PW- brutally honest opinion please! (New York, Deer Park: rental, houses, title)

[sonyalee9]

It always gives me a giggle to read the posts from people who have lived their whole life on LI. I currently live in PW and think it's a really nice area. I grew up in a town that was 98% white but I've lived in Jersey City, Brooklyn and Los Angeles so having a few people around who look different than me doesn't bother me, I guess. Yes, there are some areas that are less than perfect but nowhere have I ever felt threatened or afraid or even slightly nervous (except for the pizza parlor I walked into one day to buy a bottle of water, where everyone was WHITE and everyone stopped and stared at me for whatever reason, very weird, guess they knew that I was new in town). I walk through PW at all kinds of odd hours and I feel perfectly safe. The commute to the City is the best on LI, especially since you don't go through Jamaica. I have been to several areas on LI, both North and South shores, Nassau and Suffolk. While I've seen some great towns, I've yet to find the perfect one, either here or anywhere else I've lived.

[Glad2BHere]

Originally Posted by sonyalee9

It always gives me a giggle to read the posts from people who have lived their whole life on LI. I currently live in PW and think it's a really nice area. I grew up in a town that was 98% white but I've lived in Jersey City, Brooklyn and Los Angeles so having a few people around who look different than me doesn't bother me, I guess. Yes, there are some areas that are less than perfect but nowhere have I ever felt threatened or afraid or even slightly nervous. The commute to the City is the best on LI, especially since you don't go through Jamaica. I have been to several areas on LI, both North and South shores, Nassau and Suffolk. While I've seen some great towns, I've yet to find the perfect one, either here or anywhere else I've lived.

I think you bring up some great points and I agree about PW on the whole. Still very desirable in most parts of town.

[Joe L]

Originally Posted by Port North

I'm afraid so:
http://www.antonnews.com/portwashing...05/03/25/news/

I been saying the MS-13 garbage is in PW for years, Moderator cut: comment
They hang out but the train station and Manorhaven, bar beach during summer. They mostly run drugs and threaten landlords in Manorhaven and Manhasset isle.

Its gottem worse since that news clipping, they now out number the PW police and Suozzi wont let the Nassau county cops touch them (doesnt want to offend hispanic voters).
LaMottas marina had to put up 16 cameras !

-Joe L

[Glad2BHere]

Originally Posted by Joe L

I been saying the MS-13 garbage is in PW for years,They hang out but the train station and Manorhaven, bar beach during summer.
They mostly run drugs and threaten landlords in Manorhaven and Manhasset isle.

-Joe L

I didn't doubt you Joe.

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by mishigas73

*shrug*

REALLY nice attitude. But, that's what happens when people cannot discuss things rationally.

Nice job.

Many people are quite childish and/or have their heads in the sand. The bottom line is that this is 300 KNOWN members of ONE gang. There's many, many more and it'll only get worse if not dealt with in a brutal and decisive manner. Funny, what some people say in jest, is really exactly how a rational person should think. Oh well, I guess a few more years in the real world and maybe they'll wake up. But, at the same time, America is filled with idiots who just haven't seemed to wake up.


Now, where's that little red button again?

[nbres]

How is the area around North Shore Animal League?

[Joe L]

Looks Industrial and dirty like parts of Manhasset Isle, Lots of big old wooden houses. Sadly many of the owners are semi-slumlords, illegel apts, white trash, tow truck drivers, bikers, MS-13 & possible chop shops

[Glad2BHere]

Originally Posted by nbres

How is the area around North Shore Animal League?

I never found it too appealing, out of all of PW.

[TheSeventhBrady]

Originally Posted by Joe L

Looks Industrial and dirty like parts of Manhasset Isle, Lots of big old wooden houses. Sadly many of the owners are semi-slumlords, illegel apts, white trash, tow truck drivers, bikers, MS-13 & possible chop shops

I totally agree; it's about as far from desirable as you can get. However, I think Manhasset Isle is improving a bit. That seems to happen whenever prices get so high -- as they have in the past few years -- that people with $500k or so to spend find that their money won't buy them as much as they thought (and as much as it indeed should) and so they venture into neighborhoods they might never had considered.

So there may be hope for Manorhaven yet.

That said, I've never felt uncomfortable in Manorhaven, but then again -- I don't live there. One reason I don't live there is that it reminds me too much of the Brooklyn I grew up in, and eventually couldn't wait to escape from. I really wanted to live in a neighborhood that felt suburban, and Manorhaven didn't quite do it for me. Quite a number of my neighbors grew up in Manorhaven, and have fond memories of having grown up there, much as I have of Brooklyn, but still wanted a little more when they grew up -- also as I did.

Joe L, as much as I can understand your anger at the local democrats effing so many things up, why point out that they're Jewish? There's no reason to fan the flames of hatred. I could say a lot of things about Italian Catholics (and Irish Catholics) having grown up where I did, but I prefer to take people on a "case-by-case" basis. But that's probably why I've done pretty well in life. I grew up with very little. No car, not even a color TV (and no, I'm hardly ancient). No one handed me anything. You have to keep going and doing your best. That's the greatest thing you can do for yourself, especially if, like me, you come from circumstances where no one will be handing it to you.

Hope you have a very merry Christmas, and all the best in the coming year.

[TheSeventhBrady]

I could give you a laundry list of reasons why I could just as easily be as blindly bigoted as you, but since none of it has to do with building and zoning, none of it would make any impact.

I give up.