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Five Towns

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The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City. [1]

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Alfred H. Bellot

Alfred Henry Bellot (born 1882) was a historian whose History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917, published in 1918, was probably the definitive history up to that time of the communities on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens County, New York City and the villages and hamlets which comprise what is known today as the Five Towns of Nassau County, Long Island, New York, namely Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett.

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Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Aline Kominsky-Crumb (née Goldsmith; born August 1, 1948) is an American underground comics artist.

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Allard K. Lowenstein

Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (January 16, 1929 – March 14, 1980)Lowenstein's gravestone, Arlington National Cemetery; on the cemetery's official website.

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Amongst Friends

Amongst Friends is a 1993 film written and directed by Rob Weiss.

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Benjamin Brafman

Benjamin Brafman (born July 21, 1948) is an American criminal defense attorney, the founder of the Manhattan-based firm Brafman & Associates, P.C..

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British regional literature

The setting is particularly important in regional literature.

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Carol Berman

Carol Berman (born September 21, 1923) is a New York Democratic Party politician from Lawrence, in Nassau County, New York, United States, who served in the New York State Senate from 1979 to 1984.

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Cedarhurst, New York

Cedarhurst is a village in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, in the USA.

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Central Avenue (Five Towns)

Central Avenue is a road mainly in Nassau County on Long Island, New York, that spans four of the Five Towns along the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, to which it runs parallel.

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Chaverim (volunteers)

Chaverim (חברים, literally, "friends"), also spelled Chaveirim, is an umbrella name for Orthodox Jewish volunteer organizations on the East Coast of the United States which provide roadside assistance and other non-medical emergency help at home or on the road.

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Donna Karan

Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948), also known as "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.

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Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue (IND Rockaway Line)

Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue is the eastern terminal station on the New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line.

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Five Towns College

Five Towns College is a for-profit college in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York.

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Five Towns Jewish Times

The Five Towns Jewish Times is a weekly newspaper serving the Jewish communities of the Five Towns in southwestern Nassau County, New York, and the greater New York area, covering the area's large and growing Orthodox Jewish community.

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George W. Hewlett High School

George W. Hewlett High School (commonly known as Hewlett High School, and replacing Woodmere High School) is a four-year public high school in Hewlett, New York, which is a part of the Five Towns area of the South Shore of Long Island.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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Harvey Weisenberg

Harvey Weisenberg (born December 31, 1933) is an American politician from New York.

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Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway

The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school on the South Shore of Long Island in New York, United States, serving male and female students in preschool through twelfth grade.

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Hewlett Bay Park, New York

Hewlett Bay Park is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the South Shore of Long Island.

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Hewlett Harbor, New York

Hewlett Harbor is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA.

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Hewlett Neck, New York

Hewlett Neck is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA.

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Hewlett, New York

Hewlett is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island.

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Inwood, New York

Inwood is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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John DiResta

John DiResta is an American former New York Transit police officer turned comedian, frycook, and actor.

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JudaBlue

JudaBlue was an American Jewish rock band from Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Karen Friedman Hill

Karen Friedman Hill (born January 16, 1946) is an American woman known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family.

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Lawrence, Nassau County, New York

Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States.

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List of Bennington College people

This page lists notable alumni and faculty of Bennington College.

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List of bus routes in Queens

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Queens, New York, United States, under two different public brands.

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List of Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States

Several communities in the United States have large Orthodox Jewish populations.

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List of references to Long Island places in popular culture

Below is a list of references to Long Island locations in popular culture.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Marc Dreier

Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950) is a former American lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2009 for committing investment fraud using a Ponzi scheme.

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Michael Stern (real estate developer)

Michael Stern (born June 13, 1979) is an American real estate developer.

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Nassau County, New York

Nassau County or is a suburban county comprising much of western Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

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Nassau Herald

The Nassau Herald is a weekly newspaper serving the Five Towns communities of Nassau County – Lawrence, Woodmere, Hewlett, Cedarhurst, Inwood and Atlantic Beach.

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New York State Route 878

New York State Route 878 (NY 878) is a state highway on Long Island, in the southern portion of the U.S. state of New York.

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New York's 4th congressional district

The 4th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in central and southern Nassau County.

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Norman F. Lent

Norman Frederick Lent (March 23, 1931 – June 11, 2012) was an American politician from New York.

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North Woodmere, New York

North Woodmere is a hamlet section of South Valley Stream, New York, located in far western Nassau County on the South Shore of Long Island in the Town of Hempstead and is represented by Councilman Bruce Blakeman.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Peninsula Boulevard

Peninsula Boulevard is a arterial road through southwestern Nassau County, New York.

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Pentapolis

A pentapolis (from Greek πεντα- penta-, "five" and πόλις polis, "city") is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities.

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Peter Philipakos

Peter Philipakos (Πέτρος Φιλιππάκος; born January 21, 1983) is a retired Greek-American football (soccer) midfield player.

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Rob Weiss

Rob Weiss is an American television and film producer, screenwriter, actor, and director.

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Rodolfo Valentin

Rodolfo Valentin (born June 22, 1944) is a New York City hairdresser and entrepreneur.

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Roy Simon

Roy D. Simon is the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics at Hofstra University.

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South Shore (Long Island)

The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline.

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The Jewish Star (New York)

The Jewish Star is a free weekly newspaper that covers the Orthodox Jewish communities in Nassau County, New York and New York City.

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Tzvi Berkowitz

Rav Tzvi (Zvi Paltiel) Berkowitz is an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and lecturer at Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (Ner Israel Rabbinical College), Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, and teaches the highest-level Talmud shiur (class), numbering over 100 advanced students, considered relatively large for such institutions.

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Wiseguy (book)

Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the story of Mafia mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill.

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Woodmere, New York

Woodmere is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Woodsburgh, New York

Woodsburgh is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Towns

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