Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island

During a snowstorm in late November 1922, a yacht carrying hundreds of cases of whiskey ran aground off Miller Place during the height of Prohibition. […]

Long before most locals started calling it the “Fish Church,” Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rocky Point was already being recognized as a local landmark. […]

Long Beach has had many unusual moments in its history, but one of the more memorable came during the construction of its boardwalk. In 1907, […]

At first glance, this historic Long Beach building looks exactly like what you’d expect from the word “casino.” Large beachfront structure. Boardwalk crowds. Expansive ocean […]

You’ve probably spent countless hours sitting on the Long Island Expressway wondering why traffic suddenly stopped for absolutely no reason. But long before the brake […]

Before it was sitting in deli coolers across Long Island, Snapple started as a side hustle run by three Brooklyn entrepreneurs with no experience in […]

If you’ve driven through Montauk, you know the building. It sits along Montauk Highway, set slightly back from the road, with its stone tower and […]

Grumman Aerospace Corporation manufactured aircraft, space hardware and other products from multiple Long Island locations over several decades. About Leroy Grumman The company was created […]

On November 13, 1907, workers for the Suffolk Traction Company were photographed laying trolley tracks along upper South Ocean Avenue in Patchogue. The image is […]

At first glance, it looks like a quiet, almost forgettable stretch of land. A small house, a narrow stream, a simple wooden bridge. But this […]