East Patchogue turning blight into park
Photo credit: Town of Brookhaven | An undated handout photo of the long-blighted Nessenger building in East Patchogue.
In the late 1970s, when George Nesenger opened his Chevrolet dealership in East Patchogue, the surrounding stretch of highway was a busy commercial corridor packed with car dealerships, recalled his son, Bruce Nesenger.
By the late 1990s, though, traffic patterns had shifted, and "things were going downhill," said Bruce Nesenger, 64. He moved the business to Medford in 1998 and sold the building,...
