New Hyde Park (Hempstead, Garden City, North New Hyde Park: house, school district, living in)

[LEA190]

Hi, need help. I'll be moving to New Hyde Park within a year, want daughter to go to New Hyde Park Memorial high school, which streets / areas should I concentrate on my house search ? also wants to know what's the advantage living in village of NHP versus just NHP ? besides own cops / fire dep't etc, as I see besides property tax, also need to pay village tax, any added benefit ? is it true NHP in town of N. hempstead is better than just town of hempstead, thanks for all the help.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by LEA190

also wants to know what's the advantage living in village of NHP versus just NHP ?

You should be aware that the geography of New Hyde Park can be very confusing because the majority of places that have a "New Hyde Park, NY 11040" mailing address (3,339 acres) are not in the Village of New Hyde Park (531 acres); and, only those places that are actually in the Village of New Hyde Park are in "New Hyde Park".

A map of the Village of New Hyde Park in the Town of Hempstead and the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/New-hyde-park-ny-map.gif (broken link)

Places that have a "New Hyde Park, NY 11040" mailing address that are not in the Village of New Hyde Park are in the Village of Lake Success, the Hamlet of Manhasset, the Village of North Hills, the Hamlet of Manhasset Hills, the Hamlet of North New Hyde Park, the Hamlet of Herricks, the Hamlet of Garden City Park and the Village of Garden City.

[Walter Greenspan]

When you do find a house that you like, you can find out in which community (city, village or CDP) that house is actually located, which is oftentimes different from the community named in that house's mailing address, by using the Census Bureau's online address search function. (CDP, or Census Designated Place, is the Census Bureau equivalent for a hamlet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.)

And, very importantly, among other things, the Census Bureau's online address search function also indicates in which school district an address is located.