Town file
Northport, New York
Northport, New York (Suffolk County, New York) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 264, "Blood Among Friends" (24 February 2022). Northport is a village on the north shore of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York, about an hour and a quarter's drive from New York City and a few minutes from the water.
- Town
- Northport
- County
- Suffolk County
- State
- New York
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 264
- Approximate location
- 40.904, -73.345
Episode 264 / 24 February 2022 / 166 min / full
Blood Among Friends
"We are going to Northport, New York, which is it's Long Island... this is in Suffolk County" about 0:05:13
The case: Murder of Gary Lowers (June 1984). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2022
- Population
- 7,259
- Median age
- 48.3
- Median household income
- $112,316 a year
- Median home value
- $115,800
- Two-bedroom rent
- $2,071
- Cost of living
- $155
- Religious
- 72.6 percent
- Property crime
- ▼ half the national average
- Violent crime
- ▼ one third
History, in brief
- The area was known as Great Cow Harbor, a rural farming community with only eight houses in the 1830s. about 0:07:04
- It started being referred to as Northport in 1837. about 0:07:44
- By 1860 the town had 1,000 people. about 0:07:50
- By the 1870s it had three shipyards, five sets of marine railways, hotels and at least six general stores. about 0:08:02
- The village bought the land along the harbour and created Northport Memorial Park. about 0:08:35
- The Long Island Lighting Company opened Northport Power Station in 1967, the largest oil-fired electric generating station on the East Coast. about 0:08:40
- The power station's four stacks are 600 feet tall and can be seen as far away as Connecticut. about 0:09:03
- Cow Harbor Day has been held annually since 1977, on the Sunday of the third full weekend in September, after the Great Cow Harbor 10K. about 0:22:02
The reviews read out
4 stars
"A good, safe place to live if you can afford it: the high school has an IB diploma programme and many students go to prestigious universities, but the cost of living is high and there are roving bands of teenagers and bros."about 0:09:52
3 stars
"Beautiful, with decent schools, but the price of living is high and there is very little diversity."about 0:10:46
5 stars
"A lovely waterfront community with an accessible mayor, trustees and police, numerous beaches, a town dock at the end of Main Street, restaurants, a live theatre with New York equity actors and an acting school for children; most compare it to Mayberry but better."about 0:10:58
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Westport, Connecticut15 miles
- Belle Terre, New York15 miles
- Amityville, New York17 miles
- Redding, Connecticut28 miles
- Chappaqua, New York28 miles
- Demarest, New Jersey32 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.