Good News: Paint Store Brightens Vacant Businesses

Paint Store Brightens Former East End Vacancies

The East End of Long Beach just got more color.

Benjamin Moore paints and swatches line the walls of Aboff’s Paints, a new shop that opened at 367 E. Park Ave. on Thursday.

“I’m looking forward to being part of the community,” said Ryan Doyle, manager of the family own store that has 28 locations across Nassau and Suffolk counties. The first store opened in Huntington in the 1920s.

NHP Woman Wins $10M in Lotto Scratch Off

Most people would consider Friday the 13th to be the most unluckiest day of the year. Going forward Nora Murphy will buck those beliefs as the New Hyde Park resident won $10 million playing a lottery scratch-off game.

Resident Reports Positive Changes in Memorial Park Area

There has been a complete turnaround in the area of Memorial Park in New Hyde Park over the past few weeks according to Albert Street resident Bruce Hecht, who described the difference as “night and day” during the Sept. 17 meeting of the village board at the village hall.

Garden City Alum Serves on Sustainability Panel

Garden City High School alum Michelle Velez, now a Villanova University senior, recently served as the only undergraduate on a sustainability panel at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.