Long Island

Author: Gary W. Wojtas
Publisher: Westside
ISBN: 9781605539010
Category : Long Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Take a tour of New York's Long Island to discover and delight in its history, lore, and beauty. Find out about its rich heritage and just what makes it so special. This full-color book includes images of vintage nostalgia and contemporary photos of the sights and scenes of such island locales as Sag Harbor, Great Neck, Levittown, the Hamptons, and many others. The way of life here, from the earliest presence of Native Americans to current residents (permanent or seasonal), is presented in all its suburban glory. Explore the many firsts that took place on Long Island, including the beginning of the earliest transatlantic flight, the development of the ATM, and the original video game. Both historic and everyday parts of the island will be explored--there's no better way to find out about what makes the heart of this place and its people unique.

Hey Long Island... Do U Remember?

Author: Stacy Mandel Kaplan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772761696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? began in 2008 when two lifelong friends from Oceanside, New York started a Facebook group to share pictures and history of Long Island's iconic places, themes and landmarks. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? is now one of the largest New York history groups on Facebook with more than 142,000 members sharing pictures and information about Long Island's colourful past. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? offers us a window into the past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Hey Long Island... Do U Remember? offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a-kind place.

"We are Still Here!"

Author: John A. Strong
Publisher: Heart of the Lakes Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description

Long Island Our Story

Author: Newsday
Publisher: Newsday Incorporated
ISBN: 9781885134141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
The story began hundreds of millions of years ago when continents collided. It evolved over centuries until the rising sea finally encircled a fish-shaped pile of sand that had been pushed together by a retreating glacier as tall as a skyscarper and as wide as a continent.

Leaving Long Island ...and Other Departures

Author: Fern Kupfer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105535878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
"Leaving Long Island" is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the explosive end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance endemic to the Ashkenazi Jewish population. This second-half-of-life memoir is a compelling narrative of both pain and happy second chances. --

Hiking Long Island

Author: Lee McAllister
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880775875
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description

Long Island To-day

Author: Frederick Ruther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Long Island
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description

Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World

Author: In C. Newsday
Publisher: Falcon Guides
ISBN: 9780762737482
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Part guidebook and part natural history, Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World reveals in words and color photographs the diverse and fascinating environment of Long Island, New York. Based on the award-winning Newsday series.

Long Island Modernism 1930 To 1980

Author: Caroline Rob Zaleski
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393733157
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Chronicles a rich and little-known array of architecture on the island, a hotbed of modernism from the thirties on. An essential reference for architecture buffs, historians, and everyone who lives on or visits Long Island today, this unique resource—the first illustrated history of Long Island’s modern architecture—is based on a survey conducted for the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA). It highlights the work within Suffolk and Nassau counties of a roster of twenty-five internationally renowned architects—among them Wallace Harrison, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone, Richard Neutra, William Lescaze, Gordon Chadwick for George Nelson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, and Richard Meier. Caroline Rob Zaleski’s research on the work of key figures in twentieth-century architecture; the relatively unknown aspects of their production; and their associations with clients, artists, and politicians is complemented by more than three hundred striking archival photographs, specially commissioned new photography, and plans. Zaleski documents the development of exurbia and the rise of visionary structures: residences for commuters and weekenders, public housing, houses of worship, universities, shopping centers, and office complexes. In this part architectural, part social history, she explains why modernism was embraced by Long Island’s civic, cultural, and business leaders—as well as by those who wanted to settle away from the city—during an epoch when open space was prime for development. An inventory of important architects, with their Long Island commissions by date and location, complements the main text.

The Day That Changed Long Island

Author: Luciano Sabatini
Publisher: Boutique of Quality Books
ISBN: 9781952782299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
A middle-aged couple with three young children are longtime residents and homeowners in the community of Massapequa, New York. When Superstorm Sandy makes landfall on Long Island on the evening of October 29, 2012, their stable, productive and serene lifestyle is suddenly shattered. As the storm surge floods their home, along with the homes of thousands of others living in coastal communities, they struggle to survive and then recover as one crisis seems to follow another. During the many trials and tribulations that follow, they experience kindness from family, friends, and neighbors while also facing greed and exploitation from those trying to profit from the misfortune of others. For most victims in this story and in the real life experiences from Superstorm Sandy, it is a story of resilience in the face of chaos and destruction, but other families and their lives, will never be the same again. As the ninth anniversary approaches, the story of this family's resilience and that of their Long Island community is uplifting, yet the little-known reality is that hundreds of families never really recovered from this tragedy.