Desperately seeking advice about Maspeth Beach Area (Mastic, Mastic Beach: real estate, homes)

[alexei27]

Good luck...thats great!

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by HouseHunter09

I have picked out a house in Shirley that is really nice.

For those who may not be familiar with Shirley:

Shirley is a hamlet (an unincorporated community) in the southeast part of the Town of Brookhaven, in the south-central part of Suffolk County.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Shirley in the Town of Brookhaven is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Yaphank and the Hamlet of Manorville; on the east by the Hamlet of Manorville, the Hamlet of Mastic and the Hamlet of Mastic Beach; on the south by Bellport Bay; and, on the west by the Hamlet of Brookhaven and the Hamlet of Yaphank.





The Hamlet of Shirley has a different border than does the "Shirley, NY 11967" ZIP code postal zone (i.e., a place can have a "Shirley, NY 11967" mailing address and not be in the Hamlet of Shirley and a place can have other than a "Shirley, NY 11967" mailing address and be in the Hamlet of Shirley): places that have a "Shirley, NY 11967" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Shirley are in the Hamlet of Mastic and the Hamlet of Mastic Beach; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Shirley with a "Mastic, NY 11950" 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

[Teachesl]

Go to the 7th precinct on Wm Floyd Pkwy in Shirley and ask the desk sargeant if Mastic Beach would be a good place to live. He will know dozens of felons who have passed by his desk who now live in prisons upstate, but used to live in Mastic Beach. If you use the megan's law website, you'll see how 25 registered sex offenders live in the town. Compare that to Sound Beach, a similar town, but on the North Shore, there are only 2. I talk to people who live in Mastic Beach, and they wish they didn't, but now they're stuck. Lots of rentals that used to be for summer homes are now for those who can least afford housing (single mothers w/ children). Long Island is just that, surrounded by water. There are other places near the water. I would avoid buying/renting in Mastic if I could help it.

[HouseHunter09]

Thanks for the advice. You have made some great points.

[HouseHunter09]

Hey Teaches, just curious, how did it get so bad? The area is so gorgeous as is the beach and the marina. What caused the neighborhood to fall to crap?

Also, what's the going rate for houses in sound beach?

[LIMA]

Househunter do your own driving around and make your own call.

One thing i learned about people here is there quick to freak out over things and make them worse then they are.....
I lived in many areas trying to stay away from the new queens popping up on just sold farm out here...
I have yet to see which neighborhood doesn't have the problems they all have with sex offenders and just plain jerk offs living across the street or pot heads that don't see the problem....or whatever...
It's all the same... just some people..... most people here never leave there block and or use a different route to and from the store or work and have no idea about there own neighbrohood..

Case in point... read the jets dumped on l.i. thread.

[LIMA]

Originally Posted by HouseHunter09

Hey Teaches, just curious, how did it get so bad? The area is so gorgeous as is the beach and the marina. What caused the neighborhood to fall to crap?

Also, what's the going rate for houses in sound beach?

Some say the town loosely enforces codes....

Some are trying to incorporate the area.....

No one has a clue though.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by HouseHunter09

Hey Teaches, just curious, how did it get so bad? The area is so gorgeous as is the beach and the marina. What caused the neighborhood to fall to crap?

Also, what's the going rate for houses in sound beach?

Sound Beach is a much much much better buy.

You can do really well Lo 2s.

Crooks

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by LIMA

Some say the town loosely enforces codes....

Some are trying to incorporate the area.....

No one has a clue though.

Its an old seasonal beach community that was overrun with Section 8 in the 70s/80s and never came back.

Being downstream from BNLs no picnic either, there a reason why the scientists from the lab dont live there.

Look North.

Try Ridge(Panamoka), Sound Beach, Wading River, Rocky Point.

Crooks


Heres my steal of the week...walk to beach too.
Rocky Point, NY, 11778 - MLS ID#2195078 - Single Family Home real estate - REALTOR.com®

[MiddleIslander]

Sound Beach is getting destroyed. I drove through just today. In some places 1 out of 5 homes is for sale. It's scary. Looks like a lot of regular working class folk are out of work.