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Buzz over to LICM for a sweet day of bee-themed discovery on August 15th It's time to give three cheers for the tiny pollinators that make a big difference! Long Island Children's Museum (LICM) is celebrating National Honeybee Day on Saturday, August 15, from 11 am to 2 pm. Families are invited to enjoy a hive of hands-on activities that explore the fascinating world of honeybees through creativity, discovery, and, of course, a little taste of honey.
Included with Museum admission, LICM encourages children and their grownups to discover why bees are some of nature's hardest workers. Visitors can: • Taste the sweet side of science during Sweet as Can Bee Honey Tasting in the Cafeteria, where they'll sample a variety of delicious honey, including LICM’s own!
• Meet a real beekeeper in The Hive Studio inside Feasts for Beasts. Beekeeper and LICM Exhibit Technician Mark Rogan will share the tools of the trade, explain how honeybee colonies work, and help visitors spot the queen inside the Museum's observation hive. • Create a colorful Busy Bee Hat
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Throughout the summer, Supervisor John Ferretti and the Hempstead Town have provided many free Town concerts, as well as Traveling Summer Luau events, at Town parks across America’s largest township. On Friday, August 7th from 5 PM to 8 PM at Newbridge Road Park Pool in Bellmore, the Town will combine those two community-favorite ideas into one “Evening Splash Bash” – featuring live music on the pool deck with Jill Gioia: Women of Rock, night swimming and swim races, barbecue food, inflatable lounges, a giant Jenga, cornhole, and even a Belly Flop Contest! “People travel far from home and spend a lot of money to enjoy live music while sitting poolside, but Hempstead Town is offering that incredible experience completely free to Town residents with the ‘Evening Splash Bash’ on August 7th at Newbridge Road Park,” said Supervisor Ferretti. “The Town of Hempstead’s Free Neighborhood Summer Concert
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From page 1 in the Community Gallery before buzzing off to explore the rest of the Museum. All activities are drop-in and included with Museum admission while supplies last. The celebration also highlights one of LICM's most unique residents: its live honeybee colony. Housed between large panes of plexiglass in the Museum's Feasts for Beasts gallery and connected to the outdoors through a protected
tube, the hive allows visitors to safely watch honeybees build honeycomb, care for their queen, and work together as a colony. Special red lighting helps visitors observe the hive with minimal disruption to the bees' natural behavior. Museum admission is $20 for adults and children ages 1 and older, $18 for seniors, and free for Museum members and children under 1 year old. For more information, visit www. licm.org or call 516-224-5800.
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How is it possible that it’s already August? Yet, here we are, along with endless back to school commercials, lingering sand in our shoes, and Halloween decorations filling the aisles of our favorite shopping “haunts.’” And here’s what the Library is up to for the last, best days of summer. First, the final Library lawn concert featuring the Foreign Journey Band happens on August 20 (rain date: August 27). All are welcome pull up a piece of lawn (or bring a chair) and don’t stop believin’ it will be a good time! Happening for the “littles”: a Stuffed Animal Sleepover (ages 2–7); Dig Into Adventure Quest for Kids (grades 2–5); Pokémon Fantastic Fossils for Kids; Tiny Beat Storytime with DJ Shhh! Of course, A Time for Kids Baby Start and Family Pre-School Hour, along with Play Hooray, are on the August calendar, too. Teens can make the most of the last days ofsSummer break with: Patriotic Kindness Community Service program to benefit Paws of War; Getting Ready to Babysit Workshop; Build Your Nation: Game Edition with the Coldspring Harbor Whaling Museum; Mixed Media Art; Laser Tag; and
Minecraft: Unleash the Giants Gaming Event with Arrayscape Gaming. There’s an opportunity for teens to partner with the young ones, volunteering to be Craft Buddies for the Fossil Eggs for Children program. The Friends of the Library Book Club is on summer break, returning in September. The Evening Edition Book Club meets in a member’s backyard to discuss the very popular “Theo of Golden” by Allen Levi. And the Quiet Reading Club meets on the Library lawn on August 4. Hybrid Adult Chair Yoga continues on Wednesday mornings, with Michelle subbing for Micheline for a few weeks. It can be confusing! Registration is currently open for the six-hour September 17 Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving class. The weekly Adult English Language Learner classes continue on Tuesday evenings. Pre-registration is required for both Beginning and Intermediate/Advanced sessions. The Made with Love Knitting and Crocheting groups continue to meet Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. throughout the summer; no registration necessary. There is a special meeting of the
