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25 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were From Flatbush, Brooklyn

Few Brooklyn neighborhoods can tell their history through as many different kinds of famous people as Flatbush. Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond walked the halls of Erasmus Hall High School before either became a recording star. A future Supreme Court justice grew up in a Brooklyn household that prized education. An illustrator who would help invent modern television cartoons, an Oscar-winning actress, and a writer whose childhood experiences became material for his novels all have stories tied to the neighborhood. Even the list of names associated with Flatbush’s later hip-hop culture would fill an article of its own.

Brooklyn, NY · 15h
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A Potato Mountain Is Back: The Long Island Potato Festival Fills Farmingdale State College This Weekend

Long Island grew its reputation on potatoes long before it grew subdivisions, and this weekend a festival built around the crop sets up on the campus of Farmingdale State College. The Long Island Potato Festival runs Saturday, Nov. 7, from 1 to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 2350 Route 110 in Farmingdale. Admission and parking are both free.

Farmingdale, NY · 1d
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Stony Brook Hospital’s Iconic 1970s Complex Is Getting a New Look

The massive concrete and glass towers surrounding Stony Brook University Hospital are undergoing a major architectural transformation. Stony Brook University has released plans to replace […] The post Stony Brook Hospital’s Iconic 1970s Complex Is Getting a New Look first appeared on SciFisland.com .

Long Island, NY · 3d

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Tiger Woods Will Build a New Private Course on Long Island

Tiger Woods won the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black. Twenty-four years later he is coming back to Long Island with a bulldozer. On Monday, November 2, Woods and his design firm, TGR Design, said they will build a new 18-hole private course in the Village of Brookville, on the North Shore’s Gold Coast. The site is the old Tam O’Shanter Club, a property that has sat in limbo for the better part of seven years.

Bethpage, NY · 2d
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Inside a Warburg Family Estate on Long Island’s Gold Coast in 1941

On June 6, 1941, the elegant Brookville residence of Gerald F. Warburg was photographed, preserving a remarkable glimpse of life on Long Island’s Gold Coast. […] The post Inside a Warburg Family Estate on Long Island’s Gold Coast in 1941 first appeared on SciFisland.com .

Long Island, NY · 2d

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Garvies Point Museum Opens on a Sunday for Its Native American Fall Festival in Glen Cove

A Nassau County museum in Glen Cove is setting aside a full weekend for hands-on history. Garvies Point Museum and Preserve in Glen Cove holds its Native American Fall Festival on Saturday, November 14, and Sunday, November 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. What visitors can do.

Glen Cove, NY · 1d

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Smithtown theater community mourns Hannah Waller, 18, after three-year fight with brain cancer

Long Island’s theater community is mourning Hannah Waller, a 2026 Smithtown High School West graduate who died Sunday after a three-year fight with brain cancer. She was 18. Waller developed her love of musical theater early in life, won numerous awards and dreamed of someday performing on Broadway. “She...

Smithtown, NY · 1d

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Mural honoring Brianna “Breezy” Titcomb unveiled at Huntington Station park

Suffolk County Legis. Rebecca Sanin joined Legis. Stephanie Bontempi and nonprofit organization Splashes of Hope to celebrate the unveiling of a new mural at Breezy Park, honoring the life and legacy of Brianna “Breezy” Titcomb, a young athlete whose life was tragically cut short by a drunk driver 21 years ago.

Huntington, NY · 1d

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Billy Joel at Home: 10 Photos of the Piano Man Through the Decades

For Billy Joel, New York is more than just a place. It’s an inextricable part of what makes the singer who he is. “My speech patterns are New York. The music that I like, it was all New York–based. That’s what I think of when I think of home,” he said in his 2025 HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes. “It’s my roots.”

New York, NY · 1d

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Hip-hop feud heats up New York governor's race

New York · 7d

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New York State Broadcasters Association Inducts Seven Into Hall of Fame

The New York State Broadcasters Association inducted seven radio and TV personalities into its Hall of Fame during a ceremony Thursday at the Rainbow Room in New York City. The Class of 2026 spans major-market news operations and regional community stations across the Empire State. “From the biggest stage in...

