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The following is a list of attractions on Long Island, New York State.The list includes museums, parks, and beaches as well as many other types of attractions. In this list, "Long Island" is defined as the geographical entity, and thus the list includes attractions in Kings County, New York, a.k.a. Brooklyn, as well as Queens County, New York, a.k.a. Queens, which are both parts of New York City.
Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of Queens, particularly the beach communities in the Rockaways such as Belle Harbor, the term is generally used to refer to the Long Island coastline in Nassau and Suffolk counties. It is often used as a generic name for the entire southern half of Long Island rather than just the area ...
By the mid-1880s, South Beach's amusement area consisted of a 1,700-foot (520 m) boardwalk, a beach, and numerous rides. [27] After much of the area was destroyed by a fire in September 1896, [28] [29] the 15-acre (6.1 ha) Happyland Amusement Park, an enclosed park with numerous attractions and landscape features, opened on June 30, 1906.
Long Island City: Renaissance and Tudor Revival building constructed in 1892 as the headquarters of the New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company, the city's sole architectural terracotta manufacturer. [67] New York State Supreme Court, Queens County, Long Island City Branch: New York State Supreme Court, Queens County, Long Island City Branch
Fire Island National Seashore Map. Fire Island is not a separate town, but its villages are listed here due to its geographical isolation. Villages in the Town of Islip: Ocean Beach, Saltaire; Hamlets in the Town of Brookhaven: Cherry Grove (a.k.a. Fire Island), Fire Island Pines.
1860 (Higginson's map of Kings and a large part of Queens counties) Heemstede is situated mid-island, two miles south of Glen Cove. Along the Mill river from Mineola to Rockville Center are 3 gristmills, Nicholls, Oliver and Langdon ending at Hempstead pond near Rockville. Until 1899 this was considered Queens County. [17] Millburn Creek Millburn
Westbrook, a large rambling house of many gables and tall chimneys on the South Shore of Long Island, lies on the west bank of the Connetquot River. The estate has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973 as a national historic district. [1]
February 23, 2016 (54th & 56th Aves. on 111th St. Flushing: Combination of two old Coney Island carousels for World's Fair is one of few fairground attractions left from it