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The Town of Hempstead is the largest of the three
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s in Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead and Oyster Bay) on
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, in
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, United States. The town's combined population was 793,409 at the 2020 census. It occupies the southwestern part of the county, on the western half of Long Island. Twenty-two incorporated
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(one of which is named Hempstead) are completely or partially within the town.
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's campus is located in Hempstead.


History

The town was first settled around 1644 following the establishment of a treaty between English colonists, John Carman and Robert Fordham, and the
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in 1643. Although the settlers were from the new English colony of New Haven (1638), later incorporated into,
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in 1662, a patent was issued by the government of
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after the settlers had purchased land from the local natives. This transaction is depicted in a mural in the Hempstead Village Hall, reproduced from a poster commemorating the 300th anniversary of Hempstead Village. In local Dutch-language documents of the 1640s and later, the town was invariably called ''
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,'' and several of Hempstead's original 50 patentees were Dutch, suggesting that Hempstead was named after the Dutch town and/or
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of the same name, both of which are located near the cities of
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and
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. However, the authorities possibly had Dutchified a name given by co-founder John Carman, who was born in 1606 in
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, Hertfordshire, England, on land owned by his ancestors since the 13th century. In 1664, the settlement under the new
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adopted the Duke's Laws, austere statutes that became the basis upon which the laws of many colonies were to be founded. For a time, Hempstead became known as "Old Blue", as a result of the "
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". During the
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, the
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in the south and the American sympathizers in the north caused a split in 1784 into " North Hempstead" and "South Hempstead". South Hempstead was renamed to Hempstead in 1796. Richard Hewlett, who was born in Hempstead, served as a Lieutenant Colonel with the British Army under General Oliver De Lancey in the American Revolution. Afterward, Hewlett departed the United States with other Loyalists and settled in the newly created Province of
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in what later became Canada. A settlement there was named Hampstead, in Queen's County next to Long Island in the Saint John River. With the 1898 incorporation of the Borough of
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as part of the city of New York, and the 1899 split of Queens County to create Nassau County, some southwestern portions of the Town of Hempstead seceded from the town and became part of the Borough of Queens.


Geography

According to the
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, the town has a total area of 191.3 square miles (495.5 km2), of which 120.0 square miles (310.7 km2) is land and 71.4 square miles (184.8 km2) (37.30%) is water. The western town line is the border of Queens County in
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. Its northern border, with the town of North Hempstead and the town of Oyster Bay, is along the main line of the
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and along
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in Garden City heading east towards the Wantagh Parkway. Its eastern border, also with the town of Oyster Bay, runs parallel to (and several hundred feet west of) Route 107. To the south is the Atlantic Ocean, off of Atlantic Beach, Lido Beach, Point Lookout, and Jones Beach, as well as the city of Long Beach. The most popular beach on the east coast of the United States, Jones Beach State Park, is located in Hempstead. The beach is a popular destination for Long Islanders and residents of New York. The beach itself receives approximately six million visitors per year.


Communities

The town of Hempstead contains 22
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and 38
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:


Villages

* Atlantic Beach * Bellerose * Cedarhurst * East Rockaway *
Floral Park Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States. The population was 16,172 at the 2020 census. Floral Park is at the western border of Nassau County, mainly in the Town of Hempstead, while the ...
(small part in North Hempstead) * Freeport * Garden City (small part in North Hempstead) * Hempstead (village) * Hewlett Bay Park * Hewlett Harbor * Hewlett Neck * Island Park * Lawrence * Lynbrook * Malverne * Mineola (almost all in North Hempstead) *
New Hyde Park New Hyde Park is a village in the Towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. It is the anchor community of the Greater New Hyde Park area. The population was 10,257 at the time of the ...
(part; with North Hempstead) *
Rockville Centre Rockville Centre, commonly abbreviated as RVC, is an incorporated village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 26,016 at the time of the 2020 cen ...
* South Floral Park * Stewart Manor * Valley Stream * Woodsburgh


