Lessons learned, The Crime Stopper restarts
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a fresh start for The Crime Stopper, with lessons learned from a failed Kickstarter campaign. Actually, the campaign didn’t fail, according to Apptec Corp. founder…
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Building momentum in LI manufacturing
By GREGORY ZELLER // With its president busily rallying the disparate remains of a one-time tent-pole Long Island industry, a longtime military manufacturer has completed a key strategic acquisition. Hauppauge-based GSE…
Fish-Tank Chemistry 101, Now On Your Phone
By CARL CORRY // Gabriel Ruttner can thank his father for killing his fish – it became the inspiration for a business that’s landing some impressive bites. The president and…
Sky King, and his World of Tomorrow
By GREGORY ZELLER // A gallery of high-ranking observers watched Dan Preston’s dreams take flight Friday – and along with them, a potential rebirth of a once-great Long Island industry….
Kyle Chandler still feels the buzz
By JIM McCUNE June 10 is just another Friday for most of us. For Kyle Chandler, founder and brewmaster of Long Island’s Subtle Tea Company, it’s a major holiday: National…
Amagansett Farm Reaps ‘Early-Stage’ Award
Rookie farmers across New York State have received an economic boost from Albany through the New Farmers Grant Fund. A total of 25 “early-stage farmers” will share $743,000 in grants,…
NY Aviation Grant Program Backs Gabreski Upgrade
Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach is among the aerodromes receiving airport-focused capital-improvement funds from Albany this week. A total of $10 million has been awarded for airport projects across…
‘Accidental’ find may be COPD breakthrough
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Didn’t See That Coming File comes Stony Brook University researcher Ute Moll and the p73 gene – potentially, a master key to unlocking new…
LIRR Bridge Among $16.3M In State Rail Projects
A Long Island Rail Road bridge in Queens will be renovated as part of new rail-infrastructure improvement projects greenlighted Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. All told, the governor’s Passenger and…
Stopping cyberattacks before they start
By GREGORY ZELLER // Consider Uncle Sam an honorary cofounder of Code Dx Inc. So says Frank Zinghini, founder of the Northport Village spinoff and CEO its parent company, Applied Visions,…
Northwell Completes New Hyde Park Shuffle
Make that the “New Hyde Park-based” Northwell Health system. The formerly Great Neck-based system moved into its new Marcus Avenue space over a three-day haul in mid-May and officially announced…
Traverse Biosciences lands key seed investment
By GREGORY ZELLER // A critical seed investment will help Traverse Biosciences commercialize pharmaceutical candidates licensed from the SUNY Research Foundation. The circa-2013 Stony Brook-based biotech has secured $500,000 in…
Feds set wind-energy lease sale for LI waters
By CARL CORRY // More than 80,000 acres of federal waters about 11 miles off the coast of Long Island will be made available to lease for off-shore wind-energy development,…
Gov: Billion-dollar boost for LI tourism
By CARL CORRY // Saying Long Island is primed for a $1 billion boost in annual tourism, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced two contracts for the Long Island Rail…
United it stands, with help from the Suffolk IDA
A 33-year-old biotech will purchase and renovate its longtime Hauppauge home, thanks to tax breaks approved Thursday by the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency. Synthetic vaccine manufacturer United Biomedical Inc….