Great Neck News

With a new superintendent of schools just sworn in for the Great Neck Public Schools, it is truly time to say "goodbye" to our retiring superintendent, Ron Friedman.

Evelyn Prizont does it for the glamor. "And the respect," she adds with a smirk.

The meeting attracted far fewer investors than in years past and wrapped up in less than an hour, with the outcome of company proposals all but assured by the fact that trustees appointed to oversee the government's nearly 80 percent stake in AIG can swing any vote.

The end of June, the time when all of our graduate students and college students have graduated, our high school seniors are just about to graduate, and all of our younger students have enjoyed their a a moving upa a days too.

In the following press release Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today that a Brooklyn man has been charged with three felonies in connection with the theft of $2.3 million from a Great Neck real estate company that thought they were providing a real estate loan to a reputable customer.

The famous image of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue has sold for $74,324 to David Waxman, a collector who lives in Great Neck, New York.

Dine under the stars on Promenade Night in Great Neck this Thursday, June 25 . The special event will close down traffic from Middle Neck Road between Cutter Mil Road and Cedar Drive, and Grace AVenue from Pancho's Border Grill Restaurant to Middle Neck Road.

One of the original signed prints of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at photographers has been sold by a New Hampshire auction house for $74,324. Bobby Livingston, of RRAuction.com in Amherst, says the picture was taken in 1951 after a 72nd birthday celebration for the physicist.

The Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education is reviewing proposals from the Great Neck Park District and the three Great Neck fire departments for the lease of the school districta s property on Watermill Lane.

Dozens of Great Neck residents, frustrated and frightened by conditions that they say stem from illegal housing in their neighborhood, are asking for help from village officials and Nassau police.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Mortgagee Review Board has suspended three lenders based on evidence of serious violations under HUD's regulations.

November 4, 1997 was not a good night for Democrats in New York City. In a ballroom at the Sheraton New York, the party's officials and volunteers mingled and chatted in somber tones as they waited for the television sets to broadcast the expected trouncing of their mayoral nominee, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, at the hands of Mayor ...

As he finished reading his speech Friday at ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day, former Navy sailor Joseph Corsentino of Valley Stream added an impromptu reflection on the birth 14 years ago of his twin grandsons, Joseph and Donald Grupski of Massapequa Park.

Signature Bank , a New York-based full service commercial bank, announced today the appointment of a new private client banking team to be based out of the Bank's Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y. office.

"STORY of a guy's life, told in wine vintage terms." As Ervin Drake tells it, that was the note to himself that led to his writing a song, back in 1961, that earned a Grammy for Frank Sinatra .

Cleaning crew at St. Francis Prep. Life in Queens in the time of swine flu. In April, the day news broke of swine flu, my wife kept my son home from school.

The Delaware Attorney General's office has charged University of Delaware fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu with hazing in connection with the death of former student Brett Griffin.

I.S. 025 Adrien Block, World Journalism Preparatory and PS 233 are reopening Tuesday, May 26.

It was just like Noah's Ark, except everything was dead -- and illegal. A former New York cabby-turned-billionaire landed in hot water when federal officials discovered a sinister menagerie of endangered big-cat skins and elephant tusks aboard his fancy yacht when it docked in Florida.

A Great Neck doctor who is not licensed to practice in New York pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of selling hydrocodone to people without prescriptions through online pharmacies.