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The name of Nassau County originated from an old name for Long Island, which was at one time named Nassau, after the Dutch family of King William III of England, the House of Nassau, [11] itself named after the German town of Nassau. The county colors (orange and blue) are also the colors of the House of Orange-Nassau.
The county name also refers to the fact that New York City was wholly contained in the county until it combined with other areas in the 1880s. New York County today is thus simply referred to as Manhattan , the island that forms almost all the area of the county.
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]
Lake Success (Nassau County) Lattingtown (Nassau County) Laurel Hollow (Nassau County) Lawrence (Nassau County) Lindenhurst (Suffolk County) Lloyd Harbor (Suffolk County) Long Beach (Nassau County) Lynbrook (Nassau County)
People from Oyster Bay (town), New York (23 C, 78 P) Pages in category "People from Nassau County, New York" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Port Washington is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on the Cow Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York. The hamlet is the anchor community of the Greater Port Washington area.
Long Island politicians are calling on state elections officials to investigate how a dozen Nassau and Suffolk families wound up receiving letters from two state senators, thanking their dead ...
The Town of Hempstead is the largest of the three towns in Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead and Oyster Bay) on Long Island, in New York, United States.The town's combined population was 793,409 at the 2020 census, making it the most populated town in the United States, containing the majority of the population of Nassau County.