We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.

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.

In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.