Dateline: Long Island (1964)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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Newsday was begun in 1940 in Long Island and this film shows the paper's role in the growth of the community and many shots of historical Long Island. It also conveys Newsday's approach to journalism and shows the process of the newspaper's production and distribution.
The Levittown housing project began the suburban building boom in post-war Long Island.
The investigations of DeKoning's criminal activities and the awards received.
A real, proud advertisement for Newsday, this film is full of abundantly wholesome American images, from farms to bowling to riflery.
And now we present modern Long Island...where nothing is affordable and your money goes to waste by corrupt towns.
Crookhaven.....the most corrupt town on long island.
and the addicts. don't forget the addicts.
and the taxes ... and the kids who will never be able to own their own house unless they move away ... and the toxic plume in our groundwater ... and the rich scum selling off the last of the nature for their shortsighted idiocy ... and the rudest towns in America (Syosset, Woodbury, Five Towns, the entire hamptons) and the...
@@izzyfernandes6862 yes safe to say you nailed it
@@izzyfernandes6862 not being racist but those are the most Jewish towns in long island!
Born 49' in Brooklynn, grew up on LI, lived in Levittown, Long Beach, Finally North Bellmore, best years of my youth. We moved upstate N.Y.
Saratoga Springs, in 66' left N.Y. around 1980 and now live in Mass. But my heart is still in Long Island.
Born and raised and still here on Long Island 50 years later ...why did this make me sad? Tearing up as I watched.
It sucks here on LI.
I totally understand what you mean. I’ve never been to NY but I was born and raised in Houston TX. It’s definitely not the city I grew up in as I’m sure Long Island is to you. It hits me me because nobody will ever know what it was like to have “local TV commercials or radio ads” where you felt a sense of closeness to the city. Seems like it’s all gone these days.
I miss the days of people getting to know their neighbors and actually caring about news like what they are talking about in this video.
I know we live(grew up)in different areas of the country but I’m glad to see that values aren’t all that different! 😊
imagine being 18 here
You're tearing up because you wish you moved out sooner. I grew up on Long Island in the 80s and 90s and got out in 2008. I have no desire to go back.
Me too
Hello from Massapequa Park! Born and still living and work for town of oyster bay proudly! Long island is still a beautiful Island!!!
My Grandfather built a bungalow in Brentwood after Word War 2 , they lived in Brooklyn and stayed out there in the summers my mom and my 2 uncles . Then they permanently moved there around 1950 after my Grandfather got a job at Grumman and added to the summer cottage to make it bigger .There was still potato farming then..I was born in South side Hospital in 1965 , (and oddly enough delivered Newsday for 3 years) my Mother and Father had thier house built in 1962 ..My 2 older Brothers still live there in St.James and Wading river..Long Island was great place to grow up..
Chris
.u lived in brentwood..im a 1982 sonderling hs grad.
@@gailgalbraith5307 I went to Ross but my family moved to Texas when I was a sophomore. .
@@christhevancura9113 gotcha
Imagine if we still have journalism? That would be 'awesome.'
Haha now long island is just "$1200 a month for a STUDIO. is it WORTH IT?NO!"
New York: the only thing to do here is leave
Yeah if you want to live in Brentwood or fucking Bayshore some shit like that you're at least going to be paying 15 for a studio
@@davidaix5771 pfft. even Bay Shore is expensive af now. Studio apartment goes for atleast $1,600 in Bay Shore (based on Fairfield, Mid Island, and Bay Shore Gardens apartments website)
And I am pretty sure Brentwood is around the same ridiculous price as well. If you want affordable housing anywhere, you need to go Section 8.
Ha soo true
$1200 isn’t that bad and yeah Long Island has a lot of perks.
2500-3000 now just 3 years later
Was born in 1962 my parents moved to Long Island In 64 and I remember how nice it was growing up. I remember many of those pictures in this video. It is sad that business has such a narrow vision as to overcrowd every place in the quest for more money, and destroy the beauty of a nice life to raise kids and family . You could let your kids out during the day and they can go playing in the neighbourhood and didn't have to worry about them being hurt, molested, or kidnapped. The reason was because the majority were good people, and if your kids screamed when he was away from the house somebody would step in and protect the situation, as they know you would if something happened near your house. Now we just have a crap world of shit people that would rather video someone being hurt then step in and help , so they could get Instagram hits. At least Umberto's pizza is still there.
Totally agree.
