Mar 6, 2012 5:59 PM
They call themselves the Unoccupy the Hamptons movement. And no, they have nothing to do with Wall Street.
An impassioned contingent of Springs residents appeared before the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday to express frustration over illegal overcrowding, an ongoing issue in their hamlet that they feel is largely being ignored by town officials.
About 10 people spoke at last week’s meeting on the issue, some calling for the Town Board to hold a summit at which the town’s Ordinance Enforcement Department would be on hand to field concerns about quality of life issues that they claim have become a part of everyday life for the community— large numbers of cars parked at properties, an unsafe number of residents packed into homes and the high enrollment at Springs School that has... more
An impassioned contingent of Springs residents appeared before the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday to express frustration over illegal overcrowding, an ongoing issue in their hamlet that they feel is largely being ignored by town officials.
About 10 people spoke at last week’s meeting on the issue, some calling for the Town Board to hold a summit at which the town’s Ordinance Enforcement Department would be on hand to field concerns about quality of life issues that they claim have become a part of everyday life for the community— large numbers of cars parked at properties, an unsafe number of residents packed into homes and the high enrollment at Springs School that has... more
Ironically, the gentleman who produced the film version of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Mr. Alan Pakula, a great film maker, is buried in Springs. Someone should go check his grave stone at Green River Cemetery, it probably has tears on it today. And to others that waxed poetic on how their parents and grandparents came to this country an assimilated seamlessly. Go and take a look at pictures of Mulberry Street and Canal Street circa 1910. Big families living together, laundry hug from apartment windows over the street, large groups of people sitting on their stoops, vendor carts in the streets, and basically people doing what they could to make it here in our great country. Thank the Lord the Unoccupy the Hamptons hamptonites wern't around back then -- it would have been a full assault on the Italians at the turn of the century and the Irish and Germans before them.
2. zoning would have to be changed places for true commercial business in Srpings, and 3. a reassessment would have to take place. Numbers 2 and 3 are the "hard" issues that the Board could look at but mostl likely would be booed out of existence if they tried to implement them. And we all know 1 is the hardest issue which the Board has no control over. Going after Latinos and painting "them" with a large brush ...more as criminals (or in this instance - going after them with binoculars and cameras) is much, much easier. Some of the "overcrowding" may not be "illegal". Did you predictions of doom and gloom and threats of "negative reations" fall on "deaf ears" when McGintee was in for 6 years too, or do you have a "rating" for the job Code Enforcement did back then compared to today? Not being facetious. Honest question.
Is it the jobs they do? Restaurant bars and dining rooms, okay; restaurant kitchens, no good? Framing carpenters, no good; trim carpenters, okay? Or do you have a problem with all immigrants, or just those who speak foreign languages, or English with an accent? ...more Help us out here, Chief - we need your expertise here.
Really?
In fact, that information came straight from a "horse's mouth"...
A Latino friend of mine with three daughters living in Springs hates that the house next to hers is filled with men in their 20s. The value of her house and quality of life are impacted. Why should she and others suffer? Why can't our town leaders do whatever it takes to solve the problem?
It ain't pretty either...
Just ignore the problem the schools and Suffolk ...more County are bankrupt. There is no more money for our illegal friends. I'm a realist not a racist
And the illegals break the law every day they are here and laugh in your face about it. Then you give them a free lunch and that just brings more into the area....which is why 15 people to a house is normal now
No one seems to care about the american tradesman,who has to deal with squashed wages and underbidding going on by companies who hire illegals,don't pay the workmans comp. on them,which is required by law,and dodge the irs all ...more together That's ok though?
Springs used to be a nice place,,,,prices just keep going up while your property values keep going down,,,hmmmm
"Illegal Aliens are mostly lawless people from lawless countries and they will break any law they stands in their way"... and you ...more lose me.