Point Lookout News

I recently visited two Nassau County barrier island fire departments - Long Beach and Point Lookout-Lido - to hear about needs and give an update during the ongoing relief and recovery efforts following Superstorm Sandy.

10:30 a.m. March 24. Tours through the sugar bush run every half-hour. On the tours, visitors will learn that what began as an exchange of ideas and practices between early explorers and Native Americans has become one of New York's best loved treats and an important industry.

Nearly five months after superstorm Sandy wiped out its entire first floor, Long Beach's central public library is reopening.

"Mount Sandy," spread between Riverside Boulevard and Long Beach Road along Broadway, consists of beach sand that spilled into the city's streets due to superstorm Sandy.