Elmont Station opens (sorta) as the puck drops at UBS
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s been a long time since the New York Islanders played a home game – and a lot longer since the Long Island Rail Road opened…
Long Island Rail Road
No. 641: Garfunkel sings, Ronkonkoma Hub expands and FDR just keeps winning – plus, lunch at Roy Rogers!
On the clock: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the last one where you’ll see much daylight past 5 p.m., at least for the…
No. 640: Ace fighter pilots! Giant monsters! Astro dogs! And if you’re hungry, tacos in spaaaaace!
Keep your cool: Welcome to Wednesday, intrepid innovators, and the midpoint of another bustling (and blustery!) week of socioeconomic progress. It’s Nov. 3 out there, and with temperatures dropping…
No. 624: On fine fellows, full-frontal figurines and missing monarchs – plus, a legit ligature lesson
Sweet and short: Shanah tovah u’metukah, dear readers, and a good and sweet year to all as our many readers of the Jewish faith wrap up Rosh Hashanah at…
No. 622: In which acne shines, regional rainmakers get on board and the new guv comes out swinging
See you in September: Here we go, dear readers – summer is (unofficially) over, meteorological fall has (officially) begun and we’re embracing those three syllables that send chills down…
At Old Westbury Gardens, a true G gauge whiz
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s a new Long Island railroad in town. The town is the Village of Old Westbury and the railroad is the Great Pine Railway, summertime centerpiece…
No. 599: It’s kinda cheesy and somewhat inflated, but those nurses can really sing – and there’s donuts
Short and sweet: That sure didn’t feel like a shortened workweek, dear readers, rather a full-on socioeconomic sprint – and here you are, huffing, puffing and ready for another…
Construction complete, East Side Access nearly ready
By GREGORY ZELLER // That’s a (partial) wrap on the East Side Access project, with engineers completing civil construction of the largest new train terminal built on U.S. soil since…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
Moynihan Hall job links big wins for red-hot TiniFiber
By GREGORY ZELLER // An East Farmingdale startup that dares to dream small has added another high-wiring act to its already-impressive list. With miles (and miles and miles) of its…
COVID will end, but land uses will be changed forever
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // The pandemic is dramatically changing the real estate market across Greater New York and the nation, with long-ranging (and long term) impacts on infrastructure, land…
Planes, trains, autos: Wheels up on LIMA ‘ground hub’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A key component of the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council’s strategic investment has taken flight – actually, broken ground – at Long Island MacArthur Airport….
For fisheries’ sake, a voyage to the bottom of the sea
By GREGORY ZELLER // The annual Dropping of the Junk has once again killed two birds with one stone, while saving a whole bunch of fish. In what has become…
New LIRR tracks mark ambitious ‘Empire Station’ plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // Governor Andrew Cuomo’s annual “budget proposal” tour rolled on Monday, with a whopper of a plan for Long Island commuters. Billed as “the 30th proposal” of…
The ‘underserved’ aim high, via Ascend Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // The rubber meets the roads Thursday at Hofstra University, when the innovative Ascend Long Island program holds its first-ever “procurement conference.” Combining small Nassau County businesses…