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Farmingdale is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 8,399 at the 2000 census.

The Village of Farmingdale is inside the Town of Oyster Bay. Farmingdale School District includes parts of both Nasssau County and Suffolk County.

The first settler in the area was Thomas Powell, who arrived in 1687. On October 18, 1695, he purchased a 15 square mile tract of land from three Native American tribes. This is known as the Bethpage Purchase and includes what is now Farmingdale, as well as Bethpage, Melville, North Massapequa, Old Bethpage, Plainedge, and Plainview. One of two houses he built in the area (1700) still stands on Merritts Road in Farmingdale.

The community began growing in earnest when the Long Island Rail Road arrived in 1841. The area was called Hardscrabble, but the name was changed to Farmingdale in 1845. The village was incorporated in 1904. In 1912 the State Agricultural and Technical school was established. Later, Farmingdale became a locus for the aircraft industry, notably Republic Aviation Company.