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The city’s new “Clean Team,” made up of city crew members, pictured, will now work year-round to keep Long Beach’s business district looking its best.

City to collect fees for ‘Clean Team’ services

The city unveiled plans to launch a “Clean Team” at last week’s City Council meeting in order to make the downtown areas more welcoming to tourists and residents. more

By Ben Strack | 5/26/16

Mark Elowson, Nick Lavrigata and Franklin Feliz polish up Santa's sleigh.

To create the Lighting of Malverne, it takes a village

Transforming the village into a winter wonderland during the weeks before its annual Holiday Lighting is no easy feat this year for its Department of Public Works. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 12/2/15

The Austin Boulevard project is delayed another year.

More delays for Austin Boulevard

For over 20 years residents of Island Park have been trying to get traffic on Austin Boulevard to slow down. There have been numerous studies of the traffic over the years, and finally the … more

By Barbra Rubin-Perry | 10/14/15

The Island Park DPW working on street signs.

Island Park DPW working on signs

It was 90 degrees outside, but the “boys” from the Island Park Department of Public Works were out replacing and repairing street signs. more

By Barbra Rubin-Perry | 9/16/15

Mangano, Dems pitch lobbying disclosure bills

The bills came just days after it was revealed publicly that federal prosecutors are investigating Dean Skelos, Republican majority leader of the State Senate, and his son, Adam, in connection with AbTech Industries, an Arizona company that hired the latter and received a $12 million storm-water treatment contract from Nassau County, even though another company submitted a lower bid. more

By Brian Racow | 4/29/15

Richard Hanke, on steamroller, flattens out some new asphalt on Webster Street last week.

Repairing the bumps in the road

Paul Jessup, superintendent of the Malverne Department of Public Works, starts the day with a regular routine. He arrives at work during the wee hours of the morning, and makes several pots of coffee. He opens the building and has an informal meeting with his staff to plot out the day’s game plan. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 4/1/15

Charles Lapp shoveled his driveways after a large snowstorm in January. Residents have shoveled out many times since.

No rest for the DPW

This winter has been keeping the Village of Rockville Center pretty busy. It seems like the snow just doesn’t end. So far, there has been a total of more than 31 inches, according to the National Weather Service. And every time the snow starts falling, the village DPW rolls out. more

By Alex Costello | 2/25/15

From Malverne’s Department of Public Works, Christian Stolba, Dave Terrizzi and Carl Guadagno, left to right, manage the Friday morning garbage pick-up with a smile and a great sense of comradery despite the weather.

When you work in the tundra

It was a day not fit for man or beast. Despite the relentless, Siberian conditions we’ve endured lately, Feb. 20 was one for the books. We woke up to a morning temperature of four degrees — with a real feel of -24 — and it didn’t get much better as the day progressed. Even the clear sky and bright sun barely managed to move the needle on the intensity of the cold, which froze fingertips within seconds of exposure. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 2/20/15

At a press conference on Feb. 12 at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, Shila Shah-Gavnoudias, commissioner of the county Department of Public Works; Jon Kaiman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s special advisor for Long Island storm recovery; Ed Mangano, the county executive; and Todd Kaminsky, a state assemblyman from Long Beach, announced that the state would provide $150 million to upgrade the Bay Park plant with a nitrogen-removal system.

State promises $150 million to better treat sewage

New York state has pledged to fund the installation of a $150 million nitrogen-removal system at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, which will reduce the environmental harm of the sewage the plant discharges into Nassau County’s Western Bays, state and county officials said on Feb. 12. The officials, speaking at a Mineola news conference, also called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide $550 million more to build an outfall pipe to carry effluent from Bay Park into the Atlantic Ocean. more

By Brian Racow | 2/13/15

The cost of clearing the roads is rising

Getting rid of snow is an expensive proposition, and the price is rising. Cleaning the roads after a storm requires salt, sand, vehicles to spread them and then plow the snow, and manpower. more

By Barbra Rubin-Perry | 2/11/15

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