A reverent word must be said in memory of several of the imposing structures formerly gracing the community. It would be almost impossible to identify them all, but pictures of most are in the Museum. Those best remembered and which many recall are the Newpoint Hotel (Holiday House) at the foot of Grand Central on the Bay and the Hathaway Inn right across the street, both of which burned not many years ago. Both were built by a man named Hathaway. The Newpoint was the larger, four stories plus Victorian peaks and cupola and could be seen for miles when you were out in the bay. It was the landmark for local sailors.

The Nassau-Suffolk Lumber Co. building formerly the Wood Lumber Co., on Broadway at Sterling Place, formerly Lumber Street also was three stories with a very Victorian cupola and built of long leaf yellow pine which tends to burn fiercely. That fire was so hot it burned the tires off one of the fire trucks used as a pumper.

The old Brunswick Hospital was on Broadway and had another terrible fire.

The old Trolley Trestle, the footings of which were still around a few year ago; Powells Livery Stable and Warehouse on the east side of Broadway back of what is now Cameta Camera Shop, and European-American Bank; Shangrila a restaurant, previously the Narragansett, at the foot of Ocean Avenue on the bay; the old North Church on the west side of Broadway; the east side of Broadway from the Railroad to St. Mary’s Church; the old Railroad Station house and Freight Station; Leigh’s Warehouse on the south side of the Station Plaza; the Carman Homestead on the north side of Merrick Road east of Carmans Road; Frank Buck’s Zoo; Van Tassell’s impressive three storied Victorian brick store building; Ireland’s Mill; Carman’s Mill; Heinley’s coal hopper on the River; the cupola on the Triangle Building; the 1907 addition to the 1894 Park North school building; the trolley tracks on Sterling Place; the Horse Trough in front of the Triangle building; the Police Booth in the middle of the street at Broadway and Greene Avenue; the Amityville Diner at the northeast corner of Merrick Road and Park Avenue; the old Star Theatre and the "new" Amityville Theatre; the Lyceum; Dr. Luce’s Home at the fork of Broadway and Albany Avenue; the first Telephone Building on the north side of Greene Avenue where McClellan’s is now and the blinking traffic signal column in the middle of Ocean Avenue at Merrick Road—all missing and now only a part of Amityville’s history.

Reprinted here, with permission, from Amityville History Revisited by William T. Lauder.