Floral Park, New York "Floral Park"
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Floral Park, New York Incorporated Village of Floral Park Flag of Floral Park, New York Floral Park, New York is positioned in New York Floral Park, New York Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island.
The neighborhood of Floral Park in the New York City borough of Queens, is adjoining to the village.
The village is at the border of Nassau County, and is positioned mainly in the Town of Hempstead, while the section north of Jericho Turnpike is inside the Town of North Hempstead.
The region that is now Floral Park once marked the edge of the great Hempstead Plains, and by some reports was initially known as Plainfield.
Hinsdale had more than two dozen flower farms after the Civil War. The present-day village of Floral Park was once called East Hinsdale. To promote his own company and the small-town horticultural industry, Childs titled the small-town streets after flowers and retitled the region Floral Park.
The expansion of the Floral Park Post Office and close-by village businesses are attributed solely to the success of Childs' business. When the small-town Post Office took the name Floral Park, the Long Island Rail Road followed suit by changing the name of the East Hinsdale station to Floral Park in 1888.
Formerly part of Queens, Floral Park became part of the new county of Nassau in 1899, and it was incorporated as a village in 1908.
The village boundary is the border of New York City.
Floral Park is positioned at 40 43 26 N 73 42 21 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all of it land.
Two high schools are positioned in Floral Park: Floral Park Memorial High School and Sewanhaka High School, both of which are part of the Sewanhaka Central High School District (which also includes schools in close-by New Hyde Park, Franklin Square and Elmont.) There are three elementary schools in Floral Park.
Two of them, John Lewis Childs School and Floral Park-Bellerose School, are part of the Floral Park-Bellerose School District (the latter school also serves the neighboring village of Bellerose and Bellerose Terrace).
The Queens neighborhood is adjoining to the Village of Floral Park, and uses the designation "North Floral Park" with a ZIP code of 11004 and telephone region codes of 718, 347, and 917.
The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13. Floral Park is a middle-class neighborhood that consists mostly of Cape Cod-style homes.
Veterans today make up 11 percent of all inhabitants in Floral Park, versus 6 percent citywide. The other boundaries of Floral Park are roughly Little Neck Parkway and 252nd Street to the west, Langdale Street to the east, and a diagonal boundary from Hillside at 271th Street to Jericho Turnpike at 257th Street to the south.
MTA New York City Transit buses serve Floral Park on the Q43, Q46, Q36 small-town routes (the latter also has a Little Neck Parkway branch amid weekdays) and X68 express route.
The Floral Park station, positioned in Nassau County proper, is the closest service on the Long Island Rail Road Hempstead Branch which travels to Jamaica station and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.
"Floral Park: Planting seeds for its growth", Newsday.
The history of Floral Park, Village of Floral Park.
"Floral Park Real Estate", Market Report Retrieved 12/28/11.
Floral Park-Bellrose School District Queens Community Boards, New York City.
"The History of Floral Park".
"Growing up in a blue-collar precinct of Floral Park and steeped in Catholicism, Mapplethorpe advanced -- to his alarm -- an adolescent interest in gay pornographic magazines." "Long before he was drawn to the hip-hop stylings of the Sugar Hill Gang and Kurtis Blow, Nash was a young baseball geek in Floral Park, N.Y., gobbling up cards with reckless abandon, rooting for his beloved Dave Kingman ('Unfortunate choice of a hero,' he now laments) and writing letter upon letter to his favorite players." "Peter Gerard Richert was born on October 29, 1939, in Floral Park, New York." "Shachtman interval up in New York City and lived there (mainly in the Bronx) much of his life before moving to a home in Floral Park, a suburb of New York, in 1954." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Floral Park, New York.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Floral Park.
Floral Park Fire Department website Floral Park - Bellerose Schools Floral Park Historical Society Floral Park Police Department Neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Queens
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