Freeport, New YorkFor other locations with this name, see
Freeport (disam-biguation).Freeport (ocially The Incorporated
Village ofFreeport) is a village in the town of Hempstead,
NassauCounty, New York, New York, USA, on the South Shoreof Long
Island. The population was 42,860 at the 2010census.[1] A
settlement since the 1640s, it was once anoystering community and
later a resort popular with theNew York City theater community. It
is now primarily abedroom suburb but retains a modest commercial
water-front and some light industry.1 DescriptionFreeport lies on
the south shore of Long Island,[2] in thesouthwestern part of
Nassau County, within the townof Hempstead. Freeport has its own
municipal electricutility, police department, re, and water
departments.Freeport is NewYork States second-biggest village[3]
andhas a station on the Long Island Rail Road.The south part of the
village is penetrated by severalcanals that allowaccess to the
Atlantic Ocean by means ofpassage through salt marshes. The oldest
canal is the late19th-century Woodcleft Canal.[2] Freeport has
extensivesmall-boat facilities and a resident shing eet, as well
ascharter and open shing boats.2 GeographyU.S. Census Map2.1
LocationFreeport is located at 403914N 733513W/40.65389N 73.58694W
(40.653935, 73.587005).[4]Freeport is bisected by east-west New
York State Route27, Sunrise Highway. Meadowbrook Parkway denes
itseastern boundary.2.2 Surrounding communitiesBaldwinlies tothe
west, Merricktothe east, andRoosevelt to the north. The south
village boundary is notprecisely dened, lying in the salt ats and
bays.3 GovernmentFreeports government is made up of four trustees
and amayor. One trustee also serves in the capacity of deputymayor.
Freeports rst African American mayor, AndrewHardwick, was elected
in 2009, but was succeeded onMarch 20, 2013 by Robert T. Kennedy[3]
The currentDeputy Mayor is (Trustee) Jorge Martinez.The
currentTrustees are, Carmen Pieyro, Ronald Ellerbe, and De-bra S.
Mul. The mayor and board of trustees are electedto four-year terms.
Freeports current government is abipartisan coalition of Democrats
and Republicans.4 DemographicsAs of the census[7] of 2000, there
were 43,783 people,13,504 households,and 9,911 families residing in
thevillage. The population density was 9,531.3 people persquare
mile (3,682.9/km). There were 13,819 hous-ing units at an average
density of 3,008.3 per squaremile(1,162.4/km). Theracial makeupof
thevil-lage was 42.9% White, 32.6% African American, 0.5%Native
American, 1.4% Asian, 0.1% Pacic Islander,17.2% from other races,
and 5.4% from two or moreraces. Hispanic or Latino of any race were
33.5% of thepopulation.[8]There were 13,504 households out of which
36.4% hadchildren under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7%were
married couples living together, 17.8%had a femalehouseholder with
no husband present, and 26.6% werenon-families.21.2% of all
households were made up ofindividuals and 8.1% had someone living
alone who was12 6 HISTORY AND CULTURE65 years of age or older. The
average household size was3.20 and the average family size was
3.65.In the village the population was spread out with 26.4%under
the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 32.1% from25 to 44, 22.0% from
45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65years of age or older. The median
age was 35 years. Forevery 100 females there were 92.6 males. For
every 100females age 18 and over, there were 89.3 males.The median
income for a household in the village in 1999was $55,948, and the
median income for a family was$61,673. Males had a median income of
$37,465 ver-sus $31,869 for females. The per capita income for
thevillage was $21,288. About 8.0% of families and 10.6%of the
population were below the poverty line, including11.5% of those
under age 18 and 7.4% of those age 65or over.As of 2010, the
population was 42,860. The demograph-ics were as
follows:[9]Hispanic - 17,858 (42.5%)Black alone - 13,226
(30.9%)White alone - 10,113 (23.6%)Asian alone - 669 (1.6%)Two or
more races - 174 (0.4%)Other race alone - 292 (0.7%)American Indian
alone - 94 (0.2%)5 TransportationFreeport is served by the Freeport
