Lawrence, Nassau County, New York

Lawrence, New York
Lawrence, New York
Village
	Incorporated Village of Lawrence
	Lawrence Village Hall on August 8, 2022.
	Location in Nassau County and the state of New York
	Lawrence, New York Location on Long Island Lawrence, New York Location within the state of New York Lawrence, New York Location within the contiguous United States
	Coordinates: 40°36′34″N 73°43′36″W / 40.60944°N 73.72667°W
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Nassau
Town	Hempstead
Incorporated	1897
Named for	The Lawrence Brothers
Area
• Total	4.64 sq mi (12.01 km2)
• Land	3.72 sq mi (9.63 km2)
• Water	0.92 sq mi (2.39 km2)
Elevation	20 ft (6 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	6,809
• Density	1,831.36/sq mi (707.17/km2)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
ZIP code	11559
Area code	516
FIPS code	36-41553
GNIS feature ID	0955101
Website	www.villageoflawrence.org

Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 6,483.

The Village of Lawrence is in the southwestern corner of the Town of Hempstead, adjoining the border with the New York City borough of Queens to the west and near the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Lawrence is one of the "Five Towns", which consists of the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, the hamlets (unincorporated areas) of Woodmere and Inwood, and "The Hewletts", which is made up of the hamlet of Hewlett together with the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck, along with Woodsburgh.^[3]

^ "History: Flushing Willets Point Corona Queens : QueensAlive.org". Archived from the original on February 20, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
^ Barron, James. "IF YOU'RE THINKING OF LIVING IN: FIVE TOWNS", The New York Times, July 10, 1983. Accessed May 20, 2008. "The basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood. But the area also includes some unincorporated communities and two tiny villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total."