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Merrick

Merrick is a hamlet in located on the south shore of , . Merrick is approximately 40 minutes from . It is named after the Meroke Indians, an Algonquin tribe that was indigenous to the area.
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  • Type: Town with 22,000 residents
  • Description: hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Meric”, “Merikohe”, “Merrick, New York”, “Merrick, NY”, and “Moroke”
  • Postal code: 11566

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bellmore station and Merrick station.

Railway station
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bellmore is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on the north side of Sunrise Highway between Bedford and Centre Avenues in , however the actual land area occupied by the station's several parking lots begins west of Centre Avenue and continues east of Bellmore Avenue.

Railway station
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Merrick is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially located on Sunrise Highway, between Hewlett Avenue and Merrick Avenue, in Merrick, New York.

Railway station
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Freeport is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Freeport Plaza, between Henry Street and Benson Place, just north of Sunrise Highway in , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freeport and North Bellmore.

Town
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Hempstead is the most populous town in America, with a whopping 700,000 residents, located on the South Shore of , . The town is highly urbanized and fragmented, containing 22 semi-autonomous villages within its boundaries, and forty other neighborhoods. , encompassing the "Nassau Hub" region, has its own article.

Town
is a census-designated place in the in , on , in , United States. The population was 19,941 at the time of the 2010 census. is situated 2 miles northeast of Merrick.

Town
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is a hamlet and census-designated place in the in , on the South Shore of , in , United States. The population was 18,066 at the 2020 census. is situated 2 miles northwest of Merrick.

Merrick

Latitude
40.6629° or 40° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
-73.5515° or 73° 33′ 6″ west
Population
22,000
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US MER
Open location code
87G8MC7X+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158865208
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5126630
Wiki­data ID
Q2892204
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Merrick” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميرريك (نيويورك)”
  • Arabic: “ميريك”
  • Basque: “Merrick”
  • Catalan: “Merrick”
  • Cebuano: “Merrick”
  • Chinese: “梅里克”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميرريك, نيويورك”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميرريك”
  • French: “Merrick”
  • German: “Merrick”
  • Gilaki: “مریک (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “مریک”
  • Greek: “Μέρικ, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Μέρικ”
  • Hebrew: “מריק”
  • Hungarian: “Merrick”
  • Irish: “Merrick”
  • Italian: “Merrick”
  • Japanese: “メリック”
  • Ladin: “Merrick”
  • Malagasy: “Merrick, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Merrick”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Merrick”
  • Persian: “مریک، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “مریک”
  • Polish: “Merrick”
  • Russian: “Меррик”
  • Serbian: “Мерик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Merrick, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Merrick”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مریک، نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Merrick (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Merrick”
  • Swahili: “Merrick, New York”
  • Swahili: “Merrick”
  • Swedish: “Merrick, New York”
  • Swedish: “Merrick”
  • Tatar: “Меррик”
  • Turkish: “Merrick”
  • Ukrainian: “Меррік”
  • Volapük: “Merrick”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Merrick”. Photo: Sullynyflhi, Public domain.