Suburbs look at 'smart growth' for their downtowns
Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | Photo of the street sign for East Main Street in Patchogue.
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Long Island is looking downtown to secure its future.
With increasing urgency, leaders are working to revive town centers - to reverse blight, broaden a tax base that now weighs heavily on homeowners, and add badly needed housing for Long Island's young workforce.
And they're having success. In Oyster Bay, preserving the history of the downtown has also filled storefronts and brought...
