You Know You're From Long Island When... (Hempstead, Huntington: house, job)

[amsm196]

Wow Borelli's was awesome, i havent been in NY in awhile but its great to hear that Borelli's is still there. My wife & I ate there plenty of times.

Originally Posted by OvertaxedOnLI

I can't believe I forgot to mention Borrelli's, the Italian restaurant on Hempstead Turnpike at Meadowbrook Parkway, right near the Coliseum! It's been there since the late 1940s, still family-owned, and still packs 'em in every time there is any sort of event at the Coliseum or nearby.

I remember taking my son there for the first time as a toddler in the mid-1980s and introducing him to some of the same staff who waited on me and my parents twenty years earlier.

It's nice when restaurants, stores, etc. remain in their original form and ownership over many years. My son and I still go to Borrelli's for dinner every time we attend an Islanders/Rangers game (as do many other people); the tradition lives on!

[Callie_D]

Borelli's used to make the best garlic bread....mmmmmmm..........

[june]

Originally Posted by nymom

I'm not Jewish but I love matzoh. I have also eaten bagals with lox or with a "smear". Can't ask for those anywhere else!

A few more places...
Commack Motor Inn
Mad Hatter (where all those LI bands played)
OBI

And if you didn't end up at the diner (for breakfast at 2 AM), then it was Duncan Donuts.

the drive in movie theater in bayshore and westbury........just putting my 2 cents in.......long island is changing for the worst. Arizona has drive in theeaters and jack in the box so im moving there to eat...lol

[june]

Originally Posted by nymom

Was it Korvette's?
We used to buy little turtles at Kresge's (Kreske's?)
...and guppies at Ed's!


Does anyone remember the huge cage full of birds at the Walt Whitman Mall?

yes i do and taking the bus there from deer park ave, lol. use to shop for dresses at a&s to go out dancing at the clubs.

[june]

Originally Posted by nymom

LOL...I will never tell! I do remember Tiffany's across the street. Great wine and cheese, games, and live easy listening music.

my husband and I miss tiffanys, there was also a good wine and cheese in the babylon village we use to go to often when dating. How about the olympic diner in deer park still there but not as crowded. Does anyone remember the name of the big club on hemstead turnpike in hicksville, very popular?

[june]

Originally Posted by NYTom

Ok I have to add a few and will add more as I think of them

The bawdy bard out east.
Neptunes
Tueys
Trio Lounge
Famous Fashions
King George
The Colony
One of the stores at Tri-County location (Barons)
Mario and Madelinas
Taking row boats out at Blydenburg Park (Welds)
Skating at Millers Pond
OBI North and South
Smithtown General Hospital (where I was born)
Hauppauge Movie Theater
Channel Home Center, Rickels and Pergaments (I still have stuff from there)
Smithtown and Commack Drive in movie Theatre
Trying not to get caught throwing junior mints off the balcony by the old lady who used to run the Smithtown movie theatre (she was very nice)
Howard Johnsons
Duggins Donuts
Thom McAnn
Child World
The Town Hall Deli

lol i hung out at channels in the parking lot. cruised deer park ave good times.

[june]

Originally Posted by momix5

was the bar in Farmingdale Fulton Street, i remember Friendly Frost what about crazy Eddies! Newmark and Lewis! REmember when the circus used to come to the LI Arena? There used to be a ski area at Bald Hill in Farmingville i think. Times Square Stores and like i mentioned before Billy Blakes and Modells!

i believe fulton street is still there. i went on a date there once and left him there cause i didnt like the shoes he was wearing. lol

[june]

Originally Posted by NYer

Ok, anyone remember Paris/New York? Spize? Spit?
... Chaz, where Jani is now in the WW mall...

i use to hang out at spit....lol wish i were 20 again..............

[june]

Originally Posted by amsm196

Do you remember a restaurant by the name of " Cooky's "? Or was it Cookies?

I'm not sure if they had more then one location, but my parents took us to the one that was in the Walt Whitman Mall ( Huntington ). I cant remember much, except they had a decent salad bar with all you can eat cocktail shrimp!

this was the first restaurant I went to with my friends when i was 18, lol...i remember having shrimp, steak and a baked potato with plenty of alcohol....

[amsm196]

wasnt there a dollar movie theatre in the village of Northport? Or smithtown?