Three national chains failed in the same stretch of Jericho Turnpike in Smithtown within ten years. The diner two doors down has been there since 1967. Here’s why.
Before the Hamptons existed, Cold Spring Harbor was shipping millions of oysters a week to Manhattan by steamboat. Here’s the food history Long Island forgot.
The real history of Naugahyde vinyl — developed by U.S. Rubber in 1914, adopted in diner booths across Long Island, and sold with a fictional creature invented by Madison Avenue.
The Port Jefferson to Bridgeport crossing began in 1872 — not for tourists, but to move strawberries and freight between Long Island agriculture and New England industry. Here’s the real story.
The diner’s bottomless coffee is engineered around a machine that actively destroys the beverage. Here’s the chemistry — and the Long Island diner coffee question.
A historical look at the Forum Diner at 315 W. Main St. in Bay Shore — from its founding around 1970 to its August 2022 closing, what followed, and what the address still waits for.