On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

On the western tip of Long Island protruded Brooklyn Heights.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.

More typical is the case of a suburban Long Island housewife described by a marriage counselor.

But it should be pointed out that some of the new watering places -- Fire Island, Nantucket, Westhampton, Long Island, for example -- tend to be homogeneously Jewish.

Later, Shea owned and operated the Long Island Indians, a minor league professional football team.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York International Airport.

In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

And on northern shores indomitable sailors from Long Island to Lake Michigan will beat around the buoys in dozens of frostbite races.

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 516: 958 Hempstead / Long Island, NY

* 516: 968 Hempstead / Long Island, NY

The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

The railroad connected Lower Manhattan via the South Ferry to Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island, where a ferry connected to Stonington, Connecticut to a rail link that continued to Boston.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel and the Long Island Railroad remained the primary means of access to most of central Long Island from Manhattan and New York City.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

But its glory, after enduring in great splendor for a season, has now vanished — at least its Long Island Railroad glory has.

In her opening remarks Mrs. Long also welcomed the Juniors and stated, `` There isn't any other show quite like Westminster.

The city of Bridgeport ( on Long Island Sound ), like most other areas in metropolitan New York, typically falls within the humid subtropical climate zone under the Köppen Climate Classification system.

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

Australia's involvement in Vietnam increased significantly under Holt, with Australian troops fighting and dying in sometimes desperate battles like Long Tan.

Lipscomb performed old songs like " Sugar Babe ," the first song he ever learned, to pop numbers like " Shine On, Harvest Moon " and " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ".

In 1952, unable to meet demand himself, Brunot sold manufacturing rights to Long Island-based Selchow and Righter, one of the manufacturers who, like Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley Company, had previously rejected the game.

Long core life is enabled by high uranium enrichment and by incorporating a " burnable neutron poison ", which is progressively depleted as non-burnable poisons like fission products and actinides accumulate.

Political: Louisiana Governor Earl Long used nigger in advocating full voting rights for Black Americans ; in that time, like colored and negro, it was mainstream usage in the American South.

Sorge praised Hitler for the Night of the Long Knives, and claimed that if Hitler had been leader in 1918, then the High Seas Fleet mutiny would had been crushed just like Hitler had crushed the alleged SA mutiny of 1934.

Long drawn-out jams in numbers like " Spoonful ", " N. S. U. ", " I'm So Glad ", and " Sweet Wine " became live favourites, while songs like " Sunshine of Your Love ", " Crossroads ", and " Tales of Brave Ulysses " remained reasonably short.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

The winter weather patterns that affect New London result from a primarily offshore or westerly direction, thus reducing the marine influence of Long Island Sound — although, like other marine areas, differences in temperature between areas along the coastline and areas inland can be large at times.

Names like Long, Becham, Merritt, and Dickson were known throughout the area for their utilitarian jugs and crocks.

Hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best albums, it was praised as " a superb new album which sees a return to the form he showed to full effect on those classics like ' Only Visiting This Planet ' and ' So Long Ago the Garden ' back in the mid seventies " with 13 new " songs are cleverly arranged and produced, with plenty of pertinent lyrical imagery and the sly wit of yore amongst the electric guitar solos and breezy ( sampled?

One scene in " Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore " was filmed in Amado at a restaurant shaped like a cow skull called the Long Horn Grill.

During the middle to late 19th century, Long Lake developed like many other towns.

Many restaurants have returned to Long Beach, such as Harbor View Cafe, Bull's, and Cajun Crawfish Hut, and have given local musicians popularity like Grocery Feet, The Crowd and solo pianist / vocalist Brett Hilbert.

By the 1950s, Long Branch like many other towns had developed new residential spots and housing to make room for the growing population.

It is on the Great Neck Peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, like the other parts of Great Neck.

Because there are fewer flights to choose from, most Bay Shore residents ( like other Long Islanders ) travel to larger and more accommodative airports for most of their air travel, such as John F Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in the Borough of Queens in New York City, and Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.

The area is close to major transportation hubs like MacArthur Airport and Ronkonkoma Long Island Railroad.

An 1897 Long Island Rail Road catalog listed Speonk, noting that that name " certainly sounds like the call of a frog.