https://longislandwave.com/ Health, wealth and lifestyle news for Long Islanders, covering Nassau and Suffolk. en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:53:05 GMT Long Island Wave https://longislandwave.com/assets/img/og-card-v3.jpg https://longislandwave.com/ https://longislandwave.com/news/sea-turtles-released-tiana-beach-hampton-bays-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/sea-turtles-released-tiana-beach-hampton-bays-2026/ Long Island Wave News Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six cold-stunned sea turtles rehabilitated in Riverhead swam home from Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays this week, three with satellite tags, one saved by a ferry crew. https://longislandwave.com/news/northport-literary-series-engeman-theater-books-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/northport-literary-series-engeman-theater-books-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Northport Books and the John W. Engeman Theater launch the Northport Literary Series this fall: Laura Lynne Jackson on October 12, Lidia Bastianich on November 18. https://longislandwave.com/news/popup-bagels-garden-city-opening-august-28-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/popup-bagels-garden-city-opening-august-28-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The grip, rip and dip bagel chain sets August 28 for Garden City at 900 Old Country Road, its third Long Island shop after Roslyn and Westhampton Beach. https://longislandwave.com/news/sayville-international-film-festival-melissa-joan-hart-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/sayville-international-film-festival-melissa-joan-hart-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sayville's first international film festival runs August 13 to 16 at Sayville Theater, with Melissa Joan Hart, Seth Gilliam, industry panels and premieres. https://longislandwave.com/news/galley-eckarts-westhampton-beach-liquor-license-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/galley-eckarts-westhampton-beach-liquor-license-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The team behind Speonk's Little Gull is reviving the century-old Eckart's space at 162 Mill Rd as Galley, and a new state liquor filing points to a full bar. https://longislandwave.com/news/hidden-blooms-flower-farm-amityville-sisters-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/hidden-blooms-flower-farm-amityville-sisters-2026/ Long Island Wave Lifestyle Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hidden Blooms, a one-acre u-pick flower farm, opened this summer on the Sisters of St. Dominic's motherhouse grounds in Amityville, with weekend picking into October. https://longislandwave.com/news/pickleball-prime-mineola-liquor-license-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/pickleball-prime-mineola-liquor-license-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pickleball Prime, the 10-court club that opened in March on East 2nd Street in Mineola, filed a state liquor application August 12. Here is what changes. https://longislandwave.com/news/sayville-running-company-returns-main-street-august-15-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/sayville-running-company-returns-main-street-august-15-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sayville Running Company reopens at 19 Main Street on Saturday, August 15, nearly two years after the October 2024 fire that damaged a stretch of downtown Sayville. https://longislandwave.com/news/supermodel-cafe-bethenny-frankel-east-quogue-opens-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/supermodel-cafe-bethenny-frankel-east-quogue-opens-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Supermodel Cafe, Bethenny Frankel's bagel pop-up powered by Goldberg's, is open at 481 Montauk Highway in East Quogue for a roughly three-week summer run. https://longislandwave.com/news/things-to-do-long-island-weekend-august-14-16-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/things-to-do-long-island-weekend-august-14-16-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Polish Town's pierogi contests, a free farm festival, oysters in Port Jefferson, bluegrass in Copiague and Westbury's feast finale: your weekend plan. https://longislandwave.com/news/emack-and-bolios-mineola-second-street-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/emack-and-bolios-mineola-second-street-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emack & Bolio's, born in a Brookline basement as an after-hours hangout for rock musicians in 1975, is open at 194 Second Street in Mineola. https://longislandwave.com/news/montauk-brewing-port-jefferson-taproom-grand-opening-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/montauk-brewing-port-jefferson-taproom-grand-opening-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Montauk Brewing has opened its first taproom beyond the East End at 22 Mill Creek Road in Port Jefferson, with a grand opening celebration set for August 19. https://longislandwave.com/news/artist-tree-dispensary-farmingdale-first-new-york-location-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/artist-tree-dispensary-farmingdale-first-new-york-location-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Artist