#long island

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

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

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#budget #district #economic #economic security #eliminates

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