“I play nights in the Spanish part of town – I’ve got music in my hands. The work is hard to find, but that don’t get me down – Rosalinda understands.”

That line comprises the first verse of “Rosalinda’s Eyes,” a Latin-flavored album cut found on Billy Joel’s 1978 record, “52nd Street.” The record, which followed his breakout hit “The Stranger,” is a standout in the Joel discography, and the song was inspired by his mother, Rosalind Joel. It was the type of song, Joel has said in interviews, that he wishes his father had written for his mother.

Rosalind Nyman Joel, a longtime Huntington Bay resident, died July 13, her son announced in a post on his official website. She was 92.

Following what town spokesman A.J. Carter said was a miscommunication between the Town of Huntington and its contractor, construction on one of Huntington village’s few public parking lots began almost a full week early!

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