Albany pumps $10M into a new downtown Hicksville
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hicksville has won the regional round of New York State’s second-annual $100 million downtown-redevelopment contest. The Nassau County hamlet in the Town of Oyster Bay will pocket $10 million in a ceremony scheduled to be hosted Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Hicksville beat out nearly two dozen Long Island municipalities vying for the regional award, which is managed by the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative, one of many competitive-funding programs launched by…