Letters to the Editor: Lynbrook, East Rockaway

This is an excerpt fro a letter submitted to Mayor Bill Hendrick and the Lynbrook Board of Trustees on July 16.

Don’t change the fabric of our neighborhood
Owners of the Rockville Centre Inn and Holiday Inn Express on Sunrise Highway quietly purchased three homes in Lynbrook, two on Merton Avenue and one on Ocean Avenue, to demolish the existing structures so that they could expand their parking lots. Two of the homes were in pristine condition when purchased by the hotels in the past few months. Such actions will forever change the fabric of our neighborhood, especially for those residents and nearby streets.
If you were in our shoes, living directly across from or adjacent to the sites of these proposed zoning changes, how would you feel about this request? Would you want this to be happening to parcels of land where you live? What would your expectation be of the village’s governing body regarding how you wanted them to respond to the hotels’ petition?
Area residents are indignant over this proposal as it would completely change the nature of the neighborhood, while substantially reducing property values. Can any of you categorically state you’d want lovely homes opposite or adjacent to yours demolished for the convenience of a hotel parking lot? Just imagine the change in view, noise, traffic congestion and pollution.
A parking lot at this location, with people coming and going 24 hours a day, would increases the potential for, among other things, more noise throughout the night while neighbors attempt sleeping; additional traffic accidents and pedestrian dangers, and traffic backing up even further.
How could this ill-conceived project do anything but hurt the Village of Lynbrook? If it can happen in one part of town, it could happen anywhere.
Jennifer Herrera 
Patricia Nicoletti 
Paul Tubin 
Lynbrook residents

Doesn’t like ‘teach to the test’ ethic

To the Editor:
In the case of standardized testing, there are no winners, only losers. Our children, as well as our educators lose.