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You have to admit, it's sometimes fun to look back to see what has/hasn't changed or to see how some places have a distorted or PC description.
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Wow, nice! I just did a search myself and I came up with older results too... wonder why that is? I searched places that I know have been recently (like within the last 3 years) featured in this section, but only got their 1980s counterparts.
BigMike50 is right though, nothing has really changed too drastically. Pretty much all of the information in that nearly 28 year old Five Towns article (aside from the prices) is still accurate.
Def OBH, it is. The GC article talked a lot about the St Pauls School, anyone know how that played out?
Yeah Sean I'm not sure either why it was pulling up the older articles. Three of the first ones I found were the Port Washington, Great Neck and the old Massapequa one. Then the other ones were fairly new 2000+. Love these articles though, The Patch is doing something like this for the pequas I believe this month. Good point too on Five Towns.
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Here are 3 I've read this week that were both recent and pretty informative (I think):
Def OBH, it is. The GC article talked a lot about the St Pauls School, anyone know how that played out?
Yeah Sean I'm not sure either why it was pulling up the older articles. Three of the first ones I found were the Port Washington, Great Neck and the old Massapequa one. Then the other ones were fairly new 2000+. Love these articles though, The Patch is doing something like this for the pequas I believe this month. Good point too on Five Towns.
I figured out how to pull up the new ones, you have to be sneaky about it. Working on it as we speak... I've gotten every Long Island one going back to 2006 so far, gonna try to go all the way to 2000.
***The complete history going back to 1982. Obviously older articles should be taken with a major grain of salt and were only included for the sake of being thorough. Something (even outdated) is better than nothing, and most of the places listed in older articles have not changed much at all.
It's crazy how some places get an article every few years and some are completely forgotten. Cold Spring Harbor and Oyster Bay obviously rate very highly with the NY Times... yet places like Ronkonkoma or anywhere in the Hamptons most people think of as classic, Long Island locales, are virtually nowhere to be found. Interesting...
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***The complete history going back to 1982. Obviously older articles should be taken with a major grain of salt and were only included for the sake of being thorough. Something (even outdated) is better than nothing, and most of the places listed in older articles have not changed much at all.
It's crazy how some places get an article every few years and some are completely forgotten. Cold Spring Harbor and Oyster Bay obviously rate very highly with the NY Times... yet places like Ronkonkoma or anywhere in the Hamptons most people think of as classic, Long Island locales, are virtually nowhere to be found. Interesting...
great finds! I noticed in the Five Towns article, they mentioned the airplane noise rattling windows and breaking up BBQs. I wonder, did the FAA switch landing patterns at some point since the 80's? Because I thought they mostly fly over Elmont, Rosedale, North VS these days? Unless they use both approaches including the ocean through 5 towns.?
Yeah, that's strange no Hamptons or Ronk? Still some good pieces here.
I noticed the following, "The Five Towns are incorporated villages within the Town of Hempstead."
The "Five Towns" (none of which are towns) includes the Village of Lawrence (incorporated in 1897), the Village of Cedarhurst (incorporated in 1910) and the Hamlet of Hewlett, the Hamlet of Inwood and the Hamlet of Woodmere.
I noticed the following, "The Five Towns are incorporated villages within the Town of Hempstead."
The "Five Towns" (none of which are towns) includes the Village of Lawrence (incorporated in 1897), the Village of Cedarhurst (incorporated in 1910) and the Hamlet of Hewlett, the Hamlet of Inwood and the Hamlet of Woodmere.
I thought Hewlett Bay Park, Woodsburgh and Hewlett Neck too?
The basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood. But the area also includes some unincorporated communities and two tiny villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total.
great finds! I noticed in the Five Towns article, they mentioned the airplane noise rattling windows and breaking up BBQs. I wonder, did the FAA switch landing patterns at some point since the 80's? Because I thought they mostly fly over Elmont, Rosedale, North VS these days? Unless they use both approaches including the ocean through 5 towns.?
Yeah, that's strange no Hamptons or Ronk? Still some good pieces here.
It depends on where you are. Those same planes coming over Elmont, Rosedale, etc. touch down on the runway just south of Rockaway Turnpike. I've had 747's fly over my head on that road and been able to read the serial numbers on the landing gear, it's nuts!! The approach is fully in Queens at that point, but it's only like a 1/4 mile NW of Nassau County, so still very noticeable. Then, in Lawrence and Inwood you get planes on some other approach (or departure - not really sure) that seem to be coming in or going out over the ocean, although for some reason it seems like they're quieter... those aren't directly overhead either, of course.
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I thought Hewlett Bay Park, Woodsburgh and Hewlett Neck too?
The basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood. But the area also includes some unincorporated communities and two tiny villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total.
At one time, that was supposedly the source of a huge debate... with Lynbrook allegedly trying to hop on the Five Towns wagon. However, the five you mentioned are correct, it's the same as the stops on the LIRR Far Rockaway Branch. Of course, there isn't really much sense to the whole "Five Towns" thing - none of them are towns, and as you just pointed out - there are quite a few more than five of them in total (there's a Hewlett Harbor, too), but that's the way it's always been and always will be. It's a regional name (like "Southeast Nassau" or "Mid-Atlantic") and colloquialism, not anything official, meant to refer to the extreme SW corner of the Town of Hempstead, roughly between East Rockaway and the NYC/Queens County border. Nothing more, nothing less.
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