Hewlett Harbor, New York

Prominent attorney Joseph Auerbach (for whom Auerbach Avenue is named) purchased large amounts of land in what would eventually become Hewlett Harbor in 1914. Auerbach, on this land, soon erected a summer home, in addition to what would become the Seawane Country Club.{{Cite web |title=Village of Hewlett Harbor – History |url=https://www.hewlettharbor.org/history.php |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=www.hewlettharbor.org}}{{Cite book |last=Winsche |first=Richard |title=The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names |date=October 1, 1999 |publisher=Empire State Books |isbn=978-1557871541 |location=Interlaken, New York |pages=33–34}}

Following Auerbach's sale of the country club in the 1920s, the new owners had large amounts of the club's excess land developed, with the land being subdivided and zoned for single-family residential homes.

In 1925, Hewlett Harbor incorporated as a village.

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of {{convert|0.8|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|0.7|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}}, or 10.98%, is water.{{cite web |date=February 12, 2011 |title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |access-date=April 23, 2011 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}

{{US Census population

|1930= 240

|1940= 228

|1950= 411

|1960= 1610

|1970= 1512

|1980= 1331

|1990= 1193

|2000= 1271

|2010= 1263

|2020= 1290

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{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}}

}}

As of the census{{cite web |title=U.S. Census website |url=https://www.census.gov |access-date=January 31, 2008 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}} of 2000, there were 1,271 people, 429 households, and 380 families residing in the village. The population density was {{convert|1,754.3|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 437 housing units at an average density of {{convert|603.2|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the village was 95.12% White, 0.39% African American, 0.16% Native American, 3.15% Asian, 0.63% from other races, and 0.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.10% of the population.

There were 429 households, out of which 39.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 84.4% were married couples living together, 2.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.4% were non-families. 10.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.16.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 29.3% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 19.8% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.7 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $159,682, and the median income for a family was $185,962. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $40,000 for females. The per capita income for the village was $82,069. None of the families and 0.7% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 0.9% of those over 64.

File:Hewlett Harbor Village Hall, Hewlett Harbor, NY August 8, 2022 A.jpg

As of July 2024, the Mayor of Hewlett Harbor is Dominic Calandrella, the Trustees are Gil Bruh, Roman Mazo, Igor Noble and Lorie Rudister.{{Cite web |title=Village of Hewlett Harbor – Village Officials |url=https://hewlettharbor.gov/administration/ |access-date=October 9, 2024 |website=www.hewlettharbor.gov}}

Hewlett Harbor is located in the Town of Hempstead's 4th Council District, which as of April 2024 is represented on the Hempstead Town Council by Laura A. Ryder (R–Lynbrook).{{Cite web |title=Town Map {{!}} Hempstead Town, NY |url=https://hempsteadny.gov/548/Town-Map |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=hempsteadny.gov}}{{Cite web |title=Laura A. Ryder {{!}} Hempstead Town, NY |url=https://hempsteadny.gov/990/Laura-A-Ryder |access-date=April 12, 2024 |website=hempsteadny.gov}}

Hewlett Harbor is located in Nassau County's 7th Legislative district, which as of April 2024 is represented in the Nassau County Legislature by Howard J. Kopel (R–Lawrence).{{Cite web |title=District 7 - Howard J. Kopel {{!}} Nassau County, NY - Official Website |url=https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/521/District-7---Howard-J-Kopel |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=www.nassaucountyny.gov}}

Hewlett Harbor is located in the New York's 20th State Assembly district, which as of April 2024 is represented in the New York State Assembly by Ari Brown (R–Cedarhurst).{{Cite web |title=Ari Brown - Assembly District 20 {{!}} New York State Assembly |url=https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=20&sh=map |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=www.assembly.state.ny.us}}

Hewlett Harbor is located in the New York's 9th State Senate district, which as of April 2024 is represented in the New York State Senate by Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R–Malverne){{Cite web |title=NY Senate District 9 |url=https://www.nysenate.gov/district/9 |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=NY State Senate |language=en}}

