Island Park (Hempstead, Long Beach, Oceanside: homes, high schools, live)

[hotkarl]

Just curious about what y'all think about Island Park.
Seems to be one of those off-the-radar communities, and is rarely mentioned on this forum.

[Bearded Boss]

I lived there for about a year and a half. It was pretty nice, but having to take Lawson or Long Beach Road to get anywhere sucked. Kids there go to West Hempstead HS which is pretty crappy these days. The flooding is pretty bad there. There's not much of a town but the library is new and very nice.

[S.I.B.]

It's kind of odd how they use West Hempstead as the H.S. (Oceanside? Long Beach? Baldwin?) and Austin Blvd. is a little run down in places, but there's great nightlife down by the bridge and some good looking homes on the water.

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by Bearded Boss

I lived there for about a year and a half. It was pretty nice, but having to take Lawson or Long Beach Road to get anywhere sucked. Kids there go to West Hempstead HS which is pretty crappy these days. The flooding is pretty bad there. There's not much of a town but the library is new and very nice.

Is it true that they have a choice whether to go to LB HS or WH HS? I thought I read this a while back. My cousins grew up on Barnum Isle in the 80's and they went to Long Beach HS.

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by S.I.B.

It's kind of odd how they use West Hempstead as the H.S. (Oceanside? Long Beach? Baldwin?) and Austin Blvd. is a little run down in places, but there's great nightlife down by the bridge and some good looking homes on the water.

The nightlife is technically "Barnum Island" not Island Park. (OMG, I just had a Walter Greenspan moment).

[hotkarl]

Yup, they have a choice of High Schools now, Long Beach or W. Hempstead.
They used Oceanside until the late 60's or early 70's. I knew a bunch of kids who used O'side relatives addresses in the 80's to go to Oside high.

There are 3 areas of Island Park...The Village of IP, Harbor Isle, and Barnum Isle.
To most it's all just "Island Park".
Wasn't there some controversy back in the 80's with Al Damato and "family perks" and crap within the village? and, racial steering with housing?

[Walter Greenspan]

hotkarl, the geography of the Village of Island Park can be very confusing because Island Park is one of those villages and hamlets on Long Island where the majority of places with the community name as part of their mailing address (849 acres) are not in the village (270 acres).


For those who may not be familiar with Island Park:

Island Park is a village (incorporated in 1926) in the southwest part of the Town of Hempstead, in the southwest part of Nassau County

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Village of Island Park in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Wreck Lead Channel and the Hamlet of Barnum Island; on the east by the Hamlet of Barnum Island; on the south by the Reynolds Channel; and, on the west by the Hamlet of Harbor Isle.





Island Park is one of those villages and hamlets on Long Island where the majority of places with the community name as part of their mailing address are not in the village: places that have an "Island Park, NY 11558" mailing address that are not in the Village of Island Park are in the Hamlet of Barnum Island and the Hamlet of Harbor Isle)


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

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

(OMG, I just had a Walter Greenspan moment).

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