Frank Lovece

Melville

Feature Writer at Newsday

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Long Island taxes: How high homeowners are willing to go

1 week ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

How high is too high when it comes to Long Island property taxes? For Lucille Chillak, 68, a retired IRS customer-service representative, it's $20,000 a year. "I would never pay $20,000” for her three-bed, three-bath West Islip home, where the mortgage is paid off.
Co-op board updates lease for apartment insurance, sublease, and fines

1 week ago | habitatmag.com | Frank Lovece

Most co-op proprietary leases are boilerplate documents cobbled together during the conversion wave of the 1980s. But times have changed, and some co-op boards want their leases to reflect those changes. Easier said than done. The board at the 65-unit co-op at 6300 Riverdale Ave.
Netflix miniseries 'Sirens' filmed at Caumsett State Park

1 week ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

The primary shooting locale of the Netflix miniseries "Sirens," streaming May 22, the grounds of the Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve, on the Lloyd Neck peninsula jutting out into Long Island Sound.
Bernie Bottomley, oversaw newsprint at Newsday, dies at 80

1 week ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

Publishing executive Bernie Bottomley, whose career included a dozen years at Newsday, knew all the newsprint that’s fit to print on. Trained as a civil engineer, he transitioned to the newspaper industry in 1987 and shepherded such sea changes as the move to recycled paper. "His expertise on newsprint matters," said Diane Kennedy, president of the New York News Publishers Association, "was of great value to the association's work." And to her own.
Peter Walsh, Coogan's bar owner and Water Mill resident, dies at 78

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

As an owner of the legendary Washington Heights bar-restaurant Coogan’s, Water Mill’s Peter Walsh helped bring in the plethora of politicos that made it the "Uptown City Hall.""We had a lot of politicians who would frequent," remembered David Hunt, who with Walsh and Tess O’Connor-McDade made up the final and most long-lasting team of proprietors of the now-shuttered establishment. Coogan's was where Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams met with influential U.S. congressman Charlie Rangel in 1996.
Islip Terrace chef Peter Richardson joins NBC's "Yes, Chef!"

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

Yes, Islip Terrace! One of your own will be competing in the new NBC culinary challenge "Yes, Chef!," premiering Monday at 10 p.m."I was just posting Instagram pictures and then one day somebody hit me up on Instagram and I didn't think it was real," recalls private chef Peter Richardson, who recently turned 24 but has been cooking professionally, he says, since his mid-teens.
Sal Moschella, retired NYPD officer and volunteer, dies at 93

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

From a childhood his family described as "Neapolitan street urchin," a teenage Sal Moschella would emigrate from Italy and become a lieutenant in the NYPD, earn a master’s in criminal justice and raise a family that includes a DEA attorney, the global controller of Indeed.com and a fallen FDNY firefighter. "A very, very good work ethic. That's how he accomplished everything that he did," remembered his wife, Marjorie Moschella, of South Farmingdale. "His family was not educated.
Long Island flea market memories

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

You thought you were shopping, but really, you were treasure-hunting. Such was the appeal of flea markets in the days before eBay, when you might not go searching for anything in particular but were open to surprise finds. Even when nothing interesting turned up, it was never a wasted foray since you were there with family or friends doing something together. Flea markets still exist, of course, but not in the size and number they used to.
Selden: Convenient access to stores, parks, SCCC campus draw buyers

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

THE SCOOP A place of pocket parks and playgrounds, and the main-campus home of Suffolk County Community College, Selden is paradoxically both far from and close to everything. Despite being miles from the nearest Long Island Rail Road station, "Literally anything that I need is five to 10 minutes away," said Neil Manzella, the Town of Brookhaven councilmember whose district includes Selden, where he and his family live. "I can make it to the mall in 15 minutes," he said.
Oceanside contestant takes the cake on 'The Great American Baking Show'

4 weeks ago | newsday.com | Frank Lovece

Note: All season 3 episodes of the streaming show premiered April 11 on The Roku Channel. This article contains a finale spoiler. Long Island conquered England on season 3 of The Roku Channel’s “The Great American Baking Show,” as Oceanside actor manager Kim Goldfeder Clarke bested seven other home chefs. When her name was announced as the winner, “It was like those Hitchcock films where the camera zooms out but pulls in,” giving a vertiginous effect, the highly animated Clarke recalls.