The Foggiest Five: Dr. Lee Koppelman, Former Executive Director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board
The following are answers to The Foggiest Five, a set of questions asked to influential Long Islanders on the future of the region. This round features answers from Dr. Lee Koppelman, whose extensive resume includes serving as the Director of the Suffolk County...
Smithtown’s Growth Needs to Be Backed by Data, Public Input
The following was written for the July 3rd edition of Long Island Business News. The original can be read here. David Winzelberg's piece "The Town that Time Forgot" (LIBN June 26) falls prey to criticisms that oversimplify Smithtown's latest comprehensive planning...
Uptick in Long Island’s Housing Hides Real Concern: High Cost of Living
The following was written for the Long Island Press. You can read the original here. Long Island is experiencing a welcome renewed boom of housing construction. But are we pricing out the region’s young families by building exclusively for the elderly? Shouldn’t we be...
Strong Storms, Weak Coasts – Boating Times Long Island
The following was written for Boating Times Long Island's July issue. You can read the original version here. You can find a list of locations where Boating Times Long Island is distributed here. Carol. Donna. Gloria. Bob. Irene. Sandy. The names are part of our...
Dead Fish Piling Up on Long Island’s Shores Are a Warning Shot for County Execs
The following was written for the Long Island Press. You can read the original here. Long Island’s water quality crisis was on display in a very public way throughout the month of June, when tens of thousands of fish began washing ashore from Port Washington on the...
Karl Grossman: A New Push for Sewers in Suffolk County
The following was written by Karl Grossman for the Southampton Press, the East Hampton Press, the Shelter Island Reporter, the Sag Harbor Express, the Community Journal and the South Shore Press. The original can be read here. Richard Murdocco, author of the Foggiest...
Done Right, Huntington’s Plan for Melville Could Have Local/Regional Benefits
The following was written for the Long Island Press. The original can be read here. When it comes to the future of Long Island, residents should ditch the NIMBY attitudes and be constructively open-minded—but only if their local government promises to be responsive to...
Long Island Suffers When Nassau and Suffolk Can’t Get Their Act Together
The following was written for the Long Island Press. The original can be read here. Up until last week’s piece on the Nassau Coliseum, the focus of my work for the Long Island Press has been mostly a critical look at recent planning efforts undertaken by Suffolk...
Prudent LI Growth Depends on Data-Backed Strategy
The following was written for the June 5, 2015 edition of Long Island Business News. On Long Island, many associate getting approval for development as a success - a hard fought victory for business over the irrational NIMBYism that rules the Nassau and Suffolk...
Despite Hype, Nassau Coliseum is a Monument to Poor Planning
The following was written for the Long Island Press. The original piece can be read here. Could change finally be coming to one of Nassau’s most underutilized sites: the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and the 77-acre sea of asphalt that surrounds it? It’s...
