Quick Hits: Remnants of Ida Tear Through New York Region With Record Rains, Killing 43
The following are quick hits of reporting and editorial analysis from The Foggiest Idea on the...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | Sep 2, 2021 | News, Quick Hits | 0
The following are quick hits of reporting and editorial analysis from The Foggiest Idea on the...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | Jan 30, 2019 | Environmental Policy | 2
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on January 30th, 2019. Want to...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | May 28, 2018 | Environmental Policy, Media Appearances | 0
The following is an excerpt from a column written by Karl Grossman, and published on May 26, 2018. The column appeared in publications across Long Island, including the Shelter Island Reporter. You can read the entire piece...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | Mar 9, 2017 | Transportation | 1
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 Moreby Richard Murdocco | Mar 3, 2017 | Economic Development | 0
The following was originally published in The Real Deal’s Long Island Market edition in...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | May 25, 2016 | Environmental Policy | 1
The following was written for the Long Island Press, and published on May 25, 2016. You can read the original here. A troubling new trend in Suffolk County is pitting environmentalists against civic groups: clear cutting...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | May 12, 2016 | Public Comments, Transportation | 0
The following comments were delivered during a public hearing on NYMTC’s Plan 2045 on May 12, 2016 at the Nassau County Legislature. My name is Richard Murdocco, and I am the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | Apr 6, 2015 | Transportation | 0
The following was written for the Long Island Press in April 2015. You can read the original here. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s Connect Long Island idea has become a project that relies upon assumptions instead of...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | Jul 23, 2014 | Environmental Policy | 0
Long Island may be getting a new power plant. The big question is whether or not Caithness II is sound planning or the next Shoreham. The approvals are rolling in – recently Brookhaven’s town board voted 5-2 to approve a special...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | May 14, 2014 | Economic Development, Housing | 0
From shameful illegal dumping in Islip to land deals that reek of cronyism in Bethpage, it’s just embarrassing at this point. Time and time again we see well-meaning reports that tout we need more development to fix our regional...
Read Moreby Richard Murdocco | May 12, 2011 | Economic Development, Housing | 0
As seen on Three Village Patch: Legacy Village is dead, but the battle is not yet over for both environmentalists and the community of Yaphank. As Dick Amper, executive director of the Pine Barrens Society, always asks… “What’s...
Read MoreQUICK 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