{"id":5118,"count":1,"description":"Stony Brook is a hamlet (unincorporated community and census-designated place) located in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, which is on the North Shore of Long Island. The population was 13,727 at the 2000 census.\nLocated on the picturesque North Shore of Long Island, the area is home to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Stony Brook School, and \"Stony Brook Village.\" The history of the unincorporated \"village\" has been closely linked to that of Ward Melville, a local businessman who at one point owned much of what is still sometimes called the \"Three Villages\" (consisting of Stony Brook, the hamlet of Setauket, and the incorporated village of Old Field). The Melville-created Three Village Central School District today serves all three communities. See the Ward Melville Heritage Organization for some history.\nBeginning in 1939 with the creation of his Stony Brook Community Fund, Melville began the transformation of the hamlet into his idea of an...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/stony-brook\/","name":"Stony Brook","slug":"stony-brook","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}