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Muriel Neufeld, 98, dies; fought discrimination on Long Island. nassau otb discriminates still as st pauls in hempstead continues to witness
Claude Solnik
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Neufeld, of Great Neck, fought against social injustice on Long Island and elsewhere, her sons said.
Muriel Neufeld died Friday at her home in Great Neck; she was 98. Photo Credit: Neufeld Family
Muriel Neufeld was a humanist who fought against racial discrimination, capital punishment and gun violence for more than half a century, bringing about social changes on Long Island and elsewhere.
In 1959, leaders in Prince Edward County in Virginia closed all public schools in the area so they would not have to integrate, leaving black students with no formal education. While white students attended private school or school in another county, some black students were educated in churches.
“Mom coordinated and collected books from all over Long Island, and drove them down to the churches,” said her son Peter Neufeld, a lawyer and co-founder of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that has helped free hundreds of wrongfully convicted men and women.
Muriel Neufeld died in her sleep Friday at her home in Great Neck, her family said. She was 98.
Peter Neufeld said that when he was 10 years old and his brother, Russell, was 13, their mother took the entire family to an F.W. Woolworth in Hempstead and joined others in picketing the department store chain to protest its policy of refusing to serve Southern blacks at lunch counters. The Neufelds demonstrated in support of four North Carolina college freshmen, known as the Greensboro Four, who went to their local Woolworth’s lunch counter every day, beginning on Feb. 1, 1960, and refused to leave until they were served.
“If you believe something is wrong and unfair, don’t just criticize it, do something about it. That’s what she taught us,” said Peter Neufeld, 68, of Brooklyn Heights.
Neufeld was born Muriel Newmark on Feb. 9, 1920, in Brooklyn to Ralph and Rose Newmark. She studied sociology at Adelphi College in Garden City, and during this time she met Stanley Neufeld, the man who later became her husband, said her son Russell Neufeld, 71, of Park Slope, a lawyer who specializes in federal death penalty cases.
The couple married in 1941 and moved to West Hempstead in 1951 when boys were young. The family moved to Village of Muttontown in 1968, her sons said. Neufeld moved to Great Neck in 1990, a decade after her husband died.
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