Crescent Duck Farm, Aquebogue, NY: Long Island’s Last Duck Farm Is Back After 19 Months
Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue lost its entire flock to avian flu in January 2025. Here is how Long Island’s last duck farm, and the chefs behind it, rebuilt.
The American Diner Was Built to Be Hauled Away, and Long Island Keeps Proving It
From a horse-drawn Providence lunch wagon to Kullman’s factory-built cars, the American diner was designed to travel by truck. Long Island’s Cutchogue Diner arrived on a flatbed, while the Shalimar never made it out of Queens.
Setauket Seafood and Italy’s Village Market — 230 and 232 Main Street, East Setauket, NY 11733
Two counters on East Setauket’s Main Street, a fish market that lasted 42 years and a butcher shop reopened this summer, and the chef who kept both going.
Sixteen Streetlights and 362 Years: The Road Through Mount Sinai
Sixteen new streetlights on Route 25A prompted a look back at Mount Sinai: a dry-stream name, a 1664 deed, Tallmadge’s 1780 landing, a farmland wedge saved from a big-box plan, and a harbor shaped by civic fights.
From Hicksville Fields to Diner Counters: The Long Island Potato and Cauliflower Story
A 1941 pest in Hicksville, a 1901 cauliflower co-op in Riverhead and a vanishing sea of potato acres: the verified history behind the spuds and cauliflower on Long Island’s diner menus.
A North Shore Listing Shot at 4 PM in October Already Looks Different Than It Did in July
Fall’s shorter, lower-angle daylight changes how a North Shore home photographs for sale. Here’s what sellers need to adjust in staging, timing, and twilight shots before listing.
