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South Huntington is "make believe", kind of like Halesite or Huntington Bay! It was created by residents who didn't want to be associated with Huntington Station, which is the same zip code - unless they are really part of the Melville zip.
On the north shore, it's more desirable to be considered "north" of everything, although few areas have the separate word "North" in their name. There is Northport, one word, and Centerport - is there a Southport? IDK about that one. There's an East Northport, but not a South or West Northport! Funny.
there is also East Northport, which, of course is SOUTH of Northport. It's also home to the Northport train station. For some reason I don't understand either of these facts.
there is also East Northport, which, of course is SOUTH of Northport. It's also home to the Northport train station. For some reason I don't understand either of these facts.
The name came about when the Northport railroad station was moved south for access to the Port Jeff Branch. The conductors referred to it as 'East of Northport', and over time the 'of' was dropped.
South Huntington is "make believe", kind of like Halesite or Huntington Bay! It was created by residents who didn't want to be associated with Huntington Station, which is the same zip code - unless they are really part of the Melville zip.
On the north shore, it's more desirable to be considered "north" of everything, although few areas have the separate word "North" in their name. There is Northport, one word, and Centerport - is there a Southport? IDK about that one. There's an East Northport, but not a South or West Northport! Funny.
Yet, if you drive from the northern edge of Huntington Station (say, about where the Big H Shopping Center is on New York Avenue/Route 110) south on New York Avenue/Route 110 through the north-to-south stretch of Huntington Station (i.e., "Huntington Station" as classfied by geopolitically-defined borders, not by zip code), once you cross over Jericho Turnpike going southbound, the whole area takes on a wholly different look and feel, ambience, and character. It has a whole different SUBURBAN-like character (which has taken on a different name: "South Huntington") . . . whereas north of Jericho Turnpike is "Huntington Station" and Huntington Station is a very much an urban-like landscape and an urban-like look and feel and character. It quite resembles varied parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Very, very different from what "South Huntington" looks and feels like.
The point: So you say that "South Huntington" is a "make-believe" designation but it appears to be valid to give that area its own name apart from "Huntington Station" because it is, in fact, very different in its topography, landscape, look and feel, ambience, and character from what Huntington Station is (i.e., once again, I'm talking about "Huntington Station" as defined by its geopolitically-defined borders, not by the entire postal delivery zone encompassed by a singular zip code assigned to it by the U.S. Postal Service).
In the same vein, Dix Hills has the same zip code as Huntington Station. Yet Dix Hills and Huntington Station are as radically different as night and day. Is Dix Hills just a "make-believe" entity? Shall they do away with the name "Dix Hills" altogether and just call it "Huntington Station" from now-on (being that it presently has the same zip code assigned to it as "Huntington Station")?
Yet, if you drive from the northern edge of Huntington Station (say, about where the Big H Shopping Center is on New York Avenue/Route 110) south on New York Avenue/Route 110 through the north-to-south stretch of Huntington Station (i.e., "Huntington Station" as classfied by geopolitically-defined borders, not by zip code), once you cross over Jericho Turnpike going southbound, the whole area takes on a wholly different look and feel, ambience, and character. It has a whole different SUBURBAN-like character (which has taken on a different name: "South Huntington") . . . whereas north of Jericho Turnpike is "Huntington Station" and Huntington Station is a very much an urban-like landscape and an urban-like look and feel and character. It quite resembles varied parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Very, very different from what "South Huntington" looks and feels like.
The point: So you say that "South Huntington" is a "make-believe" designation but it appears to be valid to give that area its own name apart from "Huntington Station" because it is, in fact, very different in its topography, landscape, look and feel, ambience, and character from what Huntington Station is (i.e., once again, I'm talking about "Huntington Station" as defined by its geopolitically-defined borders, not by the entire postal delivery zone encompassed by a singular zip code assigned to it by the U.S. Postal Service).
In the same vein, Dix Hills has the same zip code as Huntington Station. Yet Dix Hills and Huntington Station are as radically different as night and day. Is Dix Hills just a "make-believe" entity? Shall they do away with the name "Dix Hills" altogether and just call it "Huntington Station" from now-on (being that it presently has the same zip code assigned to it as "Huntington Station")?
Generalizations paint a wrong picture
Do you call half acre (or 1/3 acre) zoning urban like resembling Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx?
Do you consider the Maplewood Section urban like resembling Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx?
Etc...
Not all of Huntington Station looks like city. Some parts of it look very upscale like Dix Hills with huge properties and large houses
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Originally Posted by Elke Mariotti
Generalizations paint a wrong picture
Do you call half acre (or 1/3 acre) zoning urban like resembling Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx?
Do you consider the Maplewood Section urban like resembling Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx?
Etc...
True. I was primarily thinking of the Route 110 look-and-feel and its nearby cross-streets and nearby parallel streets in my thinking of Huntington Station. I've seen other parts of Huntington Station (e.g., along Park Avenue between Jericho Turnpike and Huntington Village's Main St./Route 25) that are quite suburban in character. But much of the core of Huntington Station-- centering around greater New York Avenue/Route 110 and its nearby cross-streets and nearby parallel streets --is quite urban-like (i.e., a wholly-walkable and dense urban street grid pattern lined with stores and businesses, a public library, fire station, churches, et al . . . and also can be variably gritty in an urban way and has a very diverse population racially/ethnically speaking, including lower-income populations that are more typical of our great city to the immediate west of Long Island).
Yet what is called "South Huntington" has hardly any element whatsoever (that I ever saw) of such an urban-like walkable street landscape. "South Huntington" looks like typical nearly-all-car-dependent spread-out suburbia (i.e., lacking in comparable urban-like density of development). My focus is on the urban streetscape-like pattern and density of development of the core of Huntington Station, not focusing on whether or not there are also clusters of nice or sizable properties versus less-than-nice or less-sizable properties within the territory of Huntington Station analogous to what you find in South Huntington. It is that the core of Huntington Station is a wholly walkable and densely-developed urban-like environment and, at that, appears to be significantly populated by a quite-less-affluent population . . . whereas South Huntington through-and-through (unless there are parts I haven't seen or experienced yet) is not designed for living without a car at your avail and the type of populations most characteristic of the core of Huntington Station (the quite-less-affluent populations) do not appear to be mirrored as well in the resident populations that appear to make up the populations of South Huntington. In summary, South Huntington does in fact, appear to be quite a different creature from what one finds going through the heart of Huntington Station. While Huntington Station does have elements of what South Huntington has within its territory, South Huntington (to my seeming knowledge, which may be right or wrong in its correctness) doesn't appear to have any type of urban character to it like Huntington Station has within its territory.
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