You see, the reason our town has the reputation it does is because the low life, section eight, welfare scumbag who commented before me is part of the problem. That person and his peers constantly ruin what my parents and so many other families in this community work so hard for. I was born and raised in Mastic went to Wm. Floyd high school and received an outstanding degree from a renown private College.

Yes, our town has problems like all towns but, what makes our town different from the best places