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        "label": "Legal status",
        "value": "Unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County; tabulated as Kings Park CDP",
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        "label": "State highway",
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        "label": "State park",
        "value": "Sunken Meadow State Park (Governor Alfred E. Smith), off NY 25A",
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        "label": "Former state hospital",
        "value": "Kings Park Psychiatric Center; consolidated into Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in the fall of 1996",
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      {
        "date": "1962",
        "label": "Sunken Meadow golf courses built",
        "text": "The first two golf courses at Sunken Meadow State Park were built, designed by architect Alfred H. Tull, who also designed courses at Bethpage State Park.",
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      {
        "date": "1964",
        "label": "Blue Course opens",
        "text": "Sunken Meadow's Blue Course was built.",
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      {
        "date": "1996",
        "label": "Kings Park Psychiatric Center consolidated",
        "text": "Kings Park Psychiatric Center, together with Central Islip Psychiatric Center, was consolidated and relocated to the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center campus in Brentwood/West Brentwood.",
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        "id": "history",
        "heading": "History",
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          "Kings Park is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Smithtown, which the Town's own site dates its founding to 1665, on Long Island's North Shore.[1][8] The Town lists Kings Park among its six hamlets and names Kings Park Bluff as one of its four Town beaches, alongside Short Beach, Long Beach and Callahan's Beach.[8]",
          "Sunken Meadow State Park, whose full official name is \"Sunken Meadow State Park (Governor Alfred E. Smith),\" sits off NY 25A at the hamlet's north end.[4] The park's own site describes its first two golf courses as built in 1962 and its Blue Course in 1964, all designed by architect Alfred H. Tull, who also worked on Bethpage State Park's courses.[4] Nissequogue River State Park, at 799 Saint Johnland Road, borders Kings Park to the west along the river; the park's own site describes its Greenbelt Trail as providing \"scenic views of the river and the Long Island Sound from the top of the bluffs,\" and its wetlands and hardwood forests as habitat for shore birds, reptiles and amphibians, with part of the park designated a State Bird Conservation Area.[7]"
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      {
        "id": "roads",
        "heading": "How the roads got here",
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          "NY 25A is a state highway; NYSDOT's own touring-route description runs it through \"Roslyn, East Norwich, Huntington, Kings Park, Smithtown, Branch, on North Country Road and Main Street to Port Jefferson,\" naming Kings Park directly.[2] The Sunken Meadow State Parkway, which connects the hamlet to the state park and to the Sagtikos State Parkway further south, is grouped with the Sagtikos under a single NYSDOT route number, NY 908K, described simply as \"Sagtikos and Sunken Meadow State Parkways – Suffolk County.\"[3]"
        ]
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      {
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          "A dispute over commercial real property in Kings Park produced a published Appellate Division decision on municipal liability. The plaintiffs, owners of commercial real property in Kings Park, served a notice of claim in September 2002 alleging that the Town of Smithtown had buried leaves and lawn debris under their property, and sued the Town in December 2003.[9] The Town moved for summary judgment in 2013, arguing the claim was time-barred because the dumping occurred in the 1970s and 1980s; the Supreme Court, Suffolk County denied the motion, and the Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed in Izzo v. Town of Smithtown, 151 A.D.3d 1035 (2017), holding that the continued presence of the buried debris was a continuing trespass and nuisance under the \"continuous wrong doctrine,\" giving rise to new, timely causes of action for as long as the debris remained, and that the Town's own appraisal affidavit was too conclusory to establish an entitlement to summary judgment on damages.[9]",
          "Civil claims against the Town of Smithtown over a defective road or sidewalk in Kings Park fall under Chapter 245 of the Code of the Town of Smithtown, Article III, \"Civil Claims Notice\" (§§ 245-11 through 245-14.2), which includes § 245-13, \"Written notice of defects required.\"[6]"
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          "Kings Park has no government of its own; it is a hamlet of the Town of Smithtown.[1] The Suffolk County Police Department's Fourth Precinct, at 727 Veterans Mem. Hwy, Smithtown, NY 11787 per the department's own contact listing, is the Smithtown-area precinct; this page did not find a Kings Park-specific jurisdiction statement on the department's site (compare the Third Precinct's own page, which does name its member hamlets explicitly), so Fourth Precinct coverage of Kings Park is inferred from Kings Park's location within the Town of Smithtown rather than confirmed by an explicit precinct statement.[5]"
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        "name": "Izzo v. Town of Smithtown",
