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Plainview is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 25,637 at the 2000 census.

Plainview and its neighboring hamlet, Old Bethpage, share a school system, library, fire department and water district. Law enforcement for the community is provided by the Nassau County Police Department's Second Precinct.

School System

The Plainview- Old Bethpage Central school district contains one high school named Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, two middle schools named Howard B. Mattlin and Plainview Old Bethpage Middle School, and four elementary schools named Parkway (due to its proximity to the Northern State Parkway), Old Bethpage, Pasadena, and Stratford Road. There is also one Kindergarten Center, a school just for kindergarteners located next to, but connected to Stratford Road Elementary School. The school district currently has a budget deficit of $1.6 million.

History

Two schools in Plainview have had the name Manetto Hill Road School. The original building was a one room school house, built in 1899. This building, which still stands, is adjacent to the much larger school of the same name, which was built in the 1950's. Today, both buildings are owned by the Mid-Island Y-JCC. The original building is immediately north of the JCC. The entrance to the building is on the front left side, but if you look closely on the right side opposite the entrance, you'll see the outline of what had been another door. When originally built, the building had separate entrances for boys and girls. The right door, now sealed off, was the girls entrance.

The Plainview-Old Bethpage School District was referred to as Central School District #4 until the 1970's.

Plainview once had two high schools, Plainview-Old Bethpage High School (built 1960) and John F. Kennedy High School (built 1968), the schools were merged in 1992. Plainview-Old Bethpage High School is now Plainview Old Bethpage Middle School.

Old Bethpage also had its own one room school house, named the Little Red Schoolhouse. This building, which stood until the 1970's, was located, appropriately enough, on Schoolhouse Road, just off of Round Swamp Road. The building was torn down and the property developed into several houses.

Closed Schools

Fern Place (now the Association for Children with Down Syndrome)
Jamaica Avenue (now a day care center and a volunteer firefighter training center)
Joyce Road (now the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County)
Manetto Hill Road (now the offices of the Mid-Island Y JCC of Plainview)
Manetto Hill Road (now the Mid-Island Y JCC of Plainview- Main Building)
Central Park Road (demolished)
The Little Red School House (demolished)
Oak Drive (demolished)

Recreation

Parks

Plainview has numerous community parks tucked in between homes. Its primary park is the Plainview-Old Bethpage Community Park, located on Washington Avenue. This park features an olympic size pool, a childrens pool, baseball/softball fields, tennis courts, racketball/handball courts, basketball courts and trails through its woods. During the summer the park runs a concession stand. All parks in Plainview are administered Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums. In addition, the town is home to a nature preserve called the Manetto Hills Park. This undeveloped parkland was the formerly known as the Shattuck Estate.

Sports

Plainview Summer League Softball is a recreational softball league for citizens of the community. It provides many hours of enjoyment and exercise for young members of the community in the summer.

Plainview-Old Bethpage Highlanders Soccer Club is the Youth Soccer League.

The Mid Island Y JCC has many activities for youths as well as seniors.

Greater Long Island Runners Club, formerly known as the Plainview-Old Bethpage Roadrunners Club, is the largest runners club on Long Island.

Media

The PBS television station, WLIW, channel 21, broadcasts from Plainview.

Movies

Today if you want to see a movie in Plainview, you've got to go to Hollywood Video, but up until the 1980's there were several movie theaters in the community. Seeing their patrons go to the mutliplexes which were built in Hicksville and Commack, all the theaters were converted to office or retail use.

Century's Morton Village, Morton Village Shopping Center. This theater, located at the western end of the shopping center, was converted to retail space.
Old Country Theater. Located at the intersection of Old Country Road and Manetto Hill Road. This theater was immediately west of the Shell gas station. The building was converted to an office building, housing mostly medical offices.
RKO Plainview Twin. This movie theater was located behind the Plainview Centre on South Oyster Bay Road. This building was converted (and expanded) into today's Shoprite.
The Plainview, A Century Theater. This theater was located on South Oyster Bay road (facing the Plainview Centre, noted above). It was converted into an office building, housing mostly medical offices.

