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Montaukett families, Bethel A.M.E. and the Dominican sisters.

The Town of Babylon's history pages say Montaukett families lived here before English and Dutch colonists arrived, and streets still carry the names of Native families such as Brewster, Fowler, Squires and Steele; the Brewster and Green-Bunn burying grounds on Bethpage Road are town landmarks. Bethel A.M.E. Church, organized in 1815 by Black and Native Americans and called Long Island's oldest Black church, built on Albany Avenue in 1844 and moved to Copiague in 1967; a town marker stands at the original site. The Sisters of St. Dominic built their chapel and motherhouse here in 1867, and the buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. After World War II, farms gave way to developments such as Ronek Park, which the town notes was marketed as non-discriminatory housing starting in 1950, and the airfield Joseph Zahn cut through his apple orchard along New Highway in 1936 was once the nation's largest private airport before it closed in 1979. The hamlet took the name North Amityville after the Village of Amityville incorporated in 1894, and it still shares the Amityville post office and ZIP 11701.

Wikipedia puts the hamlet at 2.4 square miles, bordered by East Massapequa to the west, East Farmingdale to the north, North Lindenhurst and Lindenhurst to the southeast, and Amityville and Copiague to the south. Children go to Amityville, Copiague or (in a small northern part) Farmingdale schools, and the nearest LIRR stations are Amityville and Copiague.

Houses, apartments and some mobile homes.

The Census Bureau's latest five-year survey counts about 5,900 homes, with a median year built of 1975. 14% went up in the 1950s, 16% in the 1960s and 24% in the 1970s, and 38% were built after 1980. 63% are single-family detached houses, but 24% are in buildings of five or more units (21% in buildings of 20 or more), and 4% are mobile homes. 63% are owner-occupied.

Oil, electric and gas.

The ACS shows 42% of North Amityville homes heat with fuel oil, 28% with utility gas and 25% with electricity. That's a big oil share, and every oil-to-gas switch needs a new gas line to the heating equipment; it's also a good time to move the water heater, range and dryer to gas. We do the gas line work. We don't sell or deliver oil.

On the county sewer.

Laying Suffolk County's sewer-district map over the Census boundary, essentially all of North Amityville (about 99.8% of its area) is inside Suffolk County Sewer District No. 3 (Southwest), whose active district the county lists as "Amityville to Bay Shore." To confirm for your house, look for a sewer district charge on your tax bill. A backup that stops at your house is usually in your own line to the street; we clear it. If neighbors are backed up too, call Suffolk County Department of Public Works. If your house turns out to be on a cesspool, we clear the house drain; a full or failing cesspool is a job for a cesspool or septic contractor (we don't do cesspool work). FEMA's flood map puts none of the hamlet in the high-risk flood zone.

Water: Suffolk County Water Authority, Area 1.

EPA's service-area map puts essentially all of North Amityville on SCWA, and SCWA's index lists "Amityville, North Amityville" in its Distribution Area 1. SCWA's 2026 report on 2025 water shows Area 1 iron averaging 218 micrograms per liter and reaching 963, against New York's 300 standard for taste, odor and staining; SCWA adds phosphate to keep iron in solution. Hardness averaged 36.5 mg/L (soft) and nitrate 0.79 mg/L, 1,4-dioxane averaged 0.09 micrograms per liter with a high of 0.80 (limit 1.0), and PFOS reached 11 parts per trillion at its highest; New York judges its 10 limit on a running average, and the report shows no violation. SCWA's state-filed inventory counts 11 lead service lines and about 4,200 customer-side galvanized lines across its whole system of nearly 400,000. Orange or brown stains in sinks and on laundry usually mean iron, and an iron filter sized to these numbers can help. For a leak at the street, call SCWA at (631) 698-9500.

Permits and licensing: Town of Babylon.

North Amityville is an unincorporated hamlet, so plumbing permits go through the Town of Babylon's Division of Building, not the Village of Amityville. Under town code, plumbing, drainage and gas piping work must be done by a master plumber licensed by the Town of Babylon Plumbers Examining Board, and gas permits are issued only to those licensed plumbers.