Long Island Explorations

Thanks for the info. I hope you've or others have checked out the history of Gyrodyne. I was once to the small control tower, it was a foreign car repair garage! But there's nothing like seeing a little one-man helicopter flying over potato fields that become tract development houses next to Stony Brook University. One older map of US Defense Dept. shows a big pond nearby at the current corner of 347 Veterans Highway and Stony Brook road, where Pond Path Road once went I guess and maybe small helicopters? I was once researching the history of Stony Brook U., started when one of the Melville's donated a chunk and got others to too. They may have been the South American "Suffolk Rubber Shoe" company in Setauket, years ago when there was also a piano factory there. He's in the American Philosophical proceedings for his views on preservation, the current Stony Brook Village, once perhaps about to be turned into Centereach where I'm from. I have also been looking at the Montauk Point stuff here online at the Hero State Park (named after a guy) that has sections with ordnance clearing, now "open" to the public, site of early computer processing. I was on the north fork in a brick water tower, near Cutchogue or Mattituck perhaps. I wonder if there were more of those around at one time. I was amazed by the New England Preservation home on Bob Vila's, brick water cisterns in the attic?! We had a small "tin" tank in our house when we moved in, replaced by a driven well. Thanks again. I really enjoyed those night pictures of Pilgrim State never been there myself though friends parents were on the monthly payroll of the State there once. From years ago, a friend Ellice Gonzalez, once was wondering about the underground brick tunnels (smaller than people) at the Peerless Photo place in Rocky Point they were asking her about. Turns out Stanford White designed the place for Nikola Tesla and there was a giant work there at Wardenclyffe in Rocky Point, which will be a museum of science someday (after the HAZMAT crews leave). I once worked for the developer who was responsible for having the big duck moved to a park, weird, in public contract archaeology, we dig shovel test holes at 17 paces around places, if required.