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Biking the Katy Trail: From Cliffside Pictographs to the Stirring ‘Social History of Missouri’ Mural BY KAREN RUBIN TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE GOINGPLACESFARANDNEAR.COM Day 3 of our six-day Wilderness Voyageurs Katy Trail bike tour 240miles across Missouri is the most scenic, most interesting, easiest ride, and the most dramatic for what we see. The day starts with pictographs left by the Indigenous people who populated this place for centuries before Lewis & Clark or Daniel Boone ever laid their eyes on this land, and ends with a mirror held up to Missourians, at the State Capital building where we see Thomas Hart Benton’s stirring “Social History of Missouri” mural. The 38.7 miles we ride from Rocheport to Jefferson City (Missouri’s capital), is almost entirely flat – a mere158 ft rise, 200 ft. decline. It also turns out to be my favorite part of the Katy Trail – much of it has gorgeous limestone cliffs and forest on one side and views of the Missouri River on the other. We set out from the base of the 200foot high limestone Manitou Bluffs that towers above the bike trail. They were once sacred to Native American tribes and we spot remnants of pictographs. They are easy to miss, but I am intent to find them (look for the marker that gives the description). What you do see most prominently is the symbol that looks like the Nike swoosh. A short distance further, we veer off the Katy Trail for a quarter of a mile to see The Big McBaine Burr Oak Tree. The largest burr oak tree in Missouri, it is 287-inches around, 90 feet tall with a 13-foot spread, and 350-400 years old. Coming into Jefferson City, we
Ryan Clearwater, chief of staff to Missouri’s Speaker of the House, gives us a tour of Thomas Hart Benton’s mural, “A Social History of the State of Missouri” © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com leave the Katy Trail onto a spur and bike up an extraordinary spiraling ramp onto the bridge over the Missouri River. Jefferson City, population 42,838, is the most urban part of our ride – and having just come from such rural areas on the protected carless rail trail, it is a bit of culture shock to be riding on city streets. Once we are settled into the Marriott Courtyard Hotel (the only chain hotel of our trip), our guide James Oerding offers to drive us to the State Capital Building, encouraging us to seek out the Thomas Hart Benton Murals that wrap around the walls of the House Members’ Lounge. “A Social History of the State of Missouri,” Thomas Hart Benton’s famous mural, is more of an indict-
ment than a glorification of Missouri’s history. It was 1934, in the midst of the Great Recession, when Benton got the $16,000 commission - “a prince’s ransom” at the time, equivalent to $300,000 today and more money than the governor earned. Completed in December 1936, the state legislators immediately regretted having commissioned it and even considered painting it over, but feared humiliating defeats if they admitted their misjudgment. The story of this extraordinary mural is being related to us by the Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the House, Ryan Clearwater, who we chanced to ask if we can visit when we find House Members Lounge locked. Instead of noble figures, Benton showed ordinary men and women
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who built Missouri, using real Missourians including his own family, as models for the 200 figures. He also showed its villains. Instead of noble deeds and historic events, it depicts slaves being whipped and auctioned; a trader giving whiskey to an Osage Indian; a Mormon being tarred and feathered; a settler being lynched; Huck Finn and runaway slave Jim; Jesse James robbing a bank, and Frankie shooting Johnny, who did her wrong. Scenes depict Missouri’s transition from frontier to factories, the Civil War to the Great War; people struggling during the Great Depression. The last scene, In the bottom corner, portrays Tom Pendergast, at the time the state’s powerful political boss. Then two years after the mural was done, Pendergast went to federal prison for corruption. Benton came back to make some changes. “Benton put Pendergast in the mural to let every representative and senator and the public know how some got into office,” Clearwater remarks. “The mural got mixed reviews slavery, tar and feathering, lynching, murder, robbery,” Clearwater notes with an air of understatement. “They had wanted history. When it was unveiled, they talked about painting it over. But they had spent $16,000 and felt they wouldn’t get reelected, so they said, ‘We should learn from past.’” Wilderness Voyageurs, Ohiopyle, PA, 15470, 800-2724141, wilderness-voyageurs.com. ________________________________ © 2026 Travel Features Syndicate, a division of Workstyles, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The Perseids Are Coming! BY DENNIS MAMMANA Week of Aug. 9-15, 2026 August has become one of my favorite months for several reasons. For one thing, the blistering heat of the desert where I live is nearing an end. Thankfully! Another reason is that the Milky Way appears to arch beautifully overhead after dark. And finally, I get to watch one of the two best meteor showers of the year as it reaches its peak this month. I’m referring, of course, to the famous Perseid meteor shower. It’s been a couple of years since we’ve had a Perseid display without interference from bright moonlight, so I’m especially looking forward to this one. The Perseid shower occurs each August when the Earth slams into dusty debris expelled by the ancient Comet Swift-Tuttle. As this cometary litter falls into our upper atmosphere, it is incinerated and produces the phenomena we know as meteors (aka “shooting stars” or “falling stars”). Most meteors are specks of interplanetary dust (known as “meteoroids”) no larger than a grain of sand. They slam into our atmosphere at more than 100,000 miles per hour and are extinguished in a dramatic burst of light. When this happens, we call it a “meteor.” The Perseid shower can produce as many as one or two meteors every minute. So when and where should we look? The “when” part is easy to answer: Astronomers expect this year’s shower to reach its peak during the predawn
Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak during the predawn hours of Thursday, Aug. 13. hours of Thursday, Aug. 13. Where to look is another matter altogether. Meteors will appear to fall all around the sky, but if you watch carefully and trace their paths backward, you’ll discover that most appear to radiate from one general area in the sky.
