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Babylon, New York real estate, also known as the Town of Babylon, is ideally located east of New York City on Long Island in the southwestern corner of Suffolk County and contains three villages and 12 hamlets. A constant flow of new residents continues to move into Babylon, New York existing homes or resale homes. Searching Babylon, New York MLS resale listings is almost effortless on NewHomesRealEstate.net because we have volumes of comprehensive listings of Babylon, New York existing homes for sale, from mansions to investment properties to condominiums to townhouses.

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Town of Babylon, New York Area Demographics

Babylon, New York real estate is a very large “town” with multiple identities. The 2000 U.S. census listed the Town of Babylon’s population at 211,792. The Town of Babylon encompasses three villages and 12 hamlets.

In the state of New York, counties are subdivided into cities and towns. There are no cities in Suffolk County. Everyone who does not live in a city or on an Indian reservation lives in a town. Villages and hamlets exist within towns. A village is an incorporated area which is usually, but not always, within a single town. A village is a clearly defined municipality that provides the services closest to the residents, such as garbage collection, street and highway maintenance, street lighting and building codes. Some villages provide their own police and other optional services. A hamlet is a populated area within a town that is not part of a village. The term “hamlet” is not defined under New York law (unlike cities, towns and villages), but is often used in the state’s statutes to refer to well-known populated sections of towns that are not incorporated as villages.

Suffolk County has no cities, but is divided into 10 “towns” (also known as civil townships), some large and some small. In addition to the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County (population: 1,474,927) is divided into nine other towns: the Town of Brookhaven (population: 448,248), which includes eight villages and 51 hamlets; the Town of Islip (population: 322,612), which includes four villages and 23 hamlets; the Town of Huntington (population: 195,289), which includes four villages and 14 hamlets; the Town of Smithtown (population: 115,715), which includes three villages and eight hamlets; the Town of Southampton (population: 54,712), which includes six villages and 18 hamlets; the Town of Riverhead (population: 27,680), which includes seven hamlets; the Town of Southold (population: 20,599), which includes one village and nine hamlets; the Town of East Hampton (population: 19,719), which includes two villages and four hamlets; and the Town of Shelter Island (population: 2,228), which includes one village and one hamlet. Fire Island National Seashore is also part of Suffolk County and home to about 20 tiny communities, including two villages and two hamlets, but Fire Island’s official population was 310 at the 2000 census. A few of the county’s villages and hamlets straddle town borders, placing them in more than one town.

The Town of Riverhead (population: 27,680), located east of Babylon and more than 60 miles east of the nearest New York City borough of Queens, is the county seat of Suffolk County, although many county offices are in Hauppauge on the west side of the county, where most of the population lives. There are also county offices in Smithtown and Yaphank.

Babylon is the third-largest town of 10 towns in Suffolk County and sits in the southwestern corner of the county, bordering Nassau County on the west, Great South Bay on the south, the Town of Islip on the east and the Town of Huntington on the north. The town also includes a village named Babylon. If the Town of Babylon was a city, it would be the 88th-largest city in the U.S., slightly smaller than Orlando, Florida and slightly larger than Rochester, New York and Akron, Ohio.

Villages in the Town of Babylon include:

Hamlets in the Town of Babylon include:

In addition, Copiague Harbor, also known as Great Neck Landing, is an unincorporated community within the hamlet of Copiague, but its population was not reported by the U.S. Census Bureau at the 2000 census.

Temperatures at Babylon vary from an average high of 81 degrees and average low of 67 in July to an average high of 37 and low of 24 in January, with extremes of 103 in 1999 and -3 in 1985. Annual precipitation averages 43 inches.

Town of Babylon, New York History and Culture

The Town of Babylon, New York real estate was shaped by glaciers thousands of years ago during the final Ice Age. Eventually, the glaciers melted and receded to the north, resulting in the difference between the north shore beaches and the south shores. The North Shore beaches are rocky from the remaining glacial debris, while the South Shores are crisp, clear sand. Running along the center of the island almost like a spine is the moraine left by the glaciers.

