Melville

Worth seeing in and around Melville

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Jayne's Hill

   Jayne's Hill, also known as High Hill, West Hills, Oakley's Hill, and Janes Hill, is the highest point on Long Island, New York with an elevation of between 387 feet and 400.9 feet above sea level. It is situated on the Harbor Hill moraine, a terminal moraine that makes up the northern spine of Long Island, in West Hills County Park in Suffolk County, a little more than a mile to the north of Melville.

   2.5 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site

   The Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state historic site in West Hills, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site preserves the birthplace of American poet Walt Whitman.

   2.6 km · site in Huntington, New York · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Walt Whitman Shops

   Walt Whitman Shops is a shopping mall in the hamlet of South Huntington, New York, on Long Island. The mall features the traditional retailers Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

   3.2 km · shopping mall in Huntington Station, New York · Wikipedia

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Getting to Melville

Airports

John F. Kennedy (JFK), 35 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 39 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 65 km

• Newark → Melville

  64 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $6–8
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• Hartford → Melville

  124 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · $16–23
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• Philadelphia → Melville

  175 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · $17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Melville

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Melville. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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