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Vol. 71, No. 17
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Ty Flood, who defied illness, dies at age 17 Herricks student from Williston Park had earned a scholarship to Hofstra BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y
PHOTO BY BRANDON DUFFY
The casket of Ty Patrick Flood is placed into a hearse outside of St. Aidan’s Church in Williston Park.
In the game of baseball, there are three true outcomes. When Ty Patrick Flood was at bat in the Williston Park Little League, more often than not there were only two, a walk or strikeout. Except for one day, when he made contact down the third baseline. Flood, who was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy when he was about 5 years old, ran to first before realizing the ball was overthrown into right field. He made it to second, before realizing again the right fielder had missed his middle infielder
and the ball sailed into left field. Ty was at third. He was at home. A home run for Ty Patrick Flood. It was probably the first time the other team was cheering for an opponent, as loudly as Flood’s teammates and family, said Ty’s Uncle Thomas on Friday at St. Aidan’s Church on Willis Avenue, where his funeral services were held. Flood, 17, died April 21. At a young age, he was diagnosed with DMD, a genetic disorder and muscle disease that progressively debilitates the patient and requires the assistance of a wheelchair for most. Continued on Page 45
Food store founder Ceriello dies at 69 Italian immigrant founded high-end chain but considered Williston Park location his home BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y
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Born on February 25, 1953, Andrea Ceriello, an Italian immi- Ceriello was an immigrant from grant who founded a chain of food Sant’Anastasia, Italy, a town just outstores including Cerillo Fine Foods on side Naples. He came with his family Willis Avenue in Williston Park, died to Brooklyn in 1970. It was there he on April 14 due to lymphoma. He was began working in a “pork store” be-
fore eventually starting his own business, according to his obituary. Ceriello opened his first two stores in Staten Island in the early 1970s, but he sold them to focus on Long Island. In 1979, he opened his 900-square-foot salami company on
Willis Avenue, before expanding over two decades ago into a general highend grocery store in the space next door. Ceriello Fine Foods has since expanded to Manhattan, Baltimore, Wantagh and New Jersey. At its
height, there were nine locations for the high-end market. Currently, the locations that remain are Williston Park and Grand Central Terminal. When Ceriello opened up a burger spot in 2015, he told Blank Slate Continued on Page 45
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