Long Island Resources
About Long Island
Long
Island, New York offers diversity, glamour, the good life,
excitement or solitude; all within 125 miles. The quiet waters of
Long Island Sound to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south
are a combination vacationers and meeting planners cannot resist.
Long Island is an area with a colorful past and a promising future;
it is big and sprawling, diverse and dynamic, sophisticated and
down-home. There are over 2.5 million people who make Long Island
their home. Long Island is located just east of Manhattan on the
southeastern tip of New York State. It is comprised of 4 counties;
Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. In general, the heart of Long
Island is Nassau and Suffolk, whereas Brooklyn and Queens are part
of the 5 boroughs of New York City.
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Whether you're sending your child to kindergarten for the first time, or returning to college for your doctorate, the Long Island area offers a wide variety of public and private institutions for all of your educational. There are 125 public school districts with nearly 30,000 teachers serving over 400,000 students in th area. There are also 255 private schools with almost 5,000 teachers serving over 50,000 students. The island is also home to 17 four year colleges and five professional institutions. Almost 90 percent of high school students go on to higher education.
If you're thinking of making a move to Long Island, you'll want to get more information about the towns you're considering. The styles and prices of homes vary greatly by area, as does the terrain. Long Island has something for everyone, whether you're looking for that first home, a larger family home, a waterfront property, a condo or townhome, or a multimillion dollar estate. RE/MAX Signature can help make this decision easier for you.
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Dining and Entertainment
Dining choices on Long Island are endless, from fine Itallian cuisine, to the best of French food, to the freshest of seafood served in seaside restaurants. Your options are limited only by your imagination and willingness to travel. And, of course, there are the pizza parlors, chinese restaurants and fast food emporiums that will delight the kids. For a list of places to dine, visit Crazy Hungry or CityGuide. Visit LongIsland.com to find the latest events, great shopping and various businesses throughout Long Island. To learn more about Long Island and all it has to offer, visit the Long Island Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Nightlife
There are over 100 nightspots on Long Island offering all types of
entertainment from trendy, chic dance clubs to quiet piano bars. You
can dance indoors under the strobes and neon light, or square dance
or ballroom dance outdoors under the moonlight. Shake it up on the
deck of a beachfront dance club, or sip drinks as you watch the
sunset in a quiet dockside patio setting. You can find several jazz
clubs and other nightspots offering live music. Or for laughs, check
in at any of nine comedy clubs, or choose from over 200 screens at
72 movie theater complexes scattered throughout the Nassau-Suffolk
region.
Long Island Families
Sports
Long Island Wine Country
Long Island Lighthouses
Long Island Game Farm
Long Island Portal
Long Island History
Long Island Rail Road
McArthur Airport
LIPA