How do you perceive Garden City Park? (Hempstead, Union: houses, neighborhood)

[purelygeneric]

Let me start by stating that I fully understand that Garden City Park is NOT Garden City. Aside from close proximity, they pretty much have nothing in common.

However, I'm trying to better understand the neighborhood when compared with other areas that are close by: New Hyde Park, Mineola, Albertson and so on.

There are quite a few decent houses in the mid-400's - but I'm having trouble "reading" the neighborhood. Is it regarded as 'good,' 'bad,' 'foreign,' 'in transition,' etc.? Trying to account for the fact that it's a touch cheaper than other local places...

Thanks!

[Walter Greenspan]

For those who may not be familiar with Garden City Park:

Garden City Park is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the southwest part of the Town of North Hempstead, in the west part of Nassau County, along the North Hempstead/Hempstead town line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Garden City Park in the Town of North Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Herricks; on the east by the Village of Mineola; on the south by the Village of Garden City, Town of Hempstead (the North Hempstead/Hempstead town line); and, on the west by the Hamlet of North New Hyde Park.





Garden City Park is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name in their mailing address: places within the Hamlet of Garden City Park have a "New Hyde Park, NY 11040" 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

[Kbinspections]

I have found it to be a very stable middle class area. I'm not sure about the schools or which school district.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Kbinspections

I have found it to be a very stable middle class area. I'm not sure about the schools or which school district.

Depending where in the Hamlet of Garden City Park, it's in the Herricks Union Free School District, the Mineola Union Free School District and the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Central High School District.

[fopt65]

It depends upon which area you are looking at. South of Jericho Tpke: GCP near Mineola high school is primarily black middle class (east of Nassau Blvd); west of Nassau Blvd is more white, except for right around the junk yards on Denton Ave.

For years, even when it was primarily white, GCP was thought to be a step down compared to New Hyde Park. Maybe because of the junkyards and other commercial/industrial areas but I'm not sure.

All in all, its an okay area. Not as well regarded as the towns you mentioned, but I wouldn't be afraid to buy there if you really searched the immediate vicinity of the home.
I like the older houses south of Jericho and west of Nassau Blvd. You can walk to the LIRR station. Just beware that no parking signs abound there to keep people from parking on the street instead of the small LIRR lot.