Week in Review: L.I. Music Hall of Fame Unveils Design

A proposal by a developer to build a multi-family apartment building on a piece of property in Upper Port Jefferson in front of the Planning Department on Thursday night at .

The builder originally proposed to put up a four-story, 87-unit apartment complex consisting of 12-two bedroom units and 18-one bedroom units at Texaco Avenue and Linden Place. The site comes under the purview of by the village for the area.

The apartment complex is now proposed to be a 35-foot high, three-story building with 55 units. Those units break down to 45-one bedroom units, four-two bedroom units and six-studio apartments.

A Miller Place man was killed Wednesday night, according to police, after he crashed into a telephone pole while driving alone in Port Jefferson Station shortly after 8 p.m.

Gerard Daguanno, 49, was driving a 1998 Oldsmobile westbound on Route 347, police said, when his vehicle veered off the road and struck the pole near Woodhull Avenue.

Commenters took a trip down Memory Lane on Friday when we posed this question, reminiscing about some shuttered businesses.

Stephan DePascale said he's been building things with his hands since the age of 8 – a passion that has served him well as the owner of a woodworking shop located in East Setauket.

But DePascale, a 56-year-old Port Jefferson Station resident, had to give up working in his shop about 1-1/2 years ago, after he started having trouble with his hands; he couldn't lift a hammer over his head. Then came the diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. A disease for which there is no cure.

Last year the to secure the historic red brick building on the corner of Main Street and East Main Street in Port Jefferson. Once the First National Bank, the building housed the Brookhaven Town Tax Receiver's office but remained vacant for years before the deal was done.

Now, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame is embarking on a capital campaign to raise the roughly $2.5 million it needs to transform the space into a state-of-the-art exhibit center focusing on Long Island music history.

After a on July 1, guests were brought to the building to see plans for the new museum.