Dr Tom Ferraro

Dr Tom Ferraro

326 Articles

Our Town: The beauty of youth found on a golf course

This is the time of year where we all develop a need to fly south.  Wintering in Williston Park means

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Our Town: Building’s history lives on at Copperhill

Two years ago I reviewed La Marmite, Williston Park’s high end and historic restaurant located at 234 Hillside Avenue just

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Our Town: The man who makes magic from words

One of the perks of being a journalist is the chance to meet and to write about interesting people.  This

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Our Town: 2015

January 1 marks the end of one year and the beginning of a new one.   In psychology we call

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Our Town: Ode on a Christmas tree in E. Williston

I see that East Williston has hung its Christmas lights on the Helen Bowker tree and has those cute little

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Our Town: The comic book men come to town

Growing up I had a deep distrust for comic books. This was largely due to the fact that my brother

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Our Town: A comedy about life in a typical L.I. school

I grew up in Queens and my well-intentioned parents sent me off to a local Catholic school to learn both

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Our Town: Williston’s gems not to be neglected

As I said in last week’s column the circus came to town but just as quick as it arrived, it

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Our Town: Irressitibly Good

We finally have a coffee house in Williston Park.  Irresistibly Good is its name and its location is 82A Hillside

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Our Town: The Honorable Mayor Roger Fay

I got an email from the Historical Committee last week  asking if I might be interested in doing a piece

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Our Town: Gentlemen, start your engines

Henry Adams was an American historian, Harvard professor, descended from two American presidents, was an American ambassador in London and

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Our Town: Cold Wall St. vs. Main St. humanity

The battle between Main Street and Wall Street continues uninterrupted.   Much like the story of David and Goliath, the

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Our Town: Crowd vs. athlete at Flushing Meadows

Tennis is a most remarkable and most human of sports.  It pits one man’s will and talent against another before

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Our Town: Art and science of exercise compliance

The older one gets the more one becomes sedentary.  The most sedentary one becomes the more one begins to look

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Our Town: The care, training of the alpha dog

Many years ago I grew playing golf with Ernani DiAngelo, M.D., an eccentric and very cool psychiatrist at Hempstead Country

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