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Members of the Oceanside Civic Group met for two hours on Nov. 19 to voice concerns about a Town of Hempstead project to build new apartments on this 5.9-acre plot, which has been empty since Hurricane Sandy damaged another complex here.

Oceanside Woodcrest apartment plan under fire

More than 40 residents filed into the Sons of Italy in America headquarters on Nov. 19 as the Oceanside Civic Group hosted a meeting to protest the construction of a Rockaway Avenue apartment complex that was approved by the Town of Hempstead. more

By Mike Smollins | 11/29/18

Residents formed the Oceanside Civic Group to fight a Town of Hempstead project to build new apartments on a 5.9-acre plot that has been empty since Hurricane Sandy damaged another complex there.

Oceanside Civic Group opposes Woodcrest Village Park project

After a $60 million, 230-unit Rockaway Avenue rental apartment complex project was announced on Sept. 6, the Oceanside Civic Group has grown in numbers as residents search for answers to questions about the plan. more

By Mike Smollins | 10/18/18

East Rockaway residents offered varying perspectives about a $60 million, 230-unit apartment complex being built in Oceanside.

East Rockaway residents split on Oceanside apartments

East Rockaway residents are offering mixed reviews after plans were announced to build an apartment complex in Oceanside, on an undeveloped plot of land next to the East Rockaway train station. Several people said they worried about the traffic it might cause. more

By Peter Belfiore and Mike Smollins | 9/13/18

Merrick's Richard Kessel to head Nassau IDA

Richard Kessel, the former chief of the Long Island Power Authority — and a Bellmore-Merrick native — was recently elected to head up the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency. more

By Erik Hawkins | 4/5/18

Our future is literally blowin’ in the wind

Long Island was supposed to have 40 or more wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean by now, generating electricity 3½ to 4½ miles south of Jones Beach, which would have . . . more

1/5/17

Former Gov. Mario Cuomo at a 2012 ceremony to rename the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, in honor of Cuomo’s predecessor, who appointed him New York’s secretary of state in 1975. He was joined by Carey’s son, Michael.

Bellmore-Merrick remembers Mario Cuomo

On Oct. 21, 1982, Democrat Mario Cuomo, then a candidate for governor of New York, was campaigning furiously on Long Island. Among his stops was WGBB radio, on Landsdowne Avenue in Merrick, where he debated Lewis Lehrman, his Republican-Conservative opponent and an investment banker. Richard Kessel, a native Merokean whom Cuomo later named executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, was there that day. He had lunch with Cuomo afterward. more

By Scott Brinton | 1/7/15

Why libraries still really do matter

President Obama was officially sworn in for his second term on Sunday, and the inauguration festivities got under way early on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. more

1/24/13

‘Green’ lights ahead for Nassau County

County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight. more

Scott Brinton | 3/18/10

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