The Tower at the Edge of the World: Camp Hero’s Radar Monolith and the Myth It Made
Sixty miles east of where the island narrows and the Hamptons begin their slow surrender…
The Stainless Steel Cathedrals: How Kullman and DeRaffele Built Long Island’s Roadside Landscape
How two factories — Kullman in New Jersey and DeRaffele in New Rochelle — fabricated the chrome-and-porcelain diners that defined Long Island’s roadside landscape for generations.
The Greek Diner Owners of Long Island: An Immigrant Story Told in Coffee and Eggs
The Long Island diner didn’t build itself. Here’s the labor history behind why Greek immigrants dominated the diner industry — and what’s being lost as their generation turns over.
The Diners That Disappeared: Demolished, Burned, or Bulldozed — Long Island’s Lost Roadside Icons
A eulogy for Long Island’s closed and demolished diners — the names, the addresses, what replaced them, and what their loss says about the suburbs we’ve become.
The Bootlegger’s Highway: Tracing Old Willets Path and the Rum-Running Route That Connected Queens to the North Shore
Before it was a suburban connector, Willets Path was the arterial highway for Canadian whiskey moving from Prohibition-era speedboats to Manhattan speakeasies. The road remembers what the subdivisions forgot.
The Forgotten Influenza Ward: How the 1918 Pandemic Turned St. James General Store Into a Makeshift Hospital
Before COVID-19, the North Shore fought the deadliest pandemic in history with nothing but gauze masks and improvised wards. Here’s what the town records buried.
