Decrepit Kings Park houses frustrate neighbors, town
Photo credit: Newsday / Jessica Rotkiewicz | A pair of vacant, rodent-infested houses in Kings Park should be condemned and torn down by the Town of Smithtown, a local community group says. (Feb. 13, 2012)
A pair of vacant, rodent-infested houses in Kings Park should be condemned and torn down by the Town of Smithtown, a local community group says.
Smithtown officials agree, but say their efforts to raze the buildings have been stymied because the properties' owner, a disbarred lawyer, is serving a federal prison sentence.
The lawyer, Frederic A. Powell, 56, of East Meadow, was sentenced...
