A 90minute train ride east of Manhattan <strong>Smithtown</strong> is a world away from NewYork City with its long rural history and sprawling suburban present.... » 

A 90minute train ride east of Manhattan Smithtown is a world away from NewYork City with its long rural history and sprawling suburban present. Thetownas creation myth that Native Americans granted its founder as much land ashe could cover on his pet bull is captured in a fiveton bronze statue aswell as a town seal and school mascot that bear the image of that mythicalride. But the townas actual development is far richer having been impacted bygenerations of African slaves Irish Italian and Norwegian immigrants andwealthy summer residents. A farming and millbased economy in the 19th centurySmithtown became a suburban magnet in the 1950s and one of the fastestgrowinglocales in New York State. «