At the ribbon cutting, from left were Terry Burton Reichel, president of the Island Park Business and Residential Chamber of Commerce and her first vice president, Matt Interligi; Assistant Fire Chief Anthony D’Esposito; Island Park Village Mayor Michael McGinty; Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony Santino; ESPN Fitness owner Eddie Leach; Island Park Deputy Mayor Steve D’Esposito; Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky; Long Beach Chamber of Commerce President Mark Tannenbaum; Island Park Library Board Vice President Joseph Pontecorvo; and Island Park school board Trustees Jack Vobis and Nina Hargrove. (Barbra Rubin-Perry/Herald)
The Island Park Business and Residential Chamber held the grand opening of the new ESPN Fitness in Island Park last Saturday. Moving across the street from the old location, owner Eddie Leach did all the work himself, gutting what since Hurricane Sandy had been a vacant row of businesses.