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called \"Babylon\" through the late 1800s.", "src": [ 4 ] }, "founded": { "text": "A West Babylon school existed by the early 1800s; the hamlet's own school district was organized as Town of Huntington School District No. 20, renumbered Town of Babylon School District No. 2 after the 1872 separation from Huntington, and took the name West Babylon Union Free School District in the early 1900s.", "src": [ 4, 5 ] }, "incorporated": null, "gnisId": null, "wikidataId": null }, "quickFacts": [ { "label": "Legal status", "value": "Unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County; tabulated by the Census Bureau as the West Babylon CDP", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "label": "ZIP code", "value": "11704, assigned to the West Babylon Post Office when the US Postal Service introduced 5-digit ZIP codes in 1963", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "label": "School district", "value": "West Babylon Union Free School District", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "label": "Fire protection", "value": "West Babylon Volunteer Fire 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"1874", "label": "Belmont Junction established", "text": "A branch of the Central Railroad of Long Island joined the Long Island Rail Road near Great East Neck Road and Railroad Avenue, forming a freight and telegraph stop called Belmont Junction that operated until 1888.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "date": "1930", "label": "Bulk's Nursery windmill", "text": "Bulk's Nursery built a windmill along Montauk Highway to mark its garden center, giving West Babylon an emblem that outlasted the windmill's collapse in the mid-1980s.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "date": "1936", "label": "Barton's Stadium", "text": "Actor James Barton opened Suffolk County's first lighted sports park, hosting baseball and wrestling for the 1936 and 1937 seasons on what is now the site of Santapogue Elementary School.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "date": "1945-09-18", "label": "Fire company approved", "text": "The Town of Babylon approved the West Babylon Volunteer Fire Company on September 18, 1945; its first official meeting followed on November 8, 1945.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "date": "1956", "label": "Great South Bay Shopping Center", "text": "The Great South Bay Shopping Center, anchored by an Abraham & Straus department store, a Grand Union and a Pergament home store, opened on the former Whitman-era farm site.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "date": "1963", "label": "ZIP code assigned", "text": "The U.S. Postal Service's national rollout of 5-digit ZIP codes assigned the West Babylon Post Office 11704.", "src": [ 4 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "West Babylon is an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County, tabulated by the Census Bureau as a census-designated place.[4] The Town of Babylon Historian's office finds no clean naming story: \"West Babylon\" seems to have started simply as a reference to the area west of Babylon, since the broader area later split among West Babylon, North Babylon and the incorporated Village of Babylon was generally just called \"Babylon\" through the late 1800s.[4] A school stood on Montauk Highway near Great East Neck Road by the early 1800s, and Walt Whitman taught there during the winter of 1836 while his family lived on a nearby farm; that farm site later became the Great South Bay Shopping Center, which opened in 1956 with an Abraham & Straus department store, a Grand Union grocery and a Pergament home store.[4] The hamlet's school district was organized as Town of Huntington School District No. 20 before the 1872 separation, renumbered Town of Babylon School District No. 2 afterward, and took the name West Babylon Union Free School District in the early 1900s.[4]", "Starting around 1874 a branch of the Central Railroad of Long Island joined the Long Island Rail Road near Great East Neck Road and Railroad Avenue, creating a freight and telegraph stop called Belmont Junction that operated until 1888 and later served, from 1910 to 1920, as a stop on the Babylon Railroad trolley line between Amityville and Babylon.[4] Long Island's nursery and flower-growing trade left its own local landmark: in 1930 Bulk's Nursery built a windmill along Montauk Highway to mark its garden center, and although the windmill collapsed by the mid-1980s the image is still associated with the hamlet.[4] In 1936 the actor James Barton opened Suffolk County's first lighted sports park, hosting baseball games and wrestling matches for the 1936 and 1937 seasons on ground that is now Santapogue Elementary School.[4] The hamlet's population stayed relatively small until after World War II, after which West Babylon became the most populous hamlet in the Town of Babylon.[4] The West Babylon Volunteer Fire Company was approved by the Town on September 18, 1945, holding its first official meeting on November 8, 1945.[4]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "NY 109 is described by NYSDOT as running \"west of Babylon, northwest to Farmingdale (NY 24)\" across Nassau and Suffolk Counties, carrying the co-signing of NY 27A along part of its length.[10] Where NY 109 crosses Sunrise Highway in West Babylon, the overpass is dedicated as the New York City Police Department Detective Peter Figoski Memorial Bridge, per NYSDOT's official bridge-naming register.[10] Historically, Route 109 has marked the boundary between West Babylon and the Village of Lindenhurst/North Lindenhurst, and Little East Neck Road, north of Sunrise Highway, has marked the boundary between West Babylon and North Babylon.[4] NY 27A (Montauk Highway) is routed by NYSDOT along \"Merrick Road and Montauk Highway to Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip, East Islip, Great River,\" tying West Babylon into the historic south-shore highway corridor.[11] Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs along the hamlet's northern edge as the boundary with North Babylon.[4]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "West Babylon has no government of its own; it is an unincorporated hamlet under the jurisdiction of the Town of Babylon for municipal services such as garbage collection and building codes.[4] The Town of Babylon's own Adjudication Bureau, at the Municipal Building in North Amityville, hears Notices of Violation \"issued for any violation of the Town Code relating to public health, safety or welfare,\" while a separate Parking Violations Bureau at the same address processes parking tickets.[6][7] The Suffolk County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency (SCTPVA) describes itself as adjudicating \"parking summonses, red light camera citations and moving violations in the five western towns of Suffolk County\"; Suffolk County's own department listing does not name the five towns, so it is not confirmed here whether the Town of Babylon is among them.[12]", "The nearest hospital with a trauma designation is Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, 1000 Montauk Highway, West Islip, listed by the New York State Department of Health as a Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center.[13]" ] } ], "legalCases": [], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Site of Barton's Stadium (1936-1937)", "designation": "Now Santapogue Elementary School; no register listing", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "name": "Bulk's Nursery windmill site, Montauk Highway and Bergen Avenue", "designation": "Local landmark image only; windmill itself no longer standing", "src": [ 4 ] } ], "notableFacts": [ { "text": "Walt Whitman taught school in West Babylon during the winter of 1836, while his family farmed nearby land that later became the Great South Bay Shopping Center.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "The NY 109 overpass of Sunrise Highway in West Babylon is officially the New York City Police Department Detective Peter Figoski Memorial Bridge.", "src": [ 10 ] }, { "text": "West Babylon's Belmont Junction was a stop on a horse-and-later-electric trolley line between Amityville and Babylon from 1910 to 1920.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "Bulk's Nursery marked its Montauk Highway garden 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