Taste of Long Island, Bartone Project Take Another Step

Farmingdale will soon get a taste of a new business on Main Street and the property changes near the train station took another step.
 
The Village Board of Trustees held its monthly public meeting Monday night, and among the items on the agenda were the Taste of Long Island shop and the latest on the Bartone Properties project.
 
Taste of Long Island will be a specialty food market selling products . Among the offerings will be sea salt from the Atlantic Ocean off Amagansett and fruit spreads produced in Cutchogue.
 
At a recent work session, it was determined that the shop would need a special use permit. It will function as a retail outlet from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the rest of the time the kitchen facilities will be made available to those that need a certified facility to produce their home-grown products.

The kitchen space is rented to individuals who can cook their product and, in turn, document how the product was produced. 

Owner Courtney Thompson stressed that there are similar shops in operation around the country and that virtually no clients seek to use the kitchen during overnight hours.

The Nassau County fire marshal is expected to do his inspection within 10 days with an eye toward opening the place by the end of the month.

The amended decision for the Bartone properties has also officially been approved. Some wording in the original agreement was changed in terms of when the developers will make payments to the village. (payments will now start in January 2014).

The property, at Secatogue Avenue and South Front Street, will feature a . An underground parking lot will hold 172 vehicles.

The board also updated those in attendance regarding who will be supplying Farmingdale with its water in the future. There is a proposal on the table from Suffolk County Water Authority, which would supply the water and repair the village's infrastructure. This proposal would require state legislation and would make Farmingdale the first village in Nassau to get their water from Suffolk County.

Bethpage Water District is also working on a proposal, and the board recently met with South Farmingdale Water District, who should be making a proposal in the near future. The board says once they decide who to go with, they will have public hearings to express their intentions in more detail.

"The village board is going to look at all three proposals, and choose the one that the board feels is best for the residents," said Mayor Ralph Ekstrand.

Among other items on the agenda:

• Anthony Addeo was sworn in as the associate justice for the village's Justice court.
• Several requests to utilize village property were approved including for the annual Main Street Mile, which will be held on Sept.1  at Bethpage Park and finishing at Village Hall.
• The CSEA union contract, retroactive to last June was approved.
• Sullivan Road, Manetto Road and Pinehurst Road are in need of repairs and engineers will be testing to see if an alternate paving method can be used where the village can save $60,000 on the job.

The next public meeting will be Monday, July 2 at 8 p.m. at Village Hall.