"But what do you know when you’re young? You look around, and what you see is a flat, dull landscape, its monotony occasionally relieved by the bright red-and-green signage of a 7-Eleven store. You listen, and what you hear are car horns, moms screaming for their children to come home for dinner, and the ubiquitous drone of lawnmowers. By the time you’ve entered restless adolescence, you may already be thinking of Long Island exclusively in terms of cheap irony: this, you tell yourself with what you imagine as a wry smile, is a place that honors Walt Whitman by naming a shopping mall after him."
— Great Rafferty piece from 2000: In Search of the Long Island Soul
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