New brand, same attitude for life’s-a-beach retailer
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Paging Jimmy Buffet File comes Wakes & Waves, a rebranded lifestyle enterprise on an endless-summer quest. Actually, the season is irrelevant to entrepreneur Anthony…
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Following COVID win, Island biotech targets monkeypox
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is ready to play a little monkey ball. The Stony Brook-based biotech – part supply-chain authenticator, part Polymerase Chain Reaction-based DNA technology leader,…
Long Island’s strong case for parking-mandate reform
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // It’s time to take back Long Island’s “seas of asphalt.” New planning and zoning concepts and laws that revise and significantly reduce minimum off-street parking…
AEC 2022 gets the clean-energy band back together
By GREGORY ZELLER // And now back to our regularly scheduled low-carbon economy, already in progress. Four years since last gathering in person – and 14 months since a post-pandemic…
Decades (and one governor) later, ‘Third Track’ opens
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Third Time’s a Charm Department comes the Long Island Rail Road’s long-debated “Third Track,” finally open for business. Designed to dramatically improve system-wide capacity…
Factcheck: Misinformation is mangling LI innovation
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // When I was young, my parents told me I had to wait 30 minutes after eating before I could go swimming. It had something to…
Northwell unveils $110M Pediatric Surgery Complex
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a $110 million resource that most Long Island parents will be glad is here – and all hope they never see. Cohen Children’s Medical Center…
ERASE Racism welcomes next social-justice champion
By GREGORY ZELLER // A leading Long Island social-justice advocacy organization has a new leader. The Board of Directors at Syosset-based ERASE Racism announced Monday that attorney Laura Harding –…
Healthcare transparency: More than just a data dump
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Imagine finding out that you have cancer via a text message while barreling down the Northern State Parkway. I did. It was a Friday, April 1,…
How ‘Innovation and Choice’ Act threatens minority biz
By PHIL ANDREWS // Legislation that politicians claim will protect small businesses from the alleged monopoly power of large tech companies will end up depriving entrepreneurs of vital revenue streams…
Without gov’t oversight, who watches the pushers?
By TERRY LYNAM // Most people have a negative instinctive reaction to government bureaucracy and regulatory mandates, often viewed as excessively burdensome micromanagement. Many are inarguably flawed – but regulatory…
No beach vacation for busy offshore-wind consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s a lot going on this summer in coastal waters, and shark attacks are the least of it. The winds of change blow consistently through the…
Parkinson’s ultrarunner to go the distance, once again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Now here’s an idea that’s got legs. Wai Law is off and running, once again. With hundreds of charitable miles already underfoot and Parkinson’s disease research…
Island innovator gives acoustic ‘Spotter’ its best shot
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new-and-improved gunshot-detection technology is returning to Suffolk County, part of a nationwide surge that owes itself in part to Long Island innovation. Smithtown-based MIDI Product…
Graphic content: New York Tech’s animated history
By TOM MARINER // The $99.7 billion movie industry and the $198 billion videogame industry both bank on computer-generated realism that was birthed on Long Island. One master innovator on…