However, these plans were unsuccessful, and Hicksville remains an unincorporated area of the Town of Oyster Bay to this day, as of 2022. A petition had been signed with 6,242 signatures from residents in favor of the plan. Many residents felt that by incorporating as a village, the community would be run more effectively than by the Town of Oyster Bay. In 1953, Hicksville attempted to incorporate itself as the Incorporated Village of Hicksville. The hamlet was named for Valentine Hicks. It turned into a bustling New York City suburb in the building boom following World War II. After a blight destroyed the cucumber crops, the farmers grew potatoes. The station became a depot for produce, particularly cucumbers for a Heinz Company plant. Valentine Hicks, son-in-law of abolitionist and Quaker preacher Elias Hicks, and eventual president of the Long Island Rail Road, bought land in the village in 1834 and turned it into a station stop on the LIRR in 1837. The population of the CDP was 43,869 at the 2020 census. Hicksville is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York.
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