Geography
The park is located almost entirely within the hamlet of Old Bethpage, but has had a Farmingdale, NY, postal address from the day it opened in 1932. The clubhouse and most of the area of the park where the golf courses are located is also within the boundaries of the Farmingdale Unified School District. Until 1936, Old Bethpage was known as Bethpage. In 1936, the adjacent hamlet of Central Park changed its name to Bethpage. Following this name change, the hamlet originally called Bethpage resisted suggestions that it merge with the new Bethpage, and got approval from the post office to change its name to Old Bethpage, though it did not have its own post office until 1965. Bethpage State Park remained so named, leading some to mistakenly believe that the park is located mostly in Bethpage.
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