48. Gregory Maney & Jeannine Maynard

Proving that nothing on Long Island is absolutely insurmountable, thanks to these guys, the three-square-mile area known as “East Garden City” since the 2000 census but historically part of the unincorporated village of Uniondale, will get a name change that community leaders and public officials have been advocating for years. Calling that place “East Garden City” when even the post office didn’t call it that, has been labeled divisive, unwarranted and unwanted. Uniondale residents took it as a deliberate slight. The fire trucks say Uniondale, so do the ambulances. Making Uniondale whole again was the goal of Dr. Greg Maney and Jeannine Maynard, who founded the Greater Uniondale Area Action Coalition, and responding to the principle that all politics are local, Rep. Kathleen Rice, among other elected officials, have pledged to make the 2020 Census accurately reflect that geographic reality rather than some twisted apartheid-like aberration perpetrated no doubt by some reactionary real estate developer with an ulterior motive in mind. Maney and Maynard have provided more proof, as if any were needed, that the concept “location, location, location” is more than idle mantra. To those affected by this “East Garden City” canton-conspiracy, it hit them right where they live.