What is the best New York City area suburb? (Rye: apartment, houses) - (NY) - City-Data Forum

balmain · 09-24-2011, 05:27 PM

What are the richest most beautiful suburbs in the New York metro area?

Rye? Greenwich? Scarsdale?

Northwindsforever · 09-24-2011, 11:10 PM

Parts of LI is very beautiful IMO, but LI has a long history of satanism, and the occult.

jcoltrane · 09-24-2011, 11:52 PM

Yes, satanism and the occult in houses that cost 10 million dollars, right!

Did somebody lossen the woodwork?

Northwindsforever · 09-25-2011, 12:22 AM

I see you're not familiar with the history of LI.

DaPersianJewGurL · 09-25-2011, 01:35 AM

If your rich enough,

Alpine in NJ just 10 mins from the GWB.

jcoltrane · 09-25-2011, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whitlock

I see you're not familiar with the history of LI.

I'm more than familiar with the true history, but I certainly haven't been where you have.

Drunk, dumbass, higher than a kite, cutting, sucking blood, white kids. That's not history, its just stupid!

More to the point, WHAT does it have to do with "most beautiful suburbs"?

Febtober · 09-25-2011, 05:12 AM

I used to live in Harrison, across from the train station. It was maybe a half mile or so from the Rye border.

I liked it a lot. I shared a house with some other guys. It was within walking distance to the grocery store, pharmacy, and a half dozen delis/cafes, which is often not the case for a suburban area. Plus I could walk over to the train station and it was something like 40 minutes to Grand Central.

I was (still am) a single guy with no kids, so I wasn't super involved with the neighbors and such, but the area definitely had a nice sense of community. It seemed like a fairly safe place to let your kids run around a play, at least as safe as anywhere can be nowadays.

LongIslandPerson · 09-25-2011, 05:19 AM

Brookville, NY (on Long Island) by far has the highest median household income in the entire nation;
http://www.images.businessweek.com/ss/09/03/0317_richest_zips/2.htm (broken link)

Kefir King · 09-25-2011, 06:23 AM

I have always been fond of Rumson, New Jersey...up on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic.

Of course, that has to say bye-bye to any daily commute.

For apartment living it has to be Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park.

Northwindsforever · 09-25-2011, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcoltrane

I'm more than familiar with the true history, but I certainly haven't been where you have.

Drunk, dumbass, higher than a kite, cutting, sucking blood, white kids. That's not history, its just stupid!

More to the point, WHAT does it have to do with "most beautiful suburbs"?

I just pointed out that altough LI is visually a beautiful place it has a very dark history or lets say past of the occult, which hangs like a dark cloud over the otherwise beautiful island.

Just one example of infamous Long Islanders:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Kasso