Community Corner
Community Comes Together To Clean Up Drug, Prostitute-Ridden Lot
Residents are taking back their community from crack dealers and prostitutes.
Fighting back against the crime, drugs and prostitution they say can be found outside their front doors, the Riverside community is taking a stand.
On Wednesday morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m., a cleanup will commence of a parcel of land on New York State Route 104, near the New York State trooper barracks on Riverleigh Avenue.
Alex Gregor, Southampton Town Superintendent of Highways, announced the cleanup at a meeting Monday night of the Flanders, Riverside and Northampton Community Association.
"It's overgrown, there's crack use and prostitution," Gregor said.
The cleanup is a cooperative effort spearheaded by Brad Bender of FRNCA, the Southampton Town police department and highway department, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department.
Gregor said the cleanup will take place both Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Next week, he added, the goal is to bulldoze the field, "so there isn't anyplace to hide. The police need to be safe."
Bender said the hope is to create a soccer field in the space.
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