Hicksville is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 41,547 at the 2010 census. The area is served by the Hicksville Post Office and the Hicksville School District.
Valentine Hicks, son-in-law of nationally famous abolitionist and Quaker preacher Elias Hicks, and eventual president of the Long Island Railroad bought land in the village in 1834 and turned it into a station stop on the LIRR in 1837. The station became a depot for produce, particularly cucumbers for a Heinz Company plant. After a blight destroyed the cucumber crops, the farmers grew potatoes. It turned into a bustling New York suburb in the building boom following World War II.
The hamlet is named for Valentine Hicks.
These vintage black and white photos from Michael Dolan that captured street scenes of Hicksville in 1966 and 1967.
Broadway looking south from Marie St. Henry Huettner’s Dept. store, built in 1918, is on the right corner, Hicksville, New York, 1966
Most of west side of block between W Nicholai St. and W Marie St. on Broadway, Hicksville, New York, 1966
New Bridge Rd. at corner of Duffy Ave. Top- left is Kasten Store. To the right is the John Kasten house, Hicksville, New York, 1966
NW corner of Broadway and W Cherry St. Dwyer’s Inn was the Windsor Hotel in 1902, Hicksville, New York, 1966
SE corner of E Carl St. and Broadway, Hicksville, New York, 1966
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