Documentary about Long Island

I recently came across an interesting Dateline video about the history of Long Island, the island where I love. What I have always found interesting is that Long Island hardly seems like an island at all. Well technically it is an island, but it is so large that is often times doesn't appear to be. Throughout my life when I travel I have had to explain this to many people who believe Long Island to be something like Fire Island. In this documentary they mention how Long Island was the first true American suburb. This is something that I knew to some degree, but I was unaware of it being the first. I have always been fascinated by the fact that there is such diversity here. There are more urban areas around the center of the island and many suburban areas along the coast. There are even rural areas out east before you reach the Hamptons.

I could talk about my views on Long Island for a long time, but I think if you would really like to learn some interesting things about this wonderful island in New York, you can watch the 2-part video I uploaded to Vimeo.

You can watch the video here:
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Snow on Halloween weekend?

This week was Halloween, a day for kids to dress up, celebrate, and most importantly eat candy. But what is most incredible to me is the fact that this past Saturday, October 29th, there was a snow storm here in New York! I only realized this when my husband yelled “Sophia you HAVE to see this!”. I had heard that is was a possibility on the news, but I couldn’t believe it when I saw huge nickle-size snowflakes falling from the sky. Just 2 weeks ago it had been in the 70′s and beautiful, and now it had seemed we were in the dead of winter. To say the least, this put a damper on many of the Halloween engagements that many had planned. Low 30-degree temperatures combined with slush and snow doesn't bode well for people going around in costumes.Because of the horrible weather I know many people ended up staying in over the weekend due to the nasty weather. A friend of mine who was upstate at the time was actually snowed into his home all weekend. In Long Island and New York City though, by Sunday it was already back to being a normal Fall day. It was just a freak weather day in on the East Coast. Gladly it seems that Fall has resumed and things are back to normal, for now…


Sincerely,
Sophia Markotsis