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  2. Holbrook, New York - Wikipedia

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    Holbrook is believed to have derived its name from a stream which was called, in various narratives, either "Old Brook" or "Hollow Brook." [3]The area was part of the 51,000 acre Islip Grange estate, acquired in 1697 by William Nicoll (son of Matthias Nicoll, who was the sixth mayor of New York City). [4]

  3. Holbrook station - Wikipedia

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    Holbrook was a station stop along the Greenport Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The most recent version was located along Coates Avenue and Railroad Avenue in Holbrook, New York. History. The original version of Holbrook LIRR station was combined into a cigar factory owned by Colonel Alexander McCotter between June and July 1875.

  4. Holbrook's Tragic Train Crash Remembered | Sachem, NY Patch

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    It was major news across New York, grabbing front cover headlines for the NY Daily News, the NY Daily Mirror, Suffolk County News and the NY Evening Journal. Shortly after 8 a.m. on the morning of ...

  5. Part 2: A Man Is Known by the Company He Keeps | New City, NY ...

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    Holbrook and Leonard badly wanted to upgrade the “downtown” area of Congers, a small, relatively non-descript, three-street-long retail area with a freight railroad line running through it.

  6. History of Long Island - Wikipedia

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    Another important historic Long Island airport was Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Opened in 1931, it was New York City's first commercial airport. It was the start point or terminus of historic flights by Amelia Earhart, Roscoe Turner, Wiley Post, and Howard Hughes. It was sold to the Navy shortly before World War II for use as a Naval Air ...

  7. Part 6: Holbrook's ‘Cesspool of corruption and patronage’

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    Sluys lit into Holbrook with the savageness of a junkyard dog. His editorials would have made the sleaziest tabloid editor proud. Larger-than-life to his admirers, even in death, Sluys had no fear ...

  8. Spring Valley, New York - Wikipedia

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    36-70420. NWS SAME code. 036087. Website. www.villagespringvalley.org. Spring Valley is a village in the town of Ramapo and Clarkstown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Chestnut Ridge, east of Airmont and Monsey, south of Hillcrest, and west of Nanuet. The population was 33,066 at the 2020 census, [3] making it ...

  9. Sachem School Community Mourns Girl, 11, Who Died After ...

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    HOLBROOK, NY — The Sachem Central School District community is mourning the loss of an 11-year-old student who died after a car crash in Holbrook last week. Alanna Lika, 11, succumbed to her ...