Massapequa, New York, United States

🇺🇸 Massapequa is a hamlet and place (CDP) in the southern part of the Town of Oyster Bay in south-eastern Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, east of New York City. It is adjacent to Amityville in Suffolk County. Greater Massapequa, includes North Massapequa, East Massapequa, and Massapequa Park. It is serviced by the Massapequa station and Massapequa Park station on the Long Island Rail Road.

History A 19th-century writer identified Massapequa as one of the "13 tribes of Long Island", but additional research has shown that they were a band of Lenape, the Algonquian-speaking people who occupied the western part of the island at the time of European encounter. The bands were identified by names of the geographic areas they occupied.

The Native Americans to the east spoke a different Algonquian language and were related to the Pequot people of Connecticut and southern New England, another in the large Algonquian languages family of tribes in coastal areas along the Atlantic Ocean. Major bands of Pequot in eastern Long Island were the Montaukett and Shinnecock. Today the Shinnecock Indian Nation has gained federal recognition and has a reservation on Long Island's South Fork.

Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10 km²), of which 3.7 square miles (9.6 km²) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km²), or 9.20%, is water.

Massapequa and nearby places with "Massapequa" in their names are sometimes collectively called "the Massapequas".

Transport The Massapequa station on the Long Island Rail Road's Babylon Branch is located within the hamlet.