Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Old Long Island Turns 7!

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the creation of Old Long Island.  After seven long years there have been 1,885 posts, close to 500 estates featured, tens of thousands of photos uploaded, over half a million visitors and almost 3.4 million page views.  When those metrics are adjusted for those who stuck around to have a closer look, about 250,000 people have spent an average of seven minutes on Old Long Island over the last seven years.  As always I promise to post new material for as long as I continue to uncover new material.  Thank you to all of you who help make this place possible, who send me emails or photos, stories or information or simply just leave a comment.  Old Long Island wouldn't have made it this far without your help.  Above, my dog Otto wondering why I'm taking his photo while he sits in a chair.  Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

14 comments:

ArchitectDesign™ said...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thanks as always for sharing so much with us all. Your dog is so cute!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for creating such a wonderful website. I've read just about every bit. Your hard work is much appreciated.

Anonymous said...

I'll never understand how someone could visit this site for less than 7 minutes. They must not read comments.
I check for a new post every morning and end up with 42 open tabs and googlemaps zoomed in on an old garden feature before realizing it's 2pm.
Thanks for the hard work Zach!
And all those commenters too

Charles said...

Merry Christmas, Zach and Otto! Thank you for all the enjoyment I have gotten (and will continue to get) from OldLongIsland. I, too have spent a LOT of time happily immersed in and intrigued by these mansions.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for all the work and effort you put into this blog. Last year I took the trip fromEurope to visit some of the estates, or what remains of them. Fascinating! Thank you again Zach.

Tom said...

Merry Christmas, Zach, and thanks for all the effort you put into both of your blogs.

I am guessing that Otto is an Australian Shepherd. If so, he is a nice-looking specimen. Some of them look pretty wierd with mottled gray fur and blue eyes.

Kyle Peterson said...

Holy crap I'm getting old, thanks for the reminder and happy holidays

Anonymous said...

A belated Merry Christmas. OLI has been an enormous archival source of Long Island historical photos and information especially documenting the many outstanding service buildings and mansions that have been lost to suburbanization and disaster over the last century. Hopefully it also has made others aware of the need to preserve the best of what remains. While demolitions unfortunately still occur i.e., Inisfada, they live on here within this fantastic blog. archibuff

Doug Floor Plan said...

As much as a count of visitors to OLI, I wonder what the count over the past seven years would be of:
1) Houses identified as extant when thought to be demolished or whereabouts unknown, &
2) Correct ownership or ownership chain was established when postcards or other citations were incorrect.

I'm guessing most of us would have never seen a majority of the photographs Zach has posted; clearly true about the personal photos people handed directly to him. & as I've said before: you cannot buy the research that shows up in the comments on a consistent basis. It may not have changed a thing on Long Island ... but I think most of us like to think it has.

BillinMI said...

Congrats and thanks for all of your efforts - this site is important for so many reasons, and for those of us born on LI and having moved away, especially valuable. It really is like going home many days and I continue to learn from all the posts and contributors. So good to see Otto looking happy and healthy as well! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all here on OLI.

wooded bliss said...

Thanks Zach, I so appreciate your incredible work.Happy anniversary. Happy New Year.

John said...

Zach, I'm trying to find information on the Morgan Estate. I was told that my grandfather was contracted to make a scale model of the estate before it was built. After Morgan's approval it was destroyed

BarbieGMak said...

Thank you for your wonderful service. I grew up in the remains of 3 estates. I now live in sunny south Florida. It is bitter-sweet to see the history of so many lovely memories. Cheers and here's to many more memories being unleashed.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, merci, gracias, grazie for your hard work in archiving beautiful Long Island's history.

Happy New Year!
-Linda