Five Towns

"[1] Each of these "towns" has a consecutive stop on the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road.

The area also includes some unincorporated communities and two small villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total.

The organization still exists (as of 2018) as a local charity, but the "Five Towns" moniker caught on as a designation for the entire area.

[2] A 1933 article in The New York Times references a Girl Scouts of the USA encampment by the "Five Towns Council, embracing the villages [sic] of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett", listed in order by LIRR station.

Although Lawrence was planned to be the location for Five Towns College, the original site was no longer available by the time the school received its charter in 1972.

[6] By 2010, the Five Towns hosted a large number of synagogues, Jewish private schools, and kosher restaurants.