Tree, a West Hollywood dispensary chain that doubles as a rotating art gallery, is bringing its first New York store to 900 Broadhollow Road in Farmingdale. https://longislandwave.com/news/barnes-and-noble-returns-commack-veterans-memorial-plaza-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/barnes-and-noble-returns-commack-veterans-memorial-plaza-2026/ Long Island Wave Lifestyle Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Barnes & Noble opened a new 10,000-square-foot store at Veterans Memorial Plaza in Commack, ending a two-year stretch without a bookstore in the hamlet. https://longislandwave.com/news/the-bridge-mineola-101-condos-construction-lirr-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/the-bridge-mineola-101-condos-construction-lirr-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Construction is underway on The Bridge, a $130M, nine-story building with 101 for-sale condos across from the Mineola LIRR station, opening January 2029. https://longislandwave.com/news/taquero-mucho-dix-hills-dine-in-bay-shore-taco-truck-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/taquero-mucho-dix-hills-dine-in-bay-shore-taco-truck-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Taquero Mucho, the taco truck parked on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore, has opened a dine-in restaurant at 15 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills. The truck stays. https://longislandwave.com/news/manhasset-cinemas-sold-jack-heller-assemble-media-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/manhasset-cinemas-sold-jack-heller-assemble-media-2026/ Long Island Wave News Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Manhasset Cinemas on Plandome Road sold for $3 million on July 27 to producer Jack Heller, who plans a restoration modeled on the Southampton Playhouse. https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-pizza-festival-nassau-coliseum-tickets-september-19-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-pizza-festival-nassau-coliseum-tickets-september-19-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Long Island Pizza Festival lands at the Nassau Coliseum plaza in Uniondale on Saturday, September 19, with dozens of Long Island pizzerias, four regional styles and Mike DelGuidice headlining. Tickets are on sale now. https://longislandwave.com/news/aroogas-patchogue-ten-year-anniversary-party-august-14-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/aroogas-patchogue-ten-year-anniversary-party-august-14-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Arooga's Grille House and Sports Bar marks ten years at 1 West Main Street in Patchogue with a party on Friday, August 14. Doors at 9 p.m., two DJs, and a limited RSVP list. https://longislandwave.com/news/tomato-moon-selden-emilios-commack-family-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/tomato-moon-selden-emilios-commack-family-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The family behind Emilio's of Commack has opened Tomato Moon in Selden's former Capellini space, and the state just issued its liquor license. https://longislandwave.com/news/port-washington-little-league-metro-elimination-espn-august-12-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/port-washington-little-league-metro-elimination-espn-august-12-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT PYA's 12U all-stars, first state champions in the program's history, face Darien Wednesday at 5 p.m. on ESPN, one win from the Metro Region final. https://longislandwave.com/news/suffolk-tularemia-rabbit-fever-fourth-case-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/suffolk-tularemia-rabbit-fever-fourth-case-2026/ Long Island Wave Health Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Suffolk confirmed its fourth tularemia case of 2026. A CDC study counted 13 in the county over three decades. What rabbit fever is and how to avoid it. https://longislandwave.com/news/sea-breeze-babylon-bar-sale-new-owners-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/sea-breeze-babylon-bar-sale-new-owners-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new corporation filed for a liquor license at the Sea Breeze on Fire Island Avenue Monday, and the Babylon bar’s sale listing is pending. The name stays. https://longislandwave.com/news/iglesia-san-francisco-riverhead-church-rededicated-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/iglesia-san-francisco-riverhead-church-rededicated-2026/ Long Island Wave News Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Episcopal Diocese of Long Island rededicated the former Grace Church on Roanoke Avenue Sunday, three years after safety concerns closed its doors. https://longislandwave.com/news/polish-town-fair-riverhead-august-15-16-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/polish-town-fair-riverhead-august-15-16-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Polish Town Fair returns to Riverhead August 15 and 16, 2026 with polka on two stages, pierogi eating contests, a