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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.
* 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.
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Category: Long Island Rail Road
" ( This seating design can also be found on older New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road rolling stock.
* 1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
The Light Rail possesses many characteristics of a tramway, including running on streets with other traffic ( at grades ) on some of its tracks and providing services for the public in New Territories West, including Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.
** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.
** Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 25-year sentence for each of the 6 murders.
The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a commuter rail system serving the length of Long Island, New York, stretching from Manhattan to the easternmost tip of Suffolk County, New York.
It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which has styled it MTA Long Island Rail Road.
The current LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains.
The Long Island Rail Road Company was chartered in 1834 to provide a daily train service between New York and Boston via a ferry connection between its Greenport, New York, terminal on Long Island's North Fork and Stonington, Connecticut.
The Long Island Rail Road system is made up of eleven passenger branches.
A New York Times investigation in 2008 showed that more than 90 % of Long Island Rail Road employees who had retired since 2000 were receiving disability payments from the federal Railroad Retirement Board, collectively totalling more than $ 250, 000, 000 over 8 years.
* Long Island Rail Road fleet
* List of presidents and trustees of the Long Island Rail Road
* Long Island Rail Road massacre
* MTA Long Island Rail Road
* Long Island Rail Road Schedule ( official )
Long and Road
Long live Tobacco Road.
* Army of Darkness: Long Road Home
Also featured were two music videos (" Long Hard Road Out of Hell " by Marilyn Manson and " Criminal " by Fiona Apple ) not included in any of the show's regular episodes.
* 1970 – " The Long and Winding Road " becomes the Beatles ' last US Number 1 song.
In October 1945, Pollock married American painter Lee Krasner, and in November they moved to what is now known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio, at 830 Springs Fireplace Road, in the Springs area of East Hampton, on Long Island, NY.
* 1974 – Jaron Lowenstein, American musician ( Evan and Jaron and Jaron and the Long Road to Love )
It is located at Camp Ogden, Long Circular Road, St James.
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War.
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