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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Richner Communications |
Publisher | Ed Weintrob |
Editor | Malka Eisenberg |
Founded | 2002 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Garden City, New York |
City | Garden City, New York |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 11,300(as of 2017) [1] |
Sister newspapers | Long Island Herald newspaper chain, Nassau Herald , Wantagh Herald Citizen , Oyster Bay Guardian , The Riverdale Press |
Website | www |
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In 2006, the newspaper became predominantly Orthodox, responding to the demographics of the Five Towns, its primary readership base. [4] [2] In January 2009, the broadsheet format became tabloid.
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