The other arm · across the Peconic
The North Fork
The quieter arm, and it knows it.
Riverhead to Orient Point and out to Fishers Island — farmland, vineyards, working harbors, Greenport. Not the South Fork's mirror; its counterweight. Seventeen places on the north shore of the fork, read on the same four layers.
§• 17 on the record
Hamlet RiverheadNorth Fork, Long Island Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County (Riverhead is both the town and its county-seat hamlet/CDP) · Type: Hamlet (unincorporated county seat) that is the civic/commercial core of it… Contested points Hamlet / census-designated place CalvertonNorth Fork, Long Island Shared — most of Calverton is in the Town of Riverhead; the area south of the Peconic River is in the Town of Brookhaven. Suffolk County. · Type: Hamlet / census-designated plac… Contested points Hamlet / census-designated place Baiting HollowNorth Fork, Long Island Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County · Type: Hamlet / census-designated place (CDP) · Position (W/E neighbors): North-shore hamlet on the Long Island Sound bluffs between Wading Ri… Contested points Hamlet / census-designated place Wading RiverNorth Fork, Long Island Shared — split between the Town of Brookhaven and the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County. CONFLICT on which town holds the bulk — see Governance. · Type: Hamlet / census-designat… Contested points Hamlet / census-designated place NorthvilleNorth Fork, Long Island Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County · Type: Hamlet / census-designated place (CDP) — a former incorporated village (1921–1930) · Position (W/E neighbors): North-shore hamlet on So… Contested points Hamlet AquebogueNorth Fork, Long Island Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County · Type: Hamlet (unincorporated) · Position (W/E neighbors): The first true North Fork hamlet east of Riverhead hamlet, on Main Road (NY-25) bet… Contested points Unincorporated hamlet + census-d JamesportNorth Fork, Long Island Western North Fork, in the Town of Riverhead, fronting Great Peconic Bay to the south; between Aquebogue/Northville to the west and Laurel (the Riverhead/Southold line) to the e… Verified Unincorporated hamlet + census-d LaurelNorth Fork, Long Island Central-western North Fork, between Jamesport (Riverhead) to the west and Mattituck (Southold) to the east; wraps the 33-acre Laurel Lake kettle pond, ~1.5 miles southwest of Ma… Lightly sourced Unincorporated hamlet + census-d MattituckNorth Fork, Long Island Central North Fork, between Laurel to the west and Cutchogue to the east; uniquely spans the full width of the fork — Mattituck Creek / Inlet opens north to Long Island Sound, w… Verified Unincorporated hamlet + census-d CutchogueNorth Fork, Long Island Central North Fork, between Mattituck/Laurel to the west and Peconic to the east; wraps Cutchogue Harbor, Wickham Creek, Downs Creek, and the Nassau Point peninsula reaching sou… Verified Unincorporated hamlet + census-d New SuffolkNorth Fork, Long Island A compact waterfront village on Cutchogue Harbor / Peconic Bay, at the southern tip of the Cutchogue peninsula, facing Robins Island across the channel; reached via Case's Lane… Verified Unincorporated hamlet + census-d PeconicNorth Fork, Long Island Central-eastern North Fork, between Cutchogue to the west and Southold (hamlet) to the east; runs shore-to-shore from Goldsmith's Inlet on Long Island Sound (north) toward Richm… Verified hamlet + census-designated place SoutholdNorth Fork, Long Island mid-North-Fork, on Long Island Sound and the head of Southold Bay, ~10 mi west of Orient Point · Confidence: HIGH on founding/governance/census (Wikipedia + Southold Historical… Contested points incorporated village GreenportNorth Fork, Long Island deep-water harbor on the south side of the North Fork, facing Shelter Island across the channel; eastern terminus of the LIRR Ronkonkoma line · Confidence: HIGH on incorporation… Verified hamlet / census-designated place East MarionNorth Fork, Long Island the narrow neck between Greenport and Orient — a thin strip of land with Long Island Sound to the north and Orient Harbor / Gardiners Bay to the south · Confidence: HIGH on the… Verified hamlet / census-designated place Orient (incl. Orient Point)North Fork, Long Island the easternmost mainland hamlet; Orient Point is the land's-end tip, site of the Cross Sound Ferry to New London, CT, and the jumping-off for Plum Island and Gardiners Bay · Con… Verified island hamlet; exclusive private Fishers IslandNorth Fork, Long Island eastern Long Island Sound / Fishers Island Sound, reached by ferry from New London, CT (not from NY) · Confidence: HIGH on Fort Wright dates (NY DMNA + Ferguson Museum), census,… Verified
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