New street signs in Lynbrook

In recent months, drivers and pedestrians mayhave noticed some of the new decorative street signs while navigating their way in the Village of Lynbrook. The black street signs and poles were placed in heavily trafficked parts of the village and there are plans to add more.

According to Village Administrator John Giordano, 120 signs and poles were set up from March to June by the village’s Department of Public Works employees. The signs and poles were funded through a 2009 highway bond in which $70,000 was earmarked for new signage. Giordano said new “Welcome to Lynbrook” signs were first purchased with the funds and the remaining approximately $62,000 went toward the new street signs and poles.

To save time and money, village employees simply removed the old street signs, sleeved the new poles over the existing ones and attached the new signs.

Giordano said village officials liked the street signs in the Village of Malverne and reached out to their neighboring colleagues to ask what company they used a couple of years ago. Once a design for the poles and signs was chosen, a bid was put out. It just so happened that Maryland’s MidAtlantic Mailbox, Inc., the company that made Malverne’s signs, was the lowest bidder for Lynbrook.

Also included in the street sign funding were decorative stop signs, which were recently placed at the intersection of Hendrickson Avenue and Woodlawn Place.

Due to the aesthetic appeal of the new street signs and stops signs, village officials filed a grant application last week to obtain funds from the New York State Department of Transportation, known as NYSDOT, for an additional 375 street signs and 540 stops signs. The additional signs would cover the rest of the village. The request of $556,000 was made through the NYSDOT’s Transportation Enhancement Program, Giordano said, adding that village officials should hear back by next spring if the grant request was successful.