Bethpage, NY (New York)
11714
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Bethpage is a hamlet in Nassau County, NY. Bethpage is within the Town of Oyster Bay with its own school district. The Zip code for most of the hamlet is 11714, though the most northeastern part of Bethpage is in the Old Bethpage postal district of 11804.
Early names for the area include Bedelltown, Jerusalem, and Jerusalem Station. From about 1867 until 1936, it was known as Central Park. In 1936, the name was changed to Bethpage in order to avoid confusion with Central Park in Manhattan. The name Bethpage was already in use for the nearby Bethpage State Park and the small, adjacent community of Bethpage.
For many years Bethpage was home to the Grumman Corporation which made, among other things, the F-14 Tomcat, The Hellcat, The Avenger, The Wildcat and the Apollo Lunar Module for moon landings. (Bethpage is thus mentioned in the film Apollo 13.) Cablevision is headquartered in Grumman's former main office.
Bethpage State Park offers five golf courses to choose from. One of them, the black course, was the site of the U.S. Open in 2002 and will again be the site for the upcoming event in 2009. Tiger Woods won the event in 2002. While much of the park and its five golf courses are located within Bethpage and Old Bethpage.
Bethpage Water District was announced as the best tasting drinking water in New York State at the state fair in Syracuse in 2006!
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