While the town board went Republican and the supervsor stayed Democrat, Brookhaven voters rejected 61 to 39 a proposition to preserve open space in the town.
"It went down in flames," Brookhaven Councilman Steve Fiore-Rosenfeld, a Democrat, said of the referendum. "People were nervous about the real estate market and we were talking about a real estate transfer tax. End of story."
Erik German and Jennifer Maloney