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Citi Field

Citi Field Citi Field is the new home of MLB’s New York Mets. The ballpark was the replacement for Shea Stadium when it opened in 2009. It is located on Long Island in Flushing Meadows, Queens. The ballpark’s name comes from financial company Citigroup, who partnered with the New York Mets for a 20-year deal [...]

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The City of Long Beach

The City of Long Beach The City of Long Beach is located on the south shore on Long Island in Nassau County. Long Beach is surrounded by the Town of Hempstead to the north, east and west, with the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Long Beach’s first inhabitants were the Rockaway Indians. In 1643, they [...]

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The City of Glen Cove

The City of Glen Cove The City of Glen Cove is located on the north shore of Long Island. The hills that stretch along Long Island’s north shore, where Glen Cove is located, are the terminal moraines actually left by glaciers of the last ice age. Glen Cove is surrounded on three sides by the [...]

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Plum Island

Plum Island Plum Island is in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County. The island is in Gardiners Bay, which is just east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long Island. Plum Island is about 3 miles long and 1 mile wide. Plum Island was most likely first [...]

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The Lockhorns of Levittown

The Lockhorns of Levittown The Lockhorns of Levittown, which was later simply known as The Lockhorns, was the comic strip that came from cartoonist Bill Hoest on newspaper funny pages in 1968. The married couple Leroy and Loretta Lockhorn constantly argue. They demonstrate their love by making sarcastic comments about each other’s failings as spouses. [...]

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The History of Long Island’s First Suburb, Levittown

The History of Long Island’s First Suburb, Levittown Levittown is known as Long Island‘s first official suburb. How it got that way is even more interesting. Levitt and Sons, a building firm headed by Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, put together four planned communities called Levittown in New York, Pennsylvania, New [...]

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Long Island’s Whaling History

Long Island’s Whaling History Native Americans were the very first whalers on Long Island. They often used whales that washed up on the shoreline for the oil, which was an important resource to Europeans who early on hired the Native Americans to hunt whales in exchange for goods. Whaling was popular in the Massachusetts Bay [...]

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The Entennman’s Legacy on Long Island

The Entennman’s Legacy on Long Island In 1868, William Entennman opened his first bakery in Brooklyn, NY. He actually delivered fresh baked goods door-to-door in a horse drawn wagon. William’s son was diagnosed with rheumatic fever in 1900, that’s when the family moved to Bay Shore on Long Island. William Jr. recovered and years later, [...]

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