The parking lot is still used by carpool commuters, but also attracts some illicit activity. The "Suffolk Clipper" express bus service also serves the numerous business parks in South Melville during weekdays.Ī park and ride/ carpool parking lot with a bus shelter exists adjacent to the north of the LIE, but long-distance bus service to and from there is either highly occasional or nonexistent. S1 runs up and down Route 110 seven days a week and connects to two Long Island Railroad branches north and south of Melville. Melville's primary mode of public transit is the S1 bus run by Suffolk County Transit. New York State Route 110 runs through the center of Melville. Melville is located immediately off Exit 49 of the LIE. The Long Island Expressway (LIE) and Northern State Parkway, two of Long Island's busiest highways and major points of entry in and out of New York City, pass through Melville. Melville lies directly east of the boundary with Nassau County. Census Bureau, Melville has a total area of 12.1 square miles (31.3 km 2). In the past, Melville and some of its neighbors have unsuccessfully proposed incorporating as the Incorporated Village of Half Hollow Hills. Melville is also home to one of New York Senator and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's nine home state offices. Long Island's highest point is Jayne's Hill in the neighboring hamlet of West Hills, with an elevation of 387 feet (118 m) to 400.9 feet (122.2 m) above sea level. The project was budgeted for $56,000,000 and was completed in 2014. In May 2011, construction commenced for the replacement of the Northern State Parkway bridge over Route 110. These plans also failed and each remain unincorporated hamlets to this day. Proposals were revived around 2001, when Melville, Dix Hills Wheatley Heights, and East Farmingdale (all within the school district) proposed incorporating as a single village. This village would have been known as the Incorporated Village of Half Hollow Hills, would have had an area of roughly 50 square miles (130 km 2), and would have embraced the Half Hollow Hills Central School District (CSD 5). In the 1950s, Melville and its neighbors Dix Hills and Wyandanch, along with the area known as Sweet Hollow, proposed to incorporate as a single village. The growing use of private cars also reduced demand for the trolley line. Buses provided transportation after the trolley line closed. The line was shut down a decade later after farmers complained that noise from the trolley frightened their animals. There were six fare zones, one of which was the Duryea Farm at Melville. This was an extension of the Huntington Trolley Spur and went as far south as Amityville and had a connection to Babylon. In 1909 a trolley line to Huntington was established. It reopened in 1944 for the funeral of Edward Baylis and has been in use since then. The church was in continuous use until 1930. In 1977 the church was moved 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west. The author Herman Melville was being published around this time.Ī Presbyterian church was built in Melville in 1829 at the corner of Old Country and Sweet Hollow Roads. It may be derived from the Latin for honey (the area had an abundance of honey bees, and this may have also been the origin of the previous Sweet Hollow name). There is some debate as to the origin of the Melville name. This name was replaced by Melville in school records in 1854. In the 17th century it was known as Samuel Ketcham's Valley, named for a local resident. The area was known to the Native Americans as Sunsquams. The population was 19,284 at the 2020 census. Melville is an affluent hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York. The site of the future Canon USA headquarters is visible, as is smoke from a fire in Farmingdale.
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