The Syosset Street Fair was supposed to fill downtown Syosset on the last Sunday of September. Then a nor'easter rolled up the coast and took the whole weekend with it. The fair was not canceled. It was moved, all the way to November, and on Sunday, November 15, it finally happens: vendors, two music stages and a kids' zone on Jackson Avenue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The fair is run by the Syosset Woodbury Jericho Chamber of Commerce, which announced the new date during the storm weekend, when events across Long Island were shifting into October and November.

What is on Jackson Avenue

The chamber's plan puts a stage at each end of the fair. The South Stage is sponsored by School of Rock Syosset and Oyster Bay, the music school for kids and adults, and the North Stage by the iSchool of Music and Art. Between them run the vendor tents along Jackson Avenue, the main street of downtown Syosset.

For families there is a Kidz Zone, sponsored by Crestwood Country Day Camp and School, and face painting sponsored by Rallye Motors. The Syosset VFW is listed as the fair's honor guard. The chamber is also handing out a street fair bag to 750 attendees, filled by local sponsors, while they last.

A street fair built by the neighborhood

The sponsor list the chamber publishes reads like a directory of the Syosset, Woodbury and Jericho area. The anchor sponsors are Corcoran SRG Residential, Plaza Realty Properties and Rallye Motors. Further down are the Syosset Public Library, Northwell Health's Plainview and Syosset hospitals, the Mid Island Y JCC, the Children's Orchestra Society, the Long Island School for the Gifted and the Tzu Chi Long Island Education Center, along with neighborhood food names such as Ruta Oaxaca Mexican Cuisine, Toastique, Knot of This World Pretzels and 16 Handles in Jericho. Martial arts studios, dentists, a camera shop and several fitness and wellness businesses round it out.

Why November

The fair's original date, Sunday, September 27, fell on the weekend a nor'easter brought heavy rain and wind to Long Island. Car shows, festivals and fairs across both counties moved that week. Most landed in October; Syosset's moved further out, to the middle of November.

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