station on the Long Is-land Railroad Babylon Branch. It is also a
hub for severalNassau Inter-County Express bus routes.N4: Freeport
- JamaicaN19: Freeport - BabylonN36: Freeport - LynbrookN40:
Freeport - Mineola via North Main StreetN41: Freeport - Mineola via
Babylon TurnpikeN43: Freeport - Roosevelt Field MallN62: South
Freeport LoopN87: Hicksville - Jones Beach (Summer ServiceOnly)N88:
Freeport - JonesBeach(SummerServiceOnly)6 History and culture6.1
HistoryFreeport, 18736.1.1 Before 1800Before people of European
ancestry came to the area,the land was part of the territory of the
MerokeIndians.[10][11] Written records of the community go backto
the 1640s.[11] The village now known as Freeport waspart of an area
called the Great South Woods duringcolonial times.[11] In the
mid-17th century, the area wasrenamed Raynor South, and ultimately
Raynortown, af-ter a herdsman named Edward Raynor, who had movedto
the area from Hempstead in 1659, cleared land, andbuilt a
cabin.[2][11][12]6.1.2 1800-1900In 1853, residents voted to rename
the village Freeport,adopting a variant of a nickname used by ship
captainsduring colonial times because they were not charged
cus-toms duties to land their cargo.[2][11][12]6.1 History 3This
1921 map of Freeport relates to a sewer bond issue; thedistricts
shown are sewer districts, and trunk sewers are shownin detail.The
borders shown are not exactly those of the village(Freeport
continues north of Seaman Avenue, and of course thismap is cut o to
the south). The map predates the construction ofSunrise Highway
(just south of the railroad tracks), and roughlythe northern
two-thirds of what is shown as a reservoir at left isnow the site
of Freeport High School and its grounds. However,this does provide
a detailed map of most Freeport streets at thattime, a great many
of which still retain the same locations andnames.After the Civil
War, Freeport became a center for com-mercial oystering. This trade
began to decline as early asthe beginning of the 20th century
because of changingsalinity and increased pollution in Great South
Bay.[10]Nonetheless, even as of the early 21st century Freeportand
nearby Point Lookout have the largest concentrationof commercial
shing activity anywhere near New YorkCity.[13]From 1868, Freeport
was served by the Southside Rail-road, which was a major boon to
development. Themost prominent gure in this boom was developer
JohnJ. Randall; among his other contributions to the shape
ofFreeport today were several canals, including the Wood-cleft
Canal, one side of which is now the site of the Nau-tical Mile.[10]
Randall, who opposed all of Freeports be-ing laid out in a grid,
put up a Victorian house virtuallyovernight on a triangular plot at
the corner of Lena Av-enue and Wilson Place to spite the grid
designers.[14] TheFreeport Spite House still is standing and
occupied.[14]In January 1873, before Nassau County had split o
fromQueens, the Queens County treasurer set up an oce
atFreeport.[15] The village residents voted to incorporatethe
village on October 18, 1892.[2][11] At that time, ithad a
population of 1,821.[12] In 1898, Freeport estab-lished a municipal
electric utility, which still operates to-day, giving the village
lower electricity rates than thosein surrounding communities.[10]
It is one of two munici-pally owned electric systems in Nassau
County; the otheris in Rockville Centre.[16] Public street lighting
was be-gun in 1907, and a public re alarm system was adoptedin
1910.[17]The Kissing Bridge, which no longer exists, crossed
theFreeport-Baldwin border over Milburn Creek at Seaman
Avenue.Postcard c. 1913.In the years after incorporation, Freeport
was a touristand sportsmans destination for its boating and
shing.6.1.3 1900-1939From 1902 into the late 1920s, the New York
and LongIsland Traction Corporation ran trolleys through Freeportto
Jamaica, Hempstead, and Brooklyn. These trolleyswent down Main
Street in Freeport, connecting to a ferrynear Woodcleft Avenue. The
ferries took people to PointLookout, about three miles (5 km) south
of Freeport,where there is an ocean beach. For a few years af-ter
