Dozens of Lindenhurst residents have been left in limbo for about eight months as road-construction equipment and supplies — including excavators and massive cement blocks — have been left laying in yards, and roads have been reduced to one-way traffic, because the iniitial contractor was pulled off the project.

“There’s big holes. There’s rocks. There’s equipment that’s just been left,” village resident Nancy Filippo said. “It’s like a ghost town. They left everything for us to deal with.”

The unfinished project was intended to upgrade two roads in the village — Sprucewood Lane and Lake Shore Drive, which are home to about 65 houses — by adding gravel shoulders and sidewalks, widening the roadway and enhancing stormwater drainage.

Construction began on the project in October of 2024, a

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