Long Island Rail Road crews were hard at work on Friday night, October 5, through Tuesday morning, October 9, replacing the Buckram Road Bridge in Locust Valley, which carries the railroad’s Oyster Bay Branch over Buckram Road/Oyster Bay Road between the Locust Valley and Oyster Bay stations. The project improves…
Since the approval of the third track project last year, MTA officials have wasted no time in rolling out plans across the 9.8-mile stretch from Floral Park to Hicksville.

“Since the 1940s, people talked about adding a third track and modernizing the Main Line corridor – and now we’re actually doing it.” – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Forty percent of LIRR riders pass through the LIRR’s congested Main Line. That’s one among many reasons why the project to modernize…
The City of Long Beach, appropriately nicknamed “The City by the Sea,” has beckoned toocean-goers for centuries, from the generations of Long Island baymen who’ve plied their trade nearby, to beach-loving vacationers from Victorian times through today. Shoehorned within Long Island’s westernmost South Shore barrier island, the city has grown…
U.S. News and World Report has crunched the numbers for 2018, releasing its annual list of best high schools in the country, ranking the schools on a national and a state level, and Garden City High School made the list. Not a single Long Island school cracked the Top 10…
Three areas on the North Shore were ranked in the top four places to retire in New York state by Smart Asset. Great Neck and New Hyde Park took first and second, respectively, and Manhasset was ranked No. 4. Huntington, at No. 9, was the only other spot on Long…
Lynbrook village officials unanimously voted to approve a $42.2 million budget for 2018-19 on April 16 at a public meeting led by Mayor Alan Beach and the board of trustees. The budget is a $1.5 million increase from 2017-18, and includes a 1.49 percent tax increase for residents. It is…
On Monday the Village of Garden City posted a Memorandum of Understanding with the Long Island Rail Road and MTA for the Third Track Expansion project, which cuts through Garden City with the plans for 9.8 miles of new rail service between Floral Park and Hicksville. At the Village Board…