Correcting NEWSDAY's Community profile: Kings Point (New York, Hempstead: real estate, schools, moving)

[Walter Greenspan]

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:

Kings Point, New York: Real Estate, Schools and News


Kings Point is a village (incorporated in 1924) in the northwestern part of the Town of North Hempstead, in the northwestern part of Nassau County

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Kings Point in the Town of North Hempstead is bordered on the west, north, and east by Long Island Sound; and on the south by the Village of Great Neck and the Village of Saddle Rock.

Kings Point is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the village name in their mailing address: all places in the Village of Kings Point are either in the "Great Neck, NY 11024" or the "Great Neck, NY 11023" postal zone, and hence all places in the Village of Kings Point have a "Great Neck, NY" mailing address.

(There are 13 communities -- 9 villages and 4 hamlets -- that are all or partly within the "Great Neck, NY 11020 through 11024" postal zones, and more than 8 out of every 10 places with a "Great Neck, NY" mailing address are NOT in the Village of Great Neck.)


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):

http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html