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The Belmont Park project is to include a 19,000-seat arena for the New York Islanders, a 250-room hotel, a community center, commercial office space and 350,000 square feet of retail space.

The Belmont Park Community Coalition is preparing to sue Empire State Development after the state agency approved the Belmont Arena project on Aug. 8. According to Tammie Williams, a civic group … more

By Melissa Koenig | 8/15/19

The plans for Belmont Park's redevelopment include a 19,000-seat arena for the New York Islander’s National Hockey League Team, a 250-room hotel, a community center, commercial office space and 350,000 square feet of retail space

Franchise Oversight Board approves Belmont project

The state Franchise Oversight Board today approved its lease agreement with Empire State Development for the construction of a hockey arena at Belmont Park. The plans include a 19,000-seat arena for the New York … more

By Melissa Koenig | 8/13/19

Jon Johnson told the ESD board that "Elmont wants this project."

ESD approves Belmont project

The Empire State Development board today approved the state’s Environmental Quality Review Act and Urban Development Corporation Act findings, bringing the Belmont arena project one step closer to … more

By Melissa Koenig | 8/8/19

Margaret Kelly, the president of the Garden City South Community League, has been petitioning the Town of Hempstead to grant landmark status to the former Woolworth’s building on Hempstead Turnpike.

Activists prepare for Franklin Square theater landmark vote

As the Hempstead Town Board prepared to set a date for a public hearing on whether to designate a Franklin Square movie theater as a historic landmark, local activists gathered at the Franklin Square Library on July 30 to offer support for the application. more

By Melissa Koenig | 8/8/19

The Belmont Park project will include a 19,000-seat arena, with more than 7,000 parking spaces, a 250-room hotel, a movie theater, a community center, commercial office space and 350,000 square feet of retail space.

Belmont plans inch forward

Empire State Development has begun to obtain the necessary approvals to build its planned arena on 43 acres of state-owned land at Belmont Park. On July 31, the state Public Authorities Control … more

By Melissa Koenig | 8/8/19

Employees at East Meadow’s Best Market read from a letter they are sending to Lidl addressing gender inequality and requesting higher wages.

Best Market employees hope Lidl puts equality first

Outside Best Market in East Meadow on July 30 was Francisca Montana, of the New York State Attorney General’s office, local and state elected officials and 150 women from the United Association for … more

By JULIA CUTTONE | 8/8/19

When it is completed, the proposed Belmont Park arena would require about 30 gigawatt-hours per year of electricity, or about 83 million cubic feet of natural gas.

Questions linger over how to heat Belmont

Since Empire State Development released the final environmental impact statement on the proposed Belmont arena project in July, many new details have come to light on New York Arena Partners’ plans for the site. But while much attention has been focused on the construction of a new Long Island Rail Road station at the border of Elmont and Bellerose Terrace, there is also new information about the plans to heat the arena. more

By Ronny Reyes | 8/1/19

PSEG recently announced that it would replace utility poles and wires in Franklin Square and West Hempstead.

PSEG to install new poles, wires in Franklin Square and West Hempstead

PSEG recently announced that it will start replacing existing poles and wires in Franklin Square and West Hempstead on Aug. 13 to make them more storm-resilient. According to the utility, the new … more

By Melissa Koenig | 7/30/19

The public comment period for the Belmont arena has been extended until Aug. 1.

Belmont public comment period extended

The public comment period for the Belmont arena project has been extended to Aug. 1, Empire State Development officials announced Tuesday, after they noticed “two minor clerical errors” in their … more

By Melissa Koenig | 7/24/19

After years in the health care industry, David Seligman completed his first week as executive director of LIJ Valley Stream on July 12.

LIJ Valley Stream welcomes new executive director

The incoming executive director of Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, David Seligman, said he made a point of not wearing his ID badge when he entered the building for … more

By Mike Senatore | 7/18/19

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