Brookville

Brookville has been named the wealthest town in the United States by Business Week. Eight other towns on Long Island's North Shore made the list: Brookville, Lloyd Harbor, Munsey Park (Manhasset), Muttontown, North Hills, Old Westbury, Oyster Bay Cove, Roslyn Estates, and Sands Point. For the full list of America's wealthiest town, read the full article and watch a brief video about Brookville.

An analysis conducted by the Gadberry Group ranked towns based on the average 2008 net income and 2008 net worth of their residents. Brookville had an average net worth of nearly $1.7 million; its average annual income of $328,000 was the nation's seventh-highest.

The Village of Brookville is located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. The village is the home of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and the Post campus's nationally known cultural venue, the Tilles Center. The Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School is also located in the village.

To safeguard the privacy of its residents, parking is not allowed on any street in Brookville. If you are planning a large gathering and you anticipate that cars spill out of your driveway(s) you must notify the village police. There are no side walks, no retail or commercial development nor any gathering places except churches, temples and country clubs. The village has no post office; the official post office is located in Glen Head.

Brookville was purchased by Oyster BayTown from the Matinecocks inthe mid-1600s; the area was known as Suco's Wigwam. Most of the settlers were English and Dutch; many of whom were Quakers. The area was referred to as Wolver Hollow, because wolves gathered at spring-fed Shoo Brook to drink. For most of the 19th Century, the village was called Tappentown after a prominent family. Brookville became the preferred name after the Civil War and was used on 1873 maps. In the early 1900s,  the area attracted wealthy New Yorkers who began to build lavish mansions. By the mid-1920s, there were 22 estates, part of the emergence of Nassau's North Shore Gold Coast. Broadhollow, the 108-acre  spread of attorney-banker-diplomat Winthrop W. Aldrich, which had a 40-room manor house was among the most renouned estate. The second owner of Broadhollow was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, who was owner of the Belmont and Pimlico racetracks. Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of cereal creator Charles William Post and her husband Edward Francis Hutton, the famous financier built a lavish estate on 178 acres called Hillwood. 1947, the Post estate was sold to Long IslandUniversity for their C. W. Post campus. The campus is noted as the home of the TillesCenter for the Performing Arts. Also in Brookville is the DeSeverskyConferenceCenter of the New York Institute of Technology. The center was formerly Templeton, mansion of socialite and businessman Winston Guest. One of the oldest existing church congregations in the country calls Brookville its home, namely, the Brookville Reformed Church. The Brookville Church was founded originally by 17th century Dutch settlers.

The Village of Brookville was incorporated in 1931 and consisted of a long, narrow tract of land that was centered along Cedar Swamp Road (Route 107). In the 1950s, Wheatley Hills was annexed and incorporated into the village, approximately doubling the village's area to its present  2650 acres.

According to the 2000 census, there were 2,126 people, 631 households, and 569 families residing in the village. The population density was 530.5 people per square mile. There were 648 housing units at an average density of 161.7/sq mi. The racial makeup of the village was 89.75% White, 2.16% African American, 6.16% Asian, 0.56% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.68% of the population.

There were 631 households out of which 49.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.9% were married couples living together, 4.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.8% were non-families. 7.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.35 and the average family size was 3.49.

In the village the population was spread out with 32.8% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.7 males.

The median income for a household in the village was in excess of $200,000 as is the median income for a family. Males had a median income of over $100,000 versus $60,238 for females. The per capita income for the village was $84,375. About 1.4% of families and 2.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.4% of those under age 18 and 1.3% of those aged 65 or over.

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