Bahar Ostadan
Reporter at Newsday
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Bahar Ostadan
President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, backing a close ally who is running for reelection in November. "Bruce is MAGA all the way, and has been with us from the very beginning," Trump posted Tuesday night on his social media site Truth Social. "Bruce Blakeman has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"Blakeman thanked Trump for the endorsement in a statement.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Bahar Ostadan
Lawmakers voted on Monday to spend up to $1.7 million in taxpayer money to hire private lawyers to defend Nassau County against a lawsuit from Newsday. Newsday sued Nassau County in January after claiming officials blocked reporters from press emails, ignored their questions and denied them access to public information.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Bahar Ostadan
The vast majority of Nassau County homeowners who challenged their property assessments won settlements — 80% last year, compared with nearly 70% the year before — thereby shifting the tax burden to remaining taxpayers, according to data analyzed by Newsday. Nearly 60% of Nassau homeowners last year — about 227,000 — filed a "grievance,” a formal appeal of their property assessment, according to data from Nassau’s Assessment Review Commission obtained by Newsday through a public records request.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Bahar Ostadan
May 5, 2025 5:00 amYou could lose the opportunity to ride through the heart of Times Square in a neon-flashing, music-thumping pedicab for $20 a minute under a new bill introduced by Manhattan lawmakers. A proposed New York City Council bill would ban pedicab drivers from stopping, picking up or dropping off passengers within 50 feet of theaters in Manhattan’s Theater District.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Bahar Ostadan
About 80 firefighters responded to a Syosset group home that broke out into flames on Sunday. Just after 4 p.m., a fire alarm on the second floor of the three-story building on the MercyFirst campus on Convent Road triggered a 911 call to the Syosset Fire Department, according to officials. No one was in the building at the time. Emergency responders contained the fire, which was limited to a single room, within 30 minutes, and no one was injured.
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