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Do you live in Rocky point New York, Do you have a house for rent in this great hamlet ? It can be a great place for a vacation. You may want to rent one of your houses or an apartment in the hamlet.

Rocky Point is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 10,185.

Rocky Point is a community in the Town of Brookhaven

Rocky Point is home to the site where American radio company RCA once operated a very large transmitting and transmitter research facility, known as Radio Central. RCA began to transmit transatlantic radio messages from Radio Central after its opening on November 5, 1921. Early Radio Central transmissions were received by many European nations, including Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Poland.

On January 7, 1927, AT&T initiated the first transatlantic commercial telephone service; linking London and New York. AT&T's transmitter was at Radio Central and their receiver was in Houlton, Maine. The radiotelephone signal from Radio Central was received by the British General Post Office's receiver facility in Cupar, Scotland.

Radio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of Guglielmo Marconi's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti Elementary School.

The 5200 acre Rocky Point site was decommissioned and demolished in the 1970s and now consists of many concrete ruins and downed telephone poles and radio towers.The site is an interesting insight into the 1920s, because—being in the middle of the forest—the footprints of the site remain largely untouched since its operational period.

A secret project held in Radio Central's building 10 became the world's first color television.

Rocky Point, along with neighboring village Shoreham, was also the home to inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla's early research facilities.

As an additional point of interest, Rocky Point is the home of the only Paragliding site on Long Island.

The Town of Brookhaven is located in central Suffolk County, New York, USA, and stretches from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. Brookhaven is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population of the town was 448,248 at the 2000 census.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 531.5 square miles, of which 259.3 square miles is land and 272.2 square miles is water. It is the largest town in New York in terms of total area. Excluding water, however, there are four towns in the state with more land area: Webb in Herkimer County, Long Lake in Hamilton County, Arietta in Hamilton County, and Ohio in Herkimer County.

It has coastline on both the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound. Riverhead and Southampton lie to the east, and Smithtown and Islip lie to the west.

A large part of Fire Island and the Great South Bay are in the town.

It has a large hill, known as "Bald Hill", in the hamlet of Farmingville, which marks where the glacier which formed Long Island stopped. At the top of Bald Hill is a Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

You migth want to rent, loan hire, buy, sell or invest in property in the hamlet. It is an area that may have potential due to location in New York.

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