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Hicksville Becomes a Suburb (Part I)
I don't know if there ever was a Hicksville like that, but for many, many years, there was something that closely resembled it. In the beginning, commuting between Manhattan and Long Island was difficult. It remained difficult for most people until September 8, 1910, after which many more residents of Nassau and Suffolk could seek careers in Manhattan, and people who worked in Manhattan could dream about homes on Long Island. The door had been opened. The change was so significant that the editors of the Huntington Long-Islander saw fit to announce it this way:
Let's look at how things worked out that way. We'll begin about 190 years ago.
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