Have you ever been to Long Island NY?
It's a big city. I expect to see people stacked like gerbils in boxes. Same bunched-up lifestyle that's apparent in Tokyo, Paris and LA proper. Big cities aren't evidence of so-called sprawl.
The Marxist definition of sprawl is normal Americans raising families, working free enterprise and enjoying open spaces on former farms and forestland, both of which exists here in America by the hundreds of millions of acres.
"It's a big city.... Big cities aren't evidence of so-called sprawl."
Long Island isn't a "big city". The NYC Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are located on the western end of the Island, the remainder is divided into two counties: Nassau, the smaller of the two, abuts Queens, while Suffolk takes in the eastern portion.
The "development" of once rural Long Island has progressed at an accelerating rate to the point where there is almost nothing left unbuilt, unpaved, and uncrowded.
Homes used to be built on existing roads with their fronts facing the road, now they are built in gated developments and all that is seen from the public road is a line of unadorned rear ends.