Please sign our petition and check out our website www.syossetmobile.comWe ask our fellow Americans for their support in our efforts to save our homes and our community. Our nation has always come to the aid of its own in a time of crisis and we at the Syosset Mobile Home Park are living in a constant state of crisis.
In April 2007, our mobile home park was sold to Larry Rush, a developer, and STP Associates, LLC. They want us to take our homes and get off their land. There is nowhere to move our homes and we will receive no compensation for our homes if we leave them behind! The residents at the park believe that closing an 80 year old Mobile Home Community which provides an affordable housing alternative for middle-class citizens in today’s skyrocketing real estate market to build even more luxury homes is unconscionable. Nassau County and the Town of Oyster Bay should be ashamed of themselves if they consider Larry Rush and STP's proposal to destroy this close-knit mobile home community in favor of redeveloping the property into high-end luxury housing.
Please help save our neighborhood by signing and forwarding our online petition here Online petition - Don't let the Syosset Mobile Home Park Die
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Syosset Mobile Home Park is home to 70+ families. Our community has quietly co-existed within Syosset since at least 1926 which makes it 80 years old and many Syosset residents are unaware of our existence.
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This park, our home,is a quiet, close knit community of 70 families. On April 2, 2007 our park was sold to a developer, STP Associates, LLC. We,the residents at Syosset Mobile Home Park were devastated and blindsided by the sale. STP Associates, LLC has indicated that they would like to close down our park and advised us to take our homes and get off their land. Our homes cannot be moved for many reasons and we will receive NO compensation should we leave our homes behind. The residents of our community have scrimped and saved to purchase their homes and are now facing the reality of their families becoming homeless or dependent upon public assistance. We have put our life savings into purchasing, furnishing and refurbishing our homes and each of us stands to lose our homes, our only assets.
On October 7th, we hosted our first of several fund raisers to help raise money to offset our legal costs to fight to keep our park and our homes. Our goal is to raise enough money to cover our legal costs and to purchase our park to make it a co-operative community.
I urge you to please express your support by writing letters and signing our online petition here Online petition - Don't let the Syosset Mobile Home Park Die .
You can also mail donations to:
HOPE Assoc. of Syosset,
57 Ira Road, Suite 202,
Syosset NY 11791
Let him go build in a place where it won’t destroy our lives and the future of our children. There are so many empty lots he can turn into anything he wants. He’s taking a place people have called home for all these years and forcing us to be homeless. We will not crawl away as he expected!. We will do whatever it takes to save our homes! Please help us spread the word by signing an forwarding the link to as many people as possible This is AMERICA and this is a total travesty of justice, not to mention the law of human decency. It’s sick! How can a man’s conscience allow him to pull the rug out from under all our lives, from under all the homes we love so much?
Our community atmosphere brings to mind days of old where neighbors knew each other, children played outside together, parents didn’t have to escort their children to a neighbors house for fear of what might happen on the way there and crime was something that happened in someone else’s community
The site, Oaks Trailer Park, now known as Syosset Mobile Home Park began as a campground back in 1938/1939 and has always been a “mobile communityâ€. It slowly developed into a mobile home park as mobile homes became affordable alternatives to traditional stick built homes. The property was owned by the Horowitz family and was passed down from Harry and Muriel Horowitz to their son Sanford. The park was managed under Hormi Holding Company (est. 1960). Sanford Horowitz (of Hormi Holding) sold the park to STP Assoc., LLC. (est. 7/12/06) on 4/2/07
Our first fundraiser rocked and turned our despair into hope! .....You had to see the whole neighborhood burst into tears when all the bikes pulled into the park and the tears streaming from their faces as all the bikes rode around the park, our "RIDE FOR HOPE" The overwhelming feeling of despair being replaced by an overwhelming feeling of hope is the most incredible experience of my life. Being able to give this to my little neighborhood through the help of all the people who showed up at the benefit and showed how much they cared just by being there is something I can never thank them enough for and will be overwhelmed and humbled by the thought of that day forever.God Bless Margaret and Matt for helping us put it all together and the Hog Chapter of the Lighthouse Harley for spreading a true ray of sunshine and love through our homes and our hearts !
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