New Greenlawn Park Playground Opens

GREENLAWN, NY — The new Greenlawn Park playground was christened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 16.

Greenlawn Park (Tri-Village) Playground, at the corner of Pulaski Road and Broadway-Greenlawn Road in Greenlawn, has undergone improvements including:

• New playground equipment.
• A new concrete walkway.
• A new picnic area with a gazebo.
• New landscape plantings.
• New fences – perimeter and interior.
• Solar cell phone/tablet charging stations.

Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci, Councilman Mark Cuthbertson, Councilwoman Joan Cergol, Town Clerk Andrew Raia and Receiver of Taxes Jillian Guthman were joined by Town officials, the Town’s EOSPA Committee and the Greenlawn Civic Association for the event.

"We are excited to see these playground improvements realized at Greenlawn Park, one of our most popular regional parks, which will provide a complement to the popular Greenlawn skate park and athletic fields," Lupinacci stated via news release. "Greenlawn Park Playground is a case study in a community advocating for the improvement of their open space and a local government responding to that community."

The state-of-the-art playground will help provide local children with a "safe, nourishing environment and place to grow," Raia stated.

Deputy Supervisor Ed Smyth and Councilman Eugene Cook were unable to attend the ceremony but voted to approve the EOSPA funding for the playground along with Lupinacci, Cuthbertson and Cergol.

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