Readers Write: Time to consider a City of Great Neck

The Island Now

My comments about the empty store fronts is not going to please anybody. A fast-food shop was not wanted. Hookah places are not wanted. Massage Parlors are not wanted.

Pity the poor landlord who cannot rent to illegal activities.

We have a plethora of everything.

Who is responsible?

The small ingrown little villages who allowed all this construction in the first place.

A good answer is to tax the landlord for each and every empty store front. It will drive them out of the picture and then sell!

What we need is for the [Great Neck] Park District to encourage the villages to consolidate, to become a city. Think Glen Cove.

The Town of North Hempstead may not like it but that is what is necessary.

Force them to get all the villages, except King Point, to join and to extend from Kings Point to Northern Boulevard.

No new store fronts. Apartments up to seven stories tall. Parking underneath for the community as well as the tenants.

Three parking spots per apartment with city meters for all during the daytime.

Encourage a city center by the train station. Other communities are doing that.

We cannot because we are fracture into small communities with ‘leaders’ with special self centered interests.

I live in University Gardens. We should be attached to Lake Success.

We tried a few decades ago but were not welcomed.

Fewer government units are needed.

Perhaps the school district should be the defining governmental area.

Think out of the box. It may get us somewhere!

I have been in Great Neck for a half century and seen many but inadequate changes.

Norman Roland

Great Neck

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