Riverhead Chamber of Commerce

The 2026 Riverhead Cardboard Boat Race will take place Saturday, Aug. 1, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Peconic Riverfront in downtown Riverhead. The rain date is Sunday, Aug. 2.

Shake Shack opened its first East End location today at Tanger in Riverhead, with opening-day sales supporting a local food pantry.

Riverhead officials are split on whether Alive on 25 should return this year as they weigh costs, construction impacts and business concerns.

The Riverhead Chamber of Commerce is hosting a free movie night with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream at the town square Friday evening, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.

Photos from Saturday's Riverhead Cardboard Boat Races on the Peconic riverfront.

Volunteers from National Gird beautified the Long Island Rail Road station in Riverhead on Friday, planting new shrubs and flowers to spruce up a neglected and littered area. 

With nine regulation pickleball courts, a restaurant and bar, and other amusements like a bocce court, corn hole games and ping pong, Box Pickleball, the massive new indoor pickleball club on Old Country Road in Riverhead has something for everyone.

The Riverhead Chamber of Commerce will host two events to bring together members of the business community during the week of Oct. 21.

Consultants hired this spring to design the town square, riverfront park and streetscape improvements — the centerpiece of Riverhead Town’s massive downtown revitalization effort — presented plans and drawings at a public information meeting at Riverhead Town Hall Wednesday night.

New this spring in Downtown Riverhead: A Peconic River cleanup sponsored by Riverhead Rotary, an outdoor job fair, an expanded Shakespeare in the Park moving to Grangebel and a contest to create new art on downtown fire hydrants.