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"Legal status", "value": "Unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Huntington, patrolled by SCPD's 2nd Precinct rather than a village or town police force", "src": [ 7 ] }, { "label": "School district", "value": "Huntington Union Free School District, headquartered at 50 Tower Street, Huntington Station", "src": [ 6 ] }, { "label": "Federal case history", "value": "Central to Huntington Branch, NAACP v. Town of Huntington, 844 F.2d 926 (2d Cir. 1988), aff'd 488 U.S. 15 (1988), over the Town's 1960s urban-renewal zoning", "src": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "label": "Main roads", "value": "NY 110, Jericho Turnpike (part of NY 25, described by the state as passing 'South Huntington'), Pulaski Road, Walt Whitman Road", "src": [ 10 ] } ], "timeline": [ { "date": "1867", "label": "Railroad reaches the town", "text": "The Long Island Rail Road's extension from Syosset to Northport gave the future hamlet its name and its LIRR station.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "date": "1980", "label": "52% minority urban-renewal area", "text": "The Second Circuit later found that the urban renewal area straddling Huntington Station was 52% minority, while the town overall was about 95% white.", "src": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "date": "1988-04-05", "label": "Second Circuit ruling", "text": "The Second Circuit held the Town's confinement of multifamily housing to the Huntington Station-area urban renewal zone violated the Fair Housing Act.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "date": "1988-11-07", "label": "Supreme Court affirms", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed per curiam.", "src": [ 3 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "Huntington Station is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Huntington that grew up around the Long Island Rail Road's Huntington station, reached when the line was extended from Syosset to Northport in 1867.[1]", "The hamlet is where the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association's headquarters carries its mailing address — 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station — even though the property's National Register of Historic Places listing places it in the neighboring West Hills area; Whitman himself was born in 1819 in a house his father built in West Hills.[4][5] The two place names for the same landmark reflect Huntington Station's and West Hills's shared, unincorporated stretch of the town rather than any dispute over the facts.[4]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "New York's Department of Transportation describes NY 110 (also designated within the town as the Assemblyman James D. Conte Memorial Highway) as running from Amityville north through Huntington to Halesite, a route that carries it directly through Huntington Station, and separately lists NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) as passing through South Huntington just south of the hamlet.[10]" ] }, { "id": "law", "heading": "Law and legal history", "paragraphs": [ "Huntington Station is the geographic center of the Town of Huntington's best-documented piece of civil rights litigation. According to the U.S. Supreme Court's later opinion, \"as part of Huntington's urban renewal effort in the 1960's, the town created a zoning classification (R-3M Garden Apartment District) permitting construction of multifamily housing projects,\" but restricted private construction under that classification to the town's designated \"urban renewal area\" — the section of town in and around Huntington Station, where the Second Circuit found 52% of residents were minorities, while the town as a whole was about 95% white and under 4% Black.[3][2] Nearly three-fourths of the town's Black population in 1980 was concentrated in six census tracts in Huntington Station and the South Greenlawn area.[2]", "When Housing Help, Inc. tried in 1980 to build a 162-unit subsidized apartment complex outside that urban-renewal zone, in a 98%-white section of Greenlawn/East Northport, the Town Board refused to amend the zoning code, and the resulting suit — Huntington Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Town of Huntington, 844 F.2d 926 (2d Cir. 1988) — turned on whether confining multifamily housing to the largely minority Huntington Station-area urban renewal zone violated the federal Fair Housing Act.[2] The Second Circuit held that it did, and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed per curiam in Town of Huntington v. Huntington Branch, NAACP, 488 U.S. 15 (1988), decided November 7, 1988.[2][3] Neither court ordered new construction inside Huntington Station itself; the relief ordered was rezoning of a different, then-vacant parcel outside the urban renewal area, at Elwood and Pulaski Roads.[2]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "As an unincorporated hamlet, Huntington Station has no government, police department or court of its own. Policing is provided by the Suffolk County Police Department's 2nd Precinct, which states that it \"proudly serves the residents of the Town of Huntington\"; the precinct's address is 1071 Park Avenue in Huntington, not Huntington Station, contrary to some secondary sources that place the precinct's headquarters on Fisher Place in Huntington Station.[7][8] The Huntington Union Free School District, which serves the hamlet, is itself headquartered inside Huntington Station, at 50 Tower Street.[6] Suffolk County's Traffic and Parking Violations Agency handles moving violations, red-light camera citations and parking summonses \"in the five western towns of Suffolk County,\" a group in which Huntington's location in western Suffolk makes it a plausible member, though this was not confirmed by name on the county's own site.[9]" ] } ], "legalCases": [ { "name": "Huntington Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Town of Huntington", "citation": "844 F.2d 926 (2d Cir. 1988)", "court": "United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit", "year": 1988, "connection": "The Town's zoning ordinance confined private construction of multifamily housing to the urban renewal area in and around Huntington Station, which the court found was 52% minority.", "holding": "Held the ordinance's confinement of multifamily housing to the Huntington Station-area urban renewal zone violated Title VIII of the federal Fair Housing Act under a disparate-impact standard; ordered a different, vacant parcel outside that zone rezoned instead.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "name": "Town of Huntington, New York v. Huntington Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People", "citation": "488 U.S. 15 (1988) (per curiam)", "court": "Supreme Court of the United States", "year": 1988, "connection": "Town's appeal of the Second Circuit's ruling on the Huntington Station-area zoning restriction.", "holding": "Affirmed per curiam that disparate impact was shown and the Town's justification for the restriction was inadequate.", "src": [ 3 ] } ], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Walt Whitman Birthplace (mailing address in Huntington Station)", "designation": "National Register of Historic Places, listed 1985 (location given by the National Register as West Hills); operated as a New York State Historic Site", "src": [ 4, 5 ] } ], "notableFacts": [ { "text": "The urban-renewal zoning fight decided in Huntington Branch, NAACP v. Town of Huntington centered on an area in and around Huntington Station that federal appeals judges found was 52% minority in a town that was about 95% white.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "The Housing Help, Inc. project at the center of the Huntington Station-area zoning case was never actually built inside Huntington Station; the court instead ordered a different, then-vacant parcel at Elwood and Pulaski Roads rezoned.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Walt Whitman Birthplace's own mailing address is in Huntington Station, even though the National Register of Historic Places lists the birthplace's location as West Hills.", "src": [ 4, 5 ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": 1, "title": "Town History (archived Town of Huntington history page)", "publisher": "Town of Huntington (via Internet Archive Wayback Machine, capture of 2013-03-24)", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130324003718/http://huntingtonny.gov/town_history.cfm", "year": "2013", "type": "government" }, { "id": 2, "title": "Huntington Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. 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