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The final deal, tucked into the $277 billion state budget approved in May, fell far short of labor’s original request but still delivered one of the biggest pension expansions since the state scaled back benefits for anyone hired after 2012 by creating a new track known as Tier 6. 

With Suffolk County a hot spot for tick-borne diseases in New York made worse by emerging threats, some $90 million more in federal funding will be needed to boost research and develop better testing and treatments, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday.

More than 63,000 Long Islanders will lose their state Essential Plan healthcare coverage on July 1.

The new four-year pacts — achieved after a three-day work stoppage involving about half the railroad’s 7,000-member organized workforce — give employees at the five unions annual raises of 3% in the first two years, 3.5% in the third and 4.5% in the fourth.

More than 40,000 people of Haitian descent and 1,300 of Syrian descent live on Long Island, census figures show.

First, Charter schools are private entities funded with public dollars. Is there a public vote to establish a charter school in a community? No. Is there a public vote on the annual budget of a charter school? No. Is there a publicly elected board of education? No.