Category: Housing
Newsday: Hochul Must Get Local Input on Housing
The following op-ed was published in the Tuesday, February 7, 2023 edition of Newsday on page A23....
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Is Hochul’s New Push For Long Island Housing Just Another Dense Idea?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on February 3rd, 2023. Interested in...
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Featured in Newsday: Hochul Housing Plan Has Little Merit
The following Letter to the Editor was published in Newsday on January 24th, 2023. You can read...
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Featured in Newsday: East Hampton Affordable Rental Project Starts Construction
The following is excerpt of a Newsday article by Jonathan LaMantia that was published in the...
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Gotham Gazette: Stepping Up Suburban Housing Easier Said Than Done
The following was published by the Gotham Gazette on July 5th, 2022. You can read the original...
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Is It Too Late to Bring the Roof Down on Hochul’s Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) Plan?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on February 14th, 2022. Interested in...
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Featured in Newsday: LI Housing – What Goes Up, Must Come Down
The following Letter to the Editor was published in Newsday on February 7th, 2022. You can read...
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Quick Hits: After Housing Markets Hit Pandemic-Fueled Highs, Are the Suburbs Finally Cooling Off?
The following is a quick hit of reporting and editorial analysis from The Foggiest Idea on the...
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Charted: Pandemic Gives Boost to City’s Housing Supply
By Richard Murdocco The following are quick hits of editorial analysis from The Foggiest Idea on...
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Quick Hits: Hauppauge Schools Pushes Back Against Rezoning, Housing Supply Pushed to the Brink
The following are quick hits of editorial analysis from The Foggiest Idea on the local and...
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New York Daily News: An Opportunity to Reboot the Suburbs
The following was originally published in the New York Daily News on September 19th, 2020. You can...
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Newsday: A Flawed View of Long Island Zoning Rules
The following op-ed was first published in the December 6th, 2019 edition of Newsday on page A25....
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Temperature records across the NY region are falling one after another with this latest February warm spell.
Our climate sites at Islip and JFK have already broken record high temperatures for 2/16 with readings of 63°. Islip breaks the record of 59°, set in 2018, and JFK breaks the record of 61°, set in 1976.
Other Records:
NYC: 71 (1954)
BDR: 57 (2018)
LGA: 69 (1954)
EWR: 74 (1954)
#YIMBY Twitter may not have liked what I had to say on #housing in my latest @NewsdayOpinion op-ed, but @Newsday readers agree - #LongIsland needs local input on #housing. You can read a sampling of their published thoughts here: https://www.thefoggiestidea.org/2023/02/14/newsday-readers-respond-to-murdocco-ask-hochul-to-find-open-housing-space/
Many thanks to Raymond Janis of @TBRNewsMedia for taking the time to talk to myself, @EdRomaine @NYAssemblyBrown and others about the prospect of the @MTA electrifying the @LIRR's Port Jefferson Branch. You can read his piece here: https://tbrnewsmedia.com/port-jeff-branch-riders-face-potentially-decades-more-electrification-woes/ #LIRR #GetaFoggyIdea