[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Riverhead (NY) Armory

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Town eyes Riverhead armory for police headquarters

BY TIM GANNON
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
February 4, 2010

The Army National Guard is scheduled to vacate the Riverhead armory 
later this year, and Riverhead officials are interested in using the 
building as a town police headquarters.

"I'm working on it," Supervisor Sean Walter said when asked about the 
possibility of a Route 58 police station.

Meanwhile, the Peconic YMCA group has also expressed interest in using 
the building's expansive gymnasium

The state Division of Military and Naval Affairs is planning to close 
all the armories on Long Island later this year in favor of a 
centralized Armed Forces Reserve Center at Republican Airport in 
Farmingdale, according to an agency spokesman Eric Durr, The Air 
National Guard base in Westhampton will not be affected by the move.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.timesreview.com/NR/stories/R020410_armory_GAN

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