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I'm in my mid 40s and have lived in Bayside area of Queens most of my life but grew up playing junior soccer on Long Island, mostly in the 80s and early/mid 90s. I also played ice hockey on the Island for many, many years. Until recently, on this thread, I had never heard of New Cassel. Without going into long detail, for the last year I've been doing gig work like Uber Eats/Doordash driving mostly along Old Country Rd and noticed what a craphole this place is.
For you old timers, was New Cassel ever a decent place to live? Coming from Queens, it's always been weird for me to see "bad" areas on LI situated by suburban homes. It seems like the type of place that was probably nice years ago.
I wish that some residents of New Cassel would join this thread. There are a lot of questions. When were most of the homes built? Is there a chance that the deed restrictions on Levittown shifted black veterans to purchase in New Cassel? I don't know. The Wikipedia write-up of New Cassel is stale, mostly based on the 2000 census. The most immediate governing body is the Town of North Hempstead, but the town hall is near the Manhasset train station, eleven miles away by parkway, but a troublesome ride by NICE bus with a transfer in Hicksville from n24 to n20h and then a hike on Plandome Road.
Many years ago I took a class about this and this is from memory so I may be off a bit on some details. The original settlement of New Cassel was largely African-American indentured servants of the Quaker families that settled Westbury. The area was largely farm and dairy that were tended by these very same families. During the Revolutionary War the area was taken over by both Brits and Germans who were settling there. In the mid 1800's Westbury was a stop on the underground railroad and many African-Americans got off the train and settled there.
Look up the history of the MaineMaid Inn and the Underground Railroad
I thought it was the anti-Levittown. I've even heard it referred to as "Levitbrown" back in the day(1980's?). Funny because up until recently Levittown was arguably the white trash capital of LI. Motorcycles and Camaros on every front lawn and garbage cans overflowing with Budweiser cans.
Anyway, it's flyover country. You say New Castle to the average LI'er and they go "huh?".
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