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Canisteo, New York

Canisteo is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 3,294 at the 2020 census. The name was taken from a former Native American village located there, and is Iroquoian in origin.

The Town of Canisteo is in the western part of the county, southeast of Hornell.

The town contains a village also named Canisteo.

Etymology
The name "Canisteo" derives from the Seneca language and translates roughly to "board on the water".

History
The Senecas had a major village here called "Kah-nis-ti-oh." Canisteo is rich in Indian lore.

The first settlers arrived around 1788, making Canisteo one of the earliest locations occupied in the county. A large proportion of the first settlers of Canisteo were from Pennsylvania, since at the time access was primarily via the Susquehanna River; there were no direct links to Albany or New York City.

The town was formed in 1796 at the time of the creation of the county and is one of its original towns. A local writer, in the year 1811, in describing the town of Canisteo says, "it is 19 mi miles long, north and south, by 14 mi wide; its area is 266 sqmi. The Canisteo river courses centrally across the town, and is boatable from Arkport to Tioga, in the town of Painted Post. Boats descend the Canisteo laden with one thousand bushels of wheat. The settlements are of recent date, and still retain their first local names. At Hornell's Mills, on the Canisteo, is a ferry and a road of pretty extensive travel; here is located the Canisteo Post-office."

Products were shipped via the Canisteo, Chemung, and Susquehanna Rivers to the port of Baltimore.

Hornell was originally a village in the town of Canisteo. From parts of Canisteo came, in whole or part, the Towns of West Union, Hartsville, Hornellsville (1820), Troupsburg (1808, 1818), Greenwood (1827), and Jasper (1837).

The population of Canisteo in 1905 was 3,171.

Residents of Canisteo settled Canisteo Township, Dodge County, Minnesota.

Living sign
The Canisteo Living Sign is the largest living sign in the world, noted by both Ripley's Believe it or Not! and the Registry of Historical Places. It is 60 ft by 400 ft, and consists of Scotch pine. The seeds for it were planted in 1934.

Business and industry
The original activities in the town of Canisteo were farming and lumbering; the Canisteo River offered transportation for products.

After arrival of the Erie Railroad in 1851, the Village of Canisteo was home to a variety of small manufacturers.

In the early 21st century Canisteo was the administrative center of the Canisteo Wind Farm, producing electricity from southwestern Steuben County and adjacent areas.

Schools
The Town of Canisteo's schools are all located in the village of Canisteo.

One room schools
Canisteo's first school was a one-room school on Greenwood Street, across from the present Baptist Church. A schoolhouse was built in 1826. There were a variety of one-room schools around the township.

Canisteo Graded School
The oldest school building, School No. 1 on the 1873 Atlas map, also called Canisteo Graded School and Canisteo Union School, was a wooden frame building at 22 Fifth Street. It began as what would be called today an elementary school. In a news story on the best students of 1893–1894 we see that there were five teachers, all women, plus the male principal, who also taught. Each taught two grades in a single classroom, except for the third grade, which was evidently larger and split into two divisions, which occupied one room. Kindergarten had its own room and two divisions. There were five classrooms, and 11th grade the highest.

In 1900, a report on the "annual school meeting", held in the "union school building", reveals that the school would cost $7,947 to run for the coming year, of which $4,495.32  would be raised by tax. There were 54 voters at the meeting, which reduced the Board of Education from nine to five members. After its abandonment in 1914 when the Greenwood Street Elementary School was built, it became Strait's Mill, then a feed store, before being torn down about 1952 and replaced by a bus garage. Adjacent to it to the south, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, is the Rotary Field, which remained the venue for school sports until the 1990s, when new facilities were built on Purdy Creek Road.

Canisteo Academy
Canisteo Academy was the second high school, at the time called academies, in Steuben County (the first was the long-vanished Addison Academy). It came into legal existence in 1868, and obtained funding to build a brick building on Greenwood Street, which opened in 1871. There was no similar school in Hornellsville (Hornell), Bath, or Corning; in Hornellsville none appears in the records until St. Ann's Academic School, in 1894. To reach another academy from Canisteo one had to go 15 mi northwest, to Alfred, New York, in Allegheny County. The Addison Academy was 27 mi to the southeast.

Canisteo Academy was founded by Rev. Lewis F. Laine (1806–1891). "It had a very creditable observatory, equipped with a large revolving telescope—the only one in the county." The New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (1896–1916) crossed Academy St., where it stopped at a platform for student and teacher use. Students came from as far as Pennsylvania, at least 25 mi. Some stayed during the week in boarding houses.

Students paid tuition until 1897, when it became a free public school. Tuition in 1874 was $10 per term. At that time the following subjects were offered, arranged by school department: Latin, Greek, German, French, and English language; arithmetic, algebra, and geometry; natural philosophy (science), botany, geology, physiology, anatomy, and geography. They were not all taught in every term. In 1901, Regents Exams were given in rhetoric, civics, economics, Caesar (Latin), Virgil (Latin), Xenophon (Greek), and physiology. Principal in 1894 was D. M. Estee, A.M., author of a textbook on government.

A week-long Teachers' Institute was held at the academy during vacation periods. In 1892, it was held on January 11–15, and again on December 19–23.

Twentieth-century schools
An elementary school was built in 1914 just to the south of the academy, replacing the 5th Street building. In 1937, with consolidation of the town schools, the academy building was demolished, as was the Elementary School with the exception of the heating plant, in the rear. A new Canisteo Central School was constructed, attaching to the preserved heating plant portion of the elementary school, constructing a new front and main entrance facing Greenwood Street, connecting with the portion of the building occupying the academy site. This is today (2019) the Canisteo–Greenwood High School. An addition was constructed in 1949, containing a cafeteria, music rooms, and classrooms. In 1959 a new elementary school was constructed further south, at 120 Greenwood Street, including a competition swimming pool. In the vote authorizing the construction, the swimming pool was on the ballot separately, but both passed, the pool by a smaller margin. At present the building houses both the elementary and a middle school. In 2004 the Canisteo schools merged with those of Greenwood to form the Canisteo-Greenwood School District.

Canisteo-Greenwood in 2017 is the only school in Steuben County that has an orchestra as well as a band. The only other orchestra, at Corning Northside in the much larger city of Corning, closed about 1990.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 54.4 square miles (140.8 km2), all land.

The Canisteo River flows west to east through the northern part of the town.

New York State Route 248 begins at New York State Route 36 in Canisteo village.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,583 people, 1,423 households, and 980 families residing in the town. The population density was 65.9 PD/sqmi. There were 1,704 housing units at an average density of 31.3 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the town was 98.24% White, 0.20% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.53% Asian, 0.25% from other races, and 0.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.84% of the population.

There were 1,423 households, out of which 30.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.1% were non-families. 26.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.2% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $35,308, and the median income for a family was $41,859. Males had a median income of $32,225 versus $20,192 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,162. About 8.8% of families and 11.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.9% of those under age 18 and 2.3% of those age 65 or over.

Communities and locations in the Town of Canisteo

 * Adrian – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town, east of Canisteo village on County Road 119 (Canisteo River Road) by the Canisteo River.
 * Bennetts – A hamlet to the south of the village, on NY-248 and Bennetts Creek. A flag stop on the New York & Pennsylvania Railroad.
 * Bennetts Creek – A north-flowing stream entering the Canisteo River by Canisteo village.
 * Browns Crossing – A hamlet by the east town line on County Road 119 (Canisteo River Road) by the Canisteo River.
 * Canisteo – The Village of Canisteo, at the junction of Routes 36 (Main Street) and 248 (Greenwood Street), about one mile west of the Canisteo River, County Route 128 (older than NY Route 36), and the former Erie train line and depot.
 * Canisteo Center – A hamlet east of Canisteo village on County Road 119 (Canisteo River Road). The original village, until the railway station, over a mile to the north, was built in the mid-nineteenth century.
 * Carson – Another name for Canisteo Center (to avoid confusion with Canisteo)
 * Dead Man's Hole – A swimming area on the west bank of Bennetts Creek south of Canisteo village and east of NY 36.
 * Fall Creek A hamlet to the south of the village but north of Bennetts, on NY-248 and Bennetts Creek. A flag stop on the New York & Pennsylvania Railroad.
 * Gravel Run – A hamlet north of South Canisteo on NY-36.
 * Purdy Creek – An east-flowing stream entering Bennett's Creek by Canisteo village. "Purdy" is a regional, supposedly uneducated pronunciation of "pretty".
 * Rock Run – A location north of South Canisteo.
 * South Canisteo – A hamlet southeast of Canisteo village on NY-36.

