Farmingdale, New York

Farmingdale
—  Village  —
Bethpage State Park, located almost entirely in Old Bethpage, just outside the Village of Farmingdale, is served by the Farmingdale Post Office.
U.S. Census Map
Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 40°44′0″N 73°26′42″W / 40.733333°N 73.445°W / 40.733333; -73.445Coordinates: 40°44′0″N 73°26′42″W / 40.733333°N 73.445°W / 40.733333; -73.445
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Nassau
Postal Address	1845
Village	1904
Area
– Total	1.1 sq mi (2.9 km2)
– Land	1.1 sq mi (2.9 km2)
– Water	0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation	69 ft (21 m)
Population (2010)
– Total	8,189
– Density	7,313.6/sq mi (2,823.8/km2)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
– Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	11735
Area code(s)	516
FIPS code	36-25384
GNIS feature ID	0949918
Website	Village of Farmingdale.com

The Village of Farmingdale is an incorporated village on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 8,189 at the 2010 census.

As of 2008^[update] the mayor is George Starkie.^[1]

Areas outside the Village also properly known as Farmingdale

Farmingdale is also associated with several unincorporated areas outside the village limits, including South Farmingdale (also in the Town of Oyster Bay within Nassau County), and East Farmingdale (in the Town of Babylon within Suffolk County). Many nearby places not within the village limits have Farmingdale as their postal address and the same 11735 ZIP code. Residents of East Farmingdale must use Farmingdale as their mailing address, and residents of South Farmingdale can use either Farmingdale or South Farmingdale. Bethpage State Park, which is mostly in Old Bethpage, also has a Farmingdale mailing address. Farmingdale Union Free School District (UFSD 22) includes parts of both Nassau County and Suffolk County. A road sign on Main Street in the south-east section of South Farmingdale (and over a mile from the Village of Farmingdale) welcomes travelers to Farmingdale. Farmingdale is also the name of the local Farmingdale Water District and Farmingdale Fire District, both of which also include areas outside the boundaries of the Village of Farmingdale. Farmingdale State College and Republic Airport are in East Farmingdale, both with Farmingdale mailing addresses.

History

Further information: Bethpage Purchase

The first European settler in the area was Thomas Powell, who arrived in 1687. On October 18, 1695, he purchased a 15-square-mile (39 km²) tract of land from three Native American tribes. This is known as the Bethpage Purchase and includes what is now Farmingdale, as well as Bethpage, Melville, North Massapequa, Old Bethpage, Plainedge, and Plainview. One of two houses he built in the area (circa 1700) still stands on Merritts Road in Farmingdale.

In the 1830s, anticipating construction of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between a community then known as Bethpage and an area in Suffolk County called Hardscrabble.^[2][3] He built a general store in the western part of this property which he named Farmingdale. When the LIRR started service to the area in October 1841,^[4][5] it used the name Farmingdale for its latest stop, here, on the line it was building to Greenport. Stagecoaches took people from the Farmingdale station to Islip, Babylon, Patchogue, Oyster Bay South, and West Neck (Huntington area). A post office opened July 31, 1845 using the name Farmingdale.^[6] The name Hardscrabble continued to appear on maps for the area further east in Suffolk County.^[7]

In 1886 a fire department was organized. The Village of Farmingdale was incorporated in 1904. In 1912, the State Agricultural and Technical school was established. The Lenox Hills Country Club, an 18-hole private golf course designed by Devereaux Emmet, was developed north of the community in 1923. This golf course was purchased by the State of New York, expanded and opened as Bethpage State Park in 1932. Later, Farmingdale became a locus for the aircraft industry, notably Republic Aviation Company.

In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy rode a bicycle along the Long Island Rail Road's Central Branch through the Farmingdale area at a mile a minute.

Geography

Farmingdale is located at 40°44′0″N 73°26′42″W / 40.733333°N 73.445°W / 40.733333; -73.445 (40.733471, -73.445083)^[8].

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²), all of it land.

Between the 1990 Census and the 2000 census, the village gained territory.^[9]

Transportation

Farmingdale is served by the Republic Airport, a major general aviation reliever to the east of New York City; Long Island Bus routes N70, N71 and N72; and the Long Island Rail Road's Farmingdale station. Major roads are New York State routes 24 (Conklin Street), 109 (Fulton Street), and 110 (Broad Hollow Road).

Demographics

As of the census^[10] of 2000, there were 8,399 people, 3,216 households, and 2,051 families residing in the village. The population density was 7,432.2 people per square mile (2,869.8/km²). There were 3,289 housing units at an average density of 2,910.4 per square mile (1,123.8/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 87.03% White, 1.61% African American, 0.12% Native American, 3.70% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 5.06% from other races, and 2.43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.57% of the population.

