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Long Beach
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city in Nassau County, New York, United States, suburb of NYC
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- County
- Nassau
- Founded by
- William H. Reynolds
- Type
- Council-Manager
- City manager
- Daniel Creighton
- Total
- 3.90 sq mi (10.09 km )
- Land
- 2.22 sq mi (5.74 km )
- Water
- 1.68 sq mi (4.34 km )
- Elevation
- 0 ft (0 m)
- Density
- 15,795.5/sq mi (6,098.69/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Area codes
- 516, 363
- Fips code
- 36-43335
- Gnis feature id
- 0955835
- Website
- www .longbeachny .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Long Beach is an oceanfront city in Nassau County, New York, United States. It takes up a central section of the Long Beach Barrier Island, which is the westernmost of the outer barrier islands off Long Island's South Shore. Thee city's population was 35,029 at the time of the 2020 census.
The City of Long Beach was incorporated in 1922, and is nicknamed "The City by the Sea" (the Latin form, Civitas ad mare, is the city's motto). The Long Beach Barrier Island is surrounded by Reynolds Channel to the north, east and west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Long Beach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.