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Cohocton (village), New York

Cohocton is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 838 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from an Iroquois phrase for "log in the water."

The Village of Cohocton is in the southeast part of the Town of Cohocton, and is northwest of Bath, New York.

History
The village was once known as "Liberty," but changed its name to Cohocton when it was incorporated as a village in 1891. The Larrowe House, formerly occupied as The Cohocton Town and Village Hall, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Cohocton Historical Society acquired the house in August 2009.

Geography
Cohocton is located at 42.49861°N, -77.49917°W (42.498705, -77.499208).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), all land.

The village is next to Interstate 390. New York State Route 371, New York State Route 415, and County Road 121 lead into the village.

Cohocton is on the Gang Mills (Painted Post) to Wayland Line of the B&H Rail Corp. The B&H also has a spur which serves an industrial district on the east side of the Conhocton River. The B&H's office and shops are located adjacent to the Gang Mills-Wayland line.

The Conhocton River flows southward through the village.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 854 people, 316 households, and 224 families residing in the village. The population density was 568.2 PD/sqmi. There were 349 housing units at an average density of 232.2 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the village was 98.48% White, 1.17% Native American, and 0.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.12% of the population.

There were 316 households, out of which 38.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples living together, 13.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.1% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.08.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 30.7% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.2 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $35,147, and the median income for a family was $38,438. Males had a median income of $30,057 versus $22,321 for females. The per capita income for the village was $13,660. About 13.5% of families and 15.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.8% of those under age 18 and 9.6% of those age 65 or over.

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Cohocton, New York

Cohocton is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 2,268 at the 2020 census. The town contains a village, also called Cohocton and is located in the northwestern part of the county.

History
The town was first settled around 1794. The town was formed from the towns of Bath and Dansville in 1812. It was originally known as the town of Liberty. Part of the town was later used to form new towns in the county: Avoca (1843) and Wayland (1848). In 1874, the town was enlarged by the addition of a part of the town of Prattsburgh. The Larrowe House, also known as The Cohocton Town and Village Hall and located at the village of Cohocton, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. At least as late as 1836 the spellings Cohocton and Conhocton were used, even in the same text, but by 1860 the shorter spelling was consistent.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 56.1 square miles (145.2 km2), all land.

The northern town line is the border of Livingston and Ontario counties.

Interstate 390, New York State Route 21, New York State Route 371 and New York State Route 415 pass through the town. The Interstate and NY-415 partly follow the course of the Cohocton River.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,626 people, 972 households, and 704 families residing in the town. The population density was 46.8 PD/sqmi. There were 1,144 housing units at an average density of 20.4 per square mile (7.9/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.49% White, 0.46% Black or African American, 0.61% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.19% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.27% of the population.

There were 972 households, out of which 38.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.5% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 28.8% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $35,559, and the median income for a family was $39,583. Males had a median income of $28,333 versus $25,208 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,243. About 12.9% of families and 17.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.1% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over.

The 1890 population was 3,475.

Communities and locations in the Town of Cohocton

 * Atlanta – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town at the junction of County Roads 36 (East Main Street) and 39 (University Avenue) was formerly known as "Bloods." It was founded around 1840.  The Cohocton River changes from east-flowing to south-flowing at Atlanta. The Presbyterian Church of Atlanta was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. An 1893 railway travel guide describes it as follows: "320 miles from New York ; Single ticket, $7.68 ; Special ticket, $6.95.

This village is also in the Cohocton Valley. Formerly called Bloods, it was thought that it might prove more prosperous, and grow fully as well, if given a more pleasing name. Atlanta is a shipping point for an abundant supply of grapes which are grown around the village of Naples."
 * Bowles Corners – A location in the northwest corner of the town on NY-21 and County Road 37.
 * Cohocton – A village adjacent to Interstate 390 in the south part of the town. For a period in the 19th century, it was called "Liberty."
 * Kirkwood – A hamlet northeast of Cohocton village on NY-371.
 * North Cohocton – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town at the junction of NY-21 and NY-371. The community dates from before 1850.

Notable person

 * Charlotte Fowler Wells, phrenologist, publisher

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Corning (town), New York

Corning is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The town is in the eastern part of the county and borders the city of Corning. The town population was 5,986 at the 2020 census. The town is named after Erastus Corning, a financier.

History
The first settlement was near the current city of Corning around 1789. The Town of Corning began as the "Town of Painted Post" in 1796 when the county was founded. In 1836, the name was changed to honor an important investor in the local economy. The community of Corning incorporated as a village in 1848, and separated itself from the town entirely after its incorporation as a city in 1890.

The town of Corning was incorporated in 1852.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 37.3 mi2, of which 0.4 mi2 (1.07%) is water.

The Chemung River, formed by the confluence of the Cohocton and Tioga Rivers a few miles west of the town,  flows through the town, and the city of Corning.

The east town line is the border of Chemung County, (Town of Big Flats).

Interstate 86, New York State Route 17, New York State Route 225, New York State Route 352, New York State Route 414, and New York State Route 415 pass through the town.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,426 people, 2,491 households, and 1,840 families residing in the town. The population density was 174.1 PD/sqmi. There were 2,626 housing units at an average density of 71.1 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the town was 95.25% White, 2.46% Black or African American, 0.20% Native American, 1.35% Asian, 0.11% from other races, and 0.62% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.67% of the population.

There were 2,491 households, out of which 32.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.8% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 2.96.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 25.4% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $44,649, and the median income for a family was $51,470. Males had a median income of $40,542 versus $25,804 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,149. About 5.9% of families and 8.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.9% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over.

Communities and locations in the Town of Corning

 * Corning Community College – A public junior college west of South Corning.
 * Corning Manor – A hamlet southeast of Corning city by Interstate 86.
 * Denmark – A hamlet and suburban community northeast of Corning city.
 * East Corning – A location near the east town line on NY-352.
 * French Mill – A hamlet south of Corning on NY-225.
 * Gibson – A hamlet southeast of Corning city on the north bank of the Chemung River.
 * Guthrie Corning Hospital
 * Narrows Creek – A stream entering the Chemung River by Gibson.
 * Post Creek – A stream entering the Chemung River by Corning city.
 * Riverside – A village located on NY-415 that borders the city of Corning on its west side.
 * South Corning – A village located on NY-225 south of the city of Corning.

Notable person

 * Deacon White, born in Caton, Major League Baseball manager and Hall of Fame player. White was the first batter to come to the plate in the National Association. Lived in Corning for many years during his baseball career.

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Corning, New York

Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River. The population was 10,551 at the 2020 census. It is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community. The city is best known as the headquarters of Fortune 500 company Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses. Corning is roughly equidistant from New York City and Toronto, being about 220 mi from both.

Overview

The city of Corning is situated at the western edge of the town of Corning and in the southeast part of Steuben County.

It is also home to the Corning Museum of Glass, which houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of glass objects from antiquity to the present. The museum houses the Rakow Library, one of the world's major glass research centers.

The city's other major cultural attraction is the Rockwell Museum. It contains an important collection of Western American painting and sculpture assembled over the past 40 years by Robert F. and Hertha Rockwell. The city has been cited several times by American Style magazine as one of the top twenty-five small city arts destinations in the U.S. – most recently in June 2010. Many of the cultural events and historic landmarks in the city are in Corning's Gaffer District.

Corning Country Club annually hosted the Corning Classic, a stop on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour, from 1979 to 2009. The city has commercial air service available at Elmira/Corning Regional Airport in the nearby town of Big Flats.

Corning is also home to the 2006 New York State Class A high school football champions.

