A Long Island Rail Road train hit a car at the West Broadway crossing in Hewlett on the Far Rockaway branch at 4:30 p.m. on May 8, LIRR officials said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/8/15
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Buses to replace trains on the Far Rockaway Branch between Far Rockaway and Valley Stream overnight Sunday, Nov. 9 from 12:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. for track maintenance
Customers Are Advised to …
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11/5/14
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The LIRR has announced weekend schedule changes for this weekend and on May 3-4 on the Far Rockaway branch. LIRR Far Rockaway Branch Weekend Schedules Adjusted April 12-13 and May 3-4: Brooklyn-Bound Trains to Depart up to Eight Minutes Early While Crews Perform Maintenance on 150th Street Bridge
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4/8/14
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Popular Valley Stream restaurant owner and longtime Five Towns resident Alberto Francesco Natale Occhiuzzo, better known as Goldie, died on Jan. 10 of natural causes. He was 90.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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1/15/14
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Long Island Rail Road has restored service on the Far Rockaway branch.
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8/29/11
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Weekend highlights include Debbie Gibson's concert in Westbury, a performance of "The Wizard of Oz" on the stage at Eisenhower park some old fashioned fun watching the "boys of summer" at Old Bethpage.
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7/27/11
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As a young girl growing up, Debbie Gibson remembers skateboarding on the streets of Merrick just outside of Calhoun High School, where she used to live.
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By David Weingrad
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6/3/11
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Second of two parts.
On Aug. 28, 1963, Booker T. Gibson made his way to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. “It was hot. In August, it was hot,” Gibson said during a recent interview, stressing the word “hot.”
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Scott Brinton
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12/7/10
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By his own admission, Booker T. Gibson wasn’t the most athletic student at Mepham High School in Bellmore in the 1940s, so becoming popular at a school that placed a high value on success in sports –– in particular, in wrestling –– was no easy feat. But, man, could Gibson play boogie-woogie piano, and at the time this highly rhythmic style of the blues ruled the airwaves.
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Scott Brinton
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11/30/10
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Last Saturday's nor'easter, which featured heavy rainfall and tropical-storm-force winds, devastated parts of the Five Towns, toppling hundreds of trees and leaving thousands of residents without power. Many described it as one of the worst natural disaster to ever strike the area.
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Andrew Coen
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3/18/10
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