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Friday, March 6, 2026
Vol. 3, No. 10
THE GATEWAY TO NASSAU COUNTY SERVING FLORAL PARK, BELLEROSE AND STEWART MANOR
Floral Park details West End drainage project
STUDENT ARTIST HONORED
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Twenty-five students from Sewanhaka Central High School District had their artwork displayed in the 2026 Nassau All-County Art Exhibition. See page 4.
“Read Across Floral Park” raffle The Floral Park Public Library is offering a “Read Across Floral Park” raffle. To enter, just send a photo of yourself, or a family member or friend reading around Floral Park Village or Bellerose Vil-
lage for a chance to win a gift card to: Tulip Bagels, Village Pizza, Gyro Village, or Tulip Bakery. Four winners will be chosen randomly. The contest is ongoing through Monday, March 16th.
Please email photos to readacrossfloralpark2026@gmail. com You can take a photo of: • An adult reading to a child See page 6
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On Wednesday night, February 18th, the Village of Floral Park administration led by Mayor Kevin Fitzgerald, the Village Board, Public Works Superintendent Kevin Ginnane and Superintendent of Building Renee Marcus shared details about the West End Drainage construction project in a town hall-style meeting held both in-person and over Zoom. The project is intended to lessen the municipality’s use of the existing Nassau County drainage system and add substantial drainage and stormwater management capacity in the neighborhood. The project scope includes new piping, drainage inlets and road restoration work for the dead-end streets of Primrose and Clover Avenues, as well as drainage modifications on Maple, Elm and Walnut Avenues from the Mayfair Avenue intersections to the dead ends along Belmont. A new, large recharge basin will be installed on the Belmont property easement just south of East Elder Avenue between Clover and Calla Avenues. Additional drainage inlets, piping and
road restoration work will occur along West Elder Avenue from Spruce Avenue to Walnut Avenue, and the village is installing a drainage leaching system at the intersection of Pine Avenue and Elder Place. Superintendent Marcus noted that the contractor was planning to start bringing materials to the job sites by Thursday, February 19th, though snowstorms had impacted a few things around town. She said that the bulk of the work in late winter and spring will take place inside the fence at Belmont Park. “The project’s anticipated substantial completion date is August 1st, but of course that is weather-dependent. What’s unique about this project are the working times; because of the horses and their practice schedules at Belmont, anything inside that facility can not start prior to 11 a.m. – Village Code allows for construction work and activities from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays. The contractors will be only working from 11 a.m. onwards and they can also work on Sundays – the contractor is union, and Belmont does See page 6
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