A vibrant discussion about the past, present, and future of our region.
Amazon is accepting proposals on where it should locate its second corporate headquarters, a mammoth $5 billion office center that, when finished, will be a third larger than the Pentagon and employ 50,000 people in “high-paying” jobs. That would make it Long Island’s largest employer overnight, topping even county government. And Stop & Shop. As
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Vacancy rates for stores in Farmingdale are down to just 3 percent. There’s a new buzz of activity with family events and after-work concerts all signaling that this downtown is on the rise. It creates an infectious energy that underpins the growing appeal of Long Island’s latest downtown developments. For over a decade I’ve
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There’s significant medical news to report, and I’m not just talking about whether you should still floss now that it’s been revealed that the practice actually does nothing to prevent gum disease. (What did we expect? It is, after all, waxed string.) No, I’m talking about incredible research – much of it being performed right
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By Long Island standards, Rockville Centre is a development whirlwind these days, as AvalonBay Communities, Inc. begins construction on 165 new apartments, just two years after taking title to the property. “We’re moving and shaking in Rockville Centre!” said a pleased Mayor Francis X. Murray. It had taken 10 years of lawsuits and angst to
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More than ever, Long Island residents are struggling to pay for housing. Since 1980, the Island has lagged behind regional competitors like Northern New Jersey and the Hudson Valley in residential construction. With comparatively little new housing stock and variety, home prices and rents in Long Island have soared. That has made those other areas more
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There’s been an enormous uptick in entrepreneurial activity in our country over the past decade, a surge not seen since the days of Edison and Tesla.
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What happens when the cost of living makes living here unlivable? It’s no surprise that almost 75 percent of young Long Islanders say they expect to move away over the next five years to find better-paying jobs and cheaper rents.
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70 percent of young Long Islanders – the 18 to 34 crowd – said they will likely leave within the next five years to find more affordable digs.
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Here is how to cure Long Island’s current economic stagnation: expand the biomedical industry and multi-family housing simultaneously.
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We should have grabbed ‘Cradle of Innovation’ when we had the chance.
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It’s better to have unicorned and lost than never to have unicorned at all.
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There are, in truth, many cool places to live on Long Island for those who can afford them, and developers are building more, in downtowns, near train stations and along the beach. Patchogue, Wyandanch, Ronkonkoma – one by one, some of the Island’s most ‘burbish backwaters are being transformed into rental meccas.
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Most recently, Long Island has focused on becoming the nation’s next innovation hot spot, taking advantage of the incredible research that goes on at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Brookhaven National Lab and Stony Brook University.
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Have you tried getting from New York City to Long Island during rush hour on the LIRR?
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Long Island is blessed with some of the most renowned and innovative research institutions in the nation.
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Despite being the birthplace of the magnetic levitation train, which just set a world speed record in Japan at 375 miles per hour, Long Island is served in the 21st century by a railroad whose system of tracks is essentially the same as it was when it was laid out in the 19th century
View More Leaders of Suffolk County, its two largest towns – Brookhaven and Islip – and the Long Island Rail Road have joined together to create the Ronkonkoma Hub Regional Alliance, the first of its kind in the region, to advance the massive Ronkonkoma Hub project to completion.
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Bankrupt and with miles of empty track, the LIRR was forced to settle for the only other business around: Moving people to New York City and back again.
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