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West Hempstead is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 19,835 at the time of the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
1897 map of Hempstead, including the West Hempstead Branch before it was truncated south of Hempstead Avenue. The West Hempstead Branch was the indirect successor to the old South Side Railroad's Southern Hempstead Branch, which ran a similar route north from Valley Stream to Hempstead, before being torn up in the 1880s.
West Hempstead Station was rebuilt in 1928 on the north side of Hempstead Avenue and relocated onto the south side of the road on September 15, 1935. The 1935 station house ran directly along a loop driveway in front of Hempstead Avenue with a canopy leading from the back door to a second canopy along the platform of the tracks.
Hempstead is part of New York's 2nd and 4th Congressional Districts. CD-2, represented by Andrew Garbarino (R-Sayville), is the southern and eastern portions of the town, while CD-4 covers the town's southwest corner, and has been represented since 2025 by Laura Gillen (D). Hempstead is in parts of New York's 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Senatorial ...
History [ edit ] Aurora Plastics Corporation was founded in March 1950 by engineer Joseph E. Giammarino (1916–1992) and businessman Abe Shikes (1908–1986) in Brooklyn , New York (moving to West Hempstead , Long Island in 1954), as a contract manufacturer of injection molded plastics.
The Island Garden Arena was a 5,200-seat arena in West Hempstead, New York. It was built in 1957 by Arnold "Whitey" Carlson, [1] a descendant of Swedish immigrants. Carlson's grandfather was Henrik Carlson, a noted San Diego sculptor who was the Foreign Art Director for the San Diego Exposition (now Balboa Park).
Country Life Press station has some former rights-of-way that led to the West Hempstead and the Oyster Bay Branches. [5] It also included the remnants of the Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road that terminated near Nassau Coliseum.
Hempstead may have been named after Hemel Hempstead in the English county of Hertfordshire, where village founder John Carman was born. [7] Another theory regarding the origin of the village's name is that it is derived from the town of Heemstede in the Netherlands, as this was an area from which many Dutch settlers of New Netherland originated.