Scott Kemins grew up in Long Beach “as a nice Jewish boy” whose mom wanted him to become a lawyer or a doctor. She did not conceive of him becoming a firefighter or a police …
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By James Bernstein
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3/16/23
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The Long Beach City Council Tuesday night proposed what appeared to be an innocuous resolution: a pro forma request that it maintain control over a portion of the Ocean Beach Park in the event that …
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By James Bernstein
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3/9/23
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The Long Beach Housing Authority was awarded $1,046,784 in funding by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last Friday. Long Beach joined nearly 2,770 other public housing authorities …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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3/2/23
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The official discussion of tables is tabled no longer.
The Long Beach City Council voted 3-1 on Tuesday night to create a mechanism to allow tables and chairs to be used on the boardwalk on a …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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2/23/23
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Billy Crystal, Long Beach’s most well-known figure, who raised $1 million in 2013 to help the city rebuild after Superstorm Sandy the year before, was at it again last Saturday, this time on …
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By James Bernstein
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2/16/23
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Securing jobs for Long Island has never been an easy task. Companies have been leaving for years for places where taxes and utility costs are less. Entrepreneurs find it hard to pay employees who …
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By James Bernstein
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2/16/23
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Opting In is now the logical choice.
I love Long Beach! In September 2020, when COVID forced my family out of Brooklyn, the only place I wanted to move was Long Beach.
Of course, …
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2/16/23
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The Long Beach City Council, still weighing whether to reverse a decision it made in December 2021 to opt out of a New York state program to allow retail sales of marijuana, met with state cannabis …
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By Brendan Carpenter and James Bernstein
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2/2/23
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The Superblock project, which is filling seaside lots that have been empty for 40 years, is to be partially completed sooner than expected, an executive at the development company told the Long Beach …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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1/26/23
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The City of Long Beach and the Village of Lindenhurst, in Suffolk County, have each won competitive grants of $4.5 million to help them revitalize their downtown business districts, Gov. Kathy …
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By James Bernstein
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1/26/23
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