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The Long Island Expressway (I-495) is the interstate hightway that runs east-west across Long Island. Spanning 70.8 miles, the expressway starts at the Queens Midtown Tunnel and ends at County Road 58 in Riverhead.
The Long Island Expressway (I-495) is the interstate hightway that runs east-west across Long Island. Spanning 70.8 miles, the expressway starts at the Queens Midtown Tunnel and ends at County Road 58 in Riverhead.
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Critics: State road mowing cutback could cause problems
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comCost-cutting decisions by the state Department of Transportation and Nassau County to scale back mowing operations have led to scruffy roadsides of tall grass and weeds, including along the Northern and Southern State parkways, the Long Island Expressway,...Tags: Transportation, New York, Road Transportation, New York Weather, Weather Reports
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Hauppauge-based GrooveCar auto buying system revs up
tom.incantalupo@newsday.comThe double whammy that has hit the new vehicle market last year was, first, a decline in people trying to buy, and second, a decline in people able to buy a car by qualifying for a loan. Burned by recession consumer credit issues -- defaulted mortgages,...Tags: Credit and Debt, Consumers, Long Island, Passenger Cars, Vehicles
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Coach bus on LIE leaks fuel, catches fire
carl.macgowan@newsday.comAn accident involving a coach bus Thursday afternoon caused a fuel leak on the Long Island Expressway at the Manorville-Eastport exit, the Suffolk Sheriff's Office said. The bus caught fire on the eastbound expressway near Exit 70 and leaked fuel, a...Tags: Fires
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Truck fire close LIE exit ramp in Westbury
john.valenti@newsday.comA dump truck caught on fire on a Long Island Expressway exit ramp in Westbury shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, closing the ramp to eastbound traffic. The incident occurred at Exit 40, Jericho Turnpike, according to the New York State Department of...Tags: Transportation, New York, Road Transportation, Jericho, Fires
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Bikers raise food for Long Island's hungry
nicole.indelicato@newsday.comDecked out in leather, their gleaming bikes loaded down with cans and boxes of donated food, more than 100 motorcycle riders made their way to Hauppauge Sunday for the third annual Motorcycle Ride to End Hunger. "I'm here just to give a hand to people,...Tags: Harry Chapin, Charity, Long Island, Motorcycling
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Long Island police find heroin trade hard to curb
andrew.strickler@newsday.comAcross Long Island, law enforcement agencies are fighting a homegrown heroin market that is poisoning families, filling jail cells and ending lives. Some of the dead are just boys and girls. For police, the fight has many fronts, which move like a war of...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Imperial and Royal Matters, People, Trials, Law Enforcement
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Storms knock out power across LI
carl.macgowan@newsday.com, john.valenti@newsday.comPower was restored Friday afternoon to all but a handful of homes that lost electrical power earlier after storms ripped across Long Island. Only 28 Long Island Power Authority customers were without power at 4 p.m. Friday, according to the LIPA Web...Tags: Long Island Power Authority, Long Island
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Mourners gather for wake of two officers killed in crashes
martin.evans@newsday.com, mitchell.freedman@newsdayImages of a life cut short played across display boards at a funeral home in Centereach: A young father cradling a months-old daughter as she peeked from a hooded garment, a husband holding his smiling new bride, a Suffolk police officer in his uniform...Tags: Symptoms, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Death and Dying
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Suffolk lawmaker "postpones" controversial fete
Spin CycleSuffolk Legis. Dan Losquadro has postponed a fundraiser scheduled for tonight that was to honor, among others, Suffolk PBA president Jeff Frayler ??? an event which put the minority leader in the crosshairs of county Conservative chairman Edward Walsh,......Tags: Ed Walsh
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Suffolk PBA sues to stop Conservative ouster effort
Spin CycleThe Suffolk Police Benevolent Association filed a lawsuit late Friday in state Supreme Court to block the Suffolk Conserative Party from ousting police officers and their families who enrolled in it last year. The suit comes after a committee......Tags: Transportation, Democratic Party, Family, Road Transportation, Unions
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Unfinished business in the gridlocked Senate
The Senate leadership fight has endangered dozens of bills affecting local governments on Long Island. Among them: ISSUE: Cigarette tax hike in Nassau and Suffolk STATUS: No action yet by either house ISSUE:Reauthorization and increase of hotel/motel...Tags: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Long Island, Local Authority
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Long Island bills languishing in the Senate
The Senate leadership fight has endangered some LI bills: ISSUE: Cigarette tax hike in Nassau and Suffolk STATUS: No action yet by either house ISSUE: Cell phone surcharge in Suffolk to fund 911 emergency service STATUS: Passed Assembly, no action yet...Tags: Upper House, Long Island, Parliament
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