"We were freaking out a little. We didn't really believe what we were looking at," said said one of the fishermen who spotted the shark. "It's pretty rare."
Pericles Linardos said he has spent five years filing court motions and appeals since the Village of Muttontown fined him almost $23,000 for having trees removed from his front yard after superstorm Sandy.
The Village of Nissequogue Fire Department is buying a $47,000 powered stretcher and ambulance load system, in part because people are getting too heavy for emergency personnel to safely lift, said Chief Russell von Frank.
Progressive grassroots groups that emerged on Long Island after the election of President Donald Trump, seeking to avoid the party rancor of 2016, are agreeing to agree: They'll support any Democrat who wins in the June 26 congressional primaries.
Widespread delays plagued train riders heading to Belmont Park for the third leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, leaving thousands of people jammed together for an hour or more in crowded train cars.
Women in fancy hats and men in pastel colors stood out among the tens of thousands who converged on Belmont Park to watch a chestnut colt make its run for glory Saturday.
A Coram man who fired a rifle at a group of people in Middle Island on Friday and fled the state was found dead of a gunshot wound after a confrontation with New Jersey State Police, authorities said.