Village of Flower Hill residents voiced concerns regarding traffic issues on Greenway in Roslyn at the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday.
Flower Hill resident Ed Gomez, who attended the meeting with his wife Megan Gomez, said the construction at the house diagonal from them is creating traffic to build up on the street.
“One of the things we want to point out is the fact that Greenway itself is a very narrow street so it’s very difficult to park a car and unfortunately there are two schools bus stops there,” Gomez said. “In addition we have landscaping trucks coming in and out that are forced to exit all the way out to the north side of Greenway. As a resident of Greenway for the past 20 years I feel I’ve been discriminated against not intentionally, but as a resident where because to appease the residents of Bayberry [Ridge in Roslyn] basically the residents of Greenway pay the price.”
Gomez said he would like to see Greenway, which is located between Port Washington Boulevard and Middle Neck Road north of Northern Boulevard, turn into a one-way street to help slow down the traffic.
Village Mayor Elaine Phillips said the village will address the traffic issues after the construction of the home is completed.
Phillips said the construction on the house should be completed in the next six months. She said that in the meantime the village would be willing to set up a traffic monitor sign on their property.
Also at the meeting, East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz asked the village for support with filing a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration to address aircraft noise concerns in the area.
“Now I want to file a lawsuit against the FAA and the lawsuit would be they are not following any of their guidelines, any of their rules and regulations,” Koblenz said.
Koblenz said he sent a letter to North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano asking for their support.
He said the goal would be to have the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay to “step up to the plate and join in the lawsuit.”
Koblenz said the Village of Old Westberry and the Village of Roslyn support the lawsuit and asked for Flower Hill’s assistance.
“We as a village by ourselves can’t do it,” he said.
“The planes come down so low, the joke is you can reach up and get your peanuts,” Koblenz said. “Flower Hill apparently has not struggled as much as we have been or Westbury, Brookville, Upper Brookville.”
Koblenz said the Village of East Hills has meet with members of the FAA, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Congressman Steve Israel.
“Steve Israel was a big component to help us, but now he’s leaving so we don’t have his voice any longer,” Koblenz said.
He said he’s not asking villages to pay the costs for the lawsuit, which he estimated would cost a roughly $1 million dollars.
“I’m not asking the village to write checks,” Koblenz said.
He said he’s just asking for their support. He also said residents could file a complaint directly on the Village of East Hills website.
Phillips said she would include information in the next Flower Hill newsletter.
“We have a newsletter coming out, maybe we can put a little blurb in there and say a way of filing a complaint go to East Hills,” she said.
“I’m interested to see if residents in Flower Hill are concerned about it,” Trustee Brian Herrington said.
Information on how to register a complaint against the FAA can be found at https://www.villageofeasthills.org/.
