wheatly height neighborhood (Babylon, Huntington, Deer Park: houses, school district, property tax)

[rnlulu]

My husband and i went to see a house in wheatly height area today. the house is nice and price well-350k. We don't know much about the area and we have two kids in 7 and 8 grade. How is the neiborhood and the schools. We now live in the bronx, pelhap pkway area.

[Elke Mariotti]

Generally, Wheatley Heights is a nice area; if the house is in the Half Hallow Hills School District, you're good to go!

[Smash255]

Wheatley Heights is a very nice middle class neighborhood. As far as the schools go, an extremely small section attend Wyandanch Schools, which you want to avoid, but I'm basically talking about 10 houses here if that. The rest of the community attends Half Hollow Hills, which is an excellent district and regarding as one of the best on all of Long Island. So I would double check on the school district, and if you are in Half Hollow Hills (which 99% of Wheatley Heights is in) you will be in one of the best districts on LI.

[Walter Greenspan]

The geography of Wheatley Heights can be very confusing because Wheatley Heights is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet's name in their mailing address.


For those who may not be familiar with Wheatley Heights:

Wheatley Heights is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the north-central part of the Town of Babylon, in the southwest part of Suffolk County, along the Babylon/Huntington town line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Wheatley Heights in the Town of Babylon is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Melville and the Hamlet of Dix Hills in the Town of Huntington (the Babylon/Huntington town line); on the east by the Hamlet of Deer Park; and, on the south and west by the Hamlet of Wyandanch.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Wheatley-heights-ny-map.gif (broken link)


Wheatley Heights is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet's name in their mailing address: places in Wheatley Heights have a "Melville, NY 11747" and "Wyandanch, NY 11798" mailing address.


For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County): Excellent Long Island Geographic Resource

[mr.mrs.b.i]

I have a good friend who moved their not too long ago and he says it's great.

[PizzaPedro]

Just double and triple check that you are in HHH and it's all good.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by PizzaPedro

Just double and triple check that you are in HHH and it's all good.

The best way to verify in which school district a property is located is to look at the property tax bill for that property

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.