Hewlett Harbor is located in New York's 4th Congressional District, which as of April 2024 is represented in the United States Congress by Anthony D'Esposito (R–Island Park).{{Cite web |title=Representative D'Esposito {{!}} |url=http://desposito.house.gov/ |access-date=April 12, 2024 |website=desposito.house.gov |language=en}}

Like the rest of New York, Hewlett Harbor is represented in the United States Senate by Charles Schumer (D) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D).{{Cite web |title=U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators |url=https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?State=NY |access-date=July 22, 2021 |website=www.senate.gov}}

The Village of Hewlett Harbor is primarily located within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District, while a smaller section is located within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the Lynbrook Union Free School District.{{Cite web |title=Long Island Index: Interactive Map |url=http://www.longislandindexmaps.org/ |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=www.longislandindexmaps.org}}{{Cite web |title=Composite School District Boundaries Shapefiles |url=https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries |access-date=October 23, 2020 |publisher=NCES}}{{Cite web |title=Village of Hewlett Harbor – Important Links |url=https://www.hewlettharbor.org/links.php |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=www.hewlettharbor.org}} As such, children who reside within Hewlett Harbor and attend public schools go to school in one of these two districts, depending on where they reside within the village.

Hewlett Harbor is located within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the East Rockaway Library District and the Hewlett-Woodmere Library District. These two districts serve the areas of the village located within the Lynbrook Union Free School District and the Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District, respectively; the boundaries of these two districts roughly correspond with those of the Hewlett-Woodmere UFSD and Lynbrook UFSD within Hewlett Harbor.

Major roads either partially or wholly within the village include Auerbach Avenue, East Rockaway Road, Everit Avenue, Harbor Road, Pepperidge Road, and Seawane Drive.{{Cite web |title=Nassau County Road Jurisdiction Viewer |url=https://nassau-county.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0cb89be5516c4571b1be0972bc2c8cbf |access-date=July 21, 2021 |website=County of Nassau, New York}}

Additionally, the village-maintained Mallow Reach Bridge is located entirely within the village, spanning Mallow Reach and the Auerbach Canal.{{Cite web |date=March 8, 2017 |title=Untroubled bridge in Hewlett Harbor |url=https://www.liherald.com/stories/untroubled-bridge-in-hewlett-harbor,89062 |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=Herald Community Newspapers |language=en}}

File:Everit Avenue, Hewlett Harbor, NY August 8, 2022.jpg

No rail service passes through Hewlett Harbor. The nearest Long Island Rail Road station to the village is Hewlett on the Far Rockaway Branch.

No bus routes pass through the village.{{Cite web |title=Nassau Inter-County Express - Maps and Schedules |url=https://www.nicebus.com/Tools/Maps-and-Schedules |access-date=August 10, 2020 |website=nicebus.com}}

National Grid USA provides natural gas to homes and businesses that are hooked up to natural gas lines in Hewlett Harbor.{{Cite web |title=Long Island Utility Information - LIPA, Nat Grid, & Local Water Authorities. |url=https://www.longisland.com/utilities.html |access-date=October 24, 2020 |website=LongIsland.com}}{{Cite web |title=Natural Gas & Electricity {{!}} National Grid |url=https://www.nationalgridus.com/Default.aspx |access-date=July 21, 2021 |website=www.nationalgridus.com}}

PSEG Long Island provides power to all homes and businesses within Hewlett Harbor.{{Cite web |title=Home Page - PSEG Long Island |url=https://www.psegliny.com/ |access-date=July 21, 2021 |website=www.psegliny.com}}

Hewlett Harbor, in its entirety, is served by the Nassau County Sewage District's sanitary sewer network.

Trash collection services in Hewlett Harbor are provided by the Town of Hempstead's Sanitation District 1.

