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N.Y. Lottery: Player wins $1,000 a week for life in Cash4Life prize
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A lucky lottery player in New York state will enjoy $1,000 a week for life after purchasing a second-prize Cash4Life ticket. The New York Lottery announced the ticket was sold for the Wednesday Cash4Life drawing — worth a guaranteed minimum of $1 million — in Nassau County. It was purchased at Jay Cards & Gift LLC, located at 712 Old Bethpage Rd., in Old Bethpage.
N.Y. Lottery: Player claims $1M on scratch-off game as one-time lump sum; 1 top prize remains
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A New York Lottery player has claimed a $1 million prize on a scratch-off game — and one top prize still remains. Walter Jewels of Freeport, New York, has claimed the prize on the Magic 8 Ball scratch-off game. The ticket was purchased at Curiosity, located at 193 Atlantic Ave., in Freeport.
The Shed is set to open May 22 in Westbury, its 4th Long Island location
What started in Huntington is now expanding across Long Island and Connecticut. On May 22, The Shed will be bringing its all-day brunch and dinner, highlighted by comfort food favorites, to 685 Merrick Ave. in Westbury, fronting the brand-new Selby apartments by Beechwood Homes. The restaurant’s management team announced the...
Have messy fun at Splatter Room
ASTORIA, Queens (PIX11) — If you’re looking for good, clean, family fun, this isn’t it. You’ll definitely have fun, but you’re gonna get dirty. Mr. G visited the “Splatter Room” in Astoria for a colorful experience. It’s a G Thing. Learn more in the video player.
Inside a New Long Island Home That Puts an American Spin on a Classic European Country House
As Long Island pushes east into the Atlantic Ocean it splits into two long, slender peninsulas. The southern spit is the Hamptons, while the other less globally glorified finger is simply called the North Fork. The string of small communities that dot the North Fork have historically been centered around farming and fishing but over the last couple of decades the area has developed into an award-winning viticultural hotspot and bucolic tourist destination with more than two dozen wineries laid out among the apple orchards and potato fields.Meghan Trainor Snags Zedd's Rockstar-Worthy L.A. Manse for $17 Million I first began to...
NYC Sandwich Shop Opens In Cliffside Park
Compton's, owned by chef Alex Compton, has opened on Anderson Avenue in Cliffside Park. The shop first opened in Queens, NY in 2018 "with the goal of serving food that tastes as good as it looks," and quickly became a "go-to" neighborhood spot, its website says. The menu includes hot...
Community rallies to help beloved NYC restaurant owner
A dumpling restaurant in Murray Hill, Queens, thrives after the Asian American Federation taught the owner a few tricks. Northern King Dumpling has been around for 17 years, but owner Jinglan Quan took it over seven years ago.
ZUZU 70’s pizza headlines 3 levels of fun at one ambitious Farmingale project
A new concept is coming to downtown Farmingdale. Three new concepts, actually. Opening this spring in the former Peanuts Nursery School at 202 Main Street is a three-level building that has something different to offer on each floor. The new venture is founded by the ownership group behind Croxley’s Ale...
'The Art of Stanko' exhibition is a colorful ode to Valley Stream
It was a full house at the Pagan-Fletcher Restoration turned exhibition gallery to showcase the work of New American painter and hometown darling Mike Stanko. The record-breaking turnout on opening night on May 3 illustrates that Stanko’s work remains prolific after decades of painting. Dubbed the “Norman Rockwell of...
Learn more about Black cowboys May 21
The Black Cowboy, Indigenous & African Cultural Center is opening up to the public with a tour during which it will showcase various artifacts on May 21 at 4:30 p.m. “The founder of the museum wants to open it up to the community,” said Patricia Wooden, a member of the center. “He will tell stories of the past with those artifacts. It is really interesting and ... it shows how they lived in the past.”
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