Extending back 10,000 years and up to the 17th century, Long Island was inhabited by numerous small groups of Algonquin Indians, who lived throughout the Middle Atlantic region and what is now New England. Historians estimate the native population to have been no more than 6,000. The Algonquins fished and harvested shellfish at the shore and hunted the inland wilderness. From clam shells and whelk they chiseled wampum, strings or belts of beads. A Dutchman, Adrian Block, was the first explorer to touch land at Montauk Point in 1614, where he encountered the Native Americans. The first white resident was Lion Gardiner, who settled in 1639 on the Island between the north and south forks. Gardiner’s Island still bears his family name.

Babylon was slower than other Long Island communities to develop, as few if any buildings were erected in this portion of Huntington prior to the year 1700. The land first purchased on the south side was bought for the settlers on the north shore. They bought the marshy necks of land on the South Bay. Farmers were in great need of hay with which to feed their domestic animals and English grasses were hardly cultivated on Long Island until about 1800. A century later, Babylon, Lindenhurst and other places became popular centers for summer vacationers, vast hotels sprang up and golf courses and railroads laid out. At one time, Babylon Village had several hotels, the most famous of which was the Argyle Hotel. American House was another hostel established early in the 19th Century. Wealthy residents of New York City would make the trek to Babylon to spend summers there. Oystering and clamming have been important industries before the settlers arrived. The Presbyterian Church of Babylon claims an existence since 1798.

Nathaniel Conklin, a descendant of Babylon’s original settlers built a tannery and a cloth mill in 1801 and was the owner of large tracts of land in the vicinity of his mill. His mother is credited with giving Babylon its name when she disparagingly compared the new hamlet where her grandchildren would be reared to the biblical city of Babylon, an ancient Mesopotamian city where residents turned away from God. “It will be a new Babylon,” she said according to family legend, afraid that her grandchildren would be corrupted by the bawdy reputation of the nearby inns.

The region that is now the Town of Babylon was once called Huntington South. The Town of Babylon was formed in 1872 by a partition of the Town of Huntington.

Amityville, originally the site of a grist mill and saw mill, became prosperous from oystering and later achieved fame as the setting for a series of horror movies.

From the first years of colonization, the heavily wooded forests provided wood which Long Islanders cut and shipped as cordwood and as board footage for local ship and home builders. As the land was cleared, the rich acreage was farmed. Fishing and shipbuilding were other early industries. Until the 1850s, whaling was an important source of income.

Lindenhurst, formerly Breslau, only dates back to 1869, when it was founded as a German colony, with manufacturing as its feature.

English colonists crossed Long Island Sound from Connecticut and Massachusetts colonies, founding Southold and Southampton on Long Island in 1640. Other colonies soon followed: East Hampton (1648), Shelter Island (1652) and Setauket, in Brookhaven (1655). Dutch settlers moved eastward from Manhattan Island. By the mid-1600s the Dutch had ceded control of eastern Long Island to the English.

Recognizing an eastward shift in population more than 100 years ago, Suffolk County converted unused meadows in to productive farms, provided timber for construction and harvested the ocean for whale meat and blubber, when the English colony needed these inputs and in the decades after independence. However it was equally nimble to respond to housing needs between the two World Wars and was quick to exploit rising incomes beginning in the 1950s to offer quality infrastructure for family life and recreation.

Farming remains important to eastern Long Island’s commerce, although strawberries, cabbage, potatoes, pumpkins and sod acreages are giving way to horse farms and vineyards. Suffolk County’s quaint historic villages, rocky north shore beaches and calm waters, the white sand and breakers off Fire Island and the dependable winds and safe harbors for sailing make tourism a major Suffolk County industry.

High technology centers make Suffolk County sixth in the nation in the production of radio and television communications equipment and aircraft manufacture.

Since World War II, Long Island has epitomized the phenomenon of growing suburbia. In 1955, mass-produced housing developments, along with new major institutions of learning, contributed to Suffolk County’s population explosion. The foremost educational institution is the State University of New York at Stony Brook (a hamlet in the Town of Brookhaven) which opened on a 1,000-acre campus in 1962. Its Health Science Center and 18-story University Hospital became Long Island’s tallest buildings in 1976.

