Towns on the rebound or decline

[okaydorothy]

Bay ave towards the water is nicer. I fi had a choice, I would buy again in Patchogue. Esp in the village ; in the summer they have wonderful things on for the kids. Swimming lessons for $50 daily for 3 weeks, a great summer program.



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[fotoverdi]

Bay Avenue and Carman, are okay, not wonderful, not horrible. Off of Roe Blvd. and Democratic Hill are the nicest areas to be sure and the most expensive. Again, you just have to watch the taxes as we have both town and village and tend to be more than other towns.

[OhBeeHave]

I speak to everyone I see and we seem to have the highest property taxes of anyone I have met living here. I alone pay close to $15,000 a year, which in my estimation is nuts! My doctor who lives in Bayport pays $7,000.

Patchogue is town of Brookhaven; Bayport is town of Islip.

Have you thought about grieving your taxes?

[sean sean sean sean]

Originally Posted by okaydorothy

I also think that they cannot redo the whole village in one fell swoop. I do agree with the townhouses on Waverly ; remember they are facing the town dump!! I remember looking at that property 8 or so years ago ; it was 4 acres and asking $400,000.

But they are doing a nice, slow job on the village. It takes time to turn around what was a huge eyesore and make it nice again. They have knocked down the old national windows store on Montauk Highways also and I believe they are building move condos or so.

it will take time. it wont be the Hamptons, but it has hope to be a nice safe village.

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Nothing changes overnight, but think about Patchogue and Bay Shore even five years ago....huge difference. Both places were totally dead and beat up, now if you drive Montauk Highway on a weekend night....all the way from Amityville to Patchogue, every "downtown" area you hit is very lively with people young and old having a great time. The entire atmosphere of these places has done a complete 180. They're not gonna turn into Babylon by next week, but it's a great (and very visible) step in the right direction.

[Johninwestbury]

Bay Shore's downtown does look beautiful though, and the street to the ferry is very nice. Those homes look quite expensive...huge plots of land.

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

Nothing changes overnight, but think about Patchogue and Bay Shore even five years ago....huge difference. Both places were totally dead and beat up, now if you drive Montauk Highway on a weekend night....all the way from Amityville to Patchogue, every "downtown" area you hit is very lively with people young and old having a great time. The entire atmosphere of these places has done a complete 180. They're not gonna turn into Babylon by next week, but it's a great (and very visible) step in the right direction.

100% agreed. Patchoque, when the 9 story hotel/condo/retail development is built, along with the artist lofts/galleries will really take off. My buddy just bought one of the Pulte Copper Beach townhouses and loves it. He said the mayor is actively contacting developers about further development, like the mission that's near there...Pulte is set to build some more, I think. Great.

[okaydorothy]

So maybe I should keep onto my little cape for a little while longer.

I actually like the village feeling.

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[GCGuy]

Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce

Artspace is doing the artist lofts...then scroll the see the hotel development. http://www.tritecdevelopment.com/pro...age=ss1&cat=10

[fyrisle]

Originally Posted by fotoverdi

We have lived in Patchogue since 1983 and had all three of our children go through the school system, utilizing, Patchogue Medford Elementary School, Saxton School, South Ocean Middle School and Pat-Med High School with our youngest finishing two years ago. Although I felt they got a good education, things were changing in the later years with imigrants, smoking, drugs, and bomb threats being called in. That is not to say, I wouldn't send a child there now, as I think that is in a lot of school districts. The teachers were very good and we became friends with many of them. We have beenwaiting for Patchogue to turn around since 1983. We do live in the so-called nice area off Roe Blvd. near St. Joseph's College. We have no complaints with our neighborhood per se. It is more problems with the town. I have seen some positive changes, but they are few and far between. The addition of the Brichouse, Bobbique's, PeraBell and the Steak House if it ever opens, are good new additions. The Theatre is also good as well as, the auction houses. However, dollar stores, pawn shops, cheap prom clothing stores, the district courthouse, Burlington Coat Factory, and the numerous dirty nail salons, etc. etc., add nothing to the value of the shopping districts. I did love the new condos, however, I am beginning to feel that they are going condo crazy. Now, every piece of property that is available is becoming condo complexes. I did utilize the pool every single summer for swimming lessons, but have had numerous conversations on why we can't have chairs to sit upon like any other public pool rather than 40 year old stadium seating???? The closing of some of the boarding houses was a wonderful thing as they made the town horrible. I have no clue why nothing is ever done for 30 years east of the 112 section of Patchogue. The horrible movie theatre area with it's True Value Hardware mess that still sits empty. And, as far as voting for the school budget, I speak to everyone I see and we seem to have the highest property taxes of anyone I have met living here. I alone pay close to $15,000 a year, which in my estimation is nuts! My doctor who lives in Bayport pays $7,000. I do not by any means have a huge lot of property. I am 60' wide and go down to 40' in the back by 240' deep. I realize there was a lot of opposition a few years back with the riverfront project, that would have brought to Patchogue an area similar to San Antonio with restaurants, music, parks, boat rides, etc. etc., but I still felt it would have done wonders to revitalize this town. We seem to do nothing to save our historic landmarks as other towns do. There is no uniting of storefronts or signs, although they tell you that they did unify the signs allowing only higher class wooden signs as we were told. Now, I see wooden make shift signs being put up. Just my two cents, but as a longtime resident, I too, wonder just how much "revitalization" we will see and on what timetable it will be.

fotoverdi - I grew up on Shore Road. I agree with you about the area near the old movie theatre and creating a standard that all signs have to conform to would probably be very helpful.