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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3981359, member: 181"] When I lived in Greenwich Village and mediated weekly in Brooklyn 25 years ago, I first heard people commonly say that they were going "into the city" or "out to the island." Of course, I knew that that they meant Manhattan in the former case, and Nassau or Suffolk Counties in the latter...even though Brooklyn (like Queens) is both IN New York City and ON Long Island. By comparably generous interpretation, "in-between Queens and Long Island" is a great phrase for a facility located in Elmont, which sits just beyond New York City limits, but was once considered within Queens, though long before the city's multi-borough consolidation in the late 1900s. [/QUOTE]