As Featured in Newsday: Concerns About $2.8 Billion Ronkonkoma Project
The following is both an interview conducted by Shari Einhorn for NewsdayTV, and the accompanying...
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Will The Sun Set On Sunrise Mall’s Chance For A Brighter Future?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on March 13th, 2022. Interested in...
Read MorePutting Up a Lexus Dealership Parking Lot Paves Over Freeport’s Planning Sense
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on July 1st, 2019. Want to support The Foggiest Idea’s award-winning coverage of the issues that matter? Click here. In July 2020, this piece was recognized with a 2nd...
Read MoreAs Seen in the Long Island Press: Hicksville Hopes for a Redo, But Politics Could Still Get in The Way
The following was published in the Long Island Press on December 9th, 2016. You can read the original here. The gymnasium was packed at Hicksville High School last month when a new plan to rezone the central business district...
Read MorePublic Comment: Hicksville Revitalization, November 2016
The following comments were prepared in response to the Town of Oyster Bay’s strategies to revitalize downtown Hicksville, presented on November 17, 2016. You can see the plan here. My name is Richard Murdocco. I am the...
Read MorePols Should Remember Developing and Planning Differ
The following was written for the Long Island Press. The original can be seen here. The recently announced creation of a regional planning alliance between the Town of Islip, Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County could mark a...
Read MoreConsider the Source
In the Oct. 3 edition of LIBN, fellow policy writer Martin Cantor penned the following: “Naysayers get caught in the weeds of survey methodology as justification for ignoring them but the trending message that two recent surveys...
Read MoreLong Island Needs Regionalism
The following appeared in New Geography as a featured article, as well as LIBN’s Young Island. Eric Alexander, the executive director of Vision Long Island, seems to be popping up everywhere on Long Island these days. He...
Read MoreShoveling Against the Tide
Hey gang, studies are showing that the brain drain is hitting Long Island. Let’s keep these young people! How? Let’s build cool downtown apartments. Put them right by the train station. Let’s give ‘em Wi-Fi for their iPads and...
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