Editing Plainview, New York (section)

==Estates==
Plainview was home to several grand [[North Shore (Long Island)|Gold Coast]] estates.

* The Schwarzenbach Estate. Robert Schwarzenbach 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, operated for many years as Malarkey's Tavern. The building presently houses a veterinarian's office. In addition, until the 1990s, a second building was still standing. This building, which had been the estate's chicken coop, was converted into a residence, where the gardener mentioned above eventually 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 successful New York City attorney, Edwin Paul Shattuck, who lived there until he died in the 1960s. He was a member of the Shattuck family which owned the [[Frank G. Shattuck Company]]. The company operated, among other things, a restaurant chain known as [[Schrafft's|Schrafft Foods]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0914FA3B541B728DDDAC0994DB405B878FF1D3&scp=1&sq=frank+shattuck+schrafft&st=p |title=FRANK G. SHATTUCK OF SCHRAFFT'S DIES|author=Unknown|date=1937-03-15 |access-date=2008-04-04 |newspaper=NY Times}}</ref> Mr. Shattuck was personal attorney for President Herbert Hoover. They were best friends and died within three days of each other. The property, which totals approximately {{convert|138|acre|km2}}, was almost developed in the 1970s until community activists forced the county to purchase the property and leave it as a nature preserve.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saveamericasforests.org/news/NewsdayLILifeCover.htm|title=Newsday LI Life Cover Story|website=www.saveamericasforests.org}}</ref> It is located on Washington Avenue and has no signage to indicate its presence. The property's main house was demolished in September 2013. A portion of the property now houses the AHRC's Helen Kaplan Project, a program for developmentally disabled adults.
* The property known as the Nassau County Office Complex, located between the split of Old Country Road and Round Swamp Road, was once home to the Nassau County Sanitarium, a tuberculosis ward. Built on the Taliaferro Estate, primarily in Old Bethpage, the sanitarium was authorized by the [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County Board of Supervisors]] in 1930, and was completed in the early part of the same decade.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nassaulibrary.org/bethpage/cphs/cphs-n.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517112652/http://www.nassaulibrary.org/bethpage/cphs/cphs-n.html|url-status=dead |title=Encyclopedia of the Unincorporated Village of Bethpage|archivedate=May 17, 2008|website=www.nassaulibrary.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0911F83C5A13738DDDAC0994DC405B828FF1D3 |title=$5,000,000 Bonds For Nassau County |author=Unknown|date=1932-04-14 |access-date=2008-03-31|newspaper=NY Times}}</ref> As tuberculosis was brought under control, the complex of [[Georgian style]] buildings was closed in the 1960s.<ref name=Rehab>{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0911F83C5A13738DDDAC0994DC405B828FF1D3 |title=Beyond the Drunk Tank |author=McMorrow, Fred |date=1976-11-07|access-date=2008-04-03|newspaper=NY Times}}</ref> Following its closure, the facility was given over to mixed use, including the establishment of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in 1976 and a branch of the [[Cornell University|Cornell Cooperative Extension]].<ref name="Rehab" /><ref>[http://www.ny-camping-review.com/?id=302775&n=nassau+county+ofcs+%26+institutions+-+cornell+cooperative+extension+of+nassau+county&t=hotel NY Camping Review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714215134/http://www.ny-camping-review.com/?id=302775&n=nassau+county+ofcs+&+institutions+-+cornell+cooperative+extension+of+nassau+county&t=hotel |date=2011-07-14 }}</ref> In 1999, [[Charles Wang]], founder of [[Computer Associates]] purchased the {{convert|144|acre|km2|adj=on}} property from the county for $23 million.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/topic/ny-bzwang0601,0,6017383.story |title=The Long Island and New York City News Source |newspaper=Newsday |date=2008-02-20 |access-date=2010-12-20 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Included in the purchase was 1535 Old Country Road, which at one point housed the corporate offices of the [[New York Islanders]] and [[New York Dragons]], both of which were owned by Wang. In addition, the building was home to the Plainview Chinese Cultural Center, an organization founded by Wang.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list/?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-18-2001/0001406814&EDATE=|title=All News Releases and Press Releases from PR Newswire|website=www.prnewswire.com}}</ref> Currently, the site is the home of Country Pointe at Plainview, which mainly hosts senior condos and retail space.