CPI Aero catches Lightning, again, with new F-35 deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The world’s most advanced warplane will get a lift from a longtime Long Island defense contractor. Edgewood-based CPI Aerostructures Inc. has been awarded a $15.8 million…
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Northwell opens post-op Cardiac Rehab Center
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s only heart-transplant program now has its own recovery center. Leveraging an expanded slate of cardiovascular services at Manhasset’s Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital, including…
Cemtrex closes in on key VR software acquisition
By GREGORY ZELLER // Reality check: A Farmingdale-based tech firm is reinforcing a lucrative virtual vertical with a big push into VR. International tech manufacturer and distributor Cemtrex Inc. announced…
Applied DNA earns new SigNature patent, more T’d up
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences has added two new U.S. patents to its impressive collection – at least, a new patent-and-a-half. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and…
Historical NY innovators get National Register nods
By GREGORY ZELLER // The founders of Long Island’s circa-1800s “Squiretown” and a boathouse belonging to one of America’s first movie stars may soon enjoy new places in history –…
As Mount Sinai looms, South Nassau keeps expanding
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a potential health-system merger still under discussion, South Nassau Communities Hospital is plowing ahead with its ambitious infrastructure-modernization effort. The latest additions: two state-of-the-art surgical…
At Port Jeff comics shop, doing the time warp, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Holy old school! In a digital era decidedly defined by screens large and small, a forward-thinking entrepreneur is turning back the clock by inviting customers to…
Impressed Northwell expands use of breast ‘reflectors’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health has gone all-in on leading-edge technology designed to pinpoint tumors and effect better physiological and cosmetic results for breast cancer patients. On Tuesday, the…
Moustache: Membership (and growth) have privileges
By JIM McCUNE // The first rule of the Society for Fine Liquid Provisions: You always talk about the Society for Fine Liquid Provisions. This ain’t “Fight Club.” The members-only…
NYIT: Quick consequences of ‘fast’ American food
By GREGORY ZELLER // With all that Halloween candy about and 15 pounds worth of holiday season set to brutalize your belly, the New York Institute of Technology shares these…
Albany stamps out e-cigarette use in public places
By GREGORY ZELLER // You’d better put that out, or turn it off, or otherwise knock it off: In New York, e-cigs are now illegal in the workplace and everywhere…
Nor’easter zaps 90K, despite post-Sandy ‘hardening’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Just days after trumpeting its hardened infrastructure, PSEG Long Island faced a stiff test Sunday – the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy – as a massive…
We Connect the Dots’ new STREAM of consciousness
By GREGORY ZELLER // After a “year of growth and great progress,” STEAM-powered Westbury nonprofit We Connect the Dots is already gearing up for a big 2018. Founder and Board…
LICA cooks up tasty Food & Beverage investor forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bring your appetite to the Long Island Capital Alliance’s next Capital Forum. After three quarterly innovator-meets-investor events with a decidedly high-tech flavor – early-stage technology in…
With ESD’s help, Seviroli plans a new pasta course
By GREGORY ZELLER // A maker of “artisan dining at home” selections is expanding its foodie-friendly Long Island footprint. The Empire State Development Corp., Albany’s main economic-development engine, announced Thursday…