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Those pictures are typical of what I envision of Valley Stream and that whole area along Sunrise and Peninsula Blvd. The VS, Lynbrook, RVC area has a more diverse housing stock, not "Queens like" at all nor is it loolalike homes, typical of Levittown.
BTW, what's so bad about Queens? Have you been to Bayside, Cambria Heights, Whitestone or Douglaston? Those areas would put to shame many towns in Nassau or Suffolk.
Those pictures are typical of what I envision of Valley Stream and that whole area along Sunrise and Peninsula Blvd. The VS, Lynbrook, RVC area has a more diverse housing stock, not "Queens like" at all nor is it loolalike homes, typical of Levittown.
BTW, what's so bad about Queens? Have you been to Bayside, Cambria Heights, Whitestone or Douglaston? Those areas would put to shame many towns in Nassau or Suffolk.
Personally, I like many parts of Queens! It's just that so many other LI'ers consider it a diss on a community to call it "Queens-like" or "an extension of Queens." I don't! As a matter of fact, if the real estate taxes get too bad on LI, I may end up there.
All I am trying to show is that Valley Stream has some nice homes and it's not just tiny and boring "Archie Bunker" houses with barely any space in between them ... which is what people on LI tend to envison when "houses and lots just like in Queens" are mentioned ...
The pics are real and not "false front" movie scenery murals propped up in front of them!
Not all pics are realtor pics of homes. The top 4 pics are of parks in the area.
Take a ride through Green Acres Mall and see why people think VS is comparable to a crappy part of Queens.
Take a ride through Green Acres Mall and see why people think VS is comparable to a crappy part of Queens.
The mall is not in the center of town, you know!
It is off by itself on the western-most border of South Valley Stream.
Shoppers in the mall do not even have to come into any part of "Valley Stream proper" ... they get into the mall on the Sunrise Highway entrances that are just to the east of the Queens border.
The mall itself does not represent Valley Stream. The mall itself also is not so "hideous." It is getting new stores constantly and is updated. I know someone who is part of the security team for the mall and he does not have any significant problems there and he does not have a problem with his wife shopping there or parking the car there. I go there all the time and never have a problem either. There is no reason to waste gas and time and go elsewhere if I can find it at that mall.
Take a ride through Green Acres Mall and see why people think VS is comparable to a crappy part of Queens.
Roosevelt Field is in Garden City and I would never equate the chaos of that area to Garden City as a whole. Besides Green Acres sits on the border of Queens and Nassau and like RF mall on a major highway. I don't see it as the face of VS.
LOL! Now who has room to be picky about VS when they are a RENTER and they live in THOSE conditions?
Severe need of updating ("Thermostat is broken.. isn't actually wired anywhere(!!), constant leak issues from the upstairs apartment's bathroom, a broken or clogged sump pump, lack of carpet in one room, etc."), several unregistered vehicles on the lawn, garbage strewn all over, "dime bags" with residue of mysterious white powder on the ground ... need I go on?
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. -- Matthew 7.5
Last edited by I_Love_LI_but; 08-02-2010 at 03:20 PM..
Reason: Had to use my Bible quote yet again!
Before Walter gives me RF mall is in East Garden City not the village of Garden City. Its tax base helps lower the taxes for the residents of the Village of Garden City so it is part of Garden City.
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