Places to go on Long Island?

I grew up in Queens, New York...went to school out on Long Island (and we spent most of the summers there because my dad fished as a side job out of freeport).

I went to boarding school in Mass. for high school and have been in New England ever since. My folks now live in Baldwin, which I'm not too familiar with, and when i go visit it doesn't seem like home. I'm not still in touch with anyone i knew when i lived there...and i never really knew of places to go out, since i was just 13 when i left.

Whenever i go to visit the family, everyone expects me to have had a great time just cause "its New York" but I wouldn't even know where to start. Where on the Island (or in the city) could i find cool accepting hippy folks to hang with when i go down?

 

It's hard when you don't know anybody. There aren't any real hang out spots for hippies that I'm aware of. They're just wandering around in groups together.

 

I live on the Island, about a mile from Smith Point Beach. I dont rly think theres much for the groovy gang to do here, kinda boring. It would be cool if one day tehre was a chill hangout like a "coffeeshop" in amsterdam

 

I grew up in Queens-then moved to Long Isand-Lived in New Hampshire-than back to Long Island and then Woodstock.
I lived in Hookset NH and miss the Steak and Chesse sandwiches and Manchaester.

 

I live in East Rockaway, about to move to Malverne in a month or so. Baldwin isn't too friendly of a neighborhood so thats probably why you can't get a feeling of home out of a concrete playground, but somewhere I think you would find intriging would be Long Beach. Really nice beach with a 2.5 mile boardwalk and other beaches like Lido and Malibu spot the roads along the shore. It's really close to Jones Beach which is a great place to hear music, I saw Phil Lesh and Friends, Black Crowes, 311, The Wailers, and Pepper there this summer. If you need to know anything more or want more info about the island just PM or IM me. And you get the best drugs from Long Beach as well as a shitload of younger people, all within our age range. Long Island isn't a very big place you just need to know what's on it.

And if you like abandoned/haunted houses, as well as abandoned mental hospitals, I'm your man to talk to.

peace and understanding

 

that pretty much sums up long island i think... i lived there forever until may and i always think ist wierd when people say that theres nothing to do on long island exept the beach or things of that nature... personaly i cant stand sand so i dont chill at th beach and i can always find wild and crazy and fun shit to do, you just gotta know whats up

 

there are parks and trails everywhere!!!

 

I live in baldwin and me and my friends usually sit around and burn every night. Thats about it haha

 

Yeah you're definitley right about Long Beach and their drugs. You can get pretty much anything there, and it's always good quality.

Yeah my friends went to that giant abandoned mental hospital... I forgot what it's called, but you definitley know what I'm talking about. They were trying to find the underground tunnels, but they couldn't find them.

 

There is plenty of good pizza and chinese food all over. People over 21 like to hang around in bars and nightclubs; better yet in Manhattan. Long Island is the place where people come to escape the city. I am looking for some friends, so hit me up anybody and we can chat or talk or something. I am on the Island.

 

I grew up in Elmhurst & Flushing, Queens. It was immigrants then and immigrants now. Got lots a family on The Island in Wantaugh.
Its got nice local beaches for the summer.

Great thing is to take the trains to Manhattan

 

The best thing about living on Long Island is thinking about what you would do if you were somewhere else.

 

Hahah, I live in Port Washington, LI. They call me 'the' hippie if that gives you any idea of what I go to school with. I see more Hummers and Ugg boots than one can shake a stick at, plus they're not too nice over here either.

But yes, long beach is pretty ill. The surfing's not too bad either. I know a lot of chill kids down there.

 

yeah but i have trouble finding places with good people

 

if you live near smithtown i suggest that you visit Sweet Briar Nature Center, a lot of good people volunteer there, not to mention here are trails and some really kool animals

 

Sayville is a great town. I lived there for a long time. Nice people too. It was voted the most friendly town in the USA years ago.
Plus you can take a trip over to one of the few Nude Beaches.

 

Port Washington was always a trip. Louies and the Duck pond with all the rich guys and the little remote control boats.
Sands Point Country club was kool to go on at night and trip.

 

I'll try to be positive. The food is good in many places. Huntington especially.

 

Depending upon when you are visiting, Eastern Long Island offers many reasonable activities. In the Summer and Fall there are a variety of festivals on the twin forks. Riverhead offers a free Blues Festival. For minimal entrance fees, Cornell has their late summer festivals at Suffolk Community College with some (ok) musical entertainment; the vineyards on both forks sponsor variety of events.


There is a coffee house in Riverhead all year that has open mike on Thursday.

 

I dig that golf course, for obvious reasons.
As for Louie's - I went in there on rollerblades and got kicked out, haha.