There were 3,216 households out of which 28.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.2% were non-families. 29.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.19.

In the village the population was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 35.2% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $58,411, and the median income for a family was $68,235. Males had a median income of $46,104 versus $36,021 for females. The per capita income for the village was $27,492. About 3.0% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.5% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over.

Notable citizens

• Gregory W. Carman, US Congressman
• Ryan Cruthers, Professional hockey player
• William Gaddis, U.S. novelist
• Peter J. Ganci, Jr. (1946–2001) Chief of Department of the FDNY who died during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
• George Hincapie, Professional bicycle racer
• Howard T. Hogan, New York State Supreme Court Justice
• George F. Titterton, (1904–1998) Senior Vice President, Grumman Corporation
• Joe Pepitone, former New York Yankees baseball player
• SallyAnn Salsano producer of MTV reality shows including Jersey Shore via her 495 Productions company named for the interstate passing by the community.
• Ron Swoboda, former New York Mets baseball player
• Rob Bartlett, Actor, Writer, Comedian
• Ryan Wilson, Professional stunter.
• William T. Schwendler, (1904–1978) Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Board, Grumman Corporation
• Mike Gomez, Professional wrestler
• Ed Kranepool, original New York Mets, esided in South Farmingdale, New York.
• Matt Danowski, Professional Lacrosse player, and former Duke University Lacrosse star

Colleges

• State University of New York at Farmingdale, 2350 Broadhollow Rd, Farmingdale, NY 11735-1021 www.farmingdale.edu

Footnotes

1. ^ Village of Farmingdale - Elected Officials
2. ^ W.W. Mather, geologist of the First District of New York, from the topographical surveys of J. Calvin Smith (1842?). "Geological map of Long & Staten islands with the environs of New York". New York Public Library. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=252877&imageID=434024&word=long%20island%201842&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=0&imgs=12&total=2&pos=1.  (The location marked Bethpage is near Merritts Road, just north of the Bethpage Turnpike. An unbounded area further east in Suffolk County is marked Hardscrabble. The map is dated 1842 with a question mark. Neither Farmingdale nor Hicksville appears on the map. The Hicksville LIRR station opened in 1837, and its absence suggests an earlier date for the map. The LIRR also had taken a different route east of Hicksville, arriving in Farmingdale in 1841.)
3. ^ Eddy, John Henry (1839). "Map of the country thirty miles round the city of New York". NY Public Library. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?trg=1&strucID=253266&imageID=434634&total=20&num=12&parent_id=854859&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&imgs=12&pos=14&snum=.  (The location marked Bethpage extends into Suffolk County. This is in accord with maps of the Bethpage Purchase of 1695. This map shows Hicksville, where the LIRR had a station in 1837, but the planned route east of there was changed.)
4. ^ "The Long Delay at Hicksville". Newsday. http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs515c,0,6895555.story. 
5. ^ "Brooklyn Eagle v1, #1 (LIRR timetable)". Brooklyn Eagle. 1841-10-26. http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=BE&BaseHref=BEG/1841/10/29&PageLabel=&EntityId=Ar00116&ViewMode=GIF.  (Whether "late Bethpage" is meant to indicate a flag stop at the community near Merritts Road, or that the area near the Farmingdale LIRR station had lately been called Bethpage has not yet been determined.)
6. ^ David Roberts. "Nassau County Post Offices 1794-1879". http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Civil/Nassau.P.O.html. Retrieved 2008-04-07.  John L. Kay & Chester M. Smith, Jr. (1982). New York Postal History: The Post Offices & First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980. American Philatelic Society. 
7. ^ "1857 Map of Long Island". Library of Congress. 1857. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd/gmd380/g3802/g3802l/ct001632.jp2&style=gmd&itemLink=D?gmd:5:./temp/~ammem_URtT::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,scsm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mffbib,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,mfdipbib,afcnyebib,klpmap,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,wright,lhbtnbib&title=Travellers%20map%20of%20Long%20Island.  (Hardscrabble again appears in Suffolk County. Several maps in the 1840s mistakenly showed Farmingdale where Hardscrabble is on this map.)
8. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23. 
9. ^ "New York: 2000 Population and Housing Unit Counts". September 2003. p. III-9. http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-34.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-22. 
10. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 

See also

• Stern's Pickle Works
• Saint Charles Cemetery

External links

• Farmingdale official website
• Village history
• Farmingdale-Bethpage Historical Society website
• Farmingdale Public School District website
• Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce website
• Detailed Zoning Map of Village