A Tall Order: What's Quiet, Near Water and Close to the City? (Islip: apartment, condo)
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Do you mean the village tax? It really is not that bad (well, not for my little place anyway). Your house would be worth about 30% more because of its village address.
People really do want to live in the village itself with all of its amenities.
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There is no double tax of properties in a village.
Property in a village is shielded from many of the more onerous town special district property taxes, and there are numerous villages, with their own village police as well as other village services, that have lower property taxes than do nearby properties that are in an adjoining hamlet.
Towns do not like it when the higher assessed areas of the town incorporate as villages, as this property is now shielded from several of the more onerous town special district property taxes; and, ironically, the result is that these property taxes that are no longer being paid for property now in a village then need to be picked up by property in hamlets, resulting in property in hamlets seeing an increase in their town special district property taxes.
Then Long ]Beach is the place for you. It's the only place I would even consider on Long Island. Beach, restaurants, LIRR (last stop), and you can ride your bike everywhere. Check it out.
LB sounds great! And I love that it's so close to the City. Does anyone on this thread live there who could give me the rundown on areas? How is crime in Long Beach?
I'll also have a look at Babylon and keep my eye on the other suggestions. I do like what I've seen in RP, but I worry about being far from Manhattan. I love the idea of being close.
Do you mean the village tax? It really is not that bad (well, not for my little place anyway). Your house would be worth about 30% more because of its village address.
People really do want to live in the village itself with all of its amenities.
I wouldnt touch anything outside the village.
The unfortunate downside of Patchogue Villages recent gentrifiaction is that the periphery of Pat Med now looks like Corona .
Hats off to Pontieri all the same.
Its great to have Patchogue back.
Next step is to merge the Village with Blue Point Bayport SD
The unfortunate downside of Patchogue Villages recent gentrifiaction is that the periphery of Pat Med now looks like Corona .
Hats off to Pontieri all the same.
Its great to have Patchogue back.
Next step is to merge the Village with Blue Point Bayport SD
I'd be leary of sending my kid to Pat Med SD.
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Can they pull that off? Bayport/Bluepoint has a scary taxes, though. I plan on moving into a house the next year or so, and I don't even punch up Patch/Med on the MLS. Bayport Bluepoint, yes, but taxes are very high there.
Can they pull that off? Bayport/Bluepoint has a scary taxes, though. I plan on moving into a house the next year or so, and I don't even punch up Patch/Med on the MLS. Bayport Bluepoint, yes, but taxes are very high there.
You never know.
Could be a partnership of equals.
Patchogue (like Riverhead) wont get out of its own way if it's overrun with poverty in its district.
Just like the Daimler Chrysler parnership of equals?
LOL, great comment! SO and I have owned stock in Daimler Chrysler for years. Of course now since the recent split it's now just "Daimler AG" .... a very wise move to shed the Chrysler albatross. But even Daimler's stock has taken a hit, it was $90+/share a few months ago and now it's at $58 .... close to its 52-week low.
If Pat/Med ever merged with Bayport/Blue Point, I bet there would be a lot of unhappy parent-homeowners on the Bayport side of the consolidation.
As for revitalized towns, look no further than Bay Shore which has been (and is still being) beautifully gentrified. Main Street is now populated with boutiques, professional offices, and a wide selection of really GOOD restaurants of all descriptions. There's the Boulton Performing Arts center; Victorian style street lamps hung with huge flowering baskets; and several lovely brick-paved courtyards with planting beds and garden benches between the rows of buildings. There are also lovely new apartments and condos going in (Greenview Properties is playing a huge part in the revitalization of Bay Shore, both in the downtown and surrounding areas). Friends of ours are planning on moving their fine-jewelry store from another town into one of the several new retail locations in Bay Shore, in fact, during the early part of 2009. The only part that still looks anything like the "old" Bay Shore is at the extreme eastern end, near the hospital, and even that is now undergoing serious renovation.
Give Bay Shore another 5 years and it will easily match both Babylon and Sayville for gentrified ambience, IMO (well, except for Argyle Lake of course )
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Sounds wonderful..
it's now just "Daimler AG" .... a very wise move to shed the Chrysler albatross. But even Daimler's stock has taken a hit, it was $90+/share a few months ago and now it's at $58 .... close to its 52-week low. 
