The construction and ongoing operations at two of Long Island's major offshore wind projects — the South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind — have injected more than $460 million into the local economy, according to projections from the Long Island Association, a business group.

The East Patchogue project comes on the heels of NYU Langone’s major Long Island expansion. In June, the health system unveiled its plans to build a new Long Island academic medical center, after closing on its $135.5 million purchase of a 45-acre development site in Melville.  

It’s a reckoning for New York drivers that began elsewhere in recent years to drivers in other states, including Massachusetts, Illinois and New Jersey, when those jurisdictions got new systems that were able to tap into old records, including those from out of state.