Category: New Hyde Park 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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Sewanhaka Adopts Budget Ahead Of May 17 Vote
The Sewanhaka Central High School District adopted its budget with a tax-levy increase of 2.87 percent, a figure that’s tax-cap compliant. The total budget balanced at approximately $227.4 million, a 5.39 percent increase from the current year budget. Of those monies, approximately $28.5 million will be allocated towards administrative costs, approximately $172.6 million will be…
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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…