FEMA funds, long-term vision fuel South Nassau plans
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for South Shore residents having their worst days: Mount Sinai South Nassau’s ginormous new Emergency Department is on its way. The Long Island flagship…
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Ambitious nonprofit spins in center of LI’s windstorm
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new Long Island-based nonprofit organization is aiming to become an online hub for offshore wind-generated power – generated not just off the Island, but across…
At SBU Heart Institute, a tiny device with big potential
By GREGORY ZELLER // Who watches the Watchman? The world-class cardiologists at the Stony Brook University Heart Institute, where the latest generation of the Watchman FLX device – designed to…
Albany all-in as Hofstra science center breaks ground
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hofstra University is digging in, literally, on a high-profile plan to meet the growing regional demand for young scientists and healthcare professionals. The Hempstead-based university has…
At Adelphi, a multimedia push toward social justice
By GREGORY ZELLER // With high-profile murder trials, the devastating COVID pandemic and other critical socioeconomic issues shining fresh spotlights on racial disparities across the United States, the Adelphi University…
Report: Nassau IDA kept housing, film rolling in 2020
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new economic development report puts a positive spin on a tough year for Nassau County. Pandemic-plagued 2020 was a difficult year everywhere, of course –…
Twists, turns, less sugar mark Hylux’s road to success
By GREGORY ZELLER // A five-year-old startup with a taste for healthy living has hit it big – just what founder Lamar Letts wanted, though the path to success was…
Law-less LIA looks within for presidential successor
By GREGORY ZELLER // An old friend has been named the Long Island Association’s new leader. Matthew Cohen, a former government relations executive director for the Long Island Power Authority…
New collaboration cuts to the heart of RNA splicing
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff and a Massachusetts-based neuroscience trailblazer are teaming up to advance ribonucleic acid splicing research – key to addressing several central…
Downtown breakdown details imbalance, path forward
By GREGORY ZELLER // A COVID-sized dent in retail businesses and a disproportionate impact on communities of color highlight a new report detailing the pandemic’s effects on Long Island downtowns…
For the toilet-anxious, coaches who really talk $#!+
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the westernmost reaches of Long Island, and a place very close to our hearts, comes Tushy – the Brooklyn-based bidet business that stands ready (or…
Island institutions compute new joint-admissions deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The big joint-admissions wheel keeps on turning, with two more Long Island institutions joining forces to speed collegians toward higher degrees. This time, the wheel stops…
Acupath COVID assay earns national Benasource bump
By GREGORY ZELLER // The United States, at long last, has COVID-19 cornered – national vaccinations have soared, while the New York State Department of Health on Wednesday reported the…
Developer’s tax deal brings Amazon to Woodmere
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the help of another lucrative local-government economic-incentives package, Amazon has staked its latest big claim on Long Island. Riding the wave a $16 million tax-abatement…
Large buy-in has DepYmed eyeing huge clinical trials
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale pharmaceutical firm DepYmed is no stranger to capital investments – but a new infusion might be enough to push the rare-disease innovator over the commercialization…