About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. FIVE years ago, the Long Island Weekly examined the rapid rise and success of several

AFTER several years of fruitless efforts by various developers, the area of Long Island that one hotel executive has termed part of ''the most exciting hotel market in the country'' has two definite hotel starts, controversial applications for two others and nearby construction for yet one more. If each of these development plans comes to completion, this area, which now has no lodging facilities, will have almost 1,500 available hotel rooms. The Route 110 corridor, cutting a