Long Island begins phase one of reopening
Construction, manufacturing, and agricultural businesses are allowed to resume operations, while retail businesses are allowed to open for curbside pickup.
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Author: The Long Island Times
Huntington seeks to help small businesses get back on track
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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Nassau Coliseum pivots to drive-in movies
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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PSEG Long Island powers healthcare heroes
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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Friends of Cedarmere gets grant to preserve historic Roslyn estate
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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Bottles for Dollars supports local nonprofit
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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Concert with Long Island music stars to support healthcare workers
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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Four hospitals to get $1M each from federal funds
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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Virtual birding takes wing on Long Island
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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Pop-up drive-in movies prove popular during quarantine
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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Town asks kids for Memorial Day musings
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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Long Island beaches opening for Memorial Day weekend
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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Bethpage Federal takes its air show online
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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Nassau’s Community Food program feeds 5,000 families
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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Construction firm delivers meals to healthcare workers
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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Lidl donates 40K protective masks to first responders
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 Scouts get to work on protective masks
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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Suffolk cops come clean by shopping local
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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Celeb supplies PPE to Stony Brook hospital system
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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State funds allow food banks to buy from upstate farmers
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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Riptide and Jersey Mike’s providing lunch for nursing home staff
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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