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unusual facts about Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY 8/24/04



Accidents and incidents at John F. Kennedy International Airport

;8 February:Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a Douglas DC-7, crashed off Jones Beach after takeoff when the pilots found themselves on an apparent collision course with an inbound Pan Am Boeing 707 and made evasive maneuvers.

Babylon Railroad

The line's main purpose was to provide transportation between the Long Island Rail Road station at the north end of the village center, to ferries for Jones Beach and Fire Island destinations.

Bouvier Beale

Beale spent his weekends and summers on Long Island at the Piping Rock Club, Jones Beach, and Bridgehampton.

Hurricane Belle

Just after midnight on August 10, Belle made landfall on the South Shore of Long Island, NY, near Jones Beach, as a Category-1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a central pressure of 980 mb.

Jacob Riis Park

Riis Park was designed by the politically powerful New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who had also created Jones Beach as a state park further east on Long Island in 1929.

Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY 8/24/04

Jones Beach, Wantaugh, NY 8/24/04 is an Instant Live album released by The Allman Brothers Band.

North Wantagh, New York

North Wantagh is served entirely by the following schools in the Levittown Union Free School District.

Public transportation in North Wantagh is provided by the n54/n55 and n73/n74 lines of the Nassau Inter-County Express.

Old Bethpage, New York

Powell called his land Bethphage, because it was situated between two other places on Long Island, Jericho and Jerusalem, just as the biblical town of Bethphage (meaning "house of figs") was situated between Jericho and Jerusalem.

Outer barrier

It is accessible from Long Island on its western end by the Meadowbrook Parkway to Merrick, New York, the Loop Parkway to Long Beach, New York and the Wantagh Parkway to Wantagh, New York.

Radio Newyork International

As a result of this meeting, Weiner, Ford and other associates decided to replicate Radio Caroline as Radio Newyork International from a ship to be anchored in international waters off Jones Beach, Long Island, New York.

Radio Newyork International was the name of a pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship anchored in international waters off Jones Beach, New York, USA in 1987 and 1988.

Song of Norway

Columbia Records made a recording in 1959 of the Jones Beach production (which opened in June 1958) with Brenda Lewis and John Reardon, which was released on CD by Masterworks Broadway.

Wantagh Fire Department

During the month of August in 1954 a United States Air Force fighter while traveling from Delaware to Massachusetts crashed into the middle of the street on Denver Road in Wantagh.

Wantagh Park

In 2006, the pool at Wantagh Park was named "Best Public Pool on Long Island " by Long Island Press, the weekly newspaper.

Wantagh Senior High School

Wantagh High School is a high school located in Wantagh, New York.

You See Me Crying

It has only been performed live once, on June 26, 2009, while in Wantagh, New York's Jones Beach Theater, during the Aerosmith/ZZ Top Tour.


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