Mount Sinai South Nassau delivers for Long Beach, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Mount Sinai South Nassau has delivered another significant healthcare upgrade to the City of Long Beach. The flagship Long Island hospital of the New York City-based…
Superstorm Sandy
State Parks completes a dam good job in Hempstead
By GREGORY ZELLER // After years of work and several milestones along the way, Albany has completed an expensive restoration of Hempstead Lake State Park. The final steps of the…
No. 737: Honoring an icon, surviving the storm and deviling the eggs (mmmm), as Christmas begins (?!?)
Not so fast: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we dive headlong into November – and the Christmas season, at least according to Mariah Carey. With Halloween candy on…
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…
Charitable lessons abound in Ukraine Airbnb campaign
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // With 4 million homeowner-hosts welcoming more than 1 billion short-term guests since 2008, Airbnb has handily disrupted the hotel industry. Now, as the horrors of war…
Albany, Army Corps of Engineers dig $1.7B beach plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // As coastal storms increase in frequency and ferocity, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has engaged a massive risk-management project designed to protect Long Island’s most…
On Shinnecock land, a blueprint for a national industry
By GREGORY ZELLER // Three new sustainable homes – and, potentially, an exciting new vertical market for the Long Island construction industry – are taking shape on Shinnecock Nation land….
From the SoMAS weather desk: Bad storms coming
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Never Rains But It Pours file comes this grim long-range forecast, courtesy of Stony Brook University: It’s gonna rain, hard. Like, biblical hard. So…
Region unites against LI’s nitrogen nightmare
By JOHN CAMERON JR. // Each summer, annual reminders of our region’s water-quality crisis – including fish kills, toxic algal blooms and others – reappear. While there are a number…
Nassau IDA backs new rentals on Sandy-ravaged site
By GREGORY ZELLER // An Oceanside site ravaged by Superstorm Sandy will soon be remade into a new rental-apartment complex, with the help of the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency….
NSF backs NYIT team’s critical climate-change mission
By GREGORY ZELLER // With irrefutable scientific data confirming the global climate change crisis, a New York Institute of Technology research team is supporting a multinational effort to digitally forecast…
Nor’easter zaps 90K, despite post-Sandy ‘hardening’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Just days after trumpeting its hardened infrastructure, PSEG Long Island faced a stiff test Sunday – the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy – as a massive…
In infrastructure, cautious gratefulness
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the award of $22 million in federal grants to rebuild New York bridges, reinforce sea walls and strengthen anti-flooding measures this…