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village", "parentTown": "Town of Huntington", "alsoIn": [], "formerNames": [ { "name": "Opcathontyche", "note": "Name the Matinecock are said to have used for the land, meaning \"wading place creek,\" per the Village's own history page", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "name": "Great Cow Harbor", "note": "Name the area took after English settlement, when cattle were grazed on pastures around the harbor; the Village's page notes neighboring Centerport was known as \"Little Cow Harbor\"", "src": [ 2 ] } ], "nameOrigin": { "text": "The Village of Northport's own history page does not explain the derivation of the name itself, only that the settlement had been called Great Cow Harbor and \"by 1837 the village was being referred to as Northport.\"", "src": [ 3 ] }, "founded": { "text": "The Matinecock sachem Asharoken sold the land to three Englishmen in 1656, after earlier Dutch interest; the settlement was known as Great Cow Harbor before the name Northport came into use by 1837.", "src": [ 1, 2, 3 ] 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facility", "value": "Northport VA Medical Center, 79 Middleville Road, Building 200", "src": [ 28 ] }, { "label": "Power generation", "value": "Northport Power Station, opened 1967 by the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO); the subject of Article 7 tax-certiorari litigation between LIPA and the Town of Huntington", "src": [ 13, 26, 27 ] } ], "timeline": [ { "date": "1656", "label": "Land purchase", "text": "The Matinecock sachem Asharoken sold the land to three Englishmen, after Dutch interest a few years earlier.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "date": "1837", "label": "Name Northport in use", "text": "The village was being referred to as Northport by this year.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "date": "1868-04-25", "label": "First LIRR station", "text": "The Long Island Railroad opened a station within the village of Northport.", "src": [ 5 ] }, { "date": "1873-01-13", "label": "Station moved to Larkfield", "text": "A new station on Larkfield Road, which kept the name \"Northport,\" opened to extend the line toward Port Jefferson; the area around it became known as East Northport.", "src": [ 6, 7 ] }, { "date": "1874", "label": "Shipbuilding peak", "text": "The village had three shipyards, five sets of marine railways, two hotels and at least six general stores, per the Village's history; an 1874 county history independently describes the same three shipyards and five marine railways.", "src": [ 4, 19 ] }, { "date": "1894", "label": "Incorporation", "text": "The Village of Northport formally incorporated, the first village to do so in Huntington Township.", "src": [ 8 ] }, { "date": "1899", "label": "Original station closed", "text": "The bypassed original village station closed after rail traffic had been rerouted through Larkfield.", "src": [ 9 ] }, { "date": "1902-04", "label": "Trolley opens", "text": "A 2.5-mile commuter trolley line opened between Main Street and the Larkfield/Northport station.", "src": [ 9, 10 ] }, { "date": "1924-08-19", "label": "Trolley's last run", "text": "The trolley made its last scheduled commuter run.", "src": [ 10 ] }, { "date": "1932", "label": "Northport Memorial Park", "text": "The Village purchased harbor-front land, by then decayed from a century of commercial use, and created Northport Memorial Park.", "src": [ 12 ] }, { "date": "1967", "label": "Power station opens", "text": "The Long Island Lighting Company opened the Northport Power Station.", "src": [ 13 ] }, { "date": "2015-07-29", "label": "Town of Huntington v. LIPA (2d Dept)", "text": "The Appellate Division affirmed denial of LIPA's and LILCO's motion to dismiss the Town's suit over third-party beneficiary rights in the LILCO-LIPA power supply agreement.", "src": [ 26 ] }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "label": "Matter of LIPA v. Assessor of Town of Huntington", "text": "The Appellate Division reversed dismissal of LIPA's tax certiorari proceedings challenging Northport Power Station assessments for tax years 2010/2011 through 2014/2015, and reinstated the petitions.", "src": [ 27 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "The Village of Northport's own history page states that the area's original inhabitants were the Matinecock, and that the Matinecock \"called this land ‘Opcathontyche,’ which meant ‘wading place creek.’\"[1] After earlier Dutch interest, the land was sold by Chief Asharoken, described as head of the Matinecock, to three Englishmen in 1656.[1] English settlers grazed cattle on pastures around the harbor, and the area became known as Great Cow Harbor, while the neighboring settlement now called Centerport was known as Little Cow Harbor.[2]", "By the 1830s the settlement contained only eight dwellings, but a new shipbuilding industry brought rapid growth, and by 1837 the village was being referred to as Northport.[2][3] An 1874 county history independently corroborates the scale of that growth, calling Northport \"without question the most flourishing village in this town\" and describing three shipyards and five sets of marine railways launching vessels as large as six or seven hundred tons.[19][20] The Village's own account similarly puts the settlement's shipbuilding peak at three shipyards, five marine railways, two hotels and at least six general stores by 1874, and states that the boom lasted about fifty years before steel-hulled ships replaced wooden vessels toward the end of the century.