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Oppenheimer Ave? Proposal To Rename NY Street After 'Father Of Atomic Bomb' Raises Eyebrows Oppenheimer Ave? Proposal To Rename NY Street After 'Father Of Atomic Bomb' Raises Eyebrows
Oppenheimer Ave? Proposal To Rename NY Street After 'Father Of Atomic Bomb' Raises Eyebrows A proposal to rename a New York street after the so-called father of the atomic bomb is raising eyebrows. Long Island’s Frank Flynn took to Facebook on Christmas Eve to announce he was starting a petition to rename Bay Shore’s South Saxon Avenue to Oppenheimer Avenue – after theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. “Why? I’m glad you asked,” the Bay Shore native wrote on the “Original Islip This & That” Facebook group Tuesday, Dec. 24. “Well it turns out that world-renowned scientist and father of the A-bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, lived in a vacation house on Saxon Avenue! So why not…

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by Michael Mashburn
Police & Fire
Motorist Damages Park Bench, Garbage Can After Losing Control Of BMW In Westchester, Police Say Motorist Damages Park Bench, Garbage Can After Losing Control Of BMW In Westchester, Police Say
Motorist Damages Park Bench, Garbage Can After Losing Control Of BMW In Westchester, Police Say A 61-year-old man accidentally lost control of his car in Westchester, driving through some bushes and into a park bench over the weekend, police said. Officers from the Scarsdale Police Department were dispatched to Memorial Park at Boniface Circle shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, where there was a report of a motorist who hopped the curb and struck the bench, dislodging a nameplate. Police said that the driver, a Fountain Lane resident, stated that he was parked on Boniface Circle and his BMW shifted from park into drive and accelerated on its own, crashing through the bush…

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by Zak Failla