In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

Public libraries in Nassau County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis.

Headquarters of the Nassau system is an increasingly busy place these days, threatening to expand beyond its boundaries.

The Nassau Inter-County Express system serves Elmont with routes n1 ( Elmont Road / Central Ave .), n2 ( Meacham Ave ./ N Fletcher Ave .), n6 ( Hempstead Turnpike ) & n8 ( Franklin Ave ./ Dutch Broadway / Hook Creek Blvd.

Nassau William Senior argued for greater centralization of the Poor Law system.

Shortly after his removal to the Netherlands, Salmasius composed ( at the request of Prince Frederick Henry of Nassau ) his treatise on the military system of the Romans ( De re militari Romanorum ), which remained unpublished until 1657.

The MetroCard is the payment method for the New York City Subway rapid transit system ; New York City Transit buses, including routes operated by Atlantic Express under contract to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA ); MTA Bus, and Nassau Inter-County Express systems ; the PATH subway system ; the Roosevelt Island Tram ; AirTrain JFK ; and Westchester County's Bee-Line Bus System.

Westchester Bee Line bus system and Nassau Inter-County Express and MTA New York City Transit bus is free to transfer from one bus to another bus that is accepted with MetroCard.

* Nassau Inter-County Express, local bus system in Nassau County, New York

* 1788-On July 24, 1788, Governor General Lord Dorchester proclaims the land area to be divided up into " Lower Canada " with a French legal system and " Upper Canada " with a British legal System, whereby the land districts had been named Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau and Hesse in honor of the Royal family and the present large Germanic population.

The Nassau Inter-County Express ( NICE or NICE Bus ) is the local bus system serving Nassau County, New York.

In 2011, the owner, Nassau County, decided to switch the system over to a private operator, Veolia Transportation, due to a funding dispute with the MTA.

For the past decade, the MTA has provided a unique subsidy ( of $ 24 million in 2011 and over $ 140 million since 2000 ) to the Nassau County bus system that the other New York City suburban county bus systems have not received.

On November 10, 2011, Veolia and Mangano announced that the service was going to be renamed Nassau Inter-County Express ( or NICE ), upon Veolia's takeover of the system.

* Nassau Inter-County Express, a bus system operated by Veolia Transportation that connects Queens and Nassau County.

The BMT Nassau Street Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway system in Manhattan.

Banzhaf studied the Nassau County Board's voting system, which allocated the total of 30 votes to its municipalities as follows:

The Meadowbrook State Parkway was first envisioned in 1924 as part of the Long Island State Park Commission and Robert Moses's system to connect several parks out in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

LIPA, a non-profit municipal electric utility, owns the retail electric system on Long Island and provides electric service to over 1. 1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.

He was an early advocate of environmental protection, expanded Nassau County's park system, recruited college graduates for the police force, and favored progressive zoning regulations to open up housing opportunities to minorities and the poor.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

Nassau, together with Suffolk County to its immediate east, are generally referred to as " Long Island " by area residents — as distinct from the New York City boroughs of Queens ( Queens County ) and Brooklyn ( Kings County ), which are geographically on the island's westernmost end.

The count filed a futile suit to establish that his morganatic status in Germany should not exclude him from succession to the throne of Luxembourg after the last male of the House of Orange, King William III of the Netherlands, died in 1890 and it became apparent that the House of Nassau faced the imminent extinction of its male members, as well, upon the eventual death of Grand Duke William IV.

# France within its old borders, the Northern Netherlands unified with the Southern Netherlands and all of German territories on the left bank of the Rhine and north of the Moselle and the old Duchy of Berg and the old Lands of Nassau on the right bank of the Rhine.

In this period of its history, the city became the target of various occupations, starting in May 1572 with the Protestant takeover by Louis of Nassau, who had hoped to clear the way for the French Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny to oppose Spanish rule.

With the impending start of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) in the fall of 1972, the upstart league had plans to place its New York team, the Raiders, in the then brand-new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County.

In 1120, Dudo-Henry's sons and successors, Counts Robert I ( German: Ruprecht ; also translated Rupert ) and Arnold I of Laurenburg, established themselves at Nassau Castle with its tower.

The route was further truncated back from Route 18 in the 1970s in New Brunswick to its current northern terminus at Nassau Street.

Elmont is an unincorporated census-designated place located in the northwest corner of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, along its border with the borough of Queens in New York City.

