Long Island Business News

Local elected officials joined executives from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Long Island business leaders Friday to cut the ribbon on the new Yaphank-BNL Long Island Rail Road station. The $20 million project relocated the station from its original site, aiming to provide better access to Brookhaven National Laboratory and nearby roadways like the William Floyd Parkway and the Long Island Expressway.

A Huntington attorney was sentenced Friday, having already pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny for stealing nearly $400,000 from clients, officials said. The defendant, Daphna Zekaria, of Syosset, pleaded guilty in May 2025 to stealing money from clients’ escrow accounts and using the funds for personal and business expenses, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney. On Friday, she was sentenced to six months in jail.

TileBar, a tile and bath retailer, has opened its first Long Island location in Manhasset. The company opened a two-story, 10,000-square-foot showroom at 1900 Northern Blvd., next to the Americana Manhasset retail center. The space was formerly occupied by Anthropologie.

Amalfi at Claudio’s closes in Greenport after one week A week after it opened in Greenport, Amalfi at Claudio’s has closed. Described in an update as a “holiday pop-up run at Claudio’s,” the restaurant “is wrapping up for the season.” The Amalfi Coastal Kitchen & Cocktails website now lists only Hampton Bays as its location. Talks about remaining in Greenport “didn’t work out,” according to the Claudio’s update.

When it comes to mergers and acquisitions in the accounting sector, the numbers don’t always add up. Industry leaders say it has more to do with which firms are coming together and how their specialties benefit each other and their clients by joining forces.

4.18 million Americans turned 65 last year, the highest number ever recorded in a single year. They worked, paid in and earned their retirement. They’re also gone, and there aren’t enough workers left to replace them. That’s the first problem, and it isn’t hypothetical. The second: The U.S. fertility rate last year was 1.6 births per woman. Replacement rate is 2.1. We’ve been below that line for decades, and by 2033 the population starts shrinking outright.

This summer’s Hollywood movie “Pressure” seeks to capture the crucial role of a meteorologist in ensuring the ultimate success of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. It tells the story of how the Nazis were caught by surprise assuming the Allies would never attempt an amphibious landing in what they believed would be miserable weather for days to come.

RXR has been tapped by a Town of Islip committee to build a new terminal at MacArthur Airport, according to Islip Supervisor Angie Carpenter. The town, which issued a request for qualifications in April 2025 for a developer to build and operate a new terminal at MacArthur, had selected a developer for the project, but it had yet to announce who that was.

Amazon is planning to develop a $1 billion fulfillment center on 140 acres in Holbrook. The sprawling facility, which Amazon calls a first-mile sortable fulfillment center, will consist of a 4.2 million-square-foot building, with ceilings as high as 76 feet. The Holbrook center, which will also have a sub-same-day fulfillment center in an attached wing, will contain advanced robotics to sort and move packages, according to Brad Griggs, a director of economic development at Amazon.

Sales of Long Island homes increased last month, though the market is still hampered by low inventory and high prices. Despite the high prices that have deterred some buyers, the Long Island housing market saw increased activity last month.