Great Neck Park District to talk parking needs

Adam Lidgett

The Great Neck Park District will be looking this year at ways to improve parking in the district, especially for commuters, Park District Superintendent Peter Renick said. 

Renick said the Great Neck Park District Board of Commissioners acknowledged at their Dec. 30 work session the need to talk about parking in the coming year, but only in a general sense. He said no clear decisions were made on when parking would be talked about. 

“We want to get the community involved,” Renick said. “Residents in the park district acknowledge that community-wide it’s a problem. Parking is at a premium here.” 

Board Chairman Dan Nachmanoff said the need to talk more about parking comes from the extension of the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Station during the next couple of years. He said the extension may create extra ridership, putting more of a demand on the parking lot by the LIRR station in Great Neck. 

Nachmanoff said the commissioners suggested the parks district contact the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the near future. Nachmanoff said the district would like an MTA officials to talk to them about what exactly is going to happen with the LIRR Grand Central extension. 

Nachmanoff also said the district would like to get a timetable of the project to be better prepared for when it is finally done.  

The project that would bring the LIRR directly into Grand Central has been in the planning for years, and originally had an opening date of 2009. 

“We need to start bringing [parking] to the forefront,” Renick said. “We need to get some of the other players involved – [Great Neck] Plaza and some of the other villages.” 

The park district manages three commuter lots open to residents of the park district, located at Canterbury Road, North Station Plaza and Shorewood Drive. 

The Great Neck Park District incorporates all Great Neck villages and unincorporated areas with the exception of Great Neck Estates, Harbor Hills, Lake Success, Saddle Rock and University.

The Great Neck Park District will swear in Nachmanoff and Frank Cilluffo at its next meeting on Jan. 8. at 8 p.m. Nachmanoff was re-elected and Cilluffo was elected for the first time in December.

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