Basic Information
- Type of Place
- CDP, Unincorporated Borough, or MCD
- Metro Area
- Long Island
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Don’t Know
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 32657 | 14878 | 11329 | 2968 | 142 | |||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Unknown
Comments
Allegedly, Belmont park race track was owned by the wealthy “August Belmont,” and the gentiles changed the name of their town in order to spite him (to “Elmont%u201D)
October 2007
In 1980s, a nearby resident said “At that time, blacks would not dare move into Elmont or Valley Stream. many of them were Italian, Jews and Irish who were “discriminated” against themselves. Too bad many of those idiots didn’t realize all they did was make a realtor rich because the Blacks did eventually move in.
I now live in San Francisco and see many of the same attitudes in a subtler way here.
Thank you for making it known that the bullshit of racism and prejudice was not exclusive to the South. It was alive and well in Eastern Queens County/Western Nassau County.