Oyster Bay, New York

Oyster Bay is the name of a hamlet on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County in the state of New York, USA. The hamlet is also the site of a station on the Long Island Rail Road and the eastern termination point of that branch of the railroad.

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Hamlet - North Shore - Long Island - Nassau County - New York - USA - Long Island Rail Road

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The community is within the Town of Oyster Bay, a town which contains 18 villages and 18 hamlets.

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Town of Oyster Bay - Town

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The hamlet's area was considerably larger before several of its parts incorporated as villages. At least six of the 36 villages and hamlets of the Town of Oyster Bay have shores on Oyster Bay Harbor and its inlets, and many of these at one time or another have also been referred to as Oyster Bay.

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The Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District was created on July 1, 1960 by the action of the voters in the former Oyster Bay and East Norwich School Districts. The district's 13.1 square mile (34 km²) boundaries include the hamlets of Oyster Bay and East Norwich and the incorporated villages of Centre Island, Oyster Bay Cove, Cove Neck, and portions of Mill Neck, Muttontown, Laurel Hollow, and Upper Brookville.

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July 1 - 1960

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