|
Not only do Long Islanders have great access to the multitude of entertainment and cultural opportunities offered in New York City, but also Long Islanders enjoy local access to an abundant source of outstanding entertainment venues and activities. From Professional Sporting Events, Boating, Fishing, Wine Tasting Tours, Museums, Nite Clubs and Fine Restaurants.
Few places in the world have the diversity, proximity and quality of entertainment available to the local public. Long Island truly is “Where The Action Is!”
Sports
New York Islanders
NHL team plays some 40 games during their season at the 17,000 seat Nassau Coliseum
1-800-882-ISLE;
newyorkislanders.com
Long Island Ducks
Professional baseball team plays more than 70 games at their 6,000-seat stadium at EAB Park in Central Islip from May to September
1-888-332-5600;
www.liducks.com
New York Power
A women's professional soccer team comprised of 1999 World Cup Champions & 2000 Olympic silver medallists, plays a 21 game season this year at Mitchel Athletic Center in Uniondale
1-866-POWR-TIX;
www.newyorkpower.net
Long Island Roughriders
A men's soccer team affiliated with United Soccer League, plays at both EAB Park & Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale
1-631-940-3825
New York Dragons
A new indoor arena football team, plays at the Nassau Coliseum
516-794-9303;
www.newyorkdragons.com
New York Saints
They play in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League at Nassau Coliseum from January to March
516-794-9303
Hamlet Cup
Tournament
For tennis buffs, the tournament is played at the Hamlet Golf & Country Club, Commack during August
516-876-0400
Golf –
Lightpath Long Island Classic Golf tournament Is held at the Meadow Brook Club in Jericho during August.
U.S. Open 2002 at Bethpage Park
U.S. Open 2004 at Shinnecock
631-753-4357
Belmont Park
Belmont Park in Elmont is the sight of thoroughbred racing from May to October. Don't miss the Belmont Stakes in June & the Breeders' Cup in October. Families can also use an onsite picnic area and playground.
516-488-6000
Meadowbrook Polo Club
The Club hosts matches on Sundays from May to October at Bethpage State Park.
631-669-1000, Ext. 247
Hampton Classic Horse Show
Takes place in Bridgehampton, late August early September
631-537-3177
Long Island Museums
Cradle of Avialtion
www.cradleofaviation.org/main.html
Eight galleries, IMAX Theater & Cafe
Nassau County Museum of Art
1 Museum Dr.
Roslyn Harbor 11576
Phone (516) 484-9337
Fax (516) 484-0710
www.nassaumuseum.org
nassaumuseum@yahoo.com
Ten galleries offering rotating schedule of original exhibitions, the Tee Ridder Miniatures Museum, and one of the larget outdoor sculpture gardens and formal gardens.
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium
180 Little Neck Rd.
Centerport, 11721
Phone (631) 854-5555
Fax (631) 854-5591
www.vanderbiltmuseum.org
vanderbilt@webscope.com
Art, furniture, natural habitat exhibits.
Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum
Route 27
Montauk 11954
Phone (631) 668-2544 or 888-MTK-POINT
Fax (631) 668-2546
www.montauklighthouse.com
keeper@montauklighthouse.com
Ezra L'Hommidieu papers, Col. Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider photographs, Lighthouse Keeper photos and artifacts.
Long Island Children's Museum
550 Stewart Ave.
Garden City,11530
Phone (516) 222-0207
Fax (516) 222-0225
www.licm.org
Bubbles, Communication Station, Protozone, Working on the Railroad, What if you couldn't, On Hands.
Long Island Maritime Museum
86 West Ave.
West Sayville,17796
Phone (631) HIS-TORY
Fax (631) 854-4979
http://www.limaritime.org
Unique Long Island boats, oystering artifacts, shipwreck history, over 12,000 historic photographs.
The Long Island Museum of American Art
History & Carriages
1200 Route 25A
Stony Brook, 11790
Phone (631) 751-0066
Fax (631) 751-0353
www.longislandmuseum.org
American art, including the largest collection of works by William Sydney Mount, over 250 horse-drawn carriages; miniature rooms gallery; hand-carved duck decoys and artifacts of American Life.
