On an unmarked, pothole-riddled road that abuts parking lots and the back of commercial buildings lies a monument that is equally unassuming, given the significance of the event it memorializes. The approximately 5.5 x 8.5-foot concrete relief sculpture marks where Charles Lindbergh and his plane, christened the Spirit of St. Louis, first went airborne en route to Paris, the first nonstop transAtlantic flight in 1927.
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Series on Roosevelt Field and Simon Property Group
My four-part series on the strategies that Roosevelt Field, one of the top-tier malls in the nation on Long Island, and its owner Simon Property Group, the largest owner of U.S. malls, have adopted to compete in general and in the age of Amazon in particular.
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Mo Cassara, a CBS Sports analyst and former Hofstra men's basketball coach, and his wife Elisa DiStefano, the entertainment director for News 12 Long Island, announced on Instagram earlier this month that their renamed establishment, The Point, will reopen in April. (Photo: Courtesy Mo Cassara/Siobhan Becker)
Long Island Media Couple To Reopen Restaurant Come Spring
A Long Island media couple will wait to reopen their newly renovated restaurant in Point Lookout until exactly two years after shuttering it amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The East Meadow Library opened on Sept. 23 after a major reconstruction at the building on Front Street. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Renovated East Meadow Library Holds 'Soft' Opening
A ground-floor community room, a reconfigured entrance hall and basement, and a reading garden are among the new features of the East Meadow Library.
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Tap Room Taps Rockville Centre For Next Tavern
The owners of Tap Room will open a fourth tavern in Rockville Centre and celebrate an anniversary of their original Patchogue establishment in the coming weeks.
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Glen Cove Resident Swings Into History Books
Glen Cove resident Ashley Harding discovered she is the first golfer at Kellenberg Memorial High School to win an individual state championship after reading about her achievement on the school’s website.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi, left, News 12 anchor and Grand Marshal Carol Silva and Congressman Peter King marched down Main Street in Farmingdale during the village's annual St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday, March 11, 2018. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
News 12's Carol Silva Has 'Fabulous' Farmingdale Grand Marshal Day
Carol Silva is no stranger to parades. The longtime News 12 Long Island anchor used to stand along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with her Irish mother for many St. Patrick’s Day parades while growing up in Hicksville. As a
Former Equity Trader Ian Linde Finds Happiness in Rock Memorabilia
Fresh from the “I Worked on Wall Street But It Left Me Unfulfilled” file, meet Ian Linde, late of the $40 billion Jeffries Group and a successful equity trader with Lehman Brothers-Barclays before that.
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Students perform research in a lab at the Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation Center at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Tech Incubators Hatching Startups Across Long Island
The state’s Start-Up NY program may be a bit of a dud, but that hasn’t slowed the pace of other university-based programs that seek to support and commercialize innovation from students, staff and the region’s sundry entrepreneurs.
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Grace Brandt, left, and her twin, Alice Brandt, at their prom in Syosset June 21, 2017. Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Floral Park Twins Celebrate as Champs at Prom
Floral Park Memorial High School’s prom Wednesday night capped a memorable senior year for identical twins Alice and Grace Brandt. The siblings have played volleyball together on the same teams since fifth grade, a lengthy journey that culminated in winning a county championship with the girls varsity team last November.
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Kevin Duke of Oyster Bay High School, who has enrolled in the ROTC program for college, with his guidance counselor Deanna Cali, at the prom at Woodbury Country Club on June 22, 2017. Photo Credit: Joseph Kellard
Oyster Bay High School Teen Enjoys Prom as College ROTC Awaits
Oyster Bay High School’s Kevin Duke spent his senior year knowing his career path. The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in September granted Duke a full four-year scholarship to attend North Carolina State University that requires him to serve in the U.S. Navy for at least five years after graduation.
Read MoreLong Beach’s Charlie McAvoy Impresses in NHL Debut
Just three weeks after playing his final collegiate hockey game for Boston University, Long Beach native Charlie McAvoy found himself in the Stanley Cup playoffs, showered with high praise from many newfound fans around the country and at home.
Read MoreDefense Sets Tone For Clarke
That four out of five captains on Clarke girls’ lacrosse team are defenders speaks to head coach Rich Aragona’s philosophy. He builds teams based on defense, and this year’s squad consists of mostly experienced seniors and green sophomores led by a gritty defensive unit.
Read MoreDefense First For East Meadow
East Meadow lacrosse looks to lean on its defense to return to the playoffs after posting an 8-8 record that included a loss to Port Washington in the first-round of the Nassau Class A boys’ playoffs last season.
Read MoreFreeport Survives Baldwin Surge
Freeport quarterback Rashad Tucker tossed a 54-yard pass down the left sideline to fellow senior Jaelin Hood to defeat Baldwin, 26-21, the last of five touchdowns scored in the waning minutes of a Conference I football semifinal at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium on Nov. 10.
Read MoreOceanside Falls on Late Touchdown
Oceanside’s football season ended in heartbreak last Saturday with a 31-28 first-round Conference I playoff loss at fourth-seeded Massapequa in a game that featured multiple lead changes in the final minutes.
Read MoreOceanside Falls in Quarterfinals
Oceanside fell 2-1 to No. 3 Calhoun in the Nassau Class AA boys’ soccer quarterfinals on Oct. 26, dashing coach Joe Pumo’s expectations that his senior-heavy, sixth-seeded squad could make a deep playoff run.
Read MoreSouth Side Secures Top Seed
South Side girls’ soccer downed Garden City, 1-0, on the road last Friday, sweeping the dual regular-season meetings between the rivals and securing the one seed for the Nassau Class A playoffs, which begin this Saturday.
Read MoreLong Island Lutheran Kickline Coach Transitions from Ballet to Hip-hop
Melissa Essigman’s dance background is exclusively in ballet. Yet the first-year head coach of Long Island Lutheran High School’s varsity kickline team is starting to make waves in the world of hip-hop.
Read MoreMLK Center Ceremony Celebrates Many ‘Firsts’
Less than a year ago, Anissa Moore was preparing for spring break, ready to hop on a JetBlue flight to take her far from Nassau Community College, where she has been a communications professor for the past 19 years.
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