Islip Terrace student fatally shot
sophia.chang@newsday.comIn the moments before she was fatally shot in the face, Danielle Calabrese stood with a group of friends on a Brentwood sidewalk in the warm autumn air Friday night, making plans to go out, police and friends said Saturday. Around 10:45 p.m.,...Tags: Police, Injuries, Assault, Crimes, Murder
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