The NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation posted a new bid yesterday for deck repairs to the Eagle Avenue overpass inside Hempstead Lake State Park, 880 Lake Drive, West Hempstead. Bids are due September 14 (CRN 2138333).

The ad is filed under the agency's Capital – Long Island District division, and it's categorized as horizontal construction — highways and roadways, maintenance and repair — meaning this reads as a deck rehab, not a full bridge replacement. No engineer's estimate came through on the posting, and no plan-holder or pre-bid information has been published yet.

“A bridge job inside a park is still a bridge job — girders, deck, and expansion joints — and OPRHP doesn't let many of these hit the street in a given year.”

Bridge-deck work over parkland is a niche lane, and it's a thin one on Long Island this year — most of the region's letting activity has run through municipal and county DPW work, not state park capital projects. A job like this one gives a horizontal contractor with bridge-deck experience a rare state-park entry on the Island.

Pull the ad off the NYS Contract Reporter (CRN 2138333) and get eyes on the spec before September 14. Watch for a mandatory site visit notice — Parks bridge work over water typically carries one, though this posting doesn't list one yet.