Quick Hits: Remnants of Ida Tear Through New York Region With Record Rains, Killing 43
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Is Now The Right Time for a Convention Center in Suffolk County?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on November 18, 2019. Interested in...
Read MoreLong Island Pulse: Driving Forces of Long Island Development
The following is an edited version of a piece that was first published as cover story for the March 2018 edition of Long Island Pulse Magazine. You can read the original version here. For decades, planners on Long Island have...
Read MoreLIBN: Long Island Faces Big Challenges as Amazon’s Second Home
The following was published in the October 20th, 2017 edition of Long Island Business News. On paper, the inherent strengths of Long Island should make our region the number one contender in the national contest to woo Amazon,...
Read MoreDon’t Compare Wolkoff’s Heartland Mega-Project Approval With Progress on LIRR’s Third Track
The following was written exclusively for The Foggiest Idea, and published on July 24, 2017. Within the same week, two of the biggest and potentially most transformative development projects in Long Island history won key...
Read MoreBelmont Should Stake Claim to the Islanders
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on May 23, 2017. When Long Island’s folk hero Billy Joel opened the newly refurbished Nassau Coliseum during the venue’s inaugural concert, many wondered if the...
Read MoreWhat’s Next for the Long Island Index?
The following was published in the Long Island Press on April 22, 2016. You can read the original here. After providing significant analysis of our region’s various maladies for more than a decade, the Rauch Foundation is...
Read MoreWhether It’s the MTA or the Fed, Is Long Island Taking the Train to Nowhere?
The following was written for the Long Island Press on January 8, 2016. Spencer Rumsey, Senior Editor of the Long Island Press, worked with me on the column as well . The original can be read here. The federal government is...
Read MoreThe Foggiest Idea on WCBS 2 News – Feds Propose Massive Upgrade to Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor
The following story was taped on January 5, 2016. After The Foggiest Idea broke the story concerning the impacts of the NEC Future project on Long Island in December 2015, I had reached out to Carolyn Gusoff regarding the...
Read MoreHere’s A Bright Idea: Turn Shoreham’s Old Nuke Plant Into A New Cargo Port
The following appeared in the Long Island Press. You can read the original piece here. With proper analysis and data-driven urban planning, the key to Long Island’s economic future may just require a mile more of roadway and a...
Read MoreRemembering Pearl Kamer
This past weekend, Long Island lost a leader. Pearl Kamer spent her career tracking Long Island’s regional economy, charting our ever-climbing suburban rise in the late ’60s, the decline of defense industry in the late 1980s and...
Read MoreThe State of Long Island’s Economy
The following was written for the Community Development Corporation’s annual report to NeighborWorks America. It presents a good snapshot of the economic realities that Long Islanders are currently facing, as well as a...
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