For over six months, New Dorp residents have had to deal with the inconvenience of driving a couple of miles out of their way just to fill up their gas tanks. The Hess station that is located on New Dorp Lane had been closed for half a year due to construction on a new design.
As of last Monday, the New Dorp Lane Hess station finally reopened for business with a new and improved convenience store to go along with it. Prior to its reopening, local residents had to travel as far as Midland Avenue to get their gas, or they had to deal with the traffic and congestion of traveling all the way down to the other end of New Dorp Lane to fuel up. There was another gas station located on Tysen’s Lane which was just a few blocks away from the Hess station on New Dorp Lane, but that has been closed for almost a year now.
Staten Islanders in the New Dorp area happy about not having to waste gas to get gas; and they are also happy about not having to empty out their wallets, entirely that is. The new and improved Hess station in New Dorp offers regular gas for as low as $3.29 a gallon. The lowest price for a gallon of regular gas on the Island at the moment is $3.23, and that is at the Hess station on Bay Street and Willow Avenue. The most expensive regular gas currently is at the Exxon on Amboy and Annadale Road, which goes for $3.59 a gallon- over $0.30 more per gallon! Richard, a local resident of New Dorp for four years says, “While it’s really good that you can get gas for such a low price for now, don’t expect it to last. They are only doing this as a come-on to try to entice their former customers to bring back business.”
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