Developers Go Out on Limb to Coin New Phrase to Solve Suburban Woes
The following was published in the Long Island Press on November 12th, 2016. You can read the original published version here. Is Long Island’s suburban model a thing of the past? That could be the case if you can believe the latest look at demographic trends shaping...
Featured Op-Ed In Crain’s New York: Third Track is the Charm
The following Op-Ed was written for Crain's New York, and published on November 8th, 2016. You can read the original here. Eliminating the LIRR bottleneck in western Nassau County will unlock the economic potential of other transit investments in the New York...
Quoted by CTW Features: Taking Inventory of the Housing Supply
The following was published in newspapers across the United States in late October 2016. You can read a local version of the entire story, as published in both the Dallas Morning News or San Jose's The Mercury News, here, or via the Richmond Times-Dispatch here....
Featured in Newsday: LI Needs High Paying Jobs and Low Rents
The following Letter to the Editor was published in Newsday on October 16, 2016. You can read the original here. I appreciated Newsday's balanced reporting on the issue of Long Island's downtown redevelopment, but feel that more can be done on the regional level to...
Featured in LIBN: Court Upholds Building Ban on Suffolk County Farmland
The following Letter to the Editor was published in the October 14-20 edition of Long Island Business News. The State Supreme Court's ruling accurately captures the original intent of the PDR law, which sought to preserve not only farmland for public benefit, but the...
Public Comment: Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection’s State of the Aquifer Report, October 13, 2016
The following was submitted to the Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection on October 13, 2016. My name is Richard Murdocco. I am the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and am land use columnist who writes professionally on regional real estate...
Is the White House Right to Tell Local Zoning Boards to Be Constructive?
The following was published in the Long Island Press on October 10, 2016. You can read the original here. In the heated debate about whether or not local zoning codes are choking us, New Age urbanists who propose environmentally friendly dense developments have new...
The Foggiest Idea Quoted on TheStreet: U.S. Home Prices up 4% in ’16, But Are Clouds Brewing for ’17?
The following was originally published on TheStreet on September 28, 2016. You can read the original piece here. Another big issue - home sales in highly-populated areas of the country may be muted due to solid price increases, as owners look to rebuild equity....
Long Island Pulse Magazine: Does Heartland Town Square Beat Too Proud?
The following was written for Long Island Pulse Magazine, and was published online on September 28, 2016, and published in the October 2016 print edition. You can read the original online version here. Of all the mixed-use real estate projects slated to be built on...
Featured in Crain’s New York: Could West Side Project Reprise the Glory of the Old Penn Station?
The following was published as a Letter to the Editor in Crain's New York on September 28, 2016. You can read the original here. To the Editor: Regarding your piece on the latest evolution of the ongoing Penn Station/Farley Post Office project: I appreciated the...
