Best LI Neighborhood for Asian Couple w/ 2 Kids (Hempstead, Oyster Bay: homes, buy)

[TMing]

Do a search for homes in the Herricks school district. I think you will find everything you are looking for in that area.

[kho7002]

There were a lot of homes within our budget in Jericho and Syosset so I was hoping that we might be able to get a fixer upper somewhere closer. For those of you who know Garden City, which part has the good schools and why do you have to pay village taxes? Which town does the Herricks school district include?

[AlexisT]

If you live in the village of GC, you must pay village tax. That's the tradeoff: village cachet and services in return for extra taxes. Garden City SD is the good school district.

Herricks includes Manhasset Hills, Albertson, Searingtown and part of Williston Park. Much of it is postally other places--Manhasset Hills is New Hyde Park according to the USPS and I forget what Searingtown is. (i would recommend getting a Hagstrom atlas of Nassau, as it shows the hamlets and villages correctly.)

NE Queens is very nice, but lot sizes are small, especially in that price range, and although schools are good they are very crowded.

[twingles]

GC has good schools no matter where you are. The town's borders are contiguous with the school district. If you are in GC, you get GC schools.
GC has its own police, sanitation, park and recs dept, etc. Hence the taxes.

[Jrprofess]

Originally Posted by twingles

GC has good schools no matter where you are. The town's borders are contiguous with the school district. If you are in GC, you get GC schools.
GC has its own police, sanitation, park and recs dept, etc. Hence the taxes.

A tiny portion of Stewart Manor goes to GC schools as well.

[twingles]

There is only one street in Stewart Manor that goes to GC schools - Fernwood Terrace, south of the RR tracks. If you can get a house there it's a great buy for you

[CleanCutHippie]

Originally Posted by kho7002

Hi all...this is my first time posting and I'm hoping you can steer me in the right direction. We have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. We are looking to buy a home in LI after months of a frustrating house search in Bayside, Queens. We ventured out to Jericho and Syosset this past weekend and looked at 14 open houses. We love the spacious land and beautiful homes there but are hesitant to focus there because of the commute to Midtown. In order of importance, here is what we're looking for:

1) Top schools - very important...we want our kids to receive the best education possible but worried about the cut-throat nature of Jericho schools. Academics are very important to us but we also want them to participate in extra-curricular activities like sports and music.

2) Diversity - we're Chinese and prefer to be in a neighborhood that's accepting of us. We want to make friends with our neighbors.

3) Nice neighborhood/nice houses - we would like a nice 3-4 bedroom home on a big size lot (around 7000+ square feet). We want a nice neighborhood with well-manicured lawns. Overall, a suburban lifestyle that can't be found in Queens.

4) Commute - preferably the commute to Midtown is no more that 90 minutes door to door.

5) A nice town where you can do your shopping.

We've heard that Garden City is a good alternative to Jericho? Any opinions on that.

Thanks in advance!

Long Islands Asian population is growing drastically so there are a lot of towns that I feel would fit your criteria or will soon as more Asians continue to move to the Island. I will give you a few nice towns where the Asian populations are growing. Look into them.

Syosset

Plainview

Massapequa

Garden City (as suggested)

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by kho7002

There were a lot of homes within our budget in Jericho and Syosset so I was hoping that we might be able to get a fixer upper somewhere closer. For those of you who know Garden City, which part has the good schools and why do you have to pay village taxes? Which town does the Herricks school district include?

kho7002, in case you are unfamiliar with the local geography:

What people refer to colloquially as "towns" are actually villages and hamlets, which are within actual towns; and, because villages and hamlets are referred to as "towns", then, many times, the error is compounded when actual towns are referred to as "townships".

Also, many colloquially refer to a "downtown business district" in a hamlet as a "village".


Garden City is a village, while Jericho and Syosset are hamlets, and as AlexisT has pointed out, "If you live in the village of GC, you must pay village tax. That's the tradeoff: village cachet and services in return for extra taxes."

The "Garden City, NY 11530" ZIP Code postal zone, as well as the "Jericho, NY 11753" and "Syosset, NY 11791" ZIP Code postal zones, have a different border than the communities whose name they share, and a place can have a "Garden City", "Jericho" and "Syosset" mailing address and NOT be in the Village of Garden City, the Hamlet of Jericho or the Hamlet of Syosset, respectively.


http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-y...-glossary.html and http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html may be of some help to you in understanding the geography of "Lawn Guyland".


http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...you-think.html may help you understand the great geographic confusions caused by non-conforming ZIP Code postal zones.


For those who may not be familiar with Garden City:

Garden City is a village (incorporated in 1919) in the north-center section of the Town of Hempstead, in the center of Nassau County, along the Hempstead/North Hempstead town line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Garden City in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Village of New Hyde Park, the Hamlet of North New Hyde Park, the Village of Mineola and the Hamlet of Carle Place, all in the Town of North Hempstead (the North Hempstead/Hempstead town line); on the east by the Hamlet of East Garden City; on the south by the Village of Hempstead, the Hamlet of West Hempstead, the Hamlet of Garden City South and the Hamlet of Franklin Square; and, on the west by the Village of Stewart Manor and the Village of New Hyde Park.





Garden City is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where many of the places with the community name as part of their mailing address are not in the village: places that have a "Garden City, NY 11530" mailing address that are not in the Village of Garden City are in the Hamlet of East Garden City, the Hamlet of Garden City South, the Hamlet of Franklin Square and the Village of Stewart Manor; and, at the same time, there are places in the Village of Garden City that have a "Mineola, NY 11501" mailing address. (The Nassau County county seat is in that part of the Village of Garden City that has a "Mineola, NY 11501" 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

[Jennifer06]

Originally Posted by CleanCutHippie

Long Islands Asian population is growing drastically so there are a lot of towns that I feel would fit your criteria or will soon as more Asians continue to move to the Island. I will give you a few nice towns where the Asian populations are growing. Look into them.

Syosset

Plainview

Massapequa

Garden City (as suggested)

Massapequa, really? I don't see that reflected in the school population data. Is this something you've noticed by being there? What nationalities?

[sirtiger]

I really like the Herricks school district. I didn't pursue that area bc the LIRR is doesn't serve that area too well imo