You had a beer in a brown bag on the LIRR going to a Yankees or Mets Game. You know who Amy Fisher is and where her house was in Massapequa. You have tried to find the Amityville Horror House. The Riverhead one is still better than the Deer Park one. You still make the long drive to the Riverhead Tanger Outlet even though there is one right in Deer Park. You have been to and enjoy the burgers at All American. You have spent a weekend enjoying the wineries. You have been to the Freeport Nautical Mile multiple times over the summer. You don’t know why your parents or grandparents tell you not to change trains at Jamaica train station. You know that technically Brooklyn is on Long island.but it's not Long 's the city. Or the Gregory Museum, which seemed to only have one room! Or the Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium. You have had a school trip to the Old Bethpage Village Restoration. You listened to the bands playing at Jones Beach. Photo by Kelly Tenny via 's Jones Beach Photo Gallery. Near the entrance of Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY. You've gotten a quick lunch from a roadside food truck vendor. Everyone goes out for bagels and schmear over the weekend. Enjoyed a late night drink with your friends at Mulcahy's or The Nutty Irishman.
You have been to Billy Joel's Bicycle Shop. You know all the words to every Billy Joel song. Someone in your family came from Brooklyn or Queens. You’ve been to a Long Island Ducks Game. You have made the trip "Out East" to pick your own apples, berries, pumpkins, etc. A meatball hero is not a sub or a hoagie. You can recite every stop from Penn Station to Ronkonkoma on the LIRR.
When you live in Suffolk County and are surprised there are sidewalks in Nassau County. Photo by Paulette Keith via 's The Big Duck Photo Gallery. It's not a riddle when you see The Big Duck in Flanders. When you live in Nassau County and are amazed there are no sidewalks in most of Suffolk County. You insist you live on Long Island, not in Long Island. You are still waiting for the Islanders to win the Stanley Cup (again!) and now would have been a good time. You can pronounce Hauppauge, Quogue, Patchogue, Nissequogue, etc. You go "Out East," "To The City," a nd "Upstate. We are unique and very proud of it too!įrom Nassau and Suffolk differences to our pronunciation of "Long Island" itself, we can all joke about what it is to be a Long Islander.ĭon’t know if you are a Long Islander? If you can agree with just a few of the following, you are a Long Islander! These quirks that we have are traits that we joke about and often want to add to the list of our distinctions. Whenever we leave Long Island, it seems that someone is reminding us that we have a certain way about ourselves that distinguish us from the City, Upstate New York, and the rest of the world. Photo by Kelly Tenny via 's Robert Moses Beach Photo Gallery.Īs Long Islanders, we have our own language, and a lifestyle that we will live by. The Fire Island Light Station off Captree Island, NY.
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