Quoted in Newsday: Brookhaven, aiming to reduce crashes, turns to residents for help
The following quote is from an Newsday article by Carl MacGowan that was published May 1, 2025....
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Quoted in TBR News Media: Suffolk County Bus System – A Need To Resolve Challenges
The following excerpts are from an article by Raymond Janis that was published in the August 18th, 2023 editions of TBR News Media group’s newspapers. You can read the entire piece here. Cost a barrier to improvement Richard...
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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 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....
Read MoreLong 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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