The counties of Nassau and Suffolk boast a population of approximately 2.8 million people. If you include Brooklyn and Queens, the population of Long Island is more than 8 million.
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Union College in Schenectady, New York is regarded as the Mother of Fraternities because Delta Phi is the oldest continually operating fraternity and Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi Societies were started on the campus.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, was said to capture the spirit of the north shore of Long Island (Gold Coast) in the 1920's.