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  2. Idle Hour - Wikipedia

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    Idle Hour is a former Vanderbilt estate that is located in Oakdale on Long Island in Suffolk County, ... on a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River. The ...

  3. Dowling College - Wikipedia

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    Dowling College was a private college on Long Island, ... Idle hour was a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River built in 1882 by William K. Vanderbilt.

  4. Connetquot River - Wikipedia

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    The name comes from the Secatogue tribe name for "Great River" [2] and is different from the Carmans River on Long Island which at one time was called the Connecticut River. The entire Connetquot River watershed habitat represents the largest undeveloped contiguous area within Suffolk County that covers an entire river watershed. The river is ...

  5. Oakdale, New York - Wikipedia

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    The community includes: St. John's Episcopal Church, built in 1765, is the third oldest church on Long Island. The community originated with a tavern owned by Eliphalet (Liff) Snedecor in what is now Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Soon after its founding in 1820, Snedecor's Tavern began drawing New York bluebloods and business barons who ...

  6. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    After Harvard Law, he joined the New York Central Railroad, the centerpiece of his family's vast railway empire, of which his father was president. [1]On his father's death in 1920, Harold inherited a fortune that included the Idle Hour country estate at Oakdale, New York (on Long Island) and equity in several railway companies, including Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Railroad, the Genesee Falls ...

  7. Westchester environmental groups unite to protect Hudson ...

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    Joint effort to protect Hudson River, Long Island Sound, more "We want to see the county take more leadership and regional role in protecting the water," Seligman said during a boat trip July 8 ...

  8. Connetquot River State Park Preserve - Wikipedia

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    Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a 3,473-acre (14.05 km 2) state park [1] and conservation area in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. . The park contains the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center as well as the Southside Sportsmens Club District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1

  9. FDNY unions say congestion toll will hurt response times ...

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    The toll is $9 during peak hours — from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends — and $2.25 for off-peak hours.