#long island

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. ↗

— Minnesota Fats

#brooklyn #gleason #island #kid #long

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

— David R. Brower

#like #long #long island #over #program

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