Hey from central North Carolina. Before we got married, my wife lived on Long Island on up in Suffolk County in a little town called Ridge, near Brookhaven and Riverhead. I enjoyed being up there. The names of towns on Long Island have great resonance, both the Indian names and the Rockaways and such.
For years, she also had an apartment in Greenwich Village, and she worked for Newsday, so she knows Manhattan and the area extremely well.