Hempstead is a village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 59,169 at the 2020 census, making it the most populous village in New York.
Hempstead in 2019, as seen from the air.
Town of Hempstead's old Town Hall, located on the corner of Front Street and Washington Street.
St. George's Church circa 1734
The Village of Hempstead as seen from eastbound lanes of Fulton Street.
Arnold Constable & Company
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Arnold Constable & Company was a department store chain in the New York City metropolitan area. At one point it was the oldest department store in America, operating for over 150 years from its founding in 1825 to its closing in 1975. At the company's peak, its flagship "Palace of Trade" in Manhattan – located at 881-887 Broadway at East 19th Street, through to 115 Fifth Avenue – was acknowledged to be the store which took the largest portion of the "carriage trade", in New York, serving the rich and elite of the city, such as the wives of Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The Arnold Constable buildings at 307-311 Canal Street, with the red-brick Mercer Street facade. 309-311 (at the corner) is the original building, and 307 (center of block) was an addition.
The upper floors of the Fifth Avenue facade, with the 19th Street facade on the left, going east towards Broadway
The Constable Building at 109-11 Fifth Avenue