Tucked away on Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside, a small town in Long Island, you’ll find a verdant wonderland that is chock full of plants and knick-knacks. A big shop filled with enough greenery, decorations, and seeds to rival even the most scenic orchard and farm. A place that really takes its love of the holdiays quite seriously. What place of such whimsy...
In June of 1987, my family and I moved from a tiny apartment in NYC to a Georgian-style home in a town called Rockville Centre (RVC). On January 14, 2015, at around 4:30 pm, I tearfully left my home in a slight hurry as a made my exodus from suburbia towards the concrete jungles of New York City. The melancholy of R.E.M.’s “Don’t Go Back to...
On a sunny day in April, in a little town called Bethpage, at the edge of Nassau County in Long Island, I headed to the grounds of the Old Bethpage Restoration Village, a outdoor ethnographic museum that showcases old relics from Long Island’s colonial past. A popular attraction for families and children on field trips, but on this day, the grounds of this...
Massapequa, a big town on the south shore of Long Island, is primarily famous for being the birthplace of Jerry Seinfeld and the Baldwin Brothers. Besides its celebrity cool, the town boasts another reason to visit: an amazing burger stand that truly blows other fast food chains away! The All American Hamburger Drive-In, located on Merrick Road just south of Sunrise...
Long Island is home to some of the most lavish historic estates in the country, let alone the world. When many people think of the fanciest homes, the Hamptons is always the first place that comes to mind. But you don’t have to go all the way to the east end of Suffolk County to explore the lifestyles of the rich and famous. In fact, some of the fanciest...