LI Business News articles from September 2006

LI Business News archives from September 2006

New Super Bowl is Labor Day weekend for Mattituck-based National Sky Ads.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti Business is always up for Ted de Reeder, but it wasn't always that way. Ten years ago, the owner of Mattituck-based National Sky Ads worked for a mom-and-pop aerial advertising business that only operated out...

Town of Huntington wants Canon USA or bust.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty The picture is becoming clear: The Town of Huntington wants Canon. The town board is snubbing a bid to rezone the Tilles Pumpkin Farm in Melville from commercial to residential, paving the way for Canon USA...

Murray blasts Nassau over Hub 'disconnect'.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff Before Hempstead begins its zoning review of the $1.6 billion Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum redevelopment plan, Town Supervisor Kate Murray may call in the lawyers. The project application...

federal government changes hospital payment structure.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Claude Solnik The federal government is changing the rates at which it reimburses hospitals for medical care - creating a windfall for some hospitals and multi-million-dollar hits for others. The Centers for Medicaid and...

L.I.'s Garden City Hotel changes to exclude night clubs, cabarets or discotheques.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty The party is winding down at the Posh Ultra Lounge. Village trustees have approved a zoning change that essentially lets the Garden City Hotel convert some hotel rooms to condos. But there's a catch: The...

New plan for Homeland Security center in Bethpage.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti Sometimes it's faster to buy than to build. And cheaper, too. And so the proposed New York State Applied Science Center of Excellence in Homeland Security, originally slated as a brand new 65,000-square-foot...

L.I. Business News Follow Ups: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Land Ho! In March, we told you about SeaFair, a 228-foot floating art gallery planning stops in Oyster Bay and Sag Harbor. Due to delays in building the custom vessel, the Long Island leg of the journey will now become its maiden voyage,...

Women outpace men in new businesses.
September 1, 2006... Women are starting businesses at a rate faster than men, according to a new study by the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy. Released earlier this month, the study revealed that between 1997 and 2002, the number of...

Long Island Blog Roll: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Henry E. Powderly II Underinsured Megalithic insurance company Allstate canceled flood insurance for Long Islanders because it never reinsured itself, writes financial planner Aaron J. Stein in his Long Island Blog...

Interview with Mitch Zachary: Lake Success-based Grassi & Co.'s tax partner.
September 1, 2006... Byline: David Reich-Hale As Lake Success-based Grassi & Co.'s tax partner, Mitch Zachary knows all about the financial planning whims of his clients. So when the latest data from the Conference Board showed consumer confidence at a...

Ultramobile: Welcome to the next generation of computing.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Liz Skinner Most people, it seems, have an iPod on their hip, and some have a GPS in their car. Just about everyone has a cell phone, and digital photo storage and viewing grows more popular by the day. Now picture all these...

Suozzi same as relents in N.Y. gubernatorial primary run.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff Tom Suozzi is finally accepting his fate. Trailing solidly in the polls behind Eliot Spitzer in his gubernatorial primary run for the Democratic ticket, the Nassau County Executive all but...

Commentary: Explosion was ignited by our failure.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Larocca No one knows for sure how many illegal accessory apartments there are on Long Island. The landlords who create them and the tenants who rent them share a common interest in hiding their existence. Most slip below...

Battle is on over new track at crossroads between Jamaica and Hicksville.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff People have been fighting about trains ever since they were invented. So it is not surprising that Long Islanders are battling over an MTA plan to build an additional Long Island Rail Road track...

Commentary: Prescription needed for malpractice rates.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff Along with instructions about the Heimlich maneuver, cardiac care and diet, there is a new poster beginning to appear in doctor's waiting rooms around New York state. It is a cautionary warning that...

Commentary: Suozzi a lock to lose in N.Y., and to say he won.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jerry Kremer In just about two weeks, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, a long-shot candidate for governor, will declare victory in the statewide Democratic primary contest with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. You may think...