staged street wedding and a kids corner on Pulaski Street. https://longislandwave.com/news/whale-awareness-act-boater-safety-long-island-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/whale-awareness-act-boater-safety-long-island-2026/ Long Island Wave News Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT New York signed the Whale Awareness Act on August 10, 2026. Boating safety courses will teach whale avoidance, with guidance mailed to Nassau and Suffolk boat owners. https://longislandwave.com/news/amazon-holbrook-warehouse-community-meeting-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/amazon-holbrook-warehouse-community-meeting-august-2026/ Long Island Wave News Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first community meeting on Amazon's proposed 1 billion dollar, 4.2 million square foot Holbrook facility is tonight at 6 p.m. at the Holbrook Fire Department, and seats are nearly gone. https://longislandwave.com/news/islip-rabid-raccoon-suffolk-37th-case-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/islip-rabid-raccoon-suffolk-37th-case-august-2026/ Long Island Wave Health Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A raccoon found in Islip tested positive for rabies on August 6, Suffolk's 37th terrestrial case since February 2025. What the county is doing and who to call. https://longislandwave.com/news/hurricane-belle-50th-anniversary-jones-beach-1976/ https://longislandwave.com/news/hurricane-belle-50th-anniversary-jones-beach-1976/ Long Island Wave Lifestyle Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT On the night of August 9 to 10, 1976, Hurricane Belle made landfall at Jones Beach. In the 50 years since, only one hurricane has hit Long Island. https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-heat-advisory-monday-august-10-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-heat-advisory-monday-august-10-2026/ Long Island Wave News Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The NWS heat advisory runs until 7 p.m. Monday for Nassau and western Suffolk with a heat index near 98, storms possible after 5 and no real break until Wednesday. https://longislandwave.com/news/king-kullen-giuntas-meat-farms-sale-september-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/king-kullen-giuntas-meat-farms-sale-september-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giunta's Meat Farms is buying all 24 King Kullen stores and four Wild by Nature markets, with a September close. What changes for Long Island shoppers, and what does not. https://longislandwave.com/news/hallockville-hootenanny-free-festival-riverhead-august-15-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/hallockville-hootenanny-free-festival-riverhead-august-15-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead hosts its free Hootenanny on Saturday, August 15 from noon to 7, with five bands, food trucks and vendors on Sound Avenue. https://longislandwave.com/news/perseid-meteor-shower-2026-new-moon-long-island/ https://longislandwave.com/news/perseid-meteor-shower-2026-new-moon-long-island/ Long Island Wave Lifestyle Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight Wednesday into Thursday under a new moon, the darkest sky possible. When to look and where Long Island gets dark. https://longislandwave.com/news/new-restaurant-liquor-filings-brightwaters-albertson-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/new-restaurant-liquor-filings-brightwaters-albertson-august-2026/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Liquor license applications name new restaurants weeks before any sign goes up. Seven landed on the state list since late July, Brightwaters to Mattituck. https://longislandwave.com/news/westbury-feast-of-the-assumption-115th-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/westbury-feast-of-the-assumption-115th-august-2026/ Long Island Wave Events Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Maria SS. Dell'Assunta Society's 115th Feast of the Assumption runs August 12 to 15 at St. Brigid's in Westbury, closing with the Saturday procession. https://longislandwave.com/news/suffolk-rainfall-beach-advisory-64-beaches-standing-list-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/suffolk-rainfall-beach-advisory-64-beaches-standing-list-2026/ Long Island Wave Health Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The advisory is issued on the forecast, not on a test result, and it hits the same beaches every time. Huntington and Brookhaven account for 45 of the 64. https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-industrial-vacancy-7-percent-q2-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-industrial-vacancy-7-percent-q2-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Warehouse space is the third leg of the Island's commercial market and the one nobody photographs, and it just had its strongest quarter in a while. Here is what the numbers mean for tenants. https://longislandwave.com/news/broadway-commons-hicksville-special-use-permit-decision-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/broadway-commons-hicksville-special-use-permit-decision-august-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Oyster