Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States.

The neighborhood of Floral Park in the New York City borough of Queens is adjacent to but not part of the village.

The area that is now Floral Park once marked the western edge of the great Hempstead Plains, and by some reports was initially known as Plainfield.

[5] The present-day village of Floral Park was once called East Hinsdale.

[8] When the local Post Office took the name Floral Park, the Long Island Rail Road followed suit by changing the name of the East Hinsdale station to Floral Park in 1888.

The massive volume of his mail order business grew the local post office to such an extent that it drew comparisons with the post offices of Chicago, Baltimore, and Boston.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all land.

[11] Portions of the northern and western village boundaries are the border with New York City.

The Village of Floral Park has its own Police Department, which is made up of an Operations and Administration division.

[citation needed] The Queens neighborhood is adjacent to the Village of Floral Park, and uses the designation "North Floral Park" with a ZIP Code of 11004 and telephone area codes of 718, 347, and 917.

Most of the houses were built after World War II to accommodate returning soldiers.

MTA Bus Company operates the QM5, QM6, QM35 and QM36 express buses, to Midtown Manhattan.