Poll question: Can ALL towns, cities & hamlet(just for you walter) be classified "North Shore or South Shore" ? (Hempstead: school district, live in)

[monkeygorilla]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Traditionally , the North Shore was always North of 25A ( Northern Blvd/ North Country Road ) and the South Shore was South of 27A (Montauk Highway/ Merrick Road ) . To imply that the shores go all the way to Sunrise and Jericho is really a stretch. Those two highways are really not on either shore, except for Sunrise on the East End.

Those are where most , if not all, of the villages are located also.

Wait, so Old Westbury, Brookville, Muttontown & Cold Spring Harbor would not be considered North Shore unless you live in the parts that are north of 25A? I'm confused now. I always considered these North Shore towns (or hamlets or whatever).

[nancy thereader]

The only argument against that would be in places like Oakdale where Sunrise and 27A merge.

Speaking of that one merge, the most frightening experience I have ever had in driving was one rainy fall late afternoon when I was coming back from Sayville to Babylon , driving west on Montauk Highway and innocently drove into that merge and all of a sudden found myself headed into on-coming east bound traffic on Sunrise Highway. My little girl and I were almost killed. I still can not imagine what happened. What a crazy set up that was (or is.... I am afraid to venure back there....).

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Traditionally , the North Shore was always North of 25A ( Northern Blvd/ North Country Road ) and the South Shore was South of 27A (Montauk Highway/ Merrick Road).

Agreed.

However, north shore/south shore only applies in Nassau County.

In Nassau County, all or parts of the cities, villages and hamlets north of The North Hempstead Turnpike and south of The Merrick Road are north shore and south shore, respectively.

[Andysocks]

Did live in East Meadow, I've always considered considered north of the northern state to be north shore and everything else south shore. Culturally, at least, has nothing to do with what shore you actually live closest to. I've never really traveled east of East Meadow too often (I know my way around Hempstead and Uniondale and Mineola but not around Levittown), so maybe the perceptions change after you cross the Wantagh Pkwy, I wouldn't know.

[flowergarden]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

Flower,

Please, if you have to ask, well then your not north shore, sorry....lol!

I think we're onto something here, kb. Sort of like Soupy Sales...we can have all potential newcomers send in money in order to receive their OFFICIAL LONG ISLAND PLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.

For a few extra bucks *cough* I will gladly alter the boundary lines to make someone a denizen of the North Shore.

I will gladly become your silent partner in this business venture! I can't be an active partner b/c 1) I'm not from LI, so I won't be very authentic during sales meetings, 2) I won't be living on the North Shore since I think I'll live south of 25A and 3) I don't have an accent.

However, I can make up, um..., I mean produce a really nice certificate. What do you all say?

[rockypointny]

Yes, the North Shore would include any comunities touching the sound and extending to their southern border. IMO any community not touching the sound is not really a north shore community. The same rules would apply to the south shore. Places like the Brookvilles and Old Westbury may be part of the Gold Coast, but they aren't really north SHORE communities. The key word here is shore.

[OhBeeHave]

Quote:
Originally Posted by OhBeeHave
Flower,

Please, if you have to ask, well then your not north shore, sorry....lol!


Quote:
I think we're onto something here, kb. Sort of like Soupy Sales...we can have all potential newcomers send in money in order to receive their OFFICIAL LONG ISLAND PLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.

For a few extra bucks *cough* I will gladly alter the boundary lines to make someone a denizen of the North Shore.

I will gladly become your silent partner in this business venture! I can't be an active partner b/c 1) I'm not from LI, so I won't be very authentic during sales meetings, 2) I won't be living on the North Shore since I think I'll live south of 25A and 3) I don't have an accent.

However, I can make up, um..., I mean produce a really nice certificate. What do you all say?

I have a crazy accent -- touches of the Bronx with south shore LI and that 1 year in Albany mixed in.

What I find odd is that my children don't have the LI accent that my friends growing up on the south shore had. We say ball differently as well as a number of other words. I also don't find them dropping 'r's the way I do. I do believe that the accent is more a south shore phenomena than it is north shore one.

You have the clause -- your town does touch the sound; it's a technicality so you would indeed be north shorian.

Now as for the certificate -- I would like the prototype on my desk in the morning LOL

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by rockypointny

Yes, the North Shore would include any comunities touching the sound and extending to their southern border. IMO any community not touching the sound is not really a north shore community. The same rules would apply to the south shore. Places like the Brookvilles and Old Westbury may be part of the Gold Coast, but they aren't really north SHORE communities. The key word here is shore.

I think you'll have a tough time convincing more people that Old Westbury and the like are not North Shore enough. Perhaps in the past, this was meant literally, but today I don't think most people view it this way. Of course, I could be wrong.

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[Rachael84]

anything north of the LIE is north shore, anything south of the Southern state is the south shore. Anything between is just middle of the island. That's just what I think though.

[alamarina]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

Flower,

Please, if you have to ask, well then your not north shore, sorry....lol!

I think we're onto something here, kb. Sort of like Soupy Sales...we can have all potential newcomers send in money in order to receive their OFFICIAL LONG ISLAND PLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.

For a few extra bucks *cough* I will gladly alter the boundary lines to make someone a denizen of the North Shore.[/quote]




Ok, so I'm moving to LI and you have me completely confused. But this NS/SS thing is fascinating. As a physician I'll be travelling to 5 locations ranging from Roslyn to Stonybrook and so far like the sound of the cooler, less snowy South Shore. Also, when I was at Penn this gorgeous rich girl from Glen Cove used me as a boy toy for the summer then dumped me when her North Shore boyfriend returned from lacrosse camp and I am still heartbroken about that (it was only in '74 you see). Hence the SS is looking better. What ARE the stereotypes associated with each shore, as someone mentioned? As we know, there is often "truth in jest"