Letters

Southampton Town now has four ugly, blighted properties: 7Zs Swimming Pool, Bel-Aire Cove Motel property, Getty gas station and the former Casa Basso Restaurant. The first three have been vacant for many years. They are a blight on our community. They look like Superfund sites.

Casa Basso was purchased recently. We don’t understand why the town bought it when their priorities should have been fixing up, or beautifying, the first three first.

Bel-Aire Cove is supposed to become a “passive park” with six parking spaces. If the park gets used or becomes successful, the town might add a bathroom and fitness equipment. That’s comical. Parks should have bathrooms and a reasonable number of parking spaces.

This is the Town of Southampton, one of the wealthiest communities in the USA. There should not be any blight, especially upon entering the town, like where Getty is situated.

James Dreeben

Hampton Bays