Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Brookville, NY

Brookville is an incorporated village in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, and it was incorporated in 1931.

Brookville had a population of 2,939 at the 2020 census, living in just 625 households spread across nearly four square miles of large-lot residential land.

Before it was Brookville, the area was known to Native people and early settlers as Suco's Wigwam, then Wolver Hollow to Dutch settlers, and Tappentown for most of the 19th century; the name Brookville took hold after the Civil War.

In the early 20th century Brookville became part of Nassau County's famed Gold Coast, and by the mid-1920s it held about 22 lavish estates built by wealthy New Yorkers.

Marjorie Merriweather Post's 70-room Hillwood mansion on 178 acres was sold in 1947 to Long Island University, and it is now the LIU Post campus, the largest campus of the Long Island University system.

LIU Post is home to the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, one of Long Island's major concert and performance venues.

Half of the New York Institute of Technology's 1,050-acre Old Westbury campus lies within Brookville, and the village also hosts NYIT's DeSeversky Conference Center, the former Templeton mansion used as a setting in the Dudley Moore film Arthur.

A 15th-century French chapel where Joan of Arc is said to have prayed, the Chapelle de St. Martin de Sayssuel, was dismantled stone by stone and imported to a Brookville estate in 1926; it now stands at Marquette University in Wisconsin.

The Brookville Reformed Church, founded by 17th-century Dutch settlers, is one of the oldest continuing church congregations in the United States.

In 2009 BusinessWeek named Brookville the wealthiest town in America, based on average income and net worth.