Long Island Wave

Health, Wealth & Lifestyle News for Long Islanders
The people, places, and openings shaping how LI lives
Montauk to Manhasset ⬇️

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Dodici, the Italian mainstay on Rockville Centre's North Park Ave since 1992, is back under new owners. The name and the room stay, and the wine is pouring under a fresh permit. The story:
https://t.co/Yk5QCqS0F9

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A US first over Suffolk County: entangled photons crossed 13 miles of open air from a rooftop at Stony Brook to Brookhaven Lab in Upton, extending the nation's longest quantum network. The story: https://t.co/LLVhWRHNyV

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Willie Nelson at 93 plays Jones Beach Friday. The Hampton Classic jumps its $400,000 Grand Prix Sunday. Riverhead's trains turn 30, and apple season opens. Your weekend plan:
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El Tazumal has fed Glen Cove for 40 years. The Salvadoran restaurant on Glen Street opened in 1986, marked the milestone this month with a ribbon cutting, and a pupusa still costs $3. https://t.co/gp7MazMdGv

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The East Main Street Ale House in Oyster Bay went dark last winter. A new license effective this week says it is coming back: same name, new owner, running to 2028. https://t.co/30I9VHzYOe

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Free scoops Saturday in Oceanside: the new Häagen-Dazs at the Sands holds its grand opening Aug. 29, with a free mini scoop for the first 500 guests and a $500 gift card in the prize deck. https://t.co/n6VqIkYX5J

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Long Island's first pancreas transplant happened at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. Ten hours, two organs, one donor. The patient is off insulin and off dialysis. https://t.co/VcC1X3FGwG

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Riverhead's first haunted walking tour reopens the 1932 corn doctor murder, still unsolved. Three October Saturdays, five stops on East Main Street, live actors, $20. https://t.co/s26Ok3C8hg

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Sup Vietnamese now holds the liquor license at 399 Jericho Turnpike, the corner that closed Lisbon Cafe and Cozumel. Jericho is the pho group's next opening. https://t.co/sHoFdtjSYk

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The ice cream truck Long Island grew up chasing is getting a fixed address: Mister Softee opens its fifth LI storefront Sept. 4 in Coram's Pond Plaza, run by a family in the trucks since 1968.

https://t.co/qYdv1vDbvR

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Patchogue's Side Street Dive turned its waitstaff into a Broadway cast: singing servers, confetti and brunch shows now four days a week in the old Burgerology space.

https://t.co/EjNruYPfnV

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Whoopi Goldberg is coming to Crescent Beach: Netflix's Women Like Us plans a monthlong Shelter Island shoot starting Sept. 1, with Michelle Obama executive producing.

https://t.co/mnoKpiayOr

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The Candy Man site in Orient will sell candy again. North Star aims for September, with pick-and-mix, the same suppliers and the Michtas' chocolate table still in the room.

https://t.co/sMOQxkA1l7

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Long Island's only handroll bar can now pour you a drink. Ikedo's license was issued Friday at 530B Jericho Tpke in Mineola, where every roll is meant to be eaten within 90 seconds.

https://t.co/2xmT2KX3uI

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Rockville Centre's Chat Noir corner has a taker. A Friday filing puts a restaurant called Gourmand at 230 Merrick Rd, and the paperwork points to the team behind Lynbrook's Gourmology.

https://t.co/D6lBPAHvuo

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Leonardo's Pizza has fed Massapequa from 20 Broadway since the 1970s. A filing made Thursday would let it pour wine and beer for the first time in state records. New corporation behind the counter, same menu.

https://t.co/HLDY6kgqQg

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Long Island's first Miniso and a fourth Cava just got leases approved at Green Acres in Valley Stream, part of the tenant wave landing during the mall's $100M remake.

https://t.co/i0Ob0yRhHd

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Just Off the Ocean LLC filed for a liquor license at 4 S Elmwood Ave, Montauk, the corner that held Zum Schneider and then Sel Rrose. A third act, one block from the beach.

https://t.co/a1TgqfP7zM

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Two vacant buildings a block from the Port Jefferson train station are coming down for 53 income-restricted apartments. Perry & Main starts construction now, with move-ins in 2027.

https://t.co/G38RG1i388

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The Jamesport vineyard planted by Lenz's longtime vineyard manager in 1993 spent three decades growing wine for everyone else. As of August 20 it holds its own winery license. THEO Vineyard joins the North Fork roster.

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