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Celebrating Our Community Pride: Illuminating Our Past, Enhancing Our Present, Insuring Our Future, and Thanking Every Hometown Hero

We are the umbrella group for volunteers in Longwood Country! Key projects undertaken by The Longwood Alliance include the expansion and updating of all school facilities through a bond issue passed in 1999, convening of Brookhaven’s first-ever citizens visioning program, the Middle Country Road Renaissance Project (genesis of the Middle Country Road Land Use Plan) and the expansion of the Longwood Veterans Memorial at Bartlett Pond Park.

08/31/2026

Please join us for this year’s Gold Star Families Day Recognition Ceremony, to be held on Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 1:00pm at Bartlett Pond Park in Middle Island.

As those of you who have previously attended well know, this is a very poignant event, one of the few held on Long Island. This is traditionally a smaller, briefer ceremony than Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and we gather near the Gold Star monument.

We are grateful to be able to continue this important tradition. We must not forget the sacrifices of our Gold Star families and their loved ones.

08/23/2026

We had a great turnout for our final America 250/Summer Concert yesterday at the Middle Island Fire Department HQ. Local historian Rob Robert Von Bernewitz gave a wonderful overview of the Battle of Long Island, including Artist Lake painter Alonzo Chappel's painting, and the Benjamin Tallmadge Trail, which runs right through the heart of Middle Island. Then we enjoyed the music of "Just Sixties," who played two hours of hits from both American and British favorite bands of that great musical decade. Sponsored by The Longwood Alliance via a SC Omnibus Grant from Legislator Chad Lennon. Many thanks to Chad, his staff and our wonderful hosts, the Middle Island Fire Department and District. Thanks, too, to Maria Maria Page Cordaro and her staff from Surge Rehabilitation for the popcorn, cookies and beverages, and the Middle Island Civic Association for the patriotic giveaways. Peace, love and tie dyes ruled!

08/22/2026

TODAY - NSIDE the MIFD HQ Bays

FREE "Just Sixties" Concert and America250 Pre-concert Facts & Fun Saturday, August 22 at Middle Island Fire Department HQ. Gates at 4:30 pm, music from 6-8pm. Rain or shine: we move inside the FD bays if wet weather threatens. Put on your favorite tie dyes, love beads and dancing shoes. Bring a lawn chair, friends and family. Many thanks to the Suffolk County Omnibus Grant from Legislator Chad Lennon and staff, The Longwood Alliance and our hosts, MIFD!

08/12/2026

Save the Date: “Just Sixties” to Headline Third Final Free Concert & America 250 Event on Saturday, August 22nd at MIFD

Get out your best tie dye tees and love beads for our final summer concert at the MIFD HQ picnic area on Saturday, August 22. Gates will open at 4:30 pm for some America 250 events and giveaways, and then Just Sixties will take the stage from 6-8pm. Learn about the Battle of LI in 1776 and Benjamin Tallmadge’s raid on the Manor St George in Mastic and Coram hay burning in 1780. Then enjoy the music of the longest running Sixties tribute band in the United States! Bring your friends, family, neighbors, lawn chairs and dancing shoes. Sponsored by SC Legislator Chad Lennon and staff via the SC Omnibus grant program, the Longwood Alliance and our hosts, the Middle Island Fire Department!

07/18/2026

Seeing many questions and much frustration expressed about the construction underway at the RT25-Coram Mt Sinai Rd intersection. Here's the plan we received in 2024. It shows three separate dedicated lanes on southbound Mt Sinai Coram and northbound out of the shopping center, one each for right turn, thru traffic and left turns, and no merge on eastbound 25 until after you pass the light. This is a NYS DOT project, originally proposed why back in 2016! Please bear in mind that almost all of the current reconfigurations are temporary.

07/14/2026

Our second free community concert of the summer was held at MIFD on Saturday, July 11th and featured some wonderful America250 events and the music of The Police/Sting cover band Synchronicity. Attendees heard young Patriot Fynn Grills read aloud the Declaration of Independence, voted for their favorite signer and had the opportunity to sign a copy of the Declaration-- if they dared. And many did! Callyn Gropper hung the historic flags, Fynn led the crowd in the Pledge, Quentin Palifka sang the National Anthem and Gail Lynch-Bailey introduced the band, who played The Police & Sting's greatest hits for two hours nonstop! Maria Cordaro's team from Surge/Quantum provided popcorn and giveaways and Middle Island Civic the red, white and blue momentos and pocket Declaration/Constitutions. The weather was perfect on this evening made possible via the Suffolk County Omnibus Grant Program. Many thanks to our co sponsors SC Legislator Chad Lennon and staff, and our wonderful hosts the Middle Island Fire Department and District. Mark your calendars for our final concert coming up on Saturday, August 22nd.

07/06/2026

Free “Synchronicity” Community Concert & America 250 Events this Saturday!

Middle Island’s second free community concert, this time featuring The Police/Sting cover band Synchronicity, is set for this Saturday, July 11th at the MIFD HQ rear picnic area.

Special America 250 pre-concert events: hear the Declaration of Independence read aloud by young Patriot Fynn Grills, decide: are you a Patriot or Loyalist, vote for your favorite of the 56 original Declaration signers, and then add your signature to theirs — IF YOU DARE!

Gates open at 4:30pm, concert from 6-8pm. Bring your lawn chair, family, friends and neighbors. Complimentary popcorn and giveaways from Surge/Quantum Rehabilitation; pocket size Declaration/US Constitutions and red, white & blue goodies from Middle Island Civic.

This event made possible via the SC Omnibus Grant program, sponsored by SC Legislator Chad Lennon, The Longwood Alliance and our wonderful hosts, the Middle Island Fire Department & District.

07/04/2026

Happy 250th, USA! Come hear the Declaration of Independence read aloud before our July 11th free community concert at MIFD. Choose your favorite signer from the brave 56 and add your name to theirs, if you dare!

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PO Box 24
Middle Island, NY
11953

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http://longwoodalliance.com/

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