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Bilello is part of a reviving Glen Cove.
Two giant condo apartment buildings
are under construction, bringing
in thousands of new residents.
The brewmaster interned at the Oyster
Bay Brewing Company for a year,
beginning in 2015 and was promoted
to working on the brew deck.
Bilello took over a 2,667-square-foot
former dentist’s office. The place now
has a comfortable, rustic look.
He said he hopes the business will be
profitable in about a year.
Can he make it? Yes, he answers immediately,
“by sheer will.”
LOCUST VALLEY BOOKSTORE,
8 BIRCH HILL RD.,
LOCUST VALLEY
Lisa Scully was an editor of a community
weekly on the North Shore
and worked on the financial side of
Forbes magazine and Institutional
Investor. But her heart was always
in books.
So, when was between jobs, Scully
asked the owner of a bookshop in
Locust Valley for a part-time job. The
woman said she was not looking for
an employee, but for a buyer for her
store, Forest Books.
Scully discussed the prospect with
her husband, who not only liked the
idea, but gave her a list of “must-have”
books for the shop. Scully quickly relocated
to downtown Locust Valley.
Locust Valley Bookstore is entering
its third year in business.
“I said to myself, Who in their right
mind would buy a bookstore in this
environment?” Scully says in her
cozy, 650-square-foot shop. She not
only faced start-up costs, but the biggest
challenge a small, independent
merchant faces these days: Amazon.
“But I wasn’t scared,” Scully says.
"I believe if you love something
enough, you can sell it.”
Scully says her shop is profitable, and
she has attracted not only foot traffic,
but famous authors. Nelson DeMille
signed more than 200 books at her
store in early November. Jenna Bush
Hager is scheduled to do the same.
Independent bookstores are a rarity
these days. There are only a handful
on LI, including Book Revue in Huntington
and the Dolphin Bookshop &
Café in Port Washington.
Scully has no grand plans for 2020,
just to keep pushing forward.
“It excites me to get up every morning
to come to the bookstore and serve
customers,” she says.
ATLAS CYBERSECURITY, 107
NORTHERN BLVD., GREAT
NECK
Benjamin Dynkin, a 25-year-old
whose lawyerly suits, glasses, and
full build make him look every bit
the scholarly attorney he studied to
be, actually works these days as a
hunter – of cyberthieves.
He is co-founder and chief executive
of Atlas Cybersecurity, which has
just finished its first year of business
seeking out bandits on the internet
who steal money and corporate secrets
and ruin reputations. He and
his brother, Barry, 29, put together
a team, including other family
members, who travel constantly to
partner with companies that need
computer security.
“Our first partner came three
weeks after we launched our
business,” Dynkin says. “We catch
advanced, persistent threats. There
are groups of well-funded, well-organized
cyberthieves who engage
in sustained campaigns against
companies.”
His dozen employees work around
the clock, and in 2020, he plans
to double in size, as the bad guys
become more sophisticated and
troublesome.
“Our business is going to be increasingly
important,” Dynkin says.
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