Editing Floral Park, New York (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[Benedetto Aloi]] (1935–2011), [[consigliere]] of [[Colombo crime family]], New York City mobster
* [[John Lewis Childs]] (1856–1921), horticulturist and politician; founding father of the Village of Floral Park<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Floral Park|url=http://www.fpvillage.org/history/history.htm|website=fpvillage.org|access-date=20 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202114022/http://www.fpvillage.org/history/history.htm|archive-date=2 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[Diana Diamond]] (born 1937), newspaper editor{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
* [[William Diard]] (1924–2009), opera singer
* [[Steve Falteisek]] (born 1972), former Major League Baseball pitcher. Falteisek was drafted in the tenth round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft by the Montreal Expos<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=faltest01 |title=Steve Falteisek Baseball Stats &#124; Baseball Almanac |access-date=2018-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410134753/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=faltest01 |archive-date=2018-04-10 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] (1946–1989), photographer, born and raised on the Queens side.<ref>Glueck, Grace. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DE1E3EF936A15755C0A963958260 "Fallen Angel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224171404/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DE1E3EF936A15755C0A963958260 |date=2009-02-24 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 25, 1995. Accessed October 14, 2007. ''"Growing up in a blue-collar precinct of Floral Park and steeped in Catholicism, Mapplethorpe developed -- to his alarm -- an adolescent interest in gay pornographic magazines."''</ref>
* [[Pete Nice]] (born 1967), hip-hop MC (born Peter J. Nash)<ref>Pearlman, Jeff. [http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/080218 "He traded hip-hop to become a horsehide historian"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204102020/http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman%2F080218 |date=2018-12-04 }}, ''[[ESPN]]'', February 18, 2008. Accessed December 28, 2016. "Long before he was drawn to the hip-hop stylings of the Sugar Hill Gang and Kurtis Blow, Nash was a young baseball geek in Floral Park, N.Y., gobbling up cards with reckless abandon, rooting for his beloved Dave Kingman ('Unfortunate choice of a hero,' he now laments) and writing letter upon letter to his favorite players."</ref>
* [[Pete Richert]] (born 1939), former Major League Baseball pitcher<ref>Ulrey, Adam. [http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5de1f359 Pete Richert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217184544/http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5de1f359 |date=2017-02-17 }}, [[Society for American Baseball Research]]. Accessed December 28, 2016. "Peter Gerard Richert was born on October 29, 1939, in Floral Park, New York."</ref>
* [[Max Shachtman]] (1904–1972), associate of [[Leon Trotsky]]<ref>[http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_087/bioghist.html Guide to the Max Shachtman Photographs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229034557/http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_087/bioghist.html |date=2016-12-29 }}, [[Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives]]. Accessed December 28, 2016. "Shachtman grew up in New York City and lived there (mainly in the Bronx) much of his life before moving to a home in Floral Park, a suburb of New York, in 1954."</ref>
* [[John Williams]] (born 1932), [[Classical music|classical]] composer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revistaesfinge.com/?p=569|title=John Williams, el compositor de la aventura|publisher=Revista Esfinge|access-date=2012-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516131406/http://www.revistaesfinge.com/?p=569|archive-date=2013-05-16|url-status=live}}</ref>