1913, the short-lived Freeport Railroad ran a trainnicknamed the
Fishermens Delight along Grove Street(now Guy Lombardo Avenue) from
Sunrise Highway tothe waterfront.[10] Also in this era, in 1910
Arthur andAlbert Heinrich ewthe rst American-made, American-powered
monoplane, built in their Merrick Road airplanefactory (see also
Heinrich Pursuit).[10] WGBB, founded in1924, became Long Islands
rst 24-hour radio station.[10]In the late 19th century, Freeport
was the summer re-sort of wealthy politicians, publishers, and so
forth. Atthe time, travel from Freeport to New York City requireda
journey of several hours on a coal-powered train, oran even more
arduous automobile trip on the single-laneMerrick Road.According to
Elinor Smith, the arrival of Diamond JimBrady and Lillian Russell
around the start of the 20thcentury marked the beginning of what by
1914 wouldbecome an unocial theatrical artists colony, especiallyof
vaudeville performers.[18] Freeports population waslargest in the
summer season, during which most of thetheaters of the time were
closed and performers left forcooler climes.[10] Some had
year-round family homes inFreeport.[19] Leo Carrillo and Victor
Moore were early4 6 HISTORY AND CULTUREarrivals,[20]later joined by
Fannie Brice, Trixie Frig-anza, Sophie Tucker, Harry Ruby,[21] Fred
Stone, HelenBroderick, Moran and Mack, Will Rogers, Bert
Kalmar,Richard Whiting, Harry von Tilzer, Rae Samuels, BelleBaker,
Grace Hayes, Pat Rooney, Duy and Sweeney,the Four Mortons, McKay
and Ardine, and Eva Tanguay.Buster Keaton, W. C. Fields, and many
other theatricalperformers who did not own homes there were also
fre-quent visitors.[20]Several of Freeports actors gathered
together as the LongIsland Good Hearted Thespian Society (LIGHTS),
witha clubhouse facing onto Great South Bay.[10][22]
LIGHTSpresented summer shows in Freeport fromthe mid-1910sto the
mid-1920s.[10] LIGHTS also sponsored a summer-time Christmas
Parade, featuring clowns, acrobats, andonce even some borrowed
elephants. It was held at thisunlikely time of year because the
theater people were allworking during the real Christmas
season.[23] AConey Is-landstyle amusement park called Playland Park
thrivedfrom the early 1920s until the early 1930s but was
de-stroyed by a re.[24]With the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan on
Long Islandin the 1920s many villages in Nassau and Suolk coun-ties
were the focal point of Klan activity. According toa story in
Newsday detailing the history of Long Island,often, respected
clergymen and public ocials openlysupported the Klan and attended
its rallies. On Sept. 20,1924, for instance, the Klan drew 30,000
spectators to aparade through Freeport with the village police
chief,John M. Hartman, leading a procession of 2,000 robedmen....
the founding of one of Long Islands rst klav-erns, in Freeport, was
memorialized on Sept. 8, 1922,in the Daily Review,which carried a
banner headlineabout the meeting at Mechanics Hall on Railroad
Avenue.About 150 new members were greeted by seven
robedKlansmen.[25]The Sigmond Opera House (shown here c. 1913),
originally avaudeville theater and later a cinema, stood at 70
South MainStreet.6.1.4 1940-presentBy 1937, Freeports population
exceeded 20,000, and itwas the largest village in Nassau
County.[12] After WorldWar II the village became a bedroom
community forNew York City. The separation between the two eraswas
marked by a re that destroyed the Freeport Hotelin the late
1950s.During the 1950s local merchants re-sisted building any
shopping malls in the village and sub-sequently suered a great loss
of business when largemalls were built in communities in the
central part ofLong Island.The landscape of Freeport underwent
further change witha signicant increase in apartment building
construction.When such buildings went up in just two years in the
early1960s, the Village passed a moratoriumon multi-unit
res-idential construction.[26]While never a major boatbuilding
center, Freeport canboast some notable gures in that eld. Fred and
MirtoScopinich operated their boatyard in Freeport from justafter
World War I until they moved it to East Quoguein the late 1960s.
