Legal and medical offices and other nonretail businesses that now require a special-use permit would be allowed to locate at ground level, which officials say will help offset the loss of retail stores downtown.

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Values will be held at the previous year's level in an effort to avoid sharp changes in assessments after volatility in the housing market caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Display Technologies didn't meet its obligations because it was acquired two years after the IDA granted the tax breaks, an attorney for the Lake Success company said.

The "flames came upward" through the kitchen floor, opening a hole, "and the floor collapsed into the basement" of the two-story home with seven residents in Coram, a fire offcial said.

Old Bethpage is not as densely populated as other Nassau hamlets, partly because of the undeveloped land and the many parks in the community, Oyster Bay Town Clerk Richard LaMarca says.

The victim was "marked for death" because he had been wearing the No. 18 jersey of now-retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning — a garment favored by the rival 18th Street gang, according to prosecutors.