Imaginary Towns on Long Island /Real or Fancied/Town vs Area...You Decide. (New York: corporate, county)

[nancy thereader]

Old Field (that is a village)
Strongs Neck (that isn't)

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Old Field (that is a village)
Strongs Neck (that isn't)

Old Field is the real deal.

Same with Poquott.

Strongs Neck=Area

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[VTP]

How about

Brightwaters Farms
Deer Hills
Village of the Branch
North Brentwood
Huntington Manor

[BovinaCowHateWindTurbines]

I never understood Huntington Heights, basically where everyone either lived parked, lobstered and clammed on the better part of Huntington Harbor. And people as they came in and built homes that make McMansions look like cottages now refer to it as Huntington Harbor as though it is a district of some kind.

Walter?

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by VTP

How about

Brightwaters Farms
Deer Hills
Village of the Branch
North Brentwood
Huntington Manor

Where is Deer Hills?

Village of the Branch...good one.

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[clamboy]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

So far here are the real ones posted:Islandia
Lloyd Harbor
Huntington Bay
Laurel Hollow

Those are all villages, and villages in New York have their own local government and laws separate of the town they're located in....even if they don't have post offices. The other ones would just be considered neighborhoods, whether they were invented for real estate value purposes (South Setauket, North Coram) or whether they are old developments that actually may have existed prior to the hamlets they're located in (Tangiers, Manor Park). There seem to be a lot of those out east, as well as a lot of hamlets that have been absorbed into other areas which are still mapped on Google Earth and the like....Hagerman in Patchogue for example, was there as recently as the 1990 census.

Hagermans a good one...Upton too.

Upton is real...I think it only has BNL.



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[clamboy]

South Setauket

North Coram

San Remo

Scotts Beach

Tangiers

Smiths Point

E Yaphank

Manor Park

Roanoake

Islandia

South Amityville

Old Medford

Old East Northport

Hagerman

Upton

Edgewood

Crab Meadow

Pinelawn

Deer Hills

Strongs Neck

South Hauppauge

South Greenlawn

North Brentwood

The Branch



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[sean sean sean sean]

Originally Posted by clamboy

Hagermans a good one...Upton too.

Upton is real...I think it only has BNL.

What the hell is that Imaginary town off the Sagtikos by Deer Park RR?
It has an Industrial park

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Upton is tricky, I'm not really sure about it. From what I can tell, it's borders were entirely what the BNL property is now....so it isn't an "inhabited area" and doesn't show up in census data like every other hamlet on LI that has a CDP attached to it. Normally I'd just say it's a vestigal hamlet that's now a part of something else (like Hagerman) but it isn't mapped as anything in the census, and I think the area is just "BNL" in the LIPA survey that Walter posted.

The imaginary town off Sagtikos is Baywood. It's a real hamlet/CDP although I seriously doubt the people that live there even know that. Post office for that area is Bay Shore, even though the Deer Park LIRR station is in it's boundaries.

Village of the Branch, Poquott and Old Field are all real villages...although Setauket and East Setauket technically DON'T exist as separate hamlets anymore!

[rockypointny]

Lake Hills/Lakeland in Ronkonkoma

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

Upton is tricky, I'm not really sure about it. From what I can tell, it's borders were entirely what the BNL property is now....so it isn't an "inhabited area" and doesn't show up in census data like every other hamlet on LI that has a CDP attached to it. Normally I'd just say it's a vestigal hamlet that's now a part of something else (like Hagerman) but it isn't mapped as anything in the census, and I think the area is just "BNL" in the LIPA survey that Walter posted.

Sean, I consider the BNL to be part of the Hamlet of Yaphank, meaning that the "Upton, NY 11973" postal zone is a postal zone named after a non-existent community, serving part of the Hamlet of Yaphank in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County.