More than 200 residents and the families of deceased residents of the former Harborside retirement community will receive, on Oct. 1, the first of two payments refunding part of their entrance fees, according to an attorney overseeing liquidation of the Port Washington facility.

Howard M. Ehrenberg, a California-based bankruptcy lawyer, said the initial refund will be between $12,000 and $26,000. The largest amounts will go to seniors who purchased contracts that guaranteed more healthcare as they aged, he told Newsday on Tuesday.

The second refund payment is contingent upon the sale of a related nursing home in Manhattan.

The refunds are meant to partially compensate the residents, whose average age is 90, and the families of deceased residents, for entrance fees that totaled between $

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