New Hyde Park is a village in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 9,523 at the 2000 census. Like its neighbors it is primarily a commuter town but New Hyde Park also has factories near the railroad station. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Nassau County is a suburban county in the New York Metropolitan Area east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... This article or section should be merged with Bedroom community A dormitory town is generally a rural town where a large proportion of its population commute to nearby cities. ...

The Village of New Hyde Park is in both the Town of Hempstead and the Town of North Hempstead. The Town of Hempstead is one of the three towns (otherwise known as civil townships) in Nassau County, New York, United States. ... North Hempstead is a town located in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 222,611. ...

History

The village was incorporated in 1927. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Origins of New Hyde Park

Hyde Park, as this area was formerly called, is one of the oldest and most historic settlements in the United States. The first settlers were Dutch and English. The Dutch came first to New York, then called New Amsterdam, shortly after 1624. The English crossed Long Island Sound in 1644 to the Town of Hempstead of which this area was a part.

The original records kept by these settlers of their Town meeting are preserved in the office of the Town Clerk of The Town of North Hempstead. They are among the oldest records of local government in America.

Thomas Dongan, Royal Colonial Governor of New York in 1683, lived here on a large estate, Success Pond, now known as Lake Success and Lakeville Road. The Towns of Hempstead and Flushing granted the property to him. Governor Dongan is credited with devising the County system of governmental division for New York. Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick (1634-1715), was a member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and governor of the Province of New York. ... This is a list of colonial governors during British rule: See also a list of governors since 1777: List of Governors of New York Category: ...

His estate, Dongan Manor, came into the ownership of George Clarke, Secretary of the Province. Clarke's wife, Anne Hyde, had grown up on her family estate in England called “Hyde Hall," and Clarke renamed Dongan Manor "Hyde Park," perpetuating Mrs. Clarke's family name. George Clarke (b. ...

More than three hundred years ago, shortly after the English gained dominion from the Dutch over a vast area including Long Island, Richard Nicolls, Governor of the Province of New York, chose the open grounds of the Salisbury Plain to establish a racecourse. A “first" in the colonies, the course was called Newmarket and was located just to the south of the present New Hyde Park Rail Road Station. Many of the participants and spectators may well have traveled the ancient road we call Jericho Turnpike.

Instituted originally as an annual event, with a silver cup awarded to the winner, the purpose of racing competition was ostensibly "to improve the breed." (Later historians reflected that this lofty assertion continued to be used to justify the practice of horse racing.) A porringer, dated 1668, is reputed to have been the prize at one of these first contests at Newmarket, and is the earliest piece of dated silver still in existence, which was made in the colonies. Waves of immigrants arrived in America and many came to labor on the farms of Long Island. They worked, saved, and raised families. Most were deeply religious.

The first New Hyde Park settlers were of English and Dutch descent, followed by the Germans, Irish, Polish and Italians. In the 1900's Jewish families came to this area.

With improved farming methods, the plains became excellent farming territory. Jericho Turnpike opened as a plank toll road to New York City for carrying produce to the market. The Long Island Railroad came through New Hyde Park in 1837, but for years there was nothing to justify a station there. In the mid-nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants began to buy farms in the area. Anton Herkomer, a weaver, operated his looms at the northeast corner of Miller's Lane and the Long Island Rail Road. This was within the limits of the Incorporated Village of New Hyde Park, as later constituted. At that time, the Village had only four houses on the Turnpike, plus a scattering of farms in the open fields. The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR (often referred to as the L-I-double-R) is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York. ...

At the end of the Civil War, two young immigrants from Seilsheim, Germany, John C. Christ and Philip J. Miller arrived in New York to make their fortunes. Miller was a coppersmith and Christ a machinist.

Anton Herkomer had to go to New York to have special parts made for his looms and he discovered that Christ could make them perfectly. Anton Herkomer convinced him to leave the shop where he worked and move to New Hyde Park. Christ & Miller both came out to New Hyde Park, but not just to make parts. Within a short time, Christ opened a store and hotel along the Turnpike and attracted trade from peddlers, school teachers, cattle buyers, and lawyers having business at the Queens Court House about two miles east of here, located on Herricks Road.

