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Pizza accolades, new supermarkets and miraculous viral moments — these 2025 features had Long Islanders clicking, sharing and talking.
Below are our 10 most-trafficked featured posts from the past year.
1. This Long Island pizzeria ranked No. 3 best slice in the U.S. — again
Thank you to the good people at Taglio Pizza for making it rain visitors to the GLI website. We’re talking 112,233 pageviews on this one.
2. Massapequa students walk bullied teen to school after frightening attack
Our No. 2 most-read featured story of 2025 was about kids being the best they could possibly be.
3. The rise, fall, and uncertain future of Long Island’s largest lake
Our No. 3 most-read post of 2025 chronicled the history and potential future of Lake Ronkonkoma.
4. Car goes airborne over Sunrise Highway, amazing footage posted to TikTok
Coming in at No. 4 of our most-read featured posts of 2025 was this car flying over six lanes of Sunrise Highway in Bay Shore. The driver walked away.
5. Uncle Giuseppe’s announces plans for expansion into Levittown
Greater Long Island’s No. 5 most-read news post of the year was our “First in Greater Long Island” story about Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace coming to Levittown in 2026. But first, the wildly popular and rapidly expanding company will be opening in Greenvale.
6. Trader Joe’s ‘Coming Soon’ and ‘Now Hiring’ signs go up in Miller Place
You know Trader Joe’s drives crazy traffic to any news site, so there had to be Trader Joe’s post in here somewhere.
7. Brand-new Starbucks concept tests waters with Long Island opening
Coming in at No. 7 was this post about a double drive-through Starbucks concept, a first in the U.S., in Holbrook. Readers took exception though, because there’s a legacy Starbucks with basically the same idea (though less modern) in Setauket.
8. Babylon man builds one of Long Island’s wildest Halloween displays
The No. 8 most-read featured post of 2026 came part of Halloween-time mania here on Long Island.
9. ‘Surrender Dorothy’ skywriting stunt spotted over Long Island — here’s why
Coming in at No. 9 (Casey Kasem voice), was a story about gorilla marketing gone absolutely right over Long Island beaches. The stunt — and subsequent free publicity — helped mark the opening of the Wizard of Oz Sphere show in Las Vegas. Universal spent $350 million marketing those awful Wicked films and annoying everyone. The Sphere did it better.
10. Long Island’s only Bojangles in the works for Farmingville
We were the first to report in November that a Bojangles is headed to Farmingville. That post was followed by an intense debate as to whether there had already been a location in Kings Park. We investigated by heading up there and speaking to locals. It proved to be a false rumor.
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