Pastor leads effort to make road safer
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Rev. Msgr. Michael Flynn appealed for a traffic solution on the two-lane extension of Hempstead Turnpike near his church in Farmingdale. (Feb. 14, 2012)
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The Rev. Msgr. Michael Flynn's experiences trying to walk across busy Conklin Street in front of Farmingdale's St. Kilian Roman Catholic Church, where he is pastor, have turned into a successful push for roadway safety changes.
Fearing that thousands of parishioners and students at two adjacent schools also regularly faced the danger, Flynn in 2006 wrote the first of several letters to local...
