Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island

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 […]

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 […]