Stacie1023, have you checked with Adelphi University for their advice on student housing. Off-campus apartments that are within a reasonable distance from Adelphi are more expensive than your budget, and you may have to double-up or triple-up with other students.
Adelphi University is in the Village of Garden City, in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County and 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.
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".
NYS Geographic Glossary and
Excellent Long Island Geographic Resource may be of some help to you in understanding the geography of "Lawn Guyland".
On LI, You Ain't Where You Think You Are, rev. 1 may help you understand the great geographic confusions caused by non-conforming ZIP Code postal zones.
When you do find a house that you like, you can find out in which community (city, village or CDP) that house is actually located, which is oftentimes different from the community named in that house's mailing address, by using the Census Bureau's
online address search function. (CDP or
Census
Designated
Place is the Census Bureau equivalent for a hamlet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.)
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.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Garden-city-map.gif (broken link)
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.
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):
Excellent Long Island Geographic Resource
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