A Shore Enclave Feels the Breezes of Change
Bicycles and golf carts are the favored modes of transportation in Point Lookout, NY.
By CAITLIN KELLY
ALTHOUGH some beach communities offer weekend parades of their residents’ late-model luxury cars — often as part of traffic jams — a quiet Long Island enclave, Point Lookout, is dominated by golf carts, a feature that seems odd in a town with no manicured green in sight.
Families of 6, 8 or even 10 aren’t unusual in Point Lookout. Its shady streets are lined with carefully tended gardens, and it remains the sort of place where an elderly man on a bicycle can be overheard telling a friend he’s off to Saturday afternoon Mass.
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Kate Winslet in Point Lookout Filming Scenes for the HBO Miniseries Remake of the Movie Mildred Pierce.
Actress Kate Winslet is seen filming movie seen on the set of the filming of "Mildred Pierce, on Lido Boulevard in Point Lookout Thursday.
When you hear the name Mildred Pierce, and you happen to know your classic cinema, you probably go right to one woman: she of the big eyebrows and shoulder pads; better known as Joan Crawford. Crawford won her one and only Oscar for her role in Michael Curtiz's crime classic, and now another Oscar winning actress has signed for a remake of the noir tale, but this time it's for the small screen. Kate Winslet was in Point Lookout, NY where she has joined forces with director Todd Haynes to star in a remake of Pierce as a HBO miniseries.
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Of Inlets, Channels and Dunes
Evergreens along Ocean Boulevard in Point Lookout betray their seaside location by their fanciful shapes. The beach has helped the market here stay relatively sturdy, as have the small-town feel and proximity to Meadowbrook Parkway.
By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER
A mixture of pricey cottages, expanded Capes and pseudocastles on tiny lots in the town of Hempstead, the 0.23-square-mile Point Lookout occupies the east end of the Nassau County barrier island that is also home to Lido, Long and Atlantic Beaches. Except for a few other fishing boats, the Doxsee factory is the only industry in the hamlet. Joggers, children on bicycles, mothers pushing strollers and beachgoers pulling wagons commandeer the concrete roads in this 11-block-long, three-block-wide community of fewer than 1,500.
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Point Lookout is a hamlet located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York. The population was 1,472 at the 2000 census.
Although the hamlet of Point Lookout is of recent origin, its name dates back to the early 1700s. This locality was constantly changing in size and appearance as the present Jones Inlet moved westward. This area was occasionally inhabited by fishermen and whalers, and they created the name by which it is now known.
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