This LI hamlet with over 60,000 residents was once a utopian experiment

With a commercial district centering around the LIRR and an ongoing sewer district extension, town officials hope to make it a better place to work and live.

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Upcoming Events

Grooves on the Green

May20

Outdoor concert series featuring live music, local vendors, and food and drink options from Station Yards restaurants, bring lawn chairs and blankets

Where

Station Yards

9 Hawkins Ave.

Ronkonkoma, NY

Price

free

Country Night

May27

Outdoor concert series featuring live country music and dancing

Where

Station Yards

9 Hawkins Ave.

Ronkonkoma, NY

Price

free

Adolph Weichers, Sr. and Lake Ronkonkoma

May27

Learn how businessman and landowner Adolph Weichers, Sr. and his descendants influenced the growth of Lake Ronkonkoma with mansions, hotels and pavilions, limited space, register

Where

Sachem Public Library

150 Holbrook Rd.

Holbrook, NY

Phone

631-588-5024

Price

free

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