wantagh

[budsvtec]

My wife was saying the same thing the other day about the driveway that you have to drive down to get to the other houses in the back. I am assuming the owners of the two back houses would be responsible for shoveling that out. I am sure the town will not plow that. The back yards are like walkways, but there are big side yards. The front house is selling for $499k and that is supposedly a short sale. I looked at the two in the back, the front one wasnt available to see but they are all the exact same layout. The only difference is the granite in the kitchen.

I think they are still going to have a rough time selling them, even at the price they are at. I would say a good price for the homes would be around $450k. The thing that kills the whole deal is the $1000 in taxes you would have to dish out each month.....

What is star in Wantagh?

[OhBeeHave]

That long driveway is a ROW and yes, both homeowners would share responsibility for plowing and maintenance.

[budsvtec]

What do you mean by ROW?

[Johninwestbury]

Originally Posted by boomvang

Funny you should mention that. Wantagh has one of the very worst libraries on Long Island, and the people who work there are indeed quite nasty.

I haven't had any probs there, though their hours are not great. Smithtown library is much worse, they are now closing at 6pm on some weeknights and are all closed Sundays.
Westbury has a nicer library than Wantagh though. The good thing here in Nassau at least is that with NLS you can take out books from any Nassau library.

[sean sean sean sean]

The people who work at the Wantagh Library are nasty but the library itself is pretty nice. I can usually find anything I'm looking for and sometimes things I didn't know existed. It's a small building, but the layout is nice and open and airy with lots of places to sit. It's a total relic of the "space age", I love the center shelves in the two level circular section. My big gripe with them right now is that they stopped stocking factory service manuals for cars older than 2005.....stupid, who needs a service manual for a car that new anyway???

The Levittown library is a little bigger, with a better selection and they have a huge archives in the basement....but that place is definitely stuck in the 1960s. They even still used the original IBM 5150 PC up until pretty recently there!! Not that there's anything wrong with that, they still logged onto the Nassau Library Directory as good as the new ones do! I like the East Meadow library a lot too, they have a lot of books on Long Island & NYC history.

[boomvang]

It's strange that the folks who work at the Wantagh Library are still nasty, as they were nasty 40 years ago when I first started using it. The building itself does have some appeal, but the overall service, quantity and quality of books and other materials is lacking. I make these observations as a bit of a library buff. While searching for a new community to relocate to, one of the first things we did was check out the library. We use three here regularly, and each one is far superior to Wantagh's. If I still lived there I would be livid at the amount of taxes paid for such substandard service.