Their Freeport Point Shipyard builtboats for the United States
Coast Guard, but also forProhibition-era rumrunners.[27] From 1937
to 1945 theshipyard built small boats for the United States Navy
andBritish Royal Navy.[10] The marina and dealership oper-ated by
Al Grover in 1950 remains in Freeport and inhis family. Grovers
company built shing skis from the1970s until about 1990. One of
these, a 26-footer, car-ried Grover and his sons from Nova Scotia
to Portugalin 1985, the rst-ever crossing of the Atlantic Oceanby a
boat powered by an outboard motor.[10] ColumbianBronze operated in
Freeport from its 1901 founding untilit closed shop in 1988. Among
this companys achieve-ments was the propeller for the USS Nautilus,
an opera-tional nuclear-powered submarine and the rst vessel
tocomplete a submerged transit across the North Pole.[10]6.2
CultureOn the Nautical Mile, 2012Freeport is a Long Island hot spot
during the summer sea-son in New York. A popular festival occurs on
FreeportsNautical Mile (the west side of Woodcleft Canal) the
rstweekend in June each year, which attracts many peoplefrom across
Long Island and New York City. The Nauti-cal Mile is a strip along
the water that features well-known6.3 Architecture 5seafood
restaurants, crab shacks, bars, eclectic little bou-tiques, fresh
sh markets, as well as party cruise ships andcasino boats that oat
atop the canals. People line up forthe boat rides and eat at
restaurants that feature seating onthe waters edge and servings of
mussels, oysters, crabs,and steamed clams (steamers) accompanied by
pitch-ers of beer. An 18-hole miniature golf course is popu-lar
among families. The Sea Breeze waterfront parkwhich includes a
transient marina, boardwalk, rest roomsand benchesopened in 2009 at
the foot of the NauticalMile. It has proven to be a very popular
spot to sit andwatch the marine trac and natural scenery. This is
inaddition to an existing scenic pier.Freeport has an ethnically
and racially diverse popula-tion. There is one housing
project,named after Nas-sau Countys rst black judge, Moxie Rigby.
FreeportsHispanic community is made up of Puerto Ricans
andimmigrants who hail from Colombia, the Dominican Re-public,
ElSalvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and manyother Latin American
nations. Among the many Latin-American-themed businesses are the
Compare Foods Su-permarkets, several grocery stores, and
restaurants alongMerrick Road and Main Streetthatserve
Caribbean,Central American, Dominican,
andSouthAmericancuisines.Freeport, along with neighboring Merrick,
is also thegateway to Jones Beach, one of the largest state
beachesin New York. One famous area is the Town of Hemp-stead
Marina, where people from all over Long Islanddock their boats.
