Long Island News

Crooks living in vacant homes in areas hit hardest by foreclosure make for confrontational neighbors.

“Welcome, my dear! Have a seat. Welcome to Cold Spring Harbor.”

“It’s just basically holy hell."

“Songs of Sandy came along as our attempt to have a quick and timely response from the poetry community concerning the disaster and to do our part since our greatest power is our words."

“We have storms of the century every two years now." But do we?

“Long Island was Whitman’s America in his youth and, to a great extent, through the creation of the first three editions of Leaves of Grass. He knew this region like no other.”

“They just want me to quit, to go away and not get paid and not have benefits and just quit. I have four children, my wife; we have to live.”

The lab is lifting the veil on their secretive setup as the feds work to move it to Kansas in the coming decade.

“If you can have someone respond emotionally to your art, there’s no money number to that; it’s a response.”

“This is a man who never once spent a night away from home. Not once, not one night in 18 years was he not with me."