Author: Richard Murdocco

Looking West

The following appeared in the East Hampton Press, The Southampton Press and 27East.com. Long Island’s East End is unlike any other area of the New York metropolitan region, with its ample fields and a low-slung sense of rural...

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The Power Broker at 40

Forty years ago this week, Robert A. Caro published his seminal masterwork “The Power Broker.“ The themes of true power and it’s inherent use as a means to an end, captured the public’s imagination. Moses’ “at all costs”...

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Hey IDAs, Seriously?

Seriously IDAs?  Is Nassau County, with a straight face, arguing that a gym locker can constitute a “landlord-tenant relationship?” Or that Oceanside’s Costco can be considered a “tourist destination?” There is a rotten smell in...

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