Jericho NY Real Estate & Homes for Sale

Jericho is a community in Nassau County’s Town of Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York. It was ranked second in Best Places to Live in New York, Best Places to Raise a Family in New York and Best Suburbs to Live in New York by Niche for its top-rated schools, fantastic location, outdoor recreation and great selection of single-family homes and other properties.

Local Area Information

Jericho is an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, on Long Island, New York. It is bordered by the villages of Brookville and Muttontown on the north, Syosset on the east, Hicksville on the south, New Cassel and Westbury Village on the southwest and Old Westbury Village on the west. The last three are located in the Town of North Hempstead, though Old Westbury is also partially in Oyster Bay Town.

Lusum, as the area was initially called, has a rich history that involved members of the Society of Friends called Quakers, who mainly farmed in the 1600s. It was renamed Jericho in 1692 after the biblical city in the Promised Land. After the Revolutionary War, peace ensued and so did the growth of farms and businesses, and some of the area’s first known structures and institutions were built and established.

When World War II ended, the population continued to increase and additional schools were built. Other developments followed, such as suburban housing, a water tower, theater, cloverleaf access to Jericho Turnpike, shopping center, a new post office, new fire department and a public library.

Today, Jericho is a highly developed neighborhood with good schools, shopping, dining, recreation and a varied range of housing options. Besides single-family homes, there are also condos in gated communities, such as The Hamlet East and The Hamlet Estates. The latter features luxury homes and several waterfront properties offering captivating water views of a pond.

Dwellings may be as large as 4-bedroom homes or larger and have master bedrooms on first floor, private pools and other features. There are also rental properties, new constructions and vacant lots. Jericho’s boundaries differ from those of both the Jericho Union Free School District and the Jericho Post Office. The latter includes a section of Jericho in the Westbury, NY 11590 ZIP code and a section of Muttontown in the Jericho, NY 11753 ZIP code.

General Information

Township: Town of Oyster Bay | Oyster Bay, NY

County: Nassau County

Population: 14,808 (2020)

Classification: Hamlet, CDP

Chamber of Commerce: Jericho Chamber of Commerce

LIRR Train Station/Schedule: MTA.info/lirr
The LIRR serves Jericho via the Westbury Station, Hicksville Station, or Syosset Station.
Travel time to Manhattan, Penn Station is about
1 hours 43 minutes to 2 hours minutes.

Beaches & Parks

A park near Jericho is the Cantiague Park on West John Street in Hicksville. It is one of the major parks that are part of the Nassau County park system, and was the first to offer a swimming pool and an artificial indoor ice-skating rink. It has a lighted artificial turf field for football, lacrosse and soccer. Dozens of other activities can be enjoyed in its many amenities, including a 9-hole golf course, an 18-hole mini-golf course, a lighted driving range, a batting cage, two playgrounds, and five picnic areas.

The Robbins Lane Community Park features an athletic field, two sets of fenced-in playground with jungle gym for little kids and big kids, picnic tables and benches, a sitting area, snack bar, and restroom.

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