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Woodmere, New York
Hamlet and census-designated place
Location in Nassau County and the state of New York.
Location in Nassau County and the state of New York.
Woodmere, New York is located in New York
Woodmere, New York
Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 40°38′10″N 73°43′10″W / 40.63611°N 73.71944°W / 40.63611; -73.71944
Country United States
State New York
CountyNassau
Area
 • Total
7.0 km2 (2.7 sq mi)
 • Land6.6 km2 (2.6 sq mi)
 • Water0.4 km2 (0.1 sq mi)
Elevation
7 m (23 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total
17,121
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
11598
Area code516
FIPS code36-82942[1]
GNIS feature ID0971684[2]

Woodmere is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 17,554 at the 2016 census.[3]

Woodmere is one of the Long Island communities known as the Five Towns, which is usually said to comprise the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, the hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood, and "The Hewletts", which consist of the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck and the hamlet of Hewlett, along with Woodsburgh.[4] Woodmere is in the Town of Hempstead and is represented by Councilman Bruce Blakeman (Republican, 3rd District).

Education

Part of the community is in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District (District 14), with the rest served by the Lawrence Public Schools (District 15).

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) Elementary School for grades 1-8 is a Jewish day school that moved in March 2017 from Long Beach to Woodmere. Their all-boys high school, known as the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys (DRS), is also located in Woodmere.

Lawrence Woodmere Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade 12 coeducational preparatory school.

Fire department

The Woodmere Volunteer Fire Department has served Woodmere since 1889. It provides Fire, Rescue, and Advanced Life Support to Woodmere. It has approximately 75 volunteer members.

Geography

U.S. Census Map

Woodmere is located at 40°38′10″N 73°43′10″W / 40.636236°N 73.719542°W / 40.636236; -73.719542.[5]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2), of which, 2.6 square miles (6.6 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.4 km2) of it (5.19%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 17,121 people. The population density was 6,700 people per square mile. The percentage of family households is 86%. The racial makeup of the CDP was 84% White, 5.0% Black, 2.0% Asian, 0% Pacific Islander, 1.0% from other races, and 7% Hispanic.[6]

Woodmere has become home to many Modern Orthodox Jewish families who have established a number of synagogues in Woodmere and throughout much of the Five Towns.

There were 5,349 households out of which 38.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.5% were married couples living together, 5.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.4% were non-families. Of all households 13.7% were made up of individuals and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.01 and the average family size was 3.32.

In the CDP, the population was spread out with 28.0% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 23.2% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.6 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $93,212, and the median income for a family was $119,402. Males had a median income of $76,266 versus $41,393 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $41,699. About 3.5% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.1% of those under age 18 and 4.0% of those age 65 or over.

Transportation

The Woodmere station provides Long Island Rail Road service on the Far Rockaway Branch. There are also two Nassau Inter-County Express bus routes that go through Woodmere: the N31 route and N32 route. The MTA Bus Company route Q114 uses the Rockaway Turnpike.

Climate

Woodmere has a wet and cold winter, with a warm and moderately dry summer.[citation needed] The average high is 83 in July and 39 in January. The average low in January is 24 and in July 67. The record high is 104 in July 1966, and the record low is −12 in 1985 and 1994.The rainest month is May, and the driest is August. Woodmere is prone to droughts from late July until mid- September. Woodmere receives around 22 inches of snow a year in a normal winter. Woodmere can get strong to severe thunderstorms, and is prone to flooding in the early fall and late spring. It has been hit by tornadoes twice, in 1985 and 1998.

Woodmere was hit by Hurricane Gloria in 1985, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, and Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy in 2012.

Notable people

Notable current and former residents of Woodmere include:

References

  1. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ "Census profile: Woodmere, NY". Census Reporter. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  4. ^ Barron, James. "IF YOU'RE THINKING OF LIVING IN: FIVE TOWNS", The New York Times, July 10, 1983. Accessed May 20, 2008. "The basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood. But the area also includes some unincorporated communities and two tiny villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total."
  5. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  6. ^ "Races Percentage". City Data. Onboard Informatics. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
  7. ^ LaGorce, Tammy. "Neighborhood Storytelling", The New York Times, July 13, 2008. Accessed July 29, 2008. "On Long Island, David A. Adler, 61, the author of the 'Cam Jansen' series of young-detective chapter books for Penguin since 1971, draws on his experience as a former middle-school math teacher and on visits to schools around his Woodmere home to inform his plucky heroine’s adventures."
  8. ^ Bessen, Jeff. "Building a lifelong comedy laugh track; Harrison Greenbaum performs stand-up comedy", Long Island Herald, August 18, 2010. Accessed January 15, 2017. "A funny thing really did happen to Woodmere native Harrison Greenroom on his way to a mainstream profession, the Lawrence High School valedictorian and Harvard summa cum laude graduate detoured into stand-up comedy."
  9. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "INTERVIEW; Her Winning Way With Fashion", The New York Times, October 16, 1977. Accessed September 15, 2008. "And suddenly, at the age of 29, Donna Karan, who grew up in Woodmere, Who lied about her age to begin selling women's clothes at 14 in Cedarhurst, and who now lives in Lawrence, was at the top of her fashion world."
  10. ^ Kominsky-Crumb, Aline. (2007). Need More Love. New York: MQ Publications. ISBN 1-84601-133-7
  11. ^ [1], The New York Sun, January 10, 2008, accessed January 29, 2017. "died of heart failure at his home in Woodmere, N.Y."
  12. ^ Cavanaugh, Jack. "A TENNIS TOURNAMENT SERVES SOME ACES", The New York Times, August 23, 1987. Accessed December 22, 2007. "Most of what rooting interest developed focused on the closest thing to a homegrown product in the competition, Gene Mayer of Woodmere."
  13. ^ Harvey Milk, Hero and Martyr, KQED-TV, accessed April 11, 2007. "Harvey Milk was born in 1930 in Woodmere, Long Island, New York."
  14. ^ Amarelo, Monica. "Gerard Piel, Former Publisher of Scientific American, Dies at Age 89", American Association for the Advancement of Science, September 8, 2004. "Piel was born into a brewing family, Piel Brothers Brewery, on March 1, 1915, in Woodmere, NY."
  15. ^ Coen, Andrew. " Q&A: WFAN's Evan Roberts' Persistence Paid Off; Former Five Towner and sports radio co-host talks with Patch about his successful career.", Five Towns Patch, July 25, 2011. Accessed January 15, 2017. "Woodmere native Evan Roberts has successful pursued his passion for covering sports since graduating in 2001 by serving as a co-host on WFAN's Midday Show for the last four years."
  16. ^ Sackett, Shmuel. "Hooray for High Tuitions!", Manhigut Yehudit, Sivan 5765 / June 2005. Accessed April 11, 2007. "It is a solution my wife and I did back in 1990 when we lived in Woodmere, NY (one of the "Five Towns") and had just 3 school aged children... and every one of them thanked us for it. We moved to Israel!"
  17. ^ http://www.norwoodnews.org/id=1339&story=a-look-at-the-pinnacle-players-and-their-bronx-buildings/
  18. ^ Capuzzo, Jill L. "From 'Saturday Night Live' to '700 Sundays'", The New York Times, December 12, 2004. Accessed July 31, 2007. "As the funny kid in the neighborhood, Mr. Zweibel – born in Brooklyn and reared in Woodmere, on Long Island – first tried his hand at writing jokes while at the University of Buffalo, mailing them to Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett."
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