Editing Northport, New York (section)

===Railroads and trolleys===
[[Image:Northport 1909.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Main Street, sometime between 1902 and 1909]]
On April 25, 1868, the [[Long Island Rail Road]] opened a station within the village of Northport.<ref name="LIRR 1868">{{cite web | title = PRR Chronology, 1868 | publisher = The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society |date=June 2004 | url = http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1868%20June%2004.wd.pdf | access-date = February 8, 2007 }}</ref> This was an essential transportation link for the village, especially for the growing commuter population. However, just a few years later the LIRR decided to move the Northport station to a new location in Larkfield to facilitate further railway extension to [[Port Jefferson, New York|Port Jefferson]]. The new railway station located on Larkfield Road was opened on January 13, 1873,<ref name="LIRR 1873">{{cite web | title = PRR Chronology, 1873 | publisher = The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society | date = February 2005 | url = http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1873%20Feb%2004.pdf | access-date = February 8, 2007 | archive-date = July 1, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140701100308/http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1873%20Feb%2004.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> and retained the station name of Northport.

To avoid confusion with the former station located in the village of Northport, train conductors would refer to the station in Larkfield as "East of Northport" because the station was located east of the Northport [[railway junction]] which directed trains north to the station located in the village.  Despite the fact that Larkfield was primarily ''south'' of Northport, the area became known thereafter as [[East Northport, New York|East Northport]].<ref>{{cite web | title = East Northport: East Was Added When The Trains Came | work = Long Island, Our History | publisher = Newsday | url = http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist0056,0,3509522.story | access-date = February 12, 2007 }}</ref> The original rail spur to Northport was afterwards known as the [[Northport Branch]]. After the old village station closed in 1899, Northport decided to build a {{convert|2.5|mi|adj=on}} [[tram|trolley]] line to take commuters between Main Street and the new Northport station located in Larkfield. The [[Northport Traction Company|new commuter trolley]] opened in mid-April 1902.  The increasing usage of the [[automobile]] led the trolley to make its last scheduled commuter run on August 19, 1924.<ref>{{cite web | title = East Northport Town History | publisher = East Northport Chamber of Commerce | url = http://www.eastnorthport.com/townhistory.htm | access-date = February 8, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070205075857/http://www.eastnorthport.com/townhistory.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = February 5, 2007}}</ref>