From high-energy music to exotic cocktails, this place is authentically Cuban. One of the only Cuban restaurants to be found on Long Island, Cuban Crocodile opened in February, thanks to Marivi Wolfe and her fiancé, Cesar Santos.
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Terry Biener
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7/30/12
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In what’s become an era of specialization, the three-sport high school athlete is a dying breed, albeit far from extinct. Finding a three-sport varsity head coach is much more difficult, but they do exist.
With all due respect to those pulling triple duty in cross-country, winter track and field, and spring track and field in what seems like every school in the Herald’s coverage area, coaching three entirely different sports put Baldwin’s Darius Burton, East Rockaway’s Joe Lores, Long Beach’s T.J. Burke and West Hempstead’s Chris Van Kovics in select company.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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7/5/12
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The sky is aglow with post-July Fourth fireworks in Rockville Centre and Long Beach.
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By Karen Bloom
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7/3/12
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It's time to enjoy those July Fourth fireworks. The pyrotechnics are always glorious and with the holiday falling midweek – on Wednesday this year – the festivities begin early, so we can partake of holiday merriment throughout the week.
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By Karen Bloom
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6/27/12
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The sounds of the Great American Songbook can be heard in Long Beach throughout the weekend. Families will enjoy Bug Bonanza, Long Island' Children's Museum's annual bug-fest, while those looking for a spring stroll can explore Muttntown Preserve on an "Early Bird Walk."
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5/16/12
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Second of two parts.
From the early 1970s to the 1990s, civic and environmental activist Morris Kramer scoured the sands of Atlantic Beach and Long Beach in search of hypodermic needles and balls of sewage sludge that had congealed on disposable pens and bottle caps.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/2/12
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On its way into John F. Kennedy International Airport and ultimately to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, the retired NASA space shuttle Enterprise flew over Long Beach Friday morning.
Atop …
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By Judy Rattner
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4/27/12
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Spring, which seems to have been teasing us since last December, has finally arrived.
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4/12/12
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Following a call for greater transparency by several South Shore civic and elected leaders over a proposal by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to sell or lease three of the county’s sewage …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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3/20/12
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Only a restaurant-caterer with vast experience could pull off an enormous menu and still manage to serve every item freshly with consistent quality. Such is the case with Pantano’s Kitchen of Long Beach.
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Terry Biener
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3/8/12
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