New LIMA flights rekindle LIMBA’s hopes
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island MacArthur Airport is spreading its wings, and a longtime regional quality-of-life watchdog wants to make sure the airport’s climb doesn’t stall. Long Island Metro…
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LI vineyards sparkle in NY wine awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island can claim bragging rights to New York State’s 2017 Winery of the Year. At least, half of them. Southold’s Sparkling Pointe Vineyards has earned…
So, Brian Fried had this idea…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Perhaps Brian Fried should launch the re-inventors club. Boasting many notches on his toolbelt – several inventions, a few commercial scores and a pair of how-to…
NYIT: ‘Lethal interactions’ could stop tough cancers
New York Institute of Technology researchers may have found a way to stop cancerous tumors from spreading through the central nervous system. And for some patients suffering from the worst…
New orbit: Investment group snaps up Globecomm
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s most productive high-tech manufacturers is under new management. Hauppauge’s Globecomm Systems announced Wednesday that an investor group led by New York City-based…
Heads scratched as Chem-Master gets the boot
By GREGORY ZELLER // A biotech manufacturer with a 23-year history of servicing Stony Brook University researchers and startups is being evicted from the university’s Chemistry Building – and nobody…
BNL: Staff cuts not related to Trump, 2018 cuts
By GREGORY ZELLER // The “voluntary force reduction” announced Tuesday by Brookhaven National Laboratory, which seeks to reduce the Upton lab’s workforce by roughly 6 percent, is not a reaction…
St. Francis tops in hospitals, US News says
Roslyn’s St. Francis Hospital is the fifth-best hospital in New York State, according to the latest ranking by U.S. News & World Report, followed by NYU Winthrop Hospital at No….
For Applied DNA, real growth in fertilizer
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences, the Stony Brook biotech, has spent 2017 aggressively introducing its DNA-based supply chain, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technologies to new industries and markets –…
MSC Industrial eyes Midwest in metalworking merger
A Melville-based industrial equipment distributor has snapped up an Iowa-based industrial supplier. Terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, but multiple published reports have MSC Industrial Supply Co. acquiring…
NYU Langone Health doubles down in Huntington
By GREGORY ZELLER // Already knee-deep in word-class medical science, Long Island healthcare has been bolstered by the arrival of a nationally renowned cancer center. Brandishing the bold slogan “We…
Telephonics Corp. soars with $23M Chinook deal
A Farmingdale-based manufacturer has landed a $23.3 million deal centered on the U.S. Army’s ionic Chinook helicopters. Communications ace Telephonics Corp. announced this week a three-year contract with the Defense…
For managers, a primer on dealing with the dog days
By KEN CERINI // During the winter, when it’s cold and dark, people don’t mind being indoors and getting work done. But in the summer, when the weather and the…
Concussion-focused Scythian sets market debut
By GREGORY ZELLER // Scythian Biosciences Corp. is going public. The New York City/Toronto-based biotech, led by Great Neck investment banker Jonathan Gilbert on its quest to develop the world’s…
Digital dentistry program takes root at SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // Break out the intraoral scanners: Stony Brook University is sinking its teeth into a groundbreaking digital dentistry curriculum. The university’s School of Dental Medicine is one…