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Are you talking about this place? If so, seems like a great deal at $800/mo or less even if the home needs some work, but the neighborhood and school district are poopy. That block (Lenox Ave) looks OK, but take a little Google Street View tour of the surrounding area and you'll get the idea. There's a reason why you can find decent-looking homes on the cheap in places like Bellport and the Mastics.
That said, I'm no stranger to living in... questionable neighborhoods, so if I didn't have to worry about sending my kid to that SD, I'd probably jump on this
The house you linked to is in East Patchogue, not Bellport. One thing about listings is if they only show a pic of the outside it usually means inside is a real dump.
Elke, you wouldn't want your grandchildren going to Bellport schools. Look at our ranking list and you will see Bellport routinely ends somewhere at the bottom. The people in the South Bellport area (main Village of Bellport area) and the small middle class area very close and on the north of Montauk Hwy. (that's also part of the Village of Bellport) send their kids to private schools.
You know what ruined North Bellport? Many years ago HUD sold a bunch of houses there not to families that wanted to live in them, but to investors that wanted to rent them and were willing to take people on programs (Section 8, Social Services paying the rent, etc.), so naturally the place goes ghetto. These investors got rich(er) for ruining a neighborhood 40 or 50 years ago and there is no sign of an end to it today. No gentrification or middle class coming to North Bellport anytime soon.
The house you linked to is in East Patchogue, not Bellport. One thing about listings is if they only show a pic of the outside it usually means inside is a real dump.
Elke, you wouldn't want your grandchildren going to Bellport schools. Look at our ranking list and you will see Bellport routinely ends somewhere at the bottom. The people in the South Bellport area (main Village of Bellport area) and the small middle class area very close and on the north of Montauk Hwy. (that's also part of the Village of Bellport) send their kids to private schools.
You know what ruined North Bellport? Many years ago HUD sold a bunch of houses there not to families that wanted to live in them, but to investors that wanted to rent them and were willing to take people on programs (Section 8, Social Services paying the rent, etc.), so naturally the place goes ghetto. These investors got rich(er) for ruining a neighborhood 40 or 50 years ago and there is no sign of an end to it today. No gentrification or middle class coming to North Bellport anytime soon.
I was really saying it tongue in cheek - wistfully thinking how nice it would be to be paying less than $2,000 in taxes with STAR
Then again, it's not an area I would pick for myself even if I didn't have grandchildren.
Still amazes me though that you can actually buy a house for so little on Long Island--with such low taxes.
Wrong! That area is WORSE than Wyandanch and Hempstead!
Not even joking... That area looks like somethin straight out of a Feed The Children commercial
Sadly, I agree. When you go on google maps, virtually every block is nothing but small run-down or abandoned houses, cars parked on the lawn, toys left outside, weedy/dirt lawns, people hangin out. Driving through it in real life is even worse. It looks like down south and nothing like long island. It's one of the few LI hoods that I would actually consider a true ghetto. I would guess that at least a good 4/5 people there are poor and on some kind of govt assistance. It's an embarassment to Long Island and it's really just sad.
The house you linked to is in East Patchogue, not Bellport.
That's a very G-Spanny comment from you, ILLIB Semantic difference at best, that neighborhood's all the same whether it has a Hellport or East Patchogue mailing address.
Agree with the comment about the missing interior shots, though it's listed as a short sale, and I've found those listings are generally less detailed in terms of photography for whatever reason.
That's a very G-Spanny comment from you, ILLIB Semantic difference at best, that neighborhood's all the same whether it has a Hellport or East Patchogue mailing address.
Agree with the comment about the missing interior shots, though it's listed as a short sale, and I've found those listings are generally less detailed in terms of photography for whatever reason.
Well Elke specifically said the listing was in Bellport. That's all I'm saying. A house listed as East Patchogue wouldn't be the house. From what I remember, E. Patchogue has a nice area too with nice old homes. By Swan Lake, South Country Rd. leading into Bellport Village.
I went a block up and a block down on Lenox Avenue in East Patchogue via Google Street Views and I didn't see any cars parked on lawns or anything - am I missing something?
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I went a block up and a block down on Lenox Avenue in East Patchogue via Google Street Views and I didn't see any cars parked on lawns or anything - am I missing something?
East Patchogue is tolerable.
However, if you scroll around the adjacent part of N.Bellport, you will see the crazy things described by multiple users.
However, if you scroll around the adjacent part of N.Bellport, you will see the crazy things described by multiple users.
I went on Station Road, and Brookhaven Avenue, and nothing really screamed "Brownsville" to me - can you tell me a block that looks undesirable on Street Views so I can see? Thanks.
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I went on Station Road, and Brookhaven Avenue, and nothing really screamed "Brownsville" to me - can you tell me a block that looks undesirable on Street Views so I can see? Thanks.
I went on Station Road, and Brookhaven Avenue, and nothing really screamed "Brownsville" to me - can you tell me a block that looks undesirable on Street Views so I can see? Thanks.
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