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Atlantic Avenue, East Rockaway, NY 11518", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "label": "Policing", "value": "Nassau County Police Department, Fourth Precinct (Hewlett), supplemented by the Village's own Auxiliary Police unit; no separate full-time East Rockaway municipal police department was found", "src": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "label": "Landmark", "value": "Haviland-Davison Grist Mill (built ca. 1689), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, now the Grist Mill Museum", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "timeline": [ { "date": "1665", "label": "Earliest recorded name", "text": "The area now called East Rockaway was known as Near Rockaway (or Neare Rockaway) as early as 1665.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "date": "1688-12", "label": "Grist mill land grant", "text": "The Town of Hempstead's town meeting granted Joseph Haviland a land grant to build a grist mill on the Mill River within one year.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "date": "1689", "label": "Grist mill built", "text": "The grist mill later known as the 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Places.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "According to the Village's own official history, the area now called East Rockaway was known as Near Rockaway, or Neare Rockaway, as early as 1665.[1] In December 1688 the town meeting of the Town of Hempstead granted Joseph Haviland a land grant to build a grist mill on the Mill River within a year, and the mill, later known as the Haviland-Davison Grist Mill, was built around 1689.[1] The Village describes the mill as having become a focal point of the area's social, economic and political life, its south-shore location suited to shipping oysters and farm produce to New York City and lumber and grain inland.[1]", "As the settlement grew through the nineteenth century around its mill and maritime trade, its name was formally changed from Near Rockaway to East Rockaway in 1869.[1] The Long Island Rail Road station at East Rockaway opened in October 1880, then part of the New York & Long Beach Railroad, before the line became part of the LIRR system in 1909.[1] East Rockaway was incorporated as a village in 1900, with Floyd Johnson as its first village president and a population of about 969 at that time.[1] Over the twentieth century, the Village's own account describes it shifting from a primarily industrial and maritime economy toward a residential, commuter-rail suburb of New York City.[1]", "The Haviland-Davison Grist Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and the Village describes it, at 325 years old, as having been burned by an arsonist in 1990 and completely restored; it now operates as the Grist Mill Museum at 30 Woods Avenue, open weekends from the first Saturday in June through Labor Day.[1]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "The Village is governed by a mayor and a board including a deputy mayor and three trustees, and maintains its own Village Justice Court at 376 Atlantic Avenue, with the Honorable Richard Braverman as Village Justice.[3][7] Primary law enforcement is provided by the Nassau County Police Department's Fourth Precinct, based in Hewlett, which lists East Rockaway among the communities it serves.[4] The Village's own Auxiliary Police unit supplements county coverage with day and evening patrols and traffic control for village and county events, and the Village's own site describes the unit as working closely with the Nassau County Police officers of the Fourth Precinct and the East Rockaway Fire & Rescue.[5] No separate full-time East Rockaway municipal police department could be found on the Village's own site.[5]", "Larger civil and criminal matters go to the Nassau County District Court at 99 Main Street, Hempstead, and the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola.[8][9]" ] } ], "legalCases": [], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Haviland-Davison Grist Mill (Grist Mill Museum)", "designation": "Built ca. 1689 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of Our Village", "publisher": "Village of East Rockaway", "url": "https://villageofeastrockaway.org/our-history/", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 2, "title": "A Brief History of Our Village (name change)", "publisher": "Village of East Rockaway", "url": "https://villageofeastrockaway.org/our-history/", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 3, "title": "Village of East Rockaway (home page / contact)", "publisher": "Village of East Rockaway", "url": "https://villageofeastrockaway.org/", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 4, "title": "About Fourth Precinct", "publisher": "Nassau County Police Department", "url": "https://www.pdcn.org/283/About-Precinct", "year": "n.d.", "type": "government" }, { "id": 5, "title": "Auxiliary Police", "publisher": "Village of East Rockaway", "url": "https://villageofeastrockaway.org/auxillary-police/", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 7, "title": "Village Justice Court", "publisher": "Village of East Rockaway", "url": "https://villageofeastrockaway.org/justice-court/", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 8, "title": "Nassau County District Court", "publisher": "New York State Unified Court System", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/10th-jd-nassau/nassau-county-district-court", "year": "2026", "type": "court" }, { "id": 9, "title": "Nassau County Supreme Court", "publisher": "New York State Unified Court System", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/10th-jd-nassau/nassau-county-supreme-court", "year": "2026", "type": "court" }, { "id": 11, "title": "South Nassau (location page)", "publisher": "Mount Sinai South Nassau", "url": "https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/south-nassau", "year": "2026", "type": "institution" } ] }, "dataSources": { "census2020": { "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb — 2020 Census tabulation geography (POP100, HU100, AREALAND)", "url": "https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Census2020/MapServer", "retrieved": "2026-09-17" }, "acs": { "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates, tables B08303, B08013, B08301, B08302, B08201, B19013, B01002", "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/", "period": "2020–2024", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "note": "Survey estimates with 90% margins of error. lowReliability = coefficient of variation above 30%." }, "fars": { "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "preliminaryYears": [ 2024 ], "note": "Crashes on public trafficways in which a person died within 30 days. No personal identifiers. Placed by reported coordinates into 2020 Census boundaries." }, "nys": { "name": "New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicle Crashes — Case Information: Four Year Window", "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Motor-Vehicle-Crashes-Case-Information-Four-Year-W/e8ky-4vqe", "period": "2021–2024", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "note": "Police-reported crashes coded to a town, city or village by the reporting agency. Hamlets are not coded; hamlet pages show the parent town." } } }