This book chronicles the complex history of one of Long Island's most important institutions, its first chartered university. It embeds that story in the 20th century evolution of Long Island itself, a place that embraces the fourth and fifth largest cities in the United States (Brooklyn and Queens), two quasi-suburban counties (Nassau and Suffolk) and a total of 6.7 million people, the equivalent in population of America's tenth largest state. It has long outgrown its telephone area codes of (718), (516) and (631). Long Island's population growth has been atypically from West to East....
This book chronicles the complex history of one of Long Island's most important institutions, its first chartered university. It embeds that story in ...