Neighborhoods

Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai, NY is a hamlet in Suffolk County in the town of Brookhaven on Long Island's North Shore.The neighboring areas include Miller Place, Port Jefferson, Port Jefferson Station, and Coram. Mount Sinai Harbor and the Long Island Sound form its northern boundary. Mount Sinai does not have a main town center, but there are plenty of amenities like shops, cafes,and restaurants in the hamlet and in neighboring villages. In the 19th century people from Connecticut and New York City came to Mount Sinai to escape the congestion of their city neighborhoods.  Mount Sinai Harbor and Cedar Beach is an active recreation area where people flock to swim, fish and boat.  There is an hour and 15 minute drive from New York City to Mount Sinai.  Port Jefferson is the nearest Long Island Rail Road stop. The ferry travels across Long Island Sound from Port Jefferson to Bridgeport, CT. The closest airports are Long Island MacArthur Airport in Islip and Tweed New Haven Regional Airport in New Haven, CT.

Port Jefferson Station

Port Jefferson is a  historic quaint town on the North Shore of Long Island, N.Y.   The Village was first named Sowasset, a Native American term that could mean either “place of small pines” or “where water opens.”  In 1682, Sowasset was renamed “Drowned Meadow,” and it became Port Jefferson in 1836, after Thomas Jefferson, who significantly funded the region." Port Jefferson’s first colonial settlements appeared in the 17th century. The community remained rural until the mid-19th century when it was developed into a thriving shipbuilding center.  Today Port Jefferson is a thriving and bustling Village.   There are a number of events throughout the year featuring the annual Dickens Festival, celebrating Charles Dickens and his famous work, "A Christmas Carol." This holiday festival in December features, street actors dressed in Victorian clothing, music, house tours, a marketplace, horse and carriage rides and other attractions along its historic district and waterfront.  Port Jefferson also has an outside ice skating rink in the winter and roller skating in the summer along with a Summer Farmers Market on the weekend.  

Port Jefferson is approximately 1.5 - 2 hr ride into Manhattan either by car or railroad.  The daily PJ ferry takes you across to Bridgeport Connecticut in approximately 45 mins. Come park your car and enjoy the many restaurants and shops the Village has to offer.   

Setauket

Shoreham

Stony Brook

Stony Brook was first settled in the late 17th century.  Wopowog was the native name of Stony Brook.  A grist mill was built in 1699 at the water body now known as Mill Pond.  The current structure which replaced the original in 1751, ground grain into the 1940s and has since been repurposed for public tours.  The development of Stony Brook’s community was stalled by its poorly accessible harbor relative to nearby Setauket and Port Jefferson.  A local painter named William Sidney Mount, in the 1840’s, called for the harbor’s dredging.  Having dredged the harbor twice it soon filled two times and the effort was abandoned.   Stony Brook based its economy on agriculture and the cordwood industry.

The Long Island Rail Road reached Stony Brook in the 1870s, creating easy access between New York City and Stony Brook. Stony Brook became a popular summer resort for city dwellers.  History of the unincorporated village is linked to that of Ward Melville who was a local business man.  At one point owned much of what his family coined as the Three Village area (consisting of Stony Brook, the hamlet of  Setauket, and the incorporated village of Old Field).  Historic Stony Brook includes the Stony Brook Village, that opened in 1941. Nearby is the Long Island Museum, the Three Village inn, and William Sidney Mount House. A peninsula in this vicinity is known West Meadow which includes a beach and wetlands reserve. Stony Brook is on the North Shore of Long Island, approximately 55 miles east of Manhattan (New York City).  Stony Brook University is less than 2 miles from Stony Brook's historic center.   Easy accessibility to Stony Brook station which is part of the Long Island Rail Road of Port Jefferson Branch.  Your commute time to Penn Station is approximately 1 to 2 hours.  There are transfer stations to Huntington, Hicksville or Jamaica as well. 

INTERESTING READ:   The town of Brookhaven is the largest on Long Island, and extends across the island from the sound to the ocean, and is about 20 miles long, east and west. The towns of Smithtown and Islip are to the West, and Riverhead and Southampton on the East.  During the early part of the year 1655, a party of six men from the colonies of New England landed on the shores of those beautiful bays and coves around Setauket. They purchased from the Setalcott Indians, who had their headquarters there, a tract of land extending from Stony Brook to and including Port Jefferson, and gave the Indians in payment, "10 coats, 12 hoes, 12 hatchets, 50 muxes (small brad awis), 100 needles, 6 kettles, 10 fathoms of wampum, 7 pipe bowls of power, 1 pair of children's stockings, 10 pounds of lead and one dozen knives." The deed was dated April 14, 1655, and contained the signature marks of the Setalcott Sachem Warawasen or Warawakmy, and 14 of his tribesmen. The settlers also were given the right to let their cattle run beyond the bounds of their purchase, and to cut timber as far east as they pleased. The Indians and the proposed settlers agreed to live peaceably with each other, which they did. The first settlement was called Ashford, later Brookhaven, and finally Setauket, and was located around the "meeting house" green at Setauket. The lands of the town were purchased from the Indians at different times by the early settlers, and later held by the 54 proprietors as tenants in common.

Wading River

Yaphank