How walkable is your town? (Hempstead, Brookhaven: apartments, home, neighborhood)

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

There is no supermarket in Babylon Village so I am surprised that it did so well.

Thats because you have Gemellis : )
Grand Union WI isnt too far either

Babylon is awesome on foot.
One of the best on LI.

Its the only downtown I can think of that isnt a dump by the RR.

crooks

[RoleModel]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Hey whats with the outlets by the Royal Oak?

It looks abandoned on the South Side of Sunrise.

I think they failed because you cant walk between them..what a mistake.

crooks

The north side and south side are owned by different people. The south side is trying to get a tenant to take over a large portion shopping center. King Kullen and Starbucks refused, and I haven't heard anything else about it. Honestly, I think Wal-Mart should try to build here instead of their planned East Patchogue location (Hospital Road and North Sunrise Service Road).

The north side is in much better shape now that Home Depot moved there. There are still vacancies, but it's not in danger of going under like the other side.

Thats because you have Gemellis : )
Grand Union WI isnt too far either

That's not Grand Union anymore and hasn't been for about 8 years (since GU went out of business). It's a Stop & Shop now.

[rocafeller05]

All the stores went to the Deer Park-Tangers when it opened. It sucks b/c I liked the Nike and Nautica stores there. Great prices.

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Hey whats with the outlets by the Royal Oak?

It looks abandoned on the South Side of Sunrise.

I think they failed because you cant walk between them..what a mistake.

crooks

[TheTruth08]

My address in Valley Stream got a 52/100. I think its pretty walkable since that's how I get places.

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Thats because you have Gemellis : )
Grand Union WI isnt too far either

Babylon is awesome on foot.
One of the best on LI.

Its the only downtown I can think of that isnt a dump by the RR.

crooks

Babylon has always been great on foot, even when I lived there, a long long time ago .
There is at least one other downtown that's not a dump by the RR: Port Washington!

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

There is no supermarket in Babylon Village so I am surprised that it did so well.

The closest supermarket to Babylon Village has always been on Rt 109, by the W. Babylon High School. It's been many different stores, right now it's a ShopRite.

[rocafeller05]

Add Rockville Centre to the list. The RR area is not a dump.

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Thats because you have Gemellis : )
Grand Union WI isnt too far either

Babylon is awesome on foot.
One of the best on LI.

Its the only downtown I can think of that isnt a dump by the RR.

crooks

[Johninwestbury]

Westbury 83 out of 100 very walkable!
That's one good thing about it here, there are sidewalks almost everywhere. Back when I lived up in the Glen Cove area that's one thing I always complained about, they hardly have any sidewalks there. Same thing goes for Suffolk. Even around Tanger in Riverhead there is a lack of sidewalks.

[LocalX]

9 ouch

[RoleModel]

Originally Posted by rocafeller05

All the stores went to the Deer Park-Tangers when it opened. It sucks b/c I liked the Nike and Nautica stores there. Great prices.

It's hardly because of Deer Park. That's just the final nail in the coffin.

It was really Riverhead Tanger that condemned Bellport, especially once they expanded that Tanger.

Its the only downtown I can think of that isnt a dump by the RR.

I'd somewhat add Sayville. It's not the best, but it's not like the other dumpy RR locations (Patchogue, Port Jeff, Riverhead, a lot of others).