Outdoor Living in Huntington, NY
Backyard Paradiso builds outdoor living spaces in Huntington, New York: decks and railings, aluminum pergolas, paver patios, outdoor kitchens and fireplaces, turf, and lighting. The work is shaped around a hamlet built largely after the war, with an older core of nineteenth-century streets around its village center and Huntington Harbor to the north.
Huntington belongs to the North Shore Long Island market on the Markets We Serve roster. The name covers two places. The Town of Huntington, formally established in 1653, is the municipality. Huntington itself is the unincorporated hamlet at the Town’s center, where Main Street (Route 25A) meets New York Avenue (Route 110). That center is widely called Huntington Village, though no incorporated village of that name exists. The hamlet holds roughly 8,400 housing units (2024 ACS five-year estimates).
Why Backyard Paradiso in Huntington
The Backyard Paradiso team is a full-service Huntington contractor. A single team carries each project from design through installation, so structure, hardscape, turf, and lighting go in as one coordinated build. When a property sits inside one of the Town’s historic districts, the exterior review application is assembled alongside the project drawings. Site assessments scheduled by appointment.
Services in Huntington
Huntington work draws on all five Backyard Paradiso service groups. The mid-century houses that make up much of the hamlet are natural candidates for outdoor structures (pergolas, decks, awnings, screens, railings, and fencing) and for turf, hardscape, and landscape work that reshapes the ground around them. Outdoor entertaining covers kitchens, fireplaces, and umbrellas. The list closes with seasonal and specialty installations, permanent and holiday lighting among them, and pools and recreation.
What Huntington's conditions mean for a project
Huntington’s weather is the North Shore’s. Summers are humid, storms come off the Sound driving rain sideways, and winter brings repeated freezing and thawing. Pergola, deck, and fence footings are set beneath the regional frost line. Aluminum frames are rated for the wind exposure of the specific address. Paver bases are built to drain before water can freeze beneath them, and on harbor-front lots, hardware is chosen to hold up in salt air. Code values for the corridor are on the North Shore Long Island market page.
What sets Huntington apart is its history and its harbor. The Town’s Historic Preservation Commission advises the Town Board on designated landmarks and on exterior changes in locally designated districts, including the Old Huntington Village–Carver Street and Mill Lane districts. The hamlet also holds three districts listed on the National and State Registers: Old Huntington Green, Old Town Hall, and West Neck Road. On the water, the Huntington Harbor Local Waterfront Revitalization Area has its own maps and consistency review through the Town’s Maritime Services. State-designated coastal erosion hazard areas also cover parts of the shoreline.
The everyday layers are Town and county. The Town’s Building & Housing Division issues permits in the hamlet, while the incorporated villages of Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor, Northport, and Asharoken each run their own. Home-improvement licensing comes from Suffolk County. Water service is split: the Suffolk County Water Authority, which publishes its own irrigation policy, and the South Huntington Water District each serve parts of Huntington, so the provider is confirmed address by address. All of it is verified parcel by parcel before design begins.
The hamlet's housing, decade by decade
Huntington’s median home construction year is 1956. The 1950s alone account for 32.8 percent of the hamlet’s housing units, the 1950s and 1960s together for 45.7 percent, and homes from 1939 or earlier for another 22.2 percent (2024 ACS five-year estimates, B25035 and B25034). Single-family detached houses make up 81.2 percent of units (B25024). Manhasset, at the Nassau end of the same market, runs older on each count: a 1942 median, a prewar plurality, and a detached share of 71.8 percent.
Two settlement patterns sit side by side. The Town’s comprehensive plan describes the neighborhoods around the village center as a traditional grid of small front yards and connected sidewalks, and the postwar subdivisions beyond them as curving residential streets. Near the center, projects fit the older grid and, on some streets, historic district review. In the postwar blocks, the job is usually reworking the outdoor space of a mid-century house:
- a new deck
- a pergola over a rebuilt patio
- lighting along paths that were never lit
The hamlet and the places around it
Inside the hamlet, the named districts are historic ones:
- Old Huntington Green, around Park Avenue and Woodhull Road
- the Old Huntington Village–Carver Street district, along East Carver Street
- Mill Lane and Prime Avenue
- the Old Town Hall district, near Main Street and Nassau Road
- West Neck Road
Their houses span Early Colonial and Federal work through Italianate, Queen Anne, French Second Empire, and Colonial Revival, with Arts and Crafts and Shingle examples on the green.
Around the hamlet are places with their own names and, in two cases, their own governments. Halesite, Huntington Station, Cold Spring Harbor, Greenlawn, and Centerport are separate hamlets within the Town. Huntington Station, south along Route 110, has its own center around the rail station. Huntington Bay and Lloyd Harbor are incorporated villages with their own building departments and waterfront programs. The Backyard Paradiso team confirms which of these jurisdictions a property falls under before design begins.
Heckscher Park to Huntington Harbor
Heckscher Park, at Prime Avenue and Route 25A beside the village center, is the hamlet’s outdoor living room. Its pond, gardens, and paths get daily use. Each summer, the Chapin Rainbow Stage hosts the Huntington Summer Arts Festival, produced by the Town and presented by the Huntington Arts Council. In the fall, the park fills again for the Long Island Fall Festival.
North of the center, the hamlet reaches Huntington Harbor. The public grounds at Coindre Hall, off West Shore Road, run through field, woodland, and wetland to the harbor’s edge. The Town’s Blue Trail strings together waterfront parks and launches for kayaks, canoes, rowing, and small sailboats. Farther out, the Nassau–Suffolk Greenbelt Trail starts in Cold Spring Harbor, and Caumsett State Park covers Lloyd Neck. Yards that look toward the harbor or back onto wooded ground are designed with that edge in view.
Starting a Huntington project
Every project starts at the property. The first visit settles which authority the address answers to (the Town, a village, or historic district review) and whether harbor or flood mapping applies. It also confirms the water provider, how the space will be used, and how the work should be phased. Older houses near the village center get a closer look at what their original construction can carry. What comes out of the visit is a design concept and project scope for that address.
Backyard Paradiso — the Huntington team
Phone: (631) 632-0409
Hours: By appointment
Email: [email protected]
Serving: Huntington and its village center, Halesite, Huntington Station, Cold Spring Harbor, Greenlawn, Centerport, and the villages of Huntington Bay and Lloyd Harbor