Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island

Before Amazon trucks and online grocery apps, Long Islanders had a simpler solution for last-minute milk, eggs, and whatever else Mom forgot: they just drove […]

If you’ve lived on Long Island long enough, chances are you’ve heard someone say: Don’t swim in Lake Ronkonkoma because it takes one male every […]

No, we’re not talking about the bass at a Billy Joel concert or the time Metallica melted faces at Nassau Coliseum. We’re talking real, ground-shaking, […]

You’re standing on the leftovers of a 60,000-year-old glacier. Seriously. Long Island didn’t just show up one day with bagels and beach traffic. It was […]

Sure, Long Island isn’t exactly medieval England but if you’ve got a craving for castles, turrets, and Gatsby-level grandeur, you’re in luck. From Cold Spring […]

Long before social media and smartphones, a proud 1964 promotional film captured the essence of midcentury Long Island—and the newspaper that helped shape it. Titled […]

Billy Joel might be the only person alive who can sell out Madison Square Garden for the hundredth time and still seem like someone you […]

By Isabella Scuteri In 1791, the burial grounds of Lakeview Cemetery began behind the Union Church located on the corner of Waverly Avenue and West […]

Before he was a symbol of hope, a civil rights hero, or an Oscar-winning biopic, Harvey Milk was just a Jewish kid from Woodmere with […]