Politicians and taxes ruined it
Indeed, grew up in East Meadow and miss it.
And today if you step in and help you’re the bad guy. Born in 83 grew up in Levittown. Live in Sayville now
It has a lot to do with overpopulation. The population doubled between 1960 and 2021. It’s disingenuous to blame business. If you want to blame someone blame the medical community for making people live longer.
Still here! Long Islander born and raised!!
I grew up here, North Fork, still fairly rural looking from the family home, so long as you don’t venture too far! And yes, rents and real estate is only for the wealthy, especially after COVID. In 1953, my father purchased a four bedroom home on 7.5 acres, for $12,000. There were nine of us, supported on one income from US Navy, later, Grumman, then Brookhaven Laboratory. We had one car, a 12” black and white RCA TV with rabbit ears. We got three-five channels, weather depending. Most of our time outside of school was spent doing chores and playing outside.
Dont forget the rotary phone.
@@AAA-uy2ob Of course! They came in one color, black! There was a choice two styles, tabletop or wall mount. You rented them from the phone company, nobody personally owned a telephone. I have a tabletop rotary phone with adapter. Plug it in to a landline and guess what? It still works!
North forker here too!....its on the chopping block as the citidiots flow in 🤬
So glad most comments from Long Islanders agree with me, this place is to expensive and overdeveloped
Everywhere is getting expensive.. the overdevelopment hasn’t creeped much past 112 Patchogue to port Jeff, but it’s taken well over 30 years I’ve lived here to get that far except riverhead which has become insanely overdeveloped
I completely hear you, unfortunately I was just working almost 90 miles east of Elmont in Sag Harbor, I can’t believe its even spread to the east end! I used to love L.I. Now I want out! So wish I was at least upstate or somewhere on the mainland, I’m only here for my immediate family, other then that, I’d be out! You have to make a good amount of money to live in the NYC/Long Island area and I don’t do bad but the dream of owning a house in Long Island is just that a dream! I work high end construction, I have been in apartments that were well over 90 million dollars! Ridiculous! A house here that’s 500,000 dollars is 70,000 dollars almost everywhere else in America, I love my country but definitely not L.I. Freaking shame, this situation is destroyed the American dream!
If my daughter wasn’t still I’d be out of here
@@davidmann4533 somewhere I could ride my Harley all year round brother
too.............
This documentary of Long Island is now changed a lot!!
Thanks for video!! 😷👍
Affordable homes? Growing up without concrete jungles? We need to go back
A beautiful look back to a time when journalistic integrity mattered.
In other countries narration reporting is similar to the old American styles
Thanks to the this film who had to tell everybody how great it was out here
It’s all over but the crying true paradise lost
Great old doc , although I’d probably live anywhere else, Long Island has a lot of history, I live in Elmont Long Island, grew up on Long Island, but in Brooklyn and queens which a lot of New Yorkers don’t even know is the same Island, my friend has a pre war Levittown house with almost an acer , LI is to over developed , when I was a kid back in the mid 70s and 80s we would visit my aunts and uncles and cousins in Franklin Square and Babylon , it was like going to the country, Babylon had dirt roads, I never wanted to go back to Brooklyn! Now it’s so expensive, the most expensive place to live in the country, it sucks , I can’t wait to get the hell out of here! Gonna get off these islands one day and move to America!
It’s overpopulation too many people here now
Nassau today is like Queens in 1964. And Suffolk today is like Nassau in 1985.
Not all of it
@@70blue63 ....and the Hamptons are like Bel Air....
Getting out of Long Island in 1985 was the best move I ever made. My poor siblings are stuck paying property taxes there that are essentially rape, like 5 or 6X what I pay for the same value home in Denver. And no wonder, they’ve got cops there making over 1/2 million a year. Every time I visit it’s like ‘THANK God I LEFT! Too many people and the taxes are INSANE!
The South American gang. MS-13 has taken over Long Island.
@@bohemoth1 yes they have.... rich white ppl love Drugs
I lived in Levittown, Long Island, New York from January 3, 1974 thru July 3, 1984, it was a super awesome place to live and I had a super excellent upbringing there, this 1964 Long Island film was fabulous!!
"Out here there's room to breathe." @2:35
Yeah bud that's not the case anymore. 😂
seriously like 'breathe in the PCB's...'
Have lived here since 1955. Oh what a place!!
