Editing Floral Park, New York

{{short description|Village in New York, United States}}
{{redirect|Floral Park|the suburb in South Africa|Flora Park|other uses|Floral Park (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Floral Park, New York
| official_name      = Incorporated Village of Floral Park
| settlement_type    = [[Village (New York)|Village]]
| nickname           = 
| motto              = "A Great Place to Live"
| image_skyline      = Floral Park Village Hall; Front Door.jpg
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| image_caption      = Floral Park Village Hall in 2017.
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| image_seal         = Floral Park Seal.png
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location on Long Island##Location within the state of New York
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| map_caption        = Location in [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]] and the state of [[New York (state)|New York]].
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| subdivision_name   = {{flag|United States}}
| subdivision_name1  = {{flag|New York}}
| subdivision_name2  = [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau]]
| subdivision_name3  = [[Hempstead (town), New York|Hempstead]]<br>[[North Hempstead, New York|North Hempstead]]
| established_title  = Founded
| established_date   = 1874<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fpvillage.org/village-info/village-history/ |title=History of Floral Park |access-date=2018-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328164858/https://fpvillage.org/village-info/village-history/ |archive-date=2018-03-28 |url-status=live }}, "Floral Park Village History". Retrieved 03/28/2018.</ref>
| established_title2 = [[Municipal incorporation|Incorporated]]
| established_date2  = 1908
| government_type    = [[Mayor-council government|Strong Mayor-Council]]
| leader_title       = [[List of mayors of Floral Park, New York|Mayor]]
| leader_name        = Kevin Fitzgerald
| area_magnitude     = 
| area_total_sq_mi   = 1.43
| area_total_km2     = 3.72
| area_land_sq_mi    = 1.42
| area_land_km2      = 3.68
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.01
| area_water_km2     = 0.03
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| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total   = 16172
| population_urban   = 
| population_metro   = 
| population_density_sq_mi = 11380.72
| population_density_km2 = 4394.20
| timezone           = [[Eastern Time Zone (North America)|EST]]
| utc_offset         = -5
| timezone_DST       = [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]]
| utc_offset_DST     = -4
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP Code]]s
| postal_code        = 11001, 11004
| area_code          = [[Area codes 516 and 363|516, 363]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|40|43|26|N|73|42|21|W|region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name= elevation>{{cite web |url={{Gnis3|2075062}} |title=USGS detail on Floral Park |access-date=2007-09-29 }}</ref>
| elevation_ft       = 92
| elevation_m        = 28
| website            = {{URL|www.fpvillage.org}}
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 36-26264
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| blank1_info        = 0950296
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| area_code_type     = [[Area codes]]
| founder            = [[John Lewis Childs]]
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'''Floral Park''' is an [[Administrative divisions of New York State#Village|incorporated village]] in [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States. The population was 16,172 at the 2020 census.

Floral Park is at the western border of Nassau County, mainly in the [[Town of Hempstead, New York|Town of Hempstead]], while the section north of [[New York State Route 25|Jericho Turnpike (NY 25)]] is within the [[North Hempstead, New York|Town of North Hempstead]]. The area was formerly known as '''East Hinsdale'''.

The neighborhood of [[Floral Park, New York#Adjacent Queens neighborhood|Floral Park]] in the [[New York City]] borough of [[Queens]] is adjacent to (but not part of) the village.

==History==
The area that is now Floral Park once marked the western edge of the great [[Hempstead Plains]], and by some reports was initially known as Plainfield.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Floral Park|url=http://www.fpvillage.org/history/history.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202114022/http://www.fpvillage.org/history/history.htm|archive-date=2015-02-02|access-date=2015-01-20}}, "The History of Floral Park". Retrieved 12/22/08.</ref> Farms and tiny villages dominated the area through the 1870s when the development of the [[Long Island Rail Road]] [[Hempstead Branch]] and [[Jericho Turnpike]] cut through the area. Hinsdale had more than two dozen flower farms after the Civil War.<ref>[http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist001j,0,6393154.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation "Floral Park: Planting seeds for its growth"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415134406/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist001j,0,6393154.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation |date=2008-04-15 }}, ''Newsday.'' Retrieved 12/30/07.</ref> The present-day village of Floral Park was once called East Hinsdale.<ref>Weidman, B.S. (1981) ''Nassau County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1940''. Courier Dover Publications, pg 49.</ref>

In 1874, [[John Lewis Childs]] arrived in the area to work for C.L. Allen as a seed seller. After building his own seed and bulb business<ref>[http://www.fpvillage.org/history/old_seed_house.htm A Picture of the John Lewis Childs Seed Company] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319071337/http://www.fpvillage.org/history/old_seed_house.htm |date=2009-03-19 }} Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref> and starting America's first seed catalog business, Childs bought a great deal of land in the area. To promote his own business and the local [[horticultural]] industry, Childs named the local streets after flowers and renamed the area Floral Park. The expansion of the Floral Park Post Office and nearby village businesses are attributed solely to the success of Childs' business.<ref>Ross, P. (1903) ''History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time'', pg. 247.</ref>

