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  "updated": "2026-09-17",
  "publisher": "Long Island Traffic (https://longislandtraffic.com)",
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        "label": "Legal status",
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        "label": "Prior written notice law",
        "value": "Town of Brookhaven Code Chapter 84, § 84-1 (adopted 1987)",
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        "label": "County road",
        "value": "William Floyd Parkway (County Road 46) runs north–south through the area",
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      {
        "date": "1996-07-17",
        "label": "TWA Flight 800",
        "text": "Trans World Airlines Flight 800 broke up in flight and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, a few miles from Shirley and Smith Point.",
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          5
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        "date": "2000-08-23",
        "label": "NTSB final report adopted",
        "text": "The National Transportation Safety Board adopted its final accident report on the crash.",
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          "William Floyd Parkway, County Road 46, is a Suffolk County road; the state's own touring-route documentation identifies a memorial bridge — the \"Cpl. Paulo Marko Pacificador Memorial Bridge\" — at the point where \"CR 46 (William Floyd Parkway)\" crosses NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) in the hamlet of Brookhaven, just west of Shirley.[3] The National Park Service directs visitors to the William Floyd Estate, further south on the same parkway, by way of \"Exit 68 from the Long Island Expressway (I-495) or Exit 58S from Sunrise Highway (NY-27E) onto the William Floyd Parkway (Route 46),\" confirming both expressway connections into the corridor that runs through Shirley.[6]",
          "Sunrise Highway, NY 27, is described in the state's touring-route document as a single continuous route from Brooklyn to Montauk Point, without an intervening terminus in this stretch of Brookhaven's south shore.[4]"
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          "Smith Point County Park, near Shirley, sits close to the site where Trans World Airlines Flight 800 broke apart in flight and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 1996, an accident the National Transportation Safety Board investigated as \"In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-131, N93119, Near East Moriches, New York,\" adopting its final report on August 23, 2000.[5]"
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          "Shirley has no government of its own; it is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven. The Suffolk County Police Department's Seventh Precinct describes its own territory as covering \"the eastern most sections of the Town of Brookhaven to the Riverhead and Southampton Town lines,\" which by that description would include Shirley, although the precinct's page does not name Shirley individually.[1]",
          "Civil claims 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 by the Town Board on 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.[2]",
          "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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        "text": "A New York State memorial-bridge listing names the overpass where County Road 46 (William Floyd Parkway) crosses Sunrise Highway near Shirley the \"Cpl. Paulo Marko Pacificador Memorial Bridge.\"",
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      {
        "text": "The National Transportation Safety Board's final report on the 1996 TWA Flight 800 crash near East Moriches — close to Shirley and Smith Point — was not adopted until August 23, 2000, more than four years after the accident.",
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        "text": "The William Floyd Estate, reached from Shirley's area via the William Floyd Parkway, is signed from two different expressway exits: LIE Exit 68 and Sunrise Highway Exit 58S.",
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        "id": 1,
        "title": "Seventh Precinct",
        "publisher": "Suffolk County Police Department",
        "url": "https://suffolkpd.org/Precincts-and-Specialized-Units/Precincts/Seventh-Precinct",
        "year": "2026",
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        "id": 2,
        "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": 3,
        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycle Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State",
        "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",
        "type": "government"
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      {
        "id": 4,
        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes... in New York State (NY 27 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": 5,
        "title": "In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-131, N93119, Near East Moriches, New York, July 17, 1996 (NTSB/AAR-00/03)",
        "publisher": "National Transportation Safety Board",
        "url": "https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0003.pdf",
        "year": "2000",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 6,
        "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": 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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      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb — 2020 Census tabulation geography (POP100, HU100, AREALAND)",
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      "retrieved": "2026-09-17"
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    "acs": {
      "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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      "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files",
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    "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."
    }
  }
}