Talk:Huntington, New York

Merge from 1946 Huntington Planning Map
Please merge any relevant content from [ 1946 Huntington Planning Map] per Articles for deletion/1946 Huntington Planning Map. Thanks. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-11 04:47Z 

Notable residents, dead and otherwise
Could "Notable residents" please be divided into "Current", "Former", and "Deceased". For example, I see that Walter Whitman (died 1892) is currently listed as a "Notable resident", though not in the subdivision "Former". -- 201.17.36.246 (talk) 21:56, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Town or City?
Forgive me, I didn't read the page. But how can it be a town with that population? Shouldn't it be a city? 76.11.104.83 (talk) 05:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * See Administrative divisions of New York for a full description of how towns are organized in the state of New York. &mdash;ADavidB 07:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * OH! Okay, thank you! 24.222.250.120 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:10, 9 January 2009 (UTC).

I changed first settlement date from 1653 to 1640. The earlier version of the article dated (I believe correctly) the "First Purchase" of land by Englishmen from Raseokan of the Matinecock Tribe on April 2, 1653. However it also said (I believe correctly) that these purchasers turned the land over to "a group of white men who had already settled within its boundaries." I became suspicious that there would have been a settlement of a "group" of Europeans within the first 3 months of the same year as the purchase. Although this is not impossible, it seemed implausible. Then I discovered a 1970 article by Roy E. Lott entitled "Influence of the 'Duke's Laws,'" which reported that Silas Wood claimed that Huntington was first settled in 1640. Lott describes Wood as Long Island's first historian and imputes this information to an 1824 writing of Wood. I do not have any independent information regarding the accuracy of Wood's (or Lott's) writing, but this version seems more plausible than the implied account that both the first settlement occurred in the first 3 months of 1853. Ray Glock-Grueneich (talk) 04:52, 20 August 2009 (UTC)Ray Glock-Grueneich.
 * I reverted the change back, and referenced Wood's book (which is available online). There was a brief settlement in 1640, whom the Dutch chased off soon after (since they were squatters). The town founding dates to 1653 as that is when the deed was legally obtained from the Indians, and the first permanent settlement started.--Dtolman (talk) 13:34, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, everyone in that town knows that It was founded in 1653.-- Rayqayza Dialga Weird 2210   13:06, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

picture
change the picture. anyone who lives in northport does not consider themselves a Huntington resident, even if it is technically part of the township. please change it. really. someone get a picture of downtown huntington. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.79.170.214 (talk) 00:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Copyright violation
I found a significant proportion of History section is copied from the web page of town of Huntington.

http://huntingtonny.gov/town_history.cfm

I propose a removal of this part.

Yasunori Hayashi

113.146.100.23 (talk) 12:39, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Issue managed. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:50, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Notable residents edited (removals and additions)
I'm a Huntington native and noticed there were some inconsistencies in the residents section. While I'm sure the person(s) who added Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were excited to do so, they did not ever reside within the Town of Huntington. They stayed for a short time in Oyster Bay, which is a neighboring but separate township on Long Island. John Lennon was listed as living in Laurel Hollow, which is also in Oyster Bay, not Huntington. I also added Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau, who had a place on a court overlooking the harbor in the 1980s (my buddy was his neighbor). I will be checking more entries for accuracy soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandermoir (talk • contribs) 14:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Please remember to cite reliable sources. Your own personal memories don't really count.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:42, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 5 January 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:53, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Huntington, Suffolk County, New York → Huntington, New York – This article was recently moved from Huntington, New York to Huntington, Suffolk County, New York with a spurious rationale that "it's standard protocol to include the county..." but this is untrue of many other towns on Long Island and throughout New York State Further, the redirect left when the page was moved has been changed to point to Huntington (CDP), New York rather than to this new page, thus breaking hundreds of internal links that used to point to this page. All this was done with no discussion of the matter. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:55, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support move back. The town is clearly the primary topic (15,000 page views for the town vs 1400 for the CDP). Besides, the Suffolk County disambiguator is incomplete, so this should not be used as the page title. The move was also quite disruptive, because Huntington, New York now redirects to the CDP, so that there are now lots of misdirected incoming links. kennethaw88 • talk 23:54, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: Since this is a request to revert an undiscussed move, it can be rapidly performed by submitting a request at WP:RMTR under "Requests to revert undiscussed moves". There is no need to wait for the ordinary RM discussion process to be completed before repairing the damage. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:41, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Follow-up comment: I have submitted such a request at WP:RMTR. I expect the revert to be completed rapidly. I suggest that this discussion can be speedily closed once that happens (unless someone has spoken up to defend the current title in the meantime). —BarrelProof (talk) 02:43, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


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Thesis on early history

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Marlene Dietrich
Why is Marlene Dietrich listed as a notable resident of Huntington, New York, but her Wikipedia article nowhere mentions Huntington, New York? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:07, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * This seems to be real and not vandalism, though the source is no longer accessible. A quick bit of Googling turned up this which indicates it's not made-up. I think it should have a better source, if possible. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 01:52, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

"In popular culture" section
I have removed entries in the In popular culture section that listed various points in Huntington as filming locations. Unless the film or TV series specifically mentions the location as being in Huntington, the use of the location does not constitute a cultural reference. It just means the producers found a convenient location that had a look they needed for their shot. For example, Royal Pains is a series set in the Hamptons. The fact that they used a Huntington beach to stand in for a Hamptons beach might just mean that it was easier for them to get filming permits in Huntington than in the Hamptons. Unless the episode specifically mentioned the West Neck location, it is not relevant. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:29, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

notable residents
Kaspar Idland never lived in Huntington. He and his family (wife Synnøve, daughter Ase, son Carsten) lived in East Farmingdale on Melville Road. 67.85.117.23 (talk) 13:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)


 * You didn't provide a reliable source, but neither does this article, nor is Huntington mentioned in Idland's article, so I removed the entry. —ADavidB 19:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * We could (and probably should) remove about half of the entries on that criteria. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Fixing ping typo
 * Yes, reliable sources should be provided for verification purposes. For non-contentious entries, my individual preference is to look for a source myself before deleting, and/or to add a 'citation needed' template and leave it for a while before deleting if no source is provided. I've begun this with the article's 'A' entries. —ADavidB 13:38, 19 February 2023 (UTC)