Holiday sales expected to rise
Retail sales are expected to exceed $733 billion for this holiday season, that’s a 4.6 percent increase from last year.
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Trade Winds
Newsday alleges housing discrimination by Long Island real estate agents
Sources say dozens of real estate agents for major area brokerage firms have been caught up in a multi-year Newsday investigation, aimed at uncovering fair-housing transgressions. The Long Island Times first wrote about the upcoming story in July.
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Just desserts from Elliman’s pied piper
Clients attending The Maria Babaev Team’s annual Thanksgiving event will get a free pie and a peek at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in North Hills, the luxury condo community where Babaev is the exclusive broker.
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Survey says holiday season will be short but sweet
With only 26 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the holiday season for retailers is the shortest possible this year. But it’s also expected that holiday spending will increase, despite the narrow window for sales.
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Cedar Realty gives grant to Jackie Robinson Foundation
Port Washington-based Cedar Realty Trust is giving an $85,000 grant to the Jackie Robinson Foundation towards college scholarships.
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Fundraiser at new Jersey Mike’s in Garden City Park
The new restaurant is circulating 8,500 coupons throughout the community offering a free regular sub for a minimum $2 contribution to Mineola High School Booster Club and New Hyde Park Memorial PTSA from Nov. 6 through Nov. 10.
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Long Island firm completes new cancer center
EW Howell was retained by the Southampton Hospital Association to build The Phillips Family Cancer Center, a 13,800-square-foot, two-story building facility on County Road 39A.
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These real estate brokers are ballers
They’ll be hosting the third annual Winter Ball at Oheka Castle next month to benefit the Kids For Kids nonprofit.
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AARP offers free entrepreneur workshop
The series, which begins Saturday, Oct. 26, runs for six weeks and is hosted by SpringBoard Incubators in Hempstead.
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Cushy spot for Huntington cannabis dispensary
Long Island’s newest medical marijuana dispensary has set up shop in a former mattress store.
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Developer floats grant for Hampton Bays students
The money helped launch an educational hospitality program.
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New name, who dis? NEFCU rebrands as Jovia
Westbury-based Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union — better known on the Island as NEFCU — has rebranded with a new name.
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Boxers or briefs?
Jockey International opened its new pop-up store at Roosevelt Field this week.
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Qdoba Mexican Eats coming to Plainview
The new Qdoba at 327 South Oyster Bay Road is slated to open in September.
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Stop & Shop launches food line for kids
The two inaugural offerings from Nature’s Promise Kids are Sparkling Seltzer Water and Squeezable Fruit Pouches.
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Crack open a cold one to clean the harbor
For every pint of Good Reef Ale sold, Blue Point will donate five oysters toward the goal of restoring 1 billion oysters to the water by 2035.
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Testing, testing
Residential brokers and sales agents are anxiously buzzing about a yet-to-be published story by Long Island’s daily newspaper on alleged violations of fair housing laws.
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East End bargain hunting
A handful of East End hamlets still have a median asking price of under the $1 million mark.
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Kimco makes Good
Kimco Realty has been named a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series for the first time.
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Over the Meadows and through the Woods
Enrico Scarda’s The Crest Group held a groundbreaking ceremony last week to mark the beginning of construction of a 92-residence apartment community in Setauket.
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Grill Neck
The brokers of a 56-acre Mill Neck property are holding a summer barbecue next week to cook up interest in the $30 million listing.
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