Bethpage Community Park

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. donated an 18-acre site valued at about $720,000 to Oyster Bay Township for the construction of a community park and swimming pool complex in Bethpage. The undeveloped property is on the west side of Stewart Avenue at Cherry Avenue, north of the Grumman plant and opposite Bethpage High School. The park was dedicated on May 22, 1965. The park was forced to close in 2002 due to contaminated land. The pool was reopened in 2003 and the playground for the children was reopened in the fall of 2003. In January 2006 the ball fields and picnic areas remain closed till those areas are clean of contaminates.

Below information from the Bethpage Tribune - May 13 - 19, 2005

The Town of Oyster Bay and the State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) have entered into an Order on Consent regarding Bethpage Community Park. This allows for the Town to develop and implement its own remediation plan, based on testing performed by its own experts, for the first phase of the cleanup and remediation, which is approximately 6.6 acre area at the north end of the park. The Town hired H2M Group an environmental engineering firm, to develop a remediation plan, known as an Interim Remedial Measure (IRM).

During the testing, the park will be closed to the public. The testing is expected to take four to six weeks.

Below information from the Bethpage Tribune December 19 - 25, 2008

On December 13, 2008 the grand opening of the Town of Oyster Bay, state of the art, Ice Skating Center at the Community Park. The facility will be used by hockey players, figure skaters and recreational skaters. The town government acted responsibly and professionally in ridding the community of a contaminated site and replacing it with this beautiful facility.