Thursday, August 18, 2011
Program helps to expand horizons, and close achievement gap.
Teach for America’s gain may be Port Washington’s loss. The program recruits the best and the brightest college graduates who help close the achievement gap for low-income children in the nation’s rural and urban schools. It’s a mission that resonates with some who were raised in Port Washington but now live elsewhere. Sure, they love returning during holidays to see their families and friends. They miss their favorite eateries. They hadn’t realized how much they took the beauty of Manhasset Bay for granted as the backdrop to their youth. Yet fond as they are of Port Washington, these 20-somethings are not necessarily clamoring to live here now. “I can see moving back when I have a family, but not before,” said Sarah Weiss, who grew up in …
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Competition is open to anyone interested in 'shaping the future of Long Island.'
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Suburban New York isn't nearly as built out as it seems. As the Long Island Index 2010 "Places to Grow" report showed, there is acre after acre of opportunity to do a better job of building on Long Island. How? By tapping into the hidden capacity of the "underperforming asphalt" found in dozens of downtowns in New York's Nassau and Suffolk counties. In order to generate the best and boldest ideas for exploiting this potential, the Long Island Index announced the "Build a Better Burb" ideas competition for retrofitting Long Island's downtowns. The competition is open to anyone interested in shaping the future of Long Island; architects, urban designers, planners, students, and visionaries are all encouraged to participate. "The postwar '…
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Main St & Port Washington Blvd, Port Washington, NY
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington announces county has selected Port Washington as pilot program for downtown development at gala.
Goodbye empty storefronts, hello destination dining and shopping. So long snarls of traffic, welcome increased parking, transit-oriented development and bike and jogging paths. Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington (RFMBPW) has a vision of Port Washington's future and it centers on a revitalized and vibrant Main Street. Last weekend at its annual gala at the Clubhouse at Harbor Links, RFMBPW announced that the county has selected Port Washington as a pilot program for a downtown development strategy. Picked from a pool of 156 other Long Island communities studied by data-gatherer Long Island Index, Port Washington was identified as having the potential for the transit and tourist-area development necessary to create jobs, …
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Harbor View
2 Fairway Dr, Port Washington, NY
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Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington
382 Main St, Port Washington, NY
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Precision Work
75 Harbor Rd, Port Washington, NY
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State Bank of Long Island
960 Port Washington Blvd, Port Washington, NY
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glenn weiss
3:44 pm on Monday, August 22, 2011
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