Even in the best of times, Central Islip, N.Y., is not the world’s most exciting place, especially since the psychiatric hospital closed 25 years ago. And these are not the best of times: There’s no Long Island Ducks baseball to take the mind off of the pandemic thanks to, you know, the pandemic, and the New York Institute of Technology campus will be even less lively than usual due to the same.
There is one thing Central Islip could look forward to: justice. For the first time in six months, the Carleton Avenue courtroom district was set to offer some real juice, with a nasty divorce over at state Supreme Court and a fun bench trial of a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer accused of giving his new private-equity employers a head’s up about what the Feds had on file at the Al D’Amato federal courthouse.