[4]", "The Village of Northport formally incorporated in 1894, which its own history page describes as the first village incorporation in Huntington Township.[8] Around the Revolutionary War period a settlement of 31 families had begun 1.5 miles east of the village, near where Main Street and Route 25A now intersect; originally called Red Hook, it was renamed Vernon Valley in 1820 and became part of Northport in the mid-20th century.[21][22] Northport also annexed the formerly independent settlement of Crab Meadow and the western part of the Freshpond community.[23]", "By the 1920s the working waterfront that had supported the village for generations had fallen into decay; the Village purchased land along the harbor and created Northport Memorial Park in 1932.[12] In 1967 the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) opened the Northport Power Station on the harbor, which the Village's page describes as \"currently\" the largest oil-fired electric generating station on the East Coast, with four 600-foot stacks visible as far as Connecticut.[13][14] The Village marks its history each September with Cow Harbor Day, held in conjunction with the Great Cow Harbor 10K Run.[18]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "New York State's official register of commemorative highway designations places a segment of NY Route 25A, known locally as Fort Salonga Road, within the Village of Northport: the \"Charles Varese Memorial Highway\" designation is recorded as \"NY 25A (Fort Salonga Road): Village of Northport – Suffolk County.\"[24] Route 25A is a New York State highway.[24] The Village's own history page separately locates the historic Vernon Valley settlement \"around where Main Street and Route 25A now intersect,\" indicating Main Street and Route 25A are distinct roads that meet near the village's eastern edge rather than the same alignment.[22]", "Main Street is the village's principal local corridor: Village Hall stands at 224 Main Street, and the 1874 county history describes it as the street where the village's wharves, shipyards and stores were \"huddled in lively confusion\" at the harbor's edge, running \"up a moderately inclined plane, eastward.\"[5] Woodbine Avenue is a second local street inside the village; the Village's own homepage lists a \"Traffic Study of the Intersection at Woodbine Avenue and Scudder Avenue\" among its documents, confirming the road's location within the village near the municipal beaches.[5]", "\"Veterans Memorial Highway\" does not appear to run through or near Northport: New York's commemorative-highway register locates the plain \"Veterans Memorial Highway\" designation on I-481/NY 481 in Onondaga and Oswego Counties, near Syracuse, more than 200 miles away.[29] And Larkfield Road, where the current-day railroad station stands, lies in the East Northport/Larkfield area outside the incorporated village rather than inside it – the station on that road was built specifically because it sat beyond the original village.[6][7]" ] }, { "id": "law", "heading": "Law and legal history", "paragraphs": [ "The Northport Power Station has driven a long-running legal dispute between the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and the Town of Huntington over its tax assessment. In June 1997, LILCO and LIPA signed a \"Power Supply Agreement\" (PSA) under which LILCO agreed to sell LIPA the output of its generating plants, including facilities in the Town of Huntington; under PSA section 21.16, LILCO's successor could challenge property tax assessments only under specified conditions, and an August 6, 1997 letter from LIPA advised then-Town Supervisor Frank P. Petrone that pending certiorari proceedings against the Town would be affected.[26] The Town later sued LIPA and LILCO for breach of contract, claiming it was an intended third-party beneficiary of section 21.16; the defendants moved to dismiss, and in Town of Huntington v. Long Island Power Authority, 130 A.D.3d 1013 (2d Dept. 2015), the Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed denial of that motion, holding that triable issues of fact existed as to the Town's third-party beneficiary status.[26]", "Separately, LIPA itself brought tax certiorari proceedings under Real Property Tax Law Article 7 challenging the Northport Power Station's assessments for the 2010/2011 through 2014/2015 tax years. The Assessor, Board of Assessment Review and Town of Huntington moved to dismiss those proceedings for lack of standing, and the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, granted dismissal in 2015. In Matter of Long Island Power Authority v. Assessor of the Town of Huntington, 164 A.D.3d 591 (2d Dept. 2018), the Appellate Division reversed, holding that because the PSA required LIPA to pay all taxes levied on the property, any assessment directly affected LIPA's pecuniary interest and gave it standing as an \"aggrieved\" party under RPTL 700(1) and 704(1); the petitions were reinstated.[27]", "On municipal tort liability, the Village of Northport's own Code does not appear to contain a distinct local law requiring prior written notice of street or sidewalk defects: Chapter 256, \"Streets and Sidewalks\" (§ 256-1 to § 256-32), covers use regulations, excavation/construction permitting and utility poles, and its only \"notice\" provisions – § 256-15, \"Notice to public utilities,\" and § 256-16, \"Other notices\" – concern notice to utilities before excavation work, not notice of defects to the Village.