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Bethpage is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County located in Long Island, New York. Early names for the area include Bedelltown, Jerusalem, and Jerusalem Station. It was known as Central Park from 1867 until 1936 and later changed to avoid confusion with Central Park in Manhattan. The hamlet is largely residential and it is home to Grumman, a major defense contractor, and Grumman Bethpage Airfield. The Bethpage Public Library undertook an expansion in the 1980s of its inadequate existing building. The new library became the catalyst for a movement to prevent the loss of community identity that residents feared might ensue.

Bethpage State Park, located on the Farmingdale border, is best known for its five world-class golf courses, including the world-renowned Black Course which was the site of the U.S. Open Championship in 2002 and will return in 2009 edition. The park has many recreational activities that include biking, hiking, golf, sledding, polo field, skiing, and many more. The first railroad station in Bethpage was built and named "Jerusalem Station" in 1850. Many businesses opened up around the station in the heart or center of town. The railroad brought Bethpage to the attention of land buyers. They bought land all around the tracks and began building homes. The fast transportation system of the railroad turned Bethpage into a modern town. The Bethpage Union Free School District has a total of 5 schools. It consists of three elementary schools (Charles Campagne, Kramer Lane, and Central Boulevard). The Middle School is John F. Kennedy Middle School and the high school is Bethpage High School.

North Shore Eye Care serves the residents of Bethpage with a variety of concerns including laser vision correction. North Shore eye care is a leader in lasik laser eye surgery and laser vision correction. Our board certified eye surgeons use the best in lasik technology and have over 50 years of eye surgical experience. When you come in for your complimentary lasik evaluation, we will fully test your eyes with corneal topography, corneal pachymetry and eye examination to determine if you are a good candidate for laser vision correction. About 80 % of our lasik evaluations turn out to be good candidates. Of those, about 70 % can have bladeless custom lasik and about 30 % can have advanced surface ablation, also called PRK or LASEK. With lasik, we use Intralase to make a flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. This flap creation is the safest and most precise available. We then use VISX Customvue to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.

The Wavescan gets a custom fingerprint of your vision. This fingerprint of your vision is transferred electronically into the laser. The laser automatically centers ands tracks as it corrects your vision. It also uses iris registration. It uses your unique iris landmarks to exactly place the laser pulses. This promotes the best vision possible every time. For those patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas, high prescriptions, corneal scars or dry eye, surface ablation is sometimes a better choice. With surface ablation or PRK, The laser vision correction part is the same,but there is no flap. By minimizing the depth of the corneal ablation, more candidates can qualify. Either way, you are getting state of the art laser vision correction by the Top Doctors: New York Metro Area.