The original Manor Park Civic Association was formed in the late 1970's to provide a voice for the areas north of Grove Drive and east of the Airport to Cranford Boulevard, and north to Middle Island Moriches Road,  a civic organization was needed to combat plans to expand Brookhaven Airport.  The Association existed informally for several years and  was finally  incorporated as a New York State Not-for-Profit organization officially in 1982 and has been active in improving the quality of life for the community. 

The New Manor Park Civic Association  was reorganized in the late fall of 2003 with an inital reorganization meeting in the spring of 2004 by residents to regroup and recruit members to focus attention on combating a  PRC approved for the area known as the 'Mastic Woods'.  The first meeting of the New Manor Park Civic Association was a standing room only event held in the bays of  the Manorville Ambulance Company on Middle Island Moriches Road with some 85 community residents packed to overflowing all voting unanimously to extend the original boundaries to encompass the area of  the Mastic Woods, as well areas east to Weeks Avenue, and south to Sunrise Highway and west to Winters Drive.  The boundaries were once again extended in August 2010 by membership only vote to include the areas east to Dayton Avenue, north to South Street as well as the Southaven Estates area on the west side of Calabro Airport south of Sunset Drive extending west to William Floyd Parkway.  Residents within those areas are eligible to join the present  New Manor Park Civic Association.

The community of Manor Park includes many homes built in the late 1960's and early 1970's, and the community includes  homes that actually were here long before the extension of Sunrise Highway Rt 27, the LIE and even  before NYS transferred to the Town of Brookhaven the former Camp Upton Army Aiport in 1961.  

Manor Park continues to  forge its own unique identity through community activism.  The civic area includes areas in  Manorville, North Shirley, East Yaphank  and Mastic.  In the past, most of area  was largely farmland or pine barrens, and the area now that encompasses the Manor Park Civic Community  was  largely undeveloped woodlands.  We are  located due north of Route 27 Sunrise Highway, on both the east and west sides of  Brookhaven Calabro Airport, south of Sunset Drive west to William Floyd Parkway, and south to Sunrise Highway.  The civic association geographic area includes parts of both the original South Manor School District, now part of  Eastport South Manor Centralized School District 31, and also areas located  in the William Floyd School district.  The community is served by both the  Manorville Fire and Ambulance Departments and the Mastic Fire and  Ambulance Companies.

The Civic Association has been in the forefront of efforts to limit plans to expand Calabro Airport operations for several decades.  Recently Trustee and resident Ray Keenan successfully sued the Town over the illegal removal of the treed buffer zones and planned installation of paved perimeter roads.

Most recently the community was successful in finally preserving as permanent Open Space 154  wooded acres of the 254 acre Mastic Woods; also home to the headwaters of the nearby Forge River.  Many acres of woods surround  our community and actually were the basis for the choosing the name Manor Park.  These large  natural resources include still another 150 acres reaching to Middle Island Moriches Road and includes another 450 acres extending toNorth Street and  the Long Island Expressway and includes parcels in the Core of the Long Island Pine Barrens, all exceedlingly  important to the  health of the nearby Forge River and our community's health and quality of life.   

Many civics and area  residents  joined us and fought a long, hard battle to save the natural up-land pine barrens, swales and wetland wooded areas that have served as a sole recreation resource for our communities for over  half a century.  Preservation efforts took almost a full seven years. 

The MPCA is working hard with neighboring civic associations to force the Town to develop a new Master Plan for Calabro Airport and to comply with a recent court decision filed by Board member, Ray Keenan, protesting the Town's utter failure to follow NYS Environmental Review Laws when it recently cleared more than 100 acres of buffer zones.  We insist these be revegetated.  ABCO joined with the Manor Park Civic Association in opposing Town Supervisor Lesko's decision and efforts to permit Casino Gambling  or to permit by sale of back room deal the transfer the airport in a land swap with the Shinnecock Indian Tribe.  MPCA leads the community in efforts to derail this latest budget solution. 

The Town has resisted all efforts to prepare an update for the 1990 Airport Master Plan, which expired in March 2010,  and as yet has not been willing to comply with state and federal rules.  The FAA is now offering to pay for an Airport Layout Plan...NOT GOOD ENOUGH... We want the Master Plan  updated to reflect community concerns regarding use, growth or future expansion of operations.  It is now even more important that our residents support the Civic's efforts to protect the community, if we are to continue to function as a civic and retain the meaningful voice for the future for Manor Park. 

The New Manor Park Civic has been an important voice for the residents of the area  and hopes to continue to stand ready to work to preserve and enhance their quality of life.

 Join us.  We need each and every one  of you to keep all the  communities of Manor Park a wonderful place to live.