Bay Town Board takes up the two special use permits behind the Shops on Broadway: active recreation use, and motor vehicle fuel sales at the new BJ's. https://longislandwave.com/news/oyster-bay-dog-warden-agreements-twelve-villages-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/oyster-bay-dog-warden-agreements-twelve-villages-august-2026/ Long Island Wave News Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bayville, Sea Cliff, Farmingdale, Muttontown and eight more are on one town board calendar for animal control services, on terms that started seven months ago. https://longislandwave.com/news/lirr-elmont-switch-work-august-2026-weekend-service-changes/ https://longislandwave.com/news/lirr-elmont-switch-work-august-2026-weekend-service-changes/ Long Island Wave News Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Work runs 12:15 a.m. Saturday to 3:30 a.m. Monday on August 8-10, 15-17 and 22-24. Bellerose station is closed, Stewart Manor through Hempstead gets a shuttle, and three stations lose service in one direction. https://longislandwave.com/news/nassau-suffolk-home-prices-june-2026-suffolk-outpacing-nassau/ https://longislandwave.com/news/nassau-suffolk-home-prices-june-2026-suffolk-outpacing-nassau/ Long Island Wave Business Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nassau's single-family median hit $875,000, up 2.9 percent. Suffolk's hit $750,000, up 7.1 percent. Convergence sounds like good news until you ask which county is doing the moving. https://longislandwave.com/news/wyandanch-great-lawn-park-improvements-state-funding-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/wyandanch-great-lawn-park-improvements-state-funding-august-2026/ Long Island Wave Lifestyle Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three million dollars builds an acre of open space with a dog park, a playground and a community garden. Another $1.1 million rebuilds the playing fields at Wyandanch Park. The announcement came Thursday. https://longislandwave.com/news/patchogue-18-east-third-street-change-of-zone-august-10-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/patchogue-18-east-third-street-change-of-zone-august-10-2026/ Long Island Wave News Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The agenda for Monday's Board of Trustees meeting closes the public hearing on 18 East Third Street and adopts the local law in the next motion. If you want to say something about it, Monday is the last night. https://longislandwave.com/news/wonder-long-island-locations-2026-massapequa-park-lindenhurst-glen-cove/ https://longislandwave.com/news/wonder-long-island-locations-2026-massapequa-park-lindenhurst-glen-cove/ Long Island Wave Food & Drink Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thirteen open, three on the way in Massapequa Park, Lindenhurst and Glen Cove. One kitchen, twenty-nine restaurant brands, and a competitive problem no single storefront on a village main street was built to answer. https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-office-market-q2-2026-record-rents-shrinking-supply/ https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-office-market-q2-2026-record-rents-shrinking-supply/ Long Island Wave Business Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Availability fell to a post-pandemic low and asking rents reached a record $33.52 per square foot. Leasing is up, but so is demolition and conversion. A tightening market and a growing one are not the same thing. https://longislandwave.com/news/brookhaven-planning-board-august-27-2026-ronkonkoma-hawkins-avenue-land-divisions/ https://longislandwave.com/news/brookhaven-planning-board-august-27-2026-ronkonkoma-hawkins-avenue-land-divisions/ Long Island Wave News Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Brookhaven Planning Board hears seven applications on one August afternoon. Two are on Hawkins Avenue in Ronkonkoma, one of them for three two-family houses. Every single item on the calendar requires variances. https://longislandwave.com/news/brookhaven-steep-slope-protection-overlay-district-hearing-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/brookhaven-steep-slope-protection-overlay-district-hearing-august-2026/ Long Island Wave News Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Town Board hears Introductory Local Law 10 of 2026 on August 13. It would add a Steep Slope Protection Overlay District to the zoning code. The full text is on file at the Town Clerk office and nowhere else. https://longislandwave.com/news/red-light-method-commack-opens-august-7-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/red-light-method-commack-opens-august-7-2026/ Long Island Wave Health Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Red Light Method opens Friday, August 7 at 6157 Jericho Turnpike in Commack. Inside owner Steve Berlin's studio: medical-grade red light, Power Plate, Pilates, sauna. https://longislandwave.com/news/smithtown-zoning-board-august-2026-retaining-walls-kings-park-trucking/ https://longislandwave.com/news/smithtown-zoning-board-august-2026-retaining-walls-kings-park-trucking/ Long Island