The water supply in Hewlett Harbor is provided by New York American Water.

{{Category see also|People from Hewlett Harbor, New York}}

Notable current and former residents of Hewlett Harbor include:

• Maurice M. Black (1918-1996), pathologist who was an expert on breast cancer.{{Cite news |last=Pace |first=Eric |date=September 17, 1996 |title=Maurice M. Black, 78, an Expert on Breast Cancer |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/17/nyregion/maurice-m-black-78-an-expert-on-breast-cancer.html |access-date=September 22, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}
• Ross Bleckner (born 1949), artist.{{Cite news |last=Mason |first=Christopher |date=December 10, 1998 |title=AT HOME WITH: ROSS BLECKNER |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/10/garden/at-home-with-ross-bleckner.html |access-date=September 22, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}
• Robert DiBernardo (1937-1986), member of the Gambino crime family.{{Cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=June 14, 1986 |title=POLICE HUNT REPUTED MOB OFFICER REPORTED MISSING FOR PAST WEEK |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/14/nyregion/police-hunt-reputed-mob-officer-reported-missing-for-past-week.html |access-date=September 22, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}
• Pamela Geller, political activist and author.{{Cite news |last1=Barnard |first1=Anne |last2=Feuer |first2=Alan |date=October 9, 2010 |title=Outraged, and Outrageous |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/nyregion/10geller.html |access-date=September 22, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}
• Todd P. Haskell (born 1962), diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo[http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/us-ambassador-to-the-republic-of-the-congo-who-is-todd-haskell-170502?news=860166 "U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo: Who Is Todd Haskell?"], AllGov.com, May 2, 2017. Accessed November 29, 2023. "Haskell was born in 1962 and is from Hewlett Harbor, New York, on Long Island."
• Stan Lee (1922-2018), former Marvel Comics editor and creator.{{Cite web |last=Lewine |first=Edward |title=HOUSING HISTORY; Sketching Out His Past |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E3DB1E3AF93AA3575AC0A9619C8B63 |access-date=September 22, 2022 |website=query.nytimes.com |language=en}}
• William Modell (1921–2008), chairman of the Modell's Sporting Goods retail chain.{{cite news |first=Dennis|last=Hevesi|title=William D. Modell, Seller of Sporting Goods, Is Dead at 86

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/business/15modell.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |work= New York Times |date=February 15, 2008 |access-date=March 7, 2008}}

• Errol Morris (born 1948), Oscar-winning film director, best known for documentaries.
• George H. Ross (born 1928), executive vice president and senior counsel of the Trump Organization; judge on the television program The Apprentice.
• Jim Steinman (1947-2021) Songwriter of hits including "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell".
• Jonathan Tiomkin (born 1979), Olympic foil fencer.

The village of Hewlett Harbor was specifically mentioned by TV personality Johnny "Drama" Chase on HBO's Entourage on the Sunday, May 13, 2007, episode entitled "The Resurrection". On Entourage, Drama stars in a fictional NBC TV series called Five Towns. The series' name is a reference to the real "Five Towns", an informal grouping of villages and hamlets located on Long Island, New York's South Shore of western Nassau County. "The Hewletts" (Hewlett, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Bay Park, and Hewlett Neck) are generally grouped together as one of the "Five Towns," with the other four being Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Lawrence, and Inwood, along with Woodsburgh.Barron, James. [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/10/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-five-towns.html "If You're Thinking Of Living In: Five Towns"], The New York Times, July 10, 1983. Accessed May 20, 2008. "The basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood. But the area also includes some unincorporated communities and two tiny villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total." The fictional Five Towns series is produced by actor/screenwriter/producer Ed Burns (who plays himself on Entourage), who grew up in the Hewlett area and attended George W. Hewlett High School.

On the episode aired on April 13, it was said that the Village of Hewlett Harbor was the setting of the fictional NBC TV series called Five Towns.

• Seawane Country Club

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