Ocean Point, renamed for a grove of cedars.
Wikipedia says rail service arrived in 1869, the Rockaway Hunting Club was built here in 1878, and when a post office opened in 1884 Ocean Point was renamed Cedarhurst, after a grove of trees by the post office. The village incorporated in 1910 and is part of the Five Towns. Central Avenue is its main business street. It covers 0.7 square miles, all land.
The Census Bureau's latest five-year survey counts about 2,800 homes, with a median year built of 1953. 20% went up in the 1950s, 35% before 1940, and 8% after 1980. 48% are single-family detached houses, 17% are two-family, 18% are in buildings of five or more units, and 67% are owner-occupied.
So a typical house here has drain and water lines around 73 years old unless they've been replaced. Slow drains in several fixtures, a gurgling floor drain or rusty water from one tap are signs to have the main line and supply piping checked. With so many pre-1940 homes, some still have galvanized or older supply piping in the walls; we plan repairs around what's actually there.
Oil to gas means new gas piping.
The ACS shows 71% of homes heat with utility gas and 23% with fuel oil. Switching means properly sized gas piping to the new equipment, and often to the water heater, range and dryer. We do the gas line work. We don't sell or deliver oil.
On the sewer.
Nassau County's health department lists Cedarhurst's sewers under the Nassau County Department of Public Works (516-571-6841). A backup that stops at your house is usually in your own line to the street; we clear it and repair or replace the line. If neighbors are backed up too, call the county at 516-571-6841.
Flood risk.
Laying FEMA's current flood map over the Census boundary, about 19% of Cedarhurst is in the high-risk (1% annual chance) flood zone (19.0% in zone AE; shares of the Census area, water included). On a sewered street, a backwater (sewer check) valve on your house sewer line can keep a street-sewer backup from coming in through basement floor drains. We install them. If your water heater or gas appliances ever sat in flood water, have them checked before relighting.
Village pump stations and Bay Park.
The Five Towns NY Rising Community Reconstruction Plan says the Villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst run their own pump stations that send sewage to the county's Bay Park plant, that both villages had to treat their own sewage after Sandy until Bay Park came back online, and that sewers elsewhere in the Five Towns backed up into streets and some basements. The plan also lists Cedarhurst stormwater upgrades. When the street sewer surcharges, a backwater valve is the household-level defense.
Water: Liberty Utilities New York's Lynbrook system.
EPA's service-area map puts essentially all residents on Liberty Utilities New York's Lynbrook system; your bill is the final word. Liberty's 2026 report on 2025 water for its Lynbrook Operations District says caustic soda or lime raises the pH to cut corrosion of household plumbing and iron is filtered out at 13 of its 20 well sites; total hardness ran 4.2 to 58.6 mg/L, which is soft. Across the whole district, Liberty's state-filed inventory counts 3,700 lead service lines and 15,239 of unknown material, so if your house predates 1940 it's worth knowing what your service line is. In EPA's UCMR 5 testing, the main supplier's highest single PFOA/PFOS result was 5.1 parts per trillion. EPA's 4 ppt limits apply as a running annual average starting in 2029, so one high sample is not a violation, but it's the kind of number a carbon filter is sized against. For a leak at the curb or in the street, call your water supplier. For anything on your side of the meter, call us.
Permits.
Cedarhurst is an incorporated village, so plumbing permits go through the Village of Cedarhurst's building department, not the town.