This spot is known as the shower’s “radiant” and is often named for the constellation against which it appears. That’s why this month’s shower is known as the Perseids; its radiant lies in the constellation of Perseus. Any meteors that seem to come from elsewhere are called “sporadic” meteors and are flecks of dust not part of the Swift-Tuttle swarm. To get the best view, drive away from city lights to the mountains, deserts or countryside. No equipment is required; all you need to enjoy the sky show is your eyes, but binoculars could be helpful to check out long smoke trails left behind by any exploding fireballs. You may also wish to take a lawn chair or sleeping bag, and a blanket or hot chocolate to keep warm -- yes, even in the summer -- so you can gaze skyward comfortably. Your biggest challenge will be just to stay awake! Can’t we go out during the evening to watch the show? Of course, but we won’t see much. Since the Earth is plowing into this cloud of dusty debris, our best view of the shower usually comes when we’re peering out the Earth’s “front window,” and that occurs just before dawn. Few sights are as thrilling as the fiery spectacle known as a meteor, and one of them is enjoying a shower of them. I hope you’ll make the effort this week to get away from city lights to enjoy one of nature’s most amazing spectacles: the Perseid meteor shower. Visit Dennis Mammana at dennismammana.com. . COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM
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A Stinky Time in the Suburbs BY TRACY BECKERMAN In the time that we’ve lived in the ‘burbs, we’ve had a veritable parade of icky insecty things cavorting through our home. There were the things with a million legs that crawled up our bathtubs, the infestation of little black ants that marched through our kitchen, the termites that lunched on our wood deck, the Japanese beetles that stopped to smell my roses and then ate them, and a recent cave cricket reunion we hosted in our basement. None of these, however, were nearly as delightful as our new guests: the stink bugs. The first time I saw one, I had no idea what it was. Whatever they were, they were all over the house, and unlike most other bugs, these seemed to be in no hurry to go anywhere. They just meandered around the house like they owned the place. Since they weren’t contributing to the mortgage, my feeling was that they had no right to be there. Not sure what I was dealing with, I took a picture and emailed it to the pest control people.
“Looks like a stink bug,” said the pest guy. “That’s a weird name,” I said. “Why are they called that?” “’Cuz they stink,” he said. “Excuse me?” “When they get scared, they let out this stuff that stinks.” “Oh, like a skunk?” I asked. “Yeah, but worse,” he commented. “How could it be worse? It’s a little bug.” “Trust me,” he said. “Don’t scare them and don’t squash them. They stink if you squash them too.” I was beside myself. The pest people said they really didn’t have anything that would get rid of the stink bugs without killing off my family and half of the state too. I would have to tiptoe around my house to make sure I didn’t sneak up on any stink bugs and scare them or step on them. The problem is, I’m a bug squealer. When I see a bug, I squeal. I can’t help it. I come from a long line of bug squealers. It’s in my genes. The kids think it’s a riot. Whenever they hear me shriek, they announce, “There’s mom’s bug
yell. She must have seen a bug.” So, clearly if I saw a stink bug and shrieked, it would scare the bug, and he would stink. It was a stinky situation. Fortunately, after a while I got used to seeing them around the house, and I was able to curb my impulse to shriek. But I couldn’t help being nervous that I would accidentally step on one or inadvertently do something to scare it, and then my whole house would reek. I lived in perpetual fear of setting off the stink bug. Of course, I had never actually smelled the stink bug, and after a month of tiptoeing around them, curiosity finally got the best of me. One day when I spotted one strolling across the hallway, I scooped it up with a paper towel and took it outside. Then I pinched my nose and squashed it. It smelled ... like ... nothing. I un-pinched my nose and inhaled. More nothing. Either I got a defective stink bug, or it wasn’t a stink bug after all. “We have been living in fear for nothing,” I told my husband. “The stink bug is an imposter. It’s just some stupid beetle.”
