Stony Brook, New York

Suffolk County

36-71608

Stony Brook is a village on the north shore of Long Iceland in the U.S. state of New York. It has the status of an unincorporated hamlet within the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County and is run as a census -designated place. He is known primarily for the State University of New York at Stony Brook. According to the Census of 2000, the town had 13.727 inhabitants.

Geography

Stony Brook has an area of 16.0 km ², of which 14.9 km ² land and 1.1 km ² water surface. The Stony Brook Harbor is a marshy bay of Long Iceland sounds. Here the island Youngs Iceland and a small urban beach, Sandy Beach Street lie. The surrounding towns are Old Field, Setauket - East Setauket, Centereach, Lake Grove, St. James and Head of the Harbor.

History

The area of present-day Stony Brook was colonized by Setalcott Indians, who as Wopowog, "Land to the water Engen ," called the Bay area. European settlement began around 1660. The first mention refers to the present-day Main Street and dated on 25 May 1685. 1884, the spelling of the name of Stoney Brook was changed to the present form. Around 1855 Stony Brook was a place of ship, between 1890 and the First World War temporarily a popular tourist. After that, it only lived primarily from fishing, from 1939 to the resident businessman Ward Melville conducted a large-scale development program and including the present village center in the style of the 19th century was built. 1962 Founded in 1957, the University moved to its present order, donated by Melville terrain on the local area and was the decisive factor in the area.

Culture and sights

Besides the University of Stony Brook offers even the Long Iceland museum and a water mill 1751st

Infrastructure

Stony Brook has a breakpoint at the LIRR route between Port Jefferson and Penn Station.