Long Island, NY - A Tribute

You live in the shadow of the greatest city in the world, but you almost never go there.

When you're away from Long Island , you love it and when you're there, you don't.

You think if you're not from Long Island or NYC, you're not really from New York.

You know the exact point at which Queens turns into Nassau simply on intuition.

You don't go to Manhattan, you go to "The City".

You never realize you have an accent till you leave.

You don't live in Long Island, You live ON Long Island.

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Long Island is an island in southeast New York, USA. It is also a major suburb of New York City, and was one of the first modern suburbs in the United States.

True to its name, the island is much longer than it is wide, jutting out some 118 miles (190 km) from New York Harbor, and varies in width between 12 - 23 miles (19 - 37 km) between the southern Atlantic coast and Long Island Sound.[1] Long Island has an area of 1,401 square miles (3,629 km²), making it the largest island in the continental United States and the 149th largest island in the world.[1] It is connected to the mainland by several bridges and tunnels through New York City.
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Long Island Photo From Space

You have or someone you know has fallen asleep on the LIRR and ended up in one of these three places;
Babylon, Port Washington or Hicksville .

You know White Castle is terrible for you and the food sucks but you periodically "Get the Crave".

You want the Yankees to stay in the Bronx, but would probably go to more games if they moved to
Manhattan

You think that somehow, the Jets and Giants still play in New York

You've missed that "Drunk Train", the 2:42 out of Penn and had the dreaded wait until 5:30.

The Big Duck is a ferrocement building in the shape of a duck located in Flanders, New York, on Long Island. It was originally built in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer in nearby Riverhead, and used as a shop to sell ducks and duck eggs.

The Big Duck is a prime example of literalism in advertising. The building measures 18 feet wide, 30 feet long and 20 feet tall to the top of the head. The duck's eyes are made from Ford Model T tail lights and the interior floor space is confined to 11 feet by 15 feet. The wood frame, wire mesh/concrete surface building was designed in the shape of a Pekin duck in order to house a retail poultry store.
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Your distant future might involve the state of Florida.

You can correctly pronounce places like Ronkonkoma, Hauppauge, Wantagh, Mineola, Islandia, and Massapequa

You know the location of 6 malls and a dozen McDonalds and 36, 7-11's.

You never, ever want to "change at Jamaica ..."

You think Islip MacArthur airport is cute and you enjoy watching it grow up.

Billy Joel said it best,"either you date a rich girl from The North Shore, or a cool girl from the South Shore ".






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William Joseph Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973. According to the RIAA, he is the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States.

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Hey, I Know That Place!
By Jack Mathews | Staff Writer

If the film setting looks familiar, it may be because you've seen it before -- right here on Long Island.

With computers, you can do anything, so let's say we're on a computer, and we have just compressed the 20th Century into one moment. The category is ``Movies: Long Island,'' and on the screen is a map of the Island, dotted from the left end of Queens to the right point of Montauk with little icons of motion picture cameras. So we move the cursor to the first icon on the left, resting on the east side of the Queensboro Bridge, and double-click. Instantly (this is a very fast computer) the screen is filled with a live image from a movie set. There's a jumble of equipment -- props and cables and lights and scaffolding and Portalets and motor homes.
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There must be something in the water!

A+ (rapper), Carol Alt, Criss Angel, Judd Apatow, KC Armstrong, Ashanti, Alec Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, Craig Biggio, Bruce Blakeman, Nikki Blonsky, Brian Bloom, Steve Buscemi, Mariah Carey, Tricia Cast, Frank Catalanotto, Speedy Claxton, LL Cool J, Kevin Covais, Billy Crystal, Anthony Cumia, Chuck D, Jennifer Capriati, Rodney Dangerfield, Taylor Dayne, Gary Dell'Abate, William "Flavor Flav" Drayton, Billy Donovan, Meredith Eaton-Gilden,
Julius Erving, Boomer Esiason, Jay Fiedler, Amy Fisher, Melvin Fowler, Mike Francesa, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Deborah Gibson, Tony Graffanino, Leroy Grumman, Tom Gugliotta, Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Heatherton, Christopher Higgins, Gregg "Opie" Hughes, Sarah Hughes, Kevin James, Chris Jericho, Joan Jett, Billy Joel, Christine Jorgensen, Brian Kilmeade, Mike Komisarek, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Kors, Ron Kovic, William Kucmierowski (professional wrestler Brimstone), Lindsay Lohan, Patti LuPone, Ralph Macchio, Method Man, "Stuttering" John Melendez, Eddie Money, Jane Monheit, Kevin Moore, John Myung, Yvette Nelson, Eric Nystrom, Soledad O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnell, Bill O'Reilly, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Prodigy (rapper), Thomas Pynchon, Lou Reed, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (guitarist for rock band "Blue Öyster Cult"), Juan Romero, Matt Serra, Joe Satriani, John Savage (the actor), Telly Savalas, Erik "Everlast" Schrody, Rob Scuderi, Brian Setzer, Eric Sermon, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, DJ Skribble, Dee Snider, Howard Stern, John Tesh, Vinny Testaverde, Thomas Truxtun, Steve Vai, Frank Viola, Walt Whitman, Carl Yastrzemski, Michael "Mikey" Brenley, James Dolan (CEO Cablevision), Meg Whitman (CEO eBay), Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo)
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You or someone you know has owned an animal that came from North Shore Animal League.

