Spray park for slain officer gets board OK
Photo of NYPD Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo. Credit: Twitter / Commissioner Paul O’Neill
The Huntington Town Board voted to appropriate $230,000 from the Parks and Recreation Reserve Fund to help pay for construction of the Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo Spray Park at Elwood Park.
This will be Huntington’s first spray park, which will be named for slain NYPD Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo, and is expected to open this summer.
Tuozzolo, a father of two, was shot and killed in November 2016 while responding to a 911 call in the Bronx. He and his wife, Lisa, had lived in Greenlawn for about nine years, close to where the spray park will be built.
In November, the town board approved spending $380,000 for the development of the water facility at Elwood Park.
The 2,500-square-foot park will have 1,600 square feet of active play features. The area also will have a shade structure, six park benches, a 4-foot vinyl-coated chain-link fence and a memorial trellis with the name of the spray park.
The board approved the measure 5-0 at the Feb. 6 town board meeting.
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