Long Island Maps, Special Projects & Data

Every school district in New York is required to test water fixtures in its schools for lead. About 40,000 students on Long ...
The Real Deal

Here’s how hard it is to build apartments on Long Island

Multifamily developers have a new tool to help evaluate where they should try building on Long Island. As you might guess, their options are limited. A coalition of organizations on Long Island ...
Newsday

Long Island Zoning Atlas shows how few areas allow new apartments

A group of Long Island organizations has completed the labor-intensive task of compiling zoning data across the region's more than 100 towns, villages and cities to create an online Long Island Zoning ...
WSHU news

Early maps of Long Island depict a land before the suburbs

A Dix Hills library is highlighting Long Island’s history by using maps. “The Iconic Fish: Early Maps of Long Island” opened earlier this month at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library, in ...
Untapped Cities

The History of the Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is one of the oldest railways in the United States. It began life as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road (B&J), which was incorporated in 1832 to serve a 10-mile ...