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Franklin Square is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, United States. The population was 30,903 at the time of the 2020 census. The area was originally known as Trimming Square [2] and then as Washington Square after President George Washington.
In New York State, each county is divided into cities and towns. Every point in New York is inside either a city or a town. Additionally, towns may optionally contain villages, which are smaller incorporated municipalities within the town. Villages may overlap multiple towns. Well-known unincorporated places within towns are referred to as hamlets.
Franklin Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. The district includes 93 contributing buildings and one contributing site. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
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The community is named for former President Theodore Roosevelt, but was also known as Greenwich and Rum Point for a time before that. [3] [4] While Roosevelt once had a predominantly-white population, white flight and real estate blockbusting became a major issue during the postwar housing boom in the 1950s and 1960s, when the community saw an influx of African-American residents.
New York covers an area of 54,556 square miles (141,299 km 2) making it the 27th largest state by total area (but 30th by land area). [4] The state borders six U.S. states : Pennsylvania to the west, New Jersey and Connecticut to the south, Rhode Island (across Long Island Sound ), Massachusetts , and Vermont to the east.
Franklin Square was a square in Manhattan on the intersection of Pearl, Dover and Cherry Streets. The Third Avenue El, built in 1877–1878, ran over Franklin Square, and a station was built there. On its west side were the buildings of Harper's Publishing House. [1] The station and square were demolished in 1950, replaced with the Franklin ...
Superfund sites in New York are designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA, a federal law passed in 1980, authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]