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        "label": "Legal status",
        "value": "Unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Islip, Suffolk County; tabulated by the Census Bureau as Sayville CDP, separate from the adjoining West Sayville CDP",
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          23
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        "label": "Police",
        "value": "Suffolk County Police, Fifth Precinct (Patchogue) by elimination — see government section",
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        "label": "Prior written notice law",
        "value": "Code of the Town of Islip § 47A-3",
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        "label": "Ferries",
        "value": "Sayville Ferry Service, River Road, Sayville, to Cherry Grove, Fire Island Pines, Water Island and Sailors Haven/Sunken Forest",
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        "label": "School district",
        "value": "Sayville Union Free School District",
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      {
        "label": "Main roads",
        "value": "NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) runs the South Shore corridor near Sayville; Montauk Highway through Sayville itself carries no state route number (NY 27A ends west of Sayville at the Oakdale Exit)",
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        "date": "1761",
        "label": "Edwards family settles",
        "text": "John Edwards brought his family to Sayville and bought land from the Nichol Patent.",
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      {
        "date": "1785",
        "label": "Edwards Homestead built",
        "text": "Matthew Edwards, son of the original settlers, built the farmhouse now known as the Edwards Homestead.",
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        "date": "1868",
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        "date": "1894",
        "label": "Ferry service begins",
        "text": "The Sayville Ferry began its Fire Island run.",
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        "date": "1944",
        "label": "Historical Society founded",
        "text": "Clarissa Edwards started the Sayville Historical Society and later left it her home.",
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      {
        "date": "1982-07-20",
        "label": "In re Taddeo decided",
        "text": "The Second Circuit held that Chapter 13 debtors may cure a mortgage default and de-accelerate the debt, in a case naming a Sayville home.",
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      {
        "date": "2019-08-28",
        "label": "Ortiz v. Town of Islip decided",
        "text": "The Appellate Division, Second Department, applied the Town of Islip's prior-written-notice code section against a summary-judgment motion.",
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          "Sayville is an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Islip; the U.S. Census Bureau tabulates it separately, as Sayville CDP, from the adjoining West Sayville CDP immediately to its west.[23] A later descendant, Clarissa Edwards, \"started the Sayville Historical Society in 1944 and bequeathed her home to the organization upon her death in 1948\"; the Society's museum now occupies the homestead grounds.[4]"
        ]
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          "State highway numbering does not reach Sayville's Main Street. The New York State Department of Transportation's own route description for NY 27A follows \"Merrick Road and Montauk Highway to Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip, East Islip, Great River, Oakdale Exit (NY 27)\" — meaning the state ends the 27A designation at Oakdale, immediately west of Sayville, where the route rejoins NY 27.[17] NY 27 itself, called Sunrise Highway on this stretch, runs along the South Shore corridor that NYSDOT's route description places at \"Great River, North Patchogue\" — the hamlets immediately west and east of Sayville — without naming Sayville itself.[18]"
        ]
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          "Because Sayville is unincorporated, its public streets are Town of Islip property, and under New York's prior-written-notice doctrine the Town cannot be held liable for a road or sidewalk defect unless it had written notice of the specific condition beforehand. In Ortiz v. Town of Islip, decided August 28, 2019, the Appellate Division, Second Department, held that a town moving for summary judgment on that ground must \"establish, prima facie, that no prior written notice of the alleged defective condition was given to either the Town Clerk or the Commissioner of Public Works,\" citing \"Code of Town of Islip § 47A-3.\"[11] The Town lost that motion because its supporting witnesses did not establish that they had searched the Town Clerk's records as well as the Department of Public Works' records.[11]",
          "And in a case that became a widely cited national bankruptcy precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opened its opinion by noting \"Joseph C. and Ellen A. Taddeo live at 6 Ort Court, Sayville, New York,\" before holding, on July 20, 1982, that Chapter 13 debtors may cure a mortgage default and undo the lender's acceleration of the debt under 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(5).[12]"
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        "id": "government",
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          "Sayville has no government of its own; Suffolk County Police patrol the hamlet rather than any town or village force. The Department's Third Precinct, based in Bay Shore, lists its coverage area as \"Bay Shore, Baywood, Brentwood, Brightwaters, Islip, Central Islip, East Islip, West Islip, and Islip Terrace\" — all west of Sayville.[15] The Fifth Precinct, based in Patchogue, describes its territory as \"the southern portion of Brookhaven Town, the eastern portion of Islip Town, and the incorporated villages of Patchogue and Bellport.\"[14] Neither precinct page names Sayville specifically, but because it sits in eastern Islip Town, east of the Third Precinct's listed hamlets and adjoining the Village of Patchogue, it falls within the Fifth Precinct's territory by elimination.[14][15]",
          "The Town of Islip's own online department directory lists a \"Public Safety Enforcement\" office and a separate parking-violations function but no distinct justice or town court department by name.[21]"
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          "The Sayville Historical Society dates the hamlet's rail connection precisely: \"The railroad came to Sayville in 1868 and the town became a summer destination.\"[2] Before Sayville's present-day ferry operator, \"The Stein Ferry Company sailed people to Fire Island to enjoy the ocean surf; their destination often determined by the breezes that day,\" according to the Historical Society.[3] The hamlet's ferry terminal on River Road is now home to Sayville Ferry Service, whose own site states \"The Sayville Ferry began the Fire Island run in 1894.\"[7] Today \"Fire Island's central communities of Cherry Grove, Fire Island Pines, Water Island and Sailors Haven/Sunken Forest, a Fire Island National Seashore Park, are served by the Sayville Ferry, which is located on River Road in the South Shore hamlet of Sayville.\"[6]"
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      {
        "name": "Ortiz v. Town of Islip",
        "citation": "175 A.D.3d 699, 2019 NY Slip Op 06405 (2d Dept 2019)",
        "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department",
        "year": 2019,
        "connection": "Applies the Town of Islip's prior-written-notice code provision, which governs tort claims over defective town roads and sidewalks throughout unincorporated Islip, including Sayville.",
        "holding": "Affirmed denial of the Town's summary judgment motion because the Town failed to establish, prima facie, that neither the Town Clerk nor the Commissioner of Public Works had received prior written notice of the pothole under Code of Town of Islip § 47A-3.",
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      {
        "name": "In re Taddeo (Di Pierro v. Taddeo)",
        "citation": "685 F.2d 24 (2d Cir. 1982)",
        "court": "United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit",
        "year": 1982,
        "connection": "The debtors, Joseph C. and Ellen A. Taddeo, lived at 6 Ort Court, Sayville, New York, and filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy to stop foreclosure on that home.",
        "holding": "Held that a Chapter 13 debtor may cure a mortgage default and de-accelerate the lender's acceleration of the debt under 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(5), rejecting the mortgagee's argument that state law cure requirements controlled.",
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        "text": "Sayville's oldest documented building, the Edwards Homestead, was built around 1785 by Matthew Edwards, son of the hamlet's first English settlers.",
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        "text": "The Sayville Historical Society was founded in 1944 by Clarissa Edwards, a descendant of the settler family, who left the society her home when she died in 1948.",
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        "text": "Rail service reached Sayville in 1868, and the hamlet became a summer destination soon after.",
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        "text": "Before today's ferry operator, the Stein Ferry Company carried Sayville passengers to Fire Island, choosing a landing based on which way the wind was blowing that day.",
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        "text": "Sayville Ferry Service has run the Fire Island route since 1894.",
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