In 2006, the city council approved public water fluoridation. In 2007, a petition was launched to ban this practice by local resident Kirk Huttleston which eventually became known as Proposition 1. Proposition 1 passed the ban by a close vote of 1,287 to 1,222, according to unofficial results, leading to a full ban on public water fluoridation in 2008.

In 2013, Rand McNally's list of best small towns in America named Corning the "Most Fun" town out of all the list's finalists.

History
The first settlement in the town of Corning was made near the site of the future city in 1796. The community was incorporated as a village in 1848. Corning was incorporated as a city in 1890. As the glass industry developed, Corning became known as the "Crystal City" which was supported by companies such as Hawkes, Sinclair, and Hunt - which produced some of the finest American Brilliant Period cut glass between 1880 and 1915.

The Corning area's first real industry was lumber. The first settlers used the area's river systems to transport logs and finished lumber in fleets downstream to buyers. This gave rise to large mills which helped to develop the area. Rafting of lumber began to wane as timber was depleted. At one time the mills of the Corning area were reputed to be among the biggest in the world. After the lumber was depleted the great mills moved north to new forests.

East, across the Chemung River from Corning, lies Gibson, the site of a feeder canal for the Chemung Canal system. Some of Corning's early prosperity came from the feeder canal system exposure. Canal cargoes from Corning included soft coal, timber, tobacco, grain, and whiskey. From April 22 to December 11, 1850, the canal season that year, the newspaper reported that 1,116 boats left the port of Corning. Tolls for the year totaled $54,060.39. Among items shipped were 46,572,400 pounds of coal. The canal's best peacetime year was 1854 when 270,978 tons of freight were hauled. The Civil War brought an abnormal amount of business, with a peak of 307,151 tons hauled in one year.

After the Civil War, an industrial boom occurred in the region. Ingersoll Rand opened during this period in Painted Post, just north of Corning.

Corning became a railroad town in the 1880s, many smaller railroad lines busily weaving webs of tracks connecting the major trunk line to smaller communities. In 1912, the Corning train wreck three miles east of Corning in Gibson left 39 dead.

The Jenning's Tavern, Corning Armory, Market Street Historic District, Southside Historic District, World War Memorial Library, and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The flood of 1972
The flood of 1972 was a major event for the area. On June 22, 1972, the storm that had been Hurricane Agnes struck the Southern Tier of New York. The storm combined with a storm system from Ohio to drop six to eight inches (203 mm) of rain in the Chemung River basin. This ultimately overwhelmed the flood control systems of the time, and the Chemung River broke through the dam system on Friday, June 23 at 4:00 a.m. By 9:00 a.m. the river crested and began to recede. In the Corning area, eighteen people were killed and untold millions of dollars of damage was incurred. An example of these expenses took place in the town of Bath, NY, where a local woman, Lila Marano cooked nearly 100 pizzas out of her home kitchen to accommodate students at the Haverling High School graduation reception at the local Maarit Assembly Hall. The river receded within hours, leaving mud which can still be found in basements of homes and businesses in Corning, and there is a section of the Corning Museum of Glass that indicates on the wall how high the flood waters rose.

Geography
Just upstream from Corning, the Cohocton River and the Tioga River merge to form the Chemung River which flows through downtown. The river was an important source of power in the early history, and is part of the attractiveness of the region today.

The river is prone to floods, as rain water runs off quickly from the steep hillsides of the area. In 1972 the remnants of Hurricane Agnes dropped fifteen or more inches of rain in the area within a short time causing extensive flooding. Eighteen people were killed in the immediate Corning-Painted Post area. The entire downtown area was flooded, with severe damage. Flooding is now controlled by a system of dams upstream from Corning.

Interstate 86 (the Southern Tier Expressway), New York State Route 17, New York State Route 352, New York State Route 414, and New York State Route 415 are major highways connecting in Corning. County Road 40 leads into the city from the south and County Road 41 from the north. Interstate 99 and U.S. Route 15 proceeds southward from Painted Post, west of Corning.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.5 km2), of which, 3.1 square miles (8.1 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km2) of it (5.18%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 11,183 people in 5,114 households residing in the city. The population density was 3,626.1 PD/sqmi. There were 5,519 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 91.8% White, 3.2% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 1.8% Asian, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.4% of the population. 4.1% speak a language other than English at home.

In 2000, there were 4,996 households, out of which 26.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.6% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.6% were non-families. 40.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.14 and the average family size was 2.89.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.3% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $32,780, and the median income for a family was $46,674. Males had a median income of $39,805 versus $27,489 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,056. About 9.1% of families and 13.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.4% of those under age 18 and 3.8% of those age 65 or over. In 2010, 20.4% were below the poverty line.

Politics
Most local officials are Republicans. The Corning area typically votes Republican, though some outsiders have deemed its constituents "moderate" Republicans. Amo Houghton, the area's long-serving U.S. congressman, was a moderate Republican. While the Town of Corning and surrounding areas are reliably Republican, the City of Corning leans Democratic, voting for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in recent presidential elections.

Federal representatives
Corning is in New York's 23rd congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican Nick Langworthy.

State representatives
It is in New York's 53rd Senate District, represented by Tom O'Mara, a Republican. Corning is in the 136th Assembly District, represented by Phil Palmesano, also a Republican.

City Mayors
Democrat Joseph Nasser served for many years as Corning's mayor, and the Nasser Civic Center, headquarters of city government, bears his name. On November 6, 2007, Tom Reed, the head of the city's Republican Party, was elected. He completed his two-year term on December 31, 2009. Richard Negri was elected in November 2009 and took office January 1, 2010. Negri's second term expired December 31, 2013.

Government
Since 1995, the City of Corning operates under the Council-Manager form of government, with the City Manager serving as the Chief Executive Officer. The first City Manager was Suzanne Kennedy who served until July 1997. In July 1997, Mark L. Ryckman was appointed as the city's second City Manager. The city council consists of eight members. One member is elected from each of the eight wards.

Education
The Corning-Painted Post (Consists of the City of Corning, and the Village of Painted Post) School District currently has six public elementary schools, one public middle school, and one public high school located in the greater Corning area.

In 2010 a referendum was passed that reconfigured the school district's secondary schools; both of the previous middle schools combined and moved into the former "West High School" building while both of the high schools combined at the former "East High School" campus. This reconfiguration / building project was finished by the beginning of the 2014–2015 school year.

In addition to the public and private school options, the Corning-Painted Post District also partners with a regional P-Tech school (known as "The Greater Southern Tier STEM Academy") and sends selected students to a grade 9-14 program on their campus.

Public elementary schools include: Public middle schools include: Public high schools include:
 * Calvin U. Smith
 * Erwin Valley
 * Frederick Carder
 * Hugh W. Gregg
 * Lindley-Presho (closed)
 * William E. Severn
 * Winfield Street
 * Corning Free Academy (Before 2014–2015 school year)
 * Corning Painted Post Middle School (After 2013–current)
 * Northside Blodgett (Before 2014–2015 school year)
 * Corning Painted Post High School (After 2013–current)
 * East High School (Before 2014–2015 school year)
 * High School Learning Center (HSLC)
 * West High School (Before 2014–2015 school year)

Private schools in Corning include:
 * All Saints Academy (a preK–8 Catholic school)(Closed)
 * Corning Christian Academy (a P–12 evangelical Christian school)
 * The Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS)

Higher education in Corning includes:
 * Corning Community College

Downtown

 * Corning Museum of Glass: a not-for-profit museum dedicated to the art, history, science, and craft of glass.
 * The Gaffer District is the historic heart of Corning, featuring restored buildings, shopping, dining, and events through the year.
 * Market Street is Corning's historic main street, lined with restaurants and shopping.
 * The heart of Market Street is Centerway Square, a pedestrianized central square with a covered bandstand and public benches for public concerts and events. A restored historic clock tower serves as Centerway Square's focal point.

