Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island

A Grand Hotel Once Occupied This Stretch of Downtown Patchogue A photograph taken by Eugene L. Armbruster in May 1924 shows Roe’s Hotel on the […]

Long Island does not get a new train station very often. In fact, the newly opened Yaphank-BNL station is only the second new Long Island […]

Most people using the Setauket–Port Jefferson Station Greenway have no idea they’re passing one of Long Island’s best-known environmental cleanup sites: Lawrence Aviation. The paved […]

In the summer of 1983, television executives looked at the success of Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, and Knots Landing and came to what seemed like […]

We all know that the Hamptons are an island unto itself. But with the Shinnecock Canal, the Hamptons might have literally separated the South Fork […]

For Long Islanders interested in trains, railroad history, or simply seeing one of the largest machines ever put on rails, this summer offers a rare […]

Orient Point Light stands on Oyster Pond Reef in Plum Gut, the narrow passage between Orient Point and Plum Island. The cast-iron lighthouse was first […]

Tucked between Port Jefferson and Miller Place, the hamlet known now as Mount Sinai was known locally by another name entirely many years ago. Long […]

Long Islanders already know names like Ronkonkoma, Massapequa, Setauket, and Patchogue came from Native American languages. What is less widely known is that Sag Harbor […]

Long before it became Hampton Bays, the South Fork hamlet had a very different — and much older — name. For generations, the area was […]