Previous Arrow Riverhead BID president Steven Shauger. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) Lisa Pickersgill, Ray s daughter. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) The Pickersgill family. Andrew Copertino shares memories of Mr. Pickersgill. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister)
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The resurgence of downtown Riverhead began with a vision more than a decade ago when Ray Pickersgill pitched taking over the Riverhead Business Improvement District. And it began with the first chair Mr. Pickersgill placed in the large downtown parking lot for an event he organized.
“If you look to the east or you look to the west of right where you stand, the buildings that have been built over the past 10 years started with that first chair Ray Pickersgill put in this very parking lot where there wasn’t even a car,” said former Town Supervisor Sean Walter