The Manhasset Park District is a park district serving much of the Greater Manhasset area of Nassau County,

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. It is headquartered at 62 Manhasset Avenue, Manhasset, NY 11030.

History

The Manhasset Park District was established in 1921. In the late 1940s, there was a controversial, failed proposal to build a 3-acre park in the northern part of the Strathmore area of Manhasset; this area is called North Strathmore. It was argued that all of Greater Manhasset would be paying for a park which only North Strathmore residents would be able to use. When the vote on the $45,000 (1949

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) bond referendum was held, the referendum was rejected, and consequently, the Manhasset Park District never built the park. In 1974, the Village of Roslyn Estates unsuccessfully attempted to have the district's boundaries redrawn to include the village after the district added 260 parking spaces to the commuter parking fields at the

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station. Its Mayor, Robert D. Zucker, stated that Roslyn Estates residents preferred the Manhasset station over the closer Roslyn station due to the how service to/from

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is direct, whereas a change at

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. Roslyn Estates residents would have the ability to be guaranteed a parking space at the Manhasset station for commuting to/from

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if the boundaries were redrawn to include the village. District and North Hempstead officials, along with Manhasset residents, were against redrawing the boundaries to include Roslyn Estates, given that Roslyn Estates is part of the Greater Roslyn area (as opposed to being part of Greater Manhasset), and felt that the needs of Greater Manhasset should be the Manhasset Park District's main focus. In the 1990s, over 1,000 district residents petitioned for the Strathmore Bath Club to be purchased by the Manhasset Park District to keep it operating as a public park. The plan was unsuccessful, and the club was demolished and replaced with single-family homes.

Service area

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(including Strathmore) * Munsey Park * Plandome Heights * Parts of Flower Hill * Parts of North Hills * Parts of Plandome Manor

List of parks

The Manhasset Park District operates the following parks and recreational facilities: * Four Acre Park * Heroes' Plaza * Park Avenue Park * Patriot's Park * Veterans of Foreign War

Manhasset LIRR parking lots

The Manhasset Park District also maintains commuter parking lots at the Manhasset station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch.

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