Anyone know if Wading River is a good town?

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There are some interesting homes in this area with mature tree's and beautiful neighborhoods.

[flamingokid5]

We are considering a condo in Glen...does the tax apply here? I understand the taxes may be high here, so perhaps the Knolls might be a better choice, since it's a different township?
thanks for any advice...
Linda

[Walter Greenspan]

For those who may not be familiar with Wading River:

Wading River is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the north-west part of the Town of Riverhead, in the north-central part of Suffolk County, along the Riverhead/Brookhaven town line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Wading River in the Town of Riverhead is bordered on the north by Long Island Sound; on the east by the Hamlet of Baiting Hollow and the Hamlet of Calverton; on the south by the Hamlet of Calverton; and, on the west by the Hamlet of East Shoreham and the Hamlet of Ridge in the Town of Brookhaven (the Riverhead/Brookhaven town line).

The Hamlet of Wading River has a different border than does the "Wading River 11792" ZIP Code postal zone (i.e., a place can have a "Wading River 11792" mailing address and not be in the Hamlet of Wading River and a place can have other than a "Wading River 11792" mailing address and be in the Hamlet of Wading River): places that have a "Wading River, NY 11792" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Wading River are in the Hamlet of East Shoreham in the Town of Brookhaven; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Wading River with a "Calverton, NY 11933" mailing address.





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[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by windflower

If the house is in the west side of Wading River (in the Town of Brookhaven), the tax does not apply because Brookhaven is not one of the East End townships.

From your description, the area you're referring to is not in Wading River, it's in the part of East Shoreham that has a "Wading River, NY 11792" mailing address.

For those who may not be familiar with East Shoreham:

East Shoreham is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the northeast part of the Town of Brookhaven, in the north-central part of Suffolk County, along the Brookhaven/Riverhead town line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of East Shoreham in the Town of Brookhaven is bordered on the north by Long Island Sound; on the east by the Hamlet of Wading River in the Town of Riverhead (the Brookhaven/Riverhead town line); on the south by the Hamlet of Ridge); and, on the west by the Hamlet of Rocky Point and the Village of Shoreham.

East Shoreham is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet's name in their mailing address: places in the Hamlet of East Shoreham have a "Shoreham, NY 11786", "Ridge, NY 11961" and "Wading River 11792" 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):

https://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html

[Escape_From_NY]

Originally Posted by windflower

Well, speaking only for myself: I consider a price below $600,000 to be "affordable", and current property taxes below $10,000 to be "manageable." I consider property taxes of $8000 or less to be "low".

Lolz! You must have money to burn! I know I'm replying to an old post(I just finally managed to log back on here for the first time in a couple of years), but I just don't get people accepting those kinds of numbers as sustainable or "normal". I've been living on Long Island for many, many years - TOO many -
and am working on getting off this economic Potemkin Village of "nice", with it's criminally-high property
taxes(and associated criminally-high rents) for the past several years.

I am still stuck on LI, in the Wading River area. It is very nice out here - very bucolic what with the farms
and wineries and stables and a host of beautiful things found nowhere else on LI these days, but the cost of living here is very high.

As a SC-bound Long Islander, here's an example of what I consider to be "affordable", "manageable" and "low":

(sold on ebay a while back)

3Bdrm, 1 bath ranch on 3 acres with separate 2-story, 2,000 sq ft commercial building and 400' of highway frontage in Seneca, SC.

Selling price: $12,000
Annual property taxes: about $360

Long Island is nice, but it's NOT 30x(3,000%) nicer than South Carolina, IMHO.