@@deanmontalbine4941 you probably miss NY in general .. going from NY to NC is a big change.. they barely have public transport, their cities suck, the weather is garbage, no seasons, everything’s miles away etc the list can go on. Move somewhere more practical I bet you won’t miss LI
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I wasn’t supposed to be born in Long Island, but my mom was taking care of my grandmother because she wasn’t well at the time and my mom went into labor.. I was born in Mercy hospital. Long story shot I lived there for 12 years and I moved to brooklyn… it was nice when I was younger now… crime went up and people are rude and all about me attitude. Thank you for this video
I grew up in Rockville Centre in the 1950's. Went to Southside HS. After HS, went to NYU and lived in the City. Now I've retired to Southampton. What a great life! "Go out and play but be home by dinner!" No hovering parents or play dates. Self reliance and adventure.
It truly was the good old days. Family, friends, bicycling everywhere, the beach everyday, NYC a train ride away. The best time to grow up on the Island. Many great memories. The best place to live...and still is😊❤
Not anymore. Been here my entire life, and will be leaving within two years. Oppressive taxes, over regulation, increasing traffic, etc. It was great when my parents moved here in the 1950's, but with the exception of one cousin, my entire family has left. Can't wait to join them.
I left Long Island in 1984....couldn't afford it any more. Grew up in Smithtown...Came back in 2006 for my 30th HS reunion and cried.....didn't recognize Smithtown at all...So Sad.
same thing with Centereach where Im from. I moved in 97. I went to visit two yrs ago and about fell over. They took all the wooded area we used to play in as kids and put houses!!! totally unrecognizable!!
I grew up in Centereach. I was first graduation class from the high school, 1972. Miss those years. All wooded areas I hunted with my bb gun and shotgun are now houses. Walmart used to be all woods. I remember when yhey built the 7/11 on Mark Tree Road in 1962.
It's funny how sometimes you had it so good and didn't really know it. I'm from West Islip and a kid in the 70's, and what we called "the stores" off Keith Ln. is now mostly all medical places, or so I've heard. But that strip back then there was 5 and 10 (Whacky Packy stickers, squirt guns, balsa wood planes powered by a rubber band) a Carvel, Mikes Pizza, a Chinese place, a bakery, a music shop, a gap, bowling alley, t shirt place, King Kullen, $1 theater, a Service Merchandise, drug store with arcade games. I'm sure I'm missing some, back then a kid could go up there with friends and a couple bucks and do all kinds of things. It was all there, all you could want and more. But there's nothing really interesting or fun about a bunch of medical businesses. Such changes are inevitable, but it shows how good we had it. And now the memories take on a Norman Rockwellian sort of hue. Those were good times to be a kid on Long Island.
@@ricinro That's right, Amoto's Music, I saw a thread on a site called Long Island Kids of the Seventies, or something like that, and it mentioned Amoto's, I'd forgotten the name. I can still remember being obsessed with these light blue CB700 drums, I remember them all stacked up and putting my nose against the window like Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Been a drummer now for 50 years, and I still remember that initial flush with wonder. If I could go back in time, I might just get a slice of Pizza from Mikes Pizza, my favorite pizza ever, good memories, no doubt. Cheers.
Growing up in Amityville in the '60's and 70's we had freedom, as not to be believed now. We rode our bicycles EVERYWHERE! Though I live in Cali now, have been back a few times for extended stays. The wooded areas we explored and hung out in GONE. The endless potato fields going up Rt.110 GONE. The huge green lawns around homes, God who can afford the taxes? However, it's part of me, it's in my blood. It will forever remain the Long Island of my Dreams.
Growing up in the late 70’s / thru the 80’s was amazing ! Rode our bikes everywhere!! Your bmx bike was like your car ! Stayed out all day and came home when the sun went down! Every day was an adventure ! (Shirley)
I was born in 1999 and I rode BMX bikes everywhere as a kid. Riding bikes everywhere isnt possible like it was 10 years ago. Its too populated and theres far too much traffic at all times of the day including at 3-4 am
@@letshaveacuppa_official we were literally 3/4 minutes away. I lived at 206 Broadway. What years did you go to school ? I would’ve graduated in 91 if we didn’t move. (Not my real name or pic,.. lol)
@@rty1955 Is that how you measure success? a town can have one place that employees 25,000 and another town can have 10,000 businesses that employ 250 employees each. Theres no shortage of jobs here. Zebra, New york life, BNB bank, Allstate, etc.
Born and raised in Queens by the city line. Had a great time growing up there. Went past the house I grew up in and, now it's not the same. We played stuck ball with no cars on the street, now ever spot in front of the house are taken...
What an awesome video!! Thank you so much for uploading this. I lived there for 25 years and now I’m half a world away. This means more to me than you can ever know
It’s very common for New York area people to move away to far distances and never return for any visits due to family obligations and extreme long distance or at least long enough distance
wonderful time early sixties were good as well. By the 70s it was all downhill . glad I left . Overpriced overcrowded giant parking lot . No where to go 180 miles E to W about 17 miles wide .
