Enology's Summer Wine Class Comes to Saint James on August 22
Enology Wine Bar & Bistro hosts A Saturday Afternoon with Summer Wines on August 22 in Saint James. Crisp whites, bright rosés and light reds, $69 a person, seats limited.
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Patchogue Has Never Had a Hotel. A Bowling Alley Site on West Avenue Is About to Change That.
by Long Island Wave ·A 96-room Tempo by Hilton won site plan approval for the old Bowl Long Island property, a short walk from both the LIRR station and the Watch Hill ferry.
Long Beach Had 16 Blank Ticket Booths on Its Boardwalk. Local Artists Took Care of That.
by Long Island Wave ·Sixteen beach-entrance ticket booths along the Long Beach boardwalk have been painted by volunteer local artists, funded by sponsors at no cost to taxpayers.
Oyster Bay Just Got Its Waterfront Back After 63 Years. Now Comes the Hard Part.
by Long Island Wave ·Twenty-one oil tanks that stood on Oyster Bay Harbor since 1962 are gone. The town wants a public waterfront there. The ground underneath has other ideas.
Huntington Village's Nightlife Row Is Turning Into a Daytime Destination, One Lease at a Time
by Long Island Wave ·A bookstore bar, an all-day cafe, a pasta-class restaurant and a Peruvian kitchen took over four Huntington Village spaces. The pattern is no accident.
The Entenmann's Plant in Bay Shore Sat Quiet for a Decade. Food Is Being Made There Again.
by Long Island Wave ·Redefine Meals is converting the 107,000-square-foot former Entenmann's bakery in North Bay Shore into a plant capable of 200,000 meals a day, adding 200 jobs.
Farmingdale Closes Main Street to Cars Twice More This Summer. Here Is How to Do It Right.
by Long Island Wave ·Music on Main shuts two blocks of Farmingdale's Main Street on August 6 and August 20 for free live music, food and vendors. Parking, timing and where to go.
Suffolk County Wants to Own Plum Island. Washington Has to Let Go of It First.
by Long Island Wave ·Suffolk County intends to acquire Plum Island from Washington. What has to happen first, what is on the island, and why Southold still holds the zoning.
Nearly 70,000 Long Islanders Lost a Health Plan on July 1. The Window to Replace It Closes August 30.
by Long Island Wave ·New York's Essential Plan dropped its top income tier on July 1. Long Islanders who lost coverage have until August 30 to enroll in a replacement.
A Shuttered Greenvale Supermarket Reopens August 14 as an Italian Market, With 250 Jobs Attached
by Long Island Wave ·Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace opens at 130 Wheatley Plaza in Greenvale on August 14 and is hiring roughly 250 people across every department.
Four Pipe Bands, a Caber Toss and a Gold Coast Estate: The Celtic Festival Returns August 22
by Long Island Wave ·The Long Island Celtic Festival and Highland Games runs August 22 at Old Westbury Gardens. Tickets, the lineup, the Highland Games and what to bring.
Ten Dollars, Two Days of Lobster Rolls, and an 1888 Oyster Sloop in West Sayville
by Long Island Wave ·The Long Island Seafood Festival runs August 22 and 23 at the Maritime Museum in West Sayville. Admission is $10 and the shuttles from Sayville are free.
26 Revolutionary War Sites, One Selfie Each, and a $1,776 Prize. You Have Until September 30.
by Long Island Wave ·The History Hunt's Redcoats and Rebels edition runs through September 30 across 26 Revolutionary-era sites in Nassau, Suffolk and Brooklyn. Free to enter.
Long Island's Pain Specialists Rarely Share a Room. On September 10, Six of Them Share a Stage.
by Long Island Wave ·The Long Island Health & Wellness Society brings its second annual Pain Management Symposium to The Piermont in Babylon on September 10. Tickets start at $25.
A Free Literacy Panel and Book Drive Lands in Hicksville on August 5. Admission Is One Book.
by Long Island Wave ·The Melville Chamber's NexGen Professionals group hosts a literacy panel and community book drive at The Book Fairies in Hicksville on Wednesday, August 5. Free, 8:30 a.m., registration required.
Amazon Filed for a $1 Billion Building in Holbrook. Here Is What the Application Actually Says.
by Long Island Wave ·Amazon wants to put 4.2 million square feet on 140 wooded acres in Holbrook. The jobs, the truck counts, the zoning change it needs, and the review that decides it.
Two Moratoriums in Three Days: New York and Brookhaven Both Hit Pause on Data Centers
by Long Island Wave ·The Governor paused hyperscale data center permits on July 14. Brookhaven banned new applications on July 16. What that does to a $1 billion proposal in Yaphank.
Long Island Office Vacancy Fell Below 12% for the First Time Since 2020. Some of That Is Demolition.
by Long Island Wave ·Long Island office vacancy hit 11.8% in the second quarter of 2026, the first sub-12% reading since 2020. A good deal of the improvement is buildings leaving the market.
