Long Island's changing demographics: What do you think? (New York, Babylon: renting, school districts)

[TheSeventhBrady]

Originally Posted by GCGuy

NICE! Did it have white wrought iron and a "Mary on a half shell" out in front? Gouma Joe and friends, please remodel my house, too.

No fence or Mary-on-the-half-shell, I'm afraid. I was told that they're Greek. Next time I'll have to take a closer look at their front yard. I was so busy marveling over the blue fucco that I missed all the other details. It's amazing that I didn't go over the curb when I turned the corner and saw the unfinished side and back.

Malba is a beautiful, and seemingly little-known, area of Queens. The homes are for the most part tastefully done, and in the millions.

You should see what was done by my mother's next door, semi-attached neighbor. Semi-attached houses just don't look right if one side is drastically redesigned. My mother's next door neighbor (she lives in Brooklyn), rebricked and fucco'ed the **** out of their house. They wanted to know if my mother wanted to do the same. She didn't. I wish I had been there when they asked her this. Her response must have been pretty terse, to say the least.

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

What does Nbres stand for , do you think?

I've always assumed it stands for North babylon resident

[NYer]

Originally Posted by clamboy

Whats Malba?

a great enclave near Whitestone

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by NYer

a great enclave near Whitestone

Cool....Whitestones beautiful.

[nbres]

Clamboy:

You misunderstood my last post. I never said Rocky Point is trashy. I said it "had a reputation for being low and trashy." The use of "had" means past tense. This was true of that whole area in the 80s through most of the 90s. I remember old junky summer homes there going for under $60,000. The Sound Beach area did not have a great reputation. And as far as being "North Shore," it is geographically, but not in style.

Fortunately, I guess for you especially, the area is seeing a rise in new construction. The problem for Rocky Point will always be that it is so far away from everything.

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by nbres

Clamboy:

You misunderstood my last post. I never said Rocky Point is trashy. I said it "had a reputation for being low and trashy." The use of "had" means past tense. This was true of that whole area in the 80s through most of the 90s. I remember old junky summer homes there going for under $60,000. The Sound Beach area did not have a great reputation. And as far as being "North Shore," it is geographically, but not in style.

Fortunately, I guess for you especially, the area is seeing a rise in new construction. The problem for Rocky Point will always be that it is so far away from everything.

Nbres,


Rocky Point and Sound Beach are very much the heart of Northeast Brookhaven both geograpically and stylistically.
(But thank you for the complement ..its not a snob North Shore town if thats what youre implying.)


Heres the deal.
In the 80s there were a lot of Summer rentals here....it was a beach community.
Maybe a little sketchy but there were some good families out here since the dawn of time.

Then a lot young professionals figured it out as the population shifted east.
North of 25a, great schools, low taxes.

No brainer....Sold!

110 used to be the population East/West line for LI

It think its more like 112 now ....possibly Wm Floyd.

If exit 63 is far for you.
You havent been out here in a while.

Those 60k houses are now 300 - over 1M for waterfronts.
Ive tripled my money here since 2000.

Rocky Point is still the best buy on the Island....and dare I say a good value all things considered.

Best
C

[nbres]

The last time I was up your way was a year ago. I went to Wildwood State Park to see what it was like. I was very disappointed. First of all the place was overrun with mestizos and none of their kids were supervised by adults. Often an older sibling of say seven or eight was in charge of watching a bunch of one and two year olds. The facilities at the place were in bad shape. There was also a great deal of garbage everywhere. The beach itself wasn't too nice in my opinion. Its too rocky and the Long Island Sound even that far out seemed dirty - I wouldn't go in it. It also had a funky smell.

[4StanleyCups]

Longtime residents of Long Island do very clearly remember a time when both Rocky Point and Miller Place were areas that you didn't want to drive through, much less live in. Miller Place, especially, was considered the "Wyandanch" of eastern Suffolk at that time.

Both towns were viewed as "undesirable" back when I was looking for my first house in the early 1970s, and if I recall correctly, maybe even in the mid to late 1960s.

I have a friend who lives in Wading River, and I like many parts of that area (not all; I hate those cookycutter developments along the south part of Wading River Road). One day this spring we took a drive around the Lake Panamoka streets (I think it's called the "Trail" area? because the streets have that in their names). To be honest, I'm not a fan of the cottage/beach community ambience there (I don't like the Venetian Shores type areas of Lindenhurst either, or San Remo up near Kings Park, for the same reasons). But I can see that the area would be an affordable one for starter or retirement homes, and based on my recollection of what it was like back in the day, it has clearly improved!

[lilibrarian]

Miller Place, especially, was considered the "Wyandanch" of eastern Suffolk at that time.

Both towns were viewed as "undesirable" back when I was looking for my first house in the early 1970s, and if I recall correctly, maybe even in the mid to late 1960s.

Really? Huh. I don't know that much about Suffolk, historically. I think both towns are lovely, and have good scores, graduation rates etc., compared to plenty of Suffolk districts. I'd move to either, if the commute wouldn't be ridiculous for my husband. We looked closely at Rocky Pt. about 2 years ago, before deciding to stay put a bit longer.

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by nbres

The last time I was up your way was a year ago. I went to Wildwood State Park to see what it was like. I was very disappointed. First of all the place was overrun with mestizos and none of their kids were supervised by adults. Often an older sibling of say seven or eight was in charge of watching a bunch of one and two year olds. The facilities at the place were in bad shape. There was also a great deal of garbage everywhere. The beach itself wasn't too nice in my opinion. Its too rocky and the Long Island Sound even that far out seemed dirty - I wouldn't go in it. It also had a funky smell.

Thats Riverhead pal...Not Rocky Point

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