Sunday, Apr 19 2015

Presentation and Book Signing “North Hempstead”, Floral Park, NY


On Sunday, April 19, 2015, Howard Kroplick will present an overview on the Town of North Henpstead at the Floral Park Receration Center in the Pool Building on Stewart Street, Floral Park, New York beginning at 2:00 pm. The program is sponsored by the Floral Park Historical Society.

 

Stewart Street is located between Plainfield Avenue and Covert Avenue , and the Rec center is on the north side of the street about half way in right on the border of New Hyde Park/Floral Park .Meeting room is on the 2nd floor, there is elevator access. Stewart Street on the Covert Avenue side is one block north of where Stewart Avenue ends at Covert Avenue.

All proceeds from this book signing will be donated to Child Abuse Prevention Services of New York

Howard, North Hempstead’s town historian since 2012, completed his third book with local history publisher, Arcadia Publishing. This new pictorial history entitled North Hempstead is the newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series.  The book boasts over 200 historic images and also features a foreword written by Leslie Gross, the town clerk of North Hempstead from 2007 to 2013.

In the first book published specifically on the Town of North Hempstead, Howard Kroplick takes readers on a visual journey of the history of the town including the people, places and landmarks that have created its identity.  Historic documents, maps and rare images have been culled from a wide variety of town and village archives, museums, libraries, schools and private collections, some of these documents date back from 1654.  The book spans the history of the area from the real estate treaty with the Algonquian people in 1654 to current times showing the community as a sprawling suburb.

North Hempstead celebrates the 400th anniversary of the European discovery of the Long Island Sound and the area which became the Town of North Hempstead.  Kroplick hopes that the book “will further document the history, growth and evolution of the town into one of the “Best Places to Live in America.”” All author proceeds from the book will be donated to various North Hempstead agencies including; Child Abuse Prevention Services, The Roslyn Landmark Society and the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center.

Highlights of North Hempstead include:


•Images of historic documents such as the 1654 real estate treaty with the Algonquian people, the 1665 Duke’s Laws, which established the basic principles of law and local government, and the 1784 Act that divided North Hempstead from Hempstead .
•The lives and homes of North Hempstead’s rich and famous including, William Cullen Bryant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Philip Sousa, George M. Cohan, Groucho Marx and the Vanderbilt and Guggenheim families.

-Images of the 17 town landmarks designated by the town’s Historical Landmark Preservation Commission including 11 buildings, 3 cemeteries, 2 historical districts and a boulder.
•Twelve “Now and Then” pages, which show the transformation from a farming and estate community to a busy suburban area.



Location: Floral Park Recreation Center (Pool Building)

Address: Stewart Street (Located between Plainfield Avenue and Covert Avenue), Floral Park, NY

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