Miller was responsible for New Hyde Park's first Civic Improvement Program. He planted maples and other species along Millers Lane, Ingraham Lane, and New Hyde Park Road. Many of them still stand. They were followed by thousands of additional trees in the 1920's, transforming barren land into a community of beautiful shade trees.

The Millers and the Christs were jointly responsible for the community's present name, John C. Christ and Philip J. Miller applied for the establishment of a Post Office here in 1871, asking that it be called Hyde Park. To show the need for it, both men and a number of their friends wrote letters and cards to themselves. The Post Office Department admitted that the volume was impressive, but it balked at the name Hyde Park. This name had already been assigned to Hyde Park in Dutchess County, later the birthplace of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New Hyde Park was chosen instead, and the office opened at Jericho Turnpike and Millers Lane. Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. ... Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. ... FDR redirects here. ... New York State Route 25 is a major east-west road running from the Queensboro Bridge on the East River in Queens, New York City to the Orient Point Ferry terminal on the end of the North Fork of Long Island. ...

At the turn of the century the American scene was rapidly changing. Use of electricity and telephones was growing. Great changes came in transportation with the development of the automobile, bus, truck, electric train and trolley. The population was expanding. Immigrants were admitted in great numbers and families were large. Improved transportation permitted the more affluent New Yorker to live in the country and work in the city. Thus, the commuter was born. Jericho Turnpike was paved and widened to accommodate heavier traffic. A trolley line, then buses, used Jericho Turnpike and connected the city line through New Hyde Park to Mineola and Hempstead. Water and gas mains were installed. House pumps and dug wells disappeared.

The late New York Supreme Court Justice, Marcus G. Christ, was a lifelong resident of New Hyde Park, and a direct descendent of John C. Christ. When Justice Christ graduated from New Hyde Park grammar school in 1912, his class had six members. He rode the trolley line to Hempstead via Mineola to Hempstead High School. Although the High School served more than a half dozen communities, there were only 22 students in his 1917 graduating class. Justice Christ recalled that the trolley line, which ran along the north side of Jericho Turnpike, lasted only from 1907 to the 1920's, when autos and buses drove it out of business. He remembers that whenever the trolley company cleared heavy snow from its tracks, competing bus lines drove right down the trolley tracks to avoid getting stuck in the drifts. The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the basic New York State trial court of general jurisidiction. ...

Developers were becoming interested in building residences on the farmlands north of Jericho Turnpike. Many new homes were established. It soon became evident that changes would be necessary to adjust to the growing population. There were no paved sidewalks in the area, no garbage collection, inadequate zoning and building codes, insufficient police protection, no established recreational areas, any local court or locally controlled licensing. Two town boards, one in Manhasset and one in Hempstead, neither having any members from New Hyde Park, governed this area. Mass housing developments came along in the 1920's, with Lakeville Estates extending east from Lakeville Road to Ingraham Lane, north of the Turnpike. In 1924, 140 new homes were erected and 450 acres of farmland were cut into real estate developments. Houses built in the 1920's declined to $4,000 or less during the depression. Manhasset is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 8,362. ...

The History of Incorporation

In 1924, three years before the incorporation of the Village of New Hyde Park, a Board of Trade was formed, which was composed of business people and interested citizens, who were concerned with the rapid growth of the town. A committee to study the expediency of incorporating the community was selected. The members were William Bowie, Jr., Herman Baer, Horace Cross, Benedict Hauck, J. Edwin Russell and George Simon Sr. The following year five new members were added: Michael Bossert, Eugene Denton, Otto Lundin, Hugh O'Brien and August Vinski. Marcus G. Christ, by then a practicing attorney with a growing law practice, was counsel to the committee. The study extended over two years and involved examination of existing village governments, interviewing officials of the towns and villages and examining the laws pertaining to the procedure for incorporation.

