{"id":2364,"date":"2020-07-22T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&#038;p=2364"},"modified":"2023-11-13T14:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:04:50","slug":"long-island-the-island-americas-most-solid-island","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/aiovg_videos\/long-island-the-island-americas-most-solid-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Vacation Travel Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Long Island is a large, densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, starting at New York Harbor only 0.56 km from Manhattan Island and stretching eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The island consists of four counties in the state of New York: Kings and Queens to the west; And Nassau and Suffolk in the east.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Long Island \u2013 Less than an hour\u2019s drive from NYC, find the first of the island\u2019s much-loved beaches. From there, follow us through the coolest parts of the area. <\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Eastward from the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens to the bluffs of Montauk Point. A short train ride from Manhattan is Long Beach, which for many is where Long Island begins. Visit Fire Island Lighthouse, which for generations of immigrants was their first glimpse of America. It was on Long Island\u2019s northern shores where the mansions were built that would inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s classic, The Great Gatsby. T<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">he Cradle of Aviation Museum in Hempstead and continue your flight into the past at the American Airpower Museum. T<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">he pioneer settlement of Southampton Village and nearby Sag Harbor, a historic whaling port immortalized in Moby Dick. America\u2019s first president, George Washington, commissioned Montauk Lighthouse on Long Island\u2019s easternmost point. Climb to the top to take in the sweeping views of this place that has played center stage in some of America\u2019s greatest stories. For now, we hope you enjoy watching this <\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">as much as we enjoyed making it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Island is a large, densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, starting at New York Harbor only 0.56 km from Manhattan Island and stretching eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean. The island consists of four counties in the state of New York: Kings and Queens to the west; And Nassau &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/aiovg_videos\/long-island-the-island-americas-most-solid-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Island Vacation Travel Guide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":""},"aiovg_categories":[100],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","aiovg_categories-long-island"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.video\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}