Talk:Suffolk County, New York

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I hate to criticize what has been done here, but I think that someone needs to start all over and reorganize this page.

Fisher's Island
This entry doesn't mention Fisher's island at all, but it's part of Suffolk County. The town lists need to include it.

Fisher's Island is indeed part of Suffolk County, however, it is not a town, it is a hamlet. There are only ten towns within the County of Suffolk.

There is no mention of Long Island McArthur Airport or any mention of Great White Shark Contests out in Montauk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.117.220.254 (talk) 20:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Peconic County?
It's been 17 years since I lived there, but I believe that the proposed "new" county would consist of the five eastern towns (Riverhead, East Hampton, Southampton, Shelter Island and Southold) and has been provisionally named "Peconic" county. The idea has been kicking around for...since I left, and probably for quite a long time before that. Probably the best way to confirm this would be to review bills introduced in the State Assembly? Ellsworth 21:50, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * I just changed the wording on the Peconic County mention. I felt that the wording was not neutral.  I also added a link to the WP describing the process, so that we do not need to duplicate it here.  Hope this meets with approval. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 13:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

this place rocks!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Woehtopwaht3opht9p34ht034ht934 (talk • contribs) 22:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Water boundaries
GoogleEarth shows county boundaries as extending only to 5 miles from "shore". Long Island Sound is more than 10 miles across as some points, so it seems that not every county north of Suffolk would have a water bounsary with Suffolk Co. --JimWae (talk) 20:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * My source, as is almost always the case with my U.S. geographical and population information that I have provided, is the United States Census Bureau. You might take a look at their maps at (You'll have to pick out a location in particular.) I think that they might be a little more "official" source than Google, from whom I don't know what their ultimate source is. Backspace (talk) 00:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Mr JimWae I would like to add a few Photos of Long Island on the bottom We are blessed with so much water frontage and landscape views that Suffolk has to offer can I add some on the bottom titled photos ? Long Island Suffolk County photos —Preceding unsigned comment added by Praiseandworship (talk • contribs) 06:35, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Universities
Given the size of Stony Brook, and its importance to the economy of Suffolk, it seems odd that a picture of a very small school is being used to depict this section--JimWae (talk) 19:38, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm in favor of using Stony Brook too, I doubt any masterplan is behind the current pic from Dowling.--Neighborhoodpalmreader (talk) 01:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Suffolk County Legislature
OK. Has anyone noticed that the political distribution for the 18 legislative districts doesn't add up to 18? If there are 10 Democrats, 5 Republicans, 1 Independence Party and 1 Working Families Party, what does that add up to? For those bad in arithmetic, the answer is 17. If possible can anyone please help me find the discrepancy? Thank you. Stevenmitchell (talk) 01:51, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Basic Demographics
For an obviously erroneous understanding of word use, a "household" is not a "housing unit". I am not going to recalculate the number of units (domiciles) per square mile, but I will mark that inclusion as wrong, since the inability of the Wikipedia contributor to recognize the difference leads to a miscalculated figure. I have not checked yet to see who is responsible for the error and ask them to fix it, but I will attempt to do so... It is a rather elementary cognitive failure. Stevenmitchell (talk) 04:34, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Fire Departments
Why is there no mention of the fire departments here? RES2773 (talk) 02:59, 13 July 2015 (UTC)RES2773

To add to article
To add to article: a good map of Suffolk County, New York, showing the important settlements. It's pretty incredible that there isn't already one in the article. 76.189.141.37 (talk) 04:57, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

To add to article: a good map of Suffolk County, New York, showing the important settlements. It's pretty incredible that there isn't already one in the article. 76.189.141.37 (talk) 22:10, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I believe there used to be an effective map in earlier versions of this article. As is common with Wikipedia, a lot of important information gets buried in earlier editions, without resurfacing. But keep in mind that almost all of Suffolk County consists of small towns and villages, with the only actual towns that are city-like being Huntington, Southampton or Melville. Keep in mind, that other than Melville, or the government complexes in Hauppauge or Central Islip, there is no town in Suffolk County that is more than 2 stories high. As there are virtually no corporate enterprises left in Suffolk County, there are predominantly local hamlets that function as tourist attractions. Stevenmitchell (talk) 04:31, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

To add to article: a good map of Suffolk County, New York, showing the important settlements. It's pretty incredible that there isn't already one in the article. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 02:44, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

To add to article: a good map of Suffolk County, New York, showing the important settlements. It's pretty incredible that there isn't already one in the article. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 06:59, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

The lack of a good map in this article that shows all the important settlements of Suffolk County is very ridiculous, unencyclopedic, and embarrassing. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 03:40, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

(6 years later) To add to article: a good map of Suffolk County, New York, showing the important settlements. 98.123.38.211 (talk) 01:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Law and Government - marine law enforcement
The author or editor(s) might consider editing the paragraph referencing bay constables. Bay Constables are not accessory or subservient to nor are they backup to the Suffolk County Police Department. They are distinct law enforcement tities constituting one of the oldest forms marine fish and wildlife and related law enforcement in New York, with powers and duties first codified in State statutes dating to the mid-1860s, predate State game protectors (now Environmental Conservation Police), State Police, and the Suffolk County Police. They routinely work jointly with and cooperate, coordinate, and share equally marine law enforcement activities with Suffolk County, other municipal, State and federal marine law enforcement agencies. Once elected officials of some towns, they are now civil service positions in all of Long Island’s 13 towns except Islip, which once employed both Bay Constables and Harbormasters - as several Suffolk County towns do today - but now employs Harbormasters rather than Bay Constables. In Long Island’s east end towns Bay Constables and Harbormasters provide the marine patrol and law enforcement functions of the town police departments, and in most west end towns as part of their respective town departments of public safety or, as is the case in the Town of Huntington, the Town’s Department of Maritime Services.

If necessary or desired I can provide references that include New York’s first iteration of its Bay Constable Act from the 1860s.

Steve Resler 67.248.78.61 (talk) 20:02, 10 January 2022 (UTC)