Feinstein, Hofstra concussion study exposes a nerve
By GREGORY ZELLER // With concussions and other traumatic brain injuries continuing to make headlines on and off the playing field, Long Island researchers may be closing in on a…
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Chair, exec director ousted in Port Authority shakeup
Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie shook up the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday, replacing its chairman and executive director and ordering new appointees to…
Developers jockey for position after Belmont RFP
By GREGORY ZELLER // Like a bugle call summoning the field to the starting gate, New York State is beckoning developers to Belmont Park. Trumpeting “an exciting and much-anticipated development…
Child’s play: Northwell nabs top doc to lead pediatrics
Long Island’s top children’s hospital has a new pediatrics chief. The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center has tapped Sophia Jan as its new chief of pediatrics, the New…
Aerospace is swell and all, but this is about land
By GREGORY ZELLER // Make no mistake: For Greek-American billionaire John Catsimatidis, this is a land deal, pure and simple. The owner of Gristedes Foods, the largest grocery chain in…
Nat’l retail-delivery service rolls onto Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // Have you ever wished you could get a gallon of organic milk from Whole Foods, a bag of kibble from Petco and your vitamins from CVS,…
State to fund $75M med research center at SBU
Stony Brook University has been awarded a $75 million state grant to build a center to develop and commercialize medical devices and treatments. The 70,000-square-foot building, to be called I-DIME,…
And then there was one: Mather to join Northwell
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s last independent hospitals is beaming aboard Northwell Health’s mothership. The Board of Directors of Port Jefferson’s John T. Mather Memorial Hospital has…
Suffolk IDA backs an old friend in Hauppauge
A Hauppauge-based tech consultancy will expand its global headquarters and business operations, with the help of the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency. The IDA on Thursday granted preliminary approval to…
In the shadow of a giant, independent docs unite
In a region dominated by one of the nation’s largest healthcare networks, two groups of independent physicians are joining forces to create their own comprehensive, patient-centered network. And this union…
Salary workshops open students to negotiation
By GREGORY ZELLER // Heads up, campus-to-corporate recruiters: An innovative workshop will prepare NYIT students to better negotiate their starting salaries and benefits. The New York Institute of Technology has…
NASA taps NYIT for critical rocket-propulsion sensors
By GREGORY ZELLER // A New York Institute of Technology engineering professor is contributing to the creation of specialized sensors that could help test the next generation of space propulsion…
Island unemployment rate inches higher
Long Island’s unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent in June, rising 0.2 percentage points from a year ago as additional workers began looking for jobs. About 63,000 Long Islanders…
For startups seeking capital, the name is no game
By GREGORY ZELLER // What’s in a name? Maybe everything, if you’re a startup in need of early-stage capital. A new study by researchers from Stony Brook University, Drexel University…
CBRE: Tech talent, Millennials rising on LI
Long Island’s pool of potential technology workers grew by almost 25 percent in the last five years, according to the annual Scoring Tech Talent Report just out from real estate…