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Pages in category "Novels set in Long Island" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton; [2] it is a cautionary tale about genetic engineering that presents the collapse of a zoological park which showcases genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory [3] and its real-world implications.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Robert Moses State Park is a 875-acre (3.54 km 2) state park in southern Suffolk County, New York. [3] The park lies on the western end of Fire Island, one of the central barrier islands off the southern coast of Long Island, and is known for its five-mile (8.0 km) stretch of beaches on the Atlantic Ocean.
Beach at Sunken Meadow State Park. Sunken Meadow State Park is open year-round from sunrise to sunset. The park's features include three miles (4.8 km) of beaches on the Long Island Sound, a three-quarters-mile-long (1.2 km) boardwalk, six miles (9.7 km) of hiking trails, and facilities for biking, horseback riding, watersports, and general recreation.
Bethpage State Park is a 1,477-acre (5.98 km 2) New York state park on the border of Nassau County and Suffolk County on Long Island. The park contains tennis courts, picnic and recreational areas and a polo field, but is best known for its five golf courses, including the Bethpage Black Course , which hosted the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open Golf ...
Gantry Plaza State Park is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) state park [1] on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens.The park is located in a former dockyard and manufacturing district, and includes remnants of facilities from the area's past.
The Long Island State Park Commission, led by Robert Moses, expropriated the property in 1924, an action found to be illegal by the state's highest court on the grounds that the law did not permit such expropriation when the Commission did not have the funds to pay for the property; however, in the meantime, the Commission had retained control ...