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Plainview is centrally located on Long Island and occupies about 8 square miles. It is nestled against Old Bethpage and has access to all the major highways of Long Island. Plainview's claim to fame was its lucrative cucumber farming which supplied the Heinz Company with its major source of pickles in the early 1900's. Unfortunately, blight wiped out its main economic support of cucumbers and it changed the face of Plainview, which eventually grew into a varied community with many new businesses.

Plainview has one of the best libraries in Nassau County. In fact the library's beautiful auditorium is so popular in the community that there is a high demand for tickets for the various programs held there. Such demand, that the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library had to establish a ticket lottery to give a fair chance to community members to obtain tickets to popular shows and events. Prior to establishing this lottery system, the people most likely to get tickets were those who were willing and able to stand on a long line for hours. Now, however, when event dates and times are announced, residents can enter the ticket lottery and hope they get a chance a couple of tickets.

To visit the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library web site check out this link:

http://www.nassaulibrary.org/plainv/

The address of the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library is 999 Old Country Road Plainview, New York 11803 Telephone: 516-938-0077

To learn more about Plainview and its fascinating history, check out this book at their library:
``Our Town: Life in Plainview-Old Bethpage 1600 Through Tomorrow,'' by Richard Koubek, published in 1987.

To learn more about the history of Plainview online visit Newsday's extensive series

Plainview: A Holy Place for LI's Indians

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist003g,0,6458689.story  

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