Port Washington and Nearby Towns We Serve

Our home base is Port Washington, an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County. Its ZIP codes run from 11050 to 11055, and we answer calls from every one of them. We also serve the villages on the Cow Neck Peninsula and several neighboring towns.

Neighborhoods in the Port Washington area

These pages cover communities on and around the Cow Neck Peninsula in more detail:

• Manorhaven: Village on Manhasset Bay with its own building department.
• Sands Point: Waterfront village that uses the Port Washington post office.
• Beacon Hill: Hilltop neighborhood of homes dating to the 1910s and 1920s.
• Port Washington Estates: Single-family neighborhood near Main Street.
• Port Washington North: Incorporated village with its own building department.
• Baxter Estates: Small incorporated village that includes part of Sunset Park.

Port Washington and its peninsula villages

The Town of North Hempstead governs the hamlet directly, and it occupies a neck of land with a bay to the west and a harbor to the east. Plandome Manor (in part), Sands Point, Flower Hill, Baxter Estates, Port Washington North and Manorhaven are the incorporated villages within or beside it. Each village has its own government, which matters for permits. Keep that in mind if you are unsure whether your address sits in the hamlet or in a village.

If your address is in one of these villages or in the hamlet itself, the call is the same: the 24/7 line takes it and sends a crew when available.

Nearby towns we cover

Calls also come from Roslyn Heights, a hamlet in the Town of North Hempstead, and from Old Westbury, an incorporated village with its own building department. The village of Roslyn sits on Hempstead Harbor, and Greenvale is a small hamlet along Northern Boulevard.

We also take calls from Hempstead, New Hyde Park, Manhasset, Great Neck, Carle Place, Williston Park, Albertson, Mineola, Garden City and Uniondale. Same-day response is offered when available, so call and we will confirm what coverage looks like for your address.

Which building department to ask

If a repair needs a permit, the right office depends on your street. Permits and safety inspections for the unincorporated area run through the Town's building department, which issues both building and plumbing permits. Villages run their own departments, so contact your village hall.

Not sure which side of a village line you live on? Town Hall can tell you. Do this before demolition or major rebuild work, not after. Your contractor or the building department can tell you what paperwork a given repair needs.

How a call is handled across the area

The process does not change by town, though the details of the property do. Whether the call comes from the Shore Road corridor or a quiet street near the water, the steps below stay the same.

ZIP codes across the service area

ZIP codes help you confirm that your address is inside the area we serve. The table shows each place with its ZIP, and the nearby towns have their own pages with local detail.

What to check if your street is on a boundary

Hamlets, villages and ZIP codes on the North Shore do not always line up, so a mailing address can belong to a different municipality than you expect.

• Read your tax bill or village notices to see whether you live in a village or in the unincorporated area.
• Before a rebuild starts, confirm whether the Town or a village issues the permit for your address.
• Check your water bill to see which water district supplies your home.
• Flood exposure differs address by address, so pull up the FEMA flood map for yours before leaning on any policy.
• Tell the dispatcher the street, cross street and ZIP so the right crew and the right permit path are clear from the start.

Frequently asked questions