Hamlets

* Baldwin * Baldwin Harbor * Barnum Island * Bay Park * Bellerose Terrace * Bellmore * Bethpage (almost all in Oyster Bay) * East Atlantic Beach * East Garden City * East Meadow * Elmont * Franklin Square * Garden City South * Harbor Isle * Hewlett * Inwood * Lakeview *
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* Lido Beach *
Malverne Park Oaks Malverne Park Oaks is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 538 at the 2020 census. History The CDP was first created for the 2000 ce ...
* Merrick * Munson * North Bellmore * North Lynbrook * North Merrick * North Valley Stream * North Wantagh * North Woodmere *
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* Point Lookout * Roosevelt * Salisbury (South Westbury) * Seaford * South Hempstead * South Valley Stream * Uniondale * Wantagh * West Hempstead * Woodmere In addition, there are a few areas that are not part of any incorporated village or census-designated place: *
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and nearby uninhabited islands in
South Oyster Bay South Oyster Bay or East Bay is a lagoon
* A small area between Lynbrook and Rockville Centre that contains only Rockville Cemetery


Demographics

The 2019
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determined the population of the town of Hempstead was 759,793. The racial and ethnic makeup of the town was 54.0%
non-Hispanic white Non-Hispanic Whites, also referred to as White Anglo Americans or Non-Latino Whites, are White Americans who are classified by the United States census as "White" and not of Hispanic or Latino origin. According to annual estimates from the Unit ...
, 17.4% Black or African American, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.2% Asian, 3.7% multiracial, and 20.9% Hispanic or Latin American of any race. Of the population, there were 244,203 households and there was an owner-occupied housing rate of 80.8%. The average household size was 3.10 and the population was made of 22.7% foreign-born residents. In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the median value of an owner-occupied housing unit was $455,700 and the median gross rent of rented units at $1,678. Residents of the town had a combined median household income of $111,072 and per capita of $44,958. Of the population in 2019, 6.0% lived at or below the poverty line. As of the
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of 2010, there were 759,757 people, 246,828 households, and 193,513 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 252,286 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 59.9%
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, 16.5% Black, 0.3% Native American, 5.2% Asian, 0.03%
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, 4.5% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic and Latin Americans of any race were 17.4% of the population. There were 246,828 households, out of which 36.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.2% were
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living together, 12.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.6% were non-families. 18.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.02 and the average family size was 3.41. In the town, the population was spread out, with 25.4% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the town was $84,362, and the median income for a family was $96,080. Males had a median income of $50,818 versus $36,334 for females. The
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for the town was $28,153. About 4.0% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the
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, including 6.6% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.


Economy

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United States had its headquarters in East Meadow, beginning in the 1970s, after it moved from
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in
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, in order to save money. In 2019, the office had 206 employees; that year the headquarters moved to Uniondale. At one time
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operated its United States office at 776 RexCorp Plaza in the EAB Plaza in Uniondale. The airline moved from 41 Pinelawn Road in Melville, Suffolk County around 2002.
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was previously headquartered in East Meadow, prior to moving their corporate office. The office space is now currently occupied by the Epilepsy Foundation of Long Island.


Government


Town government

As of 2023, the Town of Hempstead is headed by Donald X. Clavin, Jr. (R– Garden City). The responsibilities of the office include presiding over meetings of the Town Council and directing the legislative and administrative function of that body. The position also entails creating and implementing the town's budget. One famous former supervisor was Republican
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, who later represented New York in the
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from 1981 to 1999. Prior to 1994, the town also had a Presiding Supervisor, who along with the Supervisor, sat on what was then Nassau County's main governmental body, the Board of Supervisors, along with the Supervisors of the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay and the independent cities of
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—formerly a part of Hempstead Town until its incorporation as a separate municipality in 1922—and Glen Cove, which had been carved out of Oyster Bay Town in 1917. Typically, the Presiding Supervisor, besides chairing the weekly county Board of Supervisors meetings, acted as the senior official in the town government with the Supervisor in a more junior, subordinate role; a number of Supervisors moved up to Presiding Supervisor whenever that office became vacant, including, in succession during the 1970s, Ralph G. Caso and Francis T. Purcell, both of whom later went on to become the county executive, and then Al D'Amato, before he moved up to the Senate. Having the Presiding Supervisor on the county board along with the Supervisor gave Hempstead—by far the most populous of the county's three towns and two cities—the most clout on that body. However, in 1993–94, a federal judge ruled that the board's makeup violated the one-person, one-vote constitutional principle and also gave no representation to the country's growing minority population. As a result of that ruling, the Board of Supervisors was replaced by a 19-member county legislature. Gregory P. Peterson served as the last Presiding Supervisor, as the position was abolished with the demise of the county board. The Current Tax Collector is Jeanine Driscoll.


