Business

When it comes to pushing spinach, Popeye has some competition.

In a sale that many local real estate experts are calling one of the largest single-asset deals in Long Island history -- and the highest per-square-foot price ever paid for a shopping center here -- developer Vincent Polimeni has sold his landmark Islandia Shopping Center for $92 million.

Clifford Leventhal had hoped for a renewed passport for his birthday.

The City of Glen Cove last week halted construction on a house at 9 Prospect Avenue designed by Robert LaBaw, a prominent Glen Head architect who lives in Glen Cove and sits on that city's master plan task force.

About five years after her husband, Frank, died, Esther Henegan decided - with her children's urging - that it might be time to sell the family home of 39 years.