Nassau towns with typically large property sizes and above average schools (New York: houses, school districts)

[ruhkus]

Like the title says, I'm looking to find towns that have generally larger property sizes (at least 6500 sq. ft.) and an above average school district.

These towns should also have at least a few houses for less than $500k.

So far I've seen that East Meadow meets this criteria. Some of the top towns like Syosset also do, but generally are significantly higher in price, so I'm hoping for some other leads.

Thanks.

[AlexisT]

Most of the tract house sections were laid out in 60x100 lots (smaller in western Nassau). Some areas in eastern Nassau are larger (Massapequa and Plainview both have larger lots). You may also find scattered larger lots elsewhere where geography made it impossible to subdivide, so check listings.

[Walter Greenspan]

ruhkus, a 6,500 sq. ft. property would not generally be considered to be a "larger" property. Moderate sized properties would begin around 10,000 sq. ft., and larger sized properties, may be, would begin at 40,000 sq. ft. (= sq. acre).

In case you are unfamiliar with the local geography:

What people refer to colloquially as "towns" are actually villages and hamlets, which are within actual towns; and, because villages and hamlets are referred to as "towns", then, many times, the error is compounded when actual towns are referred to as "townships".

Also, many colloquially refer to a "downtown business district" in a hamlet as a "village".

NYS Geographic Glossary and Excellent Long Island Geographic Resource may be of some help to you in understanding the geography of "Lawn Guyland".

On LI, You Ain't Where You Think You Are, rev. 1 may help you understand the great geographic confusions caused by non-conforming ZIP Code postal zones.


You can get a fact sheet for any city, village or hamlet on Long Island by going here American FactFinder and input the name of the city, village or hamlet for "city/town" (leave out the ZIP Code) and New York for "State", and then click "GO".

You'll get a lot of demographic, and some economic, statistics for the city, village or hamlet you selected, and if you click on "Reference map" (it's on the right hand side), you'll get a map.


When you do find a house that you like, you can find out in which community (city, village or CDP) that house is actually located, which is oftentimes different from the community named in that house's mailing address, by using the Census Bureau's online address search function. (CDP or Census Designated Place is the Census Bureau equivalent for a hamlet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.)

And, very importantly, among other things, the Census Bureau's online address search function also indicates in which school district an address is located.

[CoolaTroopa]

Syosset has quite a few houses under $500K- especially if you go to the Syosset-Hicksville border or don't mind living right near the railroad.
It's a relatively large area..it's Woodbury which really gives Syosset the "really expensive" moniker.

[LIPumpkin]

You can check out Plainview, too..many houses are dropping their prices...

[Elke Mariotti]

"Bethpage" (as listed in MLS, Walter ) also has some homes that meet your criteria - but there are different school districts, so you need to pay particular attention to that when searching.