A small business owner has gone viral for his videos about the darkest oddities of Long Island.
“People do not realize everything that happens here,” said Arthur Frischman, an owner of the signs store turned into the sensation of media, to the post.
“Now, a large part of my work is to drive for Long Island, and I have seen more in the last two years than in the last 60,” said Northport resident of 60 years and former market, Known on Instagram as Long Island sign.
Frischman’s rapid clips include stories such as the reason behind a strange name of the street that vote from the lunch of the founder of a city someday.
Frischman has also deepened how a local iconic site was modeled around one of the most beautiful structures in Europe and how there was a wonderful idea to make a bridge that connects Long Island and Westchester County.
“These are great stories that people Just drive and never know aboutHey said.
Frischman’s first videos of social networks described local signage, as a way to promote business exchange about two years.
Then he began to launch Oddball Long Island to the mixture, usual next to the milestone and making an Impomptu monologue on his phone, and soon realized that he was in something big.
“Much of what I do is now suggested by people who look and say:” Hey, you should see this, “said Frischman.
Has accumulated 2,000 followers and promoted bone On the popular Long Island Wiseguy page.
Last week, Hey filmed in Jerichio’s Mierigde Inn, one of the oldest nations restaurants that houses several exotic royal turkeys that walk around their parking lot.
“The fact that many people like to listen about all the fun events where they live simply feel great for me,” he said.
These are some of the difficult facts to interest in which it has been encountered.
The bridge to Westchester
Drivers on the Seoford Oyster Bay highway may ask why the relatively short road ends abruptly in Jericho Turnpike and Merrick Road.
“It was supposed to go from Ocean Parkway to Rye, New York, about the sound of Long Island,” said Frischman, who is reading “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro to make more videos about the influence of Robert Moses “on Long Island.
The highway was built in phases and had been scheduled to spread beyond Oytery Bay, which is not touched by irritating, and then in Westchester.
Aggressive protests in the 1960s and 1970s arrested the concept of change of life.
A touch of Venice
The active water tower of Jones Beach, better known by the sun’s bathers as “the pencil” found in the circle between Ocean and Wantag Parkways, is actually a tribute to one of Italy’s architectural treasures.
“The Jones Beach Water Tower is built from the bell tower of the Basilica of San Marcos in Venice,” Frischman explained, and added that the feature once again is thanks to the entrance of Moses. “
“It was a great sticker for more details, and I had imagined this water tower I had seen, and literally made it by hand,” said Frischman.
A delicious street
Another local scratch is why on earth there is a hollow path of bread and cheese in Smithtown, and the answer is more than a bite, according to Frischman.
“When Richard Smith founded Smithtown centuries ago, the story was that it was Given a day to mount his bull. And wherever it was, that is what would be given, “said the signs manufacturer.
“He stopped for a sandwich, and the common sandwich of the time was bread and cheese. That’s what he had, [and] He became Bired and Cheese Hollow Road. “
Each high step in Li is different
Pay attention to this next time in the traffic of bumper to bumper.
Each high step of Parkway in Long Island is constructed intentionally different from each other.
It was done as a way for Moses to make traveling “a scenic and pleasant experience,” said Frischman, who pointed out that structures also have separate brick styles.
“All high steps have different facades, all the different looks, so each one is unique.”
