The lunch menu on a recent Thursday at Walter G. O'Connell High School in Copiague featured broccoli grown on a Suffolk County farm, milk from the Hudson Valley and meatballs from upstate New York.

Copiague will soon be home to New York’s first Wing It On!, a franchise dine-in and takeout restaurant founded in Connecticut and known for its buffalo-style chicken wings. Restaurateurs Sid Kapur and ...

For Khalia Hayslett, a Long Island Rail Road station without an elevator represents a part of New York that she may never get to see. “It is one of those things where you’re just stuck,” said Hayslett ...