Walking New York: Island Park to Long Beach (April 4, 2021)

[@spinedoc18]

As a former LB resident and now expat living overseas I loved seeing my beloved boardwalk and ocean beach. Thanks so much!

[@kenstrauss5841]

I grew up in Long Beach and Oceanside. . ( 1950s to 1970s ) One of my fondest childhood memories was the sound the car tires made as they went over the steel grates on the Long Beach draw bridge .

[@sherrygarter7955]

Grew up on Harbor Isle from 1953-1966. There are 2 bridges to walk over from town passing Island Park School to go over bridge. Was a fantastic place to grow up. Used to walk to ice skating rink and movie theater in Long Beach! Wonderful memories

[@GoodmanMIke59]

My name is Mike Goodman, brothers are Daniel, Robert, Gary. Mom and Dad Marlene, Charlie. 1037 traymore, moved to 204 Traymore. Went to Audubon Elementary, Francis X Hegarty, Lincoln Orens Junior High, West Hempstead High School 1978. Mr Bonelli just died.

[@ryanthomas8955]

Use to jump off those bridges as kids and have the best Halloween wars back in harbor isle

[@charlestelito6406]

Love and positivity

[@NCC1701D]

I grew up and still live here. No matter where I go, island park will always be home.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

My name is Mike Goodman, brothers are Daniel, Robert, Gary. Mom and Dad Marlene, Charlie. 1037 traymore, moved to 204 Traymore. Went to Audubon Elementary, Francis X Hegarty, Lincoln Orens Junior High, West Hempstead High School 1978. Mr Bonelli just died.

[@NCC1701D]

@@GoodmanMIke59 we used to call him Jelly Belly Bonelli, I hadn't heard that he passed away. Very sad.

[@newhavenr]

Very nice to see parts of Island Park that way. I grew up on tiny nearby Harbor Isle 1953-1963. Went to elementary school in IP. Only come back maybe once a decade.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

My name is Mike Goodman, brothers are Daniel, Robert, Gary. Mom and Dad Marlene, Charlie. 1037 traymore, moved to 204 Traymore. Went to Audubon Elementary, Francis X Hegarty, Lincoln Orens Junior High, West Hempstead High School 1978. Mr Bonelli just died.

[@seanshannon1514]

Love the video! I grew up here.

[@marilynpearlman5681]

I loved your walk. Spent many years traveling the roads you were on as I worked in Long Beach and my sister lived right in the red brick building by the entrance to the boardwalk. Many things changed but it is still the beautiful LI beach. Thanks AK

[@ryanthomas8955]

Those pull-up bars by her building was the best

[@сергейкутузов-д9ч]

Island Park is a charming calm place under clear Blue Sky!!! But I'm waiting with impatience when you will go out to the ocean at last. And it's here, the broad walk, here my school friend ( we taught in art school in Moscow) with his family has celebrated one's birthday now. It's difficult to say what I'm feeling. I like a waste of waters and I'm envying him a little...Many thanks for this movie, it has done very well.

[@marieg4739]

Another great trip through Island Park and Long Beach..Very interesting homes along the way and very beautiful...also the beach ...You do a great job Action Kid and I like the narration you do...Take Care on your walking trips and don't stop as I so enjoy your work...!!!!

[@letswalkaroundstockholm]

Really enjoyed this video! Thanks. Greetings from Sweden

[@britishgray4952]

Great Walking Tour I Really Love Your Videos AK Take Care With Love Always Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida Blessings

[@elizabethdiaz5434]

Wow! Nice place and great enjoy fun! 💙💚💛👍👌👋

[@NCC1701D]

Barnum island and island park are the same zip code as far as addressing mail and whatnot, but the side you started out on is the Incorporated Village of Island Park and homeowners pay taxes to the Village, when you get on the other side of town Barnum Island pays their taxes to the Town of Hempstead but if you were up on the other side that's in the Town of Hempstead everybody still considers you an island parker, and your mailing address reflects that

[@ЕвгенийДимитров-э8й]

Yeah looks pretty quiet and green village with lots of great spots I guess

[@rwr773]

The boardwalk and beach is similar to Ventnor and Margate just south of Atlantic City.

[@ActionKid]

Good to know!

[@rwr773]

@@ActionKid You should do the Jersey Shore this summer

[@johndonohue2168]

Grew up in that town. You went down the street I lived on.