He laughed. “Well, that stinks.” Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble,” available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online! You can visit her at www. tracybeckerman.com. COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM
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When a book club isn’t just reading, it’s fun, too BY CLAIRE LYNCH We read John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley: In Search of America” at a recent book club meeting and we had an interesting lively discussion. Published in 1962, Steinbeck left his home in Sag Harbor in September 1960 with just his French poodle named Charley and a camper that he had custom outfitted for his drive around the country. Taking a ferry from Suffolk County to New London, Connecticut, Steinbeck headed to Maine. Initially Steinbeck explains why he set out on this journey - a 10,000-mile road trip - and how he got ready. Part Two records the journey of Steinbeck and Charley as they traveled throughout Connecticut, to Deerfield, Mass., to Deer Isle, Maine and to Vermont. He said just outside of Bangor, Maine, he saw the sky in brilliant “colors of rose and lavender and purple” while observing the “frost-sharpened stars” shining directly through the lights. He’d witnessed the aurora borealis and was in awe of it. In Part Three, Steinbeck and Charley head west to Chicago, continue through the Midwest and on to the Pacific Northwest. On this road trip Steinbeck wanted to see and feel the landscape of America. Heading down to California for a visit in his hometown of Salinas, he reconnects with family and friends. Throughout his journey Steinbeck says Charley is an ice-breaker in striking up conversations with strangers. In Part Four, Steinbeck heads back to Long Island by way of Texas and Louisiana. The book has its funny moments plus its serious critiques of American culture and our changing society.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 for “The Grapes of Wrath” and in 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Steinbeck is also well known for writing “Of Mice and Men” which was published in 1937. It later was made into a film. My friend, Lisa, suggested that we read “Theo of Golden” because it’s a different kind of story that personifies simple acts of kindness. Author Allen Levi self-published this book in 2023 and because so many people were talking about it, a big publisher issued “Theo of Golden” in 2025. Lisa told the group that the story is about Theo, an older widower who moves to small town Golden, Ga., and finds several portraits of locals hanging on a wall at the local coffee shop. He’s fascinated by all 92 of these drawings and asks if he can give each drawing to the person it belongs to. The coffee shop owners says yes and Theo goes about delivering the drawings. Sitting down and talking with each person, Theo has found a way to meet new people in this town and also finds out a bit of their life stories. He’s making new friends in Golden and connecting in a unique way. Lisa added that author Allen Levi, an Alabama native who was raised in Georgia, is a lawyer who left his job to write and to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. Even though “Theo of Golden” wasn’t on our reading list for this year, every so often people tell group members about other books they’ve heard about or read recently because they are excited about the story and like to spread the word. Sometimes these books are added to the reading list for the following year
and other times people simply read them on their own. Many individuals are good about sharing something new that’s just come down the pike whether it’s fiction, non-fiction, etc. Even though it’s a bit off the track, it’s always an interesting diversion. Jeff, who’s a newcomer to my book club, said he heard about “All the Sinners Bleed” by S.A. Cosby. It’s about a Black sheriff named Titus Crown in a small town in Virginia who discovers a dark network of religious secrets and serial murders. As he’s investigating this the sheriff has to deal with his own past. Mark explained that this novel, out in 2023, is a crime and thriller book that can get pretty graphic so some people may be hesitant about reading it. The moderator agreed and said if people want to read it on their own, feel free to do so. Mark added that “All the Sinners Bleed” should be on Netflix soon. My friend, Fran, told the group about how she met Mick Jagger at a restaurant in Los Angeles in the 1970s. He was on tour and she was checking out the local hotspots. She bumped into Mick at the bar, they got chatting and they hit it off. She sounded like a groupie when she told Mick how much she loved the Rolling Stones and as Fran went on, some of us smiled hesitantly and raised our eyebrows a bit as Fran told this story. It sounded implausible although you never know. Sure enough Fran laughed and said okay, she was making this up but she has been to Los Angeles and she really does like the Rolling Stones. And she definitely wishes she’d run into Mick Jagger at the restaurant she went to
and liked very much. We all got a good laugh out of Fran’s fabricated story - and vivid imagination - then the moderator told us the next couple of books we’ll discuss in the months ahead. What’s great about book club meetings is it gives people a chance to meet and connect with people in the community they’ve never met before. These groups usually meet at the senior center, at the public library or in a neighbor’s home and they last anywhere from one to two hours. Sometimes people enjoy snacks but at my one-hour meeting we usually skip the snacks and get right to the business of discussing books. We give frank opinions on whether or not the book at hand was good and when someone says the book has been made into a movie, we like that. It’s great seeing a book we enjoyed reading played out as a movie on the big screen. Sometimes we disagree about who the lead characters should be and as we debate the issue, it’s all in good fun.
