Study: Enjoy those nachos and beat COVID, too
By GREGORY ZELLER // High doses of an over-the-counter antacid can reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms. The important news about the common heartburn drug famotidine – known best by…
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LI ceremony kicks off state’s first offshore-wind farm
By GREGORY ZELLER // The future of the national energy industry is now rising off the Long Island coast. Construction of the South Fork Wind Farm – officially, New York’s…
Two years in, still confronting big COVID questions
By TERRY LYNAM // Today, Feb. 11, marks the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 – at least, the anniversary of the World Health Organization giving the novel coronavirus a formal name….
For Broad Hollow Bioscience Park, a beauty of a deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A major-league anchor tenant will breathe new life into Broad Hollow Bioscience Park. The not-for-profit facility on the Farmingdale State College campus, designed primarily to support…
LI wealth manager psyches up for global opportunity
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Woodbury-based investment manager with a psychological bent and $1 billion in active assets has hitched its wagon to an international star of capital management. Fusion…
Jovia eyes frozen assets at Northwell Health Ice Center
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Good For the Goose/Good For the Gander File comes mighty healthcare conglomerate Northwell Health, which normally lends its name – and significant funding –…
Island IDAs start 2022 with trio of big-time tax deals
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island industrial development agencies have surged into 2022. Tax-incentive deals for a full roster of high-profile construction and renovation projects have earned preliminary approvals from…
A Prime opportunity for Adelphi to strut its stuff
By GREGORY ZELLER // A top-rated Long Island university will enjoy 15 (idiomatic) minutes of additional fame on a popular Amazon Prime television series. “The College Tour” – which devotes…
Island firms combine as legal maneuvering continues
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island attorneys continue to jockey for position, with two prominent Island law firms announcing a new merger. Just days after Jericho-based international law firm Nixon…
After COVID, mom and pop face a big e-commerce risk
By ADAM HABER // The pandemic has permanently changed consumer behavior. The vast majority of consumers, better than 90 percent, now see two to three days as a baseline for…
As LI’s legal landscape shifts, Nixon Peabody adds Sini
By GREGORY ZELLER // Timothy Sini has enjoyed some lofty perches in his storied legal career – and that definitely includes the former Suffolk County district attorney’s new home. Sini,…
Short version: If computing advanced, Ken chipped in
By TOM MARINER // A hundred-billion tiny computer chips are all around us – so essential that their current shortage is depriving us of everything from cars to toasters. When…
SCCC Cybersecurity Program Earns NSA Nod
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island-based cybersecurity-education program has earned an elite designation from the National Security Agency. Suffolk County Community College’s Cybersecurity Program has been awarded Program of…
Cabrini stakes LI with the mother of last-minute gifts
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of the nation’s youngest – and most generous – healthcare foundations made it a Christmas to remember for New York organizations serving underserved communities, with…
CEWIT, Major League Hacking set sights on metaverse
By GREGORY ZELLER // Blockchain, NFTs and virtual reality will take center stage next month, when Stony Brook University’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology hosts its sixth-annual…