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Country Rd", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "label": "Police", "value": "Suffolk County Police Department, 6th Precinct (Selden)", "src": [ 5 ] }, { "label": "Major road", "value": "NY 25A (North Country Road)", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "label": "Fire protection", "value": "Miller Place Fire District, 12 Miller Place Rd, Miller Place, NY 11764, serving the community since 1952", "src": [ 7 ] } ], "timeline": [ { "date": "1655", "label": "Brookhaven founded", "text": "The Town of Brookhaven, within which Miller Place sits, dates its founding to 1655.", "src": [ 6 ] }, { "date": "1952", "label": "Fire department organized", "text": "The Miller Place Fire Department's own site states it has been serving Miller Place since 1952.", "src": [ 7 ] }, { "date": "1958", "label": "State school-reorganization plan", "text": "New York's State Plan for School District Reorganization proposed folding the Miller Place school district into a single north-shore Brookhaven central district, a merger never carried out for Miller Place.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "date": "1976-06-17", "label": "Historic district listed", "text": "The Miller Place Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "date": "1995-06-06", "label": "State highway taking", "text": "New York State appropriated a fee parcel and a temporary easement along Route 25A frontage in Miller Place, later litigated in Kadlec v. State.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "date": "1999-08-09", "label": "Kadlec v. State decided", "text": "The Appellate Division affirmed a Court of Claims award of consequential damages for the state's temporary highway easement.", "src": [ 2 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "Miller Place is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven, which dates its own founding to 1655.[6] The hamlet's built environment along North Country Road preserves a run of Greek Revival and Federal-style buildings from the mid-eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, recognized by the National Park Service as the Miller Place Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1976 under reference number 76001281.[1] The National Register's own asset record identifies the district's location simply as \"Miller Place; N. Country Rd\" and its periods of architectural significance as 1750-1799, 1800-1824, and 1825-1849.[1]", "In the twentieth century, Miller Place's proximity to the busy NY 25A corridor made it, like several other North Shore hamlets, the subject of state highway-taking litigation: in 1995 the State of New York appropriated a fee parcel with 200 feet of Route 25A frontage from an undeveloped Miller Place property, along with a temporary construction easement over the remaining land, litigation later resolved in the claimant's favor on appeal.[2]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "NY Route 25A, known locally as North Country Road, is Miller Place's principal state highway and the address anchor for its National Register historic district.[1][4] NYSDOT's official route description carries NY 25A eastward through the North Shore towns \"on North Country Road and Main Street to Port Jefferson, Port Jefferson Station,\" continuing on to Rocky Point, placing Miller Place along this same corridor between the two.[4]", "The State of New York's 1995 taking of Route 25A frontage from a Miller Place property, litigated as Kadlec v. State, illustrates how the highway's ongoing widening and improvement has intersected with private land along its length: the Court of Claims found that the taking of even a temporary construction easement amounted to a de facto taking of the owner's entire remaining parcel, because Route 25A was the only means of access — the property's other three sides fronted only on unimproved 'paper streets.'[2]" ] }, { "id": "law", "heading": "Law and legal history", "paragraphs": [ "In Kadlec v. State, 264 A.D.2d 420 (2d Dept. 1999), the Appellate Division affirmed a Court of Claims judgment awarding a Miller Place landowner consequential damages after the State of New York, in a June 6, 1995 eminent domain proceeding, appropriated in fee about 7,016 square feet of the owner's undeveloped property and imposed a temporary construction easement over roughly 2,001 square feet more, all along the parcel's 200-foot Route 25A frontage.[2] Because the taking eliminated the only usable access to the remainder of the property — the balance of its street frontage sat on unimproved 'paper streets' — the Court of Claims valued the temporary easement using the rental value of the entire remaining parcel rather than just the land actually encumbered, and the Appellate Division agreed that a property owner may recover consequential damages for a temporary easement when it works a de facto taking of the whole remainder.[2]", "Miller Place's school district also appears in a 1990 Appellate Division, Third Department decision, Cario v. Sobol, which recounts that a 1958 New York State Master Plan for School District Reorganization proposed folding the Miller Place school district into a single central district together with the Comsewogue, Mt. Sinai, Setauket, Port Jefferson, Shoreham, Stony Brook, Rocky Point, and Wading River districts.[3] That consolidation was never carried out for Miller Place, though the Plan did produce two later, partial mergers among the listed districts (Setauket-Stony Brook in 1965 and Shoreham-Wading River in 1972); the case itself decided an unrelated dispute over state 'high tax aid' between the Comsewogue and Mount Sinai districts, and is cited here only for that background history.[3]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "Miller Place has no government of its own; it is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven, which itself has no police department — the Suffolk County Police Department's Sixth Precinct, headquartered at 400 Middle Country Road in Selden, describes its mission as protecting and serving several hamlets and incorporated villages within the Town of Brookhaven (North), the area that includes Miller Place.[5]", "As in other Brookhaven hamlets, suits over a defective road or sidewalk in Miller Place are governed by Chapter 84 of the Town Code, \"Notice of Defective or Dangerous Conditions,\" which bars liability absent prior written notice of the specific defect.[8] More serious criminal matters, civil actions, and appeals from town and village justice courts are heard at the Suffolk County court complex, 400 Carleton Avenue, Central Islip, seat of the 10th Judicial District's Suffolk County administration.[9]", "Fire protection is provided by the Miller Place Fire District, which describes itself on its own site as serving the community since 1952, with a records-request address of 12 Miller Place Rd, Miller Place, New York 11764.[7]" ] } ], "legalCases": [ { "name": "Kadlec v. State", "citation": "264 A.D.2d 420, 694 N.Y.S.2d 123 (2d Dept. 1999)", "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department", "year": 1999, "connection": "Eminent domain proceeding over a 1995 state taking of Route 25A frontage from an undeveloped Miller Place property.", "holding": "Affirmed the Court of Claims' award of consequential damages for a temporary construction easement, holding the claimant was entitled to compensation based on the rental value of the entire remaining parcel because the easement, combined with the fee taking of the property's only street access, amounted to a de facto taking of the whole remainder while it was in effect.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "name": "Cario v. 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