Woodmere

“You need hooks,” said Tova Kook, the founder of TK Design, an interiors firm in Woodmere, N.Y.

With friends and relatives, he has gone door-to-door through the towns of Cedarhurst, Hewlett, Inwood, Lawrence and Woodmere and asked store and restaurant owners to display the “kidnapped” posters inside windows that face the street.

Aline Ricki Goldsmith was born on Aug. 1, 1948, in Long Beach, N.Y., on Long Island, and grew up mostly in the nearby wealthy hamlet of Woodmere.

He graduated from Woodmere Academy on Long Island, where he grew up, earned a bachelor’s degree in literature from Yale in 1954, served in an Army artillery unit from 1954 to 1956 and was discharged as a first lieutenant.

Videos of cars and a police van colliding with the width restriction on Woodmere Avenue in Watford have been shared millions of times online and featured in TV news reports around the world.