New Hyde Park residents fight plan at Islamic center
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | The Hillside Islamic Center in New Hyde Park wants to tear down a house located at 1046 2nd St. in order to put in an expanded parking lot. (Sept. 22, 2010)
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New Hyde Park residents, upset a proposed parking lot for the Hillside Islamic Center could cause traffic and decrease property values among other issues, found themselves having to defend their objections as not being anti-Muslim at a zoning appeals hearing Wednesday.
The center has asked the Town of North Hempstead's Board of Zoning Appeals for a variance to convert residential property...
