Mystery solved: No more stumbling around in the dark
Parking lot on North Greeley, across from Susan Lawrence, looking south
July 9, 2010
by Christine Yeres
This last week, the parking lot on North Greeley Avenue across from Susan Lawrence was festooned with numerous orange cones standing guard along a trench running through the middle of the parking lot. Hmm, a concrete-crunching family of moles runs amok in downtown Chappaqua? A belated Greeley graduation celebration with all those orange cones?
No, rather a little “home improvement” project by the town of New Castle. “Several merchants pointed out that the lot, which has good parking and is convenient to the businesses on King Street as well as on North Greeley, is particularly dark,” recalled New Castle New Castle Town Administrator Gennaro Faiella. “So the town board decided that three lights on poles would be sufficient to light the lot. Much of the work has been done in-house by town workers.”
This week Department of Public Works employees installed the underground wiring and concrete bases through the middle of the lot, parallel to North Greeley Avenue. They will support three light poles of the same type as illuminate the Chappaqua train station, but with capped lights that will direct the light downward.
With all the wiring and supports in place, DPW workers expect to place the poles and light fixtures on the bases as early as next week. Mystery solved.
This lighting project, according to Faiella, is costing around $25,000.
The view from Susan Lawrence:
OK, now that it will be lighted, is there anything that can be done to develop a line of shops along that parking lot? It’s a pretty darned ugly stretch of nothing along that side of the street (your pic at bottom shows as much)—and the big planter pots can’t hide that!
