Thank you to our community members who came to our BVA meeting this last Wednesday night (7/14/21) with Adrienne Esposito of Citizens Campaign for the Environment. The lively discussions on the Landfill, the Winter Brothers water transfer project and the rezoning motion known as BR 1 was informative with the community’s and Adrienne’s knowledge and participation. The meeting reiterated how critical our engagement is in closing this landfill, preserving our land and determining the future of this area.

BR 1 is the recent motion put forth by the Town of Brookhaven to rezone 130 wooded acres of land surrounding the Landfill, known as the buffer zone, from Residential to Light Industrial. The intention is to sell 70 acres of this area for development and industrial use further increasing the traffic, noise, pollution and potential environmental contaminants of this already congested area. The Town held a public hearing on July 15th, 2021 (watch here – at 1:10:10 discussion begins re BR1) The BVA, on behalf of our community, voiced our strong opposition at the hearing and with a letter to the Town Board. The letter can be read here.

After oppositional arguments were made from a number of nearby residents, organizations and members of our own and surrounding communities, the Town Board has postponed their vote and extended the public comment period for 30 days from July 15th.

If you would like to make a comment on BR 1, you may do so here.  Please reference BR1 in your comment.

For information  on the winners, please click here.

The Annual BVA Boater’s Meeting is Wednesday, 1/20/21 at 7:30pm.  We are continuing to meet via Zoom due to the pandemic.  If you would like to attend the boaters meeting, please use the contact form here and request an invitation to the meeting.  You will receive an email the morning of the meeting with the link necessary to join.  Please request the invite including your name as no anonymous requests for entry to the meeting will be accepted.

The Brookhaven Landfill Action & Remediation Group (BLARG), a community-led coalition committed to exposing and rectifying the harms caused by the Brookhaven Landfill, began an initiative raising awareness of the Town’s plans to implement an ash-fill in a site adjacent to the landfill.

BLARG requested the BVA join Long Island community organizations, faith institutions, civic leaders, and environmental groups in a letter to representatives of the Town of Brookhaven and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to ensure the closure and remediation of the Brookhaven Landfill.

The link to the letter authored by BLARG is below. The Board encourages all members and TOB residents to sign on. Our goals are to see the landfill close and have a profitable but sustainable and safe waste disposal solution in place other than the proposed ash-fill, an antiquated method known to create dangerous air quality. Please feel free to share with any neighbors and those in your professional and personal networks that are affected by the proposed ash-fill.

Thank you.

The BVA Board

Link to letter: Click Here

Due to the pandemic, the usual Fall clean-up has changed form. Thanks to the Brookhaven Free Library for this wonderful alternative:

All welcome
October 1-31, anytime
The Great Give Back is a community service initiative created by the Suffolk County Public Library Directors Association and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System to provide a day of opportunities for the patrons of Long Island libraries to participate in meaningful, service-oriented experiences.

This year, we are celebrating the positive difference we all can make during the month of October. By acting separately, or in small groups, we can collectively impact our community for the better! Call the Library to request a cleanup kit (garbage bags, gloves, hand sanitizer) and commit to cleaning your block, a neighborhood park, a local beach–wherever, whenever and with whom you are comfortable doing so. Then, email bfl@brookhavenfreelibrary.org a picture of your haul so we can see your efforts and provide service hours (if needed). Please register at the Library.

Dear Community,

In light of the Confederate flag placed on a Brookhaven Fire Truck we as a Board have sent a letter to Chief Di Pinto Jr. which we are posting here for the community to read.

It is at this challenging time that the Board looks to the BVA’s mission as stated in our bylaws: The Object of the Association shall be to aid in the preservation of the natural beauties of Brookhaven Village; to encourage and assist in all improvements pertaining to the public welfare; to cooperate with the public officials in the faithful performance of their duties; to guard, in every way, the interests of the residents as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation.

We continue our mission to guard the interests and to stand for all residents. We strongly disagree with everything the Confederate flag represents and we don’t condone the use of that flag anywhere in our community. We agree with Chief Di Pinto Jr.’s statement that racism has no home in our Firehouse or our community.

The BVA Board supports diversity across all lines of difference, including age, economic circumstance, ethnicity, sex, race, range of ability, religion, sexual orientation and gender ID.
The BVA Board will move forward towards inclusion, diversity and equality in our policies and activities in the community.

Our community comes together with strength and unity. We see examples of this every Memorial Day Parade and at every Clean Up Day. We saw the strength in unity this past spring as neighbors responded by helping each other through the pandemic. The Board will continue to support that unity and strength.

In service and support,
The BVA Board