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Beginnings: Before the Long Island Rail Road came to Huntington in 1868, the community then known as Huntington Harbor was the town's center of transportation and commerce. Because it took several days to travel overland to New York City, most produce and people were carried by schooners making regular trips from docks in Halesite. There was ferry service to Connecticut between 1765 and 1916, and during World War II, boatyards built subchasers for the Navy.
Beginnings: Before the Long Island Rail Road came to Huntington in 1868, the community then known as Huntington Harbor was the town's center of transportation and commerce. Because it took several days to travel overland to New York City, most produce and people were carried by schooners making regular trips from docks in Halesite. There was ferry service to Connecticut between 1765 and 1916, and during World War II, boatyards built subchasers for the Navy.
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Police reports from East Northport, Fort Salonga, Greenlawn, Halesite, Huntington, Huntington Station, Melville, South Huntington
East Northport An iPod was stolen Oct. 14 from a car on Cayuga Avenue. Windows were found broken Oct. 14 at the Middle School on Fifth Avenue. Fort Salonga Vandalism was found Oct. 13 at a house on Fort Salonga Road. Greenlawn Tools and supplies were...Tags: Northport, Crimes, Huntington Station, Melville, Fort Salonga
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Union chief endorses Suffolk Social Services head
FLIP IN SUFFOLK Agency chief backed In an about-face, Cheryl Felice, president of the Suffolk Association of Municipal Employees, is now backing holdover Social Services Commissioner Janet DeMarzo for a new five-year term in the $156,000-a-year job....Tags: Executive Branch, Mike Huckabee, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Society
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Police reports from Commack, Dix Hills, East Northport, Elwood, Greenlawn, Halesite, Huntington, Huntington Station and Melville
lidesk@newsday.comCommack - A 1998 Cadillac was stolen Saturday on Elwood Road. The police report said the owner told them he left the keys in the car. Dix Hills - Two lawn mowers were stolen Friday from a landscaper's trailer on MacNiece Place. - The owner of a...Tags: Northport, Crimes, Huntington Station, Melville, Elwood (Huntington, New York)
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Police reports from Commack, East Northport, Greenlawn, Halesite, Huntington, South Huntington
lidesk@newsday.comCommack - A 1999 utility trailer with tools in it was reported stolen May 6 on Route 25. - A Honda motorcycle was stolen May 6 on Digney Court. East Northport - A burglary was discovered May 6 at a house on Daly Road. The police report said entry was...Tags: Northport, Police, Crimes, New York, Huntington Bay
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Police reports from Commack, Dix Hills, Fort Salonga, Halesite, Huntington Station and Northport
lidesk@newsday.comCommack - A Hubbell Street resident told police she saw a black SUV hit her fence April 26. Dix Hills - Vandals broke the light post at a house on Athena Court April 25. Fort Salonga - A Mountain View Drive resident said his family's cars were...Tags: Northport, Crimes, Police, Huntington Station, Vehicles
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Romancing the Colonial
Special to NewsdayWhen Jim and Laura Smiros bought their Oyster Bay home four years ago, they did so with the intention of giving it a makeover. Set on two wooded acres, it had the land and the basic form they wanted, but the details fell short - way short. They felt...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Building Material, Architecture, New York, Long Island
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A Desire Named Streetcar
Staff WriterLong before the automobile took over Long Island, when the century was very, very young, a network of streetcars took Long Islanders from place to place with clanging gongs and whistles that announced their arrival. For a brief time, the trolley had...Tags: Jericho, Long Island Rail Road, Ford, Vehicles, Fire Island
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Halesite
Beginnings: Before the Long Island Rail Road came to Huntington in 1868, the community then known as Huntington Harbor was the town's center of transportation and commerce. Because it took several days to travel overland to New York City, most produce and...Tags: Nathan Hale, Connecticut, Henry Fonda, Marion Davies, Long Island Rail Road
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Huntington Station
Beginnings: There wouldn't be a Huntington Station if the Long Island Rail Road hadn't built a Huntington station. In 1867, the railroad extended its tracks to the hills south of Huntington and built a depot surrounded by farmland. By the turn of the...Tags: Huntington Station, Gold Coast, Transportation, New York, Railway Transportation
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Huntington
As Long Island's fifth oldest town, Huntington has evolved during the last 345 years with many faces: tiny pioneer outpost, guerrilla stronghold in the American Revolution, home of Walt Whitman, whaling center, mother of Babylon Town, Gold Coast enclave...Tags: Great South Bay, Huntington (Suffolk, New York), Nathan Hale, Connecticut, Marshall Field
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Golden Age of Trolleys
Staff WriterNow, the Cross-Island Line is a mighty good road, The Cross-Island Line is the road to ride. Well, that's not exactly how the old song goes, but it would have been good enough for the folks in Huntington, Farmingdale and Amityville on Aug. 25, 1909....Tags: History, Great South Bay, Huntington Station, Huntington (Suffolk, New York), Melville
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