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
Main Street
Cold Spring Harbor, 11724
Phone (631) 367-3418
Fax (631) 692-7037
www.cshwhalingmuseum.org
cshmuseum@aol.com Includes NYS's only fully equipped 19th century whaleboat with original gear and one of the notable scrimshaw collections in the northeast.
Tackapausha Museum & Preserve
Washington Ave. near Merrick Road
Seaford, 11783
Phone (516) 571-7443
Fax (516) 571-7324
mailto:tackapausha@yahoo.com
Over 9,000 specimens of algae, Long Island vertebrates and invertebrates; exhibits of live animals and Long Island ecology.
Parrish Art Museum
25 Job's Lane
Southampton, 11969
Phone (631) 283-2118
Fax (631) 283-0453
www.thehamptons.com
19th and 20th century American art with major holdings of William Merritt Chase and Fairfield Porter.
Hillwood Art Museum
Long Island University-CW Post Campus
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, 11548
Phone (516) 299-4073
Fax (516) 299-2787
www.liu.edu/museum
mailto:museum@raptor.liu.edu
Pre-Columbian ceramics and textiles; African costumes, masks and weapons; Near Eastern artifacts; contemporary American prints and paintings.
Raynham Hall Museum
20 W. Main St.
Oyster Bay, 11771
Phone (516) 922-6808
Fax (516) 922-7640
mailto:raynham-hall-museum@attglobal.net
11 period rooms furnished with original artifacts. Colonial and Victorian wings depict life on Long Island during both the Colonial and Victorian eras.
Horton Point Lighthouse & Nautical Museum
Lighthouse Road
Southold, 11971
Phone (631) 765-5500
mailto:sohistsoc@aol.com
Seafaring memorabelia, working lighthouse.
East End Seaport Maritime Museum
3rd St. @ the Ferry Dock
Greenport, 1944
Phone (631) 477-2100
Fax (631) 477-3432
www.eastendseaport.org
mailto:eseaport@aolcom
Plum Island and Little Gull Island Lighthouse lenses, East End lighthouse photographs and history. Photographs & memorabelia of sailing vessels, photographs & tool exhibition of early Greenport shipbuilding.
Castle in the Sand Museum
Jones Beach State Park - East Bathhouse
Ocean Pkwy
Wantagh, 11793
Phone (516) 785-1600
Fax (516) 679-7235
Photographs & text on each park with some three-dimensional exhibits.
Railroad Museum of Long Island - Riverhead
Griffing Ave. - Opposite Riverhead RR Station
Riverhead, 11901
Phone (631) 727-7920
www.bitnik.com/rmli
Railroad history in form of photographs, indoor exhibits & outside tours of equipment still being collected; 25 various types of rolling stock are being preserved, some being restored to running condition.
Southold Historical Society Museum
Maple Lane and Main Road
Southold, 11971
Phone (631) 765-5500
Fax (631) 765-5500
mailto:sohistsoc@aol.com
Victorian House & furnishings: Revolutionary House & furnishings; clothing , decoys, farm equipment, blacksmith tools, print shop, one room schoolhouse.
My Jewish Discovery Place Children's Museum
Suffolk Y JCC
74 Hauppauge Road
Commack, 11725
Phone (631) 462-9800
Fax (631) 462-9462
mailto:eileen@jcca.org
None - new exhibit each year
Railroad Museum of Long Island
440 Fourth St.
Greenport, 11944
Phone (631) 477-0439
www.bitnik.com/rmli
Train layout, Bliss Tower and other exhibits. Display of railroad history in photographs, tools, glasses, ledgers, timetables, etc. Jaws III snow plough, wooden caboose #14.
Hofstra Museum (Emily Lowe Gallery)
Hofstra University
Hempstead, 11550
Phone (516) 463-5672
Fax (516) 463-4832
www.hofstra.edu/museum
mailto:nucdcc@hofstra.edu
Permanent collection of more than 4,000 objects includes major works of art, European and American painting, Asian, African and pre-Columbian art; 65 pieces of outdoor sculpture and 11-circuit labyrinth in various locations.
Bridgehampton Historical Museum
Main St. & Corwith Avenue
Bridgehampton 11932
Phone (631) 537-1088
Fax (631) 537-4225
mailto:bhhs@hamptons.com
Paintings, photographs, period clothing, documents, ledgers, books, furnishings, whaling items, tools & engines.
| 
