Deer Park residents are rallying against the possible closure of a bowling alley hailed as a “symbol of community” as the property owner seeks to turn the site into a storage facility.

LAG Associates LLC has applied to the Town of Babylon for the more than 58,000-square-foot lot on Long Island Avenue between Irving and Eastwood avenues to be rezoned from business and residence to industry. The company, which a town spokesman said is headed by Joseph Giaquinto, is seeking to build a two-story, 17,000-square-foot self-storage facility on the site.

The spot is currently the home for Strike 10 Lanes , a building that has been used as a bowling alley since 1959, according to town records.

At a public hearing before the town planning board last week, Nicole Blanda, an attorney for LAG Assoc

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