Trailer-Park Sales Leave Residents With Single-Wides and Few Options [Long Island]
In the middle of Long Island’s Gold Coast, where home prices easily reach $1 million, sits the Syosset Mobile Home Park, where a trailer can be had for under $50,000 and the monthly fee for taxes, water and sewage runs about $500. The children growing up in the park’s 80 narrow homes attend Syosset schools, reputed to be among the best in the country.
But fliers stuffed in the mailboxes next to the decorated trailer hitches and propane tanks on April 9 brought bad news: The park had been sold. It was left to the affable handyman to expand on the single-sentence announcement, explaining that the new owners had told him they planned to replace the 250 working-class residents’ single-wide slice of the American dream with luxury housing.