New Granite Chef’s Kitchen With The Highest Quality Stainless Appliances. Primary Bedroom Suite On The Main Level. Lower Level With Den, Bedroom And Full Bathroom. On Just Under 4 Acres And 680 Feet Of Water Frontage On The Scenic Nissequogue River With Direct Access To The River.
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This home features a first-floor office, and much more. The primary bedroom includes an en-suite bathroom. Three additional guest bedrooms and a guest bathroom complete the second floor. Winter water views from the wrap around porch and living room. The community offers two additional private beaches, constable service, private parks, and a sports court.
$1,300,000
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Six bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, large country kitchen with French doors leading to a screened-in porch. The primary suite upstairs boasts a walk-in closet, and an en-suite bath. Finished basement with separate entrance. Two-car heated garage/workshop and a new air conditioning system.
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Brand New Roof and Skylight, New Siding and Gutters, Brand New Pool Liner and Decking, Gleaming hardwood floors flow throughout the spacious living areas. The fully finished basement with an outside entrance includes a game room, a separate hobby room, and a full bath.
$925,000
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The unit includes a primary bedroom suite with walk-in closet, and spacious bath. A guest room and full bath are located on the opposite side of the unit, finished basement with half bath. The Oaks provides a saltwater pool, tennis/pickleball courts, putting green and clubhouse.
$790,000
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Harriet W. Cotroneo, a longtime resident of Port Jefferson, died peacefully at her home in Setauket on Nov. 8, 2024. She was 103.
Born in Queens, Harriet moved to Port Jefferson as a teenager where she met her future husband Anthony “Tony” Cotroneo. The couple married in 1940 and made their home on Liberty Avenue, raising their daughter Anne and living there for many years.
In the late 1930s, Harriet began working as a telephone operator at the New York Telephone Company building on Main Street in Port Jefferson. After its closing, she became an information operator for AT&T, first in Smithtown and later in Patchogue. Following her husband’s death in 1978, Harriet continued working part time for the Comsewogue School District well into her 80s.
Harriet enjoyed reading, baking, traveling and spending time with her many friends. She especially loved luncheons, outings and holidays with her family. An animal lover, she found great joy and companionship in her dogs. Her optimism, determination and appreciation for life’s simple pleasures contributed to her long fulfilling life.
She is survived by her daughter Anne; son-in-law Michael; nephew Richard Butera; niece Concetta Butera and many friends. Interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram.
By Bill Landon
The Three Village Historical Society hosted their annual Candlelight House Tours on Dec. 6 and 7. It was the 45th edition of the time-honored tradition where six historical homes opened their doors for guided tours, offering a glimpse into yesteryear. These windows into the past took place in the East Setauket historic district this year.
To learn more about the TVHS, visit www.tvhs.org or call 631-751-3730.
By Daniel Dunaief
You can’t win.
I don’t have to tell you that. One way or another, in one context or another, you already know.
You see, I floss my teeth religiously. I mean, I don’t do it while praying or to some funky weird sounding music that you might hear in a massage parlor, where they speak in whispers and the room smells like scented candles.
No, my wife and I, and sometimes a good friend or two, will take out floss and work through our teeth. I’m not sure how it became a social activity, but we enjoy it and feel virtuous at the same time.
I’ve become so good at it and it’s become so routine that I know the space, or lack thereof, between my teeth better than I know the back of my hand, which, at the moment is cracking and dry because of the cold air and the dry weather.
I try to suppress a smirk when I go to the dentist and a hygienist tries to work floss between my teeth. I could tell them, like a tooth GPS system, where to go, how hard to push and at what angle.
Sooner or later, they get that piece of floss in between my teeth.
So, now to the you-can’t-win-part. You see, I was flossing my teeth in bed the other day, sitting next to my wife as we navigated back and forth between TV stations, one with a Knicks game and the other with a game show.
Like a concert pianist, I worked the top teeth, gliding along the keys and opening my mouth just enough to get my fingers into position. I use much more floss than my wife, as I wrap rows of floss around my fingers and try not to reuse the same piece between teeth.
After moving to a new section of floss, it was on to the bottom, weaving around the misaligned center of the bottom teeth, which, despite a general straightening thanks to Invisalign from a few years ago, is still unwilling to form a perfect line.
As I got to the bottom left, I gave a tug and, poof! Out came half of a tooth. I thought it might be some larger piece of food that was hiding back there, but, no, the density, size and sharpness on my tongue suggested I shouldn’t swallow it.
“Hey,” I said to my wife, “I just broke a tooth.”
On further review with the piece in my hand, it was clearly a broken tooth.
Flossing, which should be as healthy and helpful as sit ups, stretching or overall general maintenance, shouldn’t be hazardous.
Then again, the previous week, a friend told me he had to have surgery because he brushed his teeth too vigorously. He described how a dentist took a piece of the roof of his mouth and transferred it to his gums. Fortunately, I don’t have the same aggressive brushing technique.
