Re: Great Neck Library and the mobility impaired.
Main (Saddle Rock/Kings Point) has a large parking lot and lots of street parking. It has a good number of disabled parking slots. It has properly functioning door openers for the mobility impaired.
Lakeville is a storefront with no nearby disabled parking and no assisted door opener.
The library board has not approached the town to designate two slots on the public street for disabled parking after the 10 a.m. restrictions are over. It does not have an assisted door opener. It costs money they appear unwilling to spend.
Parkville has parking on its side of the street and general parking on the side. No street slots are designated for disabled parking.
Space is available and should be requested by the library. An electrical system for opening the door is needed. The board is negligent.
Station is unique. There are four or five disabled spots in a massive parking lot which at 9 a.m. already has about 40 to 50 parked cars.
The fitness facility is closing and another is coming. They may have about 100 patrons (and 100 cars) at 10 in the morning.
The landlord should limit parking to patrons (not employees or commuters) and should be requested to add 10 slots for the disabled.
This same location does not follow federal guidelines for disabled access as there is no way a disabled person could enter the building. The landlord should be forced to supply the proper equipment, or the proper authorities should be notified.
While I am at it, why aren’t the “mysteries” integrated with the other fiction?
Another mystery is why the offices at Main are going to be relocated from the lower level to the mezzanine at a cost of about a half million dollars?
Is the library paying for space on the landing at Station which they are not using?
Norman R.
Great Neck
