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By Thornton McEnery 11/09/11 3:56pm

Foreign Affairs

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Smirnoff Warding Off Spirits in Queens to Win Over Buyers from China

Most of the sights and sounds at this morning’s event in Long Island City were pretty standard fare for a groundbreaking: guys in shirts and ties, wearing hard hats and holding novelty shovels, a massive back hoe parked in the back of a lot prepped for excavation.

A less ordinary sight however, was the young woman in a dark skirtsuit pacing the edges of the earthen lot, chanting quietly and gently tossing grains of vodka-soaked rice while development executives looked on appreciatively.

As bizarre as the sight may sound, it is almost surely a sign of things to come on the home front.

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10 By Rex Reed 7/19/11 7:34pm

movies

Michael J. Weithorn

Plodding Indie A Little Help Needs, Well, A Little Help

Little, low-budget, independent films every week, every month, all year long … that’s what keeps the dying movie business from its own burial, six feet under. A Little Help, written and directed by Michael J. Weithorn, is a benign slice of life about suburban angst on Long Island. It’s not much, but thanks to the Read More

By Alec Foege 5/10/11 6:37pm

Features

Stirrings in the Burbs: Beyond City Limits, Green Shoots Here and There

In recent years, the outer office markets of the tri-state area--Long Island, northern New Jersey, Westchester County and Connecticut's Fairfield County--have provided refuge for companies looking to flee Manhattan, whether because of 9/11 or prohibitively high rents. But for the first time in recent memory, the suburbs are competing directly with the city as Manhattan Read More

By Nate Freeman 4/19/11 11:55pm

Cover Story

The Wrecking Ball Comes for Daisy Buchanan

On the farthest edge of Sands Point, L.I., the house known as Lands End stood wind-battered and decrepit, its face scarred from years of relentless salty gusts ripping off the top of Long Island Sound. In its last days it lingered there on the shore, barely past the water, as a colossal relic from the Read More

By Roland Li 4/27/10 3:03pm

For Outer Office Markets, Now What?

Beyond Manhattan's gilded skyscrapers are the tristate region's outer office markets: Long Island, northern New Jersey, Westchester County and Fairfield County in Connecticut. Rents are still down and vacancies are still high, but tenants are no longer paralyzed by the downturn and jump at a good deal, especially when a property is close to public Read More

By Tom Acitelli 7/17/08 6:02pm

Meanwhile, On Long Island…

As 2008 home sales tumbled in Brooklyn and Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties' numbers increased, sometimes sharply.

The number of Nassau home sales jumped 60.1 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2008, according to the latest Miller Samuel-Douglas Elliman report. Annually, sales were up 5.3 percent.

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By Tom Acitelli 10/16/07 6:58pm

Home Prices Up on Long Island

Long Island home prices increased on average during the third quarter, according to new numbers from appraiser Jonathan Miller.

The average price of a Nassau County home increased 5.7 percent from the second quarter through the third to $628,839. The average in Suffolk--not including the Hamptons or the North Fork--increased quarterly 3.8 percent to $469,331.

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By Staff 4/03/07 1:19pm

Campaigning Against Campaigns

Independent congressional candidate Bill Corrigan of Long Island wants to boost his name recognition in his bid against Republican Rep. Peter King. Which will be kind of hard, since, according to Corrigan's blog, "We are not taking donations - as removing influence is of paramount importance to the voting system model." So, without Read More

By Staff 3/28/07 11:29am

draft-Winners and Losers: State Budget

The state budget isn't finalized, but agreements on key fronts were announced last night: $350 in health care spending was restored (coupled with federal matching funds will bring a few more million to the health care industry here). Eliot Spitzer still gets to claim $1 billion in Medicaid spending cuts, namely from health insurance Read More

By Staff 3/08/07 4:02pm

ESDC Raids Newsday

Errol Cockfield has joined the Empire State Development Corporation as press secretary, the second Newsday staffer to defect to the state's economic development agency that is now run by a Long Islander. How did this happen? The ESDC's new senior vice president for communications, A.J. Carter, was the first hire. As Newsday's associate business Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 2/19/07 12:00am

Modern-Day Robert Moses

Location: The downside of a strong real-estate market is that people have been priced out of neighborhoods, old mom-and-pop shops closed. There was even a “Talk of the Town” piece in The New Yorker recently about how New Yorkers believe their city is changing too fast. Doctoroff: I honestly don’t hear that often. There are Read More