Another NEWSDAY geographic goof, "School defies agency order to admit service dog" (New York: home)

[Walter Greenspan]

Another example of NEWSDAY mistaking the community name in a place's mailing address for the community in which that place is located:

School defies agency order to admit service dog -- Newsday.com (broken link)


In the opening two paragraphs, the article states, "Defying a state agency's order to comply with New York's human rights laws, a Westbury principal ... " and "Principal Timothy Voels stood outside the main entrance of W. Tresper Clarke High School ... "

Located at 740 Edgewood Drive, W. Tresper Clarke High School is in Salisbury (Westbury P.O.).

In other words, if you want to send a letter to W. Tresper Clarke High School, you would address this letter to "Westbury, NY"; however, if you want to actually go to W. Tresper Clarke High School, you would go to Salisbury.


For those who may not be familiar with Salisbury:

Previously known as South Westbury (and, in 1990, it was renamed and also combined with the part of the Hamlet of East Meadow that was in the "Westbury, NY 11590" and "Levittown, NY 11756" postal zones), Salisbury is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the northeast section of the Town of Hempstead, in the central part of Nassau County, where the Town of Hempstead converges with the Towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Salisbury in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of New Cassel in the Town of North Hempstead (the Hempstead/North Hempstead town line); on the east by the Hamlet of Hicksville in the Town of Oyster Bay (the Hempstead/Oyster Bay Town line) and the Hamlet of Levittown; and, on the south and west by the Hamlet of East Meadow.





Salisbury is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name in their mailing address: most places in the Hamlet of Salisbury have a "Westbury, NY 11590" mailing address, and a small slice in the east part of the hamlet have a "Levittown, NY 11756" 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):

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

[RoastBeefJackson]

With Newsday everything you read is heavly censored at the editing desks. Everything from news to Movie and CD reviews.

Newsday is privatly owned by Tribune Company in Chicago. Their reporters re-write what they are told to say like New's 12 (again privatly owned by the Dolan mob)
All sorts of ambiguous rules and regulations so the owners can fire oe suspend any employee who doesnt go with "the program"

For news use Drudge Report or even better get a radio scanner and listen to the local cops and hear "stuff" going on Newsday never dare print. You will be shocked.
-RBJ

[RoleModel]

They're more likely to use the general names for the area they're covering rather than the official name. I never hear anyone say they're from Salisbury; they say they're from Westbury.

[JeriBrook]

I have heard people say that a home is in the Salisbury section or part of Westbury. Even though it may be a hamlet, I have never heard anyone say they are from Salisbury.

[RoleModel]

Originally Posted by JeriBrook

I have heard people say that a home is in the Salisbury section or part of Westbury. Even though it may be a hamlet, I have never heard anyone say they are from Salisbury.

Yeah, but you wouldn't hear someone say Salisbury if they were being asked "Where are you from?". You'd hear it if they asked "What part of Westbury are you from?"

Just like the town I'm from, Bellport. I live technically in North Bellport, but the term around here is usually used for the less desirable parts of town between Sunrise and Montauk. There are a few decent parts north of Sunrise, but people normally say they're from Bellport when they're from there.

The people from the village of Bellport either say they're from Bellport or Bellport Village.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by RoleModel

They're more likely to use the general names for the area they're covering rather than the official name.

After discussing this with several reporters at NEWSDAY that do know the difference between the community named in a place's mailing address and the actual name of a community, the reason why the majority of NEWSDAY's reporters make this error is because they are lazy.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by RoleModel

I live technically in North Bellport ...

For those who may not be familiar with North Bellport:

North Bellport is a hamlet (an unincorporated community) in the southwest part of the Town of Brookhaven, in the center-south part of Suffolk County.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of North Bellport in the Town of Brookhaven is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Medford and the Hamlet of Yaphank; on the east by the Hamlet of Yaphank and the Hamlet of Brookhaven; on the south by the Village of Bellport; and, on the west by the Hamlet of East Patchogue and the Hamlet of Medford.





North Bellport is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name in their mailing address: places in the Hamlet of North Bellport have a "Bellport, NY 11713", "Patchogue, NY 11772", "Medford, NY 11763" and "Brookhaven, NY 11719" 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): http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html