Talk:Oyster Bay, New York

Removed trivia section
Trivia sections are discouraged - and these are more about the hamlet & ZIP code than the TOB

Speaking of trivia, the economy of Oyster Bay presumably isn't based on Air Lingus' U.S. office being located there. Perhaps, the economy section should either be expanded to be less humorous or just eliminated. Jmdeur (talk) 03:21, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Trivia
In the following trivia, usages of Oyster Bay refer to the hamlet and places within the Oyster Bay ZIP code:
 * Oyster Bay was the setting for the 2000 comedy Meet The Parents.
 * Oyster Bay is mentioned prominently in the song "Billy the Kid" by Billy Joel.
 * Oyster Bay is the setting for the song "Captain Jack by Billy Joel.
 * Oyster Bay is the location of Phil Leotardo's assassination in the final episode of The Sopranos.
 * Oyster Bay is mentioned in the movie "Wall Street"
 * Kal Penn's character, Gogol, goes on vacation with his girlfriend to her parents home in Oyster Bay in The Namesake (film).

Requested move 4 April 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Calidum T&#124;C 19:07, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

– See disambiguation page, Oyster Bay, New York. Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York can stay there or can be moved if anyone has a suggestion. Aidan721 (talk) 14:55, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oyster Bay (town), New York → Oyster Bay, New York
 * Oyster Bay (inlet), New York → Oyster Bay Harbor

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 * Oppose Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York is if anything, more prominent, and more historically significant. Also WP:PRECISE the proposed title fails to be sufficently disambniguous to identify the topic of the article. Especially as the hamlet is more notable. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:39, 5 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York is within Oyster Bay (town), New York so how can it be "more prominent, and more historically significant". Most towns are usually, town, state unless county is needed. Then villages, hamlets or CDP's are usually, town (hamlet/CDP), state.—Aidan721 (talk) 00:03, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * This "town" is not a town, it is a division of a county (a "township" as it were). There is the landform, a bay, and the hamlet which sits on the bay. The hamlet is what the history is about, its history of settlement, and the prominent persons that resided there. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 01:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Support the first move, no opinion on the second. The town has more than twice the page views of the hamlet, which should be enough to be considered the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. kennethaw88 • talk 02:30, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The "town of Oyster Bay" appears to be more of an administrative unit, while the entity most commonly called Oyster Bay in general parlance is the hamlet. As such, it's hard to say that one is more primary over the other, and I think the current arrangement is fine. Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 14:10, 12 April 2015 (UTC)


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Town of Oyster Bay Town lived #1
Plainview, Syosset, Plainedge, Bethpage and South Farmingdale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IndependentMusic (talk • contribs) 02:08, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Villages (incorporated)
Change "The Town of Oyster Bay contains all or part of 20 incorporated villages:" to "The Town of Oyster Bay contains all or part of 18 incorporated villages:"

Delete 1. Amityville (partial) Delete 20. Westbury (partial)

Source: http://orps1.orpts.ny.gov/cfapps/MuniPro/ Source: https://amityville.com/ Source: https://www.villageofwestbury.org/

Note: I called the Village of Amityville (631-264-6000) and Village of Westbury (516-334-1700) today and both confirmed that their incorporated villages are located entirely outside of the Town of Oyster Bay. The Village of Amityville is wholly within the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County, NY and the Village of Westbury is wholly within the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, NY.

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