A railroad hamlet once called Fairground.
The hamlet is named for the Huntington LIRR station and was originally known as "Fairground," according to Wikipedia. Walt Whitman was born here; his birthplace, now a museum, stands just over the line in South Huntington, across Route 110 from the Walt Whitman Shops.
The Census Bureau's latest five-year survey counts about 11,400 homes, with a median year built of 1961. 27% went up in the 1950s and 21% in the 1960s, 12% are older than 1940, and 22% were built after 1980. 72% are single-family detached, 12% are townhouses (single-family attached) and 6% are two-family homes. 78% are owner-occupied.
In a 1950s or 1960s house, the original drain line may still run to a cesspool that is 60 to 75 years old. When every drain slows at once, the cause can be the house line or the cesspool itself. We clear the line before anyone talks about digging. If it's the cesspool, you'll need a cesspool contractor; we don't do cesspool work.
Oil is still common.
The ACS shows 49% of Huntington Station homes heat with utility gas and 38% with fuel oil, plus 9% electric. Switching to gas means new gas piping to the equipment, and often to the water heater, range and dryer. We do the gas line work. We don't sell or deliver oil.
Cesspools for most homes; a new sewer along New York Avenue.
Suffolk County says the lack of sewers in Huntington Station has long held back revitalization. The county and the Town of Huntington are now extending Suffolk County Sewer District No. 3 (Southwest) into a new "Huntington Station Hub" zone of about 229 parcels around the train station and along New York Avenue. A 2024 county resolution puts the cost at about $64.3 million, paid with federal relief money and state grants, and the town says construction started in summer 2025. Local reports say the zone runs along New York Avenue from the station to East 15th Street plus parts of Depot Road, sewage will go to the Bergen Point plant in Babylon, connections should begin in 2028, and connecting is mandatory after a year. That means rerouting the house's waste line to the street sewer and abandoning the old cesspool. We do the sewer hookup: the new line from the house to the street connection, with the Town of Huntington plumbing permit. Abandoning the cesspool is cesspool work, which we don't do, so plan on a separate contractor for that part.
Everywhere else, assume a cesspool or septic system. Since July 1, 2019, Suffolk County hasn't allowed a failed cesspool to be replaced with another cesspool.
Water: South Huntington Water District for most, SCWA or Greenlawn for the rest.
The Town of Huntington has four separate public water suppliers. Laying the town's water-district map over Census boundaries, roughly three-fifths of the hamlet's land is in the South Huntington Water District (founded 1925, office on Fifth Avenue South), about a third, mostly the north side, is on the Suffolk County Water Authority, and a sliver is in the Greenlawn Water District. Your bill is the final word.
South Huntington's 2025 report says it pumps from 18 wells in the Glacial and Magothy aquifers for 81,760 people and adds sodium hydroxide to cut corrosion of household plumbing. Nitrate ran 0.42 to 7.9 mg/L, under the 10 mg/L limit; the district names fertilizer and septic systems as sources. Total hardness ran 2.7 to 54.6 mg/L, which is soft. In 2023 it added 1,4-dioxane treatment at Plant No. 3 on Amityville Road in Huntington Station, and it has found no lead service lines to date.
Permits and licensing: Town of Huntington.
Huntington Station is an unincorporated hamlet. The town plumbing code requires a Town of Huntington permit to install, repair or modify plumbing or gas piping, and a plumbing license issued by the town to do the work. Owners of one- and two-family homes may do their own plumbing, but not gas piping.
