Another NEWSDAY geographic goof, "Williston Park man found dead at Planting Fields" (Oyster Bay: 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:

Williston Park man found dead at Planting Fields -- Newsday.com (broken link)


In the third paragraph, the article states, "After disappearing from his Williston Park home nearly three weeks ago, McGilloway's body was found hanging from an 80-foot tree in the Oyster Bay park ... "

The Planting Fields Arboretum is in Upper Brookville (Oyster Bay P.O.).

In other words, if you want to send a letter to the Planting Fields Arboretum, you would address this letter to "Oyster Bay, NY 11771"; however, if you want to actually go to the Planting Fields Arboretum, you would go to Upper Brookville.

For those who may not be familiar with Upper Brookville:

Upper Brookville is a village (incorporated in 1932) in the north-central part of the Town of Oyster Bay, in the north-central part of Nassau County.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Upper Brookville in the Town of Oyster Bay is bordered on the north by the Village of Matinecock, the Village of Mill Neck and the Hamlet of Oyster Bay; on the east by the Hamlet of Oyster Bay and the Hamlet of East Norwich; on the south by the Village of Muttontown and the Village of Brookville; and, on the west by the Village of Old Brookville and the Village of Matinecock.

Upper Brookville 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: places in the Village of Upper Brookville have an "Oyster Bay, NY 11771", "East Norwich, NY 11732" and "Glen Head, NY 11545" mailing address.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Upperbrookville-ny-map.gif (broken link)


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):

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

[OhBeeHave]

A sad ending to the story.
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And yet again, Newsday fouls up. This from a newspaper that I've caught spell Melville as Mellville. Bird cages will always need liners, I guess.

[watamensch]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

A sad ending to the story.
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And yet again, Newsday fouls up. This from a newspaper that I've caught spell Melville as Mellville. Bird cages will always need liners, I guess.

Newsday's headquarters is in Melllivillle.