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Old Bethpage is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Oyster Bay, in Nassau County on Long Island.

Its land was part of the 1695 Bethpage Purchase, in which Thomas Powell bought about 10,000 acres from the Marsapeque, Matinecoc and Sacatogue tribes for 140 English pounds.

Powell named his land Bethphage because it sat between Jericho and Jerusalem, just as the biblical Bethphage sat between Jericho and Jerusalem; the Long Island Jerusalem is now Wantagh and Island Trees.

The hamlet was originally called simply Bethpage, but after the neighboring hamlet of Central Park took the name Bethpage in 1936, the original community renamed itself Old Bethpage, though it did not get its own post office until 1965.

Old Bethpage had a population of 6,403 at the 2020 census, up from 5,523 people in 1,834 households in 2010.

Much of Old Bethpage is parkland rather than housing: Bethpage State Park, opened in 1932 under Robert Moses, covers about 1,400 acres almost entirely within the hamlet.

Bethpage State Park's famous Black Course, inside Old Bethpage, hosted the U.S. Open golf championship in 2002 and 2009 and the PGA Championship in 2019, one of five golf courses in the park.

The hamlet is home to the Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a recreated mid-19th-century Long Island village of 209 acres with 51 historic buildings and 7 reconstructed buildings, including farmhouses, a blacksmith shop, a general store and a schoolhouse moved there from around Long Island.

Old Bethpage also contains the 44-acre Battle Row Campground, a Nassau County campground for tents and trailers.

In 1908 William Kissam Vanderbilt II routed his Long Island Motor Parkway, one of America's first highways, through Old Bethpage, and street names like Vanderbilt Lane, Motor Parkway and Toll Place still recall it.