Re: (rshsdepot) East Williston, NY is still dead......

["seth bramson" <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

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From: "Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) East Williston, NY is still dead......


> But locals in the future may regret it and this is what I call a crime..

>>>Then "the crime" was the crime of negligence and neglect, Paul, and said
"crime" was committed by "the locals," NOT by the LIRR.
>
> Did all these groups know that the station was threatened or
deteriorating?

>>>Christ, Paul, all they had to do was LOOK AT IT!  What are they, morons?
It must have been obvious for some time that the place was derelict.

 Were they offered the chance to fix it up? Use it? Buy
> it? Move it? Know it was in danger of removal?  It sounds like they
didn't.

>>>Paul, my thinking alike politically friend, it doesn't matter and it is
immaterial:  THEY did not act in a proactive fashion.  Why defend "them?"
They were fools for NOT acting proactively, and, again, the physical
appearance of the building should have and must have been "a clue."

I think if some in the community had someone somewhere
> would have mentioned it somewhere that a search would find something...it
seems they didn't...Is there knowledge that they all knew
> and were offered a chance to save it and rejected it?  Or was this
something only after 9/11 when almost no community has funds
> anymore for this type of thing? Then it should have been sprayed with
plastic and left until a better economic time....

>>>It doesn't work that way.  The "community" doesn't have to have "the
funds."  In Boca Raton they started a grass roots fund raising effort, and
by Neil they saved the station.  In Daytona Beach they sat on their hands
(or used their hands in a self satisfying way, much to the chagrin of "the
church" cause in any case, the dummies were BLIND!) and did nothing, just as
they did nothing in E. Williston.  What will be saved is what "the
community" wants to have saved and those people didn't care about the
building, so that, unhappily for them (and, yes, for us, but for different
reasons) is that, and no amount of kvetching, whining, teeth gnashing,
harrummphing or bitching is going to bring it back.


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