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Friday, July 13, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 28
LIVING 50 PLUS
ALBERTSON WOMAN ARRESTED
KAPLAN, PHILLIPS CLASH ON ABORTION
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Real estate firm joins Buffett group
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Greenvale-based Laffey Fine Homes joins mogul’s HomeServices umbrella BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, the real estate arm of Warren Buffett’s multinational conglomerate, announced on Tuesday that it was entering the Long Island market through Laffey Fine Homes International in Greenvale. Laffey, which" sells homes in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties, will remain independently owned and operated by" Emmett Laffey, Gregory Berkowitz, and John Schoonmaker. Laffey Fine Homes International will join a number of franchises under the HomeServices umbrella, which" has grown to nearly 46,000 agents and 1,400 offices since it was founded in 2013. “[Laffey] and his team are highly respected in the marketplace and will be strong ambassadors of our brand,” said" Gino Blefari, president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices in a
statement. “We are pleased to welcome them to Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices.” Details of the franchising deal were not disclosed, and efforts to reach a spokesman for Berkshire Hathaway were unavailing. Laffey said in a statement that the Berkshire Hathaway brand would help to draw wealthy Manhattanites to the Long Island luxury real estate market. “Our new brand carries the name of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., one of the world’s most trusted and successful corporations,” he said in a statement. “New Yorkers respect Mr. Buffett and the Berkshire Hathaway enterprise.” That, coupled with Laffey’s existing reputation on Long Island, would pay dividends for both companies, he said. Emmet Laffey founded"Laffey Fine Homes International in FebContinued on Page 69
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
The Village of East Hills held their annual Independence Day celebration in July 3 with the fireworks choreographed to music for the first time.
Arrested in Heights after fleeing in stolen car: cops B Y R E B E C C A K L A R stolen vehicle, Nassau County pull over, police said. A Bayville man was arrested in Roslyn Heights on Friday at 11:57 p.m. after fleeing officers and violating traffic laws in what was discovered to be a
Hogya refused to pull over Police said. Thomas Hogya, 36, of Bay- and headed southbound on ville, was driving a blue BMW Mineola Avenue, police said. He was stopped on OakX1 westbound on Northern Boulevard in Roslyn when of- dale Road and placed into cusficers flashed lights for him to Continued on Page 59
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