The Sand Dunes at Lido Beach

by Dora Sofia Caputo

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The Sand Dunes at Lido Beach

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Dora Sofia Caputo

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The Sand Dunes at Lido Beach - Dora Sofia Caputo
Lido Beach is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York. It sits between the ocean and Middle Bay, and it is a series of small neighborhoods mostly developed in the 50's and 60's. Lido Beach is on Long Beach Island, which stretches 10 miles from Atlantic Beach to Point Lookout. The beauty and tranquility of Lido Beach has attracted several celebrities throughout the years, including Carol Burnett, Gregory Hines, Steve Lawrence, Rick Rubin, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who either lived in the area or rented week-end summer homes.
Lido Beach was developed by William H. Reynolds, in the early 1900s. The 39-year-old former state senator and real estate developer had already developed four Brooklyn neighborhoods (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Borough Park, Bensonhurst, and South Brownsville), as well as Coney Island's Dreamland, the world's largest amusement park. Reynolds also owned a theater and produced plays.
Beginning in 1906, he gathered investors, and acquired the oceanfront from private owners and the rest of Long Beach island from the Town of Hempstead in 1907; he planned to build a boardwalk, homes, and hotels, and dredged Reynolds Channel to create the Long Beach, New York resort area. The dredging made the island more accessible to leisure boating.
The Lido Beach community was named after a villa in Venice, Italy. In 1929, after Reynolds was defeated for re-election as the Long Beach mayor, he turned his attention to the unincorporated area just east of the city and constructed the Moorish-style Lido Beach Hotel.

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