AltWeeklies Wire
Are Suffolk Police Playing Politics by Leaving FBI Gang Task Force?new
Amid the largest MS-13 takedown in the country, a key component is yanked out of the FBI's Gang Task Force. Is money to blame? Or is it bruised egos?
Long Island Press |
Shelly Feuer Domash, Timothy Bolger and Christopher Twarowski |
10-15-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Long Island's $2M-a-Year Counterfeiting Problemnew
An inside look at the illegal counterfeiting trade on Long Island, its origins, and the Secret Service's struggle to stop it.
Long Island Press |
Rashed Mian |
10-05-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: counterfeiting
Toxic Plume Contaminates N.Y. Drinking Water Wellsnew
How a toxic plume created by Grumman Aerospace Corp. and the U.S. Navy during WWII continues to contaminate more and more public drinking water supplies today.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian |
07-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Navy, water supply
Newsday Muzzled Under Cablevision Control, Insiders Chargenew
Under Cablevision's Control, a once-feared newspaper has become a puppet.
Long Island Press |
Spencer Rumsey, Christopher Twarowski and Michael Nelson |
04-26-2012 |
Media
Clam Wars Rage in Oyster Baynew
Dead Marine Life. Suppressed Information. Tens of Millions in Shellfish. A multimedia investigation documenting the struggle between a dying way of life and the last of the large commercial shellfish operations in New York.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
04-11-2012 |
Environment
Tags: environment, Long Island Press
Kerouac: A Look Back At Jack And The Northport Yearsnew
The reluctant King of the Beats moved to the quiet clamming village in 1958 to escape his fame, yet found more infamy. To some locals though, he's still just "Jack."
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski and Spencer Rumsey |
03-08-2012 |
Features
Money, Politics and Sludgenew
How a $1.3 billion proposal to privatize Nassau County's sewage system could flush the county's future down the drain.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
11-28-2011 |
Business & Labor
Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti to Times Square, Long Island & the Worldnew
A glimpse inside Occupy Wall Street, the leaderless resistance movement spreading from Zuccotti Park to the whole world.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski, Timothy Bolger and Spencer Rumsey |
10-20-2011 |
#OCCUPY
New York Lawmakers Approve Gay Marriagenew
New York State has become the sixth and largest in the nation to legalize weddings between gay and lesbian couples.
Long Island Press |
Rashed Mian, Timothy Bolger, Jaclyn Gallucci and Christopher Twarowski |
06-24-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Fuck Yeah
Long Island Serial Killer: Beach Bodiesnew
There will be a few things different about beach season on Long Island this year. The Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular, canceled due to budget concerns, will return this summer, and cadaver dogs will be walking along the bay, as digital police signs ask visitors for information on the potential 10 bodies found decomposing on what is now a 15-mile-long crime scene.
Long Island Press |
Jaclyn Gallucci |
04-19-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Sands Point's Guggenheim Estate Under Attacknew
Sands Point's Guggenheim Estate-the muse for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "East Egg" in The Great Gatsby-is being destroyed by the nonprofit entrusted to protect it. The very intention of the 216-acre property's designation as a perpetual nature preserve is being sidestepped, ignored and/or willfully disregarded.
Long Island Press |
Chritopher Twarowski |
11-16-2010 |
Environment
Long Island's Toxic Time Bombnew
The dilapidated and understaffed sewage treatment facilities in Nassau County are leaving Long Island vulnerable to a disaster of "Katrina" proportions.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
04-29-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Sewage, Nassau County
How Cablevision Is Destroying Newsdaynew
The nation’s fifth-largest cable TV operator is tearing apart what was once one of the mightiest newspapers in the country. Interviews, financial documents and internal memos paint a picture of a paper under siege, both financially and journalistically.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski and Michael Patrick Nelson |
03-05-2010 |
Media
Tags: James Dolan, Times Mirror, journalism, media, newspapers, Cablevision, publishing, Newsday, Sam Zell
Exposing The Biggest Scam In The Auto Industrynew
While insurance companies vehemently deny that "steering" is practiced throughout the industry, the evidence gathered by a Press investigation suggests that some of the largest and most popular auto insurance companies in the nation are involved.
Long Island Press |
Michael M. Martino, Jr. |
06-19-2009 |
Economy
Dems Gunning for the NY State Senate Hope for the Obama Effectnew
If voters come out in record numbers as expected, the state Dems could turn the tide and take the Senate (they already control the Assembly). They need only three seats to take complete control of Albany.
Long Island Press |
Michael M. Martino Jr. |
10-30-2008 |
Politics
