Anton Newspapers was founded in 1984, after publisher Karl V. Anton bought a group of eight local weeklies originally based in Glen Cove, including the Long Islander, which was founded by Walt Whitman.
Anton eventually sold the Long Islander and the rest of his papers in Suffolk, choosing to focus on the Nassau County market and moved the business headquarters to Mineola.
Presently numbering 18, the weeklies include the Glen Cove Record-Pilot, Great Neck Record, Manhasset Press, Port Washington News, The Roslyn News, The Westbury Times, Oyster Bay Enterprise-Pilot, Mineola American, Garden City Life, The Illustrated News, Hicksville Illustrated News, Syosset-Jericho Tribune, Plainview-Old Bethpage Herald, Levittown Tribune, Farmingdale Observer, Massapequan Observer, Three Village Times and Floral Park Dispatch.
Sometimes known by their legal moniker of Long Island Community Newspapers, Anton is also the publisher of The Boulevard Magazine and Healthy Living.
After Anton's death in 2000 at the age of 81, his wife, Angela, succeeded him in the role of publisher.
In addition to free on-street parking and the double-space deep lot in the front of the building, a second free lot exists on the other side of the Union and Second street intersection.