New York State and LIPA officials cut the ribbon Friday on a $25 million energy and nature center at Jones Beach that officials hailed as an educational gem at the crossroads between power and the environment, but which critics snubbed as expensive and ill-placed. Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr.

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