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OrpheusNYC t1_j7cdj7m wrote

Reply to comment by Pool_Shark in Westchester was one vote away from becoming part of NYC and Brooklyn barely made it by Furschitzengiggels

The wildest factoid to me is that Huntington, in Suffolk, was part of Queens and even called Queens Village.

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mallomar t1_j7j3na0 wrote

Interesting, I hadn’t heard this before! Any further reading on the history? I never knew parts of Queens County went to Suffolk County.

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OrpheusNYC t1_j7je7wa wrote

history of Lloyd Harbor. I just followed the related pages at the bottom of OPs wiki article. This is one of the citations. Essentially Loyd Neck was part of Oyster Bay, which was a Queens township, and was annexed to Huntington and by extension Suffolk county in 1885. Four years later, Nassau split from Queens altogether.

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mallomar t1_j7ljc1b wrote

Thanks for the link. It looks like it’s saying Lloyd Neck, which was part of the town of Oyster Bay, then in Queens, joined the town of Huntington, which was/is part of Suffolk, not that Huntington itself was part of Queens: “It was not until 1885, after a year of much lobbying in the State Legislature, that Lloyd Neck became a part of the Town of Huntington and Suffolk County, thereby seceding from Oyster Bay, Queens County.”

You can also see in the first link in that same section an 1873 map of the three counties of Long Island at the time (Kings, Queens, Suffolk) and Lloyd Neck shows up as part of the town of Oyster Bay, whereas Huntington is already its own town which is part of Suffolk.

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z0rb0r t1_j7k70p9 wrote

What? That’s like almost an hour away. That’s crazy!

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