Food + Beverage

Fresh Beet, After-Hours

The Fresh Beet's Margo Palazzo shares two make-ahead fall bites built for grazing past dinner. Article by Margo Palazzo Page 1 —  By six o’clock, the light over Long Beach’s boardwalk turns the color of the fig butter cooling on Margo Palazzo’s counter — amber, unhurried, made for lingering. By day, The Fresh Beet is where the beach crowd refuels: build-your-own salads, fresh-pressed juices, colorful toasts on gluten-free bread, all built around Palazzo’s rule of no asterisks on the menu...

Home Services

A Decade of Tail-Wagging Thanks

From loyal customers to generations of happy Townies. Article by Kristi Sellers | Photography by Christina Kramer Before Lauren Duffy owned Hounds Town Island Park, she was a customer who understood why the concept worked. While working in pharmaceutical sales, she brought her dog, Willy, to the Hounds Town location in Farmingdale for years. Over time, she came to appreciate a structured, social place where dogs could play. That experience stayed with her. In 2016, Lauren and her partner...

Home + Design

Finding Home Through The Kitchen

For Jorge and Marcela Valencia, Kitchen Tune-Up Is a Love Letter to Home and Family Article by Kristi Sellers | Photography by Christina Kramer For Jorge and Marcela Valencia, Kitchen Tune-Up is more than a business. It is an extension of the life they have built together, the community they have come to love, and their belief that the kitchen has a unique way of bringing families together. Married for 20 years and parents of three children, Jorge and Marcela’s journey began far from Long...

Arts + Culture

Long Island’s Living Harvest

Inside the Malverne farm growing food, preserving land and bringing neighbors together across generations seasonally. Article by Kamaria Ellerbe | Photography by Christina Kramer At Crossroads Farm at Grossmann’s in Malverne, the autumn harvest brings land, food and community to the table. Each year, its Farm-to-Table dinner transforms the farm into a distinctive seasonal gathering. Elected officials, civic leaders, longtime supporters and neighbors gather among the fields for elegant meals...

Life + Culture

South Shore Nassau Says Thanks

A quiet thank you to the people who keep it running Article by Julia Macedo In November, the light along the boardwalk is already low and golden by late afternoon. It catches on the kind of things most people pass without thinking twice — a crossing guard lowering their flag after the last kids make their way home, lifeguard chairs stacked and turned toward the dunes for winter, a plow truck getting ready for a storm that hasn’t arrived yet. It doesn’t last long this time of year. But for a...

Finance + Legal Services

I'm Just Charlie From RVC.

The Rockville Centre kid who made it on Wall Street and came back home. Article by Julia Macedo | Photography by Provided by Charles Silecchia The closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange does not ring for just anyone. Getting on that floor means something. And when Charlie Silecchia stood there and pulled that cord, he had the kind of credential you spend a whole career chasing. "I'm just Charlie from RVC," Silecchia says. The Silecchia family moved to Rockville Centre in 1977 when...

Arts + Culture

Long Beach's Fall Festival Returns for its 28th Year

Pumpkin Patches, a Costume Parade, Live Music and Local Vendors Headline This Long Beach Tradition Article by Sabrina Moy | Photography by Lily Bosnick Page 1: Every fall, Kennedy Plaza trades its everyday rhythm for the scent of kettle corn and cinnamon, the creak of a hay wagon and the golden light of a Long Beach autumn. Just blocks from a boardwalk quieting down for the season, the plaza fills instead with hay bales, string lights and the low hum of a community settling into its favorite...

Life + Culture

Orly and Tyler's Favorite Things

Article by Orly and Tyler Kelley | Photography by Christina Kramer and Kelley Family 1. Sunset at Dox, Island Park- Waterfront tables, lawn games for the kids, those colorful Adirondack chairs, and dinner in baskets while the sky goes pink. You can even pull the boat right up to the dock. Our happy place! 2. Walt Itgen's in Rockville Centre. After playground adventures at the RVC Rec Center, we love to enjoy this old-fashioned parlor. It’s pure nostalgia: homemade scoops, towering sundaes...

Life + Culture

Made in Italy. Born Right Here.

Five years ago, a classically trained Italian chef brought his roots to Atlantic Beach and built something worth staying for. Article by Julia Macedo | Photography by Shanntography There is a garden behind Gio's in Atlantic Beach. He tends to it himself every summer — basil, mint, pepper growing in the heat. Come summer, the mint ends up in the cocktails and the basil makes it into whatever he is cooking.  Gio grew up in Italy. Not in one city — all over the country, then Germany, London...