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Services That Buyers’ Agents Offer to Their Clients:
*Reliable advice and information is perhaps the key factor in making a "good decision". As a buyers agent, they will provide you info such as, but not necessarily limited to the following:
* The original purchase price of the house.
* Evaluating improvements that the sellers may have made to the house.
* Comparative market analysis for similar houses in the neighborhood.
* The average closing help paid by sellers of other similar houses in the neighborhood.
* The average drop from list price to sold price.
* How many days the property has been on the market for sale.
* The co-relation between tax assessed value and market value.
* Introduction to reliable mortgage lenders, home inspectors, settlement attorneys etc.
* You worry about finding the perfect house – they will help you take care of all the big and small details.
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Things To Do In Lake Ronkonkoma
Lake Ronkonkoma offers facilities for a number of recreational activities. Cedar Grove Beach, Belmont Lake State Park, Heckscher State Park, Caumsett State Park and Robert Moses State Park are all popular local tourist spots. The Caumsett State Historic Park, Marshall Field III estate and the Long Island Maritime Museum are great places to learn more about the history of the area. You can also enjoy fishing and boating on Lake Ronkonkoma.
Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island's largest freshwater lake, is in Suffolk County, New York, and has a circumference of about 2 miles (3.2 km), and is 0.65 miles (1.05 km) across on average.[1] A kettle lake formed by retreating glaciers, it is owned by the Town of Islip under the terms of the Nichols Patent, the land around it is controlled by Islip. The name Ronkonkoma comes from an Algonquian expression meaning "boundary fishing-lake", also earlier written as Raconkumake and Raconkamuck.[1]
Ronkonkoma Beach: Rosevale Avenue at the end of Motor Parkway Lake Ronkonkoma, NY 3 tennis courts (late April-November), basketball and handball courts, picnic area, beach ramp, sand chair, food stand, outdoor showers, playgrounds, summer camp (fee). 350 yards of beach on the lake.
Beginnings: Smithtown founder Richard Smith's original holdings included the headwaters of the Nissequogue River east to a ``freshwater pond called Raconkamuck, which translates as ``the boundary fishing place in the Algonquian language. What is now known as Lake Ronkonkoma served as a boundary between lands occupied by four Indian communities: Nissequogues, Setaukets, Secatogues and Unkechaugs.
The Smithtown side of the lake was settled by the 1740s, but it was not until the late 1890s that the area gained widespread public attention. That's when boarding houses and hotels were erected to accommodate a growing number of tourists drawn by claims that the lake's waters had special healing powers. By the 1920s, beach pavilions had sprung up. The Long Island Rail Road, which was completed to nearby Lakeland in 1842 (the depot was moved to Ronkonkoma in 1883), helped transform what had been a sleepy farming hamlet.
The Lake: was created by a retreating glacier. Portions of its irregular basin are unusually deep for Long Island, but most of the lake is less than 15 feet (4.6 m) deep. As a rule of thumb, it is unproductive to fish deeper than 15 feet (4.6 m) in Lake Ronkonkoma because there is seldom enough dissolved oxygen to sustain fish beyond this depth. The primary gamefish are Largemouth bass and smallmouth bass.
The Long Island Railroad Ronkonkoma Line.
link for train schedule: http://www.newmta.info/lirr/html/ttn/ronkonko.htm
Ronkonkoma is a major railroad station and transportation hub along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road in Ronkonkoma, New York. The station is the eastern terminus of the Ronkonkoma Branch and the western terminus of the Greenport Branch.
The station is located on Lakeland Street or Railroad Avenue North across from the intersection of Hawkins Avenue, and has parking facilities and other amenities that extend beyond the central location. Free parking is available in the lots adjacent to the tracks on the north and south side. One parking garage north of the station was built in 1996 on a former freight spur. The station has a total of approximately 6,100 parking spaces. As of October 2010, 63 trains stop at this station every weekday.
Ronkonkoma Station was originally built as Lake Ronkonkoma Station in 1883 as a replacement for the 1843-built Lakeland Station designed to serve both Lakeland, New York and Ronkonkoma, New York. The station house was burned in 1934 and a temporary rectangular one-story building with a gabled roof was used until September 1937, when the second Ronkonkoma Station was completed.
