Maggers Wrote:No one born in Queens would consider himself from Long Island. Two distinctly different places. Nuh uh. Queens is NYC. Long Island is NOT NYC. Although Long Island accents now are suspiciously like old Brooklyn and Queens accents because so many families migrated east and moved from over crowded Brooklyn and Queens to Long Island, the suburbs.

That's the difference...Queens is the City; Long Island is the burbs. Big difference.

Another difference, people vacation on Long Island (think the Hamptons); no one vacations in Queens.

Although, folks who can only afford to take the subway to the ocean will go to the Rockaways for the day, which is the ocean front section of Queens. Not the greatest beach by a long shot, but if you can't afford anything else, it's just fine.