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Broke-Ass Haunted Attraction: Darkness Rising in Long Island
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 21 October 2011
If you haven’t noticed, it’s October. If you’re ...
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Exploring An Empty Mansion: Master Bedrooms, The Abandoned Orphanage, and Beyond
Blog: Scouting NY - 1 July 2010
Over the past three days, we’ve taken a look at the grounds of Hempstead House, the opulence of its first floor, and the decay of its basement. Today, I’m finishing off the series by taking you to the upper floors and beyond. We start by heading to the second floor via the master staircase…
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Exploring An Empty Mansion: Forgotten Rooms, A Decaying Basement
Blog: Scouting NY - 30 June 2010
We’ve taken a look at the exterior of Hempstead House, as well as the beautifully restored rooms of the first floor. Heading down the hallway at the south end of the mansion, it’s time to go a little deeper… At first, you come to a series of more generic rooms:
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Exploring An Empty Mansion: Inside Hempstead House
Blog: Scouting NY - 29 June 2010
This is Hempstead House today: In comparison, the below picture was taken in 1940, shortly after Hempstead became a home for refugee children from England, who had been sent to the US because of World World II. The caption reads: “Huntsmen three play safari in the jungle that once composed the formal . . . → Read More: Exploring An Empty Mansion: Inside Hempstead House
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Exploring An Empty Mansion: The Grounds
Blog: Scouting NY - 28 June 2010
When you own an enormous castle like the one pictured below, and it’s only used to house your servants and horses… …you’re living in a world few of us can imagine.
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The Forgotten Cemetery at Home Depot
Blog: Scouting NY - 23 June 2010
The Jericho Turnpike, cutting east-west through Long Island, is pretty much a wasteland of strip malls, corporate office parks, and fast food chains… …and the last place you’d expect to find anything of historical or cultural value is in the parking lot of a Home Depot.
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76-Second Travel Show: 'America's best beach'
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 8 June 2010
Episode #036F E A T U R I N G * 4 2 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘America’s best beach’
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 8 June 2010
MICRO-GUIDE TO SOUTHAMPTON, NY For many New Yorkers, the Hamptons — out at the acceptable end of Long Island — looms like a flashback from Lisa Birnbach’s 1980 spoof ‘The Official Preppy Handbook.’ A playground of neighboring community with long white-sand beaches and tucked-away beach homes for CEOs, celebs and trust-fund kids. But despite all this [...]
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76-Second Travel Show: 'Billy Joel's Long Island'
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 19 May 2010
Episode #034S P E C I A L * 7 . 6 - M I N U T E * V E R S I O NOne of these days we'll all go through a Billy Joel renaissance -- making amends for the delay as a 'Joelky' and pour with fervor through his catalog to find the nuggets that didn't reach MTV, like 'Vienna' or 'Laura' -- then debate whether the Innocent Man record is even listenable? (It is.)
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Billy Joel’s Long Island’
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 18 May 2010
New York’s Long Island is usually visited for Brooklyn and Queens (at its western tip) or the fancy beach resorts at the Hamptons (out east). But what about the middle, in those neither-here-nor-there towns off the Long Island Expressway? The best way to find out what’s there is using the area’s best guidebook: the songs [...]
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76-Second Travel Show: 'Billy Joel Winners'
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 21 April 2010
Episode #030The love we're seeing at the SSSTS studios regarding the emerging notion of 'Billy Joel Travel' has been astounding. And pleasing. But only three winners could be chosen for the first-ever 76-Second Travel Show Road Trip, on Joel's 61st birthday -- Sunday May 9.And those winners are 'Rutila,' 'Brooklyn' and 'Matt.' I seriously hope you can do this. We'll be back before dark.Email reidontravel[at]gmail[dot] com for details.Trip in brief:* we'll get a Cold Spring Harbor breakfast
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Billy Joel Road Trip Contest’
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 13 April 2010
It’s on! The 2010 Billy Joel Road Trip Contest! If you’re in the New York area May 9 (Billy’s 61st birthday), the 76-Second Travel Show wants to take YOU on a ‘Billy Joel Road Trip Tour’ — to Billy Joel sites around his former hood. It starts/ends in Brooklyn. We’ll ride in a dumpy, algae-green Nissan and [...]
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76-Second Travel Show: "Billy Joel Roadtrip Contest"
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 13 April 2010
Episode #029F E A T U R I N G * 3 1 * B O N U S * S E C O N D SThe 76-Second Travel Show wants to take you on a Billy Joel roadtrip in New York's Long Island to celebrate the 'guitar man's' 61st birthday on Sunday, May 9, 2010.The trip begins from Brooklyn, NY, that morning and should be back around dusk.
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Local & Interstate Moving & Storage
Blog: Scouting NY - 11 December 2009
I was scouting recently in northern Long Island and happened to drive by this old moving/storage company garage… I love the vintage sign, complete with the old telephone interchange – in this case, ORiole refering to OysteR Bay, NY. Confirming the sign’s authenticity, the company’s telephone number still ends in 6-0114 to this day. However, my favorite [...]
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Long Island’s Empty Jail
Blog: Scouting NY - 9 September 2009
Whenever a film or TV show needs to film in a prison location, the go-to place to scout is a decommissioned jail at the Nassau County Correctional Facility. Located in East Meadow, Long Island, the NCCF is the working jail for Nassau County. For years, inmates were housed in the facility pictured. Once a state-of-the-art jail, [...]
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