An interview with Kyle Strober, executive director, Association for a Better Long Island

Nobody understands Long Island socioeconomics better than Kyle Strober. Long Island has many organizations and many leaders monitoring and shaping the regional quality of life – but none more influential than the Association for a Better Long Island and its busy executive director. Kyle joined the association in 2017 after several years as a legislative aide, first for a Nassau County legislator and then as Long Island regional director for U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer – positions that uniquely qualified him to head up a frontline watchdog focused primarily on real estate development in Nassau and Suffolk counties. In today’s episode, Kyle joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss the often-misunderstood benefits of Industrial Development Agencies, the need for more sensible tax structures and his highest hopes for the regional economy – plus, the best place to grab a bacon, egg and cheese in Merrick.