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Originally Posted by Amityville_Kym
Why would any one want to overlook North Amityville? every inch of Amityville is beautiful from the McDonalds on 110 to the Pink stores to the beaches, North Amityville is a part of what makes the city what it is yes there are some undesirable people there but the flat tops (houses) along Albany ave are just as much a part of Amityville as the old victorians on South Broadway. No not as fancy but there's history there, there are churches that have been there for decades small family businesses, huge historical families generation on top of generation of history speaks from every street, road, and avenue, while we can do without the drug dealers and damaged roads every city has things it would like to purge itself of but to say we should look past the beauty that is beneath the surface of North Amityville is to say we should simply wipe Brooklyn off of NY's map entirely.
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Having lived in Copiague for 36 years now, I have come to know No. Amityville (and Amityville) pretty well. It was "Dr. Copy", Dr. Harold Kopczynski on Croyden la.,
who was our family physician from 1974 through 1978, a wonderful, black "country doctor" who served many people from the community and will always be held in high
esteem in memory. Years later, when we were active in spiritual pursuit we associated for a while, with Jehovah's Witnesses, and had many congregational friends there in
No. Amityville, spent a few Sunday afternoons at backyard barbecues over on Rainbow La. and the newer developed sections.
In the early seventies, I used to go up to "the corner" as it was called, the intersection of Gt. Neck Rd. and Albany Ave, to buy my dime-bags of Pot. I'll admit that although
the area was "seedy", two or three bars, a Chinese "kitchen", a fried fish and chicken place and two corner parking lots which were teeming with people, night or day. It was
a frightful place to be at night, always the 1st precinct cars cruising the block or parked in the area. I came to see it as the "poor side of town", a God-forsaken ghetto across
the tracks. In the mid 70's I remember seeing cars overturned in the street while the locals rioted in the area and not long after, it appeared that law enforcement worked a
concerted effort to "clean up" the corner.
Today, I can drive by there and see much positive change. The community is making headway in their hopes to redevelop No. Amityville. I sense that many who live there,
are as concerned with the quality of their community, as ever before. North Amityville doesn't "scare" me any more, the place has changed and so have the people.
Amityville proper, has always come off as a really great pace to live. It's everything quaint and folksy as other contributors here have pointed out. I worked in the village
for a few years, over by the old
"Silver Lake Cookie Co.", on Sprague Ave., at
Stein Industries. Living in Copiague and working so close to home, often, my sweet wife would
meet me for lunch there at Peter's diner or somewhere else on Broadway and we'd have lunch together. Many evenings after work, I'd buy a pint of
"Night Train Express", a
rot-gut, "french-kiss", wine and walk home "under the El", the LIRR elevated track that led back to Copiague, stopping at every other support pillar and after taking another
sip from my pint, ponder the future, my life in respect to the future and where I would get my next pint, probably at Palumbos liquors there on Gt. Neck Rd.!
I'm retired now and spending what's left of my life, looking back at life. I was either smart or lucky to become computer literate back in the early nineties, if it were not
for the chance to click into a place where I could talk to myself and offer my thoughts up to others, I'd probably find myself out in a public park on a Saturday afternoon, feeding
peanuts to the squirrels, bread to the ducks or seed to the pigeons. As it is, I'm enjoying my Saturday afternoon, hanging out here on an old thread here at city-data. I may not
be too entertaining to you, but I'm keeping myself out of trouble, safe here at my desktop, catching a buzz and pecking away at my keyboard that, only moments ago, got a liberal
dousing of Budweiser, as my 24oz. "tall-boy" tipped over on it but that was not before I've taken this opportunity to say that Amityville (and the surrounding areas,townships or
"Hamlets") are as nice a place to live and die as any other place within this
once great State of New York, a proud part of an America that will fare better in memory than in my
personally projected forecast for the future.
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And it's to go past not go passed.