Elsewhere in Corning

 * Bloody Run – An area near Gorton Creek, it was the site of a battle between forces of American generals John Sullivan and James Clinton and Native American villagers. This battle was part of a campaign directly ordered by George Washington to break the control of the Iroquois Indians in the area. It was called Bloody Run for the reports of bloody creek water coming from the battle scene.
 * Chimney Rocks – A group of tall rock formations that stood east of Corning. The rocks are no longer there but were so named because they were tall and narrow like chimneys.
 * Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes – Right in the heart of Corning, the Heritage Village is a Living History museum and the site of the Benjamin Patterson Inn, constructed in 1796 to draw settlers to the area. The site also includes a functioning blacksmith shop, one room school house, and an 1850s era log cabin.
 * Horace D. Page Tunnel – A tunnel connecting the two divided areas of Denison Park, located on the city's South side. It was named after Page, who lost the naming rights to Elmira's Millers (formerly Page's) Pond in a 1912 horse racing bet at Tioga Downs, and was given naming rights to the tunnel as compensation.

Notable people

 * Alanson B. Houghton, United States Congressman
 * Amory "Amo" Houghton Jr., politician
 * Amory Houghton, United States ambassador
 * Caroline Ella Heminway Kierstead, geologist
 * Charles C. B. Walker, United States Congressman
 * Christi Wolf, champion female bodybuilder and professional wrestler best known for her stint in World Championship Wrestling
 * Duane Eddy (1938–2024), Grammy Award-winning guitarist
 * Edd Hall, US television personality, announcer
 * Eric Massa, United States Congressman
 * Frederick Carder, glass artist
 * Greg Keagle, MLB player
 * Harvey Littleton, glass artist
 * James R. Houghton, chairman of Corning Inc.
 * John N. Hungerford, United States Congressman
 * John Tillman, head lacrosse coach, University of Maryland, College Park
 * Joseph Costa, aviation pioneer
 * Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951), social activist, mother of Katharine Hepburn
 * Margaret Sanger (1879 (born Margaret Louise Higgins)–1966), founder of American Birth Control League
 * Samuel Sevian, chess prodigy, youngest Grandmaster US chess history
 * Thomas S. Buechner (1926–2010), founding director of Corning Museum of Glass
 * Tom Reed, United States Congressman

Sister cities

 * 🇯🇵 Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan (formerly Osuka which was annexed by Kakegawa)
 * 🇺🇦 Lviv, Ukraine
 * 🇮🇹 San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy

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Wayland (village), New York

Wayland is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 1,865 at the 2010 census.

The Village of Wayland is in the northern part of the Town of Wayland, near the northern border of Steuben County.

History
The village was incorporated in 1877. The village grew after it was selected as a station on the Erie Railroad.

Geography
Wayland is located at 42.56806°N, -77.59167°W (42.568131, -77.591854).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.7 km2), all land.

Wayland is in the northwestern part of the county, near the border of Livingston County and just north of Interstate 390 at the junction of NY-15, NY-21 and NY-63. County Road 93 also leads into the village from the north.

Wayland is the northern terminal of the B&H Rail Corporation's Painted Post-to-Wayland railroad line: the surviving portion of the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad Main Line between Binghamton and Buffalo.

Wayland was formerly located on the New York City (Hoboken)-to-Buffalo Main Line of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and on the New York City (Jersey City)-to-Rochester Main Line of the Erie Railroad. Both of these routes were abandoned and partially or fully-dismantled through Wayland by order of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission, upon application of the owning railroads. Upon the 1960 merger of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and the Erie Railroad, the new Erie Lackawanna Railroad obtained the ability to abandon the Groveland-Wayland portion of its former DL&W Buffalo-Hoboken, NJ mainline, thus eliminating a steep southbound (railroad east) grade that had operationally tormented the DL&W for 81 years (since 1882). The EL rerouted its combined Buffalo-Hoboken operation to the Erie Buffalo-Hoboken mainline, via Hornell, when the former DL&W track was lifted in 1963.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,893 people, 743 households, and 502 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,831.3 PD/sqmi. There were 808 housing units at an average density of 781.7 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the village was 97.36% White, 1.11% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.48% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 0.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.06% of the population.

There were 743 households, out of which 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.0% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.4% were non-families. 26.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.02.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 27.7% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.1 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $40,598, and the median income for a family was $44,401. Males had a median income of $32,240 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the village was $18,316. About 6.9% of families and 7.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.0% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

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Wayland, New York

Wayland is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 3,733 at the 2020 census.

The Town of Wayland contains a village called Wayland. The town is in the northern part of the county, northwest of Bath.

History
The region was first settled by European Americans around 1806, after the Revolutionary War. In historic times, for centuries it had been territory inhabited by the Seneca Native Americans, one of the powerful five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy.

The town was formed in 1848 from the Towns of Cohocton and Dansville. Part of Wayland was used to form the Town of Fremont in 1854.

The Rowe House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On August 30, 1943, the Lackawanna Limited wreck, occurred when the Lackawanna Limited, flagship passenger train of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad sideswiped a local freight that had not cleared into a siding, killing 29 people near the Gunlocke chair factory.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.5 square miles (102.4 km2), of which 39.0 square miles (101.1 km2) is land and 0.5 square mile (1.3 km2)  (1.31%) is water.

The northern and part of the western town lines form the border of Livingston County.

New York State Route 21 is a north-south highway in the town and intersects New York State Route 15 and New York State Route 63 in the village of Wayland. Interstate 390 crosses the town from west to east.

Wayland is the northern terminus of the B&H Rail Corp.'s Gang Mills–Wayland Line. Prior to 1956, it was linked to Rochester directly by rail and, prior to 1964, it was directly linked to Buffalo by rail. Both of these connections were removed by order of the ICC following application by the owning railroads. As the Erie Lackawanna Railway's former Lackawanna mainline from Buffalo had a steep grade eastbound from Groveland to Perkinsville that was easily bypassed by the former Erie mainline via Hornell, with far easier grades, the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad mainline trackage between Groveland and Wayland was abandoned and torn-up in late 1963.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,314 people, 1,665 households, and 1,168 families residing in the town. The population density was 110.5 PD/sqmi. There were 1,960 housing units at an average density of 50.2 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the town was 97.47% White, 0.86% Black or African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.86% of the population.

There were 1,665 households, out of which 35.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.3% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.8% were non-families. 23.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.03.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 27.9% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $42,575, and the median income for a family was $46,806. Males had a median income of $33,623 versus $22,439 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,038. About 8.9% of families and 11.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.8% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.

Communities and locations in the Town of Wayland

 * Loon Lake – A lake in the south part of the town.
 * Patchinsville – A hamlet south of Wayland village on NY-21 at the junction of County Road 90 (Patchinville-Perkinsville Road).
 * Perkinsville – A hamlet southwest of Wayland village and north of Interstate I-390, by the junction of County Roads 90 (Patchinville-Perkinsville Road) and 91
 * Wayland – The Village of Wayland in the north part of the town.

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Babylon (village), New York

Babylon is a village within the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York. The population was 12,188 at the 2020 census. It is located approximately 25 mi from New York City at the Queens border and approximately 33 mi from Manhattan.

Its official name is The Incorporated Village of Babylon. It is commonly referred to as Babylon Village, to distinguish it from the Town of Babylon, of which it is a part.

History
What is now Babylon Town and Village was originally part of Huntington Town and known as Huntington South. Lightly settled from 1689, its main industry, in common with much of the area along Great South Bay and South Oyster Bay (both actually lagoons), was the harvesting of salt hay, which was used as cattle feed and bedding.

When a coherent community grew up in the area by 1803, prominent local citizens sought to adopt a new name. An influential local lady, Mrs. Conklin, was used to living inland in what is now considered Dix Hills and was at unease with the home site that her grandchildren would be raised in. The bible-reading Mrs. Conklin compared the new hamlet to the biblical city of Babylon and proposed that name in apparent defiance of the area's rather bawdy reputation as a stop-over place for travelers on Long Island's south shore. Her son Nat was appalled by the use of an "unholy" name. The family legend states she replied: "But it will be a new Babylon." The name stuck, despite some effort to change it. The adjacent part of Islip, an effective extension of Babylon, was originally considered as part of Babylon, or as East Babylon, but today is the hamlet of West Islip.

