Thursday, October 1, 2026
Work has begun on Lynbrook’s railroad trestles after village officials spent roughly four years pushing for improvements, Mayor Alan Beach announced at the Aug. 24 village board meeting.
Beach said the trestles had not been painted in decades, making the work a long-awaited improvement to the village’s downtown area.
“The last time they were painted was 1996,” Beach said. “It took us four years and conversations with [the railroad]before they started.”
Getting the project underway required persistent communication over the years, Beach said, including repeated phone calls and emails with railroad officials.
Beach credited his secretary, Sue, with helping the village stay on top of the project as officials continued to seek progress.
“My secretary, Sue, always was a great help in getting that done too,” Beach said. “Constantly going back and forth with emails. It’s unbelievable.”
The work comes as Lynbrook continues making improvements to its downtown business district. The village recently completed its new pedestrian walkway connecting Broadway and Atlantic Avenue, another project Beach said took longer than officials had hoped to complete.
“The walkway came together very nicely, finally,” Beach said. “That even took a little too long. Just politics, just things take their time and not fast enough for us.”
Trustee Michael Habert also praised the completion of the walkway during the meeting, thanking Beach and the village employees and departments involved in bringing the project to completion.
“These things are not easy to get done,” Habert said. “When I got over there and saw the finished product, it was worth the wait.”
