Rethinking Ronkonkoma
July 17, 2011
NY Times
"From high atop the five-story parking garage at Ronkonkoma’s Long Island Rail Road station, you can look far out at ... not much. There is an ocean of parked cars, gravel lots, auto-repair places, a gym and scatterings of corrugated sheet-metal boxes, the all-purpose architectural style in that part of Long Island.
The view all but screams “missed potential” and “poor planning,” and it is one that the Brookhaven town supervisor, Mark Lesko, wants to change. He is pushing a plan to redevelop 50 acres around the station with shops, homes, offices, public art and a convention center. He wants to turn an unlovely place into a cool destination..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/opinion/18mon4.html