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When do you park there?

During the day they tow as to prevent commuters from parking there - at night and on weekends they do not tow.

Seems like racsm is behind all this opposition to the dollar store.

How come you didn't protest the one already in the village?

Positive Note

It would seem that the opposition to the dollar store would fall into a bit of race baiting characterizations of the type of people who may shop there.

Since these type of stores have popped up all over Nassau County there seems to be little need to travel to one.

As we can plainly see it is not easy to lure stores to a downtown area. Unless the downtown area has heavy foot traffic or a strong anchor tenant the stores will ust not in realization come and there is not much to do to lure them in. Realistically what are you going to offer them? The foot traffic on Atlantic is not great to begin with. Not many people in this village shop there to begin with or we would have the downtown filled with stores. Plus with the MTA controlling those decrepit stores under the train tracks it is extremely tough to bring tennants into them due to their run down condition.

While a new movie theater could help the restaurant business it would be nice to look to expand in another way also as to not rely on just one business.

The key would to be to look at what we have and what can be offered. No matter what you do parking will always be a problem. But there is already one industry in the downtown area that should be looked at to expand.

Southsidemom

Maybe you better stop with your racial scare tactics on the issue.

The store is on Broadway and has no impact on the walking and traffic on Atlantic. Parking is either out front or in the commuter lot in back.

And based on the proliferation of these stores most of the shoppers will be residents

Gatsby

You try to use unsuported facts and racial innuendo to place fear in people about a store. Who will use this store -mostly Lynbrook residents seeking out a bargain or some inexpensive item they need. Will there be a traffic problem - most likely no and there barely is one now. Waiting a few minutes for a light is not a traffic problem as a few would want us to believe.

If the store attracts more people to the downtown that is a good thing. But instead of complaining you caould say what a good store would be and SPECIFICALLY how you would attract that type of store.

You got that right, Trustee Pensso is the MTA liason and look at what a fine job he has done cleaning up the station area.

Zip Zero Zilch NADA.

Dave can't wait for yo to be Mayor, this town will really go down the tubes!!!!!!!!

It is true that Penso is the liason and has done nothing to help the situation of the stores under the LIRR. At least the studio painted the wood covering the windows. But those stores are in bad shape and the MTA has been playing hardball in negotiationg tactics for a lease and with what they are asking no-one will rent those stores.

We also have the situation with the falling down taxi stand in the lot that has been going no-where for the past few years.

However we cannot blame Barra and Skelos for the station as it was renovated just a few years ago - so realistically it will probably not be renovated again in our lifetime. We have to be fair on that one. I will admit the addition of that little shop in the station has been an upgrade over the guy with the truck in the morning.

In fact we need to give Barra and Skelos some kudos for the $100,000 they just coughed up for the basketball courts (seems a bit expensive for basketball courts), but at least we see some of our tax money put to a good use. Plus we can't forget the money they got us for the baseball field either (over 250,000 I believe).

The following article appeared in the Valley Stream Herald

V.S. residents get to choose
LIRR unveils three designs for new station

By JOSEPH KELLARD August 24, 2006

Renderings of the three LIRR station-design choices were unveiled at Village Hall on Aug. 23 by Assemblyman Robert Barra, left, and state Sen. Dean Skelos. Mayor Ed Cahill, LIRR President James Dermody, Town Councilman James Darcy and other officials join

A new train station is coming down the track for Valley Stream, and the community will even get to help decide what it will look like.
The Long Island Rail Road has unveiled three designs for the proposed new Valley Stream station, and, in an unprecedented move, will seek residents' input on its final decision. LIRR president James Dermody, State Senator Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), Assemblyman Bob Barra (R-Lynbrook), Hempstead Town Councilman Jim Darcey and Valley Stream Mayor Edward Cahill jointly announced the plan at Village Hall Aug. 23.
The three glossy poster-board designs will be on display at Village Hall for about six weeks, accompanied by comment cards on which residents can offer their opinions on the $4.3 million project. "We welcome their input," Cahill said.
Residents may also cast votes on Skelos's Web site, according to Tom Dunham, the senator's spokesman.
"This offers the community an opportunity to choose the proposal it likes," Dunham said. "It's the first time the LIRR is doing this, and we're allowing residents to vote for the project on the senator's Web site."
Among the new station's proposed features are a 2,000-square-foot waiting room, an improved platform, a ticket office, public restrooms, pay telephones, various equipment rooms, and public address and passenger display systems. The station will comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. The project also includes expanding parking lot No. 19 from 106 spaces to 306, and adding such amenities as new ornamental lighting and brick paving.
Funding for the project will come out of the LIRR's share of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Funds Program, and Skelos has teamed with Barra and village officials, including Cahill, to obtain funds from the state. Skelos sits on the MTA's four-person capital program review board, and is the only Long Island representative on the board.
The LIRR decided that to tear down the existing station on Sunrise Highway and build a new one would be cheaper than to make renovations, and construction will take approximately a year, Dermody said.
"The Valley Stream station is long over due for a refurbishing," Cahill said. "I'm sure there'll be a big improvement to what is there now. What they're doing should be great for the residents and other people that use the station."
The LIRR and Skelos publicly announced plans for the new station last October. Commuters the Herald spoke with last fall approved of the planned improvements. "It's a good idea, because they need a better capacity in the waiting room," said Ngierot Edward-Smith, 18, a Far Rockaway resident who works at a mortgage bank in Valley Stream. "It will make my experience here more comfortable."
Angela McDonald, who takes the train to her job in Valley Stream, hoped that the waiting room would be opened year-round. "Sometimes during the summer they'll close the waiting room, and I don't want to get stuck outside on a windy or rainy day," she said.
The Valley Stream station serves more than 2,100 commuters per day during morning rush hour, according to LIRR spokesman Sam Zambuto. Trains stopping at the station are predominately from the Far Rockaway and Long Beach lines, but trains from the West Hempstead and Babylon lines make occasional stops there as well, Zambuto said.
Comments about it? VSeditor@liherald.com or (516)569-4000 x208.
The three station renderings will appear in detail on the Herald's website as soon as they become available. Please visit www.liherald.com to view them.

I believe we all saw the article in the Herald but the key point was they thought it was cheaper to tear down than renovate - at the time Lynbrook's was done they choose the renovate strategy - so we are stuck with it for now - I think you are wasting your time on this point as it just won't happen.