Hicksville ..YAY OR NAY???? (Hempstead, Oyster Bay: schools, living, zip code)

[avatect]

It probably had a lot to do with living in the woods where no one else can see your house getting robbed in broad daylight!!! Current neighborhood and town, Hicksville, is fine and far better than what it's credited for.

[iluvmycuties]

What town was that?! Glad to hear you're loving your town!

[raiser]

The town of Oyster Bay has been putting alot of money into the Hicksville parks lately. They did a great job on Walker Park which used to be a vacant parking lot for the past 30 years. I wish that park was around when I was a little kid.

[raiser]

Originally Posted by avatect

Everyone talks about indian businesses coming in when we fail to mention IKEA, Starbucks, Friendly's (just opened), IHOP, Chucky CHeese, Sears, Red Lobster, Circuit City, Movie Theatre, Peppercorns, Pupper Theatre, Pep Boys, Boulder Creek, Radio Shack...ok, Im getting tired.

You are talking about chain stores? I am talking about all of the small mom and pops shops that used to be on Broadway

Originally Posted by avatect

This community has seen improvement in recent years, with the renovation of the train station,

I honestly want to know what they renovated? It would be nice if the power washed the bird poop off the ground.

[lifetimeliguy]

Originally Posted by avatect

and been visiting there frequently for 15 years...and I must say, I can't exactly agree with everyones assessment of this town. First of all, 4.3% Asian Indian doesn't exactly tell me Hicksville is overflowing with Indians. Even if they were, they're clean, friendly, work for a living...with most of them successful doctors. Just becuase it has a lot if Indian businesses doesn't necessarily mean it's an Indian Community. We have IKEA, does that mean Hicksville is a Scandinavian community? Everyone talks about indian businesses coming in when we fail to mention IKEA, Starbucks, Friendly's (just opened), IHOP, Chucky CHeese, Sears, Red Lobster, Circuit City, Movie Theatre, Peppercorns, Pupper Theatre, Pep Boys, Boulder Creek, Radio Shack...ok, Im getting tired.

This community has seen improvement in recent years, with the renovation of the train station, rehab of sidewalks along Jerusalem Avenue and Marie Street, rebuilt houses on W John Street that were once abandoned (near Broadway Mall back entrance), triangle park reconstructed, Plainview Road completely rebuilt.

Bottom line, I hear very little regarding crime. I used to live in quiet Clinton, CT, where my house, and each house beside me was robbed silly.

I grew up in Hicksville , many of my friends stayed there and raised their kids.
Lets see - one family with three children produced a CPA, a teacher and a software engineer - all (recent) products of the public schools. None of my friends still living there have ever been robbed or victims of a crime. (most live in the south section, Spindle Road area).
Not too sure I would worry about the 4.3% mentioned either - especially when you realize the nationalities mentioned have kids who tend to be overachievers and are always at the top of the class. Their parents will demand good schools. Not a bad thing.

[avatect]

Hicksville Train Station was renovated about 4-5 years ago, the entire waiting area. New lighting installed on platforms and under viaduct last year. Poop does get powerwashed, but it's a endless battle.

Which one is Walker Park? Is that the one along the LIRR/Port Jeff tracks? Triangle Park (named after a fallen soldier who's name I regretfully can't remember) is another great example. I would carpet my living room with the field they put there.

[sdeshpan]

Originally Posted by Johninwestbury

Maybe further down Broadway, but just south of the tracks it's mainly central American and it caters to illegals.(generally from RR tracks to Old Country-illegals) You'll always see a group of them loitering outside the bodegas.
Behind Broadway mall its all flophouses, all I see are illegals living there now and lots of cars with out of state plates.
Behind Sears it's better, like you said.

Does anyone know about the area just around Broadway mall (N Broadway and Bethpage Rd)? There is a Fairhaven Aptt complex there that I am considering to rent at, but not sure if that place is good enough. Does anyone know anything about that specific part? This is like just South of the intersection of Northern Pkwy and N Broadway.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by sdeshpan

Does anyone know about the area just around Broadway mall (N Broadway and Bethpage Rd)? There is a Fairhaven Aptt complex there that I am considering to rent at, but not sure if that place is good enough. Does anyone know anything about that specific part? This is like just South of the intersection of Northern Pkwy and N Broadway.

That Fairhaven Apartments complex straddles the Jericho/Hicksville hamlet line and the Jericho Union Free School District/Hicksville Union Free School District line, and is partly in the Hamlet of Jericho and the Jericho Union Free School District and partly in the Hamlet of Hicksville and the Hicksville Union Free School District.


For those who may not be familiar with Jericho:

Jericho is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the center-west part of the Town of Oyster Bay in the central part of Nassau County, along the Oyster Bay/North Hempstead town line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Jericho in the Town of Oyster Bay is bordered on the north by the Village of Old Westbury, the Village of Brookville, the Village of Muttontown and the Hamlet of Syosset; on the east by the Hamlet of Syosset and the Hamlet of Hicksville; on the south by the Hamlet of Hicksville and the Hamlet of New Cassel in the Town of North Hempstead (the Oyster Bay/North Hempstead town line); and, on the west by the Village of Westbury in the Town of North Hempstead (the Oyster Bay/North Hempstead town line) and the Village of Old Westbury.





The Hamlet of Jericho has a different border than does the "Jericho, NY 11753" ZIP Code postal zone (i.e., a place can have a "Jericho, NY 11753" mailing address and not be in the Hamlet of Jericho and a place can be in the Hamlet of Jericho and have other than a "Jericho, NY 11753" mailing address): places that have a "Jericho, NY 11753" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Jericho are in the Village of Brookville, the Village of Muttontown, the Village of Old Westbury, the Hamlet of Syosset and the Hamlet of Hicksville; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Jericho that have a "Westbury, NY 11590" and "Hicksville, NY 11801" mailing address.


For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County): http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html

[dannaxo]

if you have childern, holy trinity is the way to go.. its right in the neighborhood. i dont live there but my boyfriend does and im there everyday anyways so its like i doo verry nice neighbor hood <3 love it there

[AnthonyNYC]

Originally Posted by lifetimeliguy

Not too sure I would worry about the 4.3% mentioned either - especially when you realize the nationalities mentioned have kids who tend to be overachievers and are always at the top of the class. Their parents will demand good schools. Not a bad thing.

Good point. I have friends that live in Hicksville and really like it there. The also stated the indian children were usually on the top of the class.