Editing North Babylon, New York (section)

=== Historic Persons ===

[[August Belmont]], the noted 19th-century financier, raised racing horses at his estate which is now [[Belmont Lake State Park]]. There is still a flat circular plot of ground just south of the [[Southern State Parkway]] on the western side of Belmont Avenue where his trainers worked the horses when they were in New York for the racing season.  The former driveway of Belmont's estate was lined with tall pine trees that are still visible in the median of the Southern State Parkway just west of Belmont Avenue.

[[Austin Corbin]], who developed [[Coney Island]] in the 1870s before he became the manager of the Long Island Railroad, built his summer residence along the shores of what is now known as Deer Lake.

Col. [[M. Robert Guggenheim]], an industrialist and statesman, and brother-in-law to the founder of the Long Island newspaper ''[[Newsday]]'', established a country estate on the same grounds as the former Corbin estate, which is now a neighborhood of post-war houses known as Parkdale Estates.  The Guggenheims built a large home on Deer Park Avenue and horse stables (which later became the Stables Garden Center).  For years the lakes known as Deer Lake were named Guggenheim Lakes.  Other than the lakes and a couple of service buildings which were later relocated to West Islip, no traces of the Guggenheim estate remain.