L.I. Financial Briefs: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: David Reich-Hale Washington Mutual is the latest bank to expand its reach by striking a cross marketing agreement that includes automated teller machines. The West Coast bank, which has quite a big presence in the Northeast,...

Hauppauge's Rent-A-PC scoring a major contract.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff It is a favorite Long Island whine: I wanna go to Miami! Hauppauge's Rent-A-PC couldn't agree more, after scoring a major contract with the Miami Beach Convention Center. Rent-A-PC is now the...

L.I. Financial Briefs: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff Bankruptcy filings in the United States are at a five-year low, according to numbers released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Bankruptcy filings fell 9.3 percent during the...

Jericho-based company has a 'Personal' approach to dropping the fat.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty Evan A. Kaplan thinks clients will go the extra mile for his business. At least on a treadmill. Kaplan heads the Personal Training Institute, a growing chain that bills itself as the $14 billion health and...

L.I. Health Care Briefs: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Claude Solnik They may not be doctors yet, but they looked the part, wearing physicians garb as they took the Hippocratic Oath during a welcoming ceremony in the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center. All 108 incoming...

Main Events: Rejuvenating Westbury's downtown.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Claude Solnik Like many 75-year-olds, Westbury is considering a facelift. But it'll take more than a little cosmetic surgery to rejuvenate Westbury's downtown - no mere Botox injection can stretch out these wrinkles. Brighter...

With an Island office crunch, risk is their business.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff The Garden City manufacturing facility once used by Endo Laboratories - then Dupont Pharmaceuticals and Bristol Meyers Squibb - may look empty. But most of the gutted, 165,000-square-foot shell of a...

Who's space is it, anyway?
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff So you've found the perfect location for your big move, putting your company exactly where you want to be. Congratulations! There's only one problem: It's going to cost a bundle to gut and...

Ones to Watch in L.I.: Commercial Real Estate: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Claude Solnik John G. Caulfield Executive vice president, Arbor Commercial Mortgage Caulfield is responsible for overseeing the sales, capital markets, underwriting and daily operations of all aspects of Uniondale-based...

New deals come, tax man goes with '1031' transactions.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff Steve Breitstone - a partner at Mineola-based Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone - handled the sales of a dozen apartment buildings over the last year, transactions that involved about $250...

Federal official is cautiously optimistic about economy.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dolan Media Newswires (This article originally ran in Minnesota Lawyer, Minneapolis, MN, another Dolan Media publication.) The world may seem to be going to hell in a hand basket, but the United States economy should continue...

Creating a healthier workforce, one market at a time.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Adina Genn With health insurance costs soaring, "wellness" has become a buzzword - giving employers some alternatives in providing benefits. Commack-based chiropractor Matthew Lewis recognized this trend, and in 2003 began...

Bringing new life to old life insurance.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Adina Genn For some, a life insurance policy that seemed so important when the kids are young loses some pertinence when the kids are grown. Stephen J. Shorrock has a message for people in that situation: That policy might get...

How to choose an architect.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Bernadette Starzee Choosing a licensed architect can be a challenging endeavor, especially since many companies who need to hire one have little experience in this area to help guide them through the selection process. Because...

Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area close to clubhouse plan.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kenneth R. Cerini The Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area is getting closer to a clubhouse plan. The not-for-profit announced that the combined grants from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation and the Knapp/Swezey...

Getting there The Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area is getting closer to a clubhouse plan.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kenneth R. Cerini Getting there The Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area is getting closer to a clubhouse plan. The not-for-profit announced that the combined grants from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation and the...

Hofstra University to honor Mozart.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kenneth R. Cerini This fall, Hofstra University will pay tribute to one of history's musical geniuses: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The college will present a series of concerts and lectures to honor the work of the short-lived...

American Red Cross in Nassau County seeks volunteers.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kenneth R. Cerini The American Red Cross in Nassau County is looking for volunteers for its Disaster Action Teams and Shelter Teams, which deliver disaster relief and other assistance to families in need. All volunteers will...

