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Amazing Long Island Geography/Geology Amazing Long Island Geography/Geology • 121 miles long and 23 miles wide at the most extant points • Largest island on mainland USA • Larger than Rhode Island • Formed by glaciers about 19,000 BCE • Hempstead Plains, a glacial outwash plain, is one of the few natural prairies to exist east of the Appalachian Mountains • Long Island consists of Brooklyn and Queens (boroughs of NYC) and Nassau and Suffolk Counties • Long Island’s linear shoreline extends an estimated 1,600 miles © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 2 Colonial History • 1524 – Verrazzano is the first European to encounter natives from the Delaware tribe in New York Bay. The eastern end of Long Island was inhabited by the Pequot and Narrangansett people. • 1609 – Henry Hudson lands (purportedly) at Coney Island • 1615 – Adriaen Block discovers Manhattan and Long Island are islands • 1637 – Lion Gardiner settles on Gardiners Island • 1640 – 1st settlements on Long Island, Southold and Southampton • c1664 – Long Island became part of the Province of New York © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 3 USA History • 1776 – Long Island is seized by the British from General George Washington and the Continental Army in the Battle of Long Island. It remained a British stronghold until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. • 1836 – The predecessor to the Long Island Rail Road began service in Brooklyn and Queens. The line was completed to Montauk in 1844. The LIRR is the oldest and busiest commuter line in the USA. • 1883 – Brooklyn Bridge erected providing the ground connection to Long Island, previously only accessible by boat. • 1898 – Brooklyn and Queens incorporated into NYC • 1899 – Nassau County formed from part of Queens © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 4 Secession • The secession of Long Island from New York was proposed as early as 1896, but talk was revived towards the latter part of the twentieth century. • On March 28, 2008 Suffolk County, New York Comptroller Joseph Sawicki proposed a plan that would make Long Island (specifically, Nassau and Suffolk counties) the 51st state of the United States of America. • Long Island taxpayers' money would stay on Long Island, rather than the funds being dispersed all over the entire state of New York. Currently, Long Island sends to Albany over three billion dollars more than it receives back. • The state of Long Island would include over 2.7 million people (larger than that of fifteen other states). • So far Nassau County executives have not expressed interest in joining in the secession proposal, which would need to be approved by the NY State Legislature. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 5 Demographics • Long Island Population (2010) – 7.6M • Brooklyn – 2.5M, Queens – 2.3M, Nassau – 1.3M, Suffolk – 1.5M • Most populous island in the USA • If Long Island were its own state, it would be the 13th largest in the USA with the highest population density • Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the United States among counties of 100,000+ population © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 6 Economy • Fishing and Farming – early history • Aviation – From about 1930 to 1990, Grumman Aircraft, Republic, Fairchild, and Curtiss. • Scientific Research – Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University of SUNY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center. • Technology – Sperry Rand, Computer Associates, Motorola Enterprise Mobility (formerly Symbol Technologies). • Long Island is home to the East Coast's largest industrial park, the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The park has over 1,300 companies employing more than 71,000 Long Islanders. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 7 Top 10 Companies by Sales as of 2013 Annual sales Company/Community (millions) Employees Industry Henry Schein Inc. / Melville $8,939.967 15,000 Health Care Distributors Cablevision Systems Corp. / Bethpage $6,705.461 18,889 Cable & Satellite CA Inc. / Islandia $4,643.000 13,600 Systems Software Systemax Inc. / Port Washington $3,544.600 5,300 Computer & Electronics Retail Pall Corp. / Port Washington $2,671.656 10,800 Industrial Machinery MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc. / Melville $2,355.918 4,982 Trading Companies & Distributors Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. / $2,303.500 6,200 IT & Outsourced Services Lake Success Hain Celestial Group Inc. / Melville $1,378.247 3,720 Packaged Foods & Meats Veeco Instruments Inc. / Plainview $ 979.135 917 Semiconductor Equipment Kimco Realty Corp. / New Hyde Park $ 922.304 635 Retail REITs © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 8 Films Shot on Long Island Annie Hall – 1977 Oliver’s Story – 1978 Arthur – 1981 The Associate – 1996 Cruel Intensions – 1999 The Avengers – 2012 L.I.E. – 2001 The Godfather – 1972 Men in Black 3 – 2012 The Great Gatsby – 1974 Noah – 2014 The Manchurian Candidate – 2004 North by Northwest – 1959 The Wolf of Wall Street - 2013 © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 9 Notable Long Islanders • Steve Buscemi • Melissa Joan Hart • Soledad O’Brien • Chris Angel • Mariah Carey • Joey Heatherton • Lou Reed • Pat