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        "value": "Town of Brookhaven Code Chapter 84, \"Notice of Defective or Dangerous Conditions,\" adopted June 16, 1987 by Local Law No. 7-1987",
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        "text": "Belle Terre developer Dean Alvord, working with LIRR President Ralph Peters, had a neoclassical, pergola-style railroad station built at Echo as a gateway to the planned Belle Terre community, according to the Comsewogue Public Library's local history archive.",
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        "date": "1934",
        "label": "Squires dies",
        "text": "Charles A. Squires, remembered locally as the \"Father of Port Jefferson Station,\" a former Brookhaven Town Receiver of Taxes, publisher of the Port Jefferson Echo newspaper and developer of the Belle Croft subdivision, died this year (born 1856).",
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        "text": "The Brookhaven Town Board adopted Local Law No. 7-1987, the Town Code's current \"Notice of Defective or Dangerous Conditions\" chapter.",
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          "Port Jefferson Station is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven, tabulated by the Census Bureau as its own census-designated place.[4] Before 1910 the hamlet and its post office were called Echo, a name the Comsewogue Public Library's local history archive traces to Echo, a locally celebrated trotting racehorse owned by Captain Nathaniel Dickerson and bred at the Joseph Rowland Farm in nearby Miller Place, out of bloodlines tracing to Hambletonian 10 and the imported stallion Messenger.[1] Squires -- later remembered locally as the \"Father of Port Jefferson Station\" -- served as the Town of Brookhaven's Receiver of Taxes, published a newspaper called the Port Jefferson Echo, and developed the Belle Croft subdivision; he lived from 1856 to 1934.[2]",
          "In 1905, Dean Alvord, the developer of the nearby planned community of Belle Terre, and Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Rail Road, had a neoclassical, pergola-style railroad station built at Echo, which the Comsewogue Public Library's archive describes as intended as \"a fitting gateway\" to the Belle Terre development, complete with a dedicated road to the Belle Terre gatehouse and a special passenger car running between New York City and Port Jefferson.[8]"
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          "Two state highways meet at Port Jefferson Station. NYSDOT's official touring-route description routes NY 25A \"to Port Jefferson, Port Jefferson Station, on Hallock Avenue, Rocky Point,\" and separately gives NY 112 (Main Street) a route from Patchogue through Medford and Coram that ends \"Port Jefferson Station (NY 25A)\" -- meaning Route 112's northern terminus is at Route 25A in this hamlet.[9][10] NY 347 also reaches the hamlet from the west: NYSDOT describes it running from west of Hauppauge through Hauppauge, Nesconset and Terryville to a point \"east of Port Jefferson Station (NY 25A)\".[11]"
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          "As an unincorporated hamlet, Port Jefferson Station falls under the Town of Brookhaven's prior-written-notice law, Chapter 84 of the Town Code, adopted June 16, 1987 by Local Law No. 7-1987, which bars a civil action against the Town over a defective road, sidewalk, or snow/ice condition unless written notice was first given to the Town Clerk or Superintendent of Highways and the Town failed to act within a reasonable time.[7]",
          "The Town of Brookhaven maintains no police department of its own; the Suffolk County Police Department's 6th Precinct, headquartered at 400 Middle Country Road in Selden, covers the hamlets and incorporated villages of the northern Town of Brookhaven, including Port Jefferson Station.[6]"
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          "Port Jefferson Station has no government of its own; it is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven.[4][7] Public schools come from the Comsewogue School District, headquartered at 290 Norwood Avenue in the hamlet.[5] Policing is provided by the Suffolk County Police Department's 6th Precinct.[6]"
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      {
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        "heading": "Railroad and transit",
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          "Port Jefferson Station sits on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch; its 1905 station, built for developer Dean Alvord and LIRR President Ralph Peters as an ornamental gateway to the Belle Terre development, predates the hamlet's own 1910 renaming after the station itself.[8]"
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        "text": "The hamlet's 1905 railroad station was commissioned by Belle Terre developer Dean Alvord and LIRR President Ralph Peters as an ornamental gateway to the planned Belle Terre community.",
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        "title": "Echo the Beloved Racehorse",
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        "year": "n.d.",
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        "year": "n.d.",
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        "title": "2020 Gazetteer Files: Places, New York (2020_gaz_place_36.txt)",
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        "url": "https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_36.txt",
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        "title": "Comsewogue School District (home page)",
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        "title": "Town of Brookhaven Code, Chapter 84, Notice of Defective or Dangerous Conditions",
        "publisher": "Town of Brookhaven / General Code (ecode360)",
        "url": "https://ecode360.com/8596414",
        "year": "2026",
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        "title": "View of Railroad Station, Echo",
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        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes... in New York State (NY 25A entry)",
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        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes... in New York State (NY 112 entry)",
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        "type": "government"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
    }
  }
}