Hempstead
Hempstead is the most populous town in the state of New York.
Hempstead is the most populous town in the state of New York. It is the largest of the three towns within Nassau County, located on Long Island, immediately east of southern Queens. The population was 793,409 at the time of the 2020 United States census, and its highest decennial census count ever was back in the 1970 United States census, where the town recorded a population of 801,592, which also made it the ninth largest municipality in the country by population at that time.
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Worth seeing in and around Hempstead
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, on Long Island. The venue is situated approximately 7 miles east of the eastern limits of the borough of Queens in New York City, adjacent to the Meadowbrook Parkway.
3 km · Indoor arena on Long Island, New York · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Rockville Centre
The Diocese of Rockville Centre is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Long Island region of the State of New York in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York.
4.9 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 03Adelphi University
Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York, United States. Adelphi also has centers in Downtown Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County in addition to a virtual, online campus for remote students.
3.4 km · university in Garden City, New York · Wikipedia - 04St. Agnes Cathedral
St. Agnes Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Rockville Centre, New York, in the United States.
5.6 km · church in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 05James M. Shuart Stadium
The James M. Shuart Stadium is an 11,929-seat multi-purpose stadium and sports facility, the facility serves as the home to Hofstra's lacrosse teams on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. First opened in 1963, and remodeled in 1996 and 2013, it was known as "Hofstra Stadium" until August 29, 2002, when it was renamed after the former president of Hofstra University, who played lacrosse and football during his undergraduate years at the school.
2.1 km · stadium in the United States · Wikipedia - 06Roosevelt Field
Roosevelt Field is a shopping mall in the East Garden City section of Uniondale, New York. It is the largest shopping mall on Long Island, the second-largest in the state of New York, and the eleventh-largest shopping mall in the United States.
3.8 km · shopping mall in East Garden City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 07Eisenhower Park
Eisenhower Park – officially known as Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Park and formerly as Salisbury Park – is a public park in East Meadow, in Nassau County, New York, United States. It is bordered by Hempstead Turnpike on the south and Old Country Road on the north.
5 km · public park in East Meadow, New York · Wikipedia - 08Molloy University
Molloy University is a private Catholic university in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. Initially founded as a school for women, it is now co-educational.
2.2 km · private Catholic university in Long Island, New York · Wikipedia - 09Nassau Boulevard
Nassau Boulevard is a station on the west side of Nassau Boulevard in Garden City, New York. It is one of five Long Island Rail Road stations located within the village.
4.3 km · LIRR station in Garden City, New York · Wikipedia - 10Cradle of Aviation Museum
The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in the East Garden City section of Uniondale, New York on Long Island, established to commemorate Long Island's part in the history of aviation. It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights.
3.1 km · aviation museum in Garden City, New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hempstead
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 15 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 23 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 47 km
- Stations
- Merillon Avenue, 5.1 km · Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center, 1.2 km · Stewart Manor, 5.8 km · Country Life Press, 2.1 km · Hempstead Gardens, 2.7 km
- Newark → Hempstead47 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · $4.5–6
- Hartford → Hempstead141 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · $15–20
- Philadelphia → Hempstead155 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · $15–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hempstead
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hempstead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Hempstead
Hempstead is 19 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.