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Seeing is believing and when you look at the newly released Long Island Zoning Atlas, the picture one sees is both clear and disturbing. The new zoning maps expose powerfully and visually the story and details behind the very limited construction of any kind of multifamily housing on Long Island.

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Long Island comprises a wealth of assets — plentiful natural resources, updated transportation infrastructure, growing industries, and academic, research and medical institutions offering excellent employment opportunities to rising generations of Long Islanders.

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The opening of the Third Track can transform Long Island’s economy in a way few other singular projects have. Rising home values. New high-paying jobs. Growing companies. And, as Gov. Kathy Hochul emphasized, more time and opportunities for commuters. 

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)

COVID-19 has forced business, government, and philanthropy to combine forces quickly to respond to community needs. Here are five principles for making organic, public-private alliances an ongoing force for change.

To move a $2.6 billion infrastructure project, in the face of strong opposition, takes a daunting amount of power. How is a regional foundation to tap so much force? For us it took time—almost two decades, starting with our decision to break from traditional funding and venture in a new direction.

A decade since the recession, Long Island has moved on and rebounded. Many people are earning more and the region has generated many jobs. But the recession is far from in the rear view mirror for many others.

Long Island Business News has enjoyed many conversations with Nancy Rauch Douzinas, including a Two Minutes Q&A in February 2010. Her focus never waivers: improving Long Island, through tools such as the Build a Better Burb website.

The Wall Street Journal

For years, Long Island's leaders have dreamed of transforming the suburbs east of New York City into a Silicon Valley-esque hub of technological innovation.

Environmentalists and developers getting together to forge a plan that protects the Carmans River and promotes downtown housing? If this keeps up, people are going to think Long Island is getting its act together.

The formation of “Accelerate Long Island” is cause for celebration. All Long Islanders should join in savoring this achievement and the exceptional vision and cooperative spirit that made it possible. These qualities especially should we pause to recognize and applaud, for they will be greatly needed on the difficult journey ahead.

The opening of a new medical school on Long Island is huge news. Not only is it a big step forward for our economy, it’s a good example of what Long Islanders can do when they set their minds to it.

“Greenhouse” gases: A pleasant-sounding name for the carbon-based gases that threaten to destroy ecosystems, play havoc with weather patterns, raise sea levels and inundate much of Long Island. We know we need to reduce these emissions. We even have a slew of programs designed to do so. State programs, county programs, town programs, programs from the utility companies. So, “how’re we doin’?”

Here’s a story of a little education program – the Parent-Home Child Program, started right here on Long Island some years ago – that succeeded where so many other school reforms failed.

A team of researchers went looking for land in all the right places … and found oodles of it. Enough to build a new, more prosperous Long Island. That’s the news contained in a study just released by the Long Island Index.

The New York Times

How the area can grow, what it will take to be economically viable going forward, as well as how much and what type of new development is possible and preferable, is the focus of the 2010 Long Island Index released last week.

Long Island used to be a land of movers and shakers. People saw opportunity and seized it.

I often hear people say that Long Island can’t get anything done, that we can’t get out of our own way. There may be some truth to that. We need to break that habit and start doing. Here are some concrete steps that would get us going in the right direction.

It seems I was wrong. When we started the Long Island Index, we had a guiding principle: Good information about our region would lead to effective action. When it comes to Long Island’s calamitous brain drain, however, we have all the information we need, but hardly any action at all.

In the annals of Long Island folly, here’s a trend that stands out: We’re actually recycling less than we used to. Recycling rates peaked in 1997 and have declined ever since. From 2002 to 2004 they plummeted 27 percent. What are we thinking? We can’t afford that.

A Brentwood truck-rail freight facility proposed by the state Department of Transportation would take more than 5,000 trucks off Long Island’s roads daily, cut travel delays, lower emissions, improve air quality and reduce shipping costs. But it may never come to fruition. Many see it as a perfect example of Long Island’s inability to get things done.