Riverhead Marketing Near the Courts and the North Fork

Riverhead is Suffolk's county seat, and its court buildings bring a steady stream of attorneys, litigants and jurors downtown. The Alan D. Oshrin Supreme Court Building on Court Street handles civil matters, and the Arthur M. Cromarty Court Complex on Center Drive hears criminal cases. Law firms here serve clients from the North Fork, the Hamptons and the Brookhaven hamlets, so a Riverhead office has to rank well beyond its own zip code.

Shopping follows a different pattern. Route 58 is a long strip of big-box stores, car dealers and chain restaurants, and Tanger Outlets pulls traffic from across Long Island, especially in summer. Peconic Bay Medical Center on Roanoke Avenue anchors health care for the area. Riverhead also has a large Spanish-speaking community, and practices that answer the phone and publish pages in Spanish reach patients and clients that others miss.