Revolutionary War through the War of 1812
Babylon had already been settled, as Huntington South, prior to hostilities with the British in the Revolutionary War. The First Presbyterian Church of Islip and Huntington South, as it was then known, was established in 1730. Though the church would later be split into two separate Huntington South and Islip churches in 1857 (the former to be renamed the First Presbyterian Church of Babylon after 1872). However, long before this split, the First Presbyterian Church held services in the original wooden church until 1778 when British soldiers tore down the structure. The wood from the first church was taken west to Hempstead to construct a barracks for British troops. This event was more recent history when, on the eve of the War of 1812, Joshua Hartt gave an impassioned sermon encouraging the young men to defend the United States and prepare for a "righteous war."

Babylon supplied several heroes of the Revolutionary war and War of 1812, some of whom, like continental soldier David Smith who served under George Washington, are buried in the old Babylon Cemetery. Perhaps most prominent was Joel Cook, a veteran of both wars. Citizens of Babylon first honored Captain Joel Cook with a monument unveiled in 1908. Captain Cook served throughout the duration of the Revolutionary War and commanded a Company in the War of 1812. Other prominent veterans of the War of 1812 include members of the Sammis and Cooper families. Both of these families are remembered by street names in the Village today.

In July 1814, survivors of the Battle of Valparaiso were led by Captain David Porter through the Fire Island Inlet (which would have been a very difficult task using simply oars) and up to Babylon via Sumpawams Creek. Villagers were shocked to see armed sailors heading into town, and it took time to convince some of the more prominent citizens that Captain Porter was not a British agent. To convince Stephen B. Nichols, Captain Porter even offered him his cutlass and proposed to surrender to him if Nichols truly felt he was the enemy. Once thoroughly convinced of his commission as a US naval officer, villagers provided Captain Porter and his men with a carriage and horses to take them to the Brooklyn Naval Yard. It was there that Captain Porter first shared the news of the fight at Valparaiso, over four months after the engagement.

Hotels; gateway to Fire Island
Babylon soon became the primary gateway to the nearby barrier beaches, including Fire Island, a position it held until the building of the current Captree Causeways allowing automobile access to the beaches nearest the Babylon shore. Beachgoers arriving by train or coach, or staying at local hotels typically took the Babylon Railroad, originally a horsecar line and later a trolley, to the Babylon Dock for ferries to Oak Island, Muncie Island, and Fire Island destinations.

As now, the epitome of the luxury lifestyle was summering on the ocean. This led many affluent individuals and families to reside at Babylon's seaside resorts, both on the mainland and on barrier beach islands. Muncie Island, (was just north of Oak Beach, island was depleted for the construction of Ocean Parkway) was host to one of the most elite sanatoriums and nearby Saltaire was host to the Surf Hotel offering several hundred rooms to guests. Guests of the Surf would take the rail road to Babylon's trolley and then cross the bay by a ferry. Off Robins Avenue at Stone Dock was the South Shore Inn and Watson House on Fire Island Avenue was famed to be "L.I.'s most luxurious hotel" when it was built. Those of even greater wealth would have homes or compounds built on the shore or barrier beach islands for vacationing. Stage stop hotels include the La Grange Inn, previously used as a catering hall, and now a West Islip Historical Museum, and is actually adjacent West Islip.

Some of Babylon's hotels included:
 * American Hotel, Main Street and Fire Island Avenue
 * The Argyle, Argyle Park, Main Street
 * Boynes Hotel, at steamboat dock
 * East End Hotel, Main Street and Cooper Street (burned in 1982)
 * La Grange Inn, South Country Road, (West Islip), ***NOW CLOSED***
 * St. James West Main Street
 * Sherman House, East Main Street
 * South Shore Inn, Robbins Avenue
 * Surf Hotel, Fire Island, east of the lighthouse
 * Watson House, Fire Island Avenue

Argyle Hotel & Park
The famous Argyle Hotel in Babylon was one of many built in the late 19th century to accommodate wealthy summer visitors from New York City. It was constructed in 1882 by August Belmont, the LIRR and resort entrepreneur on the former estate of Brooklyn railroad magnate Electus B. Litchfield. Financing was provided by a syndicate headed by Long Island Rail Road President, Austin Corbin. The grounds, which included a large millpond, Blythebourne Lake became renamed Argyle Lake, for one of the hotel's largest investors and town aristocrat, the heir to the Dukedom of Argyll. The renaming gave the Hotel & Park a more genteel English flavor yet the hotel proved a bad venture: it was near the end of the era of such projects, it was built much too large with 350 rooms, and so was rarely more than one-third filled. After about a decade of disuse, it was finally demolished in 1904, with some of the material from the structure being used to build homes west of the lake in the neighborhood now known as Argyle Park. In 1921, the land that is now the Argyle Park was donated for passive recreation to the Village of Babylon, by J. Stanley Foster, Esq. This park is still popular, drawing substantial numbers of visitors from outside the community for fishing, strolling, playing on the children's playground, and winter ice skating (including a lighted area for night skating).

Effingham Park/Hawley's Lake Park
Effingham Park was the site of the Old Mill on what is now the Babylon Village-West Islip border and South Country Road, now Montauk Highway (Main Street in Babylon). The old mill is claimed to be the first permanent structure in the Village area and was constructed for Judge Garrett Montfort and operated by the Oakley family for approximately 100 years. Nathaniel Conklin also owned the mill and in its final years, ownership was in the hands of David Ricketts, the second mayor of the Village. Ricketts used the mill as a toy whip factory which he later relocated to George Street. At one point, a bridge was used to carry Main Street over the overflows connection to Sumpwams Creek.

The park belonged to the estate of Effingham Sutton that later came into the ownership of Edwin Hawley, a U.S. railroad tycoon. Hawley demolished the Old Mill and parts of Sutton's Estate to erect an even more opulent estate including guest cottages, staff housing, and stables. Hawley turned the overflow from the Old Mill into a waterfall that matched and, some claim, exceeded the splendor of the still-existent Argyle Falls at Argyle Memorial Park. In addition to the falls, there were two bridges crossing the north side and mid-northeast side of the lake in many old postcards and photographs. The north side bridge was likely the bridge that carried George Street over the stream feeding Hawley's Pond, before New York Highway 231 was put through the area.

The Hawley Estate was gated off from the public with hedges and grand ornate estate fencing so that the public rarely saw its vast luxuries and amenities. In the late 1960s the site of Hawley's Pond was in a rundown state, being unkempt and dilapidated. When Route 231 was being built, Hawley's Lake Park lost all hope of being repaired and restored to its former glory: the routes northern and southern terminus were run directly through the estate. Some sources even claim that the lake was made considerably smaller and was partially filled in during the expressway's construction. Today, Hawley's Lake Park is an unused resource due mostly for its lack of parking and lack of village concern. The aging grand falls were replaced with a more modern, less ornate and less attractive setup. The Babylon Beautification Society tries from time to time to maintain the site, although no plan has proved considerably successful. Since there is no parking at the site, and because access to families that might otherwise want to use it is constrained by the necessity of crossing active highway lanes, the current status of the site has remained unchanged. Between the park and the Lake Drives in West Islip and the northern terminus of Route 231 is a small group of ponds also belonging to the former Effingham Park. This portion is no longer designated as park property, and is accessible to the homes on Lake Drive South and Lake Drive North. The overflow pool from Hawley's Fall opens into two tunnels beneath Main Street that drain into Sumpawams River, known locally as East Creek, and eventually into Great South Bay.

Baseball and African-American history
Many of the black service personnel of the Argyle Hotel formed a baseball team, the Babylon Black Panthers, said to be the first black professional baseball team. The team so dominated local white teams that Walter Cook, a New Jersey promoter, put up the money to have them travel and play as the "Cuban Giants." Calling black ballplayers (or ballplayers in "white" professional clubs in that era who seemed too dark to be Caucasian) "Cuban" was a common practice through World War II. There were no Cubans in the Cuban Giants.

The team went on to become the "world colored champions" of 1887 and 1888, and spawned imitators.

