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Roughly 300,000 passengers a day are affected as employees fight for higher wages.

Long Islanders should keep their jackets and umbrellas handy, as a nearly 20 degree temperature plunge is forecast midweek, ditto for showers that could dampen Memorial Day weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

White Cross Fishing Club performed the worst, with random water quality samples detecting pathogens associated with untreated sewage, dog waste, goose poop or polluted stormwater.

An 18-year-old New York man who just finished his freshman year at the University at Albany died while swimming in Long Island waters over the weekend, police said Sunday, May 17. Timothy Magambo, of Pelham,

Contingency plans and workplace policies set in place during COVID helped keep operations uninterrupted at some LI companies.

She’s a Grade A donor. A Long Island woman gave her kidney to her former fifth-grade English teacher she once “could not stand” after the two reconnected decades later and she was moved by his desperate plea for help.