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Oyster Bay

American  

noun

  1. a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby.


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His Palm Beach compound languished for six years and required $22 million in price cuts before it was sold, while his sprawling Oyster Bay compound on Long Island was recently taken off the market.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Another role is as an "oyster organiser", which entails sorting, cleaning and categorising oysters freshly harvested from Great Oyster Bay.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

Investigators were continuing to search Heuermann’s home, about a 25-minute drive across a causeway spanning South Oyster Bay to the sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach where the remains were found in 2010 and 2011.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Heuermann lives in Massapequa Park, a community just north of South Oyster Bay and the sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach where skeletal remains were found along a remote oceanfront highway in 2010 and 2011.

From Washington Times • Jul. 14, 2023

When Roosevelt was a sophomore in college, his father died of cancer, and he retreated to his family’s country home in Oyster Bay, New York.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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