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    Nearly every major type of transportation serves Long Island, including three major airports, railroads and subways, and several major highways. The New...
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    It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which refers to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road. In 2023, the system had a ridership...
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    in Ronkonkoma, New York, within the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, on Long Island. Covering 1,311 acres (531 ha), the airport was established in 1942...
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    Long Island Sound link is a proposed bridge or tunnel that would link Long Island, New York, to Westchester County or Connecticut, across Long Island...
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    Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant...
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    of Nassau's bus transportation needs, focusing on cross-county routes, and routes that feed Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) stations. On August 20, 1971...
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    limited-access parkway that traverses Jones Beach Island between Jones Beach State Park and Captree State Park on Long Island, New York, United States. It begins at...
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    Long Island, as a major region of New York State, has a significant impact on state and national politics. On the local level, the Republican Party is...
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    The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New...
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    Republic Airport (category Transportation on Long Island)
    LID: FRG) is a public airport in East Farmingdale in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States The National Plan of Integrated Airport...
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    half of the 20th century, New York City and Long Island were major areas for rail freight transportation. However, their relative isolation from the mainland...
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    The Long Island Motor Parkway, also known as the Vanderbilt Parkway, Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, or Motor Parkway, was a limited-access parkway on Long Island...
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    a longer peninsula known as the South Fork, both on the East End of Long Island. Although the peninsula begins east of Riverhead hamlet, the term North...
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    Express (NICE), formerly MTA Long Island Bus, except in Greater Long Beach, where that city operates its own bus service through Long Beach Bus. These tables...
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    warning of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that the bridge was unsafe. All those living on Long Island and being serviced by recovery programs...
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    Long Island City (LIC) is a neighborhood on the western tip of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River...
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    Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north...
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  • Sands Point Seaplane Base (category Transportation on Long Island)
    downtown Port Washington in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States. A seaplane base has existed in Port Washington...
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  • Cunningham Park. In 2007 the New York State Department of Transportation completed Long Island's first long-distance signed bike route from Cold Spring Harbor...
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    This is a list of cities, towns, villages, and hamlets on Long Island. In New York State, each county is divided into cities and towns. Every point in...
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    39.639835; -74.181619 Long Beach Island (colloquially known as LBI, The LBI Region, or simply The Island) is a barrier island and summer colony along...
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    "Long Island Expressway". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on April 2, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2010. New York State Department of Transportation...
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  • started construction during the 2000s. Every major form of transportation serves Long Island, including three major airports, railroads and subways, and...
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    The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Though some consider the South...
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    Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department. The MTA Police Department was created in 1998 with the merger of the Long Island Rail Road Police...
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    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...
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    Long Island has had a long recorded history from the first European settlements in the 17th century to today. Greatly influenced by construction of railroads...
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    kilometres (49,200 sq mi). The airstrip is 1,500 metres (4,920 ft) metres long. The island is a nature reserve. Its vegetation consists of dry forest, scrub,...
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    between exits 3 and 5 was completed and opened. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation had long-term plans to upgrade the southernmost portion of Route 4...
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    planned for Wilkes Island, but was just partially complete at the start of hostilities in World War II. Transportation on Wake Island is provided by contractors...
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