[32][33] In the absence of a superseding local law, New York Village Law § 6-628 governs by default: \"No civil action shall be maintained against the village for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective\" unless written notice was actually given to the village clerk and the village failed to repair within a reasonable time.[34]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "Northport is governed as an incorporated village with its own Board of Trustees, Village Administrator, and municipal departments, distinct from the surrounding Town of Huntington.[5] and 631-261-7500 (261-7502 is the separate Village Hall administrative line).[15][16]", "Village-level criminal, traffic and ordinance matters are heard by the Northport Village Justice Court at Village Hall, 224 Main Street; the Village Justice is the Hon. Brian A. Trodden (phone 631-757-0935), with the Hon. Robert Polizzo as Acting Village Justice.[17] The court's own page states it has \"preliminary jurisdiction over felonies and general trial jurisdiction over misdemeanors, traffic infractions and local ordinance violations\" and sits \"every Monday at 7 p.m. except state holidays\"; the Village's homepage, however, separately advertises \"Monday Night Court @ 6:00 pm\" – sources differ on the exact start time.[17][5] Criminal and state-offense matters route to the Suffolk County District Attorney (631-853-7500); the court's helpful-numbers list also gives the Suffolk County Legal Aid Society (631-853-5212) and the Suffolk County Bar Association's lawyer referral service (631-234-5511).[17]", "The Village also runs its own Northport Fire Department, at 204 Main St., Northport, NY 11768 (emergency 757-1111; non-emergency 631-261-7504), organized as a municipal department rather than an independent special fire district.[15] Northport is one of four incorporated villages within the Town of Huntington, alongside Asharoken, Lloyd Harbor and Huntington Bay.[4]" ] }, { "id": "transit", "heading": "Railroad and transit", "paragraphs": [ "According to the Village's own history page, the Long Island Railroad opened a station within the village of Northport on April 25, 1868; an 1874 county history independently confirms the branch reached Northport \"in operation as far as that point in April, 1868.\"[5][20] A few years later, to extend the line toward Port Jefferson, the LIRR relocated its Northport-named station to a new site on Larkfield Road, which opened January 13, 1873 and kept the name \"Northport\" even though it now sat outside the village, in what became known as East Northport.[6] Train conductors reportedly called the new stop \"East of Northport\" because it lay east of the junction that sent trains north into the village, and the surrounding area became known as East Northport despite lying mostly south of the original village.[7] The bypassed original village station closed in 1899.[9]", "To replace that lost rail link, the Village built a 2.5-mile trolley line connecting Main Street to the relocated Northport station in Larkfield, which opened in mid-April 1902 and ran until its last scheduled commuter run on August 19, 1924.[9][10]" ] } ], "legalCases": [ { "name": "Town of Huntington v. Long Island Power Authority", "citation": "130 A.D.3d 1013, 12 N.Y.S.3d 912 (2d Dept. 2015)", "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department", "year": 2015, "connection": "Town of Huntington's breach-of-contract suit against LIPA and LILCO over rights under the 1997 Power Supply Agreement governing tax challenges to the Northport Power Station.", "holding": "Affirmed denial of the defendants' motion to dismiss: triable issues of fact existed as to whether the Town was an intended (rather than merely incidental) third-party beneficiary of PSA section 21.16, which limited when LILCO/LIPA could challenge property tax assessments on the Northport facilities.", "src": [ 26 ] }, { "name": "Matter of Long Island Power Authority v. Assessor of the Town of Huntington", "citation": "164 A.D.3d 591, 2018 NY Slip Op 05679 (2d Dept. 2018)", "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department", "year": 2018, "connection": "LIPA's Real Property Tax Law Article 7 proceedings challenging the Northport Power Station's tax assessments for 2010/2011 through 2014/2015, which the Town had moved to dismiss for lack of standing.", "holding": "Reversed the judgment dismissing the proceedings: because the Power Supply Agreement required LIPA to pay all taxes levied on the property, any assessment directly affected LIPA's pecuniary interest, giving LIPA standing as an \"aggrieved\" party under RPTL 700(1) and 704(1); the tax certiorari petitions were reinstated.", "src": [ 27 ] } ], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Northport Power Station", "designation": "Not register-listed; described by the Village of Northport as the largest oil-fired electric generating station on the East Coast, with four 600-foot stacks", "src": [ 13, 14 ] }, { "name": "Northport VA Medical Center", "designation": "U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical campus, 79 Middleville Road, Building 200", "src": [ 28 ] }, { "name": "Northport trolley rail remnants, Main Street", "designation": "No register listing verified; 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