@@C172Pilotdude Left for good in 1989 Lived there from 1954 to 1989 . Centereach, Patchogue, Mattituck . Moved to Salem VA . .Went back in JAN '20 Didnt recognize the place. It was once so beautiful. . Other than family , glad I left . Raised a son here . Was blessed , great schools , great Christian folks . Clean air , mountains , decent cost of living . No lines to stand on .Almost like LI in the 50s early 60s . Farms ,cows ,horses . Fresh air . Long Island just got too populated for me and way too expensive and too secular .
Driving down middle country road 25. Pass up McDonald's, Walmart, taco bell, 7/11, wendies, chase bank, bank of America, Starbucks. Repeat that for the entire length of longisland.
Left Oceanside LI in 1967 to join the Navy. It was a great place to grow up with incredible schools. I thought I was just an average kid until I realized what a great education I got just from K1-12. The house we lived in cost only 23K in 1961 and now they sell upwards of 750K. Living now in eastern CT which is really a lot like LI was way back in the 50's and 60's.
Connecticut is a nice state. In my generalized opinion, it’s still basically the same geographic area of Long Island even though the drive may be a bit long and inconvenient
born and raised. was good now upstate where people actually wave to you ,cant do anything always costs ,no free parks ,,495 parking lot, just tooo many people ,have seen potatoes fields turn into condos ,so up goes the taxes ,and up goes the pollution from more cars
We just moved from Shoreham, to rural southwest Virginia. We love it, because there's no traffic, and people you don't know, wave, hold the door, and thank you for holding the door. It's awful in NY, especially long island! If you can actually get to Montauk, it's beautiful there!
Growing up on Long Island in the 1960s was awesome. Not so now. It's filled now with aggressive, angry, "me first" people. A sad commentary indeed on what was once a great place to live. Were it nor for pressing family obligations we would leave, kind of a heartbreaking reality actually.
You mean, Long Island is filled with a bunch of entitled low IQ morons? I think it's really a symptom of a bigger problem. Residents don't feel as if living standards are improving. They're paying so many taxes, and additional costs on products and services that they think are unjust. The situation is asinine and a loop of nonsense.
Yeah, this comment section is full of the older generation lamenting their golden past when they've been the ones ruining it for future generations through incompetent political leadership, i.e. not building quality higher-density housing. Young people can't afford to live here anymore.
Born, raised Massapequa Park 1961 to 1984. Still like where I live now much better. Less congested, less hostile people, better landscapes. But would consider visiting just to see what it’s like now.
@@HerculePoirot222 That's pretty sad. It appears the downward trend (depressed job market, road congestion, etc.) I observed when I left in 1984 has continued. Although the trend of building condos & apartments is pretty much the norm everywhere now. The greater majority simply cannot afford single family homes anymore. And real estate developers get a bigger bang for their buck now building multi-family units. So the USA has pretty much followed Europe. But L.I. is an extreme example. There's simply no more room to build anything else. With all those post WWII cookie cutter Levittown houses, (makes me cringe thinking of those) It should be interesting to see where L.I. is 20, 30 years from now. If the cost of living and doing business continues to rise, there will be a substantial population decrease. As families and businesses find "greener" pastures. But that's a normal & predictable economic scenario. There's always the wild card. It was the post WWII baby boom that staked out much of what L.I. is today. Hopefully something positive will happen to lift L.I. back up to where is was 60 years ago.
@@HerculePoirot222 Amazing. Even more so when I consider my parents, 1st time home buyers in 1954. They paid $12,500 for their house. It's now listed for over $1. million. As long as there's people willing to pay those prices and taxes, it will continue. Best thing for retirees to do is sell their home at those inflated prices, and move to another country where the cost of living is substantially less. But still adequate healthcare, etc.
My sister and family live in SC and they send their two teenage daughters up to my house in Rockville Centre for a few weeks during the summer. They comment that they love being able to walk to stores and hang out with local kids without anyone having to drive them around, like is necessary in SC. They hate going back to SC.
My younger sister went to University of New Mexico and had a roommate from Long Island and another from New Jersey. Our home was 100 miles from Albuquerque and 2000 ft. higher in elevation. Her roommates were incredulous the first time it snowed in Albuquerque. One of their reasons for attending a school in the Southwest was for the milder winter climate.
My grandfather and Grandmother bought property inSound Beach in 1930’s from the Daily Mirror and built a bungalow and turned it into a year around House in the 40’s . My husband and I still live in this same house. We are both in our 80’s now and expect to stay here.
@@captainu.s.america3239 if you're from Long Island...you say "on"....it's like someone form Oregon saying they want to go to "Bronx, NY" instead of "The Bronx" . A person form here would know that as second nature.
