[Cowboy Bob]

arranges a cocktail party for new residents

Wouldn't that be offensive to Muslims?

[EinNYC]

This community is almost too beautiful to look at. Everything is gorgeous and perfect. You don't see kiddie toys out on the lawns or jungle gyms or bikes leaning against garages. Matter of fact, I've never seen anyone out walking when I have occasion to drive through the area. Reminds me of "Stepford Lives" instead of Wives. I imagine there is a LOT of clique stuff going on there behind the hedges. I have never seen a home there which would sell for less than a million+ dollars either, so this "starter home" stuff this article talks about seems odd.

Heck, the asking price for homes in MY neighborhood with postage stamp lawns is now around $950,000. A couple years ago, it was more like $565,000. Location, location, location. And, the Chinese are buying up everything in sight for cash, no mortgages, which greatly drives up the prices. Young non-Chinese couples now can't afford to buy homes near their parents. Something ain't kosher, that's for sure.

[onona]

What do the Staten Islander's get as a welcome ?

Donuts ?

[P.O.E.]

Give them “your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost”

[Iron Munro]

a cocktail party for new residents

Is MS-13 invited?

[Bigg Red]

Sounds like a lovely community.

[Bonemaker]

“Twice a year, Jaime Bremnes, 35, a fifth-generation resident of Garden City and the president of its Welcoming Club, arranges a cocktail party for new residents in this affluent village of around 22,600, part of the town of Hempstead in Nassau County. The organization has running and walking clubs, toddler play groups and gourmet and book clubs in addition to the parties for newcomers, which are held at members’ homes.”

All just diversions from the wretched area and life in New York.

[TallahasseeConservative]

And they probably all vote Dem.

[Tai_Chung]

I remember living in New Hyde Park about 25 years ago. All my neighbors were 1st or 2nd generation immigrants. Many were amazed that my family had been here for hundreds of years. I felt like a foreigner in my own country.

[VanShuyten]

How did they avoid Obama’s efforts to promote diversity by forcing Sec 8 housing on such communities?

[pepsi_junkie]

I spent the last few years working in the town next to Garden City. Nice place for sure. The area around it is mostly smaller well maintained homes on fairly small lots, then you stumble into Garden City and its large beautiful homes with big yards. Interesting history in the area. 100 years ago I suppose it was pretty much a wide open plain still. Wide open spaces led to Glenn Curtis doing pioneering aviation work back at the turn of the 20th century and it was a hotbed for aviation in general with several airfields. There's a cool museum there now called the "Cradle of Aviation" museum. There's also a marker downtown where all the nice homes are that says that MacArthur trained his famed Rainbow Division on that location prior to WW1.

Working in Long Island but not being from there, the one thing I heard a lot: if you're not from Long Island you just don't get Long Island. Not exactly sure what epiphany happens if you are raised there versus just living there but must be something because I heard it a bunch.