Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Roslyn, NY

Roslyn is a historic village in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, and it anchors the Greater Roslyn area.

Roslyn was first settled by European colonists in 1643 and was originally called Hempstead Harbor, until postal confusion with Long Island's many other Hempsteads forced a name change in 1844.

The name Roslyn was chosen because the village's valley setting reminded officials of Roslin, Scotland.

Roslyn incorporated as a village on January 11, 1932, after a referendum that passed by a single vote, 38 to 37, and Albertson W. Hicks became its first mayor.

Roslyn has 2,988 residents (2020 census) packed into just 0.66 square miles at the head of Hempstead Harbor.

On April 24, 1790, George Washington stopped for breakfast at the Roslyn home of mill owner Hendrick Onderdonk during his tour of Long Island; the house still stands today as Hendrick's Tavern.

The Ellen E. Ward Memorial Clock Tower, completed in 1895 and designed by the firm of Lamb and Rich, is the village's beloved symbol; the town sold it to the village for $1 in 1995, and it was restored for its centennial.

Poet William Cullen Bryant, who lived nearby at Cedarmere, built Bryant Hall in Roslyn in 1874, and the Bryant Library was established in 1878; its Local History Center is the largest local library archive in Nassau County.

Gerry Park, the large green in the center of the village, opened in 1931 on the site of a drained swamp that had been considered a public health hazard.

The 217-unit Roslyn Gardens cooperative, built in the late 1940s, was the first major rental housing development in the New York metropolitan area financed under the FHA's Title 608 program.