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Yeah that town is a great comparison. The "rejuvenation" there is doing absolutely nothing to improve the area.
It doesn't happen over night and the demographics in Wyandanch are changing. More immigrants are buying homes there causing a drastic drop in crime. Home prices are up. More homes are being flipped and sold to Hispanic familes who work hard . You can start to see the changes. Developers are building mcmansions there. Police and fire fighters and teachers (black and Hispanic) are buying in. The change is slow but it's already started.
It doesn't happen over night and the demographics in Wyandanch are changing. More immigrants are buying homes there causing a drastic drop in crime. Home prices are up. More homes are being flipped and sold to Hispanic familes who work hard . You can start to see the changes. Developers are building mcmansions there. Police and fire fighters and teachers (black and Hispanic) are buying in. The change is slow but it's already started.
The question then would be, where are those who are being pushed out by this gradual improvement headed? Shirley and Mastic?
Wyandanch Rising has done absolutely zero to help the area. They cannot get decent stores in there and the train station is filled with undesirable people. Mastic and Shirley are what they are, and to compare them to the gentrification that has occurred within NYC is not realistic.
I would compare it to Wyandanch . There isn't a comparison in Nassua because of the high taxes and home values plus the demographics are dif.
I haven't even driven through any of these areas in years (Wyandanch, Mastic, Shirley) but your comparison seems like a big stretch. Mastic/Shirley has it's run down areas but it at least has some semblance of a functioning school district. And the estimated average household income is 30k higher as well.
Wyandanch? One new large fancy building and some paint and lights at a train station is not going to attract hordes of liberal hipster types.
Wyandanch still sucks and mostly looks like crap.
Shirley and Mastic could best be compared to most of Florida.
It's a block-by-block situation. There are absolutely gorgeous homes in certain pockets with decent hard working law abiding citizens and then you drive 2 blocks over and you are locking your car doors and flooring it because you can't get out of there fast enough.
Back in the height of my pool business days I spent a ton of time in those communities and it was just bizarre how I could be driving down a street and pulling up to some magnificent home and then right around the block the houses were vacant, falling down, cars on the lawns, junk everywhere, every stereotype to a T.
I haven't even driven through any of these areas in years (Wyandanch, Mastic, Shirley) but your comparison seems like a big stretch. Mastic/Shirley has it's run down areas but it at least has some semblance of a functioning school district. And the estimated average household income is 30k higher as well.
For comparison. As per the city data pages for each, median estimate household income in 2015
I was in wyandanch the other day. I couldn't believe it. White people walking dogs. Somebody much smarter than us is going to make a fortune .
Robert Toussie a extremely wealthy person and one of the laregst land owners on LI. Tried to sell hundreds of mostly vacant land properties, Tons of them in Wyandanch. $40k for a lot. Nothing sold! No one will develop it. A mega developed speculated 20 years ago and still hasn't done crap since the land has barely appreciated in 2 decades. So he tries to sell them off and no one wants them. Yet in nice towns developers buy houses for 400-500k and tear them down. Plus that SD is in financial hell. Wyanadanch is not rising.
Robert Toussie a extremely wealthy person and one of the laregst land owners on LI. Tried to sell hundreds of mostly vacant land properties, Tons of them in Wyandanch. $40k for a lot. Nothing sold! No one will develop it. A mega developed speculated 20 years ago and still hasn't done crap since the land has barely appreciated in 2 decades. So he tries to sell them off and no one wants them. Yet in nice towns developers buy houses for 400-500k and tear them down. Plus that SD is in financial hell. Wyanadanch is not rising.
Toussie was selling crap no one wanted. He bought them up in bulk as more of a goof and to **** off the town. It was barely an investement, and he's selling now because the joke isn't even funny to him anymore. He likely drove away a lot of good development over the years by buying and holding so much land. Anything of value sold easily and privately before this event. This "auction" was for rubes and Newsday warriors to run out and grab a piece o' the American dream. Or in reality, help this dope unload his useless ghetto tracts that legitimate investors wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
Toussie was selling crap no one wanted. He bought them up in bulk as more of a goof and to **** off the town. It was barely an investment, and he's selling now because the joke isn't even funny to him anymore. He likely drove away a lot of good development over the years by buying and holding so much land. Anything of value sold easily and privately before this event. This "auction" was for rubes and Newsday warriors to run out and grab a piece o' the American dream. Or in reality, help this dope unload his useless ghetto tracts that legitimate investors wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
There was a few decent parcels, most of it was trash. Those lots in the 'Danch could of been had for nothing. Tear downs have been the norm for years now, No on is tearing down houses in Wynadanch, there is a reason for this.
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