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Friday, January 24, 2020
Vol. 69, No. 4
N E W H Y D E PA R K
CHAZZ DIRECTS AT LANDMARK
BUCKLEY A ‘BAD NEIGHBOR’
CURRAN TO ISLANDERS: RETURN NOW
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Montreuil tells commuters to avoid area
MADAME PRESIDENT
Reacts to closing of New Hyde Park Road for 7 months for LIRR work BY TOM M CC A RT HY New Hyde Park Mayor Lawrence Montreuil had one piece of advice for outside commuters when LIRR construction closes New Hyde Park Road in February for seven months: avoid traveling through New Hyde Park. “We need to get the word out that once New Hyde Park Road closes, people should avoid New Hyde Park,” Montreuil said. “We need to get the word out; avoid this area.” Montreuil said at a village meeting last Thursday that after attending a Lakeville Estates Civic Association meeting the day before he spoke with a Newsday reporter. He said that he said to Newsday that it was important to get the word out to people who may work near New Hyde Park like Northwell workers and people living in Franklin Square, Lynbrook or Oceanside may find cutting through New Hyde Park as a “logi-
cal traffic route.” “Use the Cross Island Parkway, use the Meadowbrook Parkway … Use Tulip Avenue or use Franklin Avenue,” Montreuil said. He said the village has also been pushing the private firm hired by the LIRR for the project, Third Track Constructors (3TC), to “broaden outreach.” He said a thing he asked, which the company has not done, is hand out flyers on Covert Avenue with maps. Montreuil was critical of 3TC’s detour plan, saying that a lot of commercial traffic will be detoured on Covert Avenue and Tulip Avenue by Sewanhaka High School as a consequence of the current plan. Trustee Rainer Burger said that now that the village is “two to three weeks out” that 3TC must start sharing information on the closing on the electric boards on the Cross Island Parkway. The curContinued on Page 52
PHOTO COURTESY OF REENA GULATI
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran (left) attended the installation of Reena Gulati as the new president of the New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce. See more photos on page 19.
LIRR to temporarily shut NHP station on Feb. 3 BY DA N OFF N E R
ville, according to representatives of the Long Island Rail The LIRR station in New Road. Last Wednesday representaHyde Park will be temporarily shut down on Feb. 3 as part of tives with the Third Track Conthe project to build a third track structors met with members of between Floral Park and Hicks- the Lakeville Estates Civic As-
sociation to address residents’ concerns about the project, particularly, what the plans to close New Hyde Park Road will mean for local traffic patterns. Bill Cutrone, president of Continued on Page 52
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