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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 ...
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
Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare connecting Midtown Manhattan, via the Queensboro Bridge, to Jamaica in Queens, New York City, United States. It is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) long and forms part of New York State Route 25. Queens Boulevard runs northwest to southeast from Queens Plaza at the Queensboro Bridge entrance in Long Island City.
A view of Queens from One World Observatory in spring 2017 Queens , the largest of New York City 's five boroughs by area, is home to over 40 skyscrapers taller than 300 ft (91 m). At 811 feet (247 m), The Orchard , a residential skyscraper in Long Island City , is the tallest building in Queens , and the second tallest building in New York ...
Long Island Explorium Port Jefferson: Suffolk Children's: website, hands-on science S.T.E.M. exploration and more Long Island Maritime Museum: West Sayville: Suffolk Maritime: Exhibits include ship models, oyster industry, lifesaving and shipwrecks, sail and power boats, area Dutch heritage Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages
Roughly bounded by Queens Blvd., 43rd and 52nd Sts. Barnett and Skillman Aves. 40°44′49″N 73°55′03″W / 40.7469°N 73.9175°W / 40.7469; -73.9175 ( Sunnyside Gardens Historic
Queens is the largest by area of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn [5] and by Nassau County to its east, and shares maritime borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as with New Jersey. [6]