On 08/01/2000 (11:08:04 AM EDT), as part of an eMail on "hamlets", Joe
([log in to unmask]) wrote:


"In addition to being unincorporated, not having formal government and taxing
authority, I believe that there was also a technical requirement the
population of the entity be less than 3,000 people."

Joe add's "I can say with certainty, that at one time the Farmingville, in
the Town of
Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, was, but is no longer a hamlet."


Population size alone does not determine whether one community becomes a
village and another remains as a hamlet.  In New York State, a village is a
legal concept; it is a municipal corporation.

Farmingville (1999 pop. 15,448) was and still is a hamlet in the Town of
Brookhaven, Suffolk County.

Levittown (1999 pop. 52,623) is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau
County and is larger in terms of population than the two cities that are in
Nassau County:  Glen Cove (24,783) and Long Beach (35,299).

Other entities, such as a postal zone, school district, water district, fire
district, etc., etc., may share the name of the hamlet, but, other than the
original (pre-union or pre-central) school district, they usually have
different borders than the hamlet whose mname they "borrow".


Regards,

Walter Greenspan