Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island

A photograph dated 1910 shows a 15-year-old Montauk Indian boy, identified as Norris Herbert Fowler, seated at the wheel of an automobile. The image is […]

A late 19th or early 20th century photograph documents a natural rock formation identified as the “Split Boulder” in Wading River. The image is part […]

At the head of Hempstead Harbor in Roslyn, a wooden structure has has remained in place through centuries of conflict, changing economies and repeated rebuilding. […]

This image shows a version of Madison Square Garden that no longer exists. The structure, completed in 1890, reflects a different era of architecture and […]

The image, titled “Picnic fair tent and benches, Port Washington, L.I.”, was created by photographer Daniel Berry Austin. It is part of a larger collection […]

At first glance, this appears to be an ordinary structure. No signage, no identifying features. Just a building photographed in Cold Spring Harbor sometime between […]

A historical photograph documents an act of vandalism at a synagogue construction site in Valley Stream in 1953. The image shows a sign marking a […]

Before the glass towers along the East River became its permanent home, the United Nations was headquartered somewhere far less expected: Lake Success on Long […]

It’s easy to forget how recently Long Island was still deeply agricultural. Before subdivisions and shopping centers, large parts of Nassau County were working farmland, […]

Taken on November 28, 1962, this photo shows Robert Moses standing at the Fire Island Inlet Bridge at the exact moment the final steel was […]