Doxy Brook Fishing Park — Attraction in Town of Hempstead

July 2018 -- Small, quiet. Park benches. Ducks and geese. Swans on a good day.

I included one photo that shows an old beer can, bare soil on a barely improved walkway, and dank, murky pond scum. It's 'not' a satisfying walk on the edge of the pond, less than a couple hundred yards to stroll, and a gigantic metal rail on the water's edge to hold you back just in case you don't realize the water isn't fit for touching. An improvement would be if you could walk "around" the pond, instead of just back and forth over the same little piece. Regardless, some people drop a fishing line. Another photo shows where one end of the short walkway comes to a filthy, unmanicured, unmaintained end. The last photo looks back at the parking area. The driveway is about 5 feet long connecting Branch Blvd to the claustrophobic parking lot. It's a blind turn getting off Branch-northbound into the parking lot, so your car is going to be rear-ended if you want to slow down sufficiently to drive into the lot slow enough while you're being tailgated. And exiting the parking lot onto Branch (to go north or southbound) is also blind, which means that as you're exiting the parklette, someone coming off of Branch may front-end collide into you, and there's nothing you can do because the entrance is less than the width of two vehicles, but since the entrance is blind and Branch has no acceleration/deceleration lane, you won't see oncoming cars barreling into the 5 foot driveway until they're in your glove compartment. The lot has room for about 10 vehicles. But since no one knows about this tiny park, I've never seen it completely filled. The parking lot is small, the spaces are small, and backing out of a few of the parking spaces that are nearest the entrance rolls you out into the blind, 5-foot-long driveway where you can only pray no cars are going to come barreling into the park while you're trying to pull out of your parking space. It's claustrophobia. All parking spaces back out into the same little patch of pavement, so watch out that two cars aren't backing out of their parking spaces at the same time, because two cars can't (comfortably) occupy the same point in space at the same time; it's that small.

Dec 2018 -- I drove by a few days ago, and the bushy overgrowth at the park's exit was cut way down. Now, leaving the little parking lot, you'll be able to see if any oncoming traffic is coming, without first having to stick your nose into the roadway. And the visibility from the road to see if anyone is coming out of the driveway has...

This place is the most serene park I’ve ever been too. The fishing is great, the stripers can grow up to about 10 inches here. Does anyone know if there are any other species than striped bass and carp there? Like for example: white perch, bluefish,and flounder? If so, keep me posted please! Thank you!

Other notes:

Regarding the benches: If anyone reading this works for Nassau County, please alert the proper authorities that the benches are in horrible condition.

Regarding the dam: If anyone reading this works for Nassau County, please alert the proper authorities that the dam should be opened and closed on a daily 7 hour basis to maintain natural water flow.

Regarding other’s picnic ideas: If anyone reading this works for Nassau County, please alert the proper authorities that many people that go to this park have complained that there should be more picnic opportunities available like tables and small coal grills.

Thank you for your time reading this!

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Love this cozy place if you're not a local you probably don't know about it there's not even a sign to get into the park it's just a little driveway entryway but it's awesome perfect to relax eat lunch hang out feed the ducks take some...