New York · 13d

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25 Famous Comedians You Didn’t Know Were From Upstate New York

New York City has long been one of America’s great comedy capitals, from earlier vaudeville theaters to Manhattan’s stand-up clubs and television studios. But some of the people who helped define American comedy came from places well beyond the five boroughs. Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Jamestown, Saratoga Springs, and the smaller towns of Upstate New York have their own connections to late-night television, sketch comedy, sitcoms, stand-up, and comic writing.

New York · 22d

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25 Historic Hudson Valley Estates and Mansions With Remarkable Stories

The Hudson Valley has been home to some of New York’s most remarkable country houses for more than three centuries. Long before the Gilded Age brought railroad fortunes, elaborate gardens, and grand weekend retreats to the river, colonial landowning families were establishing farms, trading centers, and estates along its banks. The Hudson was both a transportation route and a source of wealth. Land, agriculture, river commerce, and the labor of enslaved people and tenant farmers helped sustain the households that later became known for their imposing mansions.

New York, NY · 22d

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45th Symposium on Industrial Archeology October 24th

The 45th Symposium on Industrial Archeology in New York and New Jersey will take place on October 24th in Hoboken, New Jersey. The day will feature talks from from varied professions on the archeology, history and heritage of industrial sites in the New York and New Jersey region. Deadline for registration is October 16, 2026.

Hoboken, NJ · 28d

PIX11

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Profiling the People’s Theatre

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The People’s Theatre in Manhattan is New York’s first immigrant cultural center and the largest Latino theater in New York State, where every detail tells a story. Here’s our Marysol Castro.

Manhattan, NY · 29d

New York Post

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Star Dem-backer Debra Messing endorses GOP’s Bruce Blakeman for NY governor: ‘What we need’

Enter stage right. Anti-Trump “Will & Grace” actress Debra Messing is snubbing Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul and instead backing Republican Bruce Blakeman’s gubernatorial campaign. It’s quite a sea change for Messing, who once stumped for Hillary Clinton for president and donated to far-left actress Cynthia Nixon’s campaign for governor in 2018 and has been, at least until recently, a staunch critic of Blakeman-boosting President Trump. Debra Messing and Bruce Blakeman during a fundraiser hosted by dietician Tanya Zuckerbrot in Manhattan, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. Blakeman Campaign But Brooklyn-native Messing, who even appears in a video with Blakeman, has complained about what she claims is a decline in her hometown’s conditions. “I am so grateful you are running. You are what we need more than anything,” she told Blakeman during a recent Manhattan fundraiser for the candidate hosted by dietician Tanya Zuckerbrot . Meet the 10-year-old fashion prodigy dressing Sharon Stone, Debra Messing “The decline in this city over the last four years has been so exponential and devastating — economically, socially and on every level. And obviously, we’ve lost so much business here. People are leaving,” said Messing, an NYU alum. Messing called the Big Apple the “city I

New York · 10-04

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Future Fambo’s ‘Red Light, Pepper Light’ Becomes First One Music’s Biggest Hit

The track blowing up in Brooklyn clubs and upstate New York radio right now was not made by a major label, and that is exactly what makes it interesting. “Red Light, Pepper Light” by dancehall veteran Future Fambo, produced by Brooke Vernon of First One Music, has quietly crossed the 1.16 million stream mark across YouTube alone, and Vernon is not shy about what that means to him.

Brooklyn, NY · 09-24

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Manhasset students earn New York State Thespians leadership roles

Two Manhasset High School students have been selected for leadership positions with the New York State Thespians, recognizing their involvement in theater arts, leadership and service to the performing arts community. Regina McLean, a senior at Manhasset High School, has been appointed Junior Thespian Officer and will serve on the...

Manhasset, NY · 09-21