Wave News Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five Smithtown and Kings Park homeowners want taller retaining walls and higher fences on top of them. The same agenda carries a trucking station seeking to erase the screening between it and a residential street. https://longislandwave.com/news/riverhead-pet-store-law-puppy-mill-pipeline-comments-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/riverhead-pet-store-law-puppy-mill-pipeline-comments-2026/ Long Island Wave News Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The proposed local law harmonizes the town code with the state's Puppy Mill Pipeline Law and adds enclosure, temperature, disease-control and recordkeeping rules, with penalties up to $5,000 per violation per day. https://longislandwave.com/news/north-hempstead-zoning-board-august-2026-houses-too-big-lots-too-narrow/ https://longislandwave.com/news/north-hempstead-zoning-board-august-2026-houses-too-big-lots-too-narrow/ Long Island Wave News Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn Heights, New Hyde Park and Glenwood Landing all appear on the same residential calendar, and the requests fall into exactly two categories. https://longislandwave.com/news/carle-place-retail-to-rehab-good-samaritan-parking-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/carle-place-retail-to-rehab-good-samaritan-parking-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Catholic Health wants to turn retail space on Glen Cove Road into a physical therapy and rehabilitation center, and it does not have the parking. Read against this year's jobs and vacancy numbers, the application explains itself. https://longislandwave.com/news/riverhead-planning-board-jamesport-wineton-farms-subdivision-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/riverhead-planning-board-jamesport-wineton-farms-subdivision-2026/ Long Island Wave News Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four lots out of 188.79 acres on Main Road, two of them with development rights already sold, plus a Calverton flag lot and four extensions of subdivisions approved last November. https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-sign-variances-commack-carle-place-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-sign-variances-commack-carle-place-august-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Jericho Turnpike building in Commack is asking for fifteen signs. A Carle Place drive-through wants signage that is not attached to a wall. Long Island's sign codes are being tested by the application, not by amendment. https://longislandwave.com/news/southampton-village-special-meeting-traffic-public-safety-august-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/southampton-village-special-meeting-traffic-public-safety-august-2026/ Long Island Wave News Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Board of Trustees meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Village Hall on Main Street. The notice is two sentences long, and the timing says as much as the text. https://longislandwave.com/news/westbury-gotham-mta-transit-oriented-development-hearing-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/westbury-gotham-mta-transit-oriented-development-hearing-2026/ Long Island Wave News Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Village of Westbury Board of Trustees meets Thursday on the Gotham Organization plan for the MTA lot beside the LIRR station, a project six years in the making. https://longislandwave.com/news/nassau-community-revitalization-grants-july-2026-where-money-went/ https://longislandwave.com/news/nassau-community-revitalization-grants-july-2026-where-money-went/ Long Island Wave News Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Turnout gear, a library boiler, four playgrounds, a soccer field and a backhoe. The July 27 Community Revitalization Project grants, itemized village by village. https://longislandwave.com/news/baldwin-book-nook-black-owned-bookstore-hands-2-wellness-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/baldwin-book-nook-black-owned-bookstore-hands-2-wellness-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two doctors opened an independent bookshop in a hamlet that had none. It is one of about a dozen storefronts Baldwin has filled since March. https://longislandwave.com/news/suffolk-septic-grant-portal-45000-clean-water-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/suffolk-septic-grant-portal-45000-clean-water-2026/ Long Island Wave Health Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nearly 70 percent of Suffolk homes still run on cesspools or septic systems. A new county portal launched this week combines the state and county grants in one application. https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-retail-vacancy-landlord-market-2026/ https://longislandwave.com/news/long-island-retail-vacancy-landlord-market-2026/ Long Island Wave Business Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Almost no new retail has been built on Long Island in five years. A mid-year market report explains why storefronts turn over fast and why the new tenant is usually a chain.