Hempstead Town Council

The Hempstead Town Council comprises six voting members, elected from a councilmanic district. Their primary function is to adopt the annual budget, adopting and amending the town code and the building zone ordinances, adopting all traffic regulations, and hearing applications for changes of zone and special exceptions to
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codes. As of 2023, the council members are: # Dorothy L. Goosby (D– Hempstead) # Thomas E. Muscarella (R– Garden City) # Melissa Miller (R– Atlantic Beach) # Laura A. Ryder (R– Lynbrook) # Chris Carini (R– Seaford) # Dennis Dunne, Sr. (R–
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)


Other elected town officials

Other elected officials in the town include the clerk and the receiver of taxes. The clerk is responsible for issuing birth, marriage, and
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s and is considered the town's record keeper. The clerk is currently Kate Murray (R). The Receiver of Taxes is Jeanine C. Driscoll (R). The Town of Hempstead formerly elected the offices of Constable, Overseer of the Poor, Town Assessor, Town Treasurer, Town Auditors, Superintendent of Highways, Overseer of the Public Cemetery, and Justices of the Peace. Most of these functions have been included in other governments or made non-elected.


State and federal representation

Hempstead is part of New York's
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and
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Congressional Districts. CD-2, represented by
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(R- Sayville), is the furthest southeastern portions of the town (parts of Seaford), while CD-4 covers the majority of the town's composition, and has been represented since 2025 by
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(D). Hempstead is in parts of New York's 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Senatorial Districts. They are currently represented by Siela Bynoe (D), Jack Martins (R), Steven Rhoads (R), and Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R), respectively. Nine assembly districts are either within or partly within the town. They are Districts 12, 14–15, and 17–22. The assembly members are Joseph Saladino (R), Brian F. Curran (R), Michael Montesano (R), Thomas McKevitt (R), Noah Burroughs (D), David G. McDonough (R), Melissa "Missy" Miller;(R), Edward Ra (R), and Michaelle Solages (D), respectively.


County legislators

Hempstead has 12 county legislative districts either fully or partly within the town. They are districts 1–8, 13–15, and 19. The legislators who currently represent those districts are: # Kevan Abrahams # Olena Nicks # Carrie Solages # Denise Ford # Debra Mule # C. William Gaylor, III # Howard Kopel # Vincent Muscarella # Thomas McKevitt # Laura Schaefer # John Ferretti, Jr. # Steven D. Rhoads


Sister city

On September 12, 2016, the Town of Hempstead signed a Declaration of Cooperation with the
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in the Israeli-occupied
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. This council represents 35
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s in that region. Signing the pact was its proponent Councilmen Bruce Blakeman and Anthony D'Esposito and Supervisor Santino and Shomron leader
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.


Transportation


Railroad lines

The
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's Main Line runs through the northwestern part of the town with stations from Bellerose through Merillon Avenue in Garden City. The
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breaks away from the Main Line in
Floral Park Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States. The population was 16,172 at the 2020 census. Floral Park is at the western border of Nassau County, mainly in the Town of Hempstead, while the ...
, and uses stations from Bellerose into Hempstead. The West Hempstead Branch runs from Valley Stream northeast to West Hempstead. Further south in the town, the
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runs from the New York City Line into southern portions of the Town of Oyster Bay with stations between Valley Stream and Seaford. Also the
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branches off from Valley Stream and curves to the southwest from that station through Inwood before finally re-entering the city in the Rockaways. Just east of there, the Long Beach Branch breaks away at Lynbrook and runs southeast into
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.


Bus service

The Town of Hempstead is served primarily by
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bus routes, though some MTA bus routes enter Nassau County from Queens. The City of Long Beach has a separate bus service.


Major roads

* Meadowbrook State Parkway * Wantagh State Parkway *
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* Bay Parkway * Loop Parkway * Ocean Parkway *
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* Glen Cove Road * Peninsula Boulevard *
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*
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*
Merrick Road Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau County, New York, Nassau, and Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk counties in New York (state), New York, United States. It is known as Merrick Boulevard or Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in ...
* New York State Route 102 * New York State Route 105 *
New York State Route 106 New York State Route 106 (NY 106) is a state highway located in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It begins in the Hempstead, New York, town of Hempstead at an intersection with New York State Route 105, NY 105 in No ...
* New York State Route 107 *
New York State Route 135 New York State Route 135 (NY 135) is a controlled-access highway, freeway in eastern Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The route connects Seaford, New York, Seaford with Syosset, New York, Syosset. The highway runs from ...
*
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State parks

* Hempstead Lake State Park *
Jones Beach State Park Jones Beach State Park (colloquially "Jones Beach") is a state park in the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantag ...
* Valley Stream State Park


References


External links


Town of Hempstead official website
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