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This Day On Long Island

Today On Long Island, The Month Of May

May Marks Long Island History Month! Yep it’s a whole month dedicated to Long Island history. It was the Nassau County Clerk, Maureen O’Connell and Suffolk County Clerk, Judith Pascale, who declared May as Long Island History Month. The two met at Oheka Castle to officially declare the month of May would be dedicated to Long Island [...]

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Today On Long Island, May 16th

May 16th- On this date in 1836, the South Ferry Company established the South Ferry. This ferry was to connect Lower Manhattan to the newly opened Long Island Rail Road stop in Jamaica. The route took passengers from Manhattan to Brooklyn, where they would walk to a train station that brought them to Jamaica for [...]

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Today on Long Island, May 15th

May 15th- On this day in 1784, Benjamin Franklin Thompson was born in Setauket. Thompson is a renowned Long Island historian, penning several books about the history and genealogy of Long Island. Thompson did more than just write Long Island’s history. He was a statesman that got involved in all aspects of political life. He [...]

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Today on Long Island, May 14th

May 14th- On this day 1814, the “Nassau”, the first boat of Robert Fulton and his brother William Cutting company the New York and Brooklyn Steamboat Ferry Association, ran its first ferry trip from Manhattan to Brooklyn. One of the founding fathers of the steamboat in America, Fulton’s company started a year before his death [...]

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Today on Long Island, May 13th

May 13th- On this day in 1819, one of the most famous American poets, Walt Whitman, was born in West Hills. Considered one of the greatest American poets ever, Whitman’s most famous printed work was his piece Leaves of Grass, which he published in 1855 but constantly updated until his death. Whitman grew up in [...]

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Today On long Island, May 12th

On May 12th in 2008, Cablevision Systems Corp. announced its plan to buy the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million. The sale was completed July 29, 2008. In the same year, Newsday was ranked 10th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States. Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily [...]

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Today on Long Island, May 11th

Today on Long Island in 1935 a very famous children’s author was born. Francine Jacobs grew up in a small, oceanside community on Long Island before penning her famous children’s books. She worked as an elementary school school teacher in upstate New York and studied elementary education and child psychology at Queens College in New [...]

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Today on Long Island, May 10th

Today on Long Island Charles Lindbergh flew his monoplane 1,500 miles to St. Louis, establishing a record for flight time between the two cities and preparing him for his Paris flight! Lindbergh’s dream was to become the first person to fly non-stop from New York to Paris. “Hotelier Raymond Orteig was offering $25,000 as an [...]

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