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By the late 1990s, the proliferation of pagers and cell phones required further division to provide more telephone numbers for Long Island. On November 1, 1999, Suffolk was separated as a new numbering plan area with area code 631, while Nassau retained 516. Permissive dialing of 516 across Long Island continued until spring 2000. [2]
This is a list of places in Nassau County, New York. [1] Nassau County , on Long Island , became a county in the U.S. state of New York in 1899 after separating from Queens County . Included in the list are two cities , three towns , 64 incorporated villages , and 63 unincorporated hamlets whose names are used for overlapping Census-designated ...
The Nassau County Auxiliary Police is a unit of the Nassau County Police Department. These volunteer police officers are assigned to 1 of 36 local community units and perform routine patrols of the neighborhood and provide traffic control for local parades, races, other community events and assist the Police Department as needed.
Nassau County hosted the 1984 Summer Paralympics, marking the first Paralympic Games to be held in the United States. Nassau County was chosen by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to host eight cricket matches of the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow during June 2024. The county will receive $2.7 million in ...
Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to 125 public school districts, containing a total of 656 public schools. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The list below contains each of Long Island's school districts, along with their respective schools.
The Nassau County Sheriff's Department went on to play a vital role in the early foundation of law enforcement in Nassau County. In 1900 the Nassau County Board of Supervisors approved the construction of the first Nassau County Jail to be under the control of the Sheriff's Department.
District 14 is located entirely within Nassau County. It includes portions of the town of Hempstead, including Bellmore, North Bellmore, Wantagh and Merrick. A portion of Jones Beach is within this district. [2]
District 21 is located entirely within Nassau County. It includes the town of Hempstead, and contains the villages of Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, Malverne, South Hempstead, Baldwin and parts of Freeport, West Hempstead, Oceanside, East Rockaway, Lakeview, Hewlett, Hempstead, Franklin Square, and Valley Stream.