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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Tag: Millennials
The Real Deal: Long Island’s Middle Market Buyers Feel The Squeeze
The following was first published in The Real Deal’s November 2019 Tri-State Edition. You...
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Featured in Newsday: Long Island’s Millennial Exodus
The following Letter to the Editor was published in Newsday on September 11th, 2019. You can read...
Read MoreThe Real Deal: Long Island’s Gold Coast Loses Its Luster
The following appeared in the August 2019 Tri-State edition of The Real Deal. You can read the original version here. Taxes and shifting buyer preferences keep dragging the luxury market down By Richard Murdocco The stretch of...
Read MoreNewsday: Amazon Delivers Hope to Millennials
The following was published in Newsday on November 27th, 2018. You can read the original here. By Richard Murdocco While Queens braces itself for Amazon’s pending arrival, young professionals on Long Island dream of the...
Read MoreIs Long Island’s Housing Market Strong Enough to Withstand a Downturn?
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on October 28, 2018. Want to join The Foggiest Idea’s growing team of sponsors? Click here. With annual end-over-end growth picking up the pace, we could soon see a...
Read MoreGetting Dense With Development Doesn’t Make That Much Sense
The following was first published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on March 30, 2018. As Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone touts his record of suburban transformation in a pair of identical op-eds in two different...
Read More‘Cool Downtowns’ Won’t Cut It If Long Island’s Millennials Can’t Afford to Live, Work and Play Here
The following was written for the Long Island Press. You can read the original here. All too often when the subject is Long Island’s millennial population, the topic is only addressed rhetorically at best: “What do Millennials...
Read MoreUptick in Long Island’s Housing Hides Real Concern: High Cost of Living
The following was written for the Long Island Press. You can read the original here. Long Island is experiencing a welcome renewed boom of housing construction. But are we pricing out the region’s young families by building...
Read MoreLet’s Be Smart About Where Long Island Places Multifamily Housing
The following was written for the Long Island Press. The piece can be read here. Millennials. The Brain Drain. Jobs. What do these terms all have in common? Apparently, the connection is multifamily housing. According to...
Read MoreLong Island Is Dying…Yet Again
As my friend Jim Russell, a demographer who writes for Pacific Standard Magazine would say, it seems that Long Island is dying…yet again. A new survey, conducted by Jeffery Guillot’s Suburban Millennial Institute has shown that...
Read MoreLong Island Suburbs: How Planners Should Treat Age Spots
The following was published on New Geography on 11/11/2014. You can find the piece here. The piece was adapted from my recent LIBN piece “Elephants in the Room”. Long Island is the birthplace of suburbia, from...
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