Good ol days i was born in 1961 parents moved to long island 1960,you are so right Andrew john
wow parking spaces with actual space between the vehicles...what a concept!!!
Amazing how manual it was to print a newspaper - its a wonder how they got out the news each day!
They did not.
It went out twice a day. You would go to the store and get the evening edition.
So interesting to see places I recognize today in 2021, even though this was filmed decades before I was born.
Wow, really brings me back.
It’s cool to see this and what it was like back then. I grew up on Long Island.
My Mom, RIP was born in Huntington, and raised in North Port. Used to LOVE going back with her to see her childhood home and visit with her Irish aunt(s); she told me that back in the “30s Suffolk was mostly rural with many potato farms....I thought about living there myself, but the cost of homes and rents are preposterous.
Grew up in Merrick!! Takes me back, thank you!
Family moved there in 1870. The best beaches in the country.
Once a paradise. Now it's overcrowded, polluted and short on the natural beauty it once had. So glad I was born in 1950 and grew up on the Island in Farmingdale when it was a different place.
Really interesting, great to see. Thank you.
it is good to know the history of long island tho, I was born late 90s and live in Stony Brook now.
Hey neighbor
My uncle had a farm on Long Island before the second world war.
That’s awesome do u know which town ?
Lived here in the 50s great place for kids
My family moved to Long Island in ‘69. I was 3 and grew up here, lived most of my life here. Even in the late 70’s I thought it was pretty crappy. Now..., forget about it.
I bought a bungalow 44 years ago. I love my home and where I live. I live modestly. We can survive!
The kids jumping into the river off the diving board ugh can we go back to long island looking like that , it was so beautiful
North shore Suffolk and out east is still beautiful
@@linehandibew6205it is. Miss east end.😢
Lived there 30 years of my life, traffic and taxes have put that dream to pasture , moved to Vegas 20+ years ago l was a little reluctant , turns out it was the best decision I made . Cost of living is so much better, though I do miss the people and the Italian food lol
Vegas lousier choice lom
Live in Nevada for six years, Carson city. Talk about a shithole! If you aren’t a good old boy or have a blue license plate? Good luck!
@@SPEEDOFDOG what is a blue license plate?
@@boxingandbulldogs6341 means your a cop
Las Vegas is an overpopulated expensive jungle.
We lived on Meander Lane in Levittown from around 1950 to 1956 and went to Jones Beach often. It was my parent's first house. I don't know what it cost. I was only 6 when we moved to Morristown, NJ. I do remember the house in Morristown on a corner lot with 2-1/2 baths, 4 bedrooms, basement, 2-car garage, living room, dining room, eat in kitchen, family room: $24,000. It was a big upgrade from Levittown.
WE, my family, bought a part of Tesla old Property where he had his lab in 1973, both parents right out of Vietnam, I just found out a few years back, Tesla had a deal with the developer, to name our streets in my neighborhood after his best friend and only long-term visitor, Mark Twain...and they honored the deal 60 years later...he also insisted on having the road across from his lab named Albert Street, after Einstein, In Shoreham NY
I worked at Suffolk life newspaper in the 90s. Very different press than in 1964. By the 90s it was computer direct to plate.
Lived in brentwood 60,70 and 80s... Bayshore marine, fireiland, robert moses etc... Twice or more a year cod fishing at Montauk on the viking star.... The best times of my life. Oak beach in. And don't forget pine tree bar across from hills. The pewter tanker on main street. And a few more I can't recall....
Soloman Grundy's East & West, The Boardy Barn, Beau Brumels, Faces, The Long Island Potato, Fun Bars & Dance clubs.
Born in 1951 moved from the Bronx to Uniondale in 1957.i remember our cape cod house cost $9000. It was only a couple years old. Now Im in Suffolk county. Nice trip down memory lane
Fuck yeah I love seeing old historical videos of the place I live. So interesting
If you still have this film it's time to get it re-digitized. Maybe you can get Newsday to 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.
It would be nice for it to be remastered! Doubt if the negative is still available.
During the 1960's and early 1970's the Apollo lunar modules, which landed Americans on the moon, were designed and built by Grumman Corporation, which was located at Bethpage, Long Island.
A/k/a history of Newsday newspaper.
Hello from Roosevelt Long Island .
Hello from Freeport.
I grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Hofstra University in 1969
Newsday:
Propaganda machine
With a monopoly on local news
💥
They even have you pay for a subscription on phones.