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No Secret Code on Social Security Cards BY TOM MARGENAU I’m always amazed by the number of silly and outright dumb rumors about Social Security that are floating around out there. The latest one I’ve heard is the wackiest of them all. It would have you believe that there is a secret code on the back of Social Security cards. And if you can crack it, the Social Security Administration will send you a check for $3,500! You would think this is so preposterous that no one would believe it. And yet I’ve received about a half dozen emails from folks around the country asking me if it’s true. Obviously, it is not. Apparently, some very old Social Security cards did have a couple of symbols on the back of the card that were used as a kind of tracking system by those who printed the cards. But in our wacky world of viral online rumor-mongering, those simple tracking numbers turn into codes to secret stashes of cash the government is trying to hide from you. All of this reminds me of something I’ve written about before. I get a lot of emails from confused and maybe lonely people who are writing to me mostly out of desperation. They are almost always from older senior citizens, folks in their 80s and beyond, who are looking for more money from Social Security. These emails are especially sad, because there is usually nothing I can do for the questioners other than to say just that: “Sorry, but there is really nothing I can do.” Many times, especially when they have questions about their benefit amounts, I refer them to the Social Security Administration. After all, I am just one old retired guy sitting in his basement at a computer without access to anyone’s Social Security records. On the other hand, SSA has tens of thousands of trained employees who have all of your Social Security files at their fingertips. Almost always, when you have a question about your Social Security payments, you are better off going to the SSA than coming to me. Here are some examples of the kinds of emails I am talking about. Q: I am 84. I started taking my Social Security at 62. I have always been convinced I am not being paid correctly. I think I should be getting more. What can you do to help me? A: Sorry, I can’t do anything other than to tell you that it is extremely likely you are being paid the correct amount. The Social Security Administration has an exemplary track record of paying people exactly what they are due. Besides, if you really thought you were being paid incorrectly, the time to do something about it was when your benefits first started. You would have had 60 days to file an appeal of your benefit rate. But now, 22 years later, there is nothing you can do but relax and just accept the very likely fact that you are getting exactly
what you are due. Q: I’m 82 years old and have been getting Social Security for 20 years. I keep hearing that there is some kind of Social Security “do over” for old folks like me. Is that true? A: The only “do over” I can think of is a rule that lets people withdraw their Social Security claim and start over with a new one, but only if they do so within 12 months of filing their original claim. But for anyone beyond that one-year time frame (and you are WAY beyond it) -- sorry, but no “do-overs.” Q: Someone told me you are the “go-to guy” if we want to get an increase in our Social Security. My husband and I are in our 80s and would like to get more money. A: I’m sometimes my wife’s “go-to guy” when she wants little jobs done around the house. But when it comes to getting more from Social Security, I’m just not your guy. In fact, no one is. I’m sure you are getting all you are due from the system. Q: I am 80. I am getting my own Social Security. I was married to a gentleman many years ago for about 20 years before we got a divorce. Do you think I am due anything on his record? A: I’m sorry, but I really don’t have any idea. You need to call Social Security at 800-772-1213 and ask them. It would obviously help if you had your ex-husband’s Social Security number. But even if you don’t, with some other identifying information you probably can provide, they should be able to find his records. I can give you a few bits of general information. If your ex is still alive, you’d be due anywhere between one third and one half of his benefit rate (depending on factors I don’t know about your case), but only to the extent it exceeds what you are already getting on your own Social Security account. If your ex is dead, you could get your benefit supplemented up to 100% of his rate. Q: I am 75. My husband is 76. He gets $1,850 per month. I only get $740. I thought I was supposed to get half of his. What’s wrong? A: There probably is nothing wrong. I’m guessing you started your benefits when you were 62 years old. If you did that, then your spousal rate is closer to a third of his benefit rather than half. And one third of his benefit is about $610, so your own $740 rate exceeds that. If you did wait until age 66 to start your benefits, then I can’t explain why you are not getting more money. If that is the case, then you should call Social Security at 800-772-1213, Q: I am 81. When my husband died last year, they didn’t give me any of his Social Security. Can you tell me why not? A: Without having any access to your Social Security records, I can’t tell you
