Valerie Kellogg

1 week ago | newsday.com | Valerie Kellogg

There are those who identify as men. There are those who identify as women. And then there’s Micah Schneider. They, the pronoun Schneider uses, “grew up as a girl,” the Huntington resident said. “I tried really hard to fit in as a girl, and it never really felt right,” they said.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Valerie Kellogg

Asked about the Brimfield Antique Flea Markets, Sonia Fernandez describes the multiday Massachusetts bazaar as "kind of like the World Cup of antique and vintage."That’s a big endorsement coming from Fernandez, 45, a dealer at Huntington's neighboring businesses Rosie’s Vintage and Wit and Whim. The former marketing professional, who has been vending now for four years, sources at the triennial event to stock her selling spaces on Long Island and upstate New York.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Valerie Kellogg

“It smells so good,” said Ruby Ganci as she ripped open Touchland’s $10 “wild watermelon” hand sanitizer and sprayed herself on the sidewalk outside Uncharted in Greenvale. The bacteria-busting mist — packaged to resemble a cell phone-like device and sold inside a sleek see-through pouch — is uber-popular among teens and tweens, so it was a real score for the 9-year-old, who recently went to the store with her mother, Lindsay, to browse.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Valerie Kellogg

A home on rocker Billy Joel’s Long Island estate sold Wednesday for $7 million, the real estate agent who brought the buyers to the deal told The Post exclusively. The closing on the Centre Island gatehouse, where Joel has occasionally stayed, came amid news that the 76-year-old is recovering from a brain disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus that has forced him to cancel performances while he undergoes physical therapy.

1 month ago | newsday.com | Valerie Kellogg

Everywhere that Lisa Fitz went, her lamb was sure to go — until it outgrew diapers. Clover, the name Fitz gave the farm animal, came from a litter of two lamblings born at an East End farm where she once worked. Unable to walk, whether due to a mineral deficiency or a birth defect, the lamb was rejected by her mother, said Fitz, 41. Without intervention, she said the lamb would have died.