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Revitalization project gets a name: ‘Riverside Rediscovered’
A show of hands on Monday night for ‘Riverside Rediscovered,’ the name of the project to revitalize the hamlet. (Credit: Tim Gannon) And the winner is… “Riverside Rediscovered.” That’s the name...
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Q&A: She wants YOUR feedback to help ‘Rediscover Riverside’
Siris Barrios, community liaison with Renaissance Downtowns, outside the company’s office on Peconic Avenue. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) Growing up in the 1980s and’90s in a racially divided part of...
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Editorial: They need your input to help revitalize Riverside
An abandoned gas station on Flanders Road just east of the Peconic Avenue circle. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) Peconic Avenue has a new tenant, and locals should take notice. Renaissance Downtowns has...
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‘Riverside Rediscovered’ to host meeting Thursday
Residents chose the name ‘Riverside Rediscovered’ for the project to revitalize the hamlet. (Credit: Tim Gannon) Riverside Rediscovered will host a community asset and safety mapping meeting Thursday,...
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Column: Hearing feedback in Riverside, en Español
Riverside Rediscovered’s Siris Barios talks to Riverside resident Adonis Estrada of Pine Street Friday afternoon. (Credit: Tim Gannon) It’s Halloween afternoon on Vail Avenue in Riverside, and the only...
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No. 5 Story of the Year: Tide starts to turn in Riverside
Siris Barrios, community liaison for Renaissance Downtown Riverside Rediscovered in her office on Peconic Avenue. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) In late 2013, the Southampton Town Board hired a private...
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Building incentives, new sewers are key parts of Riverside plan
Renaissance Downtowns’ plans to help revitalize Riverside are expected to be presented to the Southampton Town Board next Thursday. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) A year after Renaissance Downtowns...
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Live: Town Board to discuss solar powered drones at EPCAL
The Riverhead Town Board will discuss Luminati Aerospace’s request for a runway use agreement at EPCAL at its work session Thursday morning. Luminati recently bought Sky Dive Long Island’s property...
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Riverside celebrates its (hoped-for) future at ‘Art at the Park’
Since the former Tire Craft property at the traffic circle in Riverside was purchased as parkland in 2002, it’s been basically unused by anyone, except for some carnival rides that were put there...
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Featured Letter: Riverside revitalization project is just too big
The enormous revitalization project in Riverside will negatively impact not only the hamlet but the surrounding communities. Here are some concerns we must address before the project is passed: The...
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Key step forward for Riverside Revitalization after zoning approval
The Southampton Town Board voted 4-0 Tuesday afternoon to approve new “optional” zoning in Riverside, where the town has been engaged in an 18-month-long effort to revitalize the hamlet. The board...
View ArticleChildren’s Museum of the East End seeks home in Riverside
As families shuffled their young children out the door, Siris Barrios and her team at Riverside Rediscovered packed away colorful small chairs, took apart yellow kiddie tables and swept Goldfish...
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Partnership aims to build immigrant women’s self-esteem, leadership
Paola Zuniga-Tellez had already spent more than half her life in America by the time she moved from Brooklyn to the East End, resettling in Flanders with her husband, Jose. A native of Mexico, she had...
View ArticleBreaking Barriers workshop helps people ‘get back to their lives’
A restorative justice program dedicated to getting community members into careers despite past convictions has made its way to Riverside. Last Thursday, The Butterfly Effect Project and Riverside...
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Affordable apartments, medical offices proposed for Riverside
Southampton Town is seeking a $1 million grant from New York State to help two projects at sites in Riverside, one at the former Riverboat Diner and the other at Peconic Paddler. The grant money would...
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Groundbreaking of Riverside project signals new beginning for area
For several elected officials from Riverhead and Southampton towns, the former Howard Johnson’s that stood at the south side of the Riverside traffic circle brings back memories of yesteryear....
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Building incentives, new sewers are key parts of Riverside plan
Renaissance Downtowns’ plans to help revitalize Riverside are expected to be presented to the Southampton Town Board next Thursday. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) A year after Renaissance Downtowns...
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Live: Town Board to discuss solar powered drones at EPCAL
The Riverhead Town Board will discuss Luminati Aerospace’s request for a runway use agreement at EPCAL at its work session Thursday morning. Luminati recently bought Sky Dive Long Island’s property...
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Riverside celebrates its (hoped-for) future at ‘Art at the Park’
Since the former Tire Craft property at the traffic circle in Riverside was purchased as parkland in 2002, it’s been basically unused by anyone, except for some carnival rides that were put there...
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Featured Letter: Riverside revitalization project is just too big
The enormous revitalization project in Riverside will negatively impact not only the hamlet but the surrounding communities. Here are some concerns we must address before the project is passed: The...
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