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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Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The two adults who died were the high school’s band director, Gina Pellettiere, 43, of Massapequa, and a retired teacher Beatrice Ferrari, 77, of Farmingdale.

From Washington Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Investigators spent nearly two weeks combing through Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, across a bay from where the remains were found.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Back at the Massapequa Park house, Bernadette Paredes, 53, an office manager from Levittown, New York, had brought her 18-year-old daughter, Brooke, who had watched a Netflix documentary, “Lost Girls,” about the Gilgo Beach case.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)