A former Nassau County police detective who runs a family-owned business in Inwood started by his father and has two sons who are police officers was named the Columbia Police Association Business Man of the Year. Ron Marciano, an Oceanside resident, was honored by an organization that has the dual purpose of supporting Italian-Americans and law enforcement officers, similarly to the way that Marciano has served both the customers of Burnside Collision and the residents of Nassau for 22 years. He is a longtime member of the association.

“It was tremendous, emotionally and in a spiritual sense,” Marciano said about being recognized as he sat in his neatly appointed office at Burnside. “My dad (Salvatore) started the business with a car trunk of tools and he desired to be a business entrepreneur. To look back and see how he started this is humbling to me.”