It doesn't mean a thing without good jobs. (Calverton: 2009, condos)

[ClarkStreetKid]

Originally Posted by 56 Fighter

Bingo - the economy doesn't just get back on the horse and plug forward after some declines because some people who are underwater with their mortgage need to sell their house for what they bought it in 2006.

Right, and all this nonsense the fed. government is trying with making housing once again pull us out of a recession won't work. One thing about past recessions on the Island were that there were good jobs available, but those jobs are now mostly gone. You can have all the low interest rates and low housing costs you want but with out well paying jobs it won't mean a thing.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

Right, and all this nonsense the fed. government is trying with making housing once again pull us out of a recession won't work. One thing about past recessions on the Island were that there were good jobs available, but those jobs are now mostly gone. You can have all the low interest rates and low housing costs you want but with out well paying jobs it won't mean a thing.

Could be worse, could be McMansioned in NC right now without access to jobs in the big city.

FWIW seems like BNL is booming.

Crooks

[ClarkStreetKid]

Me too, though the only city that is really safe for access to jobs is DC. I think a few more shoes will be dropping in the Apple before things bottom out there.

BNL doing well could be a great start. Now how to take that and use it to develop new business around the Island? Once upon a time when aerospace was king engineers and techs were abundant on the Island, it would be nice to see something like that that again.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

Me too, though the only city that is really safe for access to jobs is DC. I think a few more shoes will be dropping in the Apple before things bottom out there.

BNL doing well could be a great start. Now how to take that and use it to develop new business around the Island? Once upon a time when aerospace was king engineers and techs were abundant on the Island, it would be nice to see something like that that again.

Gotham will always be fine ...but good point on DC.

It would be nice to see the Island rise again....I have a feeling Clean Energy will be our next Grumman.


Crooks

[ClarkStreetKid]

I hope NYC will be fine, but on a recent trip up to Brooklyn all these nice new city view condos around where I was staying were empty. Didn't have the same positive vibe it did a year ago. Then again, does any place?

I'm not sure Clean Energy is the next golden goose, it's just too expensive to manufacture and ship from the Island to the mainland. Now the design and engineering of Clean Energy systems could work but you'd still need to manufacture somewhere else.

[LIMA]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Gotham will always be fine ...but good point on DC.

It would be nice to see the Island rise again....I have a feeling Clean Energy will be our next Grumman.


Crooks

Could be clean automobiles and trucks....

But SC is missing that boat also as those companies are leaving L.I. with no place to test..

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

I hope NYC will be fine, but on a recent trip up to Brooklyn all these nice new city view condos around where I was staying were empty. Didn't have the same positive vibe it did a year ago. Then again, does any place?

I'm not sure Clean Energy is the next golden goose, it's just too expensive to manufacture and ship from the Island to the mainland. Now the design and engineering of Clean Energy systems could work but you'd still need to manufacture somewhere else.

I read something a couple of months back (Newsday?) where a German company was using labor on Long Island to construct the huge energy windmills as labor was cheaper here than in Germany. Does anyone else remember reading this?

[ClarkStreetKid]

That could be either Enercon Fuhrlaender though I couldn't find the story you were describing.


Rather than a indoor ski slope, manufacturing along with re-opening the old freight rail line could work.

Spaced Out » Pols push Calverton rail freight link

http://timbishop.house.gov/?sectioni...e=&itemid=1500