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

[TheImportersWife]

Originally Posted by TomMoser

I've got another one: South Greenlawn

I live in the area and never heard anyone say South Greenlawn or use it as a mailing address. What area is South Greenlawn considered?

[VTP]

In response to the earlier question, Deer Hills has been used by some to refer to that section of Deer Park that borders Dix Hills. Similarly, "Deerwood" is used by some to denote that section of Brentwood close to Deer Park, in the Bay Shore Rd. vicinity.

[TomMoser]

Originally Posted by TheImportersWife

I live in the area and never heard anyone say South Greenlawn or use it as a mailing address. What area is South Greenlawn considered?

People use that to refer to the area South of Pulaski, near Little Plains Road, which, by the way is Huntington.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by TomMoser

People use that to refer to the area South of Pulaski, near Little Plains Road, which, by the way is Huntington.

Could you be referring to that part of the Hamlet of Greenlawn that is in the service area of the "Huntington, NY 11743" postal zone or to that part of the Hamlet of Huntington that has a "Greenlawn, NY 11740" mailing address?


Greenlawn is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the central part of the Town of Huntington, in the northwest part of Suffolk County.

The Hamlet of Greenlawn has a different border than does the "Greenlawn, NY 11740" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a Greenlawn mailing address and not be in Greenlawn and a place can have other than a Greenlawn mailing address and be in Greenlawn):

Those places that have a "Greenlawn, NY 11740" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Greenlawn are in the Hamlet of Huntington and the Hamlet of Elwood; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Greenlawn with a "Huntington, NY 11743" mailing address.

[nancy thereader]

although Setauket and East Setauket technically DON'T exist as separate hamlets anymore!

They do if you live in the real Setauket . lol.

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

although Setauket and East Setauket technically DON'T exist as separate hamlets anymore!

They do if you live in the real Setauket . lol.

Is that right?

Isnt WMHS E.Setauket?

C

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by clamboy

SUFFOLK

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

Lakeland

Lake Hills

The Branch




NASSAU

East Hills

Munsey Hill

Lattingtown

Muttontown

Matinnecock

Add Plainedge to the Nassau list. It is a geographic area, no post office and consists of parts of Island Trees, N Massapequa, Bethpage and Farmingdale. It is a school district, has no zip code.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

although Setauket and East Setauket technically DON'T exist as separate hamlets anymore!

They do if you live in the real Setauket . lol.

I'm having a good laugh here -- there were a few letters to the editor of the Village Times Beacon Herald Record (Whatever they are calling themself now) in which a long time resident and a fairly recent resident disputed with one another what is real Setauket vs East Setauket.

The only thing I can remember is that parts of East Setauket are west of real Setauket. UGH!

[sean sean sean sean]

Setauket and East Setauket got combined at some point into one hamlet called "Setauket-East Setauket", "Remsenberg-Speonk" is another one on LI like that...so I'd say these fall into the "fake area" category, but only due to odd, backwards technicalities. I don't live out there, but I'm seriously doubting anyone refers to them by their "proper" names.

Here's some true fakes:

Biltmore Shores, Nassau Shores (Massapequa)
Mandalay (Wantagh)
Colony Bay (Baldwin Harbor)

And some real ones that don't have post offices:
Lakeview
Garden City Park
Stewart Manor
Terryville
Flower Hill
Munsey Park
Thomaston
Malverne Park-Oaks
South Hempstead

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

Add Plainedge to the Nassau list. It is a geographic area, no post office and consists of parts of Island Trees, N Massapequa, Bethpage and Farmingdale. It is a school district, has no zip code.

Plainedge is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the southeast part of the Town of Oyster Bay, in the southeast part of Nassau County, (along the Oyster Bay/Hempstead town line).

Plainedge is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet's name as part of their mailing address: places in the Hamlet of Plainedge have a "Massapequa, NY 11758", a "Levittown, NY 11756", a "Bethpage, NY 11714", a "Seaford, NY 11783" or a "Farmingdale, NY 11735" mailing address.