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tn YEWS Xv t.V V' JuQsd, September 7. Xfe DAILY ew Grucci dedicated HQ is Board eyes close of subway access By MICHAEL HANRAHAN By LARRY CELONA the fireworks industry have grown through expansion of existing plants. Felix Grucci Srr, 80, who brought the family business to the United States, officiated at the dedication ceremony, which was attended by several officials of Suffolk County and the Town of Brookhaven. To date, eight separate fireworks storage facilites have been constructed at the site on Horseblock Road, each protected by an earthen mound to absorb the impact of an explosion. A devastating explosion on Nov.

26, 1983, resulted in the death of two members of the family, James Grucci, 42, a son of Felix and Donna Gruber, 19, a niece of James. The explosion also damaged nearly 100 houses that surrounded the family's fireworks compound, which took up just one square block in North Bellport Da ly tes Wrter A dedication ceremony was held yesterday at the new headquarters in Yaphank of the fireworks company owned by the Grucci Family. The 80-acre plant, in the midst of a pinelands watershed preserve and away from residential areas, was hailed by a family spokesman as the "flagship" of all fireworks manufacturing firms in the nation. Phillip Butler, the chief of sales for the company, said the newly constructed storage facilities and the soon-to-be-completed manufacturing center are the first to be designed "from the ground up, with safety as the foremost consideration." Butler noted that, just as was the case in the Grucci company's development, most firms in Ca-iy Nears Si The possibility of permanently closing the access areas to the Union Turnpike Station of the IND Subway from service roads of the Interbor-ough Parkway will be considered tomorrow at a meeting of Community Board 6. Representatives of the Department of Transportation and of the Transit Authority are expected for a meeting at 8 p.m.

at Our Lady of the Angelus Auditorium, 98-05 63rd Drive. Rego Park. They will answer questions from residents of the community and others who use the station, which is where Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike meet The access areas are in an underpass. East and west bound cars can stop in side lanes of the roadway to discharge or pick up commuters who can go directly into the subway station. The road is not used by buses or taxis, which stay on the higher street level: The areas have been closed for more than a year during the reconstruction of the Interborough Parkway.

Similar meeting last week A similar meeting was held last week before Community Board 9. At that time, the Department of Transportation requested that the access areas be permanently closed on the grounds that they create a traffic hazard, according to Mary Ann Carey, the district manager of Board 9. Boards 6 and 9 share jurisdiction over the adjacent Kew Gardens and Forest Hills communities. Board 9 has requested that the Department of Transportation take a survey to determine how many cars are diverted into the community when the subway access areas are closed, Carey said. The agency is supposed to provide the board with the results of the survey by next March, she added.

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