When the local Post Office took the name Floral Park, the [[Long Island Rail Road]] followed suit by changing the name of the East Hinsdale station to Floral Park in 1888. Formerly part of [[Queens]], Floral Park became part of the new county of Nassau in 1899, and it was incorporated as a village in 1908. Childs served as its first president starting that year.<ref>[http://www.fpvillage.org/history/history.htm The history of Floral Park] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202114022/http://www.fpvillage.org/history/history.htm |date=2015-02-02 }}, Village of Floral Park. Accessed September 15, 2007.</ref>

In 1903, the village boasted more than {{convert|200|acre|km2}} of Childs' flower beds. The massive volume of his mail order business grew the local post office to such an extent that it drew comparisons with the post offices of Chicago, Baltimore, and Boston.<ref>Ross, P. (1903) ''History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time'', pg. 248.</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Floral-park-ny-map.gif|thumb|left|U.S. Census map of Floral Park.]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|1.4|sqmi|km2}}, all land.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824085937/https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|archive-date=2019-08-24|access-date=2011-04-23|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

Portions of the northern and western village boundaries are the border with [[New York City]].

The village also shares borders with the several Nassau County communities; the Village of Floral Park borders the [[Bellerose, New York|Village of Bellerose]] and [[Bellerose Terrace, New York|Bellerose Terrace]] to the northwest, the Villages of [[New Hyde Park, New York|New Hyde Park]] and [[Stewart Manor, New York|Stewart Manor]] to the east, the [[South Floral Park, New York|Village of South Floral Park]] to the south, and [[Elmont, New York|Elmont]] to the southwest – in addition to [[Floral Park Centre, New York|Floral Park Centre]] and [[North New Hyde Park, New York|North New Hyde Park]] to the northeast.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1910= 1225
|1920= 2097
|1930= 10016
|1940= 12950
|1950= 14582
|1960= 17499
|1970= 18466
|1980= 16805
|1990= 15947
|2000= 15967
|2010= 15863
|2020= 16172
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426102944/http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|archive-date=April 26, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Floral Park CDP, New York – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the U.S. Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Floral Park CDP, New York |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US3626264&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Floral Park CDP, New York |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US3626264&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Floral Park CDP, New York|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US3626264&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|14,290
|12,938
|style='background: #ffffe6; |11,495
|89.50%
|81.56%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |71.08%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|59
|198
|style='background: #ffffe6; |262
|0.37%
|1.25%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.62%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|7
|10
|style='background: #ffffe6; |14
|0.04%
|0.06%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.09%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|617
|1,086
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,889
|3.86%
|6.85%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |11.68%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|5
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3
|0.03%
|0.02%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.02%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other Race]] alone (NH)
|31
|53
|style='background: #ffffe6; |82
|0.19%
|0.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.51%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race or Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|99
|184
|style='background: #ffffe6; |360
|0.62%
|1.16%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.23%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|859
|1,391
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,067
|5.38%
|8.77%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12.78%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''15,967'''
|'''15,683'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''16,172'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

===2010 census===
As of the 2010 census,<ref>[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20151023151502/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml United States Census]</ref> the population was 87% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 81.6% [[Non-Hispanic Whites|Non-Hispanic White]], 1.3% Black or [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.1% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 6.9% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.0% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 2.6% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 8.8% of the population.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961227012639/http://www.census.gov/ |archive-date=1996-12-27 |url-status=live }}</ref> of 2000, there were 15,967 people, 5,770 households, and 4,258 families residing in the village. The population density was {{convert|11,635.9|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 5,892 housing units at an average density of {{convert|4,293.8|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the village was 93.56% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.46% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.06% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 3.88% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.03% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.98% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 5.38% of the population.

There were 5,770 households, out of which 34.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.2% were non-families. 23.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.30.

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In the village, the population was spread out, with 24.5% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.4 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $113,719, and the median income for a family was $137,243. Males had a median income of $56,527 versus $38,592 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $51,183. None of families or the population were below the [[poverty line]], including none of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

The average and median sales prices of a home in the village as of 2011, were, respectively, $468,738 and $460,000.<ref>[http://www.floralparkrealestate.com "Floral Park Real Estate"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116035730/http://www.floralparkrealestate.com/ |date=2019-01-16 }}, ''Market Report'' Retrieved 12/28/11.</ref>

== Education ==
[[File:FloraPark-Belerose-School.JPG|thumb|left|The Floral Park–Bellerose School.]]

