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Two of the festival’s featured films will be screened on the beach next Thursday and Friday.

The annual Long Beach International Film Festival is set to return

The Long Beach International Film Festival returns next week, and will offer about 40 films that will be screened both virtually and on the beach. The annual festival was held virtually last year, … more

By Darwin Yanes | 7/22/21

A Long Beach Housing Authority building.

Long Beach moving to Section 8 housing

The Long Beach Housing Authority is slowly moving toward a new federal program that will provide access to funds to make needed repairs at the city’s four public buildings. Word of the move from … more

By James Bernstein | 7/22/21

GOP D.A. candidate takes aim at Kaminsky

Anne Donnelly, a career prosecutor who this week was named the Nassau Republican’s nominee for county district attorney, wasted no time on calling out what she sees as her opponent’s chief … more

By James Bernstein | 7/22/21

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a hearing last week on an oceanic wind farm proposed for the waters south of Long Beach and Jones Beach. Above, a view of the nation’s first offshore wind farm in Rhode Island.

Mixed reviews for South Shore wind farm

If Long Beach residents are concerned about a private company’s $3 billion proposal to build a 174-turbine wind farm 15 miles off the South Shore, few of them voiced it at a virtual hearing on the … more

By James Bernstein | 7/16/21

East Hudson Street’s block, between Riverside Boulevard and Long Beach Road, will soon be named “KMD-MF DOOM Way.”

Late rapper MF DOOM to receive an honorary street in Long Beach

A street in the North Park section of the city will be named after MF DOOM, who was raised in Long Beach and became one of the country’s best-known rappers.The city council last week approved a … more

By Darwin Yanes | 7/16/21

Waterfront Warriors offered a salute to veterans last Sunday at Long Beach Regional Catholic School.

Long Beach Waterfront Warriors welcome wounded veterans

The day after Thanksgiving 2010, Justin Gaertner, a 21-year-old lance corporal in the Marines, was patrolling for mines in the Marja district in Afghanistan when an improvised bomb, stuffed in a … more

By James Bernstein | 7/15/21

All of Nassau County is under a Flash Flood Watch through Friday afternoon.

Weather service: Flash Flood Watch in effect for Nassau County

A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for all of Nassau County from Thursday night into midday Friday, when Tropical Storm Elsa is predicted to blow across the region, bringing with it high winds and … more

By Scott Brinton | 7/8/21

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, took the lead in asking the state to require regular structural inspections of buildings in coastal areas after the collapse of a highrise in Florida.

State officials seek inspections of coastal buildings

Saying they were horrified by the collapse of a condominium building in Surfside, Fla., two weeks ago, and anxious to make sure it did not happen in Long Beach or other coastal areas of New York, … more

By James Bernstein | 7/8/21

Long Beach Police chief, PBA head at odds again

Worries that thousands of young people would mob the beach last Sunday night were for naught: No one showed up. But there were consequences in the wake of the large crowd that turned out on the … more

By James Bernstein | 7/8/21

Alicia Gerez and State Sen. Todd Kaminsky after she was confirmed to the New York State Court of Claims.

Long Beach resident confirmed to NYS Court of Claims

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 … more

By Darwin Yanes | 7/8/21

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