Public Comments: Melville Employment Center Plan Needs Updated Goals and Community Input
The following remarks were delivered to elected officials and policymakers in the Town of...
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Public Comments: Amendments to Smithtown’s Draft Comprehensive Plan
The following remarks were delivered to elected officials and policymakers in the Town of...
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Public Comments: Hicksville Rezoning A Step in the Right Direction For Oyster Bay
The following comments were formally submitted on December 21, 2020 to Oyster Bay Town Supervisor...
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NYSDOT Responds: Grade Crossing Eliminations on Route 347 Would Likely Cost Over $140 Million
Last week, The Foggiest Idea penned an open letter to the New York State Department of...
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Public Comments: To Solve Traffic Woes, Eliminate Grade Crossing at NYS Route 347 and Middle Country Road
The following comments were submitted on September 16, 2020 to the New York State Department of...
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Public Comments: Protect the Sanctity of Suffolk County’s Open Space Funding
The following comments were submitted on July 27, 2020 to elected officials within the Suffolk...
Read MorePublic Comments: Proposal to Allow Residential Uses in the Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge
The following remarks were given to elected officials and policymakers in the Town of Smithtown during a public hearing conducted over the video conference platform Zoom on May 21st, 2020. Interested in supporting The Foggiest...
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Public Comments: DEIS for Heritage Village, the Redevelopment of the Sears Property in Hicksville
The following comments were formally submitted on February 25th, 2020 to elected officials and...
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Public Comments: Gyrodyne/Flowerfield DEIS, January 2020
The following comments were formally submitted on January 7th, 2020 to members of the Town of...
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Public Comments: Changing Dynamics of Retail in Town of Smithtown
The following comments were submitted on October 18th, 2019 to the Smithtown Board of Zoning...
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Public Comments: Suffolk County’s Subwatersheds Wastewater Plan
The following comments were submitted on September 4th, 2019 to the Suffolk County Department of...
Read MorePublic Comments: Proposed Remediation of the Grumman Plume, June 2019
The following comments were submitted on June 10, 2019 to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Interested in supporting The Foggiest Idea’s award-winning reporting and analysis? Click here. To the New...
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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