DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:When you get off the Cross Island Expressway and head east on Hempstead Ave/Tpk, as you cross the border from Queens into Nassau County, there is a sign that reads "Welcome to Elmont. Home of Vinny Testaverde." That pretty much sums it up.
Isn't Elmont where the racetrack is? I've been there a handful of times. I like handicapping the ponies.
There's a sports bar by Hofstra (which is without exaggeration the ugliest college campus I've ever seen...and it isn't really close) that is owned by Wayne Chrebet. I went there before a Bruins/Isles game last year the night before an early morning flight to the Caribbean out of LGA. Apparently, it has been closed repeatedly over the years because of issues with serving minors. The bar might as well be named "Clowntown"...very strange place. Incidentally, the Nassau Colosseum, which down the street from Hofstra, is without exaggeration the ugliest professional arena I have ever set foot in. That place is decrepit and a mockery to the league.
Since I'm ragging on Long Island...and it's all very deserved...it is probably worth mentioning that there also some very pretty, non morally-bankrupt, and non-generic towns in Suffolk county. There is great fishing off of Montauk, and I've been told that there are good wineries in the North Fork.