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Beginnings: Meroke Indians were the first human inhabitants of the South Shore between the Rockaway peninsula and the Seaford area. By 1660 the area was called Hick's Neck, in honor of English settler John Hicks. The community got its start in 1686, when the Town of Hempstead gave John Pine permission to build a mill. It soon became the focus of what was then called Milburn, but in 1855 the hamlet changed its name to Baldwinsville in honor of Francis P. Baldwin, a state assemblyman and Queens County treasurer. Because an upstate village was already named Baldwinsville, the post office shortened it first to Baldwins and then to Baldwin.
Beginnings: Meroke Indians were the first human inhabitants of the South Shore between the Rockaway peninsula and the Seaford area. By 1660 the area was called Hick's Neck, in honor of English settler John Hicks. The community got its start in 1686, when the Town of Hempstead gave John Pine permission to build a mill. It soon became the focus of what was then called Milburn, but in 1855 the hamlet changed its name to Baldwinsville in honor of Francis P. Baldwin, a state assemblyman and Queens County treasurer. Because an upstate village was already named Baldwinsville, the post office shortened it first to Baldwins and then to Baldwin.
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Obama advisers could include five with New York ties
jennifer.kelleher@newsday.comThere's the senator from upstate Chappaqua, the financial whiz president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan, a Queens native turned federal prosecutor, the Bronx borough president and a legislative guru with roots in Baldwin. When all is in place,...Tags: Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, The White House, Georgia, Steve Israel
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Man arrested after cop dog finds him in Baldwin house
matthew.chayes@newsday.comA police dog found a man hiding in the basement of a Baldwin home Wednesday after a house alarm summoned help, authorities said. Larry Britt, of the Bronx, is charged with going into a home on Center Drive through a broken side window sometime before 11:...Tags: Crimes, Police, House and Home
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Credit union advantages
As the banking industry stumbles through the crisis that has gripped the financial world, consumers have a viable alternative to a traditional bank: a credit union. Credit unions can have important competitive advantages over banks. For example, as...Tags: West Babylon, Employees, Long Island, Garden City Park, Loans
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LIRR doomsday budget could delay fixing gaps
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority's doomsday budget would delay completion of the Long Island Rail Road's efforts to fix dangerous gaps between platforms and train cars by as much as two years by cutting the number of workers on the project,...Tags: Helena Williams, Hillary Clinton, Vehicles, Traffic, Long Island Rail Road
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Schools: Western Suffolk
Eighth-graders at Howard T. Herber Middle School in Malverne spent a week cataloging the migration of the monarch butterfly last month through Monarch Watch, a University of Kansas-sponsored network of students, teachers and volunteers dedicated to the...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, East Meadow, Long Beach (Nassau, New York), Locust Valley, Elementary Schools
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Cops: 4 charged in Baldwin crime spree
joseph.mallia@newsday.comFour teens were arrested on gun possession and robbery charges after they went on a crime spree in Baldwin for several hours late Saturday and early Sunday, Nassau police said. Arrested were Isiah Cust, 19, of Baldwin; Jovan Finch, 19, of Island Park;...Tags: Vehicles, Island Park, Personal Weapon Control, Juvenile Delinquency, Gun Control
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Suozzi, on the long and short of Long Beach
Spin CycleNassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi was speaking to a group of Baldwin residents Tuesday night and asked for a show of hands on some options for a plot of vacant land. ???Can I vote twice???? one woman asked Suozzi. ???Only......Tags: Nassau County, Long Beach (Nassau, New York), Beach Vacations
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Poll: Tired of warfare, LIers want troops brought home
dave.marcus@newsday.comLong Islanders are tired of seeing America wage two wars and want troops to come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Newsday poll found. Nearly two-thirds want a timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq. That overwhelming sentiment echoes the opinions of...Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Patrick Kelly, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Long Island
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School news: Massapequa students go to preserve
More than 650 students at McKenna Elementary School in Massapequa are boosting their knowledge of environmental science by using the Massapequa Park Preserve as their open-air classroom through the Brookhaven National Laboratory's Open Space Stewardship...Tags: East Meadow, Plainview, Lawrence, John F. Kennedy, Awards and Prizes
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Fast chat: Jonathan Demme
Special to NewsdayJonathan Demme has long had one of the most interesting careers in the film business. An Oscar-winning director ("The Silence of the Lambs"), the 64-year-old Demme has also enjoyed success as a concert filmmaker ("Stop Making Sense"), documentarian ("...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Roger Corman, Neil Young, Long Island, Jimmy Carter
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'Mad Men,' '30 Rock' take top awards at Emmys
verne.gay@newsday.comSo, a "Mad" night after all. Engrossing, brilliantly acted and written, yet low-rated, AMC's " Mad Men" wasn't necessarily a lock to win commercial TV's highest honor Sunday night. But win it did: The show, about advertising business in the 1960s, became...Tags: Theater, Emmy Awards, Tina Fey, Kathy Griffin, Damages (tv program)
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