http://higley1000.com/archives/55 Racial Integration in the Wealthiest 1000 Places in America Thu, 17 May 2012 22:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://higley1000.com/archives/55/comment-page-1#comment-389 Donald E. Sexauer Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:12:25 +0000 http://higley1000.com/archives/55#comment-389 I brought my kids up in Munsey Park, which you don't mention. I am a native Long Islander from Flushing , Queens. My Grandfather had a huge Victorian house with a barn and farm on Northern Blvd (which was a two lane, Elm lined road) part of which became Flushing High School. He also had a "farm house" on the Nissaquoge (sp)River where his grandchildren( me,included)swam. And a nursery in Stony Brook. We used to swim in Smithtown beach when the town was 1 block long with a general store and a barber shop and a drug store with an ice cream counter. It was paradise. I enjoyed your article very much. I was out to Manhasset to visit my 86 year old aunt and could not get over how the demographics had changed, both on the train from Penn Station and the platform in Manhasset. I wouldn't have believed it was the same town. I brought my kids up in Munsey Park, which you don’t mention. I am a native Long Islander from Flushing , Queens.
My Grandfather had a huge Victorian house with a barn and farm on Northern Blvd (which was a two lane, Elm lined road) part of which became Flushing High School.
He also had a “farm house” on the Nissaquoge (sp)River where his grandchildren( me,included)swam. And a nursery in Stony Brook. We used to swim in Smithtown beach when the town was 1 block long with a general store and a barber shop and a drug store with an ice cream counter.
It was paradise.
I enjoyed your article very much. I was out to Manhasset to visit my 86 year old aunt and could not get over how the demographics had changed, both on the train from Penn Station and the platform in Manhasset.
I wouldn’t have believed it was the same town.

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