#long island

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#combating #entire #entire nation #gang #gang violence

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#like #long #long island #over #program

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#happen #i #imagined #island #kid

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#army #bulk #city #district #general

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#cop #draw #grandfather #heard #him

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. ↗

— Robert Caro

#day #every #every day #example #how

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. ↗

— William Bell

#blues #called #club #hat #high

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#estuary #island #long #long island #needs

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#elected #elected officials #fought #island #life