I know nothing about Five Towns College except where it is. And the only reason I know where it is is because of the following exchange, which occurred at SUNY Binghamton (now Binghamton University) in 1984 between me (a boy from Brooklyn — aka The Center of the Universe) and my soon to be friend Kenny (from Dix Hills)
Me: Where ya from?
Kenny: Five Towns
Me: Blank stare (internal monolgue, “upstater?”)
Kenny: Dix Hills, Woodmere…
Me: Blanker stare
Kenny: Nassau County?
Me: Oh, you’re from Long Island. Yeah, just say Long Island.
And while we are on the subject, since there are so many programs in New York State, I offer the following as a public service since those of you from elsehwere in tne country may find yourself at a place like NYU — which is in “The City” (see below) and find yourself needing directions from a New Yorker (someone from New York City) to get to Wagner, or LIU Post, or Syracuse, etc.
New York Consists of the following:
—Brooklyn
—The City (AKA Manhattan)
—The Bronx
—The Island (including Queens and all points east until you hit Montauk).
—Kennedy and LaGuardia (for those of you from far enough away that you took an airplane)
—New Jersey (all points west of Brooklyn and The City that require going across a bridge or taking a ferry to get to, including Staten Island, until you hit Pennsylvania)
—Upstate (all points north and west of The Bronx until you hit Canada or Ohio)