ARE THE ‘BURBS TOO BORING FOR THE KIDS?

“Too Boring in the Suburbs,” Ellis Henican Newsday Column, July 26, 2009
Is Long Island too boring for young adults?
Too pricey? Too isolated? Or just irredeemably uncool?
Whatever the combination of factors, Tom Suozzi had some statistics that proved the generational obvious: Long Island and young adults, what a difficult match they are.
“Eight-point-seven percent of the people [...]

CARLESS IN THE ‘BURBS

“Who Wants to Drive Everywhere?” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, 5-31-09
Is it still the suburbs if you don’t need a car?
That epistemological question lies at the very core of the debate over Long Island’s two most fascinating development proposals - the Lighthouse project around Nassau Coliseum and western Suffolk’s Heartland Town Square.
What stirs such passion [...]