Long Island is not the smallest island in the United States and actually Long Island is the largest and most populous island in the United States or on the United States Mainland.
Long Island stretches as far as 118 miles long east to west and is 23 miles long at it's widest point north to south and is also bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Long Island Sound to the north and the East River to the west.
The reason Long Island Sound was called the Devil's Belt is because of the sudden storms and nor'easters and the strong belief in the Devil by residents in the nearby communities.
Long Island Sound is different from the Atlantic Ocean in that Long Island Sound is considered an estuary because it is a place where the Atlantic Ocean mixes with fresh water from rivers.
The ocean that Long Island is on is the Atlantic Ocean.
Long Island is bounded on the north by Long Island Sound, on the south and the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by New York Bay and the East River.
The largest river that flows on Long Island is the Peconic River.
The Peconic River is a river located within Suffolk County on Long Island, New York.
The Peconic river is located in the eastern end of Long Island.
The Peconic River drains an area between the Harbor Hill Moraine and flows into Flanders Bay, which in turn connects to Peconic Bay east of Riverhead.
The smallest town in Long Island is the city of Long Beach which encompasses only 2 square miles of land and is the smallest of the Nassau County Municipalities and also the smallest city on all of Long Island
The poorest part of Long Island is Riverside.
Other poorest parts of Long Island other than Riverside are Mastic Beach, Central Islip, Moriches, Aquebogue, Greenport, Calverton and Northamptom.
Some of the above towns listed are also closely situated right next door to the richest parts of Long Island.
Long Island is an expansive, densely populated island in southeastern New York State, stretching east from New York City.
Along its Atlantic coast are Jones Beach State Park, Fire Island and Montauk Point State Park, the latter home to the late-1700s Montauk Lighthouse.
On the east end, the North Fork is home to wineries and the Hamptons are towns characterized by upscale homes, trendy restaurants and antiques shops.
Often the backdrop for Hollywood productions and called Hollywood East, Long Island is the inspiration behind F.
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and AMC's Turn: George Washington's Spies and the location of Royal Pains and The Affair and reality series Fire Island, Summer House and Kardashians Take The Hamptons.
The western portion of Long Island was settled by the Dutch, who named it 't Lange Eylandt, which translates to the Long Island in old-Dutch.
They also had early settlements in the 17th century on what are now Manhattan and Staten Island.