Real Estate: Where street names smile on the North Fork
Today, the membership of the property owners association at Laughing Water includes 70 of the community’s 100 homeowners. Membership costs $185 per year and includes access to the neighborhood beach and two marinas.
The beach is about 200 feet long and is tucked into a small cove on the west side of Corey Creek. A sandbar shields the cove from Peconic Bay and is a short swim from the beach. A footbridge — called Muskody Bridge — that once connected the beach to the sandbar was destroyed in the 1938 hurricane and never rebuilt.
Larry Kulick is president of the property owners association. An accountant by trade, he ended up leading the association because, he said, he “get[s] along with a lot of people, and a lot of people get along with me.”
Despite the fact that nearly half the people who live in Laughing Water are second-home owners, Mr. Kulick said it’s a tight-knit community.
“People say it’s so great out [on the North Fork] during the summer, but I wouldn’t really know, because I don’t leave here,” he said, half-joking. “It’s so peaceful and quiet.”
