Places/place
Island Park
Tim’s take
He describes it as his hometown, a small Long Island mob town where actual Goodfellas and Sopranos figures lived — Henry Hill, Vinny Ocean Palermo, the man Paulie was based on 25:12 1:00:24 35:24 4:29. He tells this as folklore rather than argument, insisting you can look it up 35:24, and also recalls it as a club-heavy party town before zoning laws killed live music 10:06. The other recurring story is Hurricane Sandy, which he says wrecked the town — houses destroyed, boats in the streets — while he watched safely from Manhattan 10:15 39:54. Beyond that it's mostly backdrop for personal stories: a church white elephant sale 18:34, a fish-market trip derailed by his talent agent 22:34, Ray's near-DUI driving home from there 1:39, and a half-joking plan to shoot a movie there with Colin Quinn 59:19.
Every Reference (11)
"grilled it was a get out door back back it was right down in island park which like a legendary party town they had a bunch of clubs"
Cocaine Cowboys Miami, Guns N' Roses at Limelight, and the Death of Live Music — Antiseptic New York+260s into the segment"dropped me off we left late and drop you off out of the way your Island Park digs estate. Yeah, is the term bungalow bungalow estate You"
"This is a garage sale that the church, Our church in our town, Island Park, they do like every year, they do like a San Gennaro, which"
"fresh. It's great. So I, I, I go out, I take the train out to Island Park. This guy meets me with his car. Before he gets there I find"
"that's a canarsie, right? Now I grew up in a town actually which Island Park in Long Island, which is they had the Paulie from Goodfellas"
"Hill, all the guys, a lot of the guys from Goodfellas lived in Island Park. Really crazy stuff. Like, it was a lot of mafia. My dad played"
"like and the town's called Island Park you can look all this up by the way before you go I you know"
Island Park's Mob Ties and Tony Soprano's Real-Life Basis — 154 - The 3 AM Episode+5s into the segment"the homes in the town that I lived in Island Park were completely destroyed boats were floating down the Main streets in the town that I lived there was like four feet of water in lower Manhattan"
Hurricane Sandy and Life in Hell's Kitchen — #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show+189s into the segment"water it was really really bad um yeah this is uh photos from island park uh during a hurricane sandy it was bad people were without power"
Hurricane Sandy, Long Island's Racism Cured, and the COVID Excuse Economy — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+162s into the segment"all lived in it all those mob guys moved from Ozone Park to Island Park yeah they all went to this little South Shore town yep but yeah"
Small Talk: Colin's New Show About Surveillance Culture and Snitching — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343+74s into the segment"summer I'll be directing you outside of an Italian restaurant in Island Park I mean we've always wanted to make this movie about Long Island"
Plugging Colin's Tour and a Mysterious Big Movie Scene — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343