Category: General News
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New Hyde Park Begins Road Improvement Project
Here is the list of roads the Village of New Hyde Hark will be replacing or repairing, starting May 2022: • Gilford Avenue between Terrace and Village Line • Lowell Avenue between Central and New Hyde Park Road • Broadway between Central and New Hyde Park Road • Park Avenue between Central and New Hyde…
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April Showers Bring May Flowers: Spring blossoms near you
It’s spring, and the world is alive with an assortment of pink, purple, yellow and white flowers. The spring is a reminder that the cold season is finally over and a period of warm nights and beach days is on the horizon. Here is a list of places within the Western Nassau community where cherry…
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New Hyde Park Will Now Require Passes For Park Use
This spring forward, residents five and older will be required to present a Park ID to enter the parks. As of April 19, residents are invited go to Marcus Christ Hall between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to get their pictures taken. All family members have to register, even their dogs. “This policy is not…
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Mineola, New Hyde Park, Westbury School Budgets Adopted
Community to vote on school budgets It’s budget season: and on May 17 community members will be heading to their local schools to vote on the budget, board trustees and other local matters. Three local school districts; Mineola Union Free School District, Westbury Union Free School District and the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park…
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New Hyde Park Woman Indicted In Theft Of Almost $750,000
Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a New Hyde Park woman was arraigned April 6 on charges that she allegedly stole approximately $750,000 from a 91-year-old woman who entrusted her finances to the defendant’s employer, a Floral Park attorney. The defendant allegedly wrote checks to herself and used the victim’s credit cards…
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New Hyde Park’s McDonald’s Mansion Turns 31
Nothing stands out quite like a McDonald’s housed in a classic mansion. New Hyde Park’s McDonald’s is no ordinary fast food restaurant. It is housed inside the historic Denten House, which was built in 1795 as a farmhouse and then converted in the 1980s to a Georgian-style mansion. But how exactly did it become a…
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Gas Tax Cut In Nassau County After Minority Caucus Push
It was a dizzying morning at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola. At 10:30 a.m. on April 11, State Senators Anna Kaplan, Jim Gaughran and John Brooks, State Assemblymember Chuck Lavine, as well as members of the Nassau County Legislature were joined by fed-up drivers to call on Nassau County Executive Bruce…
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NHP-GCP Students Excel In National Vocabulary Competition
Four New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District students participated in this year’s WordMasters Challenge, a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually. Manor Oaks sixth grader Anisha Ahmed earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 64 sixth-graders achieved this result. She competed in the difficult Blue Division…
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New Hyde Park Board Presents Budget That Will Raise Taxes, Fund Community Center
It was the most residents the New Hyde Park Village Board trustees said they’ve seen at a Village Board meeting in a long time. Inside the Marcus G Christ Community Center that officials say has not been renovated since the 1980s, the New Hyde Park Village Board on April 7 presented the 2022 through 2023…
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Girl Scouts Honored By New Hyde Park Village Board For Leading Parade
New Hyde Park Mayor Christopher Devane recalled at the March 24 village board meeting that as the cold rain fell and the wind blew on the day of the first annual New Hyde Park St. Patrick’s Day Parade, he was not sure if he made a mistake. “I’m standing there thinking about maybe I should…