Babylon Village today has three baseball fields for the high school, little league and adult play, and the high school team is named the Babylon Panthers. The Babylon Panthers varsity baseball team won Long Island championships in 2005-2006, 2012, 2023 and the New York State championship in 2007. The village also has one of Long Island's older continuous African-American communities, of which the employees of the Argyle are said to have formed the core. This community still maintains two of the village's 12 churches, the Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, both on Cooper Street.

Another prominent African-American, the film actress Thelma (Butterfly) McQueen, moved with her family from her birthplace of Tampa, Florida to live on Cottage Row in Babylon, where she went on to graduate from Babylon High School and then pursued her acting career before later attending several universities and attaining a degree in political science. Cottage Row still exists but no longer has any housing on it, falling prey to parking space for business district stores.

Hurricane Sandy
Many Babylon village residences and businesses suffered major flood and wind damage from Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, with most of the damage occurring south of Montauk Highway (Main Street) close to the Great South Bay. This particular area experienced storm surge as high as twelve feet during the storm. Damage caused by Sandy displaced dozens of families in Babylon for several months and even years.

Description
Babylon today is part suburban bedroom community, part small-town, and has a substantial shopping and business district.

Today the village is best known for its restaurants and shops, and hosts shopping events during the fall as well as a popular crafts fair.

The non-profit James Street Players theatre group is one of the earliest on Long Island. Known best for bringing affordable live theater to Babylon Village since 1967.

A statue of Robert Moses was erected in front of the Village Hall on Main Street (Montauk Highway) in 2003.

Housing stock and neighborhoods
The commercial and housing stock in Babylon reflects its longevity as a community. Because of the 140-year presence of the railroad, and its earlier status as a way station on Montauk Highway, originally the only through highway on Long Island's south shore, most of the core of Babylon dates to the era from before the American Civil War to World War I. As a result, there is a mix of building styles, including pre-Civil War, colonial, Victorian, and more recent designs. Nearer the shore, much of the housing was originally summer properties, including mansions and estates, cottages and bungalows: the latter two, virtually all now winterized. As far as large formal mansions and estates, most have been razed, yet one of the last remaining estates in Babylon, and presumably the towns smallest is the Long Island Yacht Club, built by E.W. Howell Co. of Babylon, NY in 1927 at a cost of $26.500.00.

Areas of large old homes and less formal mansions exist in a number of areas, including on Fire Island Avenue, Crescent Avenue and Thompson Avenue on Sumpawam's Neck, the area in between West Creek (Carll's River) and East Creek (Sumpawams River), the main body of the village between Main Street and the Bay.

Because of this history, and the general unavailability of large tracts of building land, Babylon Village has very few tract houses or developments. Some of the few areas developed after World War II reflected the conversion of remaining farms and remains of large estates and mansions. These areas generally contain 1950s-style ranch houses, but there are some characteristic Long Island split level homes and high ranches.

Areas of large new homes are on formerly undeveloped or reclaimed former wetlands developed during the late 1940s through 1970s, including on Lucinda and Peninsula Drives, with estate-like homes such as that of Bret Saberhagen until 2001. Most of the affluent homes built in these new areas were large ranch houses, popular in the time of building, but much less favored today. In the last decade and continuing to the present, many of these houses have been expanded by adding a story and changing their style to more colonial appearance.

Babylon Village has also experienced the modern phenomenon in which small sound houses on desirable lots have been purchased and torn down by affluent recent purchasers and replaced with houses as large as zoning will permit, meaning that the new home builder has paid the price of a home just to obtain the lot.

Houses of worship

 * Bethel A.M.E. Church, 50 Cooper Street
 * Christ Episcopal Church, 12 Prospect Street
 * Congregation Beth Sholom, 441 Deer Park Avenue
 * Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, 576 Deer Park Avenue
 * Ebenezer Baptist Church, 33 Cooper Street
 * First Presbyterian Church of Babylon, 79 East Main Street
 * St. Nicholas' Greek Orthodox Church, 200 Great East Neck Road (West Babylon)
 * St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 40 Grove Place
 * Seventh Day Adventist Church, 136 Fire Island Avenue
 * United Methodist Church of Babylon, 21 James Street

Public schools
Most of the residents of the Village of Babylon are served by the Babylon Union Free School District (UFSD). Since the school district lines are not coextensive with the village boundaries, as is common on Long Island, some residents of Babylon Village are in the West Babylon UFSD and, conversely, some residents of West Babylon go to the village schools, as well as residents of Oak Island, Oak Beach, Gilgo, West Gilgo, and Captree Island across the Great South Bay.

As of the 2010-2011 School Year, the Babylon Union Free School District had 1,788 students. The racial demographics were 0% Native American or Alaska Native, 4% non-Hispanic black or African-American, 8% Hispanic or Latino, 84% non-Hispanic white, 3% Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander and 0% multiracial. 9% of students were eligible for free lunch, 3% for reduced-price lunch, and 1% of students were Limited English Proficient. 10.7% of students were classified as "Special Ed".

The school district had a graduation rate of 94%, and 1% of students did not complete school. 96% of graduates received a Regents Diploma and 67% received a Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation. Of the 2011 completers, 75% planned to move on to 4-year College, 19% to 2-year College, 0% to Other Post-Secondary, 0% to the Military, 4% to Employment, 0% to Adult Services, 2% had other known post-secondary plans, and 0% had no known post-secondary plan.

The district currently has three schools:
 * Babylon Elementary School, serves all students in grades K-2;
 * Babylon Grade School, serves all students in grades 3-6. Both of these schools are on a single large campus running east from Ralph Avenue between Park Avenue and Beverly Road;
 * Babylon Junior-Senior High School, serves grades 7 and up in the original, but modernized and expanded High School building on North Carll Avenue between South Railroad Avenue and Grove Place, opposite the Babylon Railroad Station.

Babylon Village children who live in the West Babylon School District (all of Babylon Village west of Route 109 and all of Little East Neck south of Cambridge Drive) are served by these schools:
 * John F. Kennedy Elementary School or South Bay School, both on the same campus west of Great East Neck Road, grades K-5;
 * West Babylon Junior High School, serves students in grades 6-8, located at Old Farmingdale Road and Little East Neck Road;
 * West Babylon High School, serves students in grades 9-12, at the junction of Route 109 (Babylon-Farmingdale Road) and Great East Neck Road.

The poet Walt Whitman, forced to find work after the Great Fire of New York in 1835 devastated the printing and publishing industry, took work at a number of Long Island "country schools." Among them was West Babylon's school, located midway between Little East Neck and Great East Neck Roads, just west of the current village boundary, and now occupied by a supermarket, where he taught in the winter of 1836-37.West Babylon NY 11704

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.1 km2), of which 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km2)  (12.32%) is water.

Babylon Village is bordered to the west by West Babylon, to the north by North Babylon, to the east by West Islip, and to the south by the Great South Bay.

Demographics
As of the census of 2020, there were 12,188 people and 4,676 households in the village, with 2.60 persons per household. The population density was 5,055.2 PD/sqmi.

The racial makeup of the village was 89.3% White, 0.6% African American, 0.7% Native American, 1.5% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, and 4.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.8% of the population. The village was 83.5% non-Hispanic White.

Of the total poplulation, 6.1% were under age 5, 19.0% were under age 18, and 18.7% were over the age of 65. 51.9% of the population was female.

The following data is from the Census' American Community Survey (from 2006 to 2010):
 * The homeownership rate was 78.2% and 15.3% of housing units were in multi-unit structures.
 * 95.6% of the population had lived in the same house 1 year & over. 8.8% of the entire population were foreign born and 8.6% of residents at least 5 years old spoke a language other than English at home.
 * 95.1% of residents at least 25 years old had graduated from high school, and 39.6% of residents at least 25 years old had a bachelor's degree or higher. The mean travel time to work for workers aged 16 and over was 31.4 minutes.
 * The median income for a household in the village was $127,407. The per capita income for the village was $44,293. According to the 2010 Census, 4.5% of the population were below the poverty line.

