Relying on a map that shows city, town, village and postal zone, but not hamlet, borders, in its weekly (Friday) "Buying In" article, NEWSDAY once again mistakes the borders of a same-named postal zone for the borders of the community whose name the postal zone "shares".
Here's the NEWSDAY article:
Buying in Lynbrook -- Newsday.com (http://www.newsday.com/classified/realestate/local/ny-rebuyn25575518feb15,0,3152784.story - broken link)
The article incorrectly states, "A portion of Lynbrook is a hamlet ... ", thereby confusing the community named in a place's mailing address for the community where that place is actually located: North Lynbrook is a hamlet where all the places in North Lynbrook have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address, but no part of North Lynbrook, the hamlet, is in Lynbrook, the village.
For those who may not be familiar with Lynbrook:
Alternatively know as Five Corners and Bloomfield, the area became known as Pearsalls Corners (to honor general store owner Wright Pearsalls), Lynbrook -- which is Brooklyn spelled inside-out -- is a village (incorporated in 1911) in the central part of the Town of Hempstead, in the southwest part of Nassau County.
Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Lynbrook is bordered on the north by the Village of Malverne and the Hamlet of North Lynbrook; on the east by the Hamlet of Lakeview and the Village of Rockville Centre; on the south by the Village of East Rockaway and the Hamlet of Hewlett; and, on the west by the Village of Valley Stream.
The Village of Lynbrook has a different border than does the "Lynbrook, NY 11563" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address and not be in the Village of Lynbrook and a place can be in the Village of Lynbrook and have other than a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address): places that have a "Lynbrook, NY 11563" mailing address that are not in the Village of Lynbrook are in the Hamlet of North Lynbrook and the Hamlet of Hewlett; and, at the same time, there are places in the Village of Lynbrook that have a "Rockville Centre, NY 11570" mailing address.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Lynbrook-ny-map.gif (broken link)
For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County):
https://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html