Tag: Island
If you thought Westchester was the most expensive place to live in New York state, think again. A new study has listed the Empire State suburbs with the highest cost of living for essentials — and 15 of the top 20 are on Long Island. GOBankingRates determined the priciest places by analyzing the monthly cost […]
Matthew Schaefer has ice in his veins. The 18-year-old hockey phenom is doing everything right in his early days with the New York Islanders, with the first overall draft pick coolly thriving on and off the rink a month into his rookie season on Long Island. “I visited New York City once a couple of […]
He’s on a new mission. A Long Island veteran who fought in Vietnam has found a passion for painting to fight his own battles with PTSD — and is now teaching the artform to help heal other soldiers struggling with the affliction. “I wasn’t only getting nightmares. I was getting daymares,” 78-year-old John Melillo, a […]
Police on Long Island continue to search the waters near Shinnecock Bay for a pair of kayakers who disappeared Saturday evening after sending a selfie to a friend, police said. Southampton police said Shane Garcia, 27, and his 25-year-old pal, Aaron Montemarano, set out on a lime-green two-man ocean kayak near the Ponquogue Bridge and […]
He’s got wings. A Long Island escape room owner and fitness buff set a stunning record by running from Buffalo to the Brooklyn Bridge in 8 days and 13 hours, shattering a previous record for the 572.55-mile journey by nearly a day. “It just takes a couple of steps and a whole lot of time […]
Southampton’s local weed laws just went up in smoke as state cannabis officials blasted the town’s overly stringent rules as illegal and designed to intentionally block legal dispensaries from ever opening. The unanimous decision by the state’s Cannabis Control Board on Monday effectively torched Southampton’s local permitting scheme — a system that state-licensed cannabis business […]
The free ride is over. A state program that allowed drivers of electric vehicles and hybrid cars to ride solo on the HOV lanes of the Long Island Expressway has come to a screeching halt — leaving EV drivers to fend for themselves. The federally mandated Clean Pass program expired on Wednesday, which means the […]
A vein treatment at clinic owned by a celebrity surgeon has left a Long Island Councilwoman in crippling agony, after she was given a procedure she never agreed to that was painfully botched, a new lawsuit claims. Oyster Bay Town Councilwoman Vicki Walsh claims a doctor employed by TV medical pro Dr. David Greuner — […]
A tough Long Island business owner drove one of his trucks — while it was on fire — to save it from the wildfires that raged through the Hamptons over the weekend. Mark Cirillo, 64, battled to save AutoGate Systems Inc., his business of the last 20 years, as flames closed in on his shop […]
Massive brush fires that raged across Long Island over the weekend may have been caused by someone trying to cook s’mores for breakfast. Residents north of Sunrise Highway in Manorville tried to start a fire in their backyard around 9 a.m. Saturday to cook up the treat despite heavy winds, officials said. A large brush fire is […]
They’re not out of the woods yet. Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an invasive species that could spell another incendiary disaster, officials warn. The southern pine beetle, which migrated to the eastern end of Suffolk County a decade ago, is ravaging […]
A beloved Long Island orthopedic surgeon known for “serenading patients” with music between procedures died Sunday after he collapsed during a local triathlon he competed in every year. Dr. Peter Sultan, a renowned orthopedic surgeon at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, died suddenly at the age of 54 while participating in the Jamesport Triathlon, […]
It was a slow-motion mishap. An SUV sent patrons at a Sag Harbor sidewalk restaurant scrambling out of the way when it rolled onto the sidewalk and knocked over chairs and tables, wild video footage shows. The gray 2006 Honda Element appeared to be easing into a parking spot outside Lulu Kitchen & Bar in […]