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• Decrepit houses frustrate neighbors, town

  A pair of vacant, rodent-infested houses in Kings Park should be condemned and torn down by the Town of Smithtown , a local community group says.Smithtown officials agree, but say their efforts to raze the buildings have been stymied because the properti 2/13/12 Read more »

• Editorial: Fix deadly Hempstead Turnpike

  For pedestrians, Hempstead Turnpike has become a gauntlet, a shockingly dangerous road that is consistently the most deadly thoroughfare on Long Island .According to stories by Newsday, in the six years from 2005 to 2010, 32 people were killed and at lea 2/13/12 Read more »

• Lottery for bike lockers at LIRR station in Bellmore

  Hempstead Town officials will hold a lottery for eight new bike lockers at the Long Island Rail Road train station in Bellmore.Residents interested in receiving a no-cost one-year bike locker lease must submit their entry form to the town clerks office b   Read more »

• Newsday's Hempstead Turnpike data analysis

  Newsday in this investigation reviewed 457 police reports on people killed or injured from January 2005 through December 2010 along Hempstead Turnpike in Nassau County. For additional information about some of the fatal crashes, the Fatality Analysis Rep   Read more »

• Pedestrians: Hempstead Tpke. a losing game

  Cases of pedestrian injury and death on Hempstead Turnpike in Nassau County divide almost equally into two broad categories: people who crossed at intersections with signals, and people who didn't.The pedestrians in intersections faced significant danger   Read more »

Around the web

• MLAX: No. 14 Pride End Preseason At No. 15 Penn Saturday

  NY - The 14th-ranked Hofstra Men's Lacrosse team will close out its 2012 preseason schedule on Saturday, February 11 when they travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a scrimmage against the 15th-ranked Quakers of Penn. The Pride's third and final tune-up   from Hofstra Pride Athletics Read more »

• Lynbrook Awarded $100,000 Grant for Downtown Improvements

  awarded a $100,000 grant for downtown improvements. The money will go towards installing street lights and decorative paving on Hempstead Ave. and Alexander Ave. Patch Staff Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano announced Friday that the county has awarded a   from Lynbrook Patch Read more »

• Chamber Seeks to Fill Empty Turnpike Stores

  of Hempstead Turnpike automatically," said Levittown Chamber of Commerce president Dean Baer. "There really aren’t that many other landmarks for Levittown except Hempstead Turnpike." "It was the only place [where] there were department stores where you could   from Levittown Patch Read more »

• Minorities Slam Revised Political Map

  from the region."We're not just talking about electing a black person or a Hispanic person," said Frederick K. Brewington, a Hempstead civil rights attorney who challenged statewide redistricting a decade ago. "We're talking about electing candidates that   from Wall Street Journal Read more »

• ATH: Hofstra Announces Spring Television Schedule

  NY - The Hofstra Athletics Department is proud to announce its spring television slate, a schedule that features a total of nine televised regular season The Men's Lacrosse team will make five appearances on television this season, including a nationally-televised   from Hofstra Pride Athletics Read more »