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Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island
Rum Runners and Speakeasies: Long Island’s Secret Prohibition History
This story about Long Island’s wild Prohibition days is brought to you by Artemis, a cocktail bar in Ronkonkoma that pays homage to the era […]
Long Island’s Revolutionary War Spies: Inside the Culper Spy Ring
Long Island might be known for its beaches, bagels, and bumper-to-bumper traffic, but did you know it also played a pivotal role in winning the […]
Long Island’s Pine Barrens: The Wildfire That Jumped Highways and Changed Firefighting Forever
A Forest Built to Burn—But Not Like This In March 2025, brush fires once again raged through the Pine Barrens, burning hundreds of acres and […]
Bolt-Cutting Bandits Bust into Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
Just when you thought Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant’s crazy history couldn’t get any stranger, a group of bolt-cutter-wielding vandals decided to add their own chapter. […]
Huntington Village Transforms Into a Spielberg Film Set—And Parking’s the First Casualty
Huntington Village is rolling out the red carpet—well, more like rolling up the parking spots—as Steven Spielberg sets the scene for his latest sci-fi venture, […]
A Brief History of Long Island’s Historic Duck Industry
By Tyler Rieger For over a century, Long Island has been known for its duck farms, once producing millions of ducks a year. Today, only […]
Adam Fox: Long Island’s Hometown Hockey Hero Who’s Making NHL History
Long Island isn’t exactly known as a hockey hotbed, and it’s rare for a local kid to make it big in the NHL. But that’s […]
How Nikola Tesla’s Vision for Wireless Power Started—and Ended—on Long Island
In the early 1900s, amid the potato farms and quiet countryside of Long Island’s North Shore, a massive steel tower loomed over the landscape. This […]
Feathered Fortunes: Long Island’s Duck Dynasty – A Complete Saga
Long Island’s agricultural history is a remarkable tale of transformation, centered around an unexpected star: the duck. Long Island’s landscape was once a canvas of […]