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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title
Irving Like Collection
Collection Number
SC 236
OCLC Number
122617496
Creator
Irving Like, 1924-2018
Various
Provenance
Donated by Irving Like in 1976.
Extent, Scope, and Content Note
This collection comprises 3.2 cubic ft. of dockets and other legal materials produced
between1963 and 1986 regarding several laws suits brought by the County of Suffolk (New York) against the
Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO). The papers include documents, hearings, correspondence,
reports and clippings relating to the environment, including the Lloyd Harbor Study
Group's challenge to the construction of the Long Island Lighting Company's Nuclear
Power Facility at Shoreham, New York, and the proposed construction of a nuclear facility
at Jamesport, New York. Other concerns include the Fire Island National Seashore,
the creation of a Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway, and litigation by Suffolk
County, New York, against the Long Island Lighting Company.
Arrangement and Processing Note
Processed by Kristen J. Nyitray in 2004.
Finding aid updated August 2014, May 2019, and May 2020.
Language
English
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation
[Item], [Box], Irving Like Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
Stony Brook University Libraries.
Historical Note
Irving Like (1924-2018) was a longtime resident of Babylon and Bay Shore, New York,
and an attorney who worked to preserve the natural environment of Long Island. His
legal practice, Reilly, Like and Schneider, and later Reilly, Like and Tenety, worked
on complex litigation on the environment, land use, zoning, tax certiorari and real
estate. Like’s first public legal battle was against Robert Moses, another Babylon
resident. Moses was prevented from paving over the barrier beach on Fire Island. Like
was also able to convince the U.S. Congress to make the area a national seashore and
drafted the legislation leading to this major accomplishment. He also fought the Long
Island Lighting Company’s plan to build the Shoreham nuclear power plant in the mid
1960s, as well as other plants on Long Island.
Like was the oldest son of two immigrants from Russia, Benjamin and Esther Like. He graduated
Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York and Columbia University Law School. He
was admitted to the Bar in 1950 and moved to Long Island in 1954. He was a veteran
of the U.S. Army, serving in World War II. Like was named by Newsday as one of the 100 Most Influential Long Islanders of the 20th century and served
as counsel to Suffolk County; chaired the Law Committee of Agent Orange law firms;
and was counsel to the Fire Island National Seashore Citizens Committee. (Excerpted
from: The Beacon, November 15, 2018)
Subjects
Like, Irving, -- 1924-2018 -- Archives.
Like, Irving, -- 1924-2018.
Long Island Lighting Company
Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway (N.Y.)
Jamesport Nuclear Power Station (N.Y.)
Lloyd Harbor Study Group.
Fire Island National Seashore (N.Y.)
Environmental policy -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
Environmental policy -- United States.
Shoreham Nuclear Powerplant (N.Y.)
Nuclear power plants -- New York (State) -- Shoreham.
Nuclear power plants -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State)
Suffolk County (N.Y.) -- History.
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Nuclear power plants -- Environmental aspects.
Nuclear power plants.
Environmental policy.
United States.
New York (State) -- Suffolk County.
New York (State) -- Shoreham.
New York (State) -- Long Island.
New York (State).
INVENTORY
Hudson National Scenic Riverway: correspondence, drafts, clippings, 1964-1966
Correspondence: 1964
Correspondence: January-April 1965
Correspondence: May-July 1965
Correspondence: 1964-1965 A-Z (filed by last name of correspondent)
Correspondence with Representative Richard L. Ottinger, 1964-1966
Correspondence with Senator Jacob K. Javits, 1964-1965
Drafts, resolutions, bills, acts, memoranda
Newspaper clippings
Citizens Committee for the Hudson River
Cornwall Taxpayers Water Protection Association
Friends of the Hudson
Hempstead Town Lands Resources Committee
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference
Correspondence with Robert Like, 1965
Fire Island National Seashore material (circa 1963)
Newspaper clippings: Shoreham Nuclear Power Station and energy
Lloyd Harbor Study Group
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