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History · Lido Beach

18% of Lido Beach’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1897 on.

0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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What stands out about Lido Beach’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lido Beach are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18975 editions of the USGS map, 1897 to 1967. Watch Lido Beach change.Old housesHalf of Lido Beach’s homes were built before 1957.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lido Beach’s history is told.

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On the map

Lido Beach on the map, 1897 to 1967

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lido Beach. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Lido Beach on the 1897 USGS mapLido Beach on the 1903 USGS mapLido Beach on the 1947 USGS mapLido Beach on the 1954 USGS mapLido Beach on the 1967 USGS map1897Hempstead sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lido Beach.

The story

How Lido Beach came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lido Beach.

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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. 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.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lido Beach, 1897 to 1986

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1897On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1961Born hereTodd Kaminsky is born here
  5. 1986Born hereMickey Shuler, Jr. is born here
By decade

Lido Beach, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Lido Beach (4)2011Lido Beach (4)Lido Beach (3)2011Lido Beach (3)Lido Beach (2)2011Lido Beach (2)Seaweed on rocks at Atlantic Ocean2010Seaweed on rocks at Atlantic OceanLido West town park2010Lido West town parkLoop Parkway at Point Lookout2007Loop Parkway at Point Lookout
Famous people

2 famous people were born in Lido Beach

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Mickey Shuler, Jr.Player of American football · b. 1986
Todd KaminskyNew York State Assembly member · b. 1961
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Point LookoutIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLong Beach7 historic placesA

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.