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“I am so excited. The President of the United States sent me a letter,” said Bella, who has received words of encouragement from as far away as Australia. “I just can’t believe it.”https://nwsdy.li/2IDg1L3  -[Summarize this news]

The late-model Dodge minivan also struck a parked car, which spun and hit a female pedestrian, police said.https://nwsdy.li/2Pue5oC  -[Summarize this news]

The village will once again provide a walking tour map of its spring flowering trees, mostly cherry blossoms, for its third annual Cherry Blossom Festival next month.https://nwsdy.li/2URQJPK  -[Summarize this news]

The 29-year-old is accused of committing the burglaries from April 22, 2018, to April 15, 2019, police said in a news release.https://nwsdy.li/2IGpOjB  -[Summarize this news]

A panel of State University of New York professors chose Park and three other Stony Brook researchers as finalists among 20 submissions from Stony Brook faculty.https://nwsdy.li/2Pvezeu  -[Summarize this news]

The explosions and fire, now at a second alarm, rattled 32nd Street between Fifth and Madison avenues around 10 a.m., a fire official said.https://nwsdy.li/2GtSA3m  -[Summarize this news]

The Army Corps of Engineers declared the post-Sandy project complete, but city and state officials are concerned that the fixes were not done properly.https://nwsdy.li/2IVnK6K  -[Summarize this news]

“There’s no kids left here anymore,” a retired police detective said. “That age group is fleeing Long Island.”https://nwsdy.li/2IPTKch  -[Summarize this news]

The railroad was first conceived as a “bridge line” to move people and goods between New York and Boston, with the help of a ferry line across the Long Island Sound.https://nwsdy.li/2IEGHLE  -[Summarize this news]

One will be on Long Island, and two just over the Nassau border in Queens.https://nwsdy.li/2Pp75JX  -[Summarize this news]

Fifty three years after co-founding what’s now the Association for Children with Down Syndrome in Plainview, Hartman died following a long struggle with Alzheimer’s, her family said.https://nwsdy.li/2XDnQns  -[Summarize this news]

“K3,” his mother wrote — their playful shorthand for “OK, I love you.” “3,” Sgt. Robert Hendriks texted back. It was his last message home.https://nwsdy.li/2Zw9FSM  -[Summarize this news]

Melville’s Bertucci’s, the last Long Island outpost of the popular brick-oven pizza restaurant chain, has closed.https://nwsdy.li/2UWuwjT  -[Summarize this news]

A jury convicted Chanel Lewis of first- and second-degree murder, as well as sexual abuse at his retrial for the August 2016 killing of Karina Vetrano, 30.https://nwsdy.li/2GtWdpZ  -[Summarize this news]

The cavernous dining room — whose wall of windows fronted Sunrise Highway — had a bright-grungy vibe with its carefully graffitied walls and industrial seating.https://nwsdy.li/2DtuMf9  -[Summarize this news]

A video may help investigators find out if LI cops failed to appropriately help a Spanish-speaking family. But the probe’s findings won't be made public.https://nwsdy.li/2Puz1fu  -[Summarize this news]

“Without question, a four-story request we feel is out of character for the community," one town resident said.https://nwsdy.li/2W6oZDT  -[Summarize this news]