To many New Yorkers, Governor Hugh Carey looked a little undemocratic last week. Philip J. D'Arrigo, a Westchester County dentist, paid $48,000 last year for an acre of land adjacent to Carey's summer home on Shelter Island at the end of Long Island. Said D'Arrigo, 47: "I hope to hang up my drill in 15 years, live out there and go fishing." But when the dentist began constructing his 2½-story dream house 165 ft. away from Carey's, the state police certified that it posed a security hazard to the Governor. D'Arrigo refused a...
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