{"id":4836,"date":"2025-04-17T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:24:37","slug":"newsday-covers-surge-quantum-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=4836","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Covers Surge\/Quantum Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Middle Island nursing centers&#8217; expansion plan sparks&nbsp;standoff with Brookhaven Town over parking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0Carl MacGowan<\/strong> Updated April 16, 2025 5:17 pm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two adjacent Middle Island nursing homes seeking to expand are in a standoff with neighbors&nbsp;and Brookhaven Town that both sides blame on a chronic lack of parking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff and visitors to the Surge and Quantum rehabilitation and nursing centers&nbsp;park their cars at the&nbsp;end of&nbsp;driveways of nearby homes, block package deliveries and take up parking spaces at a nearby park, according to Brookhaven officials and nearby residents who say they are fed up with the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nursing centers \u2014 which sit on adjoining Oakcrest Avenue properties and share the same ownership \u2014 are&nbsp;seeking town permission to build a small visitors center, town officials say. The centers&#8217;&nbsp;owners also are seeking to subdivide the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Brookhaven officials say they will block both zoning requests until the parking problem is resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parking at a premium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Residents of a Middle Island neighborhood<\/strong>&nbsp;say staff and visitors of the Surge and Quantum nursing homes park their cars at the end of driveways and block mail and package deliveries.<\/li><li><strong>Brookhaven Town has erected no-parking signs<\/strong>&nbsp;along Oakcrest Avenue near the facilities.<\/li><li><strong>Surge and Quantum officials say<\/strong>&nbsp;they &#8220;understand the community\u2019s concerns&#8221; and are working with town and civic leaders to resolve them.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gail Lynch-Bailey, president of the Middle Island Civic Association, said informal efforts to solve the problem have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe biggest problem is the parking. They don\u2019t have ample parking for visitors and&nbsp;the staff,&#8221; Lynch-Bailey said in a telephone interview. &#8220;The neighbors have just had it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nursing homes, which were built more than 50 years ago, serve a combined 250 patients daily,&nbsp;according to a statement released Tuesday by the facilities through a public relations spokesman.&nbsp;Quantum specializes in treating&nbsp;people&nbsp;recovering from traumatic brain injury, and Surge provides treatment for&nbsp;chronic breathing and heart conditions, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement acknowledged demand for parking has grown&nbsp;in recent years due to increases in&nbsp;visitors and staffing.&nbsp;The facilities did not provide figures for employment or visitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The administrators and staff of Surge and Quantum are committed to being good and responsive neighbors,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Facility managers understand the community\u2019s concerns and are working diligently and have partnered with the Town of Brookhaven and civic association to find both short- and long-term solutions that will offer relief.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Surge facility, with cars parked along the street.&nbsp;Credit: Newsday\/Alejandra Villa Loarca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbors say Surge and Quantum posed no problems for the neighborhood until the past two to four years, when, they say, staff and visitors began flooding the street with parked vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers have blocked driveways, thrown litter on lawns and prevented deliveries of packages including pharmaceuticals, some residents said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy postal carrier, she can\u2019t get in to deliver mail and she can\u2019t get in and out of her car,\u201d resident Karen Allen said. She added that&nbsp;parking issues also make it difficult for nursing home&nbsp;visitors who must park a long distance from the facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had a woman crying in front of my house because she couldn\u2019t get down the street to see her husband.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brookhaven Councilman Michael Loguercio said the town erected signs restricting parking in front of the houses about a year ago. There were no apparent parking violations Tuesday morning when a Newsday photographer visited the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loguercio said some nursing home visitors and staff have parked down the road at Pine Lake town park, eliciting&nbsp;complaints from park patrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Surge and Quantum&nbsp;must create new parking before the town grants their owner&#8217;s request to approve construction of a&nbsp;new building on the property and to subdivide the parcel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will not support any expansion of that building until they arrange for ample parking&nbsp;for all of their employees and visitors,\u201d he said in a phone interview.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lynch-Bailey said some residents also complain about odors such as sewage and motor oils that they believe are coming from the nursing homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the complaints, she said, most people aren&#8217;t opposed to the homes \u2014 as long as the parking issues are solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople say a lot of bad things about these places &#8230; but they&nbsp;are healing people and they aren\u2019t going away,&#8221; Lynch-Bailey said. &#8220;We have to come up with a plan to deal with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle Island nursing centers&#8217; expansion plan sparks&nbsp;standoff with Brookhaven Town over parking By\u00a0Carl MacGowan Updated April 16, 2025 5:17 pm Two adjacent Middle Island nursing homes seeking to expand are in a standoff with neighbors&nbsp;and Brookhaven Town that both sides blame on a chronic lack of parking. Staff and visitors to the Surge and Quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}