A boardwalk looks out on the boat-filled, naturally sheltered Northport Harbor, which leads into Long Island Sound.
Hey isn't that… Actor Jeffrey Wright, who you might remember from a ton of stuff including "The Hunger Games" franchise and HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," out at the Park Hyatt's Blue Duck Lounge on Thursday night?
You can stroll the entire perimeter of the island on the boardwalk, checking out the Cape Cod-cute homes.
The boardwalk extends out over the bay, and that night the sun left millions of diamonds sparkling on the water.
"I'd work in the morning then go home and shower and then come back to the Boardwalk and hang out until evening".
It was the year's first outing, and, as in years past, they had set off by bicycle from their homes in Belle Harbor, but because the boardwalk was still out, returned home and made the trip by car.
The reopening was welcome news for Coney's Cones and the Famiglia and Paul's Daughter restaurants, which were in the closed section of the Boardwalk and missed out on their morning and early afternoon business.
To straightaway center field, Wilpon -- and his patrons -- could see strollers along the boardwalk, bathers drying out on the sand, gulls plunging from violet-hued twilight skies and sailboats bobbing in the Atlantic.
Bounced by its TV network, drawing less than half the viewers it had a decade ago, unable last year even to sell out Boardwalk Hall ("We had a lot of meetings trying to figure out why," the pageant's president, Art McMaster, said ruefully), it's leaving the town that created it in 1921.
