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Long Island (em português: Ilha Comprida ou Ilha Longa) é uma ilha situada no sudeste do estado de Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos, a leste da ilha de Manhattan. Estendendo-se a nordeste no Oceano Atlântico , Long Island contém quatro condados , dos quais dois são boroughs ( Queens e Brooklyn ) [ 1 ] da cidade de Nova York , e dois ...
Long Island is an island in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean with a maximum north–south width of 23 miles (37 km).
Há 2 dias · Long Island, island in the Atlantic Ocean that comprises the southeasternmost part of New York state, U.S. The island lies roughly parallel to the southern shore of Connecticut, from which it is separated to the north by Long Island Sound. Long Island’s western end forms part of the harbour of New York City.
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Long Island is a terminal moraine left by glaciers during the ice ages. The 2020 census counted 8,063,232 people living on Long Island, making it by far the most populated island in all of the United States, and more populated than Ireland , Sicily or Puerto Rico .
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At the time of European contact, the Lenape people (named the Delaware by Europeans) inhabited the western end of the Island, and spoke the Munsee dialect of the Algonquian language family. Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to record an encounter with these people when he entered what is now New York Bayin 1524. The eastern portion of t...
Dutch and English Settlements
The western portion of Long Island was settled by the Dutch, who named it 't Lange Eylandt, which translates to the Long Islandin old-Dutch. They also had early settlements in the 17th century on what are now Manhattan and Staten Island. On April 22, 1636, Charles I of England ordered that the Plymouth Colony, which had laid claim to the island but had not settled it, give the island to William Alexander. Alexander through his agent James Farret (who personally received Shelter Island and Rob...
Revolutionary War
The Battle of Long Island, the largest Revolutionary War battle, ranged across Kings County, now the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Apart from espionage and raids across Long Island Sound, there was limited military action in Queens and Suffolk County. Throughout most of the war, Long Island was controlled by the King's forces. As was customary, they billeted Hessian and regular troops with local households, who had to provide bedding and food for soldiers. In Oyster Bay, Major John An...
In the 19th century, Long Island was still mainly rural and agricultural. Suburbanization started modestly on Long Island when reliable steam ferry service allowed prosperous Wall Streeters to get to new Brooklyn Heights homes in time for dinner. Rural traffic was served by the new Brooklyn and Jamaica Plank road through Jamaica Pass, among others....
Early in the 20th century, elevated and subway trains allowed masses of workers to commute to Manhattan jobs from Queens and eastern Brooklyn, which offered cheaper and larger housing but were far beyond reasonable walking distance. Seven new bridges were built across the East River - Williamsburg Bridge (1903), Queensboro Bridge (1909), Manhattan ...
Long Island and 9/11
Long Island residents suffered many losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. A large portion of the island's residents commute daily to Manhattan for work. In the days after the attacks, many of the victims' cars remained parked in the same spots at Long Island Rail Road stations – leaving a visual reminder of the intimate nature of the tragedy for other commuters.[citation needed] Nearly 500 Long Island residents died from the 9/11 attacks – 23 from the village of...
Late 2000s recession
Long Island slipped into recession in September 2008, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It lost 7,100 private-sector jobs in the 12 months ended in November 2008 with losses spread across most industries.[citation needed] Sales of new homes on the island decreased from 5,292 in the third quarter of 2008 to 2,902 in the first quarter of 2009; the downturn also affected luxury rentals in places such as the Hamptons. The median price of newly sold Nassau homes fell from a peak of $502,500 i...
Long Island is important in the history of aviation. Roosevelt Airfield was established in 1916 in Garden City, Nassau County. From this airport, Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic 1927 nonstop Orteig Prize flight from New York to Paris, France. Roosevelt Airfield was closed in 1951. Its land was redeveloped for commercial uses, including a...
Long Island is in southeastern New York, United States, separated from the rest of the state by the East River and from Connecticut by Long Island Sound. Long Island contains four counties, of which the western two are boroughs ( Queens and Brooklyn ) of New York City, and the other two ( Nassau and Suffolk ) are mainly suburban .
Long Island é uma ilha situada no sudeste do estado de Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos, a leste da ilha de Manhattan. Estendendo-se a nordeste no Oceano Atlântico, Long Island contém quatro condados, dos quais dois são boroughs da cidade de Nova York, e dois dos quais são principalmente suburbanos ou rurais.
