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=== Fight for incorporation === Before incorporation in 1962, the residents were banded together in a property ownersโ association. Before the incorporation, it turned over the deeds to the community's beaches to the Town of Hempstead and for a while, everything was fine.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|title=VILLAGE STATUS SOUGHT; Atlantic Beach to Request Nassau Incorporation| work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/08/29/79698222.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|access-date=April 8, 2020|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbDFOHLrN60C&q=Atlantic+beach|title=Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division|language=en}}</ref> However, according to Mayor Lager โ, the town tried to extend the use of the beaches to everyone in the town and we fought it.<ref>{{Cite news|date=August 12, 1968|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/12/76961344.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=Acquiring of L.I. Beach For Public Use Is Urged|work=The New York Times |language=en|access-date=2020-04-08}}</ref> The town's response to our objections was, in effect, โSue us'. So we sought permission to be incorporated as a village from the county and when we finally won our village status the deeds automatically reverted to the village.โ<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bessen|first=Jeff|date=June 14, 2012|url=http://www.liherald.com/stories/Happy-50th-Atlantic-Beach,41587|title=Happy 50th, Atlantic Beach|website=Herald Community Newspapers|language=en|access-date=February 24, 2020}}</ref> The Village held its first elections in June 1962. Fred Lager was the mayor for the first 28 years, until 1996. Initially, the village was not granted zoning powers due to an amendment to Nassau County's charter,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kellerman|first=Vivien|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/25/nyregion/nassau-villages-fight-for-zoning-rights.html|title=Nassau Villages Fight for Zoning Rights|date=October 25, 1998|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 24, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Burghardt|first=Linda F.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/nyregion/the-legacies-they-left-966312.html|title=The Legacies They Left|date=January 1, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 24, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> however, zoning powers were fought for,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Katz|first=Debra Morgenstern|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/nyregion/atlantic-beach-in-void-over-zoning-power.html|title=Atlantic Beach in Void Over Zoning Power|date=October 1, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 24, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and taken over by the village in 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ain|first=Stewart|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/nyregion/in-brief-atlantic-beach-is-closer-to-local-zoning-power.html|title=IN BRIEF; Atlantic Beach Is Closer To Local Zoning Power|date=March 3, 2002|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 24, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Katz|first=Debra Morgenstern|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/nyregion/victory-is-sweet-for-atlantic-beach.html|title=Victory Is Sweet For Atlantic Beach|date=November 17, 2002|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 24, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rather|first=John|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-atlantic-beach-ny-village-that-doubles-as-resort.html|title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Atlantic Beach, N.Y.; Village That Doubles as Resort|date=October 26, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 9, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite news|last=Nahas|first=Donna Kutt|date=July 27, 2003|title=Villages, Inc.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/nyregion/villages-inc.html|access-date=May 20, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Atlantic Beach Village Office, at 60 Park Street, officially opened on November 18, 1962. As of 2021, Atlantic Beach remains the only village in Nassau County to have incorporated itself after the county charter was amended in the 1930s.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":10" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=May 30, 1962|title=Atlantic Beach Is Upheld On Incorporation Vote|work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/30/90167869.html|access-date=April 8, 2020|language=en}}</ref>
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