[@thewalkstreet9423]

Awesome walking I'm enjoy your video thank for sharing 🤗😘🥰

[@ltfmel]

Watching from the Netherlands🌞🇱🇺🍀🙋‍♀️🌼

[@AfrazExplores]

This was a good walk

[@GoodmanMIke59]

Born into a home in Long Beach in 1959. Lived on Tramore Boulevard in Barnum isle (Island Park), 1962 until 1978. Went to K12 education with the same Young folks. Sold Good Humor ice cream in both Island Park and Long Beach. The Wonder years.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

The library used to be closer to the elementary school in the village of Island Park, Francis X Hegarty. The new library was the A&P. It is across from my synagogue. When we were boys, fifth grade, we were allowed to leave school and go sit on the stoop of the A&P. By that time I would be leaving Elementary School at the end of the day and attending religious training at Temple Beth Emmett

[@GoodmanMIke59]

The instant you crossed over the train tracks you were in Barnum Isle. There are only two ways to get around the train tracks from Barnum Isle to the Village of Island park. That is, unless like we kids, we would just jump a chain link fence, hop over the tracks, even the third rail, around a junkyard behind Nassau Lane, close to my friend Lisa Marcote's house. The other location to cross over is at the North End.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

As you walk over the Long Beach bridge, imagine my being a 15-year-old pushing a good humor trike over it. Now imagine riding down the bridge. ... thank you for the memory lane, but it was much better when I was a boy. Much more quaint, much less commercial. Everything was more locally owned.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

The Waterway under the bridge is Reynolds Channel. It supports commercial barge traffic, pleasure boats. ... I walked over that bridge one evening with my grandfather who had to stop and take a nitroglycerin pill. I was about 16 at the time. .... My grandfather continued to walk over that bridge well into his 70s when he had a job working at a senior center. When he finally got older and had to stay home one day because he was sick, the bridge attendant actually called my home to ask where the old man was.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

My grandfather's home was at 212 East Chester Street, Long Beach, I believe it's been torn down. It was close to where you passed the Speedway gas station. My grandfather's traditional New York candy store was on Park avenue. Also torn down.

[@ЕвгенийДимитров-э8й]

Wow!!! Pretty nice residential area by the way !

[@Lv-nq9qz]

Many of the homes and businesses on island park were heavily damaged after superstorm Sandy. At one point, the entire island was under water, with some areas only 1 foot under water, and others experiencing up to 6 feet of flooding.

[@ActionKid]

Oh no! I’m glad the area recovered though. That storm was very bad!

[@Thatusernick]

@@ActionKid I was a baby for Sandy and I heard story's of rough times abt it

[@Thatusernick]

Also that train is near me I see it alot

[@kamdakoolaidman]

Why didn't go into the bar? It was the village Inn for 30 years Barnum Island was where Barnum and Bailey circus kept elephants off season to drag the original lumber to build the long beach boardwalk

[@letstravel300]

Great walking tour.

[@preelang3091]

Watching from Philipines. Have a nice day my friend.

[@SuperFriendsNYC]

Hello, Kabayan!

[@MariaOrtiz-o8f]

That's my neighborhood ☺️👍👍

[@jrbknyc8785]

Haha the town in grew up in. Live on the other side of the country but can’t say I don’t miss it a bit

[@dhirenmainali6276]

Awesome video 👏👏

[@dream.machine]

Great video AK!

[@comelytravel]

Great video, I pray who ever sees this be successful in life 💖❤️

[@ЕвгенийДимитров-э8й]

Hey Action Kid! How you doin'? Just had a dinner and decided to hang out with ya! Sounds pretty cool !!!

[@withjiji]

Hi from France 🇫🇷. I lived there❤️. Good job guys. Which camera you use?

[@urbanwalkers627]

nice nice jooob mate!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@RDSGRUPP]

💚💛❤💯👍

[@bobbyd968]

Like Brooklyn is part of Long Island and also part of New York City. Queens also is part of both.

[@jonc3903]

I'm from Island Park!

[@GoodmanMIke59]

My name is Mike Goodman, brothers are Daniel, Robert, Gary. Mom and Dad Marlene, Charlie. 1037 traymore, moved to 204 Traymore. Went to Audubon Elementary, Francis X Hegarty, Lincoln Orens Junior High, West Hempstead High School 1978. Mr Bonelli just died.

