Robert Brodsky

1 week ago | newsday.com | Robert Brodsky

New York is closer than ever to legalizing medically assisted suicide for terminally ill individuals, but it remains unclear how many Long Island physicians will help patients end their own life. After languishing in legislative purgatory for more than a decade, State Assembly lawmakers passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act last week. The measure allows mentally capable adults who have six months or less to live to request life-ending medication prescribed from a physician.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Robert Brodsky |Lorena Mongelli

Brenda Lubrano waited a month to secure one of the hottest tickets on Long Island: an appointment at the Department of Motor Vehicles to get a REAL ID-compliant driver's license. But when Lubrano, 70, arrived at the Bethpage DMV to get the ID — which will be needed to fly domestically in the U.S. beginning Wednesday absent a valid passport — she learned that she'd failed to bring her Social Security card and would have to return home to Massapequa to retrieve it.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Robert Brodsky

More than 4,000 of Long Island's best runners will descend on Eisenhower Park in East Meadow this weekend for the 51st annual Long Island Marathon, flanked by screaming supporters, live music, food trucks and a health and fitness expo. But just across the road from the starting line, a huge swath of the island's largest park is anything but festive and remains completely inaccessible to the public.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Robert Brodsky

Five men, including three from Long Island, were charged Thursday with operating a yearslong drug trafficking organization, distributing cocaine and fentanyl across Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties, federal prosecutors said. In addition, Nicholas Andrade, 37, of White Plains, the leader of the organization, known as "No Budget," was charged with the 2023 murder of a Bay Shore man and shooting a potential witness to the homicide, the federal indictment states. The witness survived.

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Robert Brodsky

Food prices in the New York metropolitan region, including on Long Island, have spiked 25% since 2019 and more than 56% in the past decade, while low-income households are paying significantly more to fill their refrigerator and take their family out to eat than before the pandemic, according to a report released Wednesday by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.