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Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to 125 public school districts, containing a total of 656 public schools. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The list below contains each of Long Island's school districts, along with their respective schools.
The Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame is an American sports hall of fame based in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York. [1] The non-profit was established during 1990 to honor outstanding people, living or deceased, who have gained prominence and made substantial contributions on behalf of themselves and Suffolk County in professional and amateur sports.
Huntington Area Rapid Transit began operations in 1978. It was established in order to provide better connectivity throughout the town, and to better integrate it with the region's larger transportation networks, such as the Long Island Rail Road. In 1995, HART eliminated a bus route, known as the Red Line due to low ridership, only being used ...
Suffolk County (/ ˈ s ʌ f ə k / SUF-ək) is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York, constituting the eastern two-thirds of Long Island.It is bordered to its west by Nassau County, to its east by Gardiners Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean, to its north by Long Island Sound, and to its south by the Atlantic Ocean.
Emmarae Gervasi disappeared from Suffolk County, N.Y., on Dec. 8, according to local police. She was found on a boat in a canal in Islip on Friday, Jan. 3, her father Frank Gervasi said in a ...
Nighttime conditions in and around the five boroughs of New York are often exacerbated by the urban heat island phenomenon, and temperatures exceed 90 °F (32 °C) on average of 7–8 days (on the immediate Long Island Sound and Atlantic coasts), up to in excess of 27 days (inland suburbs in New Jersey) each summer and may exceed 100 °F (38 °C).
The counties of Nassau and Suffolk have long been renowned for their affluence and high standard of living. This affluence is especially pervasive among the hamlets and villages on the North Shore of Long Island as far as western Suffolk, the extreme eastern South Shore (home to the Hamptons) and several wealthy pockets along the South Shore further west [clarification needed].
When it incorporated, Islandia became the first new village on Long Island to incorporate in over 15 years (the last village incorporated prior to Islandia was Lake Grove in 1968). [3] [4] The core of Islandia is a 500-home housing development built by Levitt & Sons circa 1963, which offered seven different model homes to choose from. [4]