Transportation
Babylon is served by several transit options. The Babylon station is the terminal for the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, and is also served by the Montauk Branch. Therefore, passengers utilizing the Babylon station can travel to both the westernmost and easternmost stations on Long Island, making the village ideal for commuters. The average weekday commute from Babylon station to New York City's Penn Station ranges (roughly) from 55 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes, depending on train schedules and station stops.

The train station is also a hub for several buses run by Suffolk County Transit:

 * 2: Amityville LIRR station - Patchogue LIRR station
 * 3: Babylon LIRR station - Walt Whitman Shops
 * 5: Babylon LIRR station - Smith Haven Mall
 * 10: Amityville LIRR station - Babylon LIRR station
 * 15: Babylon LIRR station - Robert Moses State Park (summer service only)

Health care
Babylon village is primarily served by Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in the nearby hamlet of West Islip, and by Southside Hospital in the nearby hamlet of Bay Shore.

Notable people

 * Danielle Ammaccapane, professional golfer and NCAA women's champion.
 * Tom Bohrer, two-time Olympic rowing silver medalist.
 * Connie Carberg, first female NFL scout
 * Rodney Dangerfield, comedian and actor.
 * Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express.
 * Joseph Iannuzzi, Gambino crime family mob associate turned mob informant.
 * Steve Janaszak, backup goaltender for the 1980 US Olympic ice hockey team.
 * Bob Keeshan, television personality: Clarabell the clown; Captain Kangaroo.
 * Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy.
 * Ashley Massaro, former WWE Diva.
 * Butterfly McQueen, film actress, best known from role in Gone with the Wind.
 * Dan Meuser, US Representative from Pennsylvania
 * Robert Moses, urban planner.
 * Bret Saberhagen, professional baseball player, Cy Young Award-winning pitcher.
 * Mike Scaccia, guitarist for metal bands Ministry, Rigor Mortis and The Revolting Cocks.
 * Mary Schapiro, in charge of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, graduated from Babylon Junior Senior High School.
 * William Shepherd, former Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut; recipient of Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
 * Chris Wingert, professional soccer player, currently playing for Real Salt Lake (MLS).

title: Babylon (village), New York


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Babylon, New York

The Town of Babylon is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Its population was 218,223 as of the 2020 census. Parts of Jones Beach Island, Captree Island and Fire Island are in the southernmost part of the town. It borders Nassau County to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. At its westernmost point, it is about 20 mi from New York City at the Queens border, and about 30 mi from Manhattan. The village of Babylon is also within the town.

History
The region was once called Huntington South. Nathaniel Conklin and Nathan Kowitt moved their families to the area, and around 1803 named it New Babylon, after the ancient city of Babylon.

The town was officially formed in 1872 by a partition of the Town of Huntington.

Communities and locations
The following communities and locations are within the Town of Babylon:

Villages

 * Amityville, in the southwestern part of the town.
 * Babylon, in the southeastern section of the town.
 * Lindenhurst, in the southern part of the town, between the villages of Babylon and Amityville.

Hamlets

 * Captree or Captree Island
 * Copiague
 * Deer Park
 * East Farmingdale
 * Gilgo, includes communities of West Gilgo Beach, Gilgo Beach, and Cedar Beach
 * North Amityville
 * North Babylon
 * North Lindenhurst
 * Oak Beach, includes community of Oak Island
 * West Babylon
 * Wheatley Heights
 * Wyandanch

Other communities

 * Amity Harbor, in the hamlet of Amityville
 * Copiague Harbor, in the hamlet of Copiague

Islands

 * Captree Island, an island partly in the southeastern part of the town and containing part of Captree State Park.
 * Cedar Island, an island in the Great South Bay.
 * Fire Island, a barrier beach island between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, of which west of the Robert Moses Causeway, is within the confines of the Town of Babylon.
 * Gilgo Island, an island in the western end of the Great South Bay.
 * Grass Island, an island in the Great South Bay.
 * Thatch Island, an island in the Great South Bay.
 * Oak Island, an island in the Great South Bay.

Beaches

 * Cedar Beach
 * Gilgo Beach
 * Oak Beach
 * Overlook Beach
 * Venetian Shores

State parks

 * Belmont Lake State Park, a state park in the northeastern part of the town.
 * Captree State Park, a state park partly in the southeastern section of the town and adjacent to the Fire Island Inlet.
 * Gilgo State Park, an undeveloped preserve on a barrier island on the southern side of the town.
 * Robert Moses State Park, a state park on Fire Island, is partly in the town west of the Robert Moses Causeway.

Other

 * Fire Island Inlet, a passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay.

Town Parks

 * Geiger Lake Memorial Park, Wyandanch, NY
 * North Amityville Park, North Amityville, NY
 * North Lindenhurst Park, North Lindenhurst, NY
 * Phelps Lane Park, North Babylon, NY
 * Tanner Park, Copiague, NY

Geography
Babylon is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Nassau County to the west, Huntington to the north, and Islip to the east.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 114.3 sqmi, of which 52.3 sqmi is land and 62.0 sqmi (54.24%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 211,792 people, 69,048 households, and 52,407 families residing in the town. The population density was 4,050.0 PD/sqmi. There were 71,186 housing units at an average density of 1,361.3 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the town was 76.34% White, 15.65% Black or African American, 0.27% Native American, 1.89% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 3.36% from other races, and 2.47% from two or more races. 10.05% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 69,048 households, out of which 35.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.6% were married couples living together, 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.1% were non-families. 19.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.03 and the average family size was 3.45.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.0% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 32.4% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.3 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $60,064, and the median income for a family was $66,261. Males had a median income of $45,160 versus $32,062 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,844. 6.7% of the population and 4.6% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 7.4% of those under the age of 18 and 7.4% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

Media
WBAB 102.3FM is licensed to Babylon with studios at 555 Sunrise Highway.

The Babylon Beacon has covered the town for many years.

Government
Babylon is governed by supervisor Rich Schaffer and four town council members.

Airports
Republic Airport is an airport in East Farmingdale originally built by Fairchild Aircraft in 1927 and acquired by Republic Aviation in 1939. Currently, it also houses the American Airpower Museum. Zahn's Airport also existed in North Amityville from 1936 to 1980. Long Island Macarthur Airport is a nearby commercial city-owned airport in Ronkonkoma, with daily commercial flights.

Railroad lines
The Long Island Rail Road's Babylon Branch is the primary railroad line in the town running from the Nassau County Line and terminating in the Village of Babylon with stations from Amityville to Babylon. Rail freight service also exists along the Central Branch which also uses some Montauk Branch trains running from the Main Line in Bethpage. East of Babylon station, the Montauk Branch continues across the Babylon-Islip Town Line. Additionally, the Main Line runs through the northern part of the town with stations in Pinelawn, Wyandanch and Deer Park.

Bus service
The Town of Babylon is served primarily by Suffolk County Transit bus routes.

Major roads

 * Southern Pkwy Shield.svg Southern State Parkway
 * Robert Moses Cswy Shield.svg Robert Moses Causeway
 * Ocean Pkwy Shield.svg Ocean Parkway
 * NY-24.svg New York State Route 24
 * NY-27.svg New York State Route 27
 * NY-27A.svg New York State Route 27A
 * NY-109.svg New York State Route 109
 * NY-110.svg New York State Route 110
 * NY-231.svg New York State Route 231

Notable people

 * Bob Keeshan, better known as Captain Kangaroo lived in Babylon Village
 * Steve Bellone, Suffolk County Executive
 * Tom Bohrer, Olympic rower
 * Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
 * Dan Meuser, US Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district
 * Rakim, rapper
 * The Sopranos actress Edie Falco in North Babylon for several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 * LL Cool J (born James Todd Smith) in North Babylon in the 1970s and 1980s.
 * Dee Snider, singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister lived in North Babylon in the early 1980s.
 * Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, born Patricia Kennely, grew up in North Babylon and graduated from North Babylon High School in 1963. She exchanged marriage vows in a Celtic pagan handfasting ceremony with The Doors singer Jim Morrison in June 1970. In Oliver Stone's film The Doors, Kennealy-Morrison appears in a brief cameo as the Wiccan Priestess. Kennealy-Morrison's character is portrayed by Kathleen Quinlan. Patricia passed away on July 21, 2021.
 * Billy Hayes (writer) (North Babylon) wrote the autobiographical Midnight Express (book), which was made into a film by Oliver Stone.
 * Ronald DeFeo infamously known as the man who murdered his family in the beginning of the film The Amityville Horror

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Brookhaven (CDP), New York

Brookhaven is a hamlet and census-designated place in Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 3,451 at the 2010 census.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 15.3 sqkm, of which 14.9 sqkm is land and 0.4 sqkm, or 2.47%, is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,570 people, 1,101 households, and 833 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 590.3 PD/sqmi. There were 1,167 housing units at an average density of 193.0 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 84.99% White, 10.11% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.34% from other races, and 2.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.39% of the population.

