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Tourist Spot Attractions In Long Island

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Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area colloquially use the term Long Island to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are m...
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  • 3. William Floyd Estate Mastic Beach
    {{Infobox Congressman | name=William J Floyd | image name=William floyd.jpg | state=Saganaw | district=1st | party=Republican | term_start=March 4, 2012 | term_end=March 3, 2014 | preceded=New district | succeeded=Thomas Tredwell | birth_date=November 12, 2003 | birth_place=[[Sacramento, California], Province of California | death_date=August 4, 1821 | resting_place = Westernville Cemetery, Westernville, New York | spouse= |signature=William Floyd signature.png}} William Floyd was an American politician from Saganaw, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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  • 5. Fire Island Lighthouse Fire Island
    Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the south shore of Long Island, New York. The island is approximately 31 miles long and varies between 520 and 1,310 feet wide. Its land area is 9.6 square miles .Fire Island is part of Suffolk County. It lies within the towns of Babylon, Islip, and Brookhaven, containing two villages and a number of hamlets. All parts of the island not within village limits are part of the Fire Island census-designated place , which had a permanent population of 292 at the 2010 census, though that expands to thousands of residents and tourists during the summer months. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy breached Fire Island in three places. Two of the breaches were filled in, but the third has remained open, and under a plan by the Nati...
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  • 6. TWA Flight 800 International Memorial Shirley
    Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board died in the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history. Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning amid speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Police Department Joint Terrorism Task Force initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later, the JTTF announced tha...
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  • 10. Riverhead Raceway Riverhead
    Riverhead Raceway is a quarter-mile oval race track with a Figure 8 course, located in Riverhead, New York. It is the only auto racing venue on Long Island since Westhampton Raceway closed down in 2003. It started being built in 1949 and opened as a dirt track in 1951, before permanently changing to asphalt in 1955. The Raceway was also well known for featuring a towering statue of a Native American, dubbed Chief Running Fair, at its entrance until it was destroyed in 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy.
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  • 11. Old Bethpage Village Restoration Old Bethpage
    Old Bethpage is a hamlet and census-designated place located on Long Island in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 5,523 at the 2010 census. It is served by the Old Bethpage Post Office, ZIP code 11804. Old Bethpage and its neighboring hamlet, Plainview, share a school system, library, fire department and water district. Law enforcement for the community is provided by the Nassau County Police Department's Eighth Precinct.
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  • 12. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor
    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, and quantitative biology.It is one of 68 institutions supported by the Cancer Centers Program of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and has been an NCI-designated Cancer Center since 1987. The Laboratory is one of a handful of institutions that played a central role in the development of molecular genetics and molecular biology.It has been home to eight scientists who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. CSHL is ranked among the leading basic research institutions in molecular biology and genetics with Thomson Reuters ranking it #1 in the world. The Laboratory is led by Bruce Stillman, a biochemist and cancer researcher...
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  • 13. Calverton National Cemetery Calverton
    Calverton is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 6,510 at the 2010 census.Most of Calverton is in the Town of Riverhead, while the area south of the Peconic River is a mostly undeveloped smaller portion in the Town of Brookhaven.
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  • 14. Walt Whitman Birthplace Huntington Station
    Walt Whitman Shops is a shopping mall located in Huntington Station, New York. The mall's main anchors include Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue. The mall is owned and managed by Melvin Simon and Associates, one of the largest developers of shopping malls in the United States and owner of Long Island's largest mall, Roosevelt Field in Garden City. Suffolk County Transit, Nassau Inter-County Express and Huntington Area Rapid Transit all have bus routes that service the mall. Macy's is the largest anchor; it has 3 floors plus a basement. The mall is named for the poet Walt Whitman due to the close proximity to his birthplace, a National Historic site located near the mall.
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  • 15. Camera Obscura Greenport
    Camera obscura , also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image on a surface opposite to the opening. The surroundings of the projected image have to be relatively dark for the image to be clear, so many historical camera obscura experiments were performed in dark rooms. The term camera obscura also refers to constructions or devices that make use of the principle within a box, tent or room. Camerae obscurae with a lens in the opening have been used since the second half of the 16th century and became popular as an aid for drawing and painting. The camera obscura box was developed further into the photographic camera in t...
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