The sound of generators echoed through the night on Thursday as many Glen Cove residents are still without power days after Tropical Storm Isaias felled trees and power lines across the island.

And after days of no electricity leading to no air conditioner, useless refrigerators and an inability to brew coffee in the morning, many Glen Cove residents and officials are fed up.

“There’s a lot of people in Glen Cove without power, quite a few, and there’s still extensive damage,” said Glen Cove Police Department Chief William Whitton, who is still without power himself as of Thursday evening. “There’s trees down everywhere. PSEG, in my opinion, should be ashamed of themselves. Their response to this storm has been abysmal....| read more ››

State and local officials pounced on PSEG Long Island Wednesday, demanding state probes into the utility's communication failures the day before when Tropical Storm Isaias knocked out power to more than a third of its customers.

From Albany to Hempstead, officials expressed outrage and demanded answers to the widespread inability of PSEG customers to get through to the company to report outages and receive estimated restoration times. PSEG has spent hundreds of millions of ratepayer dollars improving outage management, automated communications and smart meters intended to limit outages and improve customer response.

Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin on Tuesday night called on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to "look into this and find out where they dropped the ball.” By midday...| read more ››

That housing segregation still exists is one of the maddening facts of 21st-century life. We all know it’s wrong, it’s been called out for decades, and yet it persists. So we applaud Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for signing legislation that allows licenses of real estate professionals to be suspended or revoked if they engage in discriminatory behavior.

The bill, sponsored by two Long Islanders, State Sen. James Gaughran (D-Northport) and Assemb. Kimberly Jean-Pierre (D-Wheatley Heights), won’t end such discrimination on its own. But it’s one more building block in the growing legacy of official anti-discrimination actions being carved by Newsday’s Long Island Divided project published last year. The project found that 49% of Black homebuyers, and 40% of all...| read more ››

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation explicitly granting the Department of State the authority to discipline real estate professionals found to have violated provisions of the state Human Rights Law by revoking or suspending their licenses.

Cuomo had directed the state’s Division of Human Rights, the Division of Homes and Community Renewal and Department of State to launch a joint investigation into reports of widespread discrimination among real estate agents on Long Island.

His action followed a report in Newsday on November 17, 2019, on the results of an undercover investigation into housing discrimination on Long Island, which included evidence suggesting real estate agents engaged in discriminatory conduct, including imposing unequal conditions and steering clients toward certain neighborhoods depending on...| read more ››