Massapequa, New York

Massapequa is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 22,652.

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Hamlet - Census-designated place - Nassau County, New York - 2000

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Massapequa is a community in the Town of Oyster Bay.

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Ron Kovic, the Baldwin Brothers, Bobby Slayton, Steve Gutenberg, members of the Stray Cats and Jerry Seinfeld all grew up in Massapequa. It is sometimes jokingly nicknamed "Matzoh-Pizza" because of the area's heavy concentration of both Italian-Americans and Jewish-Americans. Although most residents who have lived in "Matzoh-Pizza" all their lives have never heard the town referred to by this nickname.

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Ron Kovic - Baldwin Brothers - Bobby Slayton - Stray Cats - Jerry Seinfeld - Italian-Americans - Jewish-Americans

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Some infamous people who hail from Massapequa: Carlo Gambino, Roy DeMeo, Jessica Hahn and Joey Buttafuoco.

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Carlo Gambino - Roy DeMeo - Jessica Hahn - Joey Buttafuoco

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