Township Of Islip
Town of Islip Communities
About The Town of Islip…
The Town of Islip is the third largest among the ten townships in Suffolk County and the fourth largest on all of Long Island, New York. It is adjacent to the townships of Huntington on the northwest, Babylon on the west, Smithtown on the north as well as Brookhaven on the east and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the south.
Overseen by a Town Supervisor, Islip comprises four incorporated villages and several unincorporated areas, including the hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) also called Islip. The Town’s 163 square miles of land and water include parts of the Great South Bay and Fire Island, with several available passenger ferry services traveling to the latter from two major ferry landings at Bay Shore and Sayville.
Many consider Islip and its areas an ideal place for family life. It is home to the Suffolk Community College Grant campus in Brentwood and the Hauppauge Industrial Park, one of Long Island’s largest business parks, with over 1,300 companies employing residents. Islip’s central location on Long Island provides easy access from major highways, and residents enjoy a diverse population, beach proximity, easy commuting to New York City and a wide range of housing options.
Islip offers single-family homes, condos, co-ops, townhouses and multifamily properties. There are luxury homes with pools, gated communities, new constructions, accessory apartments, potential mother-daughter, rental properties and vacant lots, while certain neighborhoods feature 55+ communities, horse properties, and waterfront homes with captivating water views.
The Connetquot River State Park Preserve is in Islip Terrace, while East Islip, formerly an enclave of mansions on the South Shore — and once home to the eponymous Islip Grange — is now home to Heckscher State Park, with beaches, playgrounds, recreational programs, hiking, biking, fishing, cross-country skiing and more. The Town is also home to three other New York State parks: Brentwood State Park, Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island and Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park in Great River.
Islip Town owns and operates two airports, one of which is the Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, the only Suffolk or Nassau County airport with scheduled service on major airlines, carrying more than two million passengers a year. The smaller airport is a historic rural airport called Bayport Aerodrome in the hamlet of Bayport.
Communities in The Town of Islip