When I first heard that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was making Long Island’s water quality the number one priority of his administration, I was skeptical. And rightfully so. In the past I’ve argued that Long Island is...
Read MoreRecently, the New York Times wrote a piece on the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge, which, as the Times says, is the “first new colossal steel bridge in the New York area since the Verrazano.” The fact that New York...
Read MoreThis past weekend, Long Island lost a leader. Pearl Kamer spent her career tracking Long Island’s regional economy, charting our ever-climbing suburban rise in the late ’60s, the decline of defense industry in the late 1980s and...
Read MoreThe American suburb is dead. There would be a memorial service, but it seems like these days few writers, planners or millennials would attend it. Besides, with the rate the “brain drain” is going, there will soon be nobody to...
Read MoreThe following was published in Newsday on 1/5/14: Affordable housing on Long Island is, and always will be, a hot-button issue [“Rental housing sorely needed,” Editorial, Dec. 30]. The Town of Huntington’s...
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