North Hempstead is the only town on Long Island that does not have a corresponding hamlet or village in its borders with the same name ; Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County and the towns of Huntington, Babylon, Islip, Smithtown, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, Shelter Island and East Hampton in Suffolk County all have smaller subdivisions with the same name.

Chapels at Nassau and East Poestenkill were connected with St. Henry's church soon after its establishment.

Herborn had its first documentary mention in 1048 and was granted the privilege of a city in 1251 by the Counts of Nassau.

Founded in 1653, it is located on the north shore of Long Island in northwestern Suffolk County, with Long Island Sound to its north and Nassau County adjacent to the west.

In the summer of 1862, the British-built warship Oreto, later renamed the CSS Florida, was delivered to Nassau in the Bahamas with the intention of its being transferred to the Confederate Navy.

The town changed its name to " Nassau " in 1808.

Here, CR 583 passes through wooded residential areas as it comes to its northern terminus at Route 27 ( Nassau Street ) just to the east of Route 27 ’ s southern terminus at US 206.

In 1957, the bank opened a branch in Nassau, the Bahamas, and in the subsequent years expanded its operations in Jamaica.

It once included all of Long Island, but it gave up its territory in Nassau County and Suffolk County in 1957 to the Diocese of Rockville Centre.

In 1788, the Nassau militia was formed with John Butler as its commander, filling its ranks with the demobilized officers and men of Butler's Rangers.

As the political row grew into a major crisis, an emergency meeting between parties from the US and UK was called, leading to the Nassau agreement.

However, Nassau County officials did not consider the WHA a major league and wanted nothing to do with the upstart Raiders.

Along with Callahan, Hilliard is one of the major economic centers of western Nassau County.

In Nassau County, all major county roads emanate from this village.

Nassau Coliseum, where the franchise relocated, is generally regarded as one of the most marginal venues currently used in major American professional sports, and is often proposed for replacement, so the improvement of the situation with regards to a venue has been fairly minimal to this point.

Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island adjoining New York City.

With this small fleet, complemented by the ( 12 ), and ( 8 ), and ( 10 ), Hopkins led the first major naval action of the Continental Navy, in early March 1776, against Nassau, Bahamas, where stores of much-needed gunpowder were seized for the use of the Continental Army.

It is a major hub of Nassau Inter-County Express, with several bus routes stopping in a terminal area near the southern parking structure.

By March 2011, the MTA proposed a set of major service reductions which will eliminate over half of the routes, with the greatest impact on southeastern Nassau County, eliminating all routes operating south of Hempstead Turnpike and east of the Meadowbrook State Parkway ( except for the N71 ), citing Nassau's refusal to pay its contracted amount.

With his small fleet, Hopkins led the first major naval action of the Continental Navy, in early March 1776, against Nassau, Bahamas, where stores of much-needed gunpowder were seized for the use of the Continental Army.

In its run through Nassau, it is the only major east – west highway that does not interchange with the Meadowbrook or Wantagh state parkways, both of which end to the south at the adjacent Northern State Parkway, which parallels the LIE through the county.

Nearby Deadman's Cay is the major settlement at the center of the island and is home to Deadman's Cay Airport, which offers several flights each week to Nassau and is the island's largest and busiest airport.

She soon teamed musically with famed Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan, and recorded her first major landmark hit, " Padlock " in 1983 with the Compass Point All Stars in Nassau, Bahamas which became a club and radio hit two years later.

A native of Nassau, Bahamas, Rodgers was the first Bahamian to play in the major leagues.

In 1836, he set a major long distance record in the balloon " Royal Vauxhall ", flying overnight from Vauxhall Gardens in London to Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau ( Germany ) a distance of: this record was not broken until 1907.

It is a major hub for Bahamasair and is located in western New Providence island near to the capital city of Nassau.

Old Country Road is a major east – west thoroughfare through central Nassau County and extending into western Suffolk County on Long Island, New York.

It serves many of the major shopping centers in central Nassau County including Roosevelt Field Mall.

However, Nassau County didn't consider the WHA a major league and wanted nothing to do with the Raiders.

Because of the small size of Luxembourg, and its minor role as a campaign theater, the Order of Adolphe of Nassau was not issued as frequently as other major World War II orders, such as the Croix de Guerre.

He had a major role in expanding the airport, Oakes Field, in the capital city Nassau, bought the British Colonial Hilton Nassau, built a golf course and country club, and developed farming and new housing.

For example, major U. S airlines and their subsidiaries routinely operate many daily flights from locations like Toronto or Nassau to New York City.