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Maple parking lot has no lights for practices yet Habernickle parking lot has stadium lights for a field that closes at dark?

Habernickel Park Gate House

September 19,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Can someone please answer why Maple parking lot has no lights for practices that get out after dark?  It is very dangerous picking up and dropping off kids in the pitch black.  Why does Habernickle parking lot  have stadium lights for a field that closes at dark?  Is it because the Village allowed a for profit business to open in the park?  If that is the reason it’s very upsetting to think the Village is more concerned about the welfare of Healthbarn’s customers then it is for it’s own tax paying children.

Healthbarn seems to be getting a lot of perks handed to it.  Very time I have been in that park I see Parks & Rec trucks working by or on the property surrounding the gate house and garbage and recycling collection too, dose Healthbarn pay for the added services?  I saw that her rent is only $3,700.00 a month for the length of the entire lease, plus she gets her garden included in that price that seems like a deal a lot of people would want.

Let’s put the tax payers first not some business run by a non resident.  Supporting Healthtbarn is only taking profits away from the Village programs run by Parks and Rec.

9 thoughts on “Maple parking lot has no lights for practices yet Habernickle parking lot has stadium lights for a field that closes at dark?

  1. It’s a commercial venture in a residential neighborhood. Time to get out of the water AND property management businesses!

  2. I hit the reoccurring
    Pothole on linwood next to the Pool crosswalk this morning
    ( a town worksite ) and almost lost my front wheel and the answer is the same..

    they- the town generally just don’t give a damm.

  3. It is an endevour gone sour. I agree with the above comment. Get out of the real estate business you are doing a poor job of it at the gate house. None of the activities bringing in major revenue for a private business are monitored by the village. When questions are asked to the village in regards to these activities they do NOT know the answers!!! It was never fair what was done to this neighborhood. No other active field or park also has a very active business in it! out of respect for all tax payers it should be at the absolute least monitored and controlled by the village. I was there yesterday with my small children after school and the amount of cars in the parking lot and in the street was ridiculous. All the fields were being used and the drivers had no respect for myself and my kids in bikes. I saw illegal parking, u turns on the street backing up from soccer moms just to get out of the driveway all the while more and more cars coming for classes or whatever at the gatehouse. Insane, unsafe and sad!!! It was a beautiful peaceful place to bring your kids but no longer. Lights or no lights it is a mess!!!!

  4. Aside from rental income, which is below market value, how much income does Health Barn USA generate for the Village of Ridgewood?

  5. 3:54 I love your sense of irony. The question should actually be “How much does the health barn cost the Village above and beyond their minimal rent?”

  6. 12:20 – do what I do, go to the hardware store and buy a can of orange spray paint then go back to said area and paint a big circle around it.

    Or fill the hole with golf balls…..continuously…

  7. The addition of lights were due to an increase of vandalism to the park overnight, unrelated to the HealthBarn. The area residents requested additional security to deter future incidents.

  8. That is so not true. The residents were insistent about NO lighting and lied to by tim Cronin who is on tape saying NO new lights would be installed. Get your facts before you comment!!! It is a disgrace over there and all new unwelcome changes were done for the business and the business only!!!

  9. Ridgewood should be sued by other business owners to get the same services freely provided to the Health Barn. Why does this for profit business get subsidized by the Ridgewood tax payers? And their rent alone is a subsidy as they never would have gotten that price anywhere else. We know this was set up as a buddy-buddy arrangement but now the 1st buddy (Roberta) is gone, why does the favoritism continue? They should be paying a higher rent and paying any necessary expenses (sidewalk, garbage, lawn care, free water, etc) out of their budget, not out of the Ridgewood tax payer’s pockets.

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