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appreciates being able to play for free in the off-season. “Especially before Memorial Day . . . Nassau County Comptroller it’s not so packed over here, so Elaine Phillips and Darcy Bely- we can have a fun, chill game.” ea, the county commissioner of The park also has a playparks, recreation and muse- ground and picnic areas. ums, shared their findings from “We love the playground,” an examination of the parks’ Richie Grossman, another amenities, revenue, budget — Woodmere resident, said. “In and future — in a the summertime news release earlithey have the er this month, and sprinkler park concluded that with the water. county residents This is where my are getting a subdaughter, for the stantial bang for first time, was their buck. able to do monkey Grant Park, in bars.” Hewlett, and Grant Park, on North Woodmere Broadway in Park were among Hewlett — with an the 70 or so facilientrance on Sherities whose opera- RICHIE GRoSSMAN dan Avenue — tions Phillips and offers baseball and Belyea reviewed. softball fields; basketball, tenNorth Woodmere Park, on nis, paddleball and handball Hungry Harbor Road, features courts; paths for bicycling, runlighted amenities including ning or walking; lake fishing; a baseball, softball and football/ playground; outdoor ice skatsoccer fields and courts for bas- ing; a picnic area and workout ketball, tennis, paddleball and stations. handball. For their report, Philips and “It’s right near our house, so Belyea turned comptroller’s it’s very convenient,” Zachary office college interns into data Gellman, a 20-year-old Wood- analysts to collect information mere resident who plays tennis on what the parks have to offer at the park, said, adding that he
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Courtesy Ameera Gomes
Trucks block both ends of Bayview Avenue, in Inwood, and cars have to drive around them to get through.
Trucks raise Inwood neighbors’ anger Light manufacturing zoning change is challenged By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
At 11 p.m. on April 5, about two years after the applicant for Bayview Inwood LLC introduced himself to an Inwood neighborhood and told residents of Bayview Avenue that he was going to build three or four houses, Ameera Gomes heard a knock on her door. A process server handed her a paper about a hearing five days later, whose subject would be the rezoning of property on Bayview and storing dump trucks there. Gomes made copies of the letter and went from house to house, handing them out. She was the only one to receive the notice, she said, and her neighbors weren’t aware of the applicant’s plans.
A trucking company, Five Star Cargo, occupies a big portion of Bayview Avenue. “When I first moved in eight years ago, there was no trucking company there,” Gomes recalled. “All of a sudden last year, during the night, trucks just started to come, and we had no idea they were moving in. Now they have these 18-wheelers that are blocking our driveway every day, blocking the road every day, and they completely demolished the sidewalk and fence.” In 2022, Bayview Inwood LLC filed an application with the Town of Hempstead requesting a zoning change for the property at 356-370 Bayview Ave., from residence to light manufacturing, to create a storage facility for 29 dump trucks. Neighbors say that would make ConTInued on pAge 16
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