{"id":5149,"count":1,"description":"Center Moriches is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 6,655 at the 2000 census. Center Moriches is in the Town of Brookhaven. It is the location of the historic Masury Estate Ballroom and Terry-Ketcham Inn, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\nThe name Moriches comes from Meritces, a Native American who owned land on Moriches Neck.\nCenter Moriches is located at 40\u00b047\u203252\u2033N 72\u00b047\u203250\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.79778\u00b0N 72.79722\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.79778; -72.79722 (40.797772, -72.797192).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14\u00a0km), of which, 5.0 square miles (13\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0\u00a0km) of it (7.73%) is water.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 6,655 people, 2,319 households, and 1,776 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,327.2 per square mile (512.9\/km\u00b2). There were 2,465 housing units at an average density of 491.6\/sq\u00a0mi (190.0...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/center-moriches\/","name":"Center Moriches","slug":"center-moriches","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5149","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=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}