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Setauket is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States census, the CDP population, which at the become old included East Setauket as well, was 15,477.

Setauket was founded in 1655, the first concurrence in what would become the town of Brookhaven. Prior to the 2020 census, the community was allowance of the Setauket-East Setauket CDP. The area was split in 2020 into two cut off CDPs: Setauket and East Setauket.

Setauket was founded as an agricultural community in the mid-17th century, and was a regional center of objection during the American Revolutionary War noted for the Culper spy arena and the Battle of Setauket. Many of Setauket’s prematurely structures are intact and now form the Old Setauket Historic District. The Setaukets remain a mostly residential area, while next the more public notice enclaves of Port Jefferson and Stony Brook. The handful of businesses within the community largely cater to the on pinnacle of 24,500 students of Stony Brook University, which is next to the CDP.