Since December 28, 1987, it has served as the eastern terminus of the electrification of the Main Line, however stations east of Ronkonkoma have been modified for future electrification. The 1937 station was used for storage until it was razed in 1994 when part of the parking lot was extended westward. The current station was designed by architect Richard Henry Behr. Ronkonkoma Yard is also located east of the station, in close proximity to the former Holbrook Station, which was torn down in 1962, and has taken in commuters from the former Holtsville Station since March 16, 1998.
Platform and track configuration
This station has three high-level platforms each 12 cars long. The north one, Platform A, is a side platform adjacent to Track 1. The central one, Platform B, is an island platform adjacent to both tracks and facilitating convenient cross-platform transfers when a Ronkonkoma Branch train is meeting a Greenport train (a.k.a. "The Greenport Scoot"). The south one, Platform C, is a side platform adjacent to Track 2. The Main Line has two tracks at this location.
Connections
As a major transportation hub, the station also serves Suffolk County Transit bus routes S57, S59, 6A, 7A. Shuttle buses are also provided to take commuters and travelers to and from Long Island MacArthur Airport, and local taxi services are available as well.
Lake Ronkonkoma is located in the Township of Brookhaven
The Town of Brookhaven, Long Island spans an area that includes the North Shore on the Long Island Sound as well as the South Shore and the beaches of Fire Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
The “villages” of Brookhaven are considered by some to be the most diverse and interesting residential spots among the island’s suburbs and subdivisions. This is partly due to the University at Stony Brook (part of the State University of New York system). The oft-mentioned “Three Village” area (actually two villages and two hamlets) includes Old Field, Poquott, Setauket-East Setauket and Stony Brook.
On the shores of Long Island Sound, Stony Brook is a quaint, friendly village with the added sophistication of shops, local cafes and boutiques as well as the Marine Sciences Research Center, which is world-renowned.
Accessible by the Long Island Railroad, Port Jefferson is a scenic waterfront village nestled at the foot of seven tree-covered hills, home to dozens of quirky shops, historic homes, outstanding restaurants and eclectic art galleries. Nearby Upton is home to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, with ongoing research programs in nuclear and high-energy physics, neurosciences, medical imaging and more. Brookhaven is also great for golfers, with 12 public and five private golf courses.While commonly referred to as the gateway to Fire Island, Brookhaven’s South Shore contains plenty of attractions of its own. The 2,550-acre Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley is home to a vast range of birds and other wildlife. The sleepy, historic villages of Bellport and Eastport are also known for shopping and antiquing as well as a quiet small-town lifestyle.
What kind of name is Ronkonkoma? Like many American Indian words, the exact meaning of "ronkonkoma" has had various interpretations. The most common is "boundry fishing place," which reflects the lake's position as a point where the boundries of four tribes met: the Nissequoges, Setaukets, Secatogs, and Unkechaugs. Other translations include "glittering white sand," and "wild goose resting place." Various spellings of the word have also been recorded, such as Raconkamuch, Ronconcamuck, Raconckony, and Reconkemeck.
(Thanks to "Historical Footprints," copyright 1963, Ronkonkoma Review)
How do you pronounce "Ronkonkoma?"
There are four syllables in the word:
RON (as in Ronald)
KONK (as in a ‘conk’ on the head)
O (as in ‘oh’)
MA (as in ‘muh’)
RON – KONK – O – MA
See, now wasn’t that easy. I knew you could do it.
Well, I guess that was easy, but can I hear someone else say it?
Sure, listen to the local Lake Ronkonkoma radio station, operated by Sachem High School, at WSHR 91.9 FM. Not only will you hear great music, I'm sure they'll say the word at least once.
http://www.ontheradio.net/radiostations/wshrfm.aspx
Local news and information:http://www.ronkonkomas.com/ http://www.myronkonkoma.com
Local news for Lake Ronkonkoma continually updated from thousands of sources on the web: http://www.topix.net/city/lake-ronkonkoma-ny . The Wikipedia entry for Lake Ronkonkoma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ronkonkoma,_New_York
Local community information:http://www.licentral.com/lakeronkonkoma/
Long Island Rail Road train schedules: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/html/ttn/ronkonko.htm
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