Freeport is a 45-minute ride by the LongIsland Rail Road to
Manhattan, making the trip an easycommute to New York City.From1974
to 1986, Freeport was one of the fewLong Is-land towns to hold a
sizeable open-air market area, knownas the Freeport Mall.[28] The
heart of the Main Streetbusiness area was closed to vehicular trac
and recong-ured for pedestrians only. The experiment was not a
suc-cess. The W. T. Grant store that was supposed to anchorthe mall
closed, along with the rest of that chain, shortlyafter the mall
opened. The mall area became shabby anddisused, and many businesses
failed. The mall was dis-mantled and returned to through trac with
regular park-ing on each side of the street.[29]6.3
ArchitectureJust northofthehighschool andtherailroadtracksis the
ruin of the former Brooklyn Water
Works,de-scribedbyChristopherGrayoftheNewYorkTimesas looking like
an ancient, war-damaged abbey. De-signed by architect Frank Freeman
and opened in 1891to serve the City of Brooklyn (later made a
borough ofNew York City),it was fully active until 1929 with
acapacity of 54 million gallons a day, and remained instandby for
emergency use until 1977, when the pumpsand other machinery were
removed. See RidgewoodInterior of post oceReservoir. An
unsuccessful 1989 plan would have turnedthe building into
condos.[30][31] Currently, the parcel isthe subject of litigation
and ongoing investigations byvarious agencies. Long Island
Traditions also describesthe sites of notable architecture in
Freeports history,suchas baymens homes[32]andcommercial
shingestablishments,[33] some of which are still existing, as
wellas the still-existing Fiores Fish Market and Two Cousins,which
are located in historic waterfront buildings, built bythe owners,
so they could negotiate directly with the bay-men as they pulled
into dock.[34]Long Island Traditions also describes and provides a
pho-tograph of the no-longer existing Woodcleft Hotel[35]
andimportant boatyards, about which the site writes:[36]In Freeport
the Maresca boatyard stands onthe site of what is now the Long
Island Ma-rine Education Center owned by the Villageof Freeport.
Founded in the 1920s by PhillipMaresca, they built both
recreational and com-mercial boats. Their customers included
GuyLombardo and party boat captains. The busi-ness was taken over
by Everett Maresca, whodied in 1995. The original building
remainsrelatively intact, consisting of a large concreteblock
structure. Further down on WoodcleftCanal stands the former
Scopinich Boatyard,now part of Shelter Point Marine services.
Thestructure is obscured by corrugated metal sid-ing but elements
of its original frame struc-ture remain. The yard was founded by
FredScopinich, aGreekimmigrant intheearly1900s. His grandson Fred
moved the yard toEast Quogue. The Freeport yard specializedin
building commercial shing boats includ-ing trawlers, government
boats for the CoastGuard, rum running boats, as well as
sailboatsand garveys for local baymen. Finally the orig-inal Grover
boatyard, founded by Al Grover,stands on Woodcleft Avenue a short
distancefrom the Maresca yard. A modest frame build-ing,
approximately 20 people worked there.Today the yard is located
north of the Nauti-6 6 HISTORY AND CULTUREcal Mile on South Main
street, run by Groverssons. Their yard consists of modern
corrugatedstructures used primarily for maintenance andstorage.6.4
Freeport Memorial LibraryFreeport Memorial LibraryThe Freeport
Memorial Library is one of NassauCountys largest public libraries.
The library was foundedin 1884 as part of the school system,
granted a provisionalcharter by the state Board of Regents in 1895,
and a per-manent charter on December 21, 1899. In 1911 it wasmoved
from a school building to a rented room in theMiller Building on
South Grove Street. At that time itwas a membership library:
members paid ten cents for acard and were permitted to borrow two
books at a time,one ction and one nonction.[37]A drive was started
in 1920 to construct a library build-ing. The resulting library at
the corner of Merrick Roadand Ocean Avenue, a Beaux Arts building
designed by ar-chitect Charles M. Hart, opened on Memorial Day,
1924.A year later it was renamed Freeport Memorial Library.In 1928,
a tablet was erected with the names of Freeportswar dead from the
American Civil War, Spanish Ameri-can War, and World War
I.[37]Additional wings were dedicated on April 19, 1959, andon
Memorial Day, 1985. Plaques were added to honorFreeporters who died
in World War II, the Korean War,and the Vietnam War.[37]6.5
SchoolsFor the 200910 school year, there were 6,257
studentsenrolled in Freeports public schools.[38] The children
ofFreeport, in grades 14, attend four magnet elementaryschools,
each with a dierent specialty: Archer Street(Microsociety and
Multimedia), Leo F. Giblyn (Schoolof International Cultures),
Bayview Avenue (School ofArts and Sciences), and New Visions
