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Massapequa

American  
[mas-uh-pee-kwuh] / ˌmæs əˈpi kwə /

noun

  1. a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.


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Hello Massapequa, and the apartment over the store in Rutherford, and the Lincoln Road Restaurant and the June Taylor Dancers, one of whom gave me such a lift so long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

As cops breathed sighs of relief that he was an architect, those living in Massapequa "were astonished," Livoti said.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

Massapequa, its residents proudly proclaim, is a "cop town."

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

A memory from the Massapequa, N.Y., public schools of the late 1950s and early 1960s:

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

George Robertson, the racing driver, in tuning up for the Vanderbilt race, went over the embankment at the Massapequa turn on Long Island at the rate of sixty miles an hour.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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