Explore Long Island
Tour the best decorated houses in Suffolk for Christmas lights.
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Find out the top 10 pizza places on Long Island, as determined by Newsday.com readers.
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Long Islanders enjoy amusement rides, parades and street fairs across the Island.
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A video tour of famed poet Walt Whitman's birthplace.
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Celebration of LI's whaling history in Cold Spring Harbor.
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Take a tour of the museum, harbor and fish hatchery.
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Huntington has thriving cultural scene
Native son Walt Whitman poetically described 19th century Huntington as "the place for him who wishes life in its flavor and its bloom." More than a century after his death in 1892, it still is.
Picturesque Northport still has its trolley tracks
As coastal Long Island shifted from farming to shipbuilding in the 1800s, the village formerly known as Cow Harbor was renamed Northport – no doubt a relief to status-conscious 19th century tourists.
Cold Spring Harbor main street swimming in history
Tiny Cold Spring Harbor, almost 100 miles from the open ocean, was a doomed player in the 19th-century whaling game. Its nine ships valiantly pursued the lucrative beasts from the South Pacific to the Arctic but were no match for the vast fleets from major ports like Nantucket.
A mansion untarnished by time
It's surely the only house on Long Island with a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy reposing in the guest wing and a 238-seat planetarium in the backyard.
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