Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island.

[3][5] It was actually English settler Lion Gardiner who had helped rescue the daughter of Nissequogue Grand Sachem Wyandanch, after she was kidnapped by rival Narragansetts.

[3] The Grand Sachem awarded a large tract of land to Gardiner as a gesture of gratitude.

[7][8] The Smithtown hamlet of Nesconset was the home of Spaceplex, an indoor amusement park and arcade that was falsely accused of being the abduction site in the Katie Beers kidnapping case in 1992.

[9][10] The town celebrated its 350th anniversary with the unveiling of a new statue of founder Richard Smith, in front of an office building at the intersection of Main Street and Route 111.

[3] Smithtown is bounded by Long Island Sound to the north, Islip to the south, Brookhaven to the east, and Huntington to the west.

[citation needed] Ancestries: Italian (35.3%), Irish (26.0%), German (18.7%), Polish (6.9%), English (5.0%), Russian (4.1%).

His predecessor, Patrick Vecchio was in office for forty years, the longest elected town supervisor in the history of the United States.

In the 2017 Republican primary, then-Councilman Ed Wehrheim received about forty votes more than Vecchio.

"[17] On November 7, 2017, Ed Wehrheim defeated William Holst in the election for the town's next supervisor.

The weakest areas for the Republican party in Smithtown is the edges of the Town in the hamlets of Commack and Hauppauge.

Democratic County Executive Steve Bellone has won the town, in two of his three runs for that office.

In addition to presidential politics, the Town of Smithtown is also the power bases of many State and County elected officials.

The former New York State Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan had the bulk of his district located in Smithtown.

[22] It operated as a movie theater from 1933 to November 2001, and was renovated and restored to accommodate live performances in 2002.

[22] In 2022 the building was purchased by the nonprofit Smithtown Performing Arts Council, which programs a variety of live entertainment and community events including musicals, plays, music, comedy, educational classes and summer camps.

The Park Ranger Division is made up peace officers as defined in the Criminal Procedural Law of the state of New York.

Emergency medical care can be found at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, located in Smithtown, as well as the nearby Stony Brook University Hospital, located in Stony Brook, in the neighboring Town of Brookhaven.