Benetar • LL Cool J • Sarah Hughes • Telly Salavas • Jim Brown • Kevin James • Ed Burns • Bob Costas • Jamie-Lynn Sigler • Billy Joel • Sid Caesar • Billy Crystal • Howard Stern • Bob Keeshan • Kenneth Cole • Jennifer Capriati • Jackie Kennedy • John Tesh • Rodney Dangerfield • Francis Ford Coppola • Lori Laughlin • Vinnie Testaverde • Julius Irving • Patti Lupone • Tony Danza • Walt Whitman • Boomer Esiason • Ralph Macchio • Brian Dennehy • Carl Yastrzemski • Debbie Gibson • Rosie O’Donnell • Edie Falco • Eddie Money • Bill O’Reilly • Carol Alt • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Eddie Murphy • Steve Madden • Baldwin Brothers • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Marx Brothers • Susan Lucci • Lindsay Lohan • Alan King • Idina Menzel • George Segal • Jerry Seinfeld • Meg Whitman © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 10 National Historic Landmarks Nassau County • Christeen (sloop), Oyster Bay, Oldest oyster sloop in USA • Fort Massapeag, Oyster Bay, Archaeological site • John Philip Sousa House, Port Washington Suffolk County • 1st Presbyterian Church (Old Whalers), Sag Harbor • Fort Corchaug, Southold, Native American Archeological site • Modesty (sloop), West Sayville, only oyster sailboat in existence • Montauk Point Light, East Hampton, oldest NY and 4th oldest USA • Thomas Moran House, East Hampton, home Hudson River School painter • William Sidney Mount House, Stony Brook, Home and Studio of painter • Old House, Cutchogue, Built in 1649, finest example of English domestic architecture in the USA • Jackson Pollack House and Studio, East Hampton • Priscilla (sloop), West Sayville, classic Long Island oyster dredging sloop • Rudolph Oyster House, West Sayville, 20th century seafood processing plant © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 11 Museums There are over 100 museums on Long Island, here are the top 10, according to Newsday: • The Museum at Guild Hall, East Hampton • Parrish Art Museum, Southampton • Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Stony Brook • Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor • Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen Cove • African American Museum of Nassau County, Hempstead • Long Island Children’s Museum, Garden City • Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City • Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayville • Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 12 Long Island Fun Facts © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 13 Charles Lindbergh In 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field as he embarked on the first non-stop trans-Atlantic solo flight. His goal that day was to win a $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig. There were competing teams going for the prize, some who met with disaster. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 14 Camp Sigfried, Yaphank Yaphank was home to Camp Siegfried, a summer camp which taught Nazi ideology. The camp was shut down by the US government when Germany declared war on the United States. It had been protected by the 1st Amendment until that time, when it became illegal for US citizens to swear allegiance to Germany. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 15 Wild Parrots on Long Island The theory that is most widely accepted is that a large shipment of birds destined for sale at New York area pet shops was accidentally released at Kennedy Airport around 1967 or 1968. Although the parrots were not officially spotted until the early 1970's, it is believed the parrots survived in the parklands surrounding the airport, and over time made their way to Brooklyn and surrounding areas where we find them today. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 16 7-Eleven The 7-Eleven in Montauk is the highest- grossing in America, beating out 7,800 other stores. In fact, the nation’s four most lucrative 7-Elevens are all in Suffolk County, with locations in East Patchogue, Southampton and Farmingville following close behind. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 17 Nassau Coliseum The Grateful Dead have played at the Nassau Coliseum more than any other band, 35 times. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 18 Cattle Ranch Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk was the first operating cattle ranch in the United States and is the birthplace of the American Cowboy. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 19 Suburbia Levittown, the first suburbia in the U.S., was built on Long Island in 1947. Homes originally sold for $7,990. In its early years, Levittown was a segregated community. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 20 Water Mill/Windmill The only working water mill and windmill in the U.S. are located in the Long Island community of Water Mill. Tennessee Williams lived in a wind mill in South Hampton in the summer of 1957, when he wrote the one-act play "The Day on Which a Man Dies." © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 21 Radio The first radio transmission, by wireless inventor Guglielmo Marconi, was in 1901 on Fire Island Avenue in Babylon. © 2015, Charles Kaplan Amazing Long Island 22 Supermarket America's first supermarket, King Kullen, started on Long Island in 1930.
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