East Hills trustees OK petition for no-parking sign

Bill San Antonio

East Hills Trustees passed a resolution Monday to advance a petition signed by residents of Kennedy Road to the village’s Traffic and Safety Commission for the erection of a ‘No Parking’ sign.

Village of East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz said residents filed the petition because the street has recently seen an influx of traffic and there have been concerns that cars could not easily pass.

Koblenz added that the Kennedy Road residents who signed the petition would like for the sign to be put up before the start of the upcoming school year, when buses use the road more frequently.

Koblenz said the board would soon be meeting with Congressman Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) regarding low-flying airplanes passing through village air space and the noise they create.  

“You could look up and see a guy in the bathroom, that’s how low the planes are,” Koblenz said.

Koblenz said he’s urged residents to contact politicians like Israel and Nassau County Legislator Wayne Wink to pressure them to work toward changing airplane routes into and out of John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport.

“They’ve got to feel, even though we’re a little neighborhood, that we’re upset,” Koblenz said.

The board also approved the hiring of more village park attendants and lifeguards for the remainder of the summer season, to take the place of some of the college kids employed by the village who will be going back to school over Labor Day weekend.

East Hills resident and environmental activist Richard Brummel announced in a public comment he had filed several notices of claim against the village for statements made by Koblenz to the Roslyn Times and Roslyn News community newspapers earlier this year.

In a statement, Brummel called Koblenz’ comments “false, defamatory, and libelous or slanderous to me” and requested the two sides resolve his issues with the comments outside of litigation.

Brummel unsuccessfully sued the village of East Hills earlier this year, challenging that eight decisions made by the village’s Architectural Review board were “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion.”

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