TEST.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Staff To help the village celebrate its future as well as its past, Westbury officials helped landlords obtain matching Community Development Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. New condominiums rose...

TEST 2.
September 1, 2006... Byline: staff To help the village celebrate its future as well as its past, Westbury officials helped landlords obtain matching Community Development Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. New condominiums rose...

Nassau University Medical Center joins healthcare campaign.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kenneth R. Cerini Nassau University Medical Center said it has joined the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign. The initiative, in which hospitals from all 50 states participate, sets a certain number of...

Long Island real estate firm announces staffing changes: September, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Commercial real estate services firm CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. has named Brian Dugan senior managing director of its Long Island operations. Dugan said he will aggressively expand the Woodbury-based office,...

Mineola architect named to serve on committee of national board.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton John R. Sorreti, founder of JRS Architect in Mineola, was appointed to the Committee on Professional Development of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

L.I. construction firms announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Lynbrook-based retail construction firm Quest Services Group named Kim Beta vice president of human resources. She is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management. ...

L.I. educational institutions announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton The New York Institute of Technology named Frances M. Magee dean for campus life at its Old Westbury Campus. She had been assistant dean for residential programs at Columbia University in Manhattan.

L.I. elder care facility announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Senior living facility Sterling Glen of Glen Cove named Bridget Bogdanich community relations director. She had been a pre-school teacher.

L.I. financial firms announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton State Bank of Long Island named Eileen Lojacono vice president and officer in charge of its Garden City branch. She has worked for JPMorgan Chase, Bank of New York and HSBC.

L.I. health care facilities announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton The Woodbury-based Hospice Care Network named Tanveer P. Mir senior medical director. She had been medical care director of the acute geriatric and palliative care unit at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset....

L.I. law firms announce staffing changes:: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton The Uniondale firm of Farrell Fritz named Rochelle Laufer counsel in its real estate department. She had been general counsel and senior vice president at The Treeline Companies in Garden City. Thomas F. Hartnett,...

Long Island not-for-profits announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton East Hills-based Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center named Beverly Gelb director of philanthropic initiatives. She had been corporate director at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

L.I. real estate firms announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Port Jefferson-based Weichert Realtors Prospect Hill broker and owner John Petsco was named a certified real estate brokerage manager by the Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers.

Physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory honored.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Anatoli Zelenski, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, received a Veksler Award from the Russian Academy of Sciences. The award recognizes his achievement in the development of...

L.I. technology firms announce staffing changes: September 1, 2006.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Edge Electronics in Bohemia named Robert Tomasino outside sales representative. He had been general sales manager at Arrow Electronics. Jericho-based bioMETRX named J. Richard Iler chief financial officer. He had...

California real estate company without an Island office.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty George Tsunis and Sperry Van Ness have parted ways, leaving the California real estate company without an Island office. The firms joined forces last year, but decided not to continue together when the...

PRI deal in Manhasset dead.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers hit the pause button on its move from 111 East Shore Road in Manhasset. This spring, Corporate National Realty was advertising the 56,000-square-foot building as available for...

Island man.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kate Patton Commercial real estate services firm CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. has named Brian Dugan senior managing director of its Long Island operations. Dugan said he will aggressively expand the Woodbury-based office,...

Interview with Marianne Gilla: Good Shepard Hospice's president and chief executive.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kenneth R. Cerini The loss of a loved one is one of the hardest things for a family to endure. What can be even harder though is seeing that person deteriorate to a shell of what he or she once was. Too often the end of a life...

Comverse Technology asks Nasdaq for more time to file its restated statements.
September 5, 2006... Byline: David Reich-Hale Comverse Technology said Tuesday it has asked the Nasdaq for more time to file its restated statements. The Nasdaq had set a Sept. 25 deadline for Comverse to file its report for the year ended Jan. 31 and its...

Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. expands distribution agreement with San Jose-based Xilinx Inc.
September 5, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. has expanded a distribution partnership agreement with San Jose-based Xilinx Inc., a developer of programmable logic technology and products. Under the deal, Coventy, UK-based DT...

Nassau County comptroller: Cradle of Aviation Museum has 8 weeks to solve its financial crisis.
September 5, 2006... Byline: Jeremy Harrell The Cradle of Aviation Museum will run out of cash by the end of November, the Nassau County comptroller said Tuesday in the latest round of bad news for the museum. The Cradle of Aviation has "eight-week window"...

Nassau Legislature expected to approve a $100M bond issue to protect environment.
September 5, 2006... Byline: David Reich-Hale The Nassau Legislature on Tuesday is expected to unanimously approve a $100 million bond issue designed to preserve open space and protect the environment. The Environment Protection Bond passed through the...

Cingular activates 29 more cell sites throughout Long Island.
September 5, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti Wireless phone and data provider Cingular said Tuesday it has just activated 29 cell sites throughout Long Island, bringing the number of new cells on Long Island to 100 over the past three years. Cingular...

Mattress giant Sleepy's Inc. may relocate Bethpage headquarters.
September 6, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty Mattress giant Sleepy's Inc. aims to relocate its Bethpage headquarters and build a new king-sized industrial home on a former Grumman campus. Adam Blank, Sleepy's executive vice president, said the new...

CPI Aerostructures strikes military deal.
September 6, 2006... Byline: David Reich-Hale CPI Aerostructures said Wednesday it was awarded a $1.14 million contract to provide the U.S. government with five engine nose cowl assemblies for its E-3A Airborne Early Warning aircraft. The E-3A is used...

Report says CA Inc. shareholders should vote to remove D'Amato from board.
September 6, 2006... Byline: Jeremy Harrell Shareholders of CA Inc. should vote to remove former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato from the company's board at the upcoming annual meeting, a corporate watchdog said Wednesday. In a report analyzing the annual...

Verizon working to build market share in phone, Internet, television services.
September 6, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti Verizon is working on building up market share in its own triple play of phone, Internet and television services. The telecom giant announced Wednesday that it has expanded Internet and television service...

Fonar Corp. sells, installs first Upright MRI in England.
September 6, 2006... Byline: David Reich-Hale Fonar Corp. said Wednesday that it has sold and installed its first Upright MRI in England. The MRI was placed in the London Upright MRI Centre in London. The United Kingdom is the fifth-largest medical...

CA Inc. clears path for buyback.
September 7, 2006... Byline: Jeremy Harrell CA Inc. amended its credit facility Wednesday, allowing the company to proceed with the first phase of its previously announced $2 billion stock buyback. The Islandia-based software company said after Wednesday...

Due to shareholder suits, SEC warning against stock-option backdating failures.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Reni Gertner and Jeremy Harrell Public companies are being warned: You can do it the easy way or the hard way. With new Security and Exchange Commission enforcement proceedings and shareholder suits over stock-option backdating...

NYC biotech plan raises Island hopes.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti With a $700 million, 872,000-square-foot biotech incubator possibly breaking ground in New York City before 2007, local bioscience experts are thinking big. Instead of seeing real estate investment trust...

Town of East Hampton wins first of 10 suits challenging master plan.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News The Town of East Hampton has won the first of 10 lawsuits challenging its year-old master plan - and took out a heavy hitter in the process. Last month, Suffolk County Supreme Court Judge Thomas Whelan...

Cries for a Commerce Bank branch redesign doused by courts.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff With a judge's ruling last week, Commerce Bancorp Inc. took an important step toward fulfilling a four-year dream of building a new branch on a prominent corner in the Village of Northport. Of...

