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Spare no expense, in which case commute wouldn't be that much of an issue, Head of the Harbor or Nissequogue in Suffolk. I love it up there. If I decided to be closer to the city, Lattingtown. The North Shore is so much more esthetically pleasant to me in terms of tall tree and hills.
Spare no expense, in which case commute wouldn't be that much of an issue, Head of the Harbor or Nissequogue in Suffolk. I love it up there. If I decided to be closer to the city, Lattingtown. The North Shore is so much more esthetically pleasant to me in terms of tall tree and hills.
Sparing no expense Im surprised more people haven mentioned the Hamptons.
I too prefer the bluffs of the North Shore but truth be told I wouldnt mind being oceanfront East Hampton. Just not year round.
If I was looking for a town to raise family and money was no object...Id probably stay put in Rocky Point but move to a waterfront in the Terraces.
Sparing no expense Im surprised more people haven mentioned the Hamptons.
I too prefer the bluffs of the North Shore but truth be told I wouldnt mind being oceanfront East Hampton. Just not year round.
Well if you're talking spare no expense multiple dwellings, I probably wouldn't even have a house on LI at all. I'd have a hipster pad in NYC (West Village? Maybe Brooklyn Heights by the Promenade), a swanky place up in Westchester, CT, or Northern Jersey (easy to get out of the metro area if you want to see the country) where my kid would go to school, and a Beach house somewhere less annoying than the Hamptons (traffic sucks, too much snobbery). Maybe NC, SC, or even San Diego where the weather is sublime. Anybody got, oh, $8 million or so lying around?
This is a tough choice, because at one time or another I've lived in all three and had loves/hates just about equally in each one.
While I love the large properties and treed ambiance of the North Shore, I'm not fond of the hilly topography, as a lifelong gardener I'm well aware that the North Shore is the worst for poison ivy and heavy clay soil. I also couldn't stand living within the snobbishness of Nassau's North Shore.
On the other hand, the South Shore seems more open and light and airy, has better soil for gardening (as long as you're not too close to the shoreline where it gets mostly sandy) and a more relaxed feel. Unfortunately, large (1/2 acre or more) lots are rare and far too many areas were de-treed for cookie-cutter developments.
IMHO, mid-Island has nothing to specifically recommend it EXCEPT for convenience and proximity to all the highways (I grew up in central Nassau, btw, and lived there until the early 1970s). HOWEVER... ironically, if I had to choose a money-no-object location to live in, it would end up being in the one-acre-zoned area of Dix Hills (probably in or next to the Caledonia section). That's the ONE are of mid-Island that IMO combines the best of both North (large lots, big trees, moneyed demographic) and South (travel convenience) shores. So by virtue of Dix Hills' location I would have to pick Mid-Island BUT.... Dix Hills isn't your "typical" mid-Island location at all.
I think there are more nice middle island places than we're giving credit to.... Floral Park, Bellerose, Garden City, East Williston, Melville, Dix Hills, Jericho...probably some others I'm forgetting. Those are all winners.
OK if money were no object, I could buy one house in every county on Long Island, well more really (and I would) but for our purposes I'll settle for four. Like dman72, I'll take a hipster brownstone near the Brooklyn Waterfront. Probably Greenpoint because I like some of the bars over there, but Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope are a little nicer. Anything with a rooftop porch and views of Manhattan and the East River bridges. In Queens I'd have my Breezy Point bungalow for the summer time. Love the beaches and the tiny pedestrian-only streets. You can get a ferry to Manhattan now too. My main crib would be a Victorian mansion overlooking Hempstead Bay in Sea Cliff. I've always loved that village, and never got the impression that it was as obnoxiously snobby as some other North Shore communities. Then finally I'd have a North Fork farmhouse for autumn getaways complete with a barn full of classic cars....late September afternoon cruising Sound Avenue in a late 60s Mercedes-Benz SL with the top down...ah yes, I can see it now....
I think there are more nice middle island places than we're giving credit to.... Floral Park, Bellerose, Garden City, East Williston, Melville, Dix Hills, Jericho...probably some others I'm forgetting. Those are all winners.
OK if money were no object, I could buy one house in every county on Long Island, well more really (and I would) but for our purposes I'll settle for four. Like dman72, I'll take a hipster brownstone near the Brooklyn Waterfront. Probably Greenpoint because I like some of the bars over there, but Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope are a little nicer. Anything with a rooftop porch and views of Manhattan and the East River bridges. In Queens I'd have my Breezy Point bungalow for the summer time. Love the beaches and the tiny pedestrian-only streets. You can get a ferry to Manhattan now too. My main crib would be a Victorian mansion overlooking Hempstead Bay in Sea Cliff. I've always loved that village, and never got the impression that it was as obnoxiously snobby as some other North Shore communities. Then finally I'd have a North Fork farmhouse for autumn getaways complete with a barn full of classic cars....late September afternoon cruising Sound Avenue in a late 60s Mercedes-Benz SL with the top down...ah yes, I can see it now....
Well done sir, well done. Sea Cliff is a really cool little town. The houses have no land, though, that's my only issue there.
Well, well done except for Greenpoint. Ugly, and you're sitting on top of a massive oil spill. Close to Manhattan, though.
Park Slope is so sweet. A friend of mine house-sat for 2 weeks for this couple that had bought an renovated an entire 4 story brownstone. Just stunning.
And driving out to Orient on a misty morning....magic.
did someone win the lotto and looking for a place to live?
I'm in the northshore on a bluff looking over the sound boat. Not sure what town, depends on if i need to be gainfully employed. if not, then probably on the northfork somewhere.
On the flipside, once that was taken care of, a brownstone near washington sq park sounds good too.
Well if you're talking spare no expense multiple dwellings, I probably wouldn't even have a house on LI at all. I'd have a hipster pad in NYC (West Village? Maybe Brooklyn Heights by the Promenade), a swanky place up in Westchester, CT, or Northern Jersey (easy to get out of the metro area if you want to see the country) where my kid would go to school, and a Beach house somewhere less annoying than the Hamptons (traffic sucks, too much snobbery). Maybe NC, SC, or even San Diego where the weather is sublime. Anybody got, oh, $8 million or so lying around?
I think there are more nice middle island places than we're giving credit to.... Floral Park, Bellerose, Garden City, East Williston, Melville, Dix Hills, Jericho...probably some others I'm forgetting. Those are all winners.
OK if money were no object, I could buy one house in every county on Long Island, well more really (and I would) but for our purposes I'll settle for four. Like dman72, I'll take a hipster brownstone near the Brooklyn Waterfront. Probably Greenpoint because I like some of the bars over there, but Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope are a little nicer. Anything with a rooftop porch and views of Manhattan and the East River bridges. In Queens I'd have my Breezy Point bungalow for the summer time. Love the beaches and the tiny pedestrian-only streets. You can get a ferry to Manhattan now too. My main crib would be a Victorian mansion overlooking Hempstead Bay in Sea Cliff. I've always loved that village, and never got the impression that it was as obnoxiously snobby as some other North Shore communities. Then finally I'd have a North Fork farmhouse for autumn getaways complete with a barn full of classic cars....late September afternoon cruising Sound Avenue in a late 60s Mercedes-Benz SL with the top down...ah yes, I can see it now....
Not me. The smell from those compost farms can be disgusting.
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