So, the next day, I called my dentist and described the problem. She fit me into her busy schedule.
When she came in the room and asked me to open my mouth, she flinched.
“Yup, that’s going to need a crown,” she offered, trying to keep her voice from reflecting the surprise at the size of the missing piece.
While she was numbing my mouth, a TV next to me was showing a food network competition. That seemed ironic. With a numbed jaw, eating even hours afterwards wasn’t much of an option. Watching people prepare food and hearing critiques of the way the food exploded in their mouths was like driving by a field of magnificent flowers with a bad head cold.
So, now that I’m back from the dentist with a temporary crown and numbness that spreads from my cheek around my lower jaw, I am left to wonder whether flossing is all it’s cracked up to be. Then again, I have had root canal for gum problems. That’s no picnic, either.
By Leah S. Dunaief
A couple of my favorite restaurants will only accept payment in cash or check. My doctors’ offices will only take credit cards. Perhaps the next thing is that we’ll have to pay in beads, like the Europeans for Manhattan Island.
Those who only take credit cards explained to me that they are preventing robberies. They put up signs saying, “No cash” to dissuade potential thieves. And I suppose those who only take cash are refusing to share their revenue with the credit card companies. I can understand that, especially if the profit margin of the business is only a couple of percent.
But the swinging back and forth is taking its toll, especially on older consumers, who tend to use only cash and are hardest hit in a cashless situation.
“A Fight to Preserve the Value of Cash,” was an article in The New York Times by Paula Span this past Tuesday that addressed the subject.
“Some no-cash practices date to contagion fears after the outbreak of Covid; others are intended to discourage robberies,” explains the reporter. “But such policies are a disadvantage to several groups, including low-income people who don’t have bank accounts, people who have accounts but don’t qualify for credit or debit cards, the homeless, undocumented immigrants and older adults,” she goes on to say.
Additionally, anyone can have a problem with electronic payments when it comes to paying, which can cause delay and frustration. Natural weather disasters can disrupt electricity and telecommunication networks that fail immediately disconnect a cashless society. Even international thieves can hack bank accounts on the internet. “With cash, a thief has to be within striking distance.”
Another disadvantage of credit cards is that consumers spend more when they are using them because it delays the “pain of paying” until the bill arrives at the end of the month.
And privacy concerns enter into the picture due to “middlemen facilitating digital transactions-credit card companies, banks, the tech giants behind mobile apps-(…) then sell consumers’ data.”
According to Pew Research, only 79 percent of people over 65 have a smartphone, which is often used in cashless systems, compared with 97 percent of those between 30-49. Those over 55 paid in cash 22 percent of the time last year, compared with 12 percent among younger groups, according to the Federal Reserve, as quoted by The NYT.
And according to a federal survey, 85 percent used the internet for financial services in their 20s and 30s, but the percentage drops as the groups age. For people in their 60s, the number becomes 70 percent, for those in their 70s it is 64 percent, and in their 80s, it’s only about half.
Cash is so simple: no buttons, no passwords, no problems other than the possibility of counterfeit bills.
“Older adults are far more likely than younger ones to lose money to tech support fraud, lottery and sweepstakes swindles, and family impersonations”, according to the Federal Trade Commission and cited in The NYT. Losses to investment and romance cons continue to climb, too.
As a result of an experience I had some years ago, before plastic became so prevalent, I could personally attest to a cashless society working, at least for a few days.
On my way out the door to my limo ride, I forgot my wallet. I realized half way to the airport and confessed to the driver. “No problem,” he said. “I take credit cards Do you have one?” Fortunately I did. I then realized that I would depend solely on that card for all my expenses getting to, and from, and while I was at the convention. It was going to be an interesting experiment, I said to myself.
During those four days, I was able to manage quite well with only the card. The future for payments became clear to me.
Suffolk County Police arrested three men for selling tobacco and vape products to people under the age of 21 during compliance checks at multiple businesses in East Northport and Commack on Dec. 11.
In response to community complaints, Second Precinct Crime Section officers checked 11 businesses for compliance with laws related to the sale of vape and tobacco products. Three businesses were found to
have violations.
The following people were charged with Unlawfully Dealing with a Child 2nd Degree:
• Siul Cruz, 23, of Central Islip, an employee of Highr Smoke Shop, located at 2066 Jericho
Turnpike, East Northport
• Rajendrakumar Patel, 56, of Fresh Meadows, Queens, an employee of East Northport Smoke
Shop, located at 250B Larkfield Road, East Northport
• Gaurang Upadhyay, 57, of Rocky Point, an employee of Smoke Shop, located at 6316 Jericho
Turnpike, Commack. Upadhyay was charged with an additional count of Unlawfully Dealing
with a Child.
Additionally, police seized more than $1,000 worth of flavored vape products from East Northport
Smoke Shop. All three men were issued Field Appearance Tickets and are scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on a later date.
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