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Oceanside/Island Park Herald 05-23-2024

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I.P. honors heroes in parade this Saturday By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com

Courtesy Jack Scully

The village of Island Park is prepared for another festive Memorial Day Parade and celebration, like last year’s above.

The village of Island Park is bustling with anticipation of its annual Memorial Day Parade, a tradition that honors the men and women who have served in the country’s armed forces. The event will take place on Saturday on Waterford Road, adjacent to Masone Beach. The lineup begins at 9:30 a.m., and the parade will step off promptly at 10. Afterward there will be a ceremony at the Sept. 11 Memorial Monument at the corner of Long Beach and Waterford roads, followed by a barbecue at the gazebo on Masone ConTInueD on Page 7

Residents, hospital clash over plans for parking expansion By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com

In a packed public hearing of the Town of Hempstead Board of Appeals on May 15, residents and representatives of Mount Sinai South Nassau sparred over the hospital’s plans to expand parking on its Oceanside campus. The hospital had requested the postponement of the hearing from May 1, for a special exception for parking in a front-yard setback bordered by Washington Avenue, Nassau Parkway, Oswald Court and Oceanside Road. The hospital plans to build an 800-space parking garage

that was approved by the town in 2018, as part of a $30 million investment to address parking challenges. The construction of the garage is scheduled to begin this fall and will take about nine months to complete. Once it is finished, combined with surface parking, the total parking capacity will exceed 2,000 spots. The parking garage would be built over an existing hospital parking area. It would primarily serve hospital employees, visitors and patients and address current parking shortages. The hospital first plans to demolish 10 homes on hospital property to build a 152-spot parking lot. During construc-

tion of the garage, the hospital will lose 200 spaces currently used by employees. To mitigate this, the plan is to demolish houses that the hospital owns on Nassau Parkway and Washington Avenue to create temporary surface parking. “The hospital believes that the parking garage approved by the board in 2018, which will be constructed at the hospital’s expense, will allow for more than adequate onsite parking at the hospital in the future,” John Anzalone, an attor ney representing the hospital, said at the meeting. “The parking garage will be built after the additional surface parking is constructed at the hospital

since such parking is needed to compensate for the stalls being temporarily displaced on site while the parking garage is being constructed.” The surface parking is in addition to the interim four employee shuttles that accommodate nearly 270 offsite stalls in Rockville Centre, of which 120 stalls have been added since 2019, hospital officials said.

“The residents pushed for and got resident-only parking in the streets surrounding the hospital,” Joe Calderone, the hospital’s senior vice president of communications and development, said. “In order to park, our employees previously used to park on the street. This is to try to address our employees having a place to park. We rent ConTInueD on Page 5


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