[2] North Babylon has a number of recreational areas such as Belmont Lake State Park where walking, cycling, picnicking and boating are enjoyed.

[3] The main commercial thoroughfare in North Babylon is Deer Park Avenue, featuring a wide array of strip malls, shopping centers, restaurants, recreational activities, homes, and schools.

NY 231 gained notoriety as a very popular "cruise strip" where hundreds of people would congregate in the shopping centers on the weekends to show off their classic cars.

The Sopranos actress Edie Falco, lived at the end of Gracie Drive next to Parliament Place School for several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Dee Snider, singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister lived on Lico Place in the early 1980s.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone featured two people from North Babylon in his films The Doors and Midnight Express: Erik Chopin was the winner of season 3 of NBC's series The Biggest Loser.

RuPaul's Drag Race Season Six contestant Darienne Lake, aka Gregory Meyer, who grew up in the Poet Section of North Babylon, attending Parliament Place Elementary School, until the early 1980s before moving to Rochester, NY.

Model, actor and body builder Billy Herrington, grew up on Rhoda Avenue and was a 1987 graduate of North Babylon High School.

Richard Scooter Berry, a 2005 graduate from North Babylon High School (NBHS), is a defensive end for the Arena Football League's Jacksonville Sharks.

Tim Seaman, a 1990 graduate of North Babylon High School, was a member of the USA 2000 and 2004 Olympic teams for racewalking.

Leo Fernandes, a Brazilian born soccer player raised in north Babylon and attended the school district; He currently plays for Tampa Bay Rowdies.

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.