Amityville Long Island old photos 1880 to 1920

Amityville Long Island

Amityville is the western most village in the town of Babylon in the county of Suffolk. Accord to the Amityville Historical Society Amityville was first settled by Europeans from Huntington a settlement on the north shore of Long Island then call Nassau Island in 1657. Huntington was settled in 1653 so it didn’t take long for them to wonder south. They first they called the land South Huntington or West Neck South bought from the native tribe that they called the Massapequa Indians in 1697. I don’t know if anyone knows the price they paid them. There was only a small population of salt hay farmers and fishermen until the late 19^th early 20^th centuries when the wealthy people from the City of New York found the village attracted by the Amityville River. They built hotels, restaurants and canals for the boats. You can find more information about Amityville from the Historical Society they have museum on Broadway and Ireland place.

   

1873 Map of the Amityville village area

South Oaks for mentally disabled and rehab home in 1882 a smaller version still in operation in 2016 on Sunrise Highway Amityville Long Island

The top photo is the-Brunswick-Home later Hospital in 1882 the bottom photo is the same hospital just closed and before it was torn down in 2011. Brunswick Hospital served the Amityville area for a little over a century and a half well, but it was a for profit Hospital in a working class village.  

Description: Amityville LIRR Station in the 1920's, This is now I remember the Railroad station looking back in the 1940’s and 50’s. When I remember it had a potbelly stove in the middle of the waiting room surrounded by nice wooden benches.

Description: The 1920's Amityville Station, with many vehicles waiting for passengers. My sister and I used to take the train from this station to Wantagh station there catching a bus to Jones Beach.

Photo that may have been around the 1890's of the northern fork with Broadway Rt 110 going to the left and Albany Ave going to the right. There is a house on the folk in this photo, but in my day there was a gas station on that folk.

Also around the 1890's there was a Race track in north Amityville. The wealthy of the city found Amityville a great play ground by the 1890's and needed something to do with all their excess money

The triangle Building Built in  1892 has been the symbol of Amityville ever since. I believe the Amityville US Post office was on the ground floor at that time.

 Broadway now New York Route  110  that runs from Merrick Road Route 27A to Huntington now Route 25A has been the main Street of Amityville ever since. I think some of the buildings on the west side of the street may still exist. 

Undated photo, but it looks to me to be early 1900's according to Don Thomson on Facebook the cross street is Bourdette Place Looking North on Ocean Ave 

Amityville village taken shape around the 19th century turns into the 20th century. This is an early photo of Park Ave and Ireland Place. The store on the corner in my day (1940's and 50's) was Louis Glossary store. 

The Triangle Building an Amityville Long Island landmark as it looked around the turn into the 20th century.

Evan's Amityville Dairy in the early 20th century used to supply milk to all Long Island. The dairy was at least in the 1940's and 50's was east of Broadway by the railroad tracks.

Park North School in 1906

 I believe it was built around 1894 to replace the older wooden building that was too small and moved to the west side of Broadway turned into an auto parts store The Park North School once served as K to 12 for the Surrounding area as far away as Seaford. When I went there 1947 to about 1951 it held the First to third grades. I remember the there was a little gym with a stage on the second floor. The building had a fire sometime in the late 1950’s and the fire door automatically closed limiting the fire damage, amazing everyone for the doors were installed fifty years earlier. I remember having to go down the basement of the building where they looked at our head with a blue light.

Early 20th colorized photo of the Park North School that has been extended with more classrooms  I believe it was built around 1894 to replace the older wooden building that was too small and moved to the west side of Broadway turned into an auto parts store The Park North School once served as K to 12 for the Surrounding area as far away as Seaford. When I went there 1947 to about 1951 it held the First to third grades. I remember the there was a little gym with a stage on the second floor. The building had a fire sometime in the late 1950’s and the fire door automatically closed limiting the fire damage, amazing everyone for the doors were installed fifty years earlier. I remember having to go down the basement of the building where they looked at our head with a blue light.

Original the Hotel New Point on  Amityville River and the Great South Bay. Lather it became a Day Camp for city kids until it burn down in the early 1950's

Original the Hotel New Point on  Amityville River and the Great South Bay. Lather it became a Day Camp for city kids until it burn down in the early 1950's

 Original the Hotel New Point on  Amityville River and the Great South Bay. Lather it became a Day Camp for city kids. I used them as landmarks when i was out on the Great South Bay. 

4th of July in Amityville in the year 1909, with the Trolley line in full operation from Amityville to Huntington

Route map of Trolley line Amityville to Huntington Long Island

1910 photo of what was then Powell Livery and storage. I remember it housing Davis School buses and Davis taxis. I walked through it once, it was like walking through a museum of old buses and carriages.  

 Amityville ad in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle September 1910

The Triangle Building with Trolley passing by in 1910 Photo

Bennett place Firehouse in the year 1910

Ocean Ave looking south from Merrick Road Rt. 27A

Babylon to Amityville Trolley stopping at the Copiague Post Office. 

After several years the local hotel was renamed the New Amity Inn. Many improvements were made to the building which included decorative detail molding along the caves and the second-story addition of sheltered balconies with columns and spindles. These balconies overlooked the busy Merrick Road. The building in Which the inn was housed became known in later years as the Elliott Building named after the owner. In this photograph, an advertisement for local brewery Welz & Zelwerk, Located nearby on County Line Road indicates that the inn most likely includes a corner tavern.

Newspaper clipping from the Long Island Sun about the Amityville Police Department.

The Homan and Van Tassel Building

The Homan & Tassel building built in 1892 pictured here in a 1910 Photo was operated as a kind of Department store with an auto showroom on the ground floor. It had one of the first freight elevators on Long Island. It was torn down in 1929.

1912 Photo of the First National Bank which later became The Security National Bank was a Long Island Bank brought by Chemical Bank which Merged with Chase Bank which it is now.

Broadway when it was a dirt tree line road 

The first guided missile was test fired from the corner of Richmond Ave and Unqua place on the 11th day of September in the year 1916.

Amityville LIRR Station with Trolley Trestle

 Broadway and Union Ave intersection with the traffic light on a pedestal 

Looking north from Broadway between The Triangle Building Saint Mary's Church