Harvey. No, Not the Giant Invisible Rabbit.

Harvey the Alligator

BY ERIK GERMAN
STAFF WRITER

For 10 years, children at Southside Middle School in Rockville Centre told stories about the giant alligator living in the basement.

It sounds like a youthful myth, concocted to confront boredom -- like lunch ladies serving up rats or aliens occupying the principal's office -- except that the 500-pound carnivorous reptile lurking under Southside was real."