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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.