Rubber Band Gun
Easily the coolest rubber band gun I’ve ever seen.
Long Island Confusion
We’ve been in Manhattan for almost five years now, and it’s time to go get some space.
While north and west (yup, Jersey) would make sense for commuting, family and friends are all east. So, east Queens and west Nassau have become the targets.
Long Island is part of the NY metro area. Geographically, it’s NYC boroughs Brooklyn and Queens, along with Nassau and Suffolk counties. However, when someone says Long Island, they’re usually just talking about Nassau and Suffolk. Little tidbit: if you’re there, you’re “on” LI, not “in” it.
Like many, we’ve been scouring craigslist for real estate listings.
By default, I go to newyork.craigslist.org. It’s just been what I’ve had bookmarked for years, and under real estate there are borough tabs, NJ, LI, Westchester (NY) and Fairfield (CT) counties.
What I just found out is there’s an LI-only site, longisland.craigslist.org, and it’s pretty active, and has completely different listings.
It can be hard enough combing one craigslist, but two craigslist sites doesn’t make it any easier.
There doesn’t seem to be any other site for Westchester in NY, NJ has a NYC suburbs section, which is just a subsection of the NY craigslist. The same subsection method goes for CT‘s Fairfield county.
If you search for the same things over and over, I strongly recommend using craigslist’s RSS feeds. They’re available for almost every part of the website. Let’s say you’re trying to find something near the LIRR (like I am), the RSS feeds for each would be: NY and LI. Not horrible to follow in a feedreader, but any time you want to search for anything, you’ve got two sites to hit, and two to keep modifying.
All that just to say: it’d sure be nice if the LI and NYC LI subsection were connected.