Long Island
Cross-Island Parkway – Long Island Expressway Interchange
A false color image of this Long Island interchange that we've probably all sat in traffic, trying to get on it. An interesting mix of ramps and cloverleafs.
Long Island Solar Farm
The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) is a 32-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant built through a collaboration including BP Solar, the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), and the Department of Energy. The LISF, located on the Brookhaven National Laboratory site, began delivering power to the LIPA grid in November 2011, and is currently the largest solar photovoltaic power plant in the Eastern United States. It is generating enough renewable energy to power approximately 4,500 homes, and is helping New York State meet its clean energy and carbon reduction goals.
Sunrise
North Fork – Long Island Land Cover
People often think of Long Island as highly developed, and that is true is especially in Nassau County and Western Suffolk County. But Riverhead has a very small-town feeling to it and it's 77 miles or 1 1/2 hour drive to Manhattan -- roughly same the distance of Poughkeepsie to Manhattan. And there is still a quite a bit of agriculture on North Fork of Long Island as shown by the cultivated fields (brown) and hay-pasture (yellow) on the National Land Cover Dataset. There is also some agriculture in South Fork as you can see by zoomingin.
Consider taking off the NCLD layer and swapping the Open Street Map for NY Aerial or US Aerial and zooming in to explore further.
Seal’s wayward waddle ends with a rescue in Riverside – Newsday
A wayward gray seal waddled into the parking lot of a Riverside beverage shop Sunday morning and waddled out with Southampton Town cops in pursuit before the chase ended and a marine rescue group took the animal in.
Southampton Police received a 911 call about 6:30 a.m. reporting a seal in the parking lot of Thrifty Beverage on Lake Avenue, south of Riverhead’s Main Street and the Peconic River, in the hamlet of Riverside. Police responded and the spooked seal crossed the street toward the Budget Host East End Hotel, authorities said. Officers were able to capture the seal after surrounding it, according to Southampton Town police.
The animal was captured by Southampton police and turned over to the Riverhead-based New York Marine Rescue Center. The animal is being evaluated and cared for by the rescue group and will be released at a later date, police said.
Police believe the animal was feeding on the alewives, fish that migrate upstream to spawn in the Peconic River.