The 50-foot-high lighthouse, whose first floor serves as Old Field Village Hall, stands on a peninsula were its predecessor was built for $4,000 in 1824 — 200 years ago next year, according to ...

The Old Field Point Light Station in Setauket has been nominated by New York State to be added to the State and National Register of Historic Places, one of 37 nominations announced on Friday.

Payments to Setauket constitute about one-third of Old Field’s $1.1 million annual village budget, Levine said. “Obviously, our village taxes will go down significantly” if the state ...