Barry Leon has to do some more homework before the Hempstead Town Council will consider approving his proposal to rezone a West Hempstead site from light manufacturing to multifamily urban renewal …
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Lee Landor
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11/23/11
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Karl Riesterer has a large binder filled with photos of storefronts, telephone poles, mailboxes, fences and vacant properties throughout West Hempstead that are, in one way or another, …
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Lee Landor
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11/16/11
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A fifth of a mile isn’t much of a distance, but if a blighted area of a community is that large, it can seem like a huge open wound.
A stretch of Hempstead Avenue in West Hempstead, between …
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Lee Landor
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11/1/11
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“The precinct is just a building,” according to Katie Grilli-Robles, spokeswoman for Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano. Closing two of the county’s eight police precincts, …
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Lee Landor
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10/19/11
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West Hempstead organizations had to scale back their annual Sept. 11 Memorial Ceremony this year — the year they had planned a special event in honor of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The …
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By Lee Landor
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9/14/11
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For nearly two decades, the 5th Precinct’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit has consisted of a group of four officers, with whom the West Hempstead community has become comfortable working and …
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By Jackie Nash and Lee Landor
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6/22/11
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West Hempstead suffered a major loss last week with the death of Robert “Bob” Smith, a 59-year resident who was an activist, a civic leader and a friend.
The 87-year-old World War II …
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By Lee Landor
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6/7/11
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At long last, the Courtesy Hotel has come down.
The notorious West Hempstead hotel lay in piles of rubble last week following its demolition, which marked...
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By Lee Landor
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5/12/11
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Community service seems to run in Mark DeFilippis’ family.
The 17-year-old West Hempstead High School senior — grandson of Rosalie Norton, president of the West Hempstead Community …
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By Svenja van den Woldenberg
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5/11/11
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Elinor Organ loves the work she does. And so does the West Hempstead Community Support Association, which recently awarded the local business owner its Business Pride Award.
Organ has owned …
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By Lee Landor
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3/30/11
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