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31 unusual facts about Nassau County


1972–73 New York Islanders season

With the impending start of the World Hockey Association in the fall of 1972, the upstart league had plans to place its New York team in the brand-new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County.

Alan Dinehart

Dinehart's first wife was the stage actress Louise Dyer (1895-1934), a native of Nassau County, New York.

All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story

All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story covers mostly chronologically the life of Brooklyn-born Andre Brandon deWilde, growing up in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York, then moving to Manhattan with his parents after a series of events catapulted him from a typical 7 year old American school boy to a national phenomenon as a child prodigy theatre and film actor that eventually earned him the tag of "one of America's most heartrending cultural icons".

Chris Simon

The Nassau County district attorney considered filing criminal charges against Simon, but declined.

Dave Tarras

Tarras died in 1989 in Oceanside, Nassau County, New York and left a daughter, Broune, and a son, Seymour, and seven grandchildren.

Edward Swann

Swann was buried at the St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, Florida.

Eugene Armbruster

Armbruster photographed areas in Kings County, New York from approximately 1895-1936, Manhattan from 1920-1925, Nassau County, New York from 1917-1925, Queens County, New York from 1910-1931, Rikers Island in 1931, and Suffolk County, New York from 1910-1934.

Eurybia paludosa

Also, in the north of Florida, the southern swamp aster is found solely in Nassau County in the extreme northeast of the state, while the southern prairie aster is restricted to the western panhandle.

Isaac Underhill Willets

The road (in western Nassau County) was built in 1850 through the middle of his lands.

Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

Lindbergh's original JN-4 Jenny biplane, purchased and built at Souther Field, is on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Nassau County, New York.

July 2010 Bronx tornado

In Nassau and Suffolk Counties, winds reached 60 mph (95 km/h) before the storm finally moved offshore.

Leroy Grumman

On 2 January 1930, the company took possession of an abandoned auto showroom garage in Baldwin, New York that had once been the Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory.

Long Island Fund for Women and Girls

In LIFWG's infancy, women from all over Nassau County and Suffolk County met at home gatherings, at bi-county general meetings and in work-based focus groups to identify the most pressing issues affecting women and girls in the local communities.

Long Island Lighting Company

The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO "lil-co" , was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for the communities of Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.

Manoug Exerjian

Manoug Exerjian (1898 – November 1974) was a Nassau County, New York architect, who came to Great Neck, New York, in 1923.

Mary Jo Buttafuoco

The shirt had the "Complete Auto Body & Fender" logo of Buttafuoco's auto body shop in Baldwin, Nassau County, was a gift from Joey Buttafuoco to Fisher.

Metropolitan Jewish Hospice

The Metropolitan Jewish Hospice coordinates pain management and other needed services for terminally ill patients of any age living in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx and Nassau County.

Nathan Schiff

Born in Forest Hills, New York, Schiff grew up in Baldwin Harbor, Long Island where he began making films at the age of 11.

National Coalition for Men

Two new groups formed chapters in Boston, Massachusetts (Headed by Frederic Hayward, founder of Men's Rights, Inc. A strong supporter was Robert A. Sides who went on to represent NCFM on national TV/radio talk shows) and Nassau County, New York.

New Again

Additionally, the CD design references the band's home of Nassau County, Long Island, with the Area code 516 appearing underneath the speedometer (which reads as 152 mph).

New York Metropolitan Transportation Council

Voting members of NYMTC comprise representatives of the counties of Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk; the New York City Departments of City Planning and Transportation; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the New York State Department of Transportation.

Patrick J. Foye

Foye was Deputy County Executive for Economic Development under Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano.

Plandome, New York

Genesta M. Strong (1885-1972), first woman from Nassau County to be elected to New York State Legislature (1944)

Ridgewood Reservoir

Some of the Nassau County pumping stations including the one at Milburn (now Baldwin) survived into the 21st century as ruins.

Robert Earle

Robert Earle (born January 5, 1926 in Baldwin, New York) is a former host of G.E. College Bowl, an American game show that was broadcast first by CBS, later by NBC.

Susan Browning

Born in Baldwin, New York, she was nominated for two Tony Awards: for Best Actress (Musical) in Company in 1971 and for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in Goodtime Charley in 1975.

Theodore Curphey

Theodore Joscelyn Curphey (born October 25, 1897, died November 27, 1986, Pasadena, California) was an American coroner who was the chief coroner for Los Angeles and Nassau Counties.

Curphey was elected Nassau County medical examiner on December 15, 1937 by the Nassau County Board of Supervisors.

Valley Stream School District

Valley Stream School District may refer to one of several related school districts in Nassau County, New York, USA.

Vincent F. Seyfried

He married Constance Goldsmith in 1955, and in 1960 they moved 10 miles east to Garden City, in Nassau County.

William Busteed

Busteed and Gideon were among the first men convicted during the Nassau County's seven-month campaign against illegal gambling known as the "John Doe inquiry".


DuPont-Guest Estate

DuPont-Guest Estate, now known as the DeSeversky Center of New York Institute of Technology's Old Westbury campus, is a historic estate located at Brookville in Nassau County, New York.

Five Families

In the state of New York the families have increased their criminal rackets in Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk) and the counties of Westchester, Rockland and Albany.

George C. Pratt

After a two-year term clerking for a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Pratt spent two decades, from 1955 to 1976, as a lawyer in private practice in Nassau County, New York.

Hofstra Arena

Hofstra University Men's Basketball has developed an excellent fan base on Long Island, especially in Nassau County, as it has posted 20-win seasons over the past 4 years under head coach Tom Pecora.

New York City blackout of 1977

Also, although much of New York City was still without power, Belmont Park (a racetrack on the border of Queens and Nassau County in Elmont) did stage their scheduled racing program that afternoon in front of a relatively sparse crowd, as many thought racing would be cancelled that day due to the blackout (this is famously described in Andrew Beyer's book My $50,000 Year at the Races).

New York State Route 106

Just north of the local high school, NY 106 intersects with Old Country Road (CR 25) before entering downtown Hicksville.

New York State Route 107

NY 107 begins at an intersection with Merrick Road (CR 27) in the town of Massapequa as a northern continuation of Division Street, also present at this intersection.

Rockaway Beach, Queens

His idea was to connect the Marine Parkway Bridge with the Atlantic Beach Bridge, which connected the Rockaway Peninsula to Nassau County.

Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center

On February 14, 2006, Nassau County Executive, Thomas Suozzi announced that Hempstead Transit Center would be renamed in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.