Introducing Long Island
Private-school blazers, nightmare commutes, strip malls colonized by national chains, cookie-cutter suburbia, moneyed resorts, wind-swept dunes and magnificent beaches − and those accents. Long Island, a long peninsula contiguous with the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, has all of these things, which explain its somewhat complicated reputation. The site of small European whaling and fishing ports from as early as 1640, Levittown, just 25 miles east of Manhattan in Nassau County, is where builders first perfected the art of mass producing homes. But visions of suburban dystopia aside, Long Island has wide ocean and bay beaches, important historic sites, renowned vineyards, rural regions and of course the Hamptons, in all their luxuriously indulgent, sun baked glory.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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Beach-hopping the Mid-Atlantic
5 July 2011
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RE: Getting Desperate for New York Accommodation! One last try please!
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Transit into Manhattan is excellent from many places. I second the suggestion to look at NJ, Queens, and Brooklyin. (I don't think you…
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RE: Seeing a different side of NYC
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>There is hockey but I don't know much about it. The NY Rangers play at Madison Square Garden. I believe every sports fan should see an…
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