The Elmont School District has agreed to comply with nonprofit transparency group Reclaim New York’s Freedom of Information Law request for records of the district’s 2014 expenditures after …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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A plan to transform an underused basketball court on the grounds of Clara H. Carlson Elementary School, in Elmont, by professional soccer team the New York Cosmos has failed to reach its funding …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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As real New Yorkers, we rarely sightsee. So I decided to become a tourist for an hour and a half and take the Ride, an interactive tour bus. You may have seen it traveling around the Broadway area. …
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7/29/16
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Eight Nassau County high school students and two 2016 graduates recently invested two weeks of their summer vacations learning to craft news leads, shoot photos, edit videos and build their own WordPress blogs at Hofstra University’s High School Summer Journalism Institute.
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By Nakeem Grant
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7/21/16
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If you ever really wanted to be in the room where it happened, here’s your chance. What you read in the papers and hear on the evening news may not be the truth – especially when it …
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7/19/16
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About a dozen people blocked Huntley Road on July 16, adjacent to the south parking lot of Belmont Park, to protest a proposal by the New York Cosmos to build a new soccer stadium at the …
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By Steve Smirti
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7/19/16
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As his kitchen television silently aired CNN’s footage of the chaos the day after five white Dallas police officers were killed by a black sniper during a peaceful demonstration, Malvernite and New York City Police Detective Steven McDonald was listening to a speech by Robert F. Kennedy, made nearly 50 years ago, on the day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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7/12/16
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One of the joys of summer is outdoor concerts and it’s a wonderful way to hear and see some of your favorite Broadway performers. Last night The New York Pops, conducted by an ebullient Steven …
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7/8/16
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It’s a familiar story, one often told; yet the famous Orpheus and Eurydice myth feels fresh and current in the NYTW version Hadestown, by Anais Mitchell. Orpheus (Damon Daunno) is a young …
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6/27/16
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The bestseller “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen,” by Christopher McDougall, was published shortly before I took up running again in 2010, after a long hiatus.
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6/23/16
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