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Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead Branch was built running north from Valley Stream and originally connected with the Hempstead Branch at Country Life Press.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "date": "1913", "label": "Battery-powered cars", "text": "Battery-powered rail cars began running on the West Hempstead line; they ran until 1926.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "date": "1956", "label": "Library founded", "text": "The West Hempstead Public Library was founded, first operating from a storefront on Hempstead Avenue near Poplar Street.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "date": "1959", "label": "Current station building", "text": "The brick West Hempstead station building was constructed after the branch was cut back to West Hempstead.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "date": "1961-07-06", "label": "Mollineaux v. 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Michaelis, 29 Misc. 2d 933 (Sup. Ct. Nassau County, July 6, 1961), petitioners sought Article 78 review of the Town of Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals' denial of a permit to use a Hempstead Turnpike parcel in West Hempstead's business district as a motel.[9] The court found the board's answer failed to comply with the evidentiary requirements of Civil Practice Act section 1291 and annulled the denial, holding a motel use consistent with the property's business-district zoning.[9]", "In Kilfeather v. Town Board of the Town of Hempstead, 43 Misc. 2d 328 (Sup. Ct. Nassau County, May 20, 1964), owners of narrow \"pot-handle\" plots fronting only 15 feet on Nassau Boulevard in West Hempstead challenged a 1962 amendment to the Town's Building Zone Ordinance (§ B-10.1) requiring a 55-foot minimum frontage.[10] The court dismissed the complaint (without prejudice to further proceedings with additional proof), holding the ordinance was not shown to be retroactive or confiscatory because plaintiffs had not proved every permitted use of the land was foreclosed.[10]", "In Matter of the Town of Hempstead Park District, 57 Misc. 2d 206 (Sup. Ct. Nassau County, July 18, 1968), the Town of Hempstead Park District sought to condemn parcels for park purposes near Nassau Boulevard in West Hempstead's unincorporated area.[11] The court denied the application, holding the Town park district lacked jurisdiction because the land already lay within the boundaries of the separate Franklin Square Park District.[11] The case illustrates that parts of unincorporated West Hempstead fall within special park-district boundaries distinct from town-wide government.[11]", "Civil actions against the Town of Hempstead over defective roads or sidewalks are governed by the Town's prior-written-notice law. A 2002 Appellate Division decision arising from a Town of Hempstead parking-field injury claim held that \"no civil action shall be maintained for damages sustained by reason of any defective highway condition... unless prior written notice of such condition is served upon the Town,\" citing Town of Hempstead Code §§ 6-1 and 6-2 as the source of that requirement; this statute governs West Hempstead's town-maintained streets and sidewalks since the hamlet has no village government of its own.[7]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "West Hempstead has no incorporated village government; it is one of the Town of Hempstead's 34 unincorporated areas, governed directly by the Town Board.[1] As the Park District case shows, at least part of unincorporated West Hempstead falls within the separate Franklin Square Park District rather than a Town-wide park district.[11]", "Criminal charges and civil claims up to $15,000 from West Hempstead go to the Nassau County District Court at 99 Main Street, Hempstead, which also handles misdemeanors, lesser offenses and felony arraignments.[6] Larger civil matters go to Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, which outside New York City hears civil matters while County Court hears criminal ones.[12] Nassau County's Traffic & Parking Violations Agency, at 801 Axinn Avenue, Garden City, adjudicates traffic, parking and photo-enforcement tickets.[13]", "Prior written notice of a highway or sidewalk defect is a prerequisite to suing the Town of Hempstead over it, under Town of Hempstead Code §§ 6-1 and 6-2 as construed by the Appellate Division.[7]" ] }, { "id": "transit", "heading": "Railroad and transit", "paragraphs": [ "The Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead Branch was built north from Valley Stream in 1893 and originally connected with what is now the Hempstead Branch at Country Life Press.[2] The portion of the line between West Hempstead and Country Life Press was abandoned shortly before World War II, though the tracks remained in place into the 1960s and were sometimes used for freight movements and reroutes; battery-powered rail cars ran on the line from 1913 to 1926.[2] The current brick station building at West Hempstead, on Hempstead Avenue between Woodfield Road and Hempstead Gardens Drive, was built in 1959 after the line was cut back to its present West Hempstead terminus.[2]" ] } ], "legalCases": [ { "name": "Matter of Mollineaux v. 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