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. Varmus, 1989recipient oftheNobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine[69][70]Paul Wehrum, member of the National LacrosseHall of Fame.[71]Jean R. Yawkey,wife of Boston Red Sox ownerTomYawkeyandowner of theteamfromhisdeath in 1976 until her own in 1992, grew up inFreeport.[72]Michael Zielenziger, American journalist andauthor[42]8 In popular culture8.1 TelevisionSeason 1, episode 56 ofHistoryAlive, Rumrun-ners, MoonshinersandBootleggers(1995), de-scribes boat making operations and illicit businessventures in Freeport.[73]Season5, episode8of The Sopranos, "MarcoPolo" (April 25, 2004), reveals that the crew ofLupertazzi crime family member Jerry Basile oper-ates in Freeport.9 References[1] Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy:2010CensusRedistrictingData(PublicLaw94-171)Summary File (QT-PL), Freeport village, New York.U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder 2. RetrievedOctober 3, 2011.[2] Newsday.com Long Island History: Freeport, RetrievedJuly 20, 2006.[3] Laura Rivera (April 6, 2009). 300 watch as AndrewHardwick sworn in as Freeport mayor. Newsday. 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