Editing Great River, New York (section)

==District information==
Great River votes in [[New York's 2nd congressional district]].<ref>{{cite web|title=GovTrack|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/NY/2|website=GovTrack.us|access-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref> National elections are held at the Great River Fire Department, with [[local election]] years at Timber Point Elementary School.

Great River Post Office, at 62 Great River Road (Zip code 11739), is a [[rural delivery]] [[United States Postal Service|post office]] where all mail is only delivered to P.O. boxes required to be included in one's mailing address.

Great River spans four [[hurricane evacuation]] [[Emergency evacuation|zones]].

===Public education===
East Islip School District [[Administrative divisions of New York|UFSD]] serves Great River. Students in the hamlet go to Timber Point Elementary School, East Islip Middle School, and [[East Islip High School]]. The school district's colors are red and white, and athletic teams are the Redmen (no mascot.)

Timber Point Elementary School was one of four L.I. [[National Blue Ribbon Schools Program]] honorees in 2012. The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and non-public schools whose students achieve at very high levels. The program is part of a larger [[United States Department of Education|U.S. Department of Education]] effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about best school leadership and teaching practices.

===Emergency services===
[[Image:Grfd patch trans.gif|thumb|150px|Patch of the Great River Fire Department.]]
The Great River Fire Department (established in 1916) is a [[volunteer fire department]], located at 108 River Road in front of Timber Point County Park, east of the entrance to [[Heckscher State Park]]. Heckscher State Park and Bayard Cutting Arboretum are serviced within Great River Fire Department district. Great River Fire Department competes as "Team River Rat."

The area lies within the [[Suffolk County Police Department]] 3rd precinct.

Exchange Ambulance of the Islips (established 1951) provides 24/7 [[Emergency Medical Service]] (EMS) coverage for Great River.

===Hospitals/medical centers near Great River===
* [[North Shore-LIJ Health System|Southside Hospital]] (Acute Care Hospitals, voluntary non-profit–private, provides emergency services, about 5 miles away in [[Bay Shore, New York|Bay Shore]])
* [[Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center (West Islip, New York)|Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Care Center]] (Acute Care Hospitals, voluntary non-profit–church, provides emergency services, about 8 miles away in West Islip)
* [[Long Island Community Hospital]] (Acute Care Hospitals, voluntary non-profit–private, provides emergency services, about 9 miles away in [[Patchogue, New York|Patchogue]])
* [[Stony Brook University Hospital]] (Acute Care Hospitals, voluntary non-profit–private, provides emergency services, about 21 miles away in [[Stony Brook, New York|Stony Brook]]; the largest academic medical center on Long Island)

===Membership Organizations===
Great River Community Association's (GRCA) mission is to foster, promote and protect the civic and community interests of the residents of Great River.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://grca11739.com/home.html|title=Home|website=Great River Community Association}}</ref> GRCA sponsors a variety of events during the year for residents to enjoy. Ex: Easter Egg Hunt, Memorial Day Parade, Paint & Sip at the Firehouse, Halloween Parade, and a Holiday- Tree and Menorah Lighting Party.  The community also enjoys an Annual Holiday Boat Parade complete with Grucci Fireworks on the Beautiful Connetquot River.

Troop 205 of the [[Suffolk County Council (Boy Scouts of America)]] Sagtikos District is an active participant in the community of [[Youth organizations in the United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sccbsa.org/pages/sagtikos.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912173616/http://www.sccbsa.org/pages/sagtikos.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 12, 2015|title=Boy Scouts of America, Suffolk County Council|date=September 12, 2015}}</ref> Troop 205 is proud and grateful to be sponsored by the over one-hundred (100) year old Great River, NY Fire Department (GRFD.) [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]], the highest scouting achievement, has been bestowed approximately eighty-five (85) times since 1991 to participants in Troop 205 from the local Islip area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.t205.net/|title=Sagtikos' Own Astonishingly Adventurous Troop 205|website=www.t205.net}}</ref>