The 1938 Hurricane on Long Island: A Timeline of the Storm and What It Did to the Coast
The 1938 Long Island Express by the clock: the Sound ferries, landfall near Bellport, Dune Road, the North Shore, and how sources count the toll.
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Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island: Tesla’s Last Laboratory, the Land Deal Behind It, and the Site Today
Wardenclyffe in Shoreham, NY: the land deal that brought Tesla there, the 1903 funding cutoff, the cleanup, the 2023 fire, and what is open today.
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Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas: A Case Brief of the Long Island Zoning Ruling on Who Counts as a Family
Belle Terre v. Boraas explained: the 1974 ruling on a Long Island village and six Stony Brook students, and where New York law differs today.
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Recruit Washington’s Spies Here, Then Go Home for Dinner
Abraham Woodhull ran one of the most consequential intelligence networks in American history from a Setauket farm. The documented history, stripped of the AMC dramatization.
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Counting Gravestones on a Tuesday Morning
The Setauket Presbyterian Church burial ground holds the graves of Culper spy ring members — including Abraham Woodhull. Walking it is a different kind of history lesson.
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Caroline Church Has Been Holding Services Since 1729
Built in 1729 and still in continuous use, Caroline Church of Brookhaven in Setauket is the second-oldest Episcopal church building in the United States — and a window into North Shore history.
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The Block That Time-Locked: Why Port Jefferson Village’s Walking Culture Survived When Every Town Around It Didn’t
Port Jefferson is one of the only North Shore villages where you can walk to a hardware store, a diner, and a ferry without crossing a six-lane road. That’s not an accident.
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Building the Moon Buggy in Bethpage
Before silicon valleys and software, Long Island engineers built the machine that landed on the moon. The Grumman Lunar Module story — right off the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
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The Aristocrat of the Roasting Pan: How Long Island Mass-Produced the Duck
Before the roadside novelty in Flanders, the Long Island duck was an industrial juggernaut. A sardonic look at how a working-class industry became an elite table luxury.
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Sagamore Hill’s Kitchen Midden: The Roosevelt Estate’s Refuse Deposits and What a Century of Discarded Objects Says About Presidential Domesticity
Archaeologists have always known that what people throw away tells more truth than what they keep on display. Sagamore Hill’s grounds have been hiding that truth in layers.
