Port Jefferson
Port Jefferson, often called "Port Jeff" for short, is a village in Suffolk County, Long Island. It is a historical village where good food, friendly people, and pleasant waterfront views can be found.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Iracaz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 7,960 residents
- Description: incorporated village in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Down Meadows, New York (former)”, “Drowned Meadow”, “Drowned Meadows”, “Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson”, “PJ”, “Port Jeff”, “Port Jefferson Village”, “Port Jefferson, New York”, “Port Jefferson, NY”, “So-was-sett”, “Sowassett”, and “Village of Port Jefferson”
- Postal code: 11777
Places of Interest
Highlights include John T Mather Memorial Hospital and Port Jefferson station.
John T Mather Memorial Hospital
Hospital
Mather Hospital is a general teaching hospital operated by Northwell Health, located in Port Jefferson, New York. It is named after John T. Mather, who, in 1916, made provisions to his will to create the hospital.
Port Jefferson station
Railway station
Photo: DanTD, Public domain.
Port Jefferson is the terminus for the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Port Jefferson Station, New York. The station is located on New York State Route 25A, on the north side of the tracks, but is also accessible from Oakland Avenue, as well as Railroad Avenue and Union Street on the south side of the tracks.
Port Jefferson Power Station
Power station
Photo: Iracaz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Jefferson Power Station is a fossil-burning power plant in Port Jefferson, New York on Long Island. It is operated by National Grid USA. Its four main steam turbine units were constructed between 1948 and 1960 by the Long Island Lighting Company, with the older two decommissioned in 1994.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Sinai and Port Jefferson Station.
Mount Sinai
Photo: Iracaz, Public domain.
Mt. Sinai is a small town on the east coast of Long Island in New York, bordering the north shore of the Long Island Sound.
Port Jefferson Station
Hamlet
Photo: DanTD, Public domain.
Port Jefferson Station is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, in New York, United States. The population was 7,838 as of the 2010 census.
Port Jefferson
- Categories: village of New York and locality
- Location: Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.9465° or 40° 56′ 47″ northLongitude
-73.0691° or 73° 4′ 9″ westPopulation
7,960Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)United Nations Location Code
US PTJOpen location code
87G8WWWJ+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 158859749OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Port Jefferson” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورت جفرسون”
- Armenian: “Պորտ Ջեֆերսոն”
- Basque: “Port Jefferson”
- Catalan: “Port Jefferson”
- Cebuano: “Port Jefferson”
- Chinese: “傑佛遜港”
- Chinese: “傑斐遜港”
- Chinese: “杰斐逊港”
- Chinese: “杰斐遜港”
- Danish: “Port Jefferson”
- Dutch: “Port Jefferson”
- French: “Port Jefferson”
- German: “Port Jefferson”
- Gilaki: “پؤرت جفرسن (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “پؤرت جفرسن”
- Haitian: “Port Jefferson, New York”
- Haitian: “Port Jefferson”
- Hebrew: “פורט ג’פרסון”
- Italian: “Port Jefferson”
- Japanese: “ポート・ジェファーソン”
- Japanese: “ポートジェファーソン”
- Ladin: “Port Jefferson”
- Malagasy: “Port Jefferson, New York”
- Malagasy: “Port Jefferson”
- Mazanderani: “پورت جفرسون (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “پورت جفرسون”
- Persian: “پورت جفرسون”
- Polish: “Port Jefferson”
- Portuguese: “Port Jefferson”
- Russian: “Порт-Джефферсон”
- Serbian: “Порт Џеферсон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Port Jefferson, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Port Jefferson”
- Silesian: “Port Jefferson”
- Slovenian: “Port Jefferson”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورت جفرسون، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Port Jefferson”
- Swedish: “Port Jefferson”
- Turkish: “Port Jefferson”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Джефферсон”
- Volapük: “Port Jefferson (NY)”
- Volapük: “Port Jefferson, New York”
- Volapük: “Port Jefferson, NY”
- Volapük: “Port Jefferson”
- Welsh: “Port Jefferson, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Port Jefferson”
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