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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transplants to the NYC area that move to the suburbs prefer Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey over Long Island.  What makes LI so insular and unappealing to transplants?[/quote]

Racism [/quote]

Yep. I don't know if it's still the case since I moved out of NY, but in Garden City they used to not sell real estate to black people or jewish people. [/quote]

You probably moved out in the 1950s? I'm sure it's true, but the same can be said for most high end suburbs of NYC. 
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No i left in 2000. I was friends with people who were real estate agents. [/quote]

There were absolutely discriminatory actions and restrictive covenants and zoning elements that kept the "undesirables" from Garden City.  There were other communities that had the same.  Like Garden City, Real Estate agents did not sell property to African Americans within the Herricks School District.  Through the 90s they had zero African American students enrolled.

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There is a difference between self selecting not to buy into a community and discriminatory real estate practices.

I would be very surprised if there was a covert operation to prevent blacks and especially Jews from buying into Garden City. Given how prominent the Jewish community is in New York and their political, legal and economic muscle, I’d need to see actual evidence of discrimination in the 1980s and 1990s before I believe you. [/quote]

Jewish people really didn’t want to live there anyway. There were other neighborhoods like the 5 towns area. African Americans probably would for the schools. Hempstead which had a large AA population and bordered GC in some areas had terrible schools. Parents had to send kids to catholic schools to get a decent education. [/quote]

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