Long Island, NY is located just minutes from Manhattan on the southeastern tip of New York State. Long Island is comprised of four counties: Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. Most people only consider Nassau and Suffolk counties as part of Long Island because Brooklyn and Queens counties are basically part of the 5 boroughs of New York City.
•· Long Island, NY has 26 state parks
•· Long Island's picturesque coastline is 1,180 miles long
•· Long Island, NY is approximately 118 miles long and 20 miles wide
•· The Vanderbilt Planetarium, located in Centerport, NY is one of the largest and best-equipped in the United States
•· Charles Lindbergh began his famous non-stop flight from New York to Paris from Long Island's Roosevelt Field airstrip
•· The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) that landed on the moon was built in Long Island, NY by Grumman Corp.
•· The Long Island Railroad provides more than 303,000 rides to customers each weekday.
•· F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote the Great Gatsby (which described Long Island's "Gold Coast") while living in Great Neck
•· Long Island, NY has several national award-winning schools including more than 14 leading colleges and universities
•· Long Island, NY has world leaders in biotechnology
•· Long Island, NY has leading research and world-renowned hospitals
Some famous folks from Long Island, New York:
•1. Teddy Roosevelt - President (Oyster Bay, NY)
•2. Jacqueline Kennedy - First Lady (Southampton, NY)
•3. William Floyd - Signer of the Declaration of Independence (Brookhaven, NY)
•4. Walt Whitman - Poet (Huntington, NY)
•5. William Vanderbilt - Philanthropist (Centerport, NY)
•6. Barbara McClintock - Nobel Prize Winner (Huntington, NY)
•7. Louis Comfort Tiffany - Stained Glass artist (Laurel Hollow, NY)
•8. Mort Kunstler - Civil War Painter (Oyster Bay Cove, NY)
•9. Billy Joel - Entertainer (Centre Island, NY)
•10. Oleg Cassini - Couturier (Oyster Bay Cove, NY)
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