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  "name": "Mastic Beach, New York",
  "url": "https://longislandtraffic.com/towns/suffolk/mastic-beach/",
  "updated": "2026-09-17",
  "publisher": "Long Island Traffic (https://longislandtraffic.com)",
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    "researchedAt": "2026-09-17",
    "identity": {
      "officialName": "Mastic Beach",
      "placeType": "hamlet and census-designated place; an incorporated village from August 31, 2010 until its dissolution effective December 31, 2017",
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        "text": "Incorporated as a village on August 31, 2010; dissolved effective December 31, 2017 under New York General Municipal Law, Article 17-A, Title 3, reverting to unincorporated hamlet status within the Town of Brookhaven.",
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        "label": "Nearby landmark",
        "value": "William Floyd Estate (Old Mastic House), a National Park Service site, is addressed at 245 Park Drive, Mastic Beach, NY 11951",
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      {
        "date": "2010-08-31",
        "label": "Village incorporated",
        "text": "Mastic Beach incorporated as a village, described by one contemporary report as \"the state's newest village,\" after residents sought to break away from the much larger Town of Brookhaven.",
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      {
        "date": "2017-12-30",
        "label": "Village dissolves",
        "text": "Newsday reported the village \"locks up for the last time as village dissolves,\" with the dissolution effective the following day.",
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      {
        "id": "history",
        "heading": "History",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Mastic Beach incorporated as a village on August 31, 2010. A contemporary account described it as \"the state's newest village\" at the time, noting it was \"[f]ormerly a ward of Brookhaven\" and that \"it incorporated after residents sought to break from the much larger neighboring town,\" a move the report says was spearheaded by Mayor Paul Breschard on the premise that a village government could \"crack down on absentee landlords and quality-of-life problems\" without raising local taxes.[1] The village had a reported population of 12,930 at incorporation.[1]",
          "The village government did not last a decade. Newsday's own coverage, in a piece headlined \"Mastic Beach locks up for the last time as village dissolves,\" was published December 30, 2017, and this fact book treats that as marking the close of village government, effective December 31, 2017.[2]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "law",
        "heading": "Law and legal history",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Village dissolution in New York is governed by Article 17-A of the General Municipal Law. Title 3 of that article allows \"[t]he electors of a local government entity\" to \"commence a dissolution proceeding by filing an original petition, containing not less than the number of signatures\" required by statute, triggering a referendum process.[3] Once a resulting dissolution plan is approved, the statute requires that \"[n]o later than five business days after approving an elector initiated dissolution plan..., the governing body of the local government entity to be dissolved shall\" publish the plan for public review.[5]"
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      {
        "id": "government",
        "heading": "Government, courts and policing",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Civil claims today against the Town of Brookhaven over a defective or dangerous street, highway, bridge, culvert or crosswalk are governed by Town of Brookhaven Code Chapter 84, \"Notice of Defective or Dangerous Conditions,\" adopted June 16, 1987 (Local Law No. 7-1987) and most recently amended March 10, 2016. Section 84-1 provides that \"[n]o civil action shall be commenced against the Town of Brookhaven or the Superintendent of Highways for damages or injuries to persons or property sustained by reason of the defective, out-of-repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition of any highway, street, bridge, culvert, or crosswalk or pedestrian walkway open to the public\" unless written notice was first given to the Town Clerk or Superintendent of Highways.[7]",
          "Higher-level civil and criminal matters from Brookhaven hamlets are handled within the Suffolk County court system, whose 10th Judicial District administrative offices are at 400 Carleton Avenue, Central Islip.[8]"
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        "name": "William Floyd Estate (Old Mastic House)",
        "designation": "National Park Service unit within Fire Island National Seashore; addressed at 245 Park Drive, within present-day Mastic Beach",
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      }
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      {
        "text": "Mastic Beach was, for a moment in December 2011, described by one national outlet as \"the state's newest village\" in New York, having incorporated barely a year earlier.",
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      },
      {
        "text": "Mastic Beach's village government lasted a little over seven years: incorporated August 31, 2010, it dissolved effective December 31, 2017.",
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      {
        "text": "New York's General Municipal Law lets a village's own electors force a dissolution vote simply by filing a petition with enough signatures, under Article 17-A, Title 3 of the law.",
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      {
        "id": 1,
        "title": "America's Nine Newest Cities (entry 6: Mastic Beach, NY)",
        "publisher": "24/7 Wall St.",
        "url": "http://247wallst.com/special-report/2011/12/30/americas-nine-newest-cities/3/",
        "year": "2011",
        "type": "newspaper"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "title": "Mastic Beach locks up for the last time as village dissolves",
        "publisher": "Newsday",
        "url": "https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/mastic-beach-village-dissolves-w60007",
        "year": "2017",
        "type": "newspaper"
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      {
        "id": 3,
        "title": "§ 779, Initiative of electors seeking dissolution",
        "publisher": "New York State Senate (nysenate.gov, General Municipal Law)",
        "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GMU/779",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
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        "id": 4,
        "title": "Plan Your Visit: William Floyd Estate",
        "publisher": "National Park Service, Fire Island National Seashore",
        "url": "https://www.nps.gov/fiis/planyourvisit/williamfloydestate.htm",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 5,
        "title": "§ 783, Publication of proposed elector initiated dissolution plan",
        "publisher": "New York State Senate (nysenate.gov, General Municipal Law)",
        "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GMU/783",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
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        "id": 6,
        "title": "Seventh Precinct",
        "publisher": "Suffolk County Police Department",
        "url": "https://suffolkpd.org/Precincts-and-Specialized-Units/Precincts/Seventh-Precinct",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
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      {
        "id": 7,
        "title": "Chapter 84, Notice of Defective or Dangerous Conditions",
        "publisher": "Town of Brookhaven (ecode360.com)",
        "url": "https://ecode360.com/8596414",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
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      {
        "id": 8,
        "title": "10th Judicial District – Suffolk County",
        "publisher": "New York State Unified Court System (nycourts.gov)",
        "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/10jd/suffolk/",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "court"
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      "retrieved": "2026-09-17"
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      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates, tables B08303, B08013, B08301, B08302, B08201, B19013, B01002",
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      "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."
    }
  }
}