🌱 Patch AM: Will Kings Point Park lose acres to a private parking lot?

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• Will Kings Point Park lose acres to a private parking lot?

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📰 News we're reading

• Concerned Citizens of NY-03 ramps up pressure on local lawmakers regarding Kings Point parkland alienation (longislandpress.com) — Great Neck officials are under growing pressure from a local watchdog group to address a controversial plan that could trade away 2.48 acres of Kings Point Park for a private center’s parking lot. Residents, activists, and village leaders are now clashing over transparency, traffic, and alternatives, with Mayor Pedram Bral planning a public presentation on the proposal in early January.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I have no idea. I didn’t even know sheep could knit.
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