Bethpage (formerly known as Central Park) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.

[6] In 1841,[7] train service began to Farmingdale station, near a new settlement less than a mile eastward from what had previously appeared on maps as Bethpage.

[8] On an 1855 map,[9] The location identified as Bethpage has shifted slightly southward to include a nearby area now called Plainedge.

[14][15] Residents succeeded in changing the name of the post office to Central Park, effective March 1, 1867 (respelled as Centralpark from 1895 to 1899).

[12] From 1936 until 1994, Bethpage was home to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, which made, among other things, the F-14 Tomcat, the Navy version of the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) for Moon landings, and for this reason Bethpage is mentioned in the 1995 film Apollo 13.

[17] The Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Bethpage (NWIRP) started operations in 1942, west of the Grumman site.

[22] A Scandinavian-American Club of North Central Park formed in 1924, called Central Park North Civic Association, whose social activities and project fundraising helped improve roads, street lighting, water service, and postal service.

After officially disbanding in 1959, the clubhouse, located on Stewart Avenue, became Saint Isidoro’s Greek Orthodox Church.

In August 2021, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, with the help of Central Park Historical Society, helped unveil a historical marker celebrating the Scandinavian immigrants, located on the corner of Flamingo Lane and Caffrey Avenue.

Bethpage's history as a space and aviation center has left heavy metals, toxic waste, and radioactive[23] byproducts dumped into the surrounding ground and leeching into the water.

[24] The rate of cancers and birth defects in Bethpage is statistically well above the national average, which many attribute to the polluted soil and ground water.

It bounds Plainview to the north, Farmingdale and Old Bethpage to the east, Hicksville and Levittown to the west, and Plainedge to the south.

The area is served by the Bethpage Post Office, ZIP code 11714, whose boundaries are slightly different from that of the CDP.

The Town of Hempstead, on its website, includes a small part of Bethpage hamlet that is in the Levittown census-designated place.

[29] Bethpage is home to the North America Headquarters of technology company LogiTag and Altice, formerly known as Cablevision.

The grocery chain King Kullen was previously headquartered in Bethpage between 2000 and 2020, before transfering their offices to Hauppauge.

[33] Gold Coast Studios has filmed major motion pictures, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2[34] and Sisters,[35] as well as the television series Pan Am[36] and Kevin Can Wait.

[37] Grumman Studios also worked on The Amazing Spider-Man 2,[34] filmed Avengers,[38] Salt[39] and broadcast The Sound of Music Live!

[53] It is also located in the New York State Assembly's 15th[54] and 17th, occupied by Jake Blumencranz (R–Oyster Bay) and John Mikulin (R-Bethpage), respectively.

[55] Bethpage also rests within New York's 3rd congressional district, which as of December 2024 is represented in the United States Congress by Tom Suozzi (D–Glen Clove).