Newsday’s buyer’s guide to Bay Shore credits new downtown apartments, including TRITEC’s Shoregate, with helping revive a Main Street that was largely vacant in the early 2000s.
- Shoregate: 418 units, opened May 2024, within walking distance of Main Street
- Main Street then and now: 3 restaurants in the early 2000s, 31 today, according to Islip Councilman Michael McElwee
- Draws: the waterfront, Fire Island access, “Alive By The Bay” summer nights and the reopened Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
“The town has really come around in the 20 years that I’ve been there,” McElwee said.
Read the full story: Bay Shore: Apartments, downtown, proximity to water draw buyers, Newsday