Yes born and raised Patchogue Medford, eagle estates. The place I loved and miss is no longer. Greedy companies and the wealthy have destroyed a once beautiful place. Places I dont recognize, condos everywhere , nee homes built on once beautiful farmland and dairies that were wiped off the map. We used to get milk delivered from corams dairy to eagle estates. Memories will never fad, unfortunately the past way of life has. Too costly now crime rate insane. RIP the life and place I called home.
Look at the roads on the parkway(2:54). Three lanes of roads and what year was this filmed 50 by the look of the cars. Now 2020 we still have three lanes on most parkways. Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to NYS. And you ask why people leave it’s NYS
Grew up in Westbury, Post Avenue is thriving now, but they are building too many building all around, especially near the train station. It will look too busy.
I grew up on Long Island and moved to Phoenix a couple of years ago. It's a shame to see where the Island is heading. Unfortunately a lot of people my age are leaving because of the high cost of living and strict laws. I still miss it sometimes though...
May i ask what strict laws? I moved from long island in 2000 have not been back. Im very curious about differences today i appreciate if you take time for response i also grew up there. I didnt leave till i was about 40 yrold
Newsday should find this old film (probably 16mm) and have it remastered. This looks like a poor VHS transfer. If it's not remastered it will disintegrate (assuming it hasn't already). 16mm film has a higher resolution than high definition video.
Funny how the narrator said, “men” a lot - men make things happen, men make things grow, - and the first time you hear a female voice it was about SHOPPING
I guess you can compare things when they were that way vs what we have nowadays..all these new ways of thought haven't exactly turned this place into a utopia...quite the opposite.
REPRESENT! I live in Lindy now, grew up in Dix Hills. Lived in Lindy twice between '01-'08 and '14-present. It's going through nice little revitalization, lotta good restaurants, bars, and businesses opening up. House up 200k since I bought it in '14! Black Forest bakery still here, pretzel bun egg sandwiches are amazing!
I remember going there for a field trip! My group saw a White-tailed Deer and two little crabs! We also kind of got burned from touching some red sand. Best field trip ever!
As of 1985, the US Supreme Court interpreting a maritime law case, legally designated Long Island New York as actually "Long Peninsula" New York. According to the Court, since the peninsula formally known as Long Island, is not actually an island because only a river (the East River) separates Long Peninsula from the mainland. According to the Court, a Sea or Ocean is required to separate and island from a mainland. Interesting!
Like most things in life, things change. LI had its time. It's still a beautiful place, but overcrowding, exorbitant and ridiculous taxes have pushed so many away. People have realized a much better quality of life elsewhere. Very, very few ever return. That speaks volumes. LI has changed and not for the better. Oh well, life goes on.
I grew up on Long Island in the 70s and 80s. These days, I live in Myrtle Beach 6 miles from the ocean and pay less than 800 bucks a year in property taxes. I miss the Long Island of yesteryear which no longer exists. All of my family have left; my brother is in Denver, cousins in Florida, etc. Politics and unions have ruined the Island.
Long Island is so expensive there are taxes for your taxes! I kid you not we pay taxes on our homes. Taxes for the village. Taxes for the town. Taxes for the city. Taxes for the state. Taxes for the taxes
how i would have loved to grow up to a less crowded and friendlier long island. It seems like queens is spreading to the east of the island. Overpopulation, nightmare street planning, horrible traffic and crumbling infrastructure. Big change needs to be implemented. With all the taxation you'd think they would make it a priority to reinvigorate the communities.
@@rmb9726 i did as well , goldfish carp,sunnies,occasional eel. We used to set turtle traps in the wooded area , but never got one. Corn and dough balls....my youth..
@@IFIXCASTLES dont forget they have huge bass, my brother catched a 6 pound bass 40yrs ago, i went there back in aug caught 3 pounder. All catch and release
Same thing with Westchester County. It's become the Bronx North. Ugh. These people from the city vote for policies that are bad AND can't be sustained, THEN, move away from what they created by vote, AND THEN decide to do the same thing to wherever they move. They refuse to see their role in it, or maybe that the place to which they move, DOES NOT need "fixing". But that would take self awareness and critical thinking...sigh.
Can’t afford anything anymore on Long Island or all of NY (idk about upstate) and to top it off Long Island is nothing like it used to be. More traffic than anywhere in NY.
It can be...If you work and get decent pay its affordable....I often hear how there's really no place like here in this country...I like the fact a short drive can get you almost any where, whether it be the beach, fishing pier, parks and forests, trip to Manhattan or 5 boroughs , even a drive upstate can be do-able ...Its all here anything you want which is why its so sought after and in demand..This of course drives the price up for living here...
Grew up there.. i miss a time in my life on long island. but it's too expensive and there's no business.. it's over populated, dirty, and expensive.. i wish i could go back to a time on long island, but after leaving there, my future isn't long island.
