Things To Do On Long Island

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by fopt65

Just over the Queens line, Alley Pond Park for hiking (now very well taken care of by the Parks Department)
Sands Point castle and exhibits
Sagamore Hill for Teddy Roosevelt fans
Close to Shea stadium is the Queens zoo real cheap to get in, and also the Hall of Science children's museum
Little Neck Farm just over the Queens line (little neck parkway exit off Northern state/ Grand Central Parkway
Hofstra football and basketball games

Does anybody else remember the "World of the Future" Con Edison thing at the Hall of Science, with the lit up nuclear reactor model? This is back when nuclear power was still considered to be a good idea.

When I was ten, I thought that was really something.

Alley Park was where my father used to take us kids to have "cookouts", we being apartment dwellers at the time. Once, I ran into a kid who had caught himself an Eastern Painted Turtle, a beautiful specimen. I asked him what he was going to do with it, and he said, "Cut it up for bait!"

Eek. For three bucks, begged from my father, I bought him. We took him back to our apartment. I called him Hungry Jack.

He really wasn't happy out on our concrete patio...so after a month or two, we took him out to Hempstead Lake Park and let him go. There, 37 years later, it is my fervent hope that he swims still. Turtles live a long time.

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by fopt65

Just over the Queens line, Alley Pond Park for hiking (now very well taken care of by the Parks Department)
Sands Point castle and exhibits
Sagamore Hill for Teddy Roosevelt fans
Close to Shea stadium is the Queens zoo real cheap to get in, and also the Hall of Science children's museum
Little Neck Farm just over the Queens line (little neck parkway exit off Northern state/ Grand Central Parkway
Hofstra football and basketball games

Also in that neck of the woods: Douglaston Marsh. A short hike from the nature center on Northern, you can see an osprey who's taken up residence there. Magnificent bird.

[ihateny]

So it seems like the only things to do on LI are either loitering and getting drunk or watching birds or movies.

[OvertaxedOnLI]

Originally Posted by ihateny

So it seems like the only things to do on LI are either loitering and getting drunk or watching birds or movies.

Hm, well, I do suppose that (just skimming through the posts here) other than going to a NY Islanders game, Long Island Dragons football game, LI Ducks baseball game, attending a live theatre production, playing golf, mini golf, boating, fishing, water skiing, whale watching, horseback riding, ice skating or hockey, swimming, surfing, tennis, racquetball, bowling, canoeing, kayaking, horse shows, polo, auto racing, Old Bethpage Village, Old Westbury Gardens, touring historic homes, concerts at Jones Beach and Bald Hill, holiday lights displays, Vanderbilt Planetarium, Nassau County Museum of Art, the Carriage Museum in Stony Brook, Atlantis Marine World, SplishSplash water park, touring wineries on both forks, several aviation and military museums (and probably about a dozen other museums too), antiques shows, car shows, events and concerts at Nassau Coliseum and just enjoying the many beaches and parks... you're right, there's absolutely nothing else to do. It's a wonder we all don't just keel over and die of acute boredom.

Oh wait, we do have a few stores and a couple of restaurants on Long Island here and there, just in case anyone needs a new pair of jeans or gets hungry.