There were 1,101 households, out of which 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.0% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.3% were non-families. 17.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.13.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 25.2% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.3 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $70,357, and the median income for a family was $80,863. Males had a median income of $49,886 versus $33,611 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $27,044. About 5.8% of families and 11.5% of the population were below the poverty threshold, including 14.2% of those under age 18 and 2.3% of those age 65 or over.

title: Brookhaven (CDP), New York


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East Hampton (village), New York

The Village of East Hampton is a village in Suffolk County, New York. It is located in the town of East Hampton on the South Fork of eastern Long Island. The population was 1,083 at the time of the 2010 census, 251 less than in the year 2000. It is a center of the summer resort and upscale locality at the East End of Long Island known as The Hamptons and is generally considered one of the area's two most prestigious communities. The Mayor of East Hampton Village is Jerry Larsen, elected on September 15, 2020.

17th century
The village of Easthampton was founded in 1648 by Puritan farmers who worshipped as Presbyterians. The community was based on farming, with some fishing and whaling. Whales that washed up on the beach were butchered, and whales were hunted offshore with rowboats sometimes manned by Montauk Indians. The lack of a good harbor in East Hampton, however, resulted in Sag Harbor becoming a whaling center which sent ships to the Pacific.

The land had been purchased in 1648 by the governors of Connecticut Colony and New Haven Colony from the Montauk Indians, in large part for small drills to make wampum, their traditional industry; hunting and fishing rights were retained. It was then sold for about £30 to settlers, some from Lynn and Salem, Massachusetts, who had not found room for their herds in Massachusetts Bay Colony. The original name for the village was Maidstone, from a village in Kent where some of the settlers may have originated. Each original settler was allotted a village lot of several acres and rights in common to surrounding lands which were regulated by the town government. The area was transferred to the jurisdiction of New York in 1664.

In large part, early settlers in East Hampton were unacquainted with one another. A great deal of jockeying for position resulted, which took the form of legal proceedings conducted by the town government. Summaries of these proceedings were recorded by the town clerk and form the major resource for historians studying East Hampton during the 17th Century; there are few other written records such as diaries.

The witchcraft accusation against Elizabeth Garlick began in East Hampton.

19th century
In the late 19th century, after extension of the railway to Bridgehampton in 1870 by predecessors of the Long Island Rail Road, visitors began to summer, at first in boarding houses on Main Street, then in "cottages," which sometimes were substantial estates, built on former farms and pastures in the village. Shingle style architecture was popular from the 1880s. By the early 1890s the prices being commanded for cottage sites, as high as $10 thousand an acre, were the object of comment by the editors of The New York Times. The Montauk Branch of the railroad was extended through East Hampton to Montauk in 1895.

20th century
It was during the 1910s and 20s that most luxury estates were built by the very wealthy, mostly in the Eastern Plain, a previously undeveloped agricultural area. The privately circulated Blue Book of the Hamptons informed, and continues to inform, fashionable residents as to who is who. The Great Depression and World War II resulted in a lull, but full-scale building of cottages resumed in the 1950s and some of the large estates began to be broken up. By 1968 the exclusive character of the "Summer Colony" had become so diluted by the merely rich that the column of that name in The East Hampton Star was discontinued.

The quaint windmills and other sights were favored by artists and art students from the 1890s. It became an artists' colony in the mid-20th century, popularized by the Abstract Expressionists.

21st century
As of the 21st century the Hamptons are a fashionable, if crowded and expensive, weekend destination during the summer season. According to Sotheby's International Realty:Widely regarded as one of the country's most beautiful areas, with miles of white sandy beach, East Hampton is a world-famous ocean-side resort just 100 miles from New York City. The town offers a wide range of fine restaurants, boutiques, art galleries and theater. Sporting activities are enjoyed with world class country clubs, beautiful beaches, excellent sailing, fishing and riding stables.

History and surviving historic sites are detailed in "Village of East Hampton Multiple Area", a New York State study.

Political
On September 15, 2020 the retired Chief of Police Jerry Larsen was elected Mayor in a landslide victory under the Newtown Party political platform to revitalize the downtown and rebuild the village's infrastructure. His running mates Chris Minardi and Sandra Melendez Esq. became Trustees of the Village of East Hampton.

On June 21, 2022 the NewTown Party captured two more seats on the Village Board of Trustees for a 5-0 majority easily defeating the incumbent Arthur "Tiger" Graham.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 12.7 sqkm, of which 12.3 sqkm are land, while 0.4 sqkm, or 2.82% of the total area, is water.

The village gained some territory and lost some territory between the 1990 census and the 2000 census. The neighborhood near Georgica Pond, a tidal pond on the west side of the village is notable for its fashionable residences and high-profile residents.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,334 people, 635 households, and 337 families residing in the village. The population density was 280.3 PD/sqmi. There were 1,745 housing units at an average density of 366.7 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the village was 93.10% White, 1.42% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.87% Asian, 1.87% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.92% of the population.

There were 635 households, out of which 16.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.2% were married couples living together, 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.9% were non-families. 36.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.68.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 14.4% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 31.3% from 45 to 64, and 27.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 52 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.6 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $56,607, and the median income for a family was $62,500. Males had a median income of $41,181 versus $37,083 for females. The per capita income for the village was $51,316. About 5.5% of families and 8.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.2% of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or older.

Beaches
Parking access to the Atlantic Ocean beaches within the village of East Hampton is severely restricted from May 1 to September 30. In 2006 there were only 2,600 permits available for non-residents with a charge of $250. Residents can always get parking permits.

East Hampton's beaches are highly regarded because of their clean white sands, the fact they're relatively accessible and because there is minimal development along the beach, which is strictly residential. Parking space at the village beaches is limited, which prevents crowding. Parking is prohibited on neighboring streets. There is no law that restricts people from accessing the beaches via bike, foot or being dropped off.

The beaches of East Hampton Village (from west to east):
 * Georgica – This beach adjoining Georgica Pond is popular with surfers because of currents around its controversial groynes. The beach has bathroom facilities.
 * Main Beach – The beach is the only one with a pavilion where one can get food; it also has a limited number of lockers available to residents.
 * Wiborg Beach – Has a parking lot, and is right next to Maidstone Club. It does not have a lifeguard.
 * Egypt Lane Beach – This beach is sometimes incorrectly called Maidstone Beach because of its close proximity to the headquarters of the Maidstone Golf Club. The true Maidstone Beach is on the bay outside the village in the town of East Hampton. Main, Wiborg and Egypt Lane are immediately next to the Maidstone Golf Club.
 * Two Mile Hollow – This beach has the second-largest parking lot of the village beaches.

Regulations
The size of homes that can be built in East Hampton is regulated. The point is to ensure that new construction is more or less compatible with size of the lot it is constructed on and the neighborhood it is located in.

Law enforcement
Law enforcement in East Hampton is the responsibility of the East Hampton Village Police Department, chosen in 2009 for New York State accredited status. The department is located within the town of East Hampton, in Suffolk County. It is headed by Chief of Police Mike Tracey, and staffed by 24 full-time officers, three part -time officers, 17 public safety dispatchers, two full time and 17 part – time paramedics. The department has both a uniformed and detective division.

The police department building is part of the Municipal Emergency Building, located at One Cedar Street in East Hampton.

Schools

 * East Hampton Union Free School District
 * East Hampton High School
 * East Hampton Middle School
 * John M. Marshall Elementary School

title: East Hampton (village), New York