Relying on a map that shows city, town, village and postal zone, but not hamlet, borders, in its weekly (Friday) Community Profile, NEWSDAY once again mistakes the borders of a same-named postal zone for the borders of the community whose name the postal zone "shares".
Here's the NEWSDAY Community Profile: Wading River
Wading River, New York: Real Estate, Schools and News (http://www.newsdayinteractive.com/long-island-real-estate/profile.php?community=wading+river - broken link)
Wading River is a hamlet (unincorporated area) in the north-west part of the Town of Riverhead, in the north-central part of Suffolk County, along the Riverhead/Brookhaven town line.
Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Wading River in the Town of Riverhead is bordered on the north by Long Island Sound; on the east by the Hamlet of Baiting Hollow and the Hamlet of Calverton; on the south by the Hamlet of Calverton; and, on the west by the Hamlet of East Shoreham and the Hamlet of Ridge in the Town of Brookhaven (the Riverhead/Brookhaven town line).
As occurs in every one of Suffolk County's 157 communities (0 cities, 32 villages and 125 hamlets), the Hamlet of Wading River has a different border than does the "Wading River 11792" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a Wading River mailing address and not be in Wading River and a place can have other than a Wading River mailing address and be in Wading River):
Those places that have a "Wading River, NY 11792" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Wading River are in the Hamlet of East Shoreham in the Town of Brookhaven; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Wading River with a "Calverton, NY 11933" mailing address.
For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County):
Excellent Long Island Geographic Resource
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