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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BAPS Charities prepared and delivered a total 300 packages of food to the Helping Hand Rescue Mission food pantry and Northwell Health’s Huntington Hospital last week.
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Since the middle of March, The INN has given out 9,571 lunches to 5,000 people and 811 pantry bags of groceries to families.
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Responding to the increased demand created by the COVID-19 crisis, the Hauppauge-based nonprofit has ramped up its efforts to help feed Long Islanders in need.
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The PUA program covers many people who work for themselves, such as independent contractors, gig workers, even those who have contracted COVID-19 or are caregivers for household members stricken with the virus.
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With a little help from some friends, Stony Brook University’s iCREATE lab has reached its goal of 3D printing 5,000 protective face shields for healthcare workers at Stony Brook Medicine after starting production last month.
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The Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island donated 16,000 bottles of water to healthcare workers at two Long Island hospitals.
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Towne Cleaners owner La Young Trantrum and her sons Leland and Charles have been making the masks and given many of them to nurses at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and to St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown.
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The money, donated to the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, will go towards assisting local restaurants that are providing meals to healthcare staff at St. Charles Hospital and Mather Hospital.
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