Deer Park Area????

Hey ladies,

FH and I are looking for a new house and we found a brand new colonial for an amazing price for what you're getting. We're just trying to find out the area. I used to hangout in Deer Park when I was younger on 231. The house is actually 5 mins from 231 on a nice quiet one way street with all brand new or semi new houses. I love how it's close to DPA but not too close. Does anyone know how the area is? Is it safe, clean, good?? How are the schools....a few people told us they were not good. But the way we look at it is that we wont have to put a child in kindergarten for another 7-10 years so a lot could happen in that time. Also, we dont need an excellent school just something decent and mediocre...just nothing with gangs and drugs and stuff. Any help is GREATLY appreciated!!!!!



P.S - We're trying to sell our house in North Merrick if anyone is interested FM me your email address for pics and details!

I found this post from another topic. Sorry I don't know how to 'bump' something to you. So I did it the old fashion way 'cut and paste' LOL. Hope this helps.






Here...my post was on LIfamilies under topic called 'the babylons'

I grew up in Deer Park and it's not bad at all. Of course you have your parts near Brentwood/Bay Shore that I would stay away from, but every town as one bad part. I live on the Dix Hills/Commack line and that neighborhood is beautiful. It's very desirable for middle income families because it's affordable, the area is nice, taxes won't kill you and the school district isn't bad.

I graduated in '99 and the school district's scores weren't the greatest. It was because we had so many old teachers that were waiting to retire and they sucked. Over the last several years more than half of Deer Park teachers retired and we have some good young blood teaching now. The scores have improved. We have just as many students that go to Ivy league and other great schools as other towns in the babylons, lindenhurst, etc. The district will also be getting a lot of money if the Tanger Outlets plan goes through in 2006.

Deer Park is seperated into 4 sections that are divided by the LIRR and Deer Park Ave. The northeast section, is where I lived and it's nice. The 'west side' which is the south west section of deer park is FILLED with families and is affordable (this is the closets section to N. Babylon). I would stay away from Bay Shore Rd. and houses around it. It's kinda sad being that it's 2005, but I find most the minorities are in a section of their own (this south east section of town). This is where Deer Park gets the bad rep for gangs and violence. I guess years ago, minorities were only showed houses in this section and it kinda stayed that way. Not that other parts of Deer Park don't have minorities, it's just that part is very concentrated.

Personally, N. Babylon isn't any different than Deer Park. In fact my friends from N. Babylon always thought Deer Park was a nicer town. FM me with any questions.