From Trenches to Atoms
The 5,000-acre stretch of pine barrens in Yaphank trained WWI draftees, then split atoms. A century of federal land use hidden in the Long Island woods.
The Ward Melville Makeover
During the Great Depression, a shoe magnate bought a town and painted it colonial. Was Ward Melville’s Stony Brook Village Center philanthropy or the ultimate real estate flex?
Ordering Your House from a Catalog
Before Amazon Prime, you ordered a house from a catalog. Sears kit homes sold between 1908 and 1940 still stand on Long Island — built by working hands, not consultants.
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.
