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Huntington is the North Shore town everybody on Long Island knows by its downtown: a walkable grid of restaurants, bars, a concert venue and an art-house cinema a mile and a half north of a major LIRR station, with a harbor and a bay on the other side.
This guide covers the three places most people mean when they say "Huntington." Huntington itself is an unincorporated hamlet and the seat of the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County. Its downtown is locally called Huntington Village, but it isn't an incorporated village. Huntington Station is the larger hamlet to the south, named for the train station it grew up around. Huntington Bay is a small incorporated village on the water, with its own mayor and police department.
Same town, same general area, three very different ways to live. That's why it pays to know which one a house is actually in.
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The hamlet of Huntington is built around its downtown, centered on Main Street (Route 25A) and New York Avenue, with residential neighborhoods spreading out from there. Downtown is the draw: you can park once and walk to dinner, a show at The Paramount, a movie at the Cinema Arts Centre and Heckscher Park. Just north, the separate hamlet of Halesite sits on Huntington Harbor.
Huntington Station is the bigger hamlet by population, about 34,900 people in the 2020 census versus about 19,600 in Huntington. It's built around the train. The station sits roughly a mile and a half south of the village center, and many New York City-bound trains start or end here. Route 110 and Jericho Turnpike carry most of the shopping and traffic. If a short drive to the LIRR is near the top of your list, this is where you start looking.
Huntington Bay is a village of about 1,450 residents on East Neck, and nearly half of its 1.9 square miles is water. It has its own village government and police department, and the Halesite Fire Department covers it. This is the waterfront end of the conversation: bay views, the Huntington Yacht Club and Crescent Beach. Village rules on building, docks and permits apply on top of the Town's, so factor that in before you plan a renovation.
Huntington vs. Huntington Station vs. Huntington Bay, which school district you're in, and how far you are from the village or the water all move the number. Get a free home value from someone who knows the difference.
By train: Huntington station is on the Port Jefferson Branch at New York Avenue and Broadway. It's where the branch's electrified service ends, so many trains to and from the city start and finish here instead of requiring a change. There are large parking garages on both sides of the tracks. Schedules, parking rules and permits change, so check the MTA's station information before you count on a commute time.
By car: New York Avenue (Route 110) is the spine. It runs from Halesite and the harbor down through the village and Huntington Station, and on south toward Melville. Route 25A crosses downtown east-west along Main Street. Jericho Turnpike cuts across Huntington Station, and the Northern State Parkway and the Long Island Expressway are farther south.
By bus: The Town's HART buses and Suffolk County Transit Route 1, which runs along Route 110, connect the village, the station and points south.
Head north on New York Avenue and you hit Huntington Harbor at Halesite, with marinas, boats and harbor views. Past it, Huntington Bay opens toward Long Island Sound. This is North Shore water: calmer than the ocean side, with harbors, moorings and rockier beaches instead of wide surf.
The Town of Huntington lists Crescent Beach on Crescent Beach Drive in Huntington Bay and Gold Star Battalion Beach on West Shore Road among its Town beaches. Town beaches open dawn to dusk, and parking requires a resident seasonal beach permit. Current permit prices and rules are on the Town's beach permit page.
The Town runs a boat ramp on Mill Dam Road in Huntington, one of five Town ramps. Residents need a seasonal ramp permit for the boat and a beach parking permit for the vehicle and trailer. Non-residents pay per launch. Details are on the Town's boat ramp page.
If you're buying on the water in Huntington Bay or Halesite, do the homework every waterfront buyer should: dock and mooring rights, bulkhead condition, flood zone and insurance, and the village or Town rules that apply to that specific property. Never assume water access from a view.
Heckscher Park is the Town's 18-acre park at Prime Avenue and Route 25A, right in the village. It has a pond, a playground, lighted tennis courts and a playing field, bocce, a sculpture garden, the Heckscher Museum of Art and a 1/3-mile jogging loop. In summer, the Chapin Rainbow Stage hosts the free Summer Arts Festival on Tuesday through Sunday evenings, late June to early August. Details are on the Town's Heckscher Park page.
South of Huntington Station on Sweet Hollow Road in Melville, Suffolk County's West Hills County Park has nature trails, horseback riding and a dog park. The Walt Whitman Trail leads to Jayne's Hill, which the County lists as Long Island's highest point at about 400 feet. If you want hills on Long Island, this is where they are. See the County's West Hills page for maps and fees.
North of the village, on Lloyd Neck in the Village of Lloyd Harbor, Caumsett is about 1,680 acres of woods, meadows and Long Island Sound shoreline. I hiked it in November 2026: about 2 miles out to a rocky beach under an eroding bluff, then a loop back, 5.56 miles total and easy the whole way. Read my Caumsett beach and bluff hike »
For a #RippedRealtor-style workout without a gym membership, Huntington is set up well. Do loops of the Heckscher jogging path in town, get hill work at West Hills, and save Caumsett for a long weekend walk. Cold Spring Harbor, just west, is where the Nassau-Suffolk Greenbelt Trail ends, and my 6.39-mile hike there had real climbing.
