Correcting NEWSDAY's Community profile: Lynbrook (Hempstead, Valley Stream: estate, showing, corporate)

[Walter Greenspan]

Relying on a map that shows city, town, village and postal zone, but not hamlet, borders, in its weekly (Friday) "Buying In" article, 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 article:

Buying in Lynbrook -- Newsday.com


The article incorrectly states, "A portion of Lynbrook is a hamlet ... ", thereby confusing the community named in a place's mailing address for the community where that place is actually located: North Lynbrook is a hamlet where all the places in North Lynbrook have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address, but no part of North Lynbrook, the hamlet, is in Lynbrook, the village.


For those who may not be familiar with Lynbrook:

Alternatively know as Five Corners and Bloomfield, the area became known as Pearsalls Corners (to honor general store owner Wright Pearsalls), Lynbrook -- which is Brooklyn spelled inside-out -- is a village (incorporated in 1911) in the central part of the Town of Hempstead, in the southwest part of Nassau County.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Lynbrook is bordered on the north by the Village of Malverne and the Hamlet of North Lynbrook; on the east by the Hamlet of Lakeview and the Village of Rockville Centre; on the south by the Village of East Rockaway and the Hamlet of Hewlett; and, on the west by the Village of Valley Stream.

The Village of Lynbrook has a different border than does the "Lynbrook, NY 11563" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address and not be in the Village of Lynbrook and a place can be in the Village of Lynbrook and have other than a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address): places that have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address that are not in the Village of Lynbrook are in the Hamlet of North Lynbrook and the Hamlet of Hewlett; and, at the same time, there are places in the Village of Lynbrook that have a "Rockville Centre, NY 11570" 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

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

The article incorrectly states, "A portion of Lynbrook is a hamlet ... ", thereby confusing the community named in a place's mailing address for the community where that place is actually located: North Lynbrook is a hamlet where all the places in North Lynbrook have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address, but no part of North Lynbrook, the hamlet, is in Lynbrook, the village.

For those who may not be familiar with North Lynbrook:

North Lynbrook is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the central part of the Town of Hempstead, in the southwest part of Nassau County.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of North Lynbrook in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north and east by the Village of Malverne; on the south by the Village of Lynbrook; and, on the west by the Village Lynbrook and the Village of Malverne.

North Lynbrook is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in community have the hamlet name in their mailing address: places in the Hamlet of North Lynbrook have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" 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