Where to move in Huntington area

[Old Spice]

I moved to Centerport 5 months ago and could not be more content. the Harborfields sd is phenomenal, the local library is beautiful, and I drive to the Huntington train station only 8 minutes away. CSH is very nice, but I prefer CPT. Here you have access to Huntington Village, Broadway in Greenlawn, Main Street in Northport, as well as Larkfield rd. in East Northport. Good Luck to you in your search.

[ibcio]

Re: the commute - I moved to Dix Hills and commute to NYC every day, around the time your husband does. In Dix Hills you are close to highways - in less than 20 minutes I am at Hicksville train station (do need to pay to park), and 40 minutes later in Penn. So just under 1 hour from front door to Penn Station. With many trains from Hicksville. Schools are great too.

[LIGolf]

Originally Posted by kew2006

Oh, one other thing...concern about Laurel Hollow. Wondering if because it is not in Suffolk would I be in no man's land in terms community. Right now we live on the very border of two towns and have never really felt that we were a part of either community. Most of our activities take us to the other town (parish, shopping, etc.) but technically we don't live there. We don't know many people from our town because we chose to send children to parish nursery school and even if we stayed wouldn't do the public school. Wondering if that would still be the case in Laurel Hollow since many of our activities would probably be in Syosset.

Not at all. If community is important to I'd say most of your activities will probably end up taking place in and around Huntington Village and you'd easily feel like part of the larger Huntington community. Everyone I know in LH is very much a Huntingtonian. I agree that school district events will make up much of your activities calendar.

One important thing to bear in mind is that you will be unable to get a parking sticker for the CSH LIRR station if you live in Laurel Hollow and will have to use the not as nice and farther away Syosset train station.

Originally Posted by kew2006

very interesting. there is one house in Centerport that is AWSOME that is leading my husband toward there. But, we aren't buying until early spring so I doubt that one will still be there. Did you commute to city from there? Just trying to narrow down the area we want to target.

If you love the Centerport house, I say go for it! To be honest, I think Harborfields is every bit as good as CSH (based on the great kids I have known both districts to turn out). I think Harborfields (which is slightly more diverse) also affluent gives kids a more rounded idea of the "reality" of the larger population around them.

Commuting to Huntington that early in the AM shouldn't take more than 10-15 mins, depending how far you are from 25A.

[CoolaTroopa]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

Harborfields is a school district, not a village or a hamlet.

Oops. I tend to use Harborfields for the Centerport/Greenlawn area- but I do know that not all of Greenlawn is in Harborfields school district. and that some of Huntington goes to Harborfields.