Kathy Hochul, chairman of the council, and Long Island Association president Kevin Law, co-vice chairman of the council. Kathy Hochul, chairman of the council, and Long Island Association president Kevin Law, co-vice chairman of the council.

Twenty downtowns on Long Island will vie for a $10 million grant from the state for development efforts, officials said.

Eleven communities in Nassau County and nine in Suffolk submitted applications by last Friday’s deadline for Gov. Cuomo’s new Downtown Revitalization Initiative, according to Jonah Bruno, a spokesman for Empire State Development, the agency administering the funds.

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“We’ve received a nice mix of applications from both counties,” said council co-vice chairman Kevin Law, who also is president of the Long Island Association business group.