Long Beach News

Island Park residents Hunter Heumann, 5 and sister Charley, 3, enjoy the re-opening of the Long Beach Ice Arena.

A $6-million plan for Island Park's Bayview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to fully recover from superstorm Sandy received a boost Wednesday when Nassau County agreed to provide tax breaks.

New York State will dedicate a portion of the federal Sandy funds to cover the cost of raising or relocating power lines to accommodate New Yorkers whose houses are still under construction and must be elevated to comply with codes.

A former attorney for Long Beach Friday took the first step toward filing a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging city officials fired him because he announced a run for city judge.

State and local officials said Wednesday that the tax stabilization plan would give tax breaks to those whose homes and businesses were damaged by Sandy.

Gerald Snell is a substance abuse counselor at the FDNY and fought an attempt by the department to force him into retirement.

Several Long Island Rail Road trains between Island Park and Long Beach stations were either canceled or delayed during the evening rush hour Monday to allow authorities to investigate a suspicious package that later proved to be harmless, police said.

Library board Trustee Alan Greenberg, who was appointed only three months ago, after President Paula Freund stepped down, is now running to keep his seat against a newcomer from the West End.

Visiting my summer home in Long Beach, New York this weekend, I once again came face to face with the aftermath of what we've come to call Superstorm Sandy.

One recent weekend, I drove north from Washington, D.C., with some trepidation. It had been a beautiful October day the last time I headed to Long Beach, New York.

Just as terrorists can use GPS guided drone/UAVs to target jet turbines in the Runway Kill Zone as explained in earlier posts to this blog , the quad-copter drone that was hovering in the JFK landing approach of an Alitalia jetliner on March 5, 2013 may have been the first terrorist attack in a Landing Approach Kill Zone .

Pile of debris from superstorm Sandy on a lawn in Long Beach, N.Y. - Nov. 20, 2012 Officials have raised concerns that many trips from temporary storage debris areas to landfills were exactly or just over 16 miles.

A driver crashed into a Glenwood Landing house early Tuesday morning has been hospitalized, Nassau County police said.

An Island Park man was arrested after police said he stole a floating dock in North Long Beach by towing it with his boat.

The city of Long Beach broke ground this weekend on its new boardwalk: 2.2 miles long, it will feature special braces that will tie the planks to the supports and a concrete wall that will hang down from in front of the boardwalk like a skirt, to break the waves the next time the Atlantic rises up against it.

Councilwoman Eileen Goggin, left; Senator Charles Schumer; Bill Haughland, project manager of Grace Industries; City Council President Scott Mandel and Councilman John McLaughlin officially broke ground on a new boardwalk on Saturday.

Workers dismantle the storm-damaged boardwalk in Long Beach, N.Y., back in February.

As 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck reported, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer was to join local officials for the groundbreaking at 11 a.m. at the beach at Riverside Boulevard.

Four-year-old Amelia Dunne, Craig Engel and Rachel Keegan were among the hundreds of volunteers who turned out for the city's Earth Day cleanup event last weekend.

Six months after Superstorm Sandy submerged the City by the Sea, Long Beach-based Powder Pouch LLC today announced Get Sandy Relief, Give Sandy Relief, a charitable program to support friends and neighbors as they work to rebuild their homes.