Thursday, September 19, 2024 ~ Volume 69 ~ Issue Number 48 ~ $1.00
County Legislature Issues Final Report on Cyber Attack By Matt Meduri
The September 2022 cyber attack left the County, then governed by County Executive Steve Bellone (D-West Babylon), reeling with months of downed operations and services and a matter and timeline of response that earned criticism from other governmental officials, namely the special committee of the Suffolk County Legislature. The special committee released their final, sixtyfour page report on the cyber intrusion on Thursday. Special Committee Chair Anthony Piccirillo (R-Holtsville) began the brief meeting by thanking the special committee, Presiding Officer Kevin McCaffrey (R-Lindenhurst) for his “leadership,” “creating” the special committee, and selecting Piccirillo as the chair. He also thanked Special Counsel Richard Donoghue, former acting deputy U.S. Attorney General, as well as the County employees of multiple departments who endured interviews and the stymied response time by the County.
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Members of the Special Committee on the Cyber Attack Pose with the Final Report (Credit - Matt Meduri)
First Phase of Belmont at Eastview Complete By Matt Meduri
Residential buildings at the Belmont at Eastview (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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Town of Islip officials, community members, and labor groups convened on Thursday afternoon to cut the ribbon on the first phase of development of the Belmont at Eastview, an adaptive reuse of a former psychiatric center now home to hundreds of rental units and a swath of amenities and open-space recreation. The original campus was developed by New York State in the 1930s, which would house the site of the Central Islip Psychiatric Center. In the 1970s, it was purchased by the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and operated as a campus until the 2000s. The campus moved their facilities to Old Westbury and the property would become dormant. In 2021, Steel Equities and the Marcus Organization closed the property and proposed an industrial development. After having received the thumbs-down from the civic groups, Steel Equities went back to the drawing board and came up with the plan to rehabilitate the buildings.
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