Friday, July 10, 2015
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vol. 90, no. 28
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Nassau ida lags behind other counties Westchester, Suffolk generated jobs at lower cost from 2010-12 By B i LL SAN ANtONiO The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency generated more jobs than its contemporaries in Suffolk and Westchester counties just once from 2010-13, despite regularly approving more projects and granting many millions more in tax breaks, a Blank Slate Media analysis of state comptroller data has found. Nassau’s IDA during that period also recovered from businesses a smaller percentage of the tax breaks it approved through payment-in-lieuof-taxes agreements, also known as PILOTs, than their counterparts in Westchester and Suffolk counties. In 2013, the most recent year for which state comptroller data of IDA activity is available, the Nassau IDA granted $23,611 in exemptions for every job it gained, more than 10 times the state median and considerably higher than Suffolk ($644 per job) and Westchester ($1,563 per job).
That year, the Nassau IDA approved 278 projects worth more than $2.9 billion and granted $43,325,571 in net tax breaks, recovering 37 percent of the exemptions through pilots. Joseph Kearney, the Nassau County IDA’s executive director, told Blank Slate Media in early June that the IDA’s 2013 data was inaccurate and that updated figures would be submitted to Albany. Kearny said Tuesday the updated PHOTO COURTESY Of BEN WARSHAW 2013 data has not been sent to the state comptroller’s office yet, and A woman fell in between the platform and the train friday at the Great Neck Long Island Rail that they are waiting for three not- Road station. for-profit companies to send the IDA their numbers. He said the three companies were “not included in the last go around.” He said the IDA would reach out to the three companies Tuesday, adding he expected to submit the numbers within a week to 10 days. There are 109 active industrial development agencies in villages, B y A d A m L i d g e t t Transportation Authority, said fire company. towns, counties and cities throughout The power to the 750 volt the unidentified 65-year-old Continued on Page 54 A woman escaped serious woman fell at about 5:45 p.m. third rail was shut off after the injury Thursday evening af- after she lost her balance on woman fell and service was suspended on the Port Washter falling in the gap between the platform. The woman was removed ington line while fire and resthe platform and a westbound train at the Great Neck Long from the train tracks by mem- cue workers tried to remove bers of the Vigilant Engine & her from tracks. Island Rail Road station. A crew of three worked Meredith Daniels, media Hook & Ladder Company, acContinued on Page 52 liaison for the Metropolitan cording to a release from the
Woman falls onto tracks at Great Neck LIRR station
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