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The Long Island Ducks, founded in 2000, continue to be a strong draw in the region, averaging 400, 000 fans a season, and have seen the likes of such Major League alumni as Edgardo Alfonzo, Pedro Borbón, Jr., José Offerman, Donovan Osborne, Bill Pulsipher, Armando Ríos, John Rocker, and Mark Whiten.
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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.
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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.
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In 2007, Frank Boulton expressed his contentment with the Atlantic League and the Ducks to Baseball America saying, " The Long Island Ducks are the best thing I've ever done in baseball.
The Bluefish were purchased by Frank Boulton, who is also the owner of the Long Island Ducks and the founder of the Atlantic League.
The new team was widely expected to take the Long Island Ducks name used by an Eastern Hockey League franchise ; the more geographically expansive " New York Islanders " came largely as a surprise.
A team in Uniondale would make a rival for the Long Island Ducks, who play in Central Islip, New York.
* Frank Boulton: Bay Shore High School alumni, President of Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, owner and president of the Long Island Ducks.
In 2000, the baseball stadium for minor league team Long Island Ducks opened.
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* Long Island Ducks ( 1961-62 to 1972-73 )
In, he played for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League.
In 2005, he signed with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League.
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He resumed his playing career with the Long Island Ducks in the Atlantic League.
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The Nassau County team is expected to be a key rival of the Long Island Ducks, who play in the nearby county of Suffolk.
In February, Alfonzo returned to the ALPB, signing with the Long Island Ducks.
On June 9, 2008, Alfonzo signed with the Long Island Ducks.
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On April 10, 2007, Hidalgo joined the Long Island Ducks.
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He finished his career playing for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League in 2008.
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* Ehren Wassermann of the Long Island Ducks
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