YOU AIN'T WHERE YOU THINK YOU ARE

by Walter Greenspan

The USPS uses non-conforming postal zones -- now referred to as ZIP Codes -- and this leads to severe geographic confusions about where a particular place may be located in the cities, villages and hamlets of Nassau and Suffolk
Counties.  Of all 293 communities located on Long Island, only the Village of Sea Cliff in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County and its same-named postal zone have identical borders.  All the other postal zones in either county have a
different border from the community (city, village or hamlet) whose name the postal zone "shares".

The following should help you understand better the confusion between postal zone community and true community -- and, it may also bring a smile or two to your lips: This is a preliminary and partial listing of famous Long Island places that are "Not Where You Think They Are". It's somewhat incredulous that the majority of places in Nassau and Suffolk Counties have a different community name in
their mailing address than the community they are actually in,

………You Ain't Where You Think You Are
………….Place, Community (Postal Zone)

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Hamlet of Yaphank (Upton, New York)
Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium, Village of Laurel Hollow (Cold
Spring Harbor, New York)
Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Village of Laurel Hollow (Cold Spring Harbor, New York)
Christopher Morley Park, Village of North Hills (Roslyn, New York)
C.W. Post University, Village of Brookville (Greenvale, New York)
Fishers Island, Hamlet of Fishers Island (Fishers Island, CT)
Hofstra University Dorms, Hamlet of East Garden City (Hempstead, New York)
Jericho Cider Mill, Village of Muttontown (Jericho, New York)
Leonard's of Great Neck, Hamlet of University Gardens (Great Neck, New York)
Long Island Jewish Hospital, Village of Lake Success (New Hyde Park, New York)
Long Island RR Station, Village of Great Neck Plaza (Great Neck, New York)
Long Island RR Station, Hamlet of East Northport (Northport, New York)
Nassau Executive Building, Village of Garden City (Mineola, New York)
Nassau County Community College, Hamlet of East Garden City (Garden City, New York)
Nassau County Supreme Court, Village of Garden City (Mineola, New York)
Planting Fields Arboretum, Village of Upper Brookville (Oyster Bay, New York)
Republic Airport, Hamlet of East Farmingdale (Farmingdale, New York)
Roosevelt Field, Hamlet of East Garden City (Westbury, New York)
Sagamore Hill, Village of Cove Neck (Oyster Bay, New York)
St. Francis Hospital, Village of Flower Hill (Roslyn, New York)
SUNY Farmingdale, Hamlet of East Farmingdale (Farmingdale, New York)
Suffolk Old County Seat, Hamlet of Riverside (Riverhead, New York)
Sunrise Mall, Hamlet of East Massapequa (Massapequa, New York)
Tilles Center, Village of Brookville (Greenvale, New York)
Troop L, NYS Police, Hamlet of East Farmingdale (Farmingdale, New York)
Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, Hamlet of East Garden City (Uniondale, New York)
Walt Whitman House, Hamlet of West Hills (Huntington Station, New York)
Walt Whitman Mall, Hamlet of South Huntington (Huntington Station, New York)
Westbury Music Fair, Hamlet of Jericho (Westbury, New York)

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