Since 2000, housing prices on Long Island have been the highest in the country. For some, Suffolk County’s bucolic pleasures are offset by new issues related to population growth: disappearing farms replaced by housing developments, strip-zoning along once-pastoral roads, dependence on the automobile, overcrowded roadways, possible effects of pollution of inland and coastal waters and mounting waste-disposal needs.

Town of Babylon, New York Attractions, Activities and Amenities

The Town of Babylon, New York real estate balances upscale suburban living with rural sensibilities. Despite its high population, development in the town is mostly low density, with most homes sitting on about half an acre of land or more. Single-family homes dominate the landscape, with low-rise condominiums and townhouses sprinkled in, but few high-rise developments. Pockets of farmhouses remain as they were centuries ago.

Most residents of the Town of Babylon have made a conscious choice to withdraw from a city lifestyle, although some residents commute to New York City for work either by car or train on the Long Island Railroad.

The Village of Babylon features locations such as Argyle Lake and its surrounding park, Southard’s Pond and the municipal slips, private marinas and boatyards on the Great South Bay. A gazebo stands south of Argyle Lake and serves as a venue for free Friday night summer concerts and annual celebrations. The Village also boasts of the three-building Presbyterian Church Complex (built gradually from 1783-1870), the Methodist Church (1850) and the Nathaniel Conklin House (1803). Babylon has an active historical society, housed in a museum building, as well as other organizations that bring together the people of Babylon for community and charitable causes.

The Town of Babylon and Suffolk County have always been a favorite getaway of tourists, especially New Yorkers, during the weekends. The Town of Babylon and Suffolk County continue to captivate people with the beautiful communities that line their shores and meadows.

On the eastern end of Long Island are the world famous Hamptons, a popular vacation destination (for those who can afford it). With the eastern part of Long Island splitting into the North and South Forks, The Hamptons caters to the rich and famous, with its waterside inns, upscale shopping and luxurious restaurants. The Hamptons have contributed the terms “house in the Hamptons” and “Hamptons summer share” to the American lexicon.

Babylon is considered the “Gateway to Fire Island” National Seashore — a collection of long, narrow barrier islands along the county’s southern shore immediately southeast of Babylon — which have become a favorite tourist spot, especially among gays.

Other state parks in Suffolk County include: Gov. Alfred E. Smith Sunken Meadow State Park in Smithtown; Caleb Smith State Park in Smithtown; Belmont Lake State Park in Babylon; Connetquot River State Park near Islip; Heckscher State Park, near Islip; Gilgo Beach State Park, on a barrier island southwest of Babylon; Brookhaven State Park; Wildwood State Park, on Long Island Sound east of Brookhaven; Orient Beach State Park, at the tip of North Fork; Hither Hills State Park, near the tip of South Fork; and Montauk Point State Park, at the extreme eastern tip of South Fork.

Bethpage State Park is a 1,476-acre state park in Nassau County (with a small portion in Suffolk County) adjacent to the Town of Babylon. The park has five 18-hole golf courses, named the Black, Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. In 2002 the Black Course became the first publicly-owned and operated course to host the U.S. Open. It will host the event again in 2009. The park opened in the 1930s after the state acquired the Benjamin F. Yoakum estate. The park has picnic facilities, bridle paths, hiking and biking trails, playing fields, a polo field, tennis courts and cross-country skiing trails, but it is best known for its golf facilities.

Other recreational activities dot the county landscape, including golf, tennis, swimming, fishing, boating and hiking, to name just a few. Suffolk County has poured major resources into recreation and takes pains to preserve a healthy, active environment for its residents and visitors. Lighthouses, natural reserves and parks for bird-watching or cross-country skiing abound in the area. Suffolk County is certainly well-balanced with managed growth and nature preservation.

Suffolk County is home to numerous colleges and universities, including the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dowling College, Southampton College, Saint Joseph’s College and Suffolk County Community College.

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