The town announced on Wednesday that it is taking several measures to accelerate economic recovery, including temporarily allowing businesses to reserve up to three metered parking spaces in front of their stores for curbside pick-up and delivery.
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Movies will be displayed on a large backlit LED screen outside the coliseum facing Hempstead Turnpike, with audio made available through a partnership with Hofstra radio station WRHU.
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Over the last two months, hundreds of dinners, lunches and breakfasts, along with uplifting thank you notes from PSEG Long Island employees, have been sent to healthcare workers across Long Island.
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Roslyn-based nonprofit Friends of Cedarmere received a $95,000 grant from Nassau County to help preserve the historic Roslyn Harbor estate of William Cullen Bryant.
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Pronto of Long Island, a Bay Shore-based community outreach center that provides food and sanitary products for those in need, was the recipient of the more than $3,000 in proceeds from this year’s Bottles for Dollars program.
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Many inductees of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame will contribute a performance to the concert, including Blue Oyster Cult, Joan Jett, Richie Cannata, Kurtis Blow, Taking Back Sunday, Gary US Bonds, members of Dream Theater, the Stray Cats, and many more.
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The money, allocated to Hempstead through the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, will go to Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow and Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside.
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Brooke Bateman, senior scientist with the National Audubon Society, leads the virtual birding session on Wednesday, May 27 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. via Zoom as part of Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Master Class Series.
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Soon after the Town of North Hempstead announced it was hosting drive-in movies at its parks next week, the town reported that all spaces had been filled and it was “actively working to find new locations.”
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Islip officials would like interested students to write a paragraph about what Memorial Day means to them. Submissions will be shared on the town’s social media channels in a show of support for the nation’s military veterans.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that state beaches can open on Friday, May 22, allowing 50 percent capacity at each beach.
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Since the popular event was cancelled due to COVID-19, a virtual experience is being organized to offer Bethpage Air Show fans activities to participate in online throughout May and June.
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Since late April, the county has held successful distribution events in Hempstead, Uniondale, Roosevelt, Levittown and Westbury. Upcoming distribution locations in May will include Hicksville, the Five Towns, Long Beach, Glen Cove and Valley Stream/Elmont.
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The firm brought large trays of food, including salad, mac and cheese, sandwich wraps and side dishes to staff at Huntington Hospital in Huntington and St. Catherine’s Hospital in Smithtown, as an expression of appreciation for their work treating COVID-19 patients.
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The Nassau County Police Department in Mineola received 20,000 of the masks and the Suffolk County Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services in Yaphank received another 20,000 masks.
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Boy Scout troops in the Theodore Roosevelt Council will be making face masks in a new effort to provide more personal protective gear to first responders and essential workers.
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The Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association bought 80 cases of hand sanitizer from Baiting Hollow distillery Long Island Spirits to be distributed to more than 1,000 Suffolk officers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Former “Real Housewives” star Bethenny Frankel’s BStrong Foundation has donated thousands of surgical masks and hundreds of protective body suits to the three hospitals in the Stony Brook Hospital Network.
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The program is aimed at connecting food banks with upstate farms that have been dumping milk and produce because of drops in demand from restaurants and other businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Beginning this week, the Riptide and Jersey Mike’s are dropping off lunch at 15 long-term care facilities per week for the next four weeks. The sub sandwiches will feed about 800 staff members at different facilities each week across Long Island.
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The state has allocated $30 million from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) to cover the cost of child care services delivered by eligible providers.
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