[valkyrieanne]

Is Amityville a Hispanic neighborhood now? It used to be upscale.

[CaptainK]

North Amityville is mostly black. South Amityville is on the water and upscale.

[wtc911]

There's Amityville and then there's Amityville. The town has always been (at least since the fifties) considered a bit shanty (to use an old Irish phrase). Nobody I know who could afford to live in Massapequa (the town bordering to the west) ever considered Amityville an option.

If you are down along Clocks Blvd or in one of the older nabe's up near St. Martin's it's pretty nice in a South Shore Norman Rockwell kind of way. But outside those enclaves has always been hard scrabble leaning toward down right ugly and dangerous (Albany Ave.). It is no surprise that this thing went on there, especially if near the next town east, Copaigue, which is now heavily Central American Spanish.

[PigRigger]

My home town, lived there until I was 18.

South Amityville is an incorporated village Amityville Pics, very pristine and quaint. North Amityville is a hellhole.

Unfortunately they town shares the same schools - wouldn't send my kids there. That's why I got out ASAP.

[thegreatbeast]

"Is Amityville a Hispanic neighborhood now? It used to be upscale.

That was before..The Trouble.