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On Tuesday, Islandia’s village board unanimously approved preliminary plans to build a 779-space parking lot on that site. Construction is expected to begin by the end of next month, according to Suffolk OTB president Phil Boyle.

Long Island saw $8.4 billion in visitor spending in 2025, up 6.3% from 2024. That’s according to the “2025 Economic Impact of Visitors to  New York,” a report released by Tourism Economics, a research company.

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.

Manufacturing activity in New York state strengthened sharply in August, with firms reporting the strongest business conditions in more than four years, according to the latest Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey.