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By Mike White 🍁 Nov. 6, 2025

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☕ Good morning, Long Island.

🍣 The fall installment of Long Island Restaurant Week is in full swing, and lucky for you it runs through Sunday!

🦃 From Turkey Trots to food drives, we’ve rounded up Thanksgiving-time happenings across Long Island you’ll want to know about.

📫 Also, I'm looking to float something by you all today. While our GLI newsletters are free and always will be, I'm a romantic for print.

I've long dreamed of putting together something like The Saturday Evening Post, complete with commissioned cover art — but only for us Long Islanders, under the GLI flag.

That said, I could test the waters with some sort of quarterly mailing that arrives in your mailbox. I'm thinking local guides, new restaurant roundups, special deals and whatever else the team and I can come up with.

We can take it season by season.

Please vote below so I can measure interest!

🪧 Need to promote an event? Do it the best way, the GLI way.

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Would you be interested in a GLI print product? Please! I'd look forward to it every season. No thanks. I get enough crap mailed to my house.

Weather: Today will be sunny and windy, with a high near 54 ☀️💨

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First, apology issued following rowdy Ryder Cup week at Bethpage

⛳ If you were at Bethpage Black during the Ryder Cup, you probably heard the roar — and maybe a few things you shouldn’t have from the crowd. Now, an apology has been issued to Europe's star player, and wife.

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Second, Verde’s on the move; lists original Bay Shore location up for sale

🌿 The big move is expected by late spring or early summer. The restaurant will relocate just down the block to a building more than three times the size of its current location, complete with a rooftop.

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Third, Giunta’s Meat Farms opens in Middle Island, replaces King Kullen

🍖 Giunta’s Meat Farms has officially opened in Middle Island, taking over the former King Kullen space that closed in April. Tap for photos.

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Other news & items to highlight

🏡 Dreaming of your first home? We’ve rounded up 20 U.S. cities where starter houses still come in under budget — and why staying on Long Island means serious compromise. (Not that I'm trying to chase you away!)

🥟The food-hall concept Wonder opens its fourth Island location at The Shops at SunVet in Holbrook today, offering diners more than 20 restaurant options under one roof.

🥪 A new Panera Bread is being proposed for Horseblock Road in Farmingville, near the site of a planned Bojangles.

💵 A lucky lottery player in Valley Stream won New York Lottery’s CASH4LIFE second-tier prize. That's good for $1,000 a week payments for life, which comes with a guaranteed minimum payout of $1 million.

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SUCCESS STORIES

The HVAC hustle that built a family empire in GallettAir Inc.

After losing an HVAC job just days after his honeymoon, Carmine Galletta hit the streets in a van with a promise. Decades later, GallettAir Inc. is a family-run powerhouse built on loyalty, legacy and a ringing phone.

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