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Long Island Game Farm

zoo in New York, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6672689 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Long Island Game Farm, situated at 489 Chapman Boulevard in Manorville, New York, was established in 1970 by Stanley and Diane Novak. The park is now home to bison, camels, zebras, deer, goats, lambs, lemurs, wallabies, foxes, capybaras, and exotic birds (emus and cockatoos), which also include various education areas and entertainment.

Stanley Novak, his wife Diane and daughters Melinda and Susan built the zoo on 29 acres (12 ha). It is the largest children’s zoo and wildlife park on Long Island.

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“Long Island Game Farm” enters the record as zoo in New York, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Long, Island and Game can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6672689. Authority coordinates are 40.848, -72.789. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Long Island Game Farm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.