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Queens prosecutors and state officials on Tuesday announced the arrests of five people in connection with an alleged $2 million retail theft ring operating online, in New York City and in the Dominican Republic — a landmark bust because of the first-ever use of a new law.

The Nevada-based company's traffic mitigation efforts include adding one lane on each side of a stretch of the 90-year-old Meadowbrook from the Northern State to Hempstead Turnpike and spending an estimated $20 million to build a new water well to supply the Coliseum site, homes and businesses ar

Suffolk County voters gave a boost to water quality improvement by approving an eighth-of-a-percent sales tax increase poised to inject millions of dollars into a new fund for modernized sewers and septic tanks.

Among the line items the union is seeking in the contract are increases to wages, expansion of medical coverage, and updates to staffing ratios for patient-facing staff, said Desiree Moore, president of the union and a registered nurse at Long Island Community.

Erica Rechner, director of Opportunities Long Island, a pre-apprenticeship program aimed at creating pathways for underserved communities to find work as apprentices in unionized building trades, said apprenticeships can change lives.

In this year’s election, voters given the opportunity to weigh in directly on questions of economic justice showed policy preferences far more progressive than those reflected in many national and state election outcomes.