I live in a small levitt house built in the 40s in east massapequa which was Amityville til my dad was in high school
Editorial integrity. Whatever happened to that concept? Now it's tabloid propaganda even from the New York Times.
Oh yes, beautiful island of about 7 million people now... traffics great. Takes me about an hour to get from one town to another..
Yeah because everybody wanted to stop road improvements supposedly to preserve nature and protect the environment while we build houses and malls on that land and increase pollution by keeping the roads sub-standard and beneath capacity.
Hello from, Brentwood.
1982 sonderling hs grad
Hello from islip ! Bet u we’ve passed eachother in a supermarket or something all we’ll never know 😂😂
I was a four yr.old.the times have really changed!
Was born in 79 in Massapequa. Went to Plainedge High School. I was really blessed with a great childhood. Wanted to buy my first house in Massapequa. Way to expensive now. I live in Centereach now and have a great house and big yard. Feels very much like Massapequa. Yes times were simpler then and its sad to see how it is now but it will always be home.
Grew up within walking distance of Belmont Lake State Park ♥️
I packed up and blew town bout 30 yrs ago. I saw where it was going. Expensive, Congested, Corruption. But I do miss my hometown. Long Island.
It’s a shame that Black Veterans couldn’t benefit from those Levit houses.
True...sad
@@Nudnik1 But they did eliminate the clause that prevents them from benefitting from those houses.
@@DTD110865 horrible injustice...evil
@@Nudnik1 Here's another problem; That same clause didn't allow Jews to benefit either, but William Levitt was Jewish. So he really didn't make this problem. He was just forced to go along with it... at least in the beginning.
@@DTD110865 Jews were banned in many waspy communities as well...
Born and raised in Levittown. Went to MacArthur high school. Graduation in ‘01. I love Long Island. Bought a house in Sayville in 2018, thankfully I make a livable wage and don’t struggle. I love Sayville till the east end. Everything west is yuk. Except for north shore Nassau county but that’s where all the rich people live. I’ll stay here till retirement then cash in on my house and retire where taxes are cheaper
My dad worked at WGBB. We lived in Patchogue and west Babylon. That was 1970s.
Uncle Sidney worked at Grumman and the lunar lander project. They lived in Bethpage.
We used to go fishing daily at the bay. You could gather clams, sell them at the L dock and buy candy.
Makes me sad to watch. I was born here in 1990. Cant wait to get out of this absolute hell hole in the next year or two. Long Island is a disgusting place to live. Toxic water, toxic land, crime, trash everywhere, crumbling infrastructure, traffic and unaffordable housing to top it all off.
I lived in Freeport L. I. Grow up there. It was a kool place to grow up. In the 70s Nd 80s was the best. We had so much to do. It has changed so much.
Lose the mask fool
Wow i love it when people think they are intelligent. And use BIG words. Thank you.😁 litt sid
This was about Newsday, not about Long Island.....
Hate to burst everyone's bubbles, but the states of the South and West are going this way as well, and FAST.
i’m a teen on LI and i feel like long island is in an awkward, in-between phase. first, people came here bc they wanted to escape the city. now, people want to move to nyc bc long island isn’t enough like the city. it’s kinda boring here (especially during the winter)
All the mfs from the city annoying
I use to live there in the 60s beautiful place but can’t afford to live these days
A vid of L.I. somehow turns into a Newsday ad!?😝
News day has always sucked never subscribed to that garbage
I grew up in Patchogue in the 70's and 80's, was a great place to be. While it's still nice, its much more crowded and built up.
Here at news day we know how to inform the people what their correct opinions are.
Now we have a Governor who welcomes MS-13 gang members like they are family....MOVE OUT NOW
Hmm so the other governors in other states must have invited them too.. really stop with the nonsense police talking points..you have no clue what you are talking about, just like a child,you heard adults talking about a few instances and think your an expert..
@@welding_guy7524 male karens always try and prove a point by placing fault at a different race time to purge bigotry
@@welding_guy7524
Long Island is filled with gang activity such as MS13 that is doing initiation gang killings. Not as good as it used to be. I left New York City over TWENTY years ago. Most of my friends were cops who lived on Long Island and now even they are moving out.
The Latino have ruined greenport high school
@@welding_guy7524 ..Idiot..yes Democratic Governors allowed crime filled CA in to all our states..you dope....
Saw the thumbnail and thought that was promotional still from Plum Island, gacchh!