Pallets-R-Us Inc. planning move to Brookhaven.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Dawn Wotapka Hardesty For years, Pallets-R-Us Inc. has helped Long Island companies stack, store and ship their wares. Now, it's looking to ship itself. The region's biggest wooden pallet producer and recycler plans to move...

Women Airforce Service Corps pilots help break barriers for women.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Long Island Business News Staff Women Airforce Service Corps pilots broke the gender barrier during World War II, but they couldn't break employment's glass ceiling once they returned home. "I tried to get a job anywhere I...

LIBN names managing editors.
September 8, 2006... Byline: LIBN Staff Reflecting a growing emphasis on its Web operations and underscoring a long-term commitment to print, Long Island Business News has appointed two managing editors to oversee those operations. David Reich-Hale, the...

Follow ups.
September 8, 2006... Powering up Long Island's electrical worker unions continued this week to stockpile their arsenal in an attempt to fight off the acquisition of KeySpan by British utility National Grid. As previously reported, two wings of the...

Survey: Tight labor market, qualified candidates lacking.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Adina Genn According to a new survey, today's employment market favors workers rather than employers. But as employers strive to attract and retain workers, workers still feel cautious about the current job market. These...

LI Forum for Technology expo helps students' imaginations take flight.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Jean Paul Vellotti To many middle-schoolers, landing an F-14 Tomcat on an aircraft carrier sounds like fun - even if the F-14 is made of popsicle sticks. At the Long Island Forum for Technology's annual member expo, kids will...

Bankruptcy reform act adding insult to the injured.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff (This article originally appeared in The Daily Record, Rochester, NY, another Dolan Media publication). The bankruptcy reform act that took effect on Oct. 17, 2005, has had consequences for people suffering...

Setting it straight.
September 8, 2006... Byline: LIBN Staff Setting it straight Lynbrook-based retail construction firm Quest Services Group's vice president of human resources - a new hire noted in the Sept. 1 edition of Newsmakers - left the company before the issue went to...

Commentary: Suffolk County Exec. Steve Levy proposes blackballing firms who hire illegals.
September 8, 2006... Byline: LIBN Staff Is it fuel for discrimination or a necessary prodding of the federal government to get its act together? Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's proposal to prohibit businesses from doing county work if they hire...

Autonomous New Island Hospital still going its own way.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Claude Solnik In 2001, New Island Hospital finished renovations that weren't nearly the scale of the enormous expansions at other regional hospitals. And that was exactly the point. As a small hospital licensed for only 223...

Commentary: The Islip primary question.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Martin Cantor All eyes this primary season are focused on Islip and state Sen. Caesar Trunzo's race for reelection. While Trunzo runs each race as if he were going to lose, this year may prove to be his biggest challenge. This...

Commentary: Restauranteur and friends pitch in to help missionaries.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Carl Corry It was December 2001 and the emotional wounds of 9/11 were still fresh. My brother Chris and I took the 90-minute drive to Bay Ridge to see Dad before he left for the restaurant. Dad owned a 40-seat Italian bistro on...

Commentary: Thanks to Bush, Iraq, N.Y. GOP faces tough road.
September 8, 2006... Byline: John Kiernan Labor Day has come and gone, and although summer officially lasts until Sept. 23, the fall political campaign season already has begun. On Tuesday, New York will hold its primary elections, and voters in the...

Commentary: Honest resolve needed to fix security holes.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Jerry Kremer Next week our nation and many around the world will observe the fifth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center by terrorists. Five years after the 9/11 disaster, it is fair to ask whether we are safer...

Understanding finances is important part of entrepreneurism.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Adina Genn Quarterly financial reports typically contain critical information owners need to run a business. But such information wasn't enough for Maureen Borzacchiello to plan for growth. "I knew I should delve further," said...

Long Island-based Passport Health offers a shot in the arm for international travelers.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Adina Genn Those traveling overseas may need a round of vaccinations, and while most healthcare providers can provide immunizations against diseases in faraway places, Eve Lupenko is building a business that services only this...