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The following is a list of attractions on Long Island, New York State. The list includes museums, parks, and beaches as well as many other types of attractions.

In this list, "Long Island" is defined as the geographical entity, and thus the list includes attractions in Kings County, New York, a.k.a. Brooklyn, as well as Queens County, New York, a.k.a. Queens, which are both parts of New York City. The list also includes attractions further out on Long Island, those in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York, which are not parts of NYC but instead are parts of New York State.

Long Island attractions edit

County	Landmark	Description	Date Opened
Kings	Brooklyn Museum	Located on Long Island in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, it is the second-largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States.	1897
Kings	Brooklyn Tabernacle	The Brooklyn Tabernacle is one of New York City's largest churches and Grammy Award winning Choir.	1981
Kings	Brooklyn Bridge	Built in 1874, the Brooklyn Bridge is the oldest existing suspension bridge in the U.S.	1874
Kings	Coney Island	Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States; today, it contains two amusement parks and several other attractions clustered around the Riegelmann Boardwalk.	1880s to present
Kings	Prospect Park	The country's longest open park meadow, with ancient trees in Brooklyn's only extant forest.	1898
Queens	Citi Field	The home stadium of the New York Mets baseball team.	2009
Queens	Rockaway Peninsula	Also called The Rockaways, a popular summer resort area since the 1830s, containing the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk and Jacob Riis Park on its southern shore.	1830
Queens	The Unisphere	The symbol of Queens, the Unisphere is a giant globe in Flushing Meadows Park.	1964
Nassau	Belmont Park	A thoroughbred horse racetrack that is the home of the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown.	1905
Nassau	Jones Beach	Jones Beach Tower, now a familiar Jones Beach State Park landmark, was modeled on the campanile of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.	1928
Nassau	Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	Former home arena of the New York Islanders hockey team.	1972
Nassau	Old Westbury Gardens	Charles II - Westbury House, style mansion designed by George A. Crawley, contains 23 rooms. The grounds cover 160 acres.	1903
Nassau	Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park	An arboretum and state park covering over 400 acres (160 ha) located in the Village of Upper Brookville in the town of Oyster Bay, New York.	1918 - 1921
Nassau	Sagamore Hill	Sagamore Hill was the home of the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, from 1886 until his death in 1919.	1884
Nassau	UBS Arena	Current home arena for the New York Islanders hockey team.	2021
Nassau	Welwyn Preserve	Welwyn Preserve was the estate of Harold I. Pratt. It is now a 204 acre nature reserve, and the mansion houses a Holocaust museum	1913
Suffolk	Adventureland	Adventureland is a 12-acre amusement park in East Farmingdale, New York.	1962
Suffolk	American Airpower Museum	The American Airpower Museum, the former site of the Republic factory in Farmingdale, New York, maintains a collection of Republic artifacts, and an array of aircraft spanning the many years of the aircraft factory's history.	Post World War II
Suffolk	Bald Hill	Bald Hill Memorial is located in Farmingville, NY. This destination pays tribute to U.S. Veterans to honor the men and women that served the country during the Vietnam War.	1991
Suffolk	Big Duck	A ferrocement building in the shape of a large duck.	1931
Suffolk	Captree State Park	A state park located on the south shore off Jones Island (the barrier island that includes Jones Beach), overlooking the Fire Island Inlet Bridge and the westernmost section of Fire Island. Captree is a fisherman's haven and a picnicker's delight.	1954
Suffolk	Fire Island Light	Fire Island Lighthouse is a 180 foot stone tower that began operation in 1858 replacing the 74 foot tower originally built in 1826.	1826 (Rebuilt) 1858
Suffolk	Great South Bay Bridge	The Robert Moses Causeway, over The State Channel and Fire Island inlet bridges to one of Long Island's great Atlantic coast islands such as Fire and Jones Beach Island connecting New York's Ocean Parkway.	1963
Suffolk	Long Island Game Farm	(Petting Zoo) with over 200 animals. The Long Island Game Farm is one of the island's oldest and most well-known establishments.	1970
Suffolk	Port Jefferson Harbor	Port Jefferson Harbor continues to attract mariners, visitors, tourists, and families to an area where natural beauty is the setting for a wide variety of activities, including a ferry service to Connecticut.	Early 1900s
Suffolk	Splish Splash	Splish Splash is a 96-acre water park in Riverhead, New York.	1991

Public beaches edit

Long Island is well known for its many public beaches. They include (from west to east):

Coney Island (in Brooklyn)
- Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk
The Rockaways (in Queens)
- Jacob Riis Park Beach
- Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk
Nickerson Beach, (Long Beach)
Long Beach
Town of Hempstead Beaches at Point Lookout and Lido
Town of North Hempstead Beaches: Bar Beach and Hempstead Harbor
Town of Oyster Bay Beaches: Tobay, Stehli, Centre Island
Cedar Beach (Fire Island)
Jones Beach (Nassau County) - one of the most famous in the world
Captree State Park
Robert Moses State Park (Suffolk County)
Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park in Suffolk County
Town of Islip Beaches: Islip, East Islip, West Islip, Bayport and Ronkonkoma Beaches, Sayville Marina Park, Benjamin Beach at Bay Shore Marina, and several along the barrier beach of Fire Island, including Atlantique, Kismet, Dunewood, and Fair Harbor
Town of Babylon Beaches: Gilgo Beach, Cedar Beach, and Overlook Beach
Town of Brookhaven Beaches: West Meadow, Cedar, Shirley, Shoreham, Stony Brook, Cedar Beach
Town of Riverhead beaches, including Iron Pier Beach
Town of Southold Beaches: Kenny's Road, Horton Lane, and Hashamomuck Beaches.
Town of Smithtown Beaches: Short Beach, Long Beach, Callahan's Beach
Town of Huntington Beaches: Asharoken, Centerport, Crab Meadow, Crescent, Gold Star Battalion, Hobart, Fleets Cove, West Neck
Southampton Town Beaches: Tiana, Ponquogue, and various others on Dune Road and Gin Lane
Smith Point County Park (Suffolk County)
Cupsogue Beach County Park
Hampton Bays in Town of Southampton area Suffolk County (Beaches: Ponquogue Beach, Meshutt Beach on Peconic Bay, Shinnecock Inlet Beach, K Road, L Road, Tiana Beach, and Road I on both Shinnecock Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.)
East Hampton Main beach
Hither Hills State Park
Montauk Point State Park