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By Mike White · May 20, 2025

☕ Good morning, Long Island!

☀️ Today will be sunny with a high near 68.

🕶️ But things are heating up. If you need HVAC services this summer, you gotta call GallettAir Inc. Trust me on this one; Carmine is the man.

✍🏼 Feel free to respond to this email with feedback!

A message from Natural Hounds

Natural Hounds is moving closer to opening its third Long Island location — this time in Huntington. Click here to read all about it.

First, Boutique hotel, rooftop bar pitched for old GAP building in Port Jeff

🍸 A boutique hotel is being proposed for 100 Arden Place in downtown Port Jefferson. This is the address where the GAP operated for 27 years.

Second, Uncle Giuseppe’s lights up social media with ‘Italian sushi’ videos

🇮🇹 From the people who introduced the world to the now-ubiquitous cannoli dip platter, comes Italian sushi. Click here to watch.

Third, Five more Shake Shacks are coming to Long Island, GLI has learned

🍟 Shake Shack currently operates two Suffolk locations, in Lake Grove and Melville, as well as Nassau County locations in New Hyde Park, Oceanside, and Westbury. Click here to learn more.

More headlines to highlight

🌴 After our initial report, a Bahama Breeze spokesperson later confirmed the Lake Grove closure is one of 15 locations the chain shut down nationwide last week.

🌳 Tick bites have spiked across Long Island over the past month, prompting local health officials to urge caution as outdoor activity ramps up.

🏈 Former Sayville High School football star Jack Coan is entering his second season with the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, and is in training camp vying for the backup quarterback spot.

🚓 Suffolk police cited a Medford teen Friday night after officers said he was caught performing illegal burnouts on a residential street.