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Originally Posted by APNY
We're in the process of buying a house in Nassau County; one of the places we might be interested in is Roslyn.
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APNY, you need to be aware that about 9 out of every 10 places that have a "Roslyn, NY 11576" mailing address (3,496 acres) are not in the Village of Roslyn (381 acres), and there are 9 communities (7 villages and 2 hamlets) that are at least partially within the borders of the "Roslyn, NY 11576" ZIP Code postal zone.
When you do find a house that you like, you can find out in which community (city, village or CDP) that house is actually located, which, as with the case with a place that has a "Roslyn, NY 11576" mailing address, is oftentimes different from the community named in that house's mailing address, by using the Census Bureau's
online address search function. (CDP or
Census
Designated
Place is the Census Bureau equivalent for a hamlet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.)
And, very importantly, among other things, the Census Bureau's
online address search function also indicates in which school district an address is located.
For those who may not be familiar with Roslyn:
Roslyn is a village (incorporated in 1932) in the center-east part of the Town of North Hempstead, in the north-central part of Nassau County.
Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Roslyn in the Town of North Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Village of Flower Hill, the Hamlet of Port Washington, Hempstead Harbor and the Village of Roslyn Harbor; on the east by the Village of East Hills; on the south by the Hamlet of Roslyn Heights; and, on the west by the Village of Roslyn Estates and the Village of Flower Hill.
Roslyn is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where the majority of the places with the community name as part of their mailing address are not in the village: places that have a "Roslyn, NY 11576" mailing address that are not in the Village of Roslyn are in the Village of Roslyn Harbor, the Village of East Hills, the Hamlet of Roslyn Heights, the Village of Roslyn Estates, the Hamlet of Searingtown, the Village of North Hills, the Village of Flower Hill and the Village of Old Westbury.
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