  lawrence is a village in nassau county, new york in the usa. as of the united states 2010 census, the village population was 6,483. the village of lawrence is in the southwest corner of the town of hempstead, adjoining the border with the new york city borough of queens to the west and near the atlantic ocean to the south. lawrence is one of the "five towns", which consists of the villages of lawrence and cedarhurst, the hamlets (unincorporated areas) of woodmere and inwood, and "the hewletts", which is made up of the hamlet of hewlett together with the villages of hewlett bay park, 
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