By Bridget Downes
bdownes@liherald.com
“We were driving into New York to see a synagogue — a very old one — and there was no desire in me to paint it, because it was beautiful, and it …
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By Bridget Downes
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6/6/18
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At a Feb. 1 news conference, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran called on New York state not to renew the permits for 68 wells in Jamaica, Queens, until the United States Geological Survey …
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By Melissa Koenig
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2/3/18
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An estimated 200,000 men, women and children took to the streets of Manhattan for the second Women’s March, held on the first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, Melissa Koenig and Nakeem Grant
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1/21/18
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Albert Redmond, of Valley Stream, joined United Way of Long Island’s team for the New York City Marathon to raise money for veterans organizations on Nov. 5.
Redmond raced the past two marathons …
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9/7/17
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A plan to re-authorize wells in southeast Queens could have a negative effect on Long Island’s drinking water, environmentalists say.
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By Melissa Koenig
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7/5/17
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Sometimes it takes only two to make a great show.
‘Heisenberg’
Heisenberg, at the MTC, stars the marvelous Mary-Louise Parker as quirky 40-something Georgie Burns and Denis Arndt as …
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11/30/16
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation to establish the Greater JFK Business Improvement District to form a new public-private partnership in Southeast Queens around John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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By Diana Colapietro
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11/30/16
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As his kitchen television silently aired CNN’s footage of the chaos the day after five white Dallas police officers were killed by a black sniper during a peaceful demonstration, Malvernite and New York City Police Detective Steven McDonald was listening to a speech by Robert F. Kennedy, made nearly 50 years ago, on the day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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7/12/16
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As the shocking details of last Sunday’s mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., emerged this week, local police and community organizations ramped …
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By Mary Malloy, Barbara Rubin-Perry, Julie Mansmann and Anthony Rifilato
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6/14/16
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I’d like to offer local high school graduates some important advice for the future: Don’t study too much in college. It’s not the sort of wisdom graduates expect to hear, especially from a high school teacher, but . . .
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By Nick Buglione
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6/9/16
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