FREEPORT, a village of Nassau county, New York, U.S.A., on the south shore of Long Island, 5m. E. of the city limits of Brooklyn. It is served by the Long Island railroad. The popula tion in 1930 was 15,467. Oyster and other fisheries and truck gardening are important industries, and there is some manufac turing, but the village is chiefly a suburban residential community. It was incorporated in 1892.