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Beginnings: In the centuries before European settlement, Roosevelt was a part of the great forest separating the Hempstead Plains from the meadows and marshes along the South Shore. After the colonists came, the stagecoach route from Hempstead to Babylon passed through the area, and in the late 1700s some entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the potential business by building taverns. Thus, the community got its first name - Rum Point. The more genteel Greenwich Point became the community's name about 1830. In 1902, when a post office was established, residents renamed it in honor of the current United States president, fellow Nassau County resident Theodore Roosevelt.
Photo: Icehou...
Photo: Icehou...
Beginnings: In the centuries before European settlement, Roosevelt was a part of the great forest separating the Hempstead Plains from the meadows and marshes along the South Shore. After the colonists came, the stagecoach route from Hempstead to Babylon passed through the area, and in the late 1700s some entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the potential business by building taverns. Thus, the community got its first name - Rum Point. The more genteel Greenwich Point became the community's name about 1830. In 1902, when a post office was established, residents renamed it in honor of the current United States president, fellow Nassau County resident Theodore Roosevelt.
Photo: Icehouse Lakes, Roosevelt from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
Photo: Icehouse Lakes, Roosevelt from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
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The NRA's off-target plan
Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wayne LaPierre, Firearms, Colleges and Universities, Shootings
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'Hyde Park on Hudson' doesn't illuminate FDR, critics say
"Hyde Park on Hudson," this award season's less flashy presidential portrait, stars Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time of a visit by England's King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) in 1939 to drum up...
Tags: Olivia Williams, The Wall Street Journal, Bill Murray, Daniel Day-Lewis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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'Hyde Park,' 'Lincoln' and more films give history a leading role
In "Hyde Park on Hudson," the retelling of the visit of the king and queen of England to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in upstate New York in 1939, there's a particularly remarkable scene: Roosevelt's mother — who owned the house where everyone...
Tags: Hitchcock (movie), Arts and Culture, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Movies
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Basketball: Wednesday's scores
Varsity Times InsiderBOYS' BASKETBALL NONLEAGUE Aliso Niguel 46, Snoqualmie (Wash.) Mount Si 43 Brea Olinda 76, Poway 63 El Dorado 53, Chula Vista Otay Ranch 40 Irvine University 87, San Francisco Lincoln 78 Murrieta Valley 47, El Modena 45 Servite 66, South...... -
Boys' basketball: Juniors spark Palisades to win in Oaks Christian tourney
Varsity Times InsiderJuniors Louis Kurihara and Aaron Johnson contributed 17 and 14 points, respectively, as Palisades knocked off Sacramento, 68-48, in a first-round game of the Oaks Christian tournament. The Dolphins will play Royal in the 4 p.m. quarterfinals. Royal (10-2)... -
Damien Bona dies at 56; co-wrote 'Inside Oscar' on Academy Awards
Damien Bona earned a law degree from New York University in 1980 but spent only two years practicing law.
As he told the Los Angeles Times in 1986, "I had to choose between a job and an obsession. I chose the obsession."
Bona's obsession was the Academy...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, Julie Christie, Colleges and Universities, Greer Garson
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On Location: New York’s Roosevelt Hotel stars in ‘Man on a Ledge’
Company TownTo Los Angelenos, the name Roosevelt Hotel calls to mind the Spanish-style building on Hollywood Blvd., the site of the first Academy Awards. But it's the other Roosevelt Hotel, the one in New York City, that is getting star treatment in the new Sam... -
The Morning Fix: Google's entertainment device, 'The Vow' looks hot
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before reading Steve Jobs' FBI file. The Skinny: The final thing I did before falling asleep Thursday night was watch "Top Chef" (I'm a day behind) and get worked up about how mean all the chefs are...... -
Movie Projector: 'The Hunger Games' to dominate box office -- again
Company TownMoviegoers are expected to return to the multiplex for seconds of "The Hunger Games" this weekend, propelling the teen epic to the No. 1 spot again with upwards of $60 million. With "The Hunger Games" receipts plus those of two new films hitting theaters,... -
Sumner Redstone receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Company TownSumner Redstone, the 88-year-old billionaire chairman of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.... -
Dr. Oz expands L.A. program to boost health, reduce obesity
L.A. NOWRoosevelt High School student Johana Soto has become much more aware of her bad habits and is trying to change them. She credits Erikka Moreno, 22, who is teaching her, her classmates and her teachers lessons about healthy eating and exercise. Moreno is... -
Bonobos launches a collection of L.A.-made denim
All The RageBonobos, an on-line only purveyor of men's pants, is launching a line of denim that is made in Los Angeles using denim from Cone Denim's White Oak plant. The jeans will sell for $125 a pair....
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