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Trivia about long island

  • This New York island is divided into 4 counties: Kings, Queens, Nassau & Suffolk
  • New York's largest, it has more people than 41 of our 50 states
  • Stretching 118 miles, it had a population boom in Nassau & Suffolk counties starting in the 1940s
  • 4 New York counties lie on this island, including Kings & Queens
  • Amityville, Oyster Bay, & Brooklyn are located on this New York island
  • Jay Gatsby lived at West Egg on this, New York's largest island
  • Great Peconic & Napeague Bays are at the tip of this New York island
  • Coney Island was once an actual island, but since a creek silted up, it's part of this one
  • The Great Gatsby lived there
  • 2 major airports, JFK & LaGuardia, lie on this island
  • Far from the Caribbean, Jamaica Bay is on this New York island
  • Brooklyn was the scene of the August 1776 "Battle of" this island
  • There are islands with this name in Massachusetts, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Maine, but the biggest is in New York
  • In 1776, after the Battle of this area shown here, the British retook New York City and held the city until the war's end in 1783
  • This N.Y. area that early Native Americans called Paumanok covers about 1,700 square miles; I'll see you in the Hamptons
  • This "lengthy" island forms the easternmost part of New York state