why you aren’t getting widow’s benefits. But here is a guess. Is your own Social Security benefit rate higher? If it is, then you aren’t due any widow’s benefit because you are already getting more money on your own account. If that doesn’t apply to you, then I don’t know why you are not getting widow’s benefits. Call Social Security at 800772-1213 to find out. If you have a Social Security question,
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The Long Island Market Keeps Proving the Experts Wrong BY PHILIP A. RAICES Every year, someone predicts that this will be the year Long Island’s housing market finally runs out of steam. Every year, the market seems to have other ideas. The second quarter of 2026 was no exception. As we entered the traditional spring selling season, there was no shortage of forecasts suggesting that elevated mortgage rates, affordability concerns, and economic uncertainty would finally cool our local housing market. Instead, what we witnessed between April and June was another reminder that Long Island real estate often follows its own set of rules. The numbers tell the story, but they don’t tell the whole story. Home prices continued climbing throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties. Inventory improved modestly compared with the previous year, but not nearly enough to satisfy buyer demand. Well-priced homes continued attracting multiple offers, luxury properties enjoyed another outstanding quarter, and sellers remained firmly in the driver’s seat. Sound familiar? It should. This has become the defining characteristic of Long Island real estate— not simply rising prices, but an imbalance between supply and demand that refuses to go away. In Nassau County, the median sales price climbed to approximately $870,000 during the second quarter, while Suffolk County reached roughly $703,000. Those numbers represented healthy year-over-year gains, but what I find more significant is that they occurred despite mortgage rates remaining well above the historic lows buyers enjoyed only a few years ago. Conventional wisdom says higher interest rates should slow housing markets. On Long Island, conventional wisdom continues to collide with an inconvenient fact: there simply are not enough homes available for sale. I’ve spoken with buyers who have submitted offers on five, six, and even ten homes before finally succeeding. I’ve also spoken with homeowners who would gladly move—but hesitate because doing so means exchanging a mortgage below three percent for one approaching seven percent. That hesitation has created what economists now call the “mortgage lock-in effect.” Homeowners aren’t staying because they necessarily want to remain where they are. Many are staying because financially it makes little sense to leave. Every homeowner who decides
not to list a property becomes one less opportunity for a buyer. The result is a market where even a modest increase in listings still leaves inventory well below historical averages. That’s why more than half of Long Island homes continued selling above asking price during the second quarter. Buyers haven’t disappeared. They’ve simply become more patient, more strategic, and, in many cases, more realistic. Today’s buyers are expanding their search areas, considering homes that need updating, adjusting their wish lists, and understanding that flexibility often wins the day. The luxury market deserves special attention. Some observers assumed higher interest rates would dampen activity at the upper end of the market. Instead, luxury sales remained exceptionally strong throughout Nassau County and the East End. The Hamptons once again demonstrated why they remain one of America’s premier luxury markets, with average sale prices approaching $4.5 million and continued demand from buyers whose purchasing decisions are influenced less by mortgage rates and more by investment performance and lifestyle goals. Luxury buyers continue viewing Long Island as a desirable long-term investment—not simply a place to live. That confidence says something about our market. Of course, every success story has another side. For first-time homebuyers, this remains one of the most challenging markets in decades. Higher home prices. Higher mortgage rates. High property taxes. Those three factors create a difficult equation for young families trying to establish themselves on Long Island. Many continue renting longer than planned. Others receive financial assistance from family members. Some expand their search farther east or even beyond Long Island altogether. These aren’t just statistics. They’re life decisions affecting an entire generation of prospective homeowners. Commercial real estate also provided encouraging signs during the quarter. Office vacancy continued improv-
