Hail the conquering hero: Well done, intrepid innovators … another workweek conquered, another weekend queued up, with only one more workday standing between you and a well-earned two-day respite….
Independence hall: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the first Friday of July 2022, and the precipice of a glorious three-day weekend. With that,…
Hardy boys (and girls): Welcome to Wednesday, robust readers, as June hangs tough – the fifth Wednesday this month! – and we muscle our way through this busy summer…
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s most influential foundations is undergoing a leadership change, a generational shift and a geographic reallocation, all at once. The Garden City-based Rauch…
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Can’t Keep a Good Commercialization Organization Down file comes Accelerate Long Island, which is charging forward with new leadership and a new business-building mission….
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University scientists have completed a comprehensive, months-long assessment of Long Island coastal waters. Unfortunately, the good news stops there. The Island’s bays and estuaries…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A COVID-sized dent in retail businesses and a disproportionate impact on communities of color highlight a new report detailing the pandemic’s effects on Long Island downtowns…
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
By TERRI ALESSI-MICELI // Some live only in the present, heedless of the future. Happily, however, the Town of Smithtown is thinking about the future. Specifically, the town has been…
By GREGORY ZELLER // All aboard – the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a roughly $2 billion deal to design and build the Long Island Rail Road’s long-debated “third track.”…
Four community meetings and a new informational website are among the progressive efforts trumpeted Thursday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo regarding his Long Island Rail Road expansion project. Billing them “major…
The Rauch Foundation is seeking proposals from other organizations to take over its Long Island Index project, launched in 2003 as an experiment in what has been called “advocacy through data.”…
The Rauch Foundation’s Long Island Index project has released an interactive map detailing the state of the region’s multifamily housing sector, a key factor in the continuing loss of young…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Even under the “most optimistic scenario,” Long Island will remain woefully short of rental housing over the next two decades, fueling a mounting loss of young…