[@AntonioAlvarado-s8r]

Grew up in barnum

[@carmenhernandez3538]

The area close to the station in not too pretty. Will keep looking to see if the area gets prettier. The residential area is very nice.

[@joeyrudolph6359]

I grew up on Habor Isle-take a ride down Island Parkway North down from the bridge around the island, its less than a mile around. You'll pass by the houses with a torpedo, an anchor and mooring along with dolphin sculptures and the houses of gangsters Paul Vario and Vinny Palermo. I must mention that Ray Kelly (the longest Police Commissioner in NYC history and Fmr Senator Al D'Amato both had homes there.

[@browneyes2100]

The Home of the great Tim Dillion

[@dijikstra8]

So much potential for transit oriented development around that station, instead there's basically parking and car-dependent sprawl. That makes me sad.

[@Lv-nq9qz]

Long Beach has more density, and good access to the LIRR via the Long Beach station. So it kinda evens out, there are some places with apartments and access to transit, and some with houses and more open space

[@dijikstra8]

@@Lv-nq9qz Sure, but there's just som much potential for transit oriented development around New York. The City is very pedestrian friendly, especially by US standards, but then the suburbs surrounding the city decend into automotive hell on par with any other US suburb, despite having the potential for an excellent regional transit system if they were to do away with some of the divisions between agencies to allow trains to run through-service and all day long, build pedestrian friendly denser areas around the stations and put a proper suburban bus system into place. Transit use could skyrocket. Instead the LIRR and other commuter rail systems in New York are woefully underused, it has a lower ridership than the commuter rail in my home city of Stockholm, which is ten times smaller than the New York metropolitan area. I find this to be a sad state for such a great city.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

I wish you could see it from my point of view. I grew up in Island Park. Born in Long Beach, moved to Island Park when I was 2, graduated high school having lived on the same street. We only ever walked along Austin Boulevard or Long Beach Road as needed. Mostly we were in the neighborhoods that this gentleman didn't have time to look at. You would have to unwind a clock 50 years but imagine 12-year-olds sitting at the canals, playing with horseshoe crabs. You would have to imagine quiet walks in the morning as a young boy looking at the water lap at the end of a dead end street. You would have to imagine a Love Struck boy riding his bicycle past the house of a girl who lived out of the way, but worth the extra mile to imagine her being inside. We knew everybody on our street. I don't remember getting in trouble but I suppose that was because we knew there were prying eyes looking out the Venetian blinds. We shoveled the snow as of all the old people and made a few bucks, maybe $2 or $3 back then. When we got snowed in one time my mother yelled out the window asking to trade eggs for bread. I walked home for lunch when I was in first and second grade. We could trick or treat right as we left Elementary School. We sold magazines and candy for our Washington Trip in 8th grade. Reconsider your opinion please. ... you're looking at the gift by looking only at the crumpled wrapping paper on the ground. The gift was inside. ... the 1960s and 1970s truly were the Wonder Years.

[@GoodmanMIke59]

@@dijikstra8 spoken like a true European socialist greenie. Let the free market work. The environment will take care of itself.

[@dijikstra8]

@@GoodmanMIke59 It's not the free market that made the US this way, it's regulation that basically requires single family dwellings and separates land use, e.g. commercial from residential. And yes, I am a proud socialist and I care about the environment and the climate crisis that we are in the middle of. Do you have a problem with that?

[@dhirenmainali6276]

plz make more

[@FunkyMarcel]

Reynolds Channel under the bridge.....

[@GoodmanMIke59]

Used to kayak. Oil barge traffic? You ever see?

[@ЕвгенийДимитров-х9к]

Hey Kid! How you doin'?

[@twinsonic]

$575'000 is the median price for real estate here..

[@Tony-hz8ld]

I see Jacks Pizza. That is where the residents got their drugs.

[@ХамитКосанов-л3б]

Қалайсың

[@Ahmedotaf]

توقعت نيويورك أفضل مظهرا

[@GoodmanMIke59]

My mother used to say that if you have nothing nice to say, keep your mouth closed. I'm sure Beirut, Baghdad, Riyadh, Bethlehem, Mogadishu are terrific places to live. If you live in the United States, Consider a trip home.

[@Circle9000]

raa

[@landensnyder2268]

First

[@MK-rn2hm]

Parts of NY can be very ugly.