ing, particularly as healthcare providers expanded throughout the region. The continued conversion of older office buildings into medical facilities, residential developments, and mixed-use projects reflects a broader transformation taking place across Long Island. Our commercial market is adapting rather than declining. Retail properties have also remained remarkably resilient, supported by low vacancy rates and stable consumer demand. Taken together, these trends suggest that Long Island’s real estate economy remains fundamentally healthy. So where do we go from here? I believe the second quarter offered three important lessons. First, inventory—not interest rates—continues to be the single most important factor influencing our housing market. Second, buyers have shown remarkable resilience. They may adjust their expectations, but they have not abandoned the market. Third, Long Island continues benefiting from something that cannot easily be replicated elsewhere: strong communities, excellent schools, proximity to New York City, and an enduring quality of life that continues attracting families, professionals, and investors alike. Those fundamentals matter. Will the market eventually normalize? Probably. Will inventory improve? Eventually. Will appreciation continue at the same pace forever? Almost certainly not. Real estate has always been cyclical. But today’s market is very different from the housing boom that preceded the financial crisis nearly two decades ago. Lending standards remain significantly stronger, homeowners possess substantial equity, and distressed sales remain relatively uncommon. That’s an important distinction that is sometimes overlooked. As we enter the second half of 2026, I expect the market to remain competitive, although perhaps slightly less frenetic than during the extraordinary years immediately following the pandemic. Buyers may enjoy a few more choices. Sellers may need to price a bit more carefully.
But I don’t see evidence of a dramatic correction. Instead, I see what Long Island has demonstrated repeatedly over the past several years—a housing market built upon limited supply, consistent demand, and enduring confidence in the communities we call home. Perhaps that’s the biggest lesson from the second quarter. The experts keep waiting for Long Island’s market to behave like every other market. Long Island keeps reminding us that it rarely does. Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate. He has 43+ years experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned 3 significant designations:
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1) For the waffles: Preheat a waffle iron according to manufacturer’s instructions. 2) Combine the eggs, sweetener, salt, coconut oil, coconut milk, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl, whisking until thoroughly combined. 3) Add the coconut flour, baking powder, and crushed blueberries, beating well until no longer lumpy. Let stand for 10 minutes. 4) Spray waffle iron with cooking spray. Ladle batter into the
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901 Stewart Ave., Ste 230 • Garden City, NY 11530 www.DangeloLawAssociates.com
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The Question I Hear Almost Every Day...
“Do You Have Anything Coming Soon in Floral Park?” Park?” Unfortunately, my answer is often, “Not yet!” yet!”
Inventory remains limited, while qualified buyers continue searching for homes in Floral Park. If you’ve been thinking about selling, whether now or in the months ahead, your home may already be exactly what someone is waiting for. Let’s have a confidential, no-pressure conversation about your options. Proud to be recognized among the Top 1.5% of Real Estate Professionals Nationwide, I’m committed to connecting motivated buyers with homeowners who are ready for their next chapter. Eager Buyers A
Eager Buyers B
<$1,500,000 One-Family 3-4 Bedrooms 2+ Bathrooms Move in Ready Preferred
<$1,200,000 Legal 2 Family 3-4+ Bedrooms 2+ Full Bathrooms Move in Ready Preferred
Eager Buyers F&G
Eager Investor A
<$400,000 Co-op 2 Bedrooms 1 Bathroom Move in Ready Preferred
<$700,000 3+ Bedrooms 1+ Bathroom Willing to do work
Eager Buyers C
Eager Buyers D&E
<$1,000,000 Legal 2 Family 3+ Bedrooms 2+ Full Bathrooms Move in Ready Preferred
<$1,000,000 One-Family 3-4+ Bedrooms 2+ Full Bathrooms Move in Ready Preferred
Eager Renter A
Eager Full House Renter B
<$4,000 per month 2 Bedrooms 1+ Bathroom 2 Parking Spots Laundry on Premise Move in Ready Preferred
<$4,000 per month 3+ Bedrooms 1.5+ Bathrooms Parking Needed JLC School Move in Ready Now
brokerage please disregard. It is not our intention MGrant@signaturepremier.com to solicit the listings of other brokerages. Diamond Circle of Excellence Past President of the Floral Park Chamber of Commerce 2022-2024 Floral Park Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year 2025 *If your property is currently listed with another