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Eating Well on Long Island — The Complete Guide to Keto, Organic & High-Protein Dining
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Read the Guide Long Island HistoryLong Island History: 20 Moments That Shaped the Island
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East Hampton Grill — 99 North Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937
At the northern edge of East Hampton Village, where North Main Street bends gently past century-old elms and shingled cottages,...
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Pasta Pasta — 234 East Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY 11777
There’s a quality of light inside certain restaurants that no architect can draft and no designer can specify — a...
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Gage & Tollner — 372 Fulton Street, Downtown Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gas flames once hissed in brass chandeliers above this dining room when Brooklyn was still its own city, when horse-drawn...
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A Mediterranean Waterfront Masterpiece in Port Jefferson: 15 Stephans Path
$2,950,000 • 4 Bedrooms • 6 Baths • 1 Acre • Long Island Sound Frontage Listing ID: 926947 MLS Listing...
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A Resort‑Style Colonial in Wading River’s Great Rock Community
212 Fairway Drive, Wading River, NY 11792 — Listed at $949,999 Wading River’s Great Rock community has long been one...
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Wölffer Estate Vineyard — 139 Sagg Road, Sagaponack, NY 11962
Fifty-five acres of sustainably farmed vine rows cut across what were once potato fields in one of the wealthiest zip...
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Blend on the Water — 45-40 Center Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11109
Manhattan's skyline has always been the performance, but the best seat in the house was never on the island itself....
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Long Island’s North Shore vs. South Shore: A Buyer’s Guide
If you're searching for a home on Long Island, one of the first decisions you'll face isn't which town to...
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Olmsted — 659 Vanderbilt Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Nine years is not a long time in the restaurant business—unless you spend every one of those years redefining what...
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The River Café — 1 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Forty-eight years moored beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, floating on an...
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The Halyard — 58775 Route 48, Greenport, NY 11944
Jack Levin opened a beachfront concession stand on this stretch of Long Island Sound in 1935. He called it Jack's...
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Casa Enrique — 5-48 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
Cosme Aguilar never intended to become a chef. Growing up in the mountainous city of Cintalapa, in Mexico's southernmost state...
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Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch — The Missing Manual to The Selfish Gene
Aaron Lynch published Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society in 1996, two decades after Richard Dawkins introduced the word...
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What Is It Like to Be a Brain? The Philosophical War Between Reductionism and Emergence in Consciousness Research
Somewhere inside the three-pound electrochemical universe sitting behind your eyes, something extraordinary is happening — not just the firing of...
Read MoreGet a Grip on Evolution by David Burnie — A Review
David Burnie | Time Life Education | 192 pages | 1999 Evolution is one of those subjects that people feel...
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Maureen’s Kitchen: 108 Terry Road, Smithtown, NY 11787
A Heritage Diner Profile — The Restaurants of Long Island Series A stretch of Terry Road in Smithtown can feel...
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Duck Walk Vineyards: 231 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976
By Peter from The Heritage Diner | heritagediner.com/blog Before the Normandy château rose from the sandy soil of Water Mill,...
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Nine Alleged Members of “Lowndes Block Gang” Indicted in Murders, Shootings & Sex Trafficking on Long Island
Suffolk County prosecutors have announced a sweeping 53‑count indictment against nine alleged members and associates of the Lowndes Block Gang...
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The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey
Few books have been so aggressively misread by the people who hate them — and so selectively misread by the...
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Il Mulino New York — 1042 Northern Boulevard, Roslyn, NY 11576
Somewhere between the cobblestone charm of Greenwich Village and the salt-kissed harbors of Long Island's Gold Coast, an Italian dining...
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