🩺 A New Doctor Who Actually Answers the Phone: Hourizadeh Medical Care

🚒 New Cassel Neighbors Rally After a Devastating House Fire

🏍️ 200 Riders, 3 Arrests: Suffolk's Wild Weekend Street Takeover

🏀 Rain Couldn't Stop Elmont's Annual Family Day

There's a specific kind of comfort in a doctor's office where the person who answers the phone actually knows who you are. That's the first thing you notice at Hourizadeh Medical Care. No call center, no hold music, no stranger reading from a script. Someone in the office picks up, and more often than not, that someone can tell you exactly where things stand with your care.

Dr. Jason Hourizadeh trained the long way. Residency at Saint John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, then a year of ultrasound fellowship at Cornell in Manhattan, then a stretch working as a hospitalist. It was steady work, but it wore on him in a particular way. He'd see a patient once, maybe twice, and then they'd disappear back into the system, no follow up, no relationship, no chance to actually watch someone get better over time. So in January of 2026, he opened his own practice, and built the thing he'd been missing the whole time he was working for someone else.

What you get now is primary care that actually feels like a conversation. Jason doesn't hand down a treatment plan and send you on your way. He talks it through, figures out what you're comfortable with, and builds a plan around the person in front of him rather than a chart. He's the only provider in the office, which means the doctor you see in January is the same one who remembers your history in June. The practice leans into preventative care and weight management as much as it treats what's already wrong, because Jason's approach is less about putting out fires and more about keeping them from starting.

Worth knowing: he's still early in this chapter, having taken over the practice from a previous provider and inherited a patient base he's now building on with word of mouth and a steady stream of new faces off Google and Zocdoc. A real website is on its way, but for now the fastest path in is a phone call that an actual human being will answer.

Ask Jason where this goes next and he doesn't hesitate: bigger, and eventually broader. He'd like to grow this location into something with specialists under the same roof, so a patient who needs a cardiologist doesn't have to start over somewhere new, they just walk down the hall. It's the same continuity of care he opened the practice to chase in the first place, just scaled up.

If you've been looking for a primary care doctor who still calls you back himself, this is worth a look. Reach the office by phone or find Hourizadeh Medical Care on Zocdoc to book, or get more information from their website here: https://hourizadehmed.com/.

Join us in welcoming Hourizadeh Medical Care to the neighborhood spotlight, a practice built by someone who left the hospital system precisely so he could get to know his patients again.

Friday morning started hard for one Arlington Street family in New Cassel. Nassau County FireCom got multiple 911 calls just before 8 a.m. reporting a house fully engulfed, with someone trapped inside on the second floor.

A Village of Hempstead fire chief who also serves as a Nassau County fire marshal happened to be nearby, along with another fire marshal on his way to work. Both raced in alongside Nassau police to try to reach the man before crews arrived. Fire officials called it a valiant attempt, but they weren't able to save him. Around 50 firefighters from Westbury, with mutual aid from Carle Place, Hicksville, Mineola and Syosset, had the blaze under control within 45 minutes.

Three displaced residents are now being helped by the Red Cross while North Hempstead's Building Department assesses the damage. The cause is still under investigation by fire marshals and the NCPD Arson/Bomb Squad. It's the kind of morning that reminds us how many people show up for each other when things go wrong, from neighboring fire departments to the volunteers who help pick up the pieces.

👉 Read more: Patch

If you were anywhere near Route 347 in Hauppauge on Saturday afternoon, you probably heard it before you saw it. Suffolk police say a street takeover involving roughly 200 ATVs, dirt bikes and motorcycles tore through the area starting around 4:20 p.m., with riders popping wheelies and blocking traffic.

Fourth Precinct officers made two arrests and impounded vehicles on the spot, but the group regrouped near Motor Parkway in Brentwood and rolled on toward Bay Shore. That's where two ATVs broke down and their riders bolted on foot. One of them, 22-year-old Shamir Solomon of Roosevelt, was caught carrying a loaded handgun and now faces weapons charges along with reckless driving and an unlawful speed contest.

Two more riders, Ava Mongiello of Mount Sinai and Jahkil Arroyo of Central Islip, were hit with reckless driving and reckless endangerment charges and released with tickets. Ten vehicles in total were impounded. It's a reminder that these takeovers, however wild the videos look online, come with real consequences and real risk to everyone else on the road.

👉 Read more: LongIsland.com

Mother Nature did not get the memo about Elmont Family Day. Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages and Nassau County Legislator Carrié Solages hosted the annual Family Day and Basketball Tournament at Dutch Broadway School, and a downpour showed up right along with the crowd.

It didn't matter. Families still turned out for youth basketball games, food and entertainment, with Core Group Enterprises and BeingEgypt Cares pitching in to help run things. It's the kind of event that keeps happening year after year because the community keeps showing up for it, rain or no rain.

If you missed it this year, keep an eye out for next summer's date. Between the basketball tournament and the family-friendly activities, it's become one of Elmont's steadiest summer traditions.

👉 Read more: LI Herald

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