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 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.
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.
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.
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.
From 1952 to 1989, a former Grumman engineer lived completely off-grid on Stony Brook’s shoreline….