The Town of Hempstead recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Merrick Bicycles, the community’s newest business –– and its only bike shop.
more
4/25/14
|
Merokean Michael Hammer was in the clothing industry for eight years, in sales for such companies as Men’s Warehouse and Saks Fifth Avenue, before a recession struck after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Saks’s sales plummeted –– and so did its staff.
more
By Scott Brinton
|
4/3/14
|
The city hasn’t put the brakes on a local bike-sharing program just yet.
After Miami-based DecoBike recently informed the city that it was not going to continue its bike-sharing program in Long …
more
By Anthony Rifilato
|
3/19/14
|
Calhoun High School senior Bridget Rossi of North Merrick had never ridden a bicycle until this year. “I had never given it a chance as a young child,” the 17-year-old said.
Then she took a specialized phys. ed. class at Calhoun High School, Fit for Life, taught by James Raucci, who is now in his 13th year at Calhoun.
more
By Scott Brinton
|
10/30/13
|
I loved my bicycle. It was a lightweight, aluminum-frame French road bike, a steel-blue Motobecane Jubilee Sport that I bought for $350 in 1982, when I was 15.
more
8/9/13
|
This has been a summer filled with ice cream and bicycles and the kind of freedom and simplicity that’s unexpectedly craved as the days draw shorter and August comes upon us.
more
By: Lauren Lev
|
8/2/12
|
Tom Cuccias has been a Valley Stream resident since he was 2 years old. His two sons were born and raised in Valley Stream and they graduated the same high school — Central — as their father. He has owned the Valley Stream Bicycle and Hockey Shop for more than 22 years.
more
By Brian Croce
|
2/16/12
|
Lynbrook Bicycle is open for business for the first time since a fire caused by an electrical wire tore through the shop on Aug. 23.
Owner Fayek Khalil opened his store in September 1986, …
more
By Brian Croce
bcroce@liherald.com
|
2/15/12
|
On Wednesday, Aug. 24, someone went into my backyard screened-in porch and stole my grandson’s bicycle and his helmet.
more
9/8/11
|
A blazing fire tore through Lynbrook Bicycle on Merrick Road between Vincent and Denton Avenues Tuesday morning destroying a store that has sold bicycles for more than 25 years in the village.
more
By Ex-Captain Steve Grogran
|
8/23/11
|