Featured in the New York Daily News: Single-Family Zoning in NYC is Necessary
The following Letter to the Editor was published in the New York Daily News on September 30, 2019....
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Long Island Pulse: The Future of Transit on Long Island
The following op-ed was published through Long Island Pulse Magazine on March 9, 2017. You can read the original piece here. Between the crash of Long Island’s housing market in 2008, and a lack of cheap vacant land, Long...
Read MoreThe Long Island Press: Here’s How We Can Save the Future of Long Island
The following was published in the Long Island Press on March 3, 2017. You can read the original here. It used to be that local governments provided some semblance of logic behind development decisions. In Suffolk County,...
Read MorePublic Comment: The LIRR Third Track
The following will be presented to the MTA at the final round of public hearings for the LIRR’s Third Track Draft Environmental Impact Statement. You can find out more about the public hearings here. My name is Richard...
Read MoreBuilding For The Day That May Never Come
Long Island’s policymakers are betting on an uncertain future – one we may never see. With the increased pressure to build transit-oriented developments around Long Island’s train stations we are building to accommodate the...
Read MoreHere’s the Pitch
The following was written for LIBN: Recently, I wrote a piece on Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s Connect Long Island proposal, which would deploy buses on critical north/south corridors and employment hubs. The project,...
Read MoreConnect Long Island: Right Project, Wrong Sales Pitch
The following was published by Long Island Business News on May 1st, 2013:I’ve been hearing a lot about Connect Long Island, County Executive Steve Bellone’s plan to tie current and proposed transit-oriented development...
Read MoreMillennials and Driving
The following was published on 4/25/13 on Long Island Business NewsI’ve seen articles from a diverse set of sources ranging from the New York Times to new-agey New Urbanist publications speculating why young professionals...
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QUICK HITS: @MTA @LIRR Arrival at Grand Central - Momentous, Expensive, and Long Overdue https://www.thefoggiestidea.org/2023/01/25/quick-hits-lirrs-arrival-at-grand-central-momentous-expensive-and-long-overdue/ After decades of planning and billions of dollars, the 1st train will leave at 10:45 AM and speed towards Grand Central, ushering in a momentous new era for New York.
In celebration of the @MTA @LIRR FINALLY coming to @GrandCentralNYC, check out TFI’s exclusive look at the project from back in 2018 when the cavernous station was under construction. This is a long overdue and historic moment for NY/LI https://www.thefoggiestidea.org/2018/07/31/into-the-depths-an-exclusive-look-at-east-side-access/
Wondering about the future of the former CA campus in Islandia? #GetaFoggyIdea from @newsday's @SarinaTrangle
Investors bought the former CA Technologies headquarters at enough of a discount that they have time to test the demand for a palatial office park, largely as is, before falling back on a more sweeping plan to redevelop it: http://shorturl.at/kntBP
ALL-NEW from TFI - @LasVegasSands Rolls the Dice on #LongIsland: https://www.thefoggiestidea.org/2023/01/13/is-las-vegas-sands-casino-plan-a-good-bet-for-long-islands-future/ "Have we gone so low in our suburban slump that our only aspirations for the Nassau Hub are for it to become the next Atlantic City?" #GetaFoggyIdea