In early 1927, the committee submitted a report recommending the village be incorporated. A petition was drawn up to incorporate the New Hyde Park Fire District as the Village. This did not succeed. Then the committee selected an area of ONE SQUARE MILE and Mr. Charles Weckerle prepared the necessary description and map defining the village limits, substantially as we know them today. The residents of the described area held a referendum on August 19, 1927, and the majority vote was in favor of incorporation. The certifications were filed in the office of the Town Clerk at Manhasset and with the Secretary of State in Albany. The Incorporated Village of New Hyde Park came into existence. August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Manhasset is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 8,362. ...

On September 15, 1927 the election for Mayor and four trustees was held. Those elected were: Mayor J. Nicholas Krug Trustees Benedict Hauck, J- William Hoffman, Herman Baer, Harry Bishop The first meeting of the New Hyde Park Village Board was held in the Fire Hall on Millers Lane, now the Bethany Bible Church, at 8p.m. on September 19, 1927. September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Incorporation of the Village brought to the newly elected officials and the people, all the advantages of home rule together with the realization that wisdom is needed to successfully administer sanitation disposal, highway construction, zoning and the drafting of ordinances to control the activities within the confines of the Village.

Geography

New Hyde Park is located at 40°43′56″N, 73°41′5″W (40.732241, -73.684593)^GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.2 km² (0.8 mi²), all land. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an Imperial unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, 1,609. ...

Government

The village has a mayor-council form of government with a Mayor and four trustees, known collectively as the Board of Trustees. They are elected to serve a four year term. The current Mayor is Daniel P. Petruccio. The current board is Deputy Mayor Robert A. Lofaro, Trustee Richard A. Coppola Jr., Trustee Donald Barbieri, and Trustee Lawrence J. Montreuil. Mayor-Council government is one of two variations of government most commonly used in modern representative municipal governments. ...

Education

New Hyde Park has schools in the Sewanhaka Central High School District (New Hyde Park Memorial High School), Elmont School District, Herricks Union Free School District, and the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District. Residents of the Parkville section of town (generally north of Hillside Avenue and west of New Hyde Park Road) are assigned to the Great Neck School District. The Sewanhaka Central High School District is located in western Nassau County on Long Island, in New York State. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in Great Neck, New York, United States. ...

Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 9,523 people, 3,290 households, and 2,569 families residing in the village. The population density was 4,377.2/km² (11,281.8/mi²). There were 3,353 housing units at an average density of 1,541.2/km² (3,972.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 82.01% White, 0.57% African American, 0.07% Native American, 13.40% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.59% from other races, and 1.33% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.94% of the population. The Asians include many Indians, some of whom operate stores and gas stations. 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... Race, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget, is a self-identification data item in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...

There were 3,290 households out of which 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.0% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.9% were non-families. 18.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.89 and the average family size was 3.31. Matrimony redirects here. ...

In the village the population was spread out with 22.1% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 90.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.9 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $61,585, and the median income for a family was $72,384. Males had a median income of $50,066 versus $38,393 for females. The per capita income for the village was $24,771. About 2.4% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.9% of those under age 18 and 6.1% of those age 65 or over. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Noteable Citizens

The now legendary Kenneth Printz is said to reside in New Hyde Park, rumored to dwell in the depths of Cambell Street. "Kenny" as known by close freinds is notorious for losing his virginity at the young age of 25 while standing on a crate in a local Vitamin World. At the time this son of Abraham was ravaging a black hooker while a friend did some more dirty work in the back. Kenny has also been the subject of brutal harrasment in recent years. Most recently having garbage bags full of doughnuts dumped on his porch on two successive nights. Currently unemployed, Kenny can be seen at the Celtic Corner clinging to the last hopes of the possiblity of moving out of his parents house. The Vegas odds of this of course have been last recorded at 10,000 to 1, much lower than the chance of him gettting laid again without paying for it which have last been tracked at 1,000,000+ to one.

External links

• New Hyde Park official website
• Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park
• New Hyde Park Village Court
• New Hyde Park Fire Department
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