Old and improved: CIBS eyes Island reuse opportunities
By GREGORY ZELLER // What’s old is new at the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island, which dove deep Wednesday into the “adaptive reuse” phenomenon. More than 125 society…
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As ‘affordability’ surges, nonprofits are lost in translation
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // Everyone is talking about affordability. Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul – even President Donald Trump, who recently launched his…
Residential real estate: Island faces a crucial crossroads
By SCOTT BURMAN // Long Island’s aging, diversifying and increasingly mobile population is reshaping demand for its real estate products. While the overall Nassau/Suffolk population remains stable – just under…
Transit-oriented development is Island’s best way home
By SCOTT BURMAN // Long Island stands at a crossroads. Stubbornly clinging to a foregone era as a single-home bedroom community, we haven’t evolved to suitably address the needs of…
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…
Is it NIMBYism if it’s already in your backyard?
BY JOHN L. KOMINICKI History buffs know the Long Island Rail Road was built for one purpose: Getting people from Brooklyn to Boston. And it might have worked if a…