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  2. Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages

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    The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, known as the Long Island Museum (LIM), is a nine-acre museum located in Stony Brook, New York.The LIM serves the Long Island community by preserving and displaying its collection of art, historical artifacts, and carriages; providing educational and public programming; and collaborating with a variety of other arts and cultural ...

  3. Nassau County Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .nassaumuseum .com. The Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located on the former Frick "Clayton" Estate, a 145-acre (59 ha) property in Roslyn Harbor on the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold A. Saltzman and his wife Joan, is a three-story ...

  4. List of mammals of New York - Wikipedia

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    Cetaceans, order Cetacea. Cetaceans are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Family Balaenidae (right whales) Genus: Balaena. Bowhead whale, B. mysticetus LC.

  5. New York and Atlantic Railway - Wikipedia

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    The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) (reporting mark NYA) is a short line railroad on Long Island, within the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.It was formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations.

  6. Vanderbilt Museum - Wikipedia

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    Boundary increase. February 2, 2021. The Vanderbilt Museum is located in Centerport on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, USA. Named for William Vanderbilt II (1878–1944), it is located on his former 43-acre (17 ha) estate, Eagle's Nest .

  7. Heckscher Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    The Heckscher Museum of Art is an American art museum. It is named after its benefactors, Anna and August Heckscher, who in 1920 donated 185 works of art to be housed in a new Beaux-Arts building located in Heckscher Park, in Huntington, New York. The museum has over 2,300 works of art, focused on American and Long Island artists, as well as ...

  8. List of museums on Long Island - Wikipedia

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    Operated by the Shelter Island Historical Society. Heckscher Museum of Art. Huntington. Suffolk. Art. Focused mainly on American landscape paintings and work by Long Island artists, as well as featuring American and European modernism, and photography. Hicksville Gregory Museum. Hicksville.

  9. Parrish Art Museum - Wikipedia

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    Parrish Art Museum. / 40.904334; -72.366064. The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and located in Water Mill, New York, whereto it moved in 2012 from Southampton Village. The museum focuses extensively on work by artists from the artist colony of the South Shore (Long Island) and North Shore (Long ...