Joseph Prevete lives just a few houses away from a Deer Park bowling alley that could be turned into a storage facility — a use that he and around 2,000 others in the community vehemently oppose.

Residents in the community, at a public hearing in late July, protested the property owner's application for a zone change that would allow the construction of a two-story, 17,000-square-foot storage facility on the site. The bowling alley was a “symbol of community," they said.

“To put another storage facility here is totally unnecessary,” said Prevete, 57, adding there are already many self-storage facilities on Long Island.

But even if there isn't a desire for more storage units in Deer Park, Long Island remains a significant market for the self-storage industry, experts said, in part due

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