Elected officials gathered in Flushing on July 1 to meet with family members of the victims of a car crash at a nail salon on Long Island last week that left four dead and nine injured. U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, State Sen. John Liu, Assembly Member Ron Kim and Council Member Sandra Ung gathered at… Read More
Three years ago, Jennifer Leveque started a business selling false eyelashes. The online company, Whipped Lash New York Inc., has her, well, fluttering.
A United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) pilot program has been announced for a portion of the Fire Island to Montauk Point (FIMP) Home Elevation Program and will begin taking applicants within a few months. During the pilot program, the USACE aims to use federal funds to raise 50 to 100 homes each…
Urban sprawl was rapidly developing the pristine shoreline and ancient forest of Long Island. Conservation was in its early stages at the dawn of the 1920s. By 1924, New York had 24 state parks, preserving 143,032 acres of land since the first state purchase of 221 acres of Niagara Falls in 1885. The only…
Channing Daughters winemaker and partner James Christopher Tracy discusses pouring his fabulous wines at this year’s Dan’s Taste of Two Forks Presented by Hampton Jitney, a celebration of the great chefs of the North Fork and South Fork AKA the Hamptons on Saturday, July 6. Enjoy the tastes from the best chefs, winemakers and food and…
Demonstrators rallied outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola Saturday to protest legislation passed June 24 banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports at county-owned facilities.
A Long Island man has been arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated after authorities say he crashed his SUV into a nail salon, killing four people and injuring nine others, police said Saturday.
The silver pocket watch was a prized possession of Theodore Roosevelt, a keepsake given to him by his sister and her husband in 1898 before he became president that would travel with him around the world and end up at Sagamore Hill — his home on Long Island, New York, and now a national historic site.