Huntington Village is a busy downtown, especially at night, with restaurants, bars and shops packed within a few blocks of Main Street and New York Avenue. Three anchors give it a draw beyond dinner:
These are all verified Huntington businesses, most of them within walking distance of each other. Hours change, so check before you go.
Huntington Station's commercial life runs along Route 110 and Jericho Turnpike, with the Walt Whitman Shops on Route 110 to the south. Got a Huntington spot that belongs on this list? Tell me.
This is where Huntington gets complicated. The hamlets don't line up neatly with school districts, so verify the district for the individual property before you fall for a house.
Huntington UFSD covers all of Huntington Bay and Halesite, plus large parts of Huntington and Huntington Station. It has four primary schools for grades K-3 (Flower Hill, Jefferson, Southdown and Washington), two schools for grades 4-6 (Woodhull Intermediate and the Jack Abrams STEM Magnet School), Finley Middle School for grades 7-8, and Huntington High School for grades 9-12.
South Huntington UFSD serves parts of Huntington Station along with nearby hamlets including South Huntington, Melville, Greenlawn and West Hills. Its schools are Countrywood and Oakwood Primary Centers (K-2), Birchwood and Maplewood Intermediate Schools (3-5), Silas Wood Sixth Grade Center, Stimson Middle School (7-8) and Walt Whitman High School (9-12).
Some Huntington and Huntington Station addresses fall in the Harborfields Central School District, and some Huntington addresses fall in the Cold Spring Harbor Central School District. Two houses a few streets apart can be in different districts, with different tax rates.
Real Geeks search shortcuts: homes in the Huntington school district and homes in the South Huntington school district.
The Town of Huntington dates to April 2, 1653. That's when three men from Oyster Bay bought a tract about six miles square from Raseokan, sachem of the Matinecock, and passed it to English families already settling there. The "First Purchase" ran from Cold Spring Harbor to Northport Harbor, and from the Sound south to about today's Old Country Road.
Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in the farmhouse his father built by hand in 1816, at 246 Walt Whitman Road south of Huntington Station. Today it's a State Historic Site with an interpretive center, run by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association with New York State Parks.
Completed in 1912, the castle-like concrete lighthouse sits on a reef at the entrance to Huntington and Lloyd Harbors. Local residents formed a group in 1985 to stop it from being demolished, and the volunteer Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society has been restoring it since. Tours leave by boat from Gold Star Battalion Beach; check their site for the season's dates.
Village, Station or Bay, here's how to narrow it down: pick your school district first, then decide how close you want to be to the train, downtown or the water. Browse what's on the market now across all three, with every filter.
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In Huntington, the same square footage can sell for very different numbers. What moves value here:
Huntington buyers do their homework. They know the district they want, they know what the walk to Main Street is worth, and they'll pick apart an online estimate that lumps Huntington Bay in with a house by Jericho Turnpike. So price it on real comparable sales from your section and your district, not a ZIP code average.
Fix what an inspector will flag before you list, take photos that show what makes your location work, whether that's the village, the train or the water, and launch at a price that pulls buyers in during the first two weeks. That's when you have the most leverage. Reach out to me directly and we'll walk through it.
No. Huntington is an unincorporated hamlet and the seat of the Town of Huntington, even though its downtown is called Huntington Village. Huntington Bay, next door, is an incorporated village (since 1924) with its own government and police.
They're separate hamlets in the same town. Huntington is the northern hamlet with the downtown and the harbor. Huntington Station is the larger hamlet to the south, named for the LIRR station at New York Avenue and Broadway, about a mile and a half south of the village center.
The LIRR's Port Jefferson Branch, at Huntington station in Huntington Station. Electrified service ends there, so many trains to and from the city start and end at Huntington.
Most of the area is in the Huntington Union Free School District, which covers all of Huntington Bay. Parts of Huntington and Huntington Station are in the South Huntington, Harborfields or Cold Spring Harbor districts. Always verify the district for the specific property.
Yes. Town of Huntington beaches include Crescent Beach in Huntington Bay and Gold Star Battalion Beach on West Shore Road. Parking requires a Town resident seasonal beach permit.
It's in the Town of Huntington, on Lloyd Neck in the Village of Lloyd Harbor, north of Huntington Village. Its mailing address is 25 Lloyd Harbor Road, Huntington.
Start with a free home value estimate. For an exact number, I'll compare your home against recent sales in your own hamlet and school district, which is how buyers and appraisers will look at it.
Huntington has a lot going on, from the Village's restaurants to the harbor to the neighborhoods off Route 110, and I want this page to read the way people who live here actually experience it. If there's a restaurant, park, trail, event or local detail I'm missing, tell me.
I'm John Cordeira, Broker/Owner of Cordeira Homes. I live in Massapequa Park and have sold Long Island homes for more than 20 years. My Move With John hikes at Caumsett and Cold Spring Harbor are what brought me up to this part of the North Shore.
John Cordeira | Cordeira Homes | #RippedRealtor
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