Picturesque Northport still has its trolley tracks
Newsday Staff Writer
As coastal Long Island shifted from farming to shipbuilding in the 1800s, the village formerly known as Cow Harbor was renamed Northport – no doubt a relief to status-conscious 19th century tourists.
Picturesque Main Street still has its trolley tracks, and you can hear old-fashioned band concerts in the park by the dock.
Home town of "The Sopranos" star Edie Falco and singer-actress Patti LuPone, the village and adjacent Eatons Neck-Asharoken peninsula have long offered respite to a galaxy of stars. Enrico Caruso sang in Northport's Trinity Episcopal Church. In the 1930s, playwright Eugene O'Neill polished "Mourning Becomes Electra" in Eatons Neck. In the '40s,
French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery finished "The Little Prince" in Asharoken. Even footloose writer Jack Kerouac put down temporary roots in the village, using profits from "On the Road" to buy three houses from 1958 to 1964.
Don't miss the Victorian captain's row along Bayview Avenue. Or the historical society's monthly walking tours. As for shopping, you'll encounter as many villagers as tourists in the quaint-but-not-cutesy stores.
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