East Meadow is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

The sheep of the East Meadow area provided the country with more than 50% of the United States' wool needs during that time.

It is rumored that President George Washington spent a night on the Barnum estate during a trip across Long Island in 1790.

The old Hoeffner homestead is now the site of Veterans Memorial park, and East Meadow's Post Office.

The Oliver and Alva Belmont (formerly Alva Vanderbilt) estate of Brookholt once stretched across several hundred acres on both sides of Front Street to the west of Merrick Avenue,[5] and for a short while, included the Brookholt School of Agriculture for Women.

[6] East Meadow was chosen to host eight cricket matches of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in June 2024.

[10] East Meadow is generally flat, and according to the United States Geological Survey and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the elevation ranges from 32 feet (9.8 m) near its southwestern edge, to 82 feet (25 m) along Hempstead Turnpike to the north.

[15] The ancestries of residents of East Meadow are Italian (28.5%), Irish (17.5%), German (11.8%), Polish (8.8%), Russian (5.8%), United States (5.0%).

Snapple was previously headquartered in East Meadow,[17] prior to moving their corporate office.

[18] Lufthansa United States had its headquarters in East Meadow beginning in the 1970s, after it moved from Park Avenue in Manhattan, in order to save money.