So here I am in Red Hook, a little decayed waterfront village in the city.

Most of the people in the small waterfront village were very poor, but they had an abundance of love and generosity.

Although home values rose nearly 30 percent in the small waterfront village of Sea Cliff, that was the exception.

"We want to create a little waterfront village."

South Freeport, the largest of the waterfront villages, once had four shipyards.

"It has become a tourist Mecca," he said of the bustling waterfront village.

This destroys any sense of a small-scale waterfront village that New York City needs.

Formerly a quiet waterfront village, famous for the cucumbers grown in gardens on the green hillsides behind.

Politics is beyond local in this waterfront village on the North Fork of Long Island.

FOR as far back as many Bellport residents can remember, the tiny waterfront village has remained the same.