And how about some faster broadband?
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget 2016 agenda swelled by another $500 million on Friday, as the governor announced a proposal to improve high-speed Internet access across New York. The 10th initiative…
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Mobile ticketing, nicer stations, connectivity
Mobile ticketing may soon make travel on the Long Island Rail Road a little easier. Included in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $8 billion MTA makeover – the eighth proposal in…
LI economy: Fair to partly cloudy
By GREGORY ZELLER // The regional economy got a little good news on Thursday, as AVZ presented its annual economic survey and opinion poll. The Hauppauge accounting firm’s 22nd annual…
Northwell launches network management platform
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health is off to a fast start. Just days after it officially rebranded itself, the former North Shore-LIJ Health System announced that it’s forming a…
Codagenix making all the right moves
By GREGOERY ZELLER // A seven-figure Regional Economic Development Council award is set to push an innovative influenza vaccine toward human trials. Codagenix, a 2012 startup cofounded by Farmingdale State…
Cuomo: More tax cuts for small business
Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to trot out his 2016 economic agenda on Tuesday, with a call to revamp the state tax code to benefit small businesses. The plan, announced in…
The Debrief: Rosalie Drago is a force for innovation
Rosalie Drago’s career path meandered through tourism and economic development then into workforce issues and from the Jersey Shore to Long Island – to LaunchPad Huntington, precisely, where she set…
Apartment development claws its way back
By JOHN KOMINICKI Getting an apartment on Long Island is a lot like ordering a lobster. Well, except one of them doesn’t have mushy green stuff inside. (And if it…
Cuomo unveils giant LI infrastructure package
Long Island builders and planners are understandably thrilled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious plan to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into Long Island’s infrastructure – though local leaders acknowledge…
Stony Brook-LIFT bid wins $5M state contract
By GREGORY ZELLER Stony Brook University and the Long Island Forum for Technology have been awarded a five-year funding deal to foster manufacturing in the region, with a focus on…
Foss sets Nomorobo mobile launch
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nomorobo mobile. Maybe not easy to say three times fast, but it’s happening: Inventor Aaron Foss has cracked the technology necessary for a mobile-phone version of…
Leveraging the still-potent power of LI’s past
By GREGORY ZELLER // The aerospace and defense industries might not be Long Island stalwarts anymore, but they’re thriving elsewhere – and one Island startup is helping others fly in…
Got a couple spare megawatts? Call PSEG
Long Island energy supplier PSEG has issued a Request for Proposals to help make good on a three-year-old promise. In an October 2012 resolution, the utility’s trustees set a power-supply…
LA aeronautics firm relocating to Westbury
Fifty-seven new jobs are landing in Nassau County, thanks to an aerospace subsidiary flying in from the West Coast. Novaria Group, the aerospace investment platform of Texas-based investors Rosewood Private…
Merry Christmas, small business people
By GREGORY ZELLER // Small businesses engaged in research and development are among those unwrapping a shiny present from the federal government, in the form of dozens of business-tax provisions…