(School of Explo-ration & Discovery). In grades 5 and 6, all
public schoolchildren attend Caroline G. Atkinson School on the
northPlaque marking the rst public school in Freeport, NY;
Locatedat the corner of North Main Street and Church Street, in
front ofthe Cannon.side of the town. Seventh and 8th graders attend
John W.Dodd Middle School. The Middle School is built on
theproperty that housed the older Freeport High School, butnot on
exactly the same site. The old high school servedfor some years as
the junior high; then the newjunior highwas built on what was
previously parking lot and play-ground, and the old building was
torn down. A Catholicschool, the De La Salle School, is run by the
ChristianBrothers and accepts boys from grades 58.Children in
grades 912 attend Freeport High School,which borders the town of
Baldwin and sits beside theMilburn duck pond, which is fed by a
creek, several hun-dred yards of which was diverted underground
when thehigh school was built. Freeport High Schools mascotis the
Red Devil, and its colors are red and white. Theschool has
track-and-eld facilities. One unique featureof the schools
curriculum is a science research programrun in cooperation with the
State University of New Yorkat Stony Brook. The school oers
numerous advancedplacement courses and was a pioneer in distance
learningat the high school level.Roughly 87 percent of the
highschools graduates go on to some form of higher educa-tion. A
community night school for teen-agers had 236students as of
1999.[24]As early as 1886, Freeports schools began the then-unusual
policy of providing their students with free text-books. In 1893,
the newly incorporated village con-structed a ten-room brick
schoolhouse. Also in the late19th century, the community was among
the rst Long Is-land communities to establish an academic
department,oering classes beyond the elementary school
level.[39]Freeport saw its share of the social, political, and
racialturbulence of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The 196970
school year saw three high school principals in thevillages only
high school, succeeded in August 1970 byWilliamMcElroy, formerly
the junior high school princi-pal, who came to the position in the
midst of racial ten-sion and a constantly-polarizing student
body";[40] McEl-roy backed such initiatives as a student advisory
commit-tee to the Board of Education and, in his own words,7made
[him]self available to any civic-minded groupthat wished to discuss
with himthe situation in the school.By May 1972, he could claim
success, of a sort. For-merly, a ght between a black and a white
student wouldautomatically become racial; now a ght is just a
ghtbetween two students.[40]The Freeport High School newspaper,
Flashings, founded1920, is believed to be the oldest high school
paper onLong Island.[41] It has won numerous awards over sev-eral
decades.[42] From 1969 until 1999 it operated underfree press
guidelines unusual for a high school newspa-per, with an active
role for the students in picking theirown faculty adviser, and with
ultimate editorial controlrmly in the hands of students.[41][42]
Throughout thattime, Ira Schildkraut functioned as faculty
adviser.[41][42]In 1999 the school administration removed
Schildkrautfrom that role, and attempted to establish themselves
ascensors.[41][42] That last decision was turned back by theschool
board after it drew attention from, among others,TheNewYorkTimes
and the Student Press Law Cen-ter. However, the resolution of the
dispute did reducethe student journalists role in selecting their
own facultyadviser, and increased the faculty advisers editorial
au-thority relative to the student journalists.[42]From about 1970
to 1973, the town and Freeport HighSchool achieved recognition
because of its math teams(The Mathletes) performance in regional
inter-schoolmath competitions and performance on advanced
math-ematics tests including the Olympiad and those from theMAA. In
addition, in about 1970, Freeport High Schoolbecame one of the
fewschools in the country then to havea general purpose computer on
the premises dedicatedto student use and teaching programming, an
IBM 1620donated by IBM. The 1620 was later replaced by remoteaccess
to a DEC System 10 then, later, an on-site PDP-11/40 running the
RSTS/E time sharing system, also ded-icated to the students. Much
credit for the teamand com-puters goes to FHS math teachers and to
the FreeportSchool Districts head of Mathematics, Joseph
Holbrook.In June 2008 sixteen people were arrested after
violenceerupted in the high school.[43]In a 2010 Newsday story
regarding Long Island eighth-grader scores on Regents Exams, which
have traditionallybeen given to students in ninth grade and up,
Freeport wasranked in the lower tier.[44]6.6 Sports and
recreationFrom 1931 until the early 1980s, Freeport was
hometoFreeport Speedway, originallyFreeport MunicipalStadium.
