never have I seen a SW that far done towards Hofstra/the Hofstra bar scene. That area has a lot of low income housing that is a tier up from the projects of the other area of the village. Unless she was actively giving the nod, eyes and overall SW demeanor I would say it was just a local going to the 7/11 that shares that parking lot.
I was in the area at the same time last night and also did not see her. What I did see was hot, half naked college women a block up as one of the Hofstra bars has opened back up.
The Indians bought all the shopping plazas, gas stations and empty real estate from Popeyes until the checkers down the road over the last 4 years. With the recent announcement of Geraldine Hart as the new public safety chair of Hofstra (she just stepped down as SCPD commissioner and was a FBI agent for 20 years) I would expect that area to have a vigilant effort to gentrify and clean up. Which it has over the last decade in that particular area of town. All the side streets between the Fulton and front street are mostly rentals with college students and long term residents who’ve held out but it’s changing fast towards the first.
I thought a lot of the apts were rent controlled (stabilized?) and it wouldn't be all that easy to get an apt?
What worked in Farmingdale (although only a couple of blocks of such apts by the train station) was the apts had multiple families living in each apt (overloading the local schools with students requiring English as 2nd language ), the rent was so low that the apts weren't properly maintained.
The Village obtained the apts under eminent domain.
Funny thing, the landlord didn't fight the Village taking over, the Village evicted all the tenants and tore down the buildings for a" special project" — which promptly got cancelled.
so, son of a gun, the Village then sold the vacant properties back to the original owner for the same $ paid to him under eminent domain and he just so happened to have plans for multiple use (stores at street level and 3 stories of apts above) luxury apts.
The Village, which normally takes a while to review and approve such, approved plans in short order as the plans
just so happened to perfectly fit in with the Village's downtown revitalization plans. What a stroke of random luck, eh?