After a months-long reconstruction project, the Huntington village municipal parking lot that has been home to heavy machinery since July is officially open for public parking.

“It was finished on time, as promised, for the final weeks of the holiday shopping season,” said Town Supervisor Frank Petrone on Monday, referring to the work as “a major parking lot rehabilitation project.”

Read on to learn more about what life has been like since the project has been completed, and especially what the Gerard Street lot merchants have to say now that construction is finally over!