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Beginnings: Like the rest of the barrier island on which it sits, Lido Beach existed first as an uninhabited, barren sandbar. The island got its start when William Reynolds dredged the channel that bears his name to create the resort of Long Beach. In 1929, after Reynolds had been defeated for re-election as Long Beach mayor, he turned his attention to the unincorporated area just east of the city and built the Moorish-style Lido Beach Hotel, naming it for the resort villa in Italy. Reynolds envisioned the hotel as an anchor for another resort community, but the stock market crash that year and the subsequent Depression halted development for almost a decade.
Beginnings: Like the rest of the barrier island on which it sits, Lido Beach existed first as an uninhabited, barren sandbar. The island got its start when William Reynolds dredged the channel that bears his name to create the resort of Long Beach. In 1929, after Reynolds had been defeated for re-election as Long Beach mayor, he turned his attention to the unincorporated area just east of the city and built the Moorish-style Lido Beach Hotel, naming it for the resort villa in Italy. Reynolds envisioned the hotel as an anchor for another resort community, but the stock market crash that year and the subsequent Depression halted development for almost a decade.
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New Wave redux rolls into Jones Beach
kevin.amorim@newsday.comWe really did belong to a club. There were degrees of membership, of course -- hey, nice asymmetrical haircut! -- but one thing was for certain: if you were lucky enough to have lived through the new-wave music invasion of the early 1980s, Long Island was...Tags: Theater, Tickets, Carol Burnett, Beach Vacations, New York
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How LI voted
Based on polling place communities. Data provided by the Nassau and Suffolk boards of elections. Community; DEMOCRATS (Clinton / Obama ); REPUBLICANS (McCain / Romney / Huckabee / Paul NASSAU Albertson 68% 30% 59% 26% 6% 5% Atlantic Beach 74 25 60 27...Tags: Southampton (Suffolk, New York), Stony Brook, Shirley, Central Islip, Island Park
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Peternana Terrace, Freeport
Where: 45 Wallace St., one- tenth of a mile north of Sunrise Highway in Freeport, 516-486-1000 (Stanan Management Co.) What: Federally subsidized, 97-unit rental development, with studios and one-bedrooms in a five-story building. The complex is open...Tags: Nassau County, Society, Rental Service, Freeport, Medical Staff
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South Shore Bird Refuge Eyed
Staff WriterBirds, and the birders who watch them, may be getting a boost along the South Shore. From Inwood to Shinnecock, 21 state-owned tidal wetland sites in Nassau and Suffolk are to be grouped into a new "bird conservation area" under a proposal designed to...Tags: Shirley, Oakdale, Inwood (Manhattan, New York), Beach Vacations, Westhampton
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Lido Beach
Beginnings: Like the rest of the barrier island on which it sits, Lido Beach existed first as an uninhabited, barren sandbar. The island got its start when William Reynolds dredged the channel that bears his name to create the resort of Long Beach. The...Tags: Nike Incorporated, Turning Point of Lehigh Valley, Inc., Elections, Long Island, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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