Imaginary Towns on Long Island /Real or Fancied/Town vs Area...You Decide. (Hempstead: mortgage, university)

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

Gordon Heights is a hamlet in the Town of Brookhaven and Northampton is a hamlet in the Town of Southampton.




This seems to be a dead link?

Try this

http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/Planning/cdp.pdf

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by Dee62

Floral Park Crest = Elmont or Was Floral Park Crest created by Lipstick LesbX'X and QueeX Boy real estate sales clerks in order to Dump the Houses in Northern Elmont after Elmont became predominately non-white????????????

South Floral Park = Village or Floral Park Crest or Elmont? Did the Lipstick's and Queens create this one too????

Barnum Woods = East Meadow or North Bellmore? Or was it created by greedy Real Estate developers to give poor J E W's who could not afford Great Neck and Hewlet some self esteem????

Barnum Woods is simply just an area of East Meadow- they have the same zip- Barnum Woods is not a seperate town.

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by clamboy

Is it on the map dawg?
http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/Planning/cdp.pdf
C

Ya it is...but I mean does it have it's own zip and post office or anything? I thought it was just an area of another town- huntington maybe? i dunno...could be wrong.

Barnum Island?

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

What about West Hills?

West Hills is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the southwest part of the Town of Huntington, in the northwest part of Suffolk County, along the Nassau/Suffolk County line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of West Hills in the Town of Huntington is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Cold Spring Harbor and the Hamlet of Huntington Station; on the east by the Hamlet of Huntington Station and Hamlet of South Huntington; on the south by the Hamlet of Melville; and, on the west by the Hamlet of Woodbury in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County (the Suffolk/Nassau County line and the Huntington/Oyster Bay Town line).

West Hills is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name in their mailing address: places in West Hills have either a "Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724", "Huntington, NY 11743", "Huntington Station, NY 11746", or "Melville, NY 11747" mailing address.

[Jdawg8181]

Barnum Island? That for sure doesn't have it's own zip or post office...it's an area of island park.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

Barnum Island? That for sure doesn't have it's own zip or post office...it's an area of island park.

Barnum Island is a hamlet, Island Park is a village, and they both share the same postal zone, "Island Park, NY 11558", with the Hamlet of Harbor Isle, and they are all in the Town of Hempstead.

To help you understand the geography of LI, please see:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

Barnum Island is a hamlet, Island Park is a village, and they both share the same postal zone, "Island Park, NY 11558", with the Hamlet of Harbor Isle, and they are all in the Town of Hempstead.

To help you understand the geography of LI, please see:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html

technically though, hempstead, north hempstead, oyster bay, islip & brookhaven...are the only towns...?

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

technically though, hempstead, north hempstead, oyster bay, islip & brookhaven...are the only towns...?

They are (there are 3 towns on Nassau County and 10 towns in Suffolk County), but because the USPS misleads people by incorrectly claiming that the last line of a place's mailing address is "city/town, state and ZIP Code", there is a great confusion, with the result that people erroneously refer to hamlets as towns, and then have to erroneously refer to towns as townships.

The last line of a place's mailing address is actually "postal city/town, postal state and ZIP Code".

For the NYS definition of county, city, town, village, hamlet or postal zone:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-y...-glossary.html

[sean sean sean sean]

Originally Posted by clamboy

This settles quite a bit of the debate.
Suffolk County Census Designated Place (CDP) Maps, (broken link)

As I said ...
North Coram=Fiction
Gordon Heights =Town

Apparently we have a Northampton...who knew?

C


PS
Thanks Sean Sean
http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...span-post.html

There's a bunch on the South Fork that I never knew existed.....Napeague, Springs, Northwest Harbor, etc. Not sure if those places have post offices or not, but I've never heard of them before a few months ago.

I was gonna post those maps in here originally, guess I should have cuz that thread was deleted

There's also a Nassau County version available online, but it's much harder to navigate.

Step 1: Go to Land Record Viewer
Step 2: Click on "Property Search", click the "I accept the conditions..." button.
Step 3: Click on "MAP" in the top bar

From there you can zoom in/out. Green = village, Yellow = unincorporated (hamlet), and Brown = City. I think if I'm bored later I'll photoshop that map and break it down by towns, like the Suffolk ones are.

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

There's a bunch on the South Fork that I never knew existed.....Napeague, Springs, Northwest Harbor, etc. Not sure if those places have post offices or not, but I've never heard of them before a few months ago.

I was gonna post those maps in here originally, guess I should have cuz that thread was deleted

There's also a Nassau County version available online, but it's much harder to navigate.

Step 1: Go to Land Record Viewer
Step 2: Click on "Property Search", click the "I accept the conditions..." button.
Step 3: Click on "MAP" in the top bar

From there you can zoom in/out. Green = village, Yellow = unincorporated (hamlet), and Brown = City. I think if I'm bored later I'll photoshop that map and break it down by towns, like the Suffolk ones are.

That website sucks