Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Long Island
Most populous island in the United States (8.06M in 2020); Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties with Atlantic beaches, the Hamptons and Montauk.
- Formation
- glacial terminal moraine outwash plain (Harbor Hill and Ronkonkoma moraines)
- Population
- 8.1M
- Water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Access
- easy
Every required movement
The passage
to Long Island.
Fly to JFK (Queens), LaGuardia (Queens) or Long Island MacArthur (ISP, Islip); LIRR rail from Manhattan; ferries to Fire Island, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
- 01New York JFK (JFK)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Fire Island Ferries; Cross Sound Ferry (Orient Point-New London); Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
U.S. visa rules apply; no special permits needed.
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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What the chart cannot hold
What becomes visible when you follow the hamptons beyond the familiar map?
Long Island stretches ~190 km east from New York Harbor into the Atlantic. Its western end holds most of New York City's population (Brooklyn and Queens); the east is suburban Nassau County and more rural Suffolk County with farms, vineyards and resort towns.
Home to Lenape peoples; Dutch settlement from the 1630s as part of New Netherland, English from 1664; Battle of Long Island (1776); suburban boom after WWII via Levittown.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 40.80° N · 73.30° W
- Sovereignty
- United States · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Manhattan/Bronx across the East River (connected by bridges and tunnels)
- Best recorded window
- May-September for beaches; October for fall foliage and wine harvest.
- Permits / entry
- U.S. visa rules apply; no special permits needed.
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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