Alicia Gerez, the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic who grew up in the crime-ridden Brooklyn neighborhood of East Flatbush, last month achieved a life-long dream when the State …
Following the Long Beach School District’s adoption of a budget with a zero percent tax levy, local officials on Thursday urged other school districts to follow suit. At a news conference at …
Following New York State’s legalization of recreational marijuana earlier this week, Long Beach, like other municipalities in the state, will now have the option to either opt-in or out of the sale …
Long Beach Police are investigating a shooting on Friday that left a victim in stable condition. According to the Long Beach Police Department, on Friday, March 12, at 11:07 p.m, the department …
A Supreme Court judge in Nassau County Monday found the City of Long Beach liable for $131 million in damages in a case that goes back 31 years, brought by a Manhattan developer after the city …
A developer’s plan to alter a two-family home and create a subdivision on a lot on East Beech Street has united a group of residents in opposition to the proposal, who are citing overdevelopment in …
The announcement that many gym owners were anxiously awaiting came on Monday, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his blessing to reopening those facilities as soon as next Monday. Like other reopenings, …
Since Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, James Hodge, the chairman of the Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach, has been without a permanent home. But that hasn’t diminished his drive to help others …
The chief executive of the American Red Cross’s Long Island chapter Monday predicted an active hurricane season, and said the coronavirus will make preparations this year different. At a news …
It was Long Beach’s turn on Tuesday night to join the nationwide protests of what many have called the murder of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed …
Simone Marie Freeman, a former deputy town attorney for the town of North Hempstead, has been hired as Long Beach’s first permanent Corporation Counsel since October of 2019. Freeman succeeds …