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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.
The South Shore is also home to the seaside resort of The Hamptons on its east end, located on the South Fork of Long Island. [2] On its west end, bordering Queens, the Five Towns retains pockets of affluence similar in character to the Gold Coast of the North Shore and The Hamptons.
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.
This list of museums on Long Island is a list of museums in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York. (Museums in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn , which are also physically located on Long Island, are found in List of museums in New York City ).
The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s. It has since become a mixture of lower ...
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
Crocheron Park is a public park situated at 214th Street and 35th Avenue in Bayside, Queens, New York City. [1]A view from the eastern end of Crocheron Park, overlooking Little Neck Bay and the Cross Island Parkway A gazebo at the eastern end of Crocheron Park A field, walking path and small forested area in Crocheron Park Playground equipment in Crocheron Park The western entrance to ...
As of the 2000 United States Census, 25.4% of residents in ZIP code 11693 identified themselves as having Irish ancestry, making the Rockaway Beach area the 2nd most Irish region in the whole country—right after Boston, Massachusetts's South Shore, which has roughly 38–40% of its citizens claiming Irish, or mostly Irish, ancestry. [23]