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Delays on inbound flights to LaGuardia and Kennedy airports had peaked at up to two hours due to high winds and frigid temperatures Monday night but were scaled down to about 15 minutes on incoming and outgoing flights by 10:30, according to Federal Aviation Administration alerts.

Whether going to a warming center or piling on the winter clothes, single-digit temperatures posed a challenge for those who ventured out.

Several people were hurt in various fires as icy temperatures and winds tested the mettle of Long Island firefighters with water that froze under their feet and fast-moving flames, authorities said.

The deep freeze won't last, though, as Tuesday is expected to see temperatures rise to the mid- to upper 20s, with Wednesday looking at the mid-40s.

The Long Island Rail Road had one of its best months of 2018 in December, but it wasn't enough to keep the railroad from recording its lowest annual on-time performance in nearly two decades.

"In 2019 ... the hate rhetoric is at an all-time high," Councilwoman Anissa Moore told about 50 people at Long Beach City Hall. "If we want to see the change, we have to be the change."

As federal workers who are going unpaid have curtailed their discretionary spending, small businesses across the Island are feeling the pinch, the Long Island Association says.

The partial federal government shutdown can create hurdles for those looking to the federal Small Business Association for loans to jump-start or expand their firms, a local expert said.

Riverhead Town Board members are considering options to expand and upgrade its court facilities, which court officials say lack enough space for staff and lawyers to work or even for securing criminal defendants.

Pfc. Garfield Langhorn, who grew up a mile from where the celebrants gathered in the lobby of a post office that had been named in his honor, died in 1969 when he fell on an enemy grenade to shield fellow soldiers.

Residents would have to pay an average of $470 to $755 a year for operations and maintenance.

After its yearlong Off-Broadway run, a riff on the popular '90s sitcom is headed to Long Island.

Sellers Kathie and Robert Meguin

When Amazon announced that one of its choices for a second national headquarters would be Long Island City in Queens, the news was a stunner. Obviously, the real estate market in the redeveloped industrial area with its sweeping views of Manhattan will be dramatically affected in the next few years, primarily from the 25,000 new employees who will be stuffed into local apartments, coops and condos.

Get ready to enter the Scream Chamber.

A circa 1850 Southold home is listed for $725,000.

The partners in a plan to include Huntington's first fire station in a four-story retail and apartment building with parking garage will appear before the town's zoning board of appeals on Thursday.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposed $175.2 billion budget may force some Long Island towns to cut services, dig into reserve funds and possibly eliminate jobs to recoup nearly $19 million in state aid.

A Queens man died Sunday after being struck by a vehicle while walking in Central Islip. Police are investigating.

Stuart Cameron addressed hundreds in Spanish, which he has been learning for months, during Mass in Brentwood, part of an effort to engage the Latino community.