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The Five Towns is an informal grouping of Villages and Hamlets in Nassau County , New York , United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City . Despite the name, none of the communities are Towns . The Five Towns is usually said to be comprised of the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst , the hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood , and "The Hewletts", which consist of the villages of Hewlett Bay Park , Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck and the hamlet of Hewlett . The "towns" most commonly included as constituents of the "Five Towns" are all within the Town Of Hempstead . The name "Five Towns" dates back to 1931, when individual '', November 20 , 1988 . p. R11 A 1933 article in '' The New York Times '' references a Girl Scouts Of The USA encampment by the "Five Towns Council, embracing the villages {Link without Title} of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett", interestingly, listed in order by LIRR station."TO BREAK CAMP AT AEN.; Girl Scouts of Rockaways Leave Wednesday After 2 Weeks' Stay.", '' The New York Times '', July 25 , 1933 . p. 16. COMMUNITIES Each of these "towns" has a consecutive stop on the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road . All five communities are part of the Town Of Hempstead . Woodmere is the largest and most populous community in the Five Towns, while the commercial and cultural hub is usually considered to be Cedarhurst, with its refined shopping area (along Central Avenue ) and nearby park. There are more communities that are sometimes considered to be part of the Five Towns, including Atlantic Beach , Woodsburgh and North Woodmere , which are all officially part of the Lawrence Public Schools (except for a part of North Woodmere and all of Woodsburgh, which is part of the Hewlett-Woodmere School District ), but their inclusion in the Five Towns is unclear since there is no official Five Towns designation. Woodsburgh is arguably part of Woodmere, Atlantic Beach is geographically part of the same barrier island as Long Beach and North Woodmere is an unincorporated section of Valley Stream. Each of the Five Towns, with the exception of Inwood which is predominantly Christian , has a large Orthodox Jewish community, with many Jewish Day School s, Yeshiva s, Synagogue s, kosher restaurants and Judaica stores serving the needs of the surrounding community. Roman Catholics also make up a large percentage of the Five Towns. EDUCATION There are two school districts in the Five Towns, the Lawrence Public Schools (District 15) and the Hewlett-Woodmere School District (District 14). Roughly speaking, the Lawrence school district contains all of Lawrence, Cedarhurst and Inwood, and part of Woodmere while the Hewlett-Woodmere district contains all of Hewlett and part of Woodmere and extends partly into the neighboring villages of Lynbrook and Valley Stream (North Woodmere and Gibson, in particular). Five Towns College Although Lawrence was planned to be the location for , 2006 POPULAR CULTURE On the April 8 , 2007 , episode of '' Entourage '', titled Less Than 30 , the character Johnny "Drama" Chase was noted to be acting in a fictional NBC series called "Five Towns." Entourage writers Rob Weiss and Ed Burns went to Hewlett High School , but the name of the fictional TV show came from the title of a script fellow staff writer Cliff Dorfman had written years before. On the May 13 , 2007 episode, titled '' The Resurrection '', the posh and affluent Village of Hewlett Harbor was said to be the setting of the fictional NBC series called ''Five Towns''. FIVE TOWNS CELEBRITIES
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