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Well, officially the island of "Long Island" starts in Brooklyn by the Brooklyn Bridge across Manhattan and goes all the way to Montauk in the other end, at the edge of America!
Wikipedia says Long Island is the largest island in the contiguous states, and the most populated in the whole United States as well.
But when people discuss Long Island here, I believe they mostly refer to the suburban, middle-class area between New York City and the more country-like and expensive land of The Hamptons in the east.
I'd refine that just a tad further, and say that when most (90% or more) people refer to Long Island they mean only Nassau County and Suffolk County.
If you define it as being between NYC (Manhattan) and Montauk/Orient (the two easternmost points), then that would include Queens County which is geographically Long Island (the head of the fish, so to speak) but at the same time is also one of the five boroughs of New York City. Thus, if you're including Queens as part of NYC in saying 'between NYC and...', then Manhattan-ite is entirely accurate.
In local parlance and usage, it's only Nassau and Suffolk County residents who are considered, and consider themselves, "Long Islanders".
It's Nassau and Suffolk (including the "East End" of the Hamptons and North Fork).
For real estate purposes, some might wrap eastern Queens in there b/c east of Forest Hills is pretty suburban (similar to a lof of Nassau areas).
Nassau country is in between Queens and Suffolk. Nassau has about 1.3M people and 286 sq. miles. It includes places like Jones Beach. Suffolk County has about 1.5M people, but it is about 912 sq. miles. Much less dense and commercial, even still have many semi-rural types of areas.
People from Queens say they are from Queens.......Everyone east of Queens say they are from Long Island..........If you are from anywhere east of Patchogue.....You are from the East end.........
Hi I think I might be able to answer his question - Long Island consists of individual cities/towns within the counties.
I worked at a AAA type of company that sent out tow trucks, or people to help when you were stuck somewhere (before Blue Star) and was astounded that they had to explain that if someone called and told you they were stuck on Long Island, that they needed to tell you the town they were in because it wasn't just one place. I told them that I was from Long Island and no one there is really that stupid - they would not tell you they were "in Long Island"
There are parts of Queens that I'd consider to be LI.
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