Seatingabout 10,000, thestadiumorigi-nally hosted midget auto
races; after World War II itswitched to stock car racing and
eventually demolitionderbies.[45] In the early 1930s it was the
playeld for thePennsylvania Red Caps of New York, a semi-pro
base-ball team which took their name from the caps worn byPullman
porters. For a few years after that, the NFLBrooklyn Dodgers
football team, who, like their baseballnamesakes, played at Ebbets
Field, used the stadium asa midweek training site.[10] The site is
now a BJs Ware-house Club.Freeport ishometotheFreeport
RecreationCenter,which features an enclosed, year-round ice skating
rink;an indoor pool; an outdoor Olympic-size pool; an outdoordiving
tank; an outdoor childrens pool; handball courts;sauna; steam room;
fully equipped workout gyms; bas-ketball courts; and snack bars
serving hot and cold foods.The Rec Center also oers evening adult
classes andhosts a pre-school program, camp programs, and a
seniorcenter.7 Notable peopleCindy Adams, gossip
columnist.[10]Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin),
politicalactivist, co-founder of Code Pink[46]Leo Carrillo, actor
(Pancho in the Cisco Kid series)built a home on Randalls Channel at
the corner ofRoosevelt and South Long Beach Avenues.[47]Broderick
Crawford, actor.[10]Chris Edmonds, 1985 NCAA Division 1
WrestlingChampion[48]D'Brickashaw Ferguson, probowloensive
tacklefor the New York Jets[49]Dick Finley, member of the National
Lacrosse Hallof Fame.[50]Flavor Flav (RicoDrayton), rapper
andrealityTVstar; grewupinFreeport andneighboringRoosevelt.[51]Kay
Gardner,was a musician,composer,author,and musical producer who
lived in Freeport.[52]GeorgeGollin, elementaryparticlephysicist
andphysics professor[53]Morlon Greenwood, football player[54]Havoc
of hip-hop group Mobb Deep lives inFreeport.[55]Jay Hieron, retired
professional mixed martial artsghter and IFL welterweight
champion[56][57]Eddie Gordon, professional mixed martial artsghter
and UFC's TUF winner [58]Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development
Cor-poration and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3[59]8 9 REFERENCESErik
Larson, author of books such as Isaacs Stormand The Devil in the
White City, attended FreeportHigh School.[60]Peter Lerangis,
American author of childrens andyoung-adult ction; valedictorian of
the FHS Classof 1973[61]Steve Lieberman, punk rock bassist, autist,
singersignedtoJDubRecordsknownasTheGangstaRabbi and served as
Freeport Village Comptroller(1998-2014) [62]Guy Lombardo, musician
and big bandleader, livedin Freeport during the latter portion of
his life. Hisformer residence on South Grove Street (now
GuyLombardo Avenue) included a boathouse where hekept his powerful
speed boats, which he raced on theocean.[10]Charles Manning,
international fashion model[63]Donnie McClurkin, Grammy
Award-winningAmerican gospel singer, and founder and pastor
ofPerfecting Faith Church in Freeport.[64]Prodigyof
hip-hopgroupMobbDeeplives inFreeport.[65]Lou Reed,
singer-songwriter and founding memberof The Velvet
Underground[66]Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn
Dodgers.[10]Dick Schaap, was an American sportswriter,
broad-caster, and author[67]HenrySlocum, inventor of the inatable
MaeWest vest-style lifejacket.[10]Elinor Smith, 1920s
aviator.[10][68]Hale Smith, 20th-century composer.Susan Sullivan,
actress.[10]BrandonTartiko, televisionexecutive; grewupin
Freeport,[10] but did not attend the public highschool.HaroldE.
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