{"id":5175,"count":1,"description":"Mattituck is a census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 4,219 at the 2010 census.\nMattituck CDP roughly corresponds to the hamlet (unincorporated community) by the same name in the town of Southold.\nIt is believed to have derived its name for the Native American name for the \"Great Creek.\". The Mattituck Creek has been dredged and is used extensively by pleasure craft on Long Island Sound (the Mattituck Inlet is the entrance into Mattituck Creek and the whole waterway is now popularly referred to as Mattituck Inlet).\nIt is only one of two harbors (other being Mt. Sinai harbor) on the north side of Long Island on the Sound east of Port Jefferson, New York\nThe Mattituck Inlet and James Creek (which has also been dredged for boats) on the Peconic Bay come within 500 yards of each other and would provide a shortcut between the Peconic and Sound through the North Fork if connected via a canal. However authorities have resisted the connection...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mattituck\/","name":"Mattituck","slug":"mattituck","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5175","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=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}