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Patchogue

The South Shore’s downtown revival, a ferry port to Fire Island and a late-night restaurant row.

Patchogue has been running one of the South Shore's most convincing downtown revivals, a Main Street stack of restaurants plus the Fire Island ferry terminal a few blocks south. The Patchogue Theatre pulls a steady concert and comedy calendar, which gives the village a weeknight pulse that most of South Shore Suffolk doesn't have. The village opted out of dispensaries in 2021, so the licensed stops sit outside it in the Town of Brookhaven, in Medford and Farmingville, for adults 21+. The ferry-terminal geography also makes it the staging town for a Fire Island rental weekend, though the island is a National Seashore where federal law prohibits cannabis possession.