Amityville is a village near the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York. The population was 9,523 at the 2010 census.

Huntington settlers first visited the Amityville area in 1653 due to its location to a source of salt hay for use as animal fodder. Chief Wyandanch contracted the first completion to estate in Amityville in 1658. The Place was originally called Huntington West Neck South (it is on the Great South Bay and Suffolk County, New York affix in the southwest corner of what taking into consideration called Huntington South), but is now the Town of Babylon. According to village lore, the publish was misrepresented in 1846 in the same way as residents were working to insist its extra post office. The meeting turned into bedlam and one participant was to exclaim, “What this meeting needs is some amity”. Another relation says the read out was first suggested by mill owner Samuel Ireland to pronounce the town for his boat, the Amity.

The place say is strictly speaking an incidental name, marking an amicable agreement on the unorthodox of a place name. The village was formally incorporated on March 3, 1894. In the before 1900s, Amityville was a popular tourist destination gone large hotels on the niche and large homes. Annie Oakley was said to be a frequent guest of vaudevillian Fred Stone. Will Rogers had a house across Clocks Boulevard from Stone. Gangster Al Capone also had a house in the community. Congregants began holding meeting for St. Mary’s Church in 1886, building a Chapel in 1888 by Wesley Ketcham under Rev. James H Noble and the church was consecrated in 1889, pre-dating the town incorporation.

Amityville has been a sister city subsequent to Le Bourget, France previously 1979.