North Shore-LIJ to rebrand as Northwell Health
The North Shore-LIJ Health System made it official Monday, announcing a major rebranding effort that starts with a new name for New York State’s largest employer. As first reported by…
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Suffolk in line for $388M sewer project
Consider it a silver lining to some of Long Island’s darkest clouds. In what’s being proffered as a response to the historic flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy, $388 million in…
DiNapoli: Sloppy controls at Upstate IDAs
NY Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is keeping the heat on industrial development agencies around the state, this time with audits that suggest poor followups on approved projects in upstate Niagara, Tompkins and…
It’s always Friday for some LI microbrews
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Islanders who appreciate small-batch craft beers can now find them on tap in the mothership of large-scale commercialization: TGI Fridays. In addition to stalwart suds…
On LI, being young is a moving experience
By JOHN KOMINICKI // A lot of young Long Islanders complain about not having a cool place to live, but my twentysomething daughter is not one of them. She already…
Teq lands Audio Enhancement deal
Huntington classroom-technology producer Teq has landed another lucrative distribution deal, this time as the exclusive New York provider for Audio Enhancement’s award-winning line school-audio products. It’s the latest classroom coup…
SBU leads latest college ranking
Long Island certainly didn’t flunk out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings, though collectively, you’d have to give the Island a B grade at best. Those more…
Brookhaven completes first phase of cardiac unit
Phase 1 of Brookhaven Memorial Hospital’s $60 million, 60,000-square-foot cardiac-unit expansion is complete, and a gathering of politicos, patrons and patients joined hospital officials this week to mark the milestone….
Cablevision in deal for WGN America, last 2.8% of Newsday
Cablevision has inked a multi-year deal that will bring Tribune Media’s general entertainment cable network, WGN America, to its New York, New Jersey and Connecticut customers beginning in January. As part of the deal, Cablevision…
Gillibrand signs on to build-it-here bill
New federal legislation aims to keep high-pay, high-skill manufacturing jobs in the United States by brushing up a 50-year-old small-business law. Introduced by New Jersey Democrat Corey Booker and cosponsored…
In school security, a fly on the digital wall
By GREGORY ZELLER // If it’s going to happen, it very well might happen on the Internet first. That’s the thinking behind Digital Fly, a real-time social media monitoring and…
BNL’s Cleary headlines inventors’ event
Long Island inventors and entrepreneurs have a golden chance to learn how to partner with Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Suffolk County Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club’s Sept. 15 meeting is scheduled…
Lessons from life on the bottom rung
By GREGORY ZELLER // What I did with my summer vacation: If you’re an American teenager, there’s a good chance it wasn’t “earn a paycheck.” The percentage of U.S. teens…
The Debrief: Alexander Gann, Watson School of Biological Sciences
In terms of size, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s graduate school is a bit short of Ivy League. With seven new Fall 2015 admissions bumping the student body to 41, the…
DARPA, Homeland Security to headline NYIT cybersecurity conference
Distinguished speakers and critical intelligence issues will set the tone at the New York Institute of Technology’s sixth-annual cybersecurity conference. Intended to stimulate dialogue, share ideas and promote networking among…