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In a 3-2 decision last Thursday, New York State Appellate Division judges upheld new boundaries drawn by Nassau Republican lawmakers for the county’s 19 legislative districts. If the state Court of Appeals rules in favor of the Republican plan on Aug. 24, the GOP’s legislative map will reshape a number of districts, including those covering the Five Towns, Elmont, Baldwin and Merrick-Bellmore.
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By Ann E. Friedman and Scott Brinton
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8/16/11
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A massive storm dumped nearly 10 inches of rain on the Merrick-Bellmore area from Saturday night into Sunday afternoon, flooding the Meadowbrook Parkway and homes throughout the community. At the storm’s height, rain was falling at a rate of more than an inch an hour.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/14/11
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We should have seen the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating coming –– last year. On July 13, 2010, Dagong International, a Chinese credit rating agency, lowered the U.S.’s rating from AAA to AA. Few in the West noticed. Some laughed. Clearly, though, Dagong’s calculators saw what we could not.
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Scott Brinton
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8/12/11
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Some 120 feet below the streets of Manhattan, thousands of workers contracted by MTA Capital Construction have been drilling and blasting through bedrock since September 2007 to build a set of Long Island Rail Road tunnels that will eventually connect the Island, including the South Shore, with Grand Central Terminal and the Metro-North Railroad. Tunneling on the Manhattan side of the “East Side Access Project,” as it’s known, is complete, and work on the Queens side, which began in May, is well under way.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/9/11
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On a recent sunny Thursday, Wilbur Sanchez spoke in slow, deliberate English as he pointed out vegetables amid the greenery fanning out around him. Sanchez noted the peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers hanging from tall plants in a red box before him. In a second box to his right were chives, oregano and lettuce. In the middle of the garden, watermelon vines looped in all directions. At the back, cornstalks popped out above still more pepper plants.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/3/11
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Quick, how many zeroes are in a trillion? Answer –– 12.
You don’t often have to think much about the number 1 trillion, do you? If you’re an astronomer calculating the number of stars in the universe, then you’re highly familiar with this gargantuan figure. Otherwise, you don’t often have to consider what a trillion really means.
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7/28/11
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Dressed in a black blouse and blue jeans, Carol Gies stood silently on Tuesday morning, her chin in her hands, her elbows resting on a crane that was lifting a twisted World Trade Center girder into the parking lot at the Merrick Fire Department’s Friendship Engine and Hose Company.
Gies, who lost her husband, Ronnie, in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, looked forlorn.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/26/11
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For a moment, I stopped paddling and took in Merrick Bay, its virtually still surface glistening in the morning sunlight. In the distance, the Jones Beach water tower and amphitheater stood out amid a light haze. The view was, in a word, breathtaking.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/25/11
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At 6:30 a.m. on a recent Monday, I was running hard when I had to stop abruptly at the corner of Merrick Avenue and Merrick Road in Merrick, my hometown. The stoplight had suddenly changed, and the traffic started moving in front of me. I hadn’t noticed that the light had changed. I was in something of a runner’s trance.
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7/14/11
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray and a group of 15 government officials, civic leaders and engineers donned sunglasses as they unveiled two “solar trackers” in the back parking lot of the town’s Department of Conservation and Waterways in Lido Beach on Monday.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/12/11
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