        "citation": "151 A.D.3d 1035, 58 N.Y.S.3d 106, 2017 NY Slip Op 05207 (2d Dept 2017)",
        "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department",
        "year": 2017,
        "connection": "Plaintiffs owned commercial real property in Kings Park and sued the Town of Smithtown over leaves and lawn debris the Town had buried under the property decades earlier.",
        "holding": "Affirmed denial of the Town's summary judgment motion: the continued presence of debris the Town buried on the plaintiffs' Kings Park property in the 1970s-80s was a continuing trespass and nuisance under the continuous wrong doctrine, so the 2003 suit was not time-barred, and the Town's appraiser's conclusory affidavit did not establish a lack of compensable damages.",
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        "name": "Sunken Meadow State Park (Governor Alfred E. Smith)",
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        "name": "Nissequogue River State Park",
        "designation": "New York State park at 799 Saint Johnland Road; no National Register listing verified for this page",
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        "name": "Kings Park Bluff",
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        "text": "New York State's own route description of NY 25A names Kings Park directly among the Long Island communities the highway passes through.",
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      {
        "text": "Sunken Meadow State Park's full official name is \"Sunken Meadow State Park (Governor Alfred E. Smith),\" honoring the four-term New York governor.",
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      },
      {
        "text": "Sunken Meadow's first two golf courses, built in 1962, and its Blue Course, built in 1964, were all designed by architect Alfred H. Tull, who also designed courses at Bethpage State Park.",
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          4
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      {
        "text": "New York's Office of Mental Health states that Kings Park Psychiatric Center was consolidated into the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center campus in the fall of 1996.",
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      {
        "text": "The Sunken Meadow State Parkway is grouped with the Sagtikos State Parkway under a single New York State route designation, NY 908K.",
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          3
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      },
      {
        "text": "A Kings Park property owner's 2003 lawsuit over leaves the Town of Smithtown buried on their land in the 1970s and 1980s was still timely three decades later, the Appellate Division held in 2017, because the buried debris was a continuing trespass.",
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          9
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      {
        "text": "The Town of Smithtown's own site dates the town's founding to 1665 and names \"Kings Park Bluff\" as one of its four Town beaches.",
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          8
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        "title": "Pilgrim Psychiatric Center",
        "publisher": "New York State Office of Mental Health",
        "url": "https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/pgpc/",
        "year": "2026",
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        "id": 2,
        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes ... in New York State (NY 25A entry)",
        "publisher": "New York State Department of Transportation",
        "url": "https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2017%20tour-bk.pdf",
        "year": "2017",
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        "id": 3,
        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes ... in New York State (NY 908K entry)",
        "publisher": "New York State Department of Transportation",
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        "title": "Sunken Meadow State Park (Governor Alfred E. Smith)",
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        "title": "Code of the Town of Smithtown, Chapter 245, Streets and Sidewalks (table of contents)",
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        "type": "government"
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        "title": "Nissequogue River State Park",
        "publisher": "New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation",
        "url": "https://parks.ny.gov/parks/nissequogueriver/details.aspx",
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        "type": "government"
      },
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        "id": 8,
        "title": "About Smithtown",
        "publisher": "Town of Smithtown",
        "url": "https://www.smithtownny.gov/579/About-Smithtown",
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        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 9,
        "title": "Izzo v. Town of Smithtown, 151 A.D.3d 1035 (2d Dept 2017)",
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      "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files",
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      "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Motor-Vehicle-Crashes-Case-Information-Four-Year-W/e8ky-4vqe",
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      "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."
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