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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. A town or city is the major subdivision of each county ...
The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City. Although there is no official Five Towns designation, "the basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood."
English: General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and Queens County before the detachment of its eastern portion in 1898 to form Nassau County. Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street system in urban areas.
English: A map of Long Island based on statehood proposals. Brooklyn and Queens (two boroughs of New York City) are sometimes included in statehood proposals. Nassau County (greatly included)
The South Shore is also home to the seaside resort of The Hamptons on its east end, located on the South Fork of Long Island. [2] On its west end, bordering Queens , the Five Towns retains pockets of affluence similar in character to the Gold Coast of the North Shore and The Hamptons .
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
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English: A first edition, first issue, of one of the largest and most impressive maps of Long Island, New York to appear in the 19th century. Published in 1873, this magnificent map covers the whole of Long Island as well as parts of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Hudson county, New Jersey.