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

Plainview's origins reach to 1648, when Robert Williams bought land near a pond the Native Americans called Moscopas, and to Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase of 1695, which took in the rest of the area.

The settlement was long called Manetto Hill — from Manitou, meaning god or spirit — until 1885, when it was renamed Plainview for its view over the Hempstead Plains.

Plainview had 27,100 residents at the 2020 census, in 8,861 households.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Plainview was famous for cucumbers, grown for the H. J. Heinz pickle factories in nearby Farmingdale and Hicksville.

Plainview exploded after World War II, growing from 1,155 residents in 1950 to more than 35,000 by 1960 as farmland became subdivisions.

Plainview shares a single school district, library, fire department and water district with neighboring Old Bethpage; the district's high school is Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School.

The Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library has been recognized by Library Journal as a '5 Star Library,' one of the top-rated public libraries in the nation.

The 19-acre Plainview-Old Bethpage Community Park, opened in 1960, offers an Olympic-size swimming pool, ball fields, courts and seasonal ice skating.

Plainview is a corporate address too — technology company Veeco Instruments is headquartered here — and a wealthy one, with a median household income of about $181,000.