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Posted by Howard Fein on Mon Aug 17 11:20:09 2009, in response to Re: 2 Stabbed in Levittown(Re: Brentwood Long Island Shootings), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Aug 15 20:58:51 2009. Interesting analysis, but there's also a huge contrast between the North and South shores of Nassau County as far as population density. The South shore is, by and large, heavily settled with suburban tract housing the width of the county. Rockville Centre, Freeport and Long Beach have a large number of midrise elevator apartment buildings as well.But a lot of the North Shore above Northern Boulevard- with the exceptions of central Great Neck, Port Washington, the Glen Head/Sea Cliff/Glen Cove corridor, Bayville, downtown Oyster Bay- is surprisingly rural. Even parts of the Great Neck peninsula, which butts right up against the city line, features wetlands, large estates and roads that are very dark at night. It could be that Sands Point, the Plandomes, the Brookvilles and all of those surrounding Gold Coast communities were always heavily comprised of estates earlier in the century. In contrast, much of the rest of Nassau- especially the unincorporated areas of Hempstead and Oyster Bay townships in the middle- was largely farmland. As agriculture diminished around WWII, the land became fertile for tract housing. From what I can see, the North Shore of Suffolk seems somewhat more developed than that of Nassau, at least as far east of Wading River. There are some extremely wealthy, secluded pockets on the Sound- Asharoken, Nissequogue Belle Terre, and parts of Setauket come to mind. But the hugely developed Huntington, East Northport, Commack, Kings Park and Smithtown more closely resemble central and southern Nassau. |
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