Quick! Who's your county Executive? Don't know do
you?!

You've never taken an MTA bus.

The Long Island Expressway isn't really as bad as
everybody thinks.

You don't associate Fire Island with gay men.

You don't really see the big deal about the Hamptons
unless you got smashed at the Bordy Barn.

The Hamptons refers specifically to the towns of Southampton and East Hampton on the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York on the east end of Long Island.
As usual in a summer colony, parts of the Hamptons are well known as a playground for the rich who own summer homes there. Others are seaside resorts...
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When people ask "where are you from?" you answer "The Island" and automatically assume
everyone in the world knows that answer means New York.

You've always liked Billy Joel and you own several of his "records."

The Belt Parkway sucks! You've been stuck in a traffic jam for more than 2 hours (without moving).

Your parents took you to All American, Nathan's or
Carvel(on the way home from the beach).

Regular gas - $3.29 and you still pay it!!!

You hate paying tolls.

You don't have to go far to see your family.

You remember Grumman.

You know the color of the water at Jones Beach is not BLUE!

Jones Beach State Park is a state park of the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County, in the hamlet of Wantagh, on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook Parkway and Wantagh Parkway across the Great South Bay.

The park is renowned for its excellent beaches, 6.5 mi (10 km) in length, facing the open Atlantic Ocean and furnishes one of the most popular summer recreational locations for the New York City area. It is the most popular and heavily visited beach on the East Coast, estimated that over eight million people per year visit the Beach.

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You were upset when all the Roy Rogers turned into
Wendy's and Arby's closed for good. (But they are back now!)

You can spout off all the LIRR stops between Penn Station and Huntington ..

Paying $35 for a haircut doesn't sound so crazy.

You think the people from Brooklyn are "da wunz dat tawk wit a accent."

You went sledding in the sumps and at Bald Hill Ski Bowl.

You knew of Massapequa before the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco nightmare.

You think going to Queens is a hike.

The first time you heard the term " Long Island Iced
Tea" you were somewhere else and you laughed.

A Long Island Iced Tea is a cocktail made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, tequila, and rum. A popular variation mixes equal parts vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec with 1 1/2 parts sour mix with a splash of cola. Close variants often replace the sour mix with sweet and sour mix or with lemon juice, and the cola with actual iced tea. Some chain restaurants even take the liberty of substituting brandy for the tequila.

Some claim that the drink, like most cocktails, was invented during the Prohibition era, as a way of taking the appearance of ...
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Everything north of the Bronx is "upstate."

At some point in your life you've gone clamming.

Either your parents or your grandparents lived in the city.

You'd pay $11.50 for a movie.

You know which parts of the godfather were filmed on
Long Island.

No, you don't want mustard on that burger!!

You can't understand why a diner would ever close.

You've had a seagull crap on your car.

You've tried to find the Amityville Horror house.

The most infamous house on Long Island resides at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY. The address, off Merrick Road, still attracts the attention of couriosity seekers who want to see the real Amityville horror house.

This home was depicted in the movie The Amityville Horror, and its sequel, and 2005 remake, as a place haunted by evil after a young man murdered 6 members of his family there on Novemeber 14, 1974.

The crime is factual. The haunting, well... I'll leave that for you to decide but I'm sure the folks who lived there back in 1979, when the movie was first released, sure felt like they were being haunted by excessive traffic in their once quiet neighborhood.

I am guilty of being one of the many who had to drive by and see it for myself. To be honest, there was nothing spooky about it, except of course the knowledge that so many had lost their lives there. Compared to the sinister monster shown on the big screen, the real house doesn't even really stand out from the rest of the homes on the block.

I found a fantastic article about this. You can read the entire article, which includes photos, at The Real Amityville Horror: The Tragic Death of the Ronald DeFeo Family

When you live somewhere else you are astounded to see that people actually stop at yellow lights.

When you just sort of presume that wherever you live, you'll be able to find good delis, good pizza, and good bagels.

You can name at least three bands that came from Long Island.

When you walk in the city and you see two men holding hands... it becomes normal to you.

No word ends in an ER, just an AH.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to family and other friends from Long Island!

William M. Kucmierowski (born in Mineola, New York) is an American professional wrestler of the Jewish religion, better known by his shortened name Will Kaye or his ring name, Brimstone. Brimstone is currently working for PWR Wrestling (Pro Wrestling Revolution) and Unified Wrestling Federation.

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