Shifting to parks, Cuomo touts Jones Beach upgrades
By GREGORY ZELLER // Like millions of other annual visitors, Gov. Andrew Cuomo went to Jones Beach on Wednesday. But unlike most of those day-trippers, the governor was on a…
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Hofstra, SCCC land state grants to help small biz
Hofstra University and Suffolk County Community College will split a $162,000 grant from Empire State Development to help aspiring small business owners. The funds will pay for counselors to help…
Albany pumps $10M into a new downtown Hicksville
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hicksville has won the regional round of New York State’s second-annual $100 million downtown-redevelopment contest. The Nassau County hamlet in the Town of Oyster Bay will…
State green-lights LI med-marijuana dispensaries
New medical marijuana dispensaries are coming to Long Island. The New York State Department of Health on Tuesday announced that it has authorized five “registered organizations” – permitted by state…
Light the lights: Broadway National eyes new stage
By GREGORY ZELLER // Broadway National is changing venues. The three-decade-old property-management firm with the big-name clientele is taking its big-stage flair from Ronkonkoma to Hauppauge, thanks to a new…
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…
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…
Suffolk: Something co-working at Wyandanch Rising
By GREGORY ZELLER // The retail side of the Wyandanch Rising redevelopment project isn’t ascending as quickly as the residential side – but the imbalance has created a unique workforce-development…
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…