Helen Dejana, 96, lifelong Port Washington spent 70 years with same company
Helen Dejana, a lifelong Port Washington resident and a woman who blazed her own path, has died at the age of 96.
View ArticleJohn Maguire, former SUNY Old Westbury president who crusaded for social...
John D. Maguire, a colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. and an original Freedom Rider, crusaded for social change throughout his life.
View ArticleAnthony Hanlon, retired NYPD officer, dies from 9/11-related illness at 49
From a kid in Merrick who lettered in high school basketball to an NYPD officer with a knack for turning around troubled youth, Anthony Hanlon left behind a legacy of excellence and service to the...
View ArticleGabriella Pellicani dies;Â Rockville Centre kindergartner was 5
When Maria Petrone remembers Gabriella Pellicani, one of her former students at St. Mark's Cooperative Nursery School in Rockville Centre, she thinks of her dancing wildly through the classroom.
View ArticleKurt Salzinger, 89, noted Hofstra professor, dies after fall on subway platform
The longtime Hofstra University professor, who fled Nazi persecution in Europe as a boy and devoted his life to the study of human behavior, died from injuries suffered in the October fall.
View ArticleIrving Like, 93, anti-Shoreham strategist who also bucked Moses, dies
Irving Like was the top legal strategist in stopping the opening of the $6 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant and blocking state parks chief Robert Moses from building a highway across Fire Island.
View ArticleRichard Henry Robertson Sr., 95, dies; was Huntington Town's first black cop
After serving in the Air Force, he joined the Huntington Town Police Department before moving to the Suffolk police.
View ArticleLee Kopman dies;Â king of modern square dancing was 85
Lee Kopman, an internationally renowned square dance caller from Wantagh, revolutionized the activity over five decades with his inventive choreography that challenged dancers with new, more...
View ArticleMichael Leiderman, Long Island Storm baseball team founder, dies at 56
Also the owner of a successful office furniture company, Michael Leiderman started a baseball academy that helped hundreds of players.
View ArticleLi-Chieh Szema, who studied American Airlines Flight 587 crash, dies at 88
Li-Chieh Szema became incensed in 2001 when speculation about the causes of a deadly plane crash in Belle Harbor, Queens, focused on whether birds had been sucked into the jet's engines.
View ArticleIrv Gordon dies; LIer who gained fame for his 3 million-mile Volvo was 78
Irv Gordon, a lifelong East Patchogue resident who set world records and traveled more than 3 million miles behind the wheel of his cherry-red 1966 Volvo, has died.
View ArticleJose Peralta dies, Democratic Queens state senator was 47
State Sen. Jose Peralta, a New York lawmaker who was the first Dominican-American elected to the Senate, has died. The Democrat was 47 and nearing the end of nearly two decades in office after losing a...
View ArticleMsgr. James McDonald dies; longtime Long Island priest was 77
McDonald, an energetic evangelizer, never missed his chance to suggest to a promising young man that the religious life might be for him.
View ArticleTeacher, Yiddish theater actor Al Grand dies at 88
Back in the '70s when the Gilbert & Sullivan Workshop of Long Island needed money to continue to do shows, Al Grand had an idea.
View ArticlePeter Maniscalco, activist who helped shutter Shoreham nuclear plant, dies at 77
Peter Maniscalco was a persistent and vocal opponent of the plant through the 1980s and '90s, in a way that friends recalled bordered on the spiritual.
View ArticleArmy veteran, longtime Plainview resident Salvatore Mascolo Jr. dies at 69
As relatives trickled in from across the country to remember Salvatore Mascolo Jr., most mentioned his smile.
View ArticleGeorge H.W. Bush, President No. 41, was a real sport
In an Oval Office desk drawer, President George Herbert Walker Bush always kept a well-worn George McQuinn model Rawlings first baseman's mitt. It was his constant reminder that on the way to becoming...
View ArticleOfficials: Vehicle hits, kills surgeon who founded Manhattan Hatzalah
Richard Friedman of Cedarhurst was a bariatric surgeon with Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan and founded a West Side branch of Hatzalah.
View ArticlePeter Collins, called 'father of Long Island soccer,' dies
Peter Collins, who is credited with expanding the Long Island Junior Soccer League to nearly 1,500 teams, has died.
View ArticleWorld War II veteran Lawrence H. Weber of Levittown dies at 93
Lawrence H. Weber was only a year out of high school when the Bronx native stormed a beach in Normandy, France, in 1944, shortly after escaping a sinking transport ship that had struck a mine.
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