Suffolk Is Trying Again on 48 Acres in Ronkonkoma, and Proposals Are Due in September
by Long Island Wave ·The $2.8 billion Midway Crossing plan is gone. Suffolk County issued a new RFP on July 3 for the same 48 acres, this time with $50 million of county money attached.
Islip Picked a Developer for a New MacArthur Terminal. Its Own Board Then Withheld the Money.
by Long Island Wave ·Islip named Fly LI Partners, an RXR and Avports joint venture, its preferred developer for a new MacArthur terminal. Days later the town board voted to withhold consultant funding.
Sunrise Wind Is About Half Built, and the First Turbine Is Standing 30 Miles Off Montauk
by Long Island Wave ·New York's largest offshore wind project is roughly halfway through construction. What is finished, what is left, and what Suffolk County actually gets out of it.
Long Island Buys Nearly Half of New York's Legal Cannabis. Nassau County Sells None of It.
by Long Island Wave ·Long Island accounts for 47% of New York's annualized adult-use cannabis sales across ten regions. Every licensed dispensary on the Island is in Suffolk County.
Every Long Island Employer With 10 Workers Had a Retirement Deadline This Year. All Three Have Passed.
by Long Island Wave ·New York's Secure Choice retirement mandate hit employers with 10 or more workers in three waves this year. The last deadline was July 15. Here is what it requires.
Casa Stellina Is Farmingdale's Argument for the Long Italian Dinner
by Long Island Wave ·A Michelin Italy Guide chef, pasta rolled every morning and $10 cocktails at four, on Main Street in Farmingdale. Inside Casa Stellina's room, menu and hours.
A Painkiller That Is Not an Opioid Came Out of a Stony Brook Lab. This Month It Got New Data.
by Long Island Wave ·ART26.12 was invented in two Stony Brook labs and is the first selective FABP5 inhibitor in human trials. New data presented this month extends it to spinal cord injury pain.
New York Is Phasing Out the Horseshoe Crab Harvest. Long Island's Beaches Are the Whole Point.
by Long Island Wave ·New York will end all horseshoe crab harvesting by January 2029, cutting the quota every year until then. Why an animal older than the dinosaurs matters to Long Island.
Five Acres in Oyster Bay Cove Will Never Be Built On. The Reason Is Underneath Them.
by Long Island Wave ·A five-acre woodland off Yellow Cote Road, held by one family for more than a century, has been permanently preserved. What it really protects is the aquifer below it.
Nassau Homes Just Set a Record. Here Is the Income That Actually Buys One.
by Long Island Wave ·Nassau's median crossed $850,000 in June and single-family homes set an all-time record. We ran the mortgage math on what buying at those numbers now requires.
A $155 Benefit Dinner Is Coming to a Saint James Wine Bar
by Long Island Wave ·Enology Wine Bar in Saint James hosts a multi-course benefit dinner for the Suffolk County Dental Society on Sunday, September 20. One 5 p.m. seating, $155.
Glen Cove's Italian Feast Turns 51 This Week, and It Still Runs on Homemade
by Long Island Wave ·The Feast of St. Rocco runs July 30 through August 2 at the Church of St. Rocco on Third Street in Glen Cove. Hours, food and free admission and parking.
West Nile Is Turning Up in Seven Suffolk Communities. The County Answer Arrives at 5:30 p.m.
by Long Island Wave ·Eleven Suffolk mosquito samples tested positive for West Nile virus. Where they came from, what the county is spraying this week, and how to protect yourself.
Long Island's Museum of Flight Is About to Fill Up With Arcade Cabinets
by Long Island Wave ·The Long Island Retro Gaming Expo returns to the Cradle of Aviation Museum August 7 to 9, with three levels of arcades and a Nintendo 64 thirtieth anniversary.
Two More Long Island Ponds Just Went Off Limits, and the Reason Is Growing in the Water
by Long Island Wave ·Suffolk has confirmed blue-green algae blooms at Silver Brook Pond in Flanders and Pond Lane Pond in East Hampton. What to look for, and why dogs are most at risk.
The Serum on Your Bathroom Shelf Was Probably Invented in Melville
by Long Island Wave ·The Estee Lauder Companies has run its R&D labs in Melville for more than 55 years, and now trains Farmingdale State College students two miles away.
Long Island Added 3,600 Private-Sector Jobs in a Year. One Industry Added 10,100.
by Long Island Wave ·State labor data shows Long Island private employment up just 0.3 percent over the year, with education and health services adding nearly three times the region net.
Why Long Island Dentists Are Training in Botox, and What the Course Actually Covers
by Long Island Wave ·A 16-credit hands-on CE course in Hauppauge on August 15 teaches dentists botulinum toxin and dermal fillers, and half the syllabus is therapeutic, not cosmetic.
The Family That Fed Levittown Its First Fast Food Is Coming Back to Long Island
by Long Island Wave ·Tony's Di Napoli is opening on Manhasset's Miracle Mile. Its owners are the Wetansons, who started Wetson's in Levittown in 1959 and once ran 72 burger stands.
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