Trivia

Jeffrey Miller, one of four students killed in the Kent State Massacre, was born and raised in Plainview.
Plainview was home to at least two grand Gold Coast estates.
- The Schwarzenbach Estate. Robert Schwartzenbach was a very successful textile manufacturer, who purchased an estate on Manetto Hill. The house was demolished long ago to make way for homes, however, one outbuilding still exists. It is located in the Manetto Hills Shopping Center. This building, originally the home provided to the estate's gardener, was for many years, Malarkey's Tavern. The building is presently houses a veterinarian's office. In addition, until the 1990's, a second building was still standing. This building, which had been the estate's chicken coop, was converted into a residence, where the very gardener mentioned above, moved with his wife. It was located on Manetto Hill Road, just across from Nick Place.
- The Shattuck Estate. The Shattuck Estate was purchased by a successful New York City attorney, who lived there until he died in the 1960's. The property, which totals approximately 138 acres, was almost developed in the 1970's until community activists forced the county to purchase the property and leave it as a nature preserve. The property is located on Washington Avenue and has no signage to indicate its presence. The property's main house still exists. The Estate was once home to the family that owned Schraft Foods.

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Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 40.779911° -73.479483°
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Long Island New York is the largest island in the continental US. It is also by far the most populated with about 7.5 million residents in 2005. As of the United States 2000 Census, the total population of all four counties of Long Island was 7,448,618. New York City's portion of the census was 4,694,705, with Brooklyn's population at 2,465,326 and Queens having 2,229,379 residents. The combined population of Nassau and Suffolk counties was 2,753,913 people. It was the first census in which the population of the larger, less densely populated Suffolk County (1,419,369) surpassed that of Nassau County (1,334,544). With all these people there are still many rural parts in eastern Long Island. In many areas there is 1 acre zoning with beautiful tree lined streets. After World War II, there was a huge growth on Long Island with many GI’s wanting to live in the suburbs. Towns like Levittown sprang up over-night with affordable ranches and capes.

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Long Island earns is name from being disproportionably long at 118 miles, and only between 12 and 20 miles wide. Long Island is home to many beautiful beaches, with the Long Island Sound to the North, and the Atlantic Ocean to the South. To the western most portion of Long Island are Queens, and Kings County also know as Brooklyn. Most people consider Long Island to only include Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Nassau and Suffolk counties are very desirable places to live with high per capita incomes, good schools and the according to the FBI the second lowest crime rate in the country. Another great benefit for Long Island residents is its’ close proximity to Manhattan, you can be on Broadway, The Met, MOMA or Yankee stadium with relative ease. There is always something to do. Long Island is home to many golf courses for the avid golfer or the weekend duffer. To Find a home on a golf course visit www.LongIslandGolfProperties.com.

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The economy on Long Island is tied to Manhattan. This was never more apparent then after the September 11^th attacks on the world trade center. Many professionals who work in Manhattan chose to live on Long Island. The Gold Coast of Long Island’s North Shore is a favorite to many of the most successful of them. Long Island also has a high tech business community with companies like Computer Associates calling Long Island Home. To learn more visit www.longislandassociation.org or www.lieconomy.com. To find employment opportunities visit www.LiJobs.com or www.LiWork.com.

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Long Island has a climate that is very similar to other coastal areas of the Northeastern United States; it has warm, humid summers and cold winters, but the Atlantic Ocean helps bring afternoon sea breezes that temper the heat in the warmer months and limit the frequency and severity of thunderstorms. In the wintertime, temperatures are warmer than areas further inland (especially in the night and early morning hours), sometimes causing a snowstorm further inland to fall as rain on the island. However, measurable snow falls every winter, and in many winters one or more intense storms called Nor'easters produce blizzard conditions with snowfalls of 1-2 feet (30-60 cm) and near-hurricane force winds. Long Island temperatures also vary from west to east, with the western part of the island warmer on most occasions than the east. This is due to two factors; one because the western part is closer to the mainland and the other is the western part is more developed causing what is known as the "urban heat island" effect. The eastern part is cooler on most occasions due to the ocean and sound and it being less developed.

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