Is this a long island story or a Newsday story.
I wonder where that star is that hung over the Broadway outdoor mall
If, in 1964, one had bought an apartment in Manhattan and an equivalently priced house on Long Island---I assure you the Manhattan apt would have appreciated at double the rate than any suburban house on Long Island. Go figure.
Depends where. Home prices in the Hamptons have gone up astronomically.
Absolutely correct
@Kilo Byte People are leaving momentarily but for much different reasons than in the 60s. NYC has gone through so many cycles and will be back better than ever 3 to 5 years from now.
@Kilo Byte I mean, there's no point arguing it really. Some people may be leaving for those reasons, some people are leaving for other never before considered reasons endemic to 2020/2021... I also happen to know for sure there are plenty of people taking the opportunity to move into NYC.. more than you think. NYC is NYC. As long as it's iterally above water it will be desirable to certain people for thier own reasons.
@Kilo Byte The scamdemic? Okay now I know what I'm dealing with... Nevermind. Not worth trying to have an intelligent discourse. But I guess I will try anyway...Bottom line, NYC will always be desirable, but it will go through cycles for a variety of reasons. And there will always be people like you who hate on it for your own reasons, big whoop it means nothing. As I said, I know more than a few people who moved to or are preparing to move to NYC over the past year, or have taken the opportunity to upgrade their living conditions. I know people who have moved out too. If the population declines so be it, prices will correct and then people who left because it's too expensive will return. I lived in NYC for ten years until I bought a place in Westchester right before Covid began, but guess what?, someone from Virginia bought our place in Manhattan and moved in smack in the middle of Covid unfazed by it. We continue to own rental property in Brooklyn that is doing just fine.
Carl Yastrzemski’s parents were potato farmers in Southampton. Is it still there or long gone and developed?
Potato blight of some form reduced that. Many have become wineries.
Bridgehampton
@ 20:50 I wonder if that Headline was about TWA Flight 529 ? But that happened September 1, 1961
Sooner or later everything gets ruined
Well it’s ruined
Grew up there from 75 to 2003. Like everything else gets over populated an over run.
Where is this Long Island? The L.I. I live in is a sea of asphalt,water pollution, endless traffic, high taxes, corruption in local government and over crowding. The garden of Eden that was given us is long gone. Heu mihi!
I was born in 1952....On long Island...
'59. Best place in the world to grow up!😁👍🌿
@@danielmartens156 you are not kidding...For the past 20 yrs now I live in Florida....I could not take the snow anymore...But still have some of my closed friends up there... Yes many great memories on Long Island
1965 Levittown 😁 Loved it
I wonder how these people would feel if they new what Newsday has become today.
Born in Deer Park 1968 anyone remember Edgewood state hospital?
At 2:39 Mineola statio on th LIRR. All gone now for the third track project
So very sad. This country lost its soul for the price of greed and profit.It makes me angry.
I love Long Island
Wouldn’t own a home without a basement
man i wish i grew up at this time ,minus the vietnam war of course
That was the best part of the 60’s.
born in 47, moved to Bay Shore in 1950.. Long Island was great, now it is an expensive, overpopulated, world of stress. moved away 16 years ago and will never set foot on that wretched island again...
Too bad William Levitt was a Bigot. There were African American soldiers who fought in WWII, and they had families also, but they were not allowed to move in to those homes in "Levittown," NY. Don't believe me, research the "racial covenant" in those deeds. If we're gonna tell the story, we should tell the WHOLE story. It's interesting how THAT PART was conveniently omitted from Newsday's and this documentary's story. Hmmm...🤔
Wow it looks so weird XD I'm 13 and I live in central islip
Back in the old days Central islip was farms.and every one worked at the ci mental hospital
It's a shame they ruined long Island
Who's they?
They are the alien experiments gone awhry
Living on long island all my life (44 years) and it keeps getting worse.
Due to corrupt government decreasing personal liberties/freedoms over-priced cost of living sky-high taxes and toxic environment we are counting down the days to move out to free-America.
I grew up on Long Island. I moved away in 1995 and went back for a visit in 2017… the place looks like a dump… overdeveloped garbage dump they turned Long Island into. What a shame and my sister can barely afford taxes on her mastic beach home.
wow I wish I lived there!
I would love to just walk among those cars in the parking lot !
Now we are all getting forced out by ridiculously high property taxes
1966 here still in East Northport
Restoration would be interesting.