The Village of Floral Park is located within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the [[Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District|Floral Park–Bellerose Union Free School District]] and the [[Sewanhaka Central High School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36059_nassau/DC20SD_C36059.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Nassau County, NY|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2023-11-10}}</ref>

Two high schools are located in Floral Park: [[Floral Park Memorial High School]] and [[Sewanhaka High School]], both of which are part of the Sewanhaka Central High School District (which also includes schools in nearby [[New Hyde Park, New York|New Hyde Park]], [[Franklin Square, New York|Franklin Square]] and [[Elmont, New York|Elmont]].) <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sewanhaka.k12.ny.us/services.htm |title=Floral Park-Bellrose School District |access-date=2006-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509084232/http://www.sewanhaka.k12.ny.us/services.htm |archive-date=2006-05-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

There are three elementary schools in Floral Park. Two of them – the John Lewis Childs School and the Floral Park–Bellerose School – are part of the Floral Park–Bellerose Union Free School District (the latter school also serves the neighboring village of [[Bellerose, New York|Bellerose]] and [[Bellerose Terrace, New York|Bellerose Terrace]]).

Furthermore, Our Lady of Victory Elementary School is operated by the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre]], Our Lady of Victory parish.

{{anchor|Floral Park, Queens|Queens}}
== Emergency services ==
The Village of Floral Park has its own Police Department, which is made up of an Operations and Administration division.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Organization & Units |url=https://fpvillage.org/departments/police-department/organization-units/ |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=Floral Park Village |language=en-US}}</ref>

The Floral Park Police Department provides service to all residents within the boundaries of the Village of Floral Park. The Village also has a volunteer fire department, made up of three Engine Companies (Alert Engine Co. #1, Reliance Engine Co. #2, Active Engine Co. #3), a Hook & Ladder Company, and a Rescue (Emergency Medical Services) Company.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

== 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>

==Adjacent Queens neighborhood==
The [[List of neighborhoods in Queens|Queens neighborhood]] is adjacent to the Village of Floral Park, and uses the designation "North Floral Park" with a [[ZIP Code]] of 11004 and [[telephone area code]]s of 718, 347, and 917. North Floral Park also extends into the ZIP Code of 11001.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferretti |first1=Fred |date=November 2, 1977 |title=A Very Fine Line Divides Floral Park From Floral Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/02/archives/a-very-fine-line-divides-floral-park-from-floral-park.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109205448/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/02/archives/a-very-fine-line-divides-floral-park-from-floral-park.html |archive-date=January 9, 2019 |access-date=January 9, 2019 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The neighborhood is part of [[Queens Community Board 13]].<ref>[https://www.nyc.gov/site/cau/community-boards/queens-boards.page Queens Boards], [[New York City]]. Accessed January 26, 2024.</ref> Floral Park is a middle-class neighborhood that consists mostly of [[Cape Cod (house)|Cape Cod]]–style houses. Most of the houses were built after World War II to accommodate returning soldiers. Veterans today make up 11 percent of all residents in Floral Park, versus six percent citywide.<ref name="nytimes20073">{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=C.J. |date=December 16, 2007 |title=A Town Center at City's Edge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16livi.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227050206/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16livi.html |archive-date=27 December 2012 |access-date=8 April 2013 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

[[Union Turnpike (New York)|Union Turnpike]] is the border between the neighborhoods, with [[Glen Oaks, Queens|Glen Oaks]] to the north. The other boundaries of Floral Park are roughly [[Little Neck Parkway]] and 252nd Street to the west, Langdale Street to the east, and a diagonal boundary from Hillside Avenue at 271st Street to Jericho Turnpike at 257th Street to the south. The neighborhood is close to the [[Cross Island Parkway]] and the [[Grand Central Parkway]]. [[MTA Regional Bus Operations|MTA New York City Transit buses]] serve Floral Park on the {{NYC bus link|Q36|Q43|Q46}} local routes and {{NYC bus link|X68}} express route. [[MTA Bus Company]] operates the {{NYC bus link|QM5|QM6|QM35|QM36|prose=y}} express buses, to Midtown Manhattan. The neighborhood is also served by [[Nassau Inter-County Express]] {{LI bus link|n22|n24|n26|prose=y}} bus. The [[Floral Park station]], located in Nassau County proper, is the closest service on the [[Long Island Rail Road]] [[Hempstead Branch]], which travels to [[Jamaica (LIRR station)|Jamaica]] station and to [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].

== References ==
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== External links ==
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{{Wikivoyage|Floral Park}}
* {{official website|http://www.fpvillage.org}}
* [http://www.floralparkhistorical.org/ Floral Park Historical Society]
* [http://arrts-arrchives.com/fk.html Long Island Rail Road Online Museum--Floral Park/East Hinsdale]

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