Stony Brook, New York For other uses of Stony Brook, see Stony Brook .
Stony Brook, New York Clockwise from top the Stony Brook Village Center, the art building at the Long Island Museums, Stony Brook Harbor, the c.1751 Stony Brook Grist Mill, and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University Clockwise from top the Stony Brook Village Center, the art building at the Long Island Museums, Stony Brook Harbor, the c.1751 Stony Brook Grist Mill, and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University Stony Brook is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island.
Even with being referred to as a village by inhabitants and tourists alike, Stony Brook has never been legally incorporated by the state.
The CDP is adjoining to the chief campus of Stony Brook University, a primary research and development office inside the State University of New York, and also the Stony Brook School, a private college preliminary school.
It is also home to the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages and the Stony Brook Village Center, a privately maintained commercial center that was prepared in the style of a traditional New England village.
Stony Brook was a remote region through the 18th century aside for a modest amount of commerce near the foundry at the intersection of Main Street and Harbor Road.
The Long Island Rail Road reached Stony Brook in the 1870s, creating an easy link between New York City and the community.
The establishment of the Stony Brook Assembly in 1909 also helped to draw more inhabitants to the small-town area.
The small-town postal service, centerpiece of the Stony Brook Village Center At one point owned much of what his family coined as the Three Village region (consisting of Stony Brook, the hamlet of Setauket, and the incorporated village of Old Field).
Shops in the Stony Brook Village Center Beginning in 1939 with the creation of his Stony Brook Community Fund, Melville used his richness to begin the transformation of part of the hamlet into his idea of an idyllic New England village, the Stony Brook Village Center, with white clapboard buildings and quaint stores.
The chief alley athwart the Stony Brook University ground Stony Brook University Hospital Melville donated the territory and funds to New York State for establishing a branch of the State University of New York in the area.
This led what was then called the State University College on Long Island, at the time in constrictive Oyster Bay quarters, to relocate and change its name to Stony Brook University.
Tourist attractions include the Stony Brook Grist Mill and the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, a large complex of buildings originally known as the Stony Brook Carriage House and Suffolk Museum.
Stony Brook is positioned on the North Shore of Long Island, approximated 55 miles east of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
The historic core of Stony Brook was advanced from the 17th century forward at the mouth of Stony Brook Harbor, a narrow inlet of the Long Island Sound.
This section of town includes the Stony Brook Village Center, a prepared commercial center in the style of New England clapboard architecture that opened in 1941.
Stony Brook University is positioned inside and adjoining to the census-designated place, with its chief campus less than 2 miles from Stony Brook's historic center.
It is primarily on the easterly side of the census-designated place, with a pedestrian entrance on Route 25a at the Stony Brook station of the Long Island Rail Road and a vehicular entrance on Nicolls Road.
The Stony Brook University Research and Development Park (in Stony Brook and adjoining St.
Forming Stony Brook's official southern boundary is Route 347, a corridor with commercial evolution including an AMC Loews cinema inside the CDP boundaries and the Smith Haven Mall nearby.
Stony Brook is well known as the home and namesake of The Stony Brook School, a prep school, and Stony Brook University.
The Stony Brook station of the Long Island Rail Road Port Jefferson Branch is in the area.
Stony Brook Statesman, the earliest journal at Stony Brook University SBU TV, Stony Brook University Television Stony Brook Independent, a new printed announcement at Stony Brook University Stony Brook Press, a journal at SUNY-Stony Brook Three Village Patch, a daily online news origin for Stony Brook and East Setauket WUSB (FM), Stony Brook University Radio at 90.1 FM Stony Brook University Hospital "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Stony Brook CDP, New York".
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