Gina Mayonove lives two doors away from the Lynbrook Restorative Therapy and Nursing Center and next door to 11 Roosevelt Avenue. “Since June 10, our lives have been turned upside down,” she said. “That was the day that we learned the Hart family … sold their home to the nursing home. Let it be very clear that there was never a problem seeing our elderly accommodated when it was a nursing home,” she said. “Let it also be clear that since the facility was converted to a revolving door money-making rehab facility machine, we have had nothing but problems. Since then, myself and all the surrounding residents have been enduring a decline in our quality of life [that] … we, the residents, are the collateral damage to a business deal.”

Mayonove said that for the last 18 months or more, she and some of her neighbors been unable to park on their own block because, she said, beginning at 6:30 a.m., most all the vehicles are the rehab employees. “ … the problem is not the employees, as they really have nowhere else to go.” She said that there is also an increase of garbage on the block.

She added that a local realtor told her that her home’s value would decline in value if 11 Roosevelt Avenue were used for anything other than a residential family. “Who is prepared to compensate me for my losses?” she asked.

Williams agreed that parking could be extremely difficult. “We are not taking away from the existing community, we want to add to it,” he said. “We want to provide something that is of value to this local neighborhood. I don’t think [what we do] affects home prices, as you say. We are well run, well financed … and a company that cares.”

“They don’t even live in this community and his business plan has proven thus far to have never considered the community and its residents,” Mayonove said. “You simply cannot pour a gallon of water into a cup.”

Upon recommendation from counsel, Lenahan and the board were advised to table a decision on the matter until they could get more information, including looking at photographs and exhibits that were submitted by the residents during Monday’s hearing.