About Our District

Community Information

Located in northeastern Nassau County on the Long Island Sound, Oyster Bay and its neighboring communities contain some of Long Island's most beautiful residential areas. The community was settled in the early seventeenth century and is rich in history dating from pre-Revolutionary War days to the "Summer White House" years of Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, now a National Historic Site.

East Norwich and Oyster Bay have more than two hundred small business enterprises and a few diversified medium-sized industries located in several commercial centers. The community has ample banking facilities and a public library located in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, walking distance from Oyster Bay High School. The Boys & Girls Club of Oyster Bay-East Norwich and the senior citizens center offer a wide range of recreational as well as community service activities for all age groups.

Although Oyster Bay-East Norwich is near New York City and its vast cultural and recreational resources, this residential suburban community has preserved its "small town" rural characteristics. Theodore Roosevelt's statement about Oyster Bay in the early part of the twentieth century is still true today: "There could be no healthier and pleasanter place in which to bring up children than in the nook of old-time America around Sagamore Hill."