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Sam Ash To Close All Locations, Including CT Store, After 100 Years In Business
The largest family-owned chain of musical instrument stores in the nation has announced it will be closing all its locations.
Sam Ash Music was founded in 1924, has locations in more than a dozen states, and is headquartered on Long Island, in Hicksville.
It currently has 27 stores, including five in New York (White Plains, Carle Place, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Forest Hills), two in New Jersey (in Springfield and Cherry Hill), two in Pennsylvania (in Philadelphia and King of Prussia), one in Connecticut (in New Haven), and one in Virginia (in Richmond).
The Ash family made the announcemen…
Billy Joel Lists Waterfront NY Estate For $49M
Billy Joel is movin' out -- of one of his residences, at least.
The legendary 74-year-old singer has listed his waterfront estate on the north shore of Long Island, located on Centre Island in Oyster Bay, for $49 million, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to its listing on Zillow, the estate, built in 1994, is 26 acres and includes:
A 20,000-plus square-foot estate house currently under renovation with an elevator to all floors,
Helicopter pad,
Floating dock and boat ramp on Oyster Bay Harbor,
Four-bedroom gate/guest house with an attached three-bedroom apartment …
Employee Tampered With Products By Putting Coin In Meat Package In NY, Police Say
A woman is facing charges after investigators reported that she placed a coin in a meat package that was set to go out for retail consumption in New York.
Long Island resident Karen Palacios Gutierrez, age 38, of Hempstead, was arrested at about 4:20 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, following an incident at the Ava Companies food packaging company, located in Hicksville at 383 West John St., the Nassau County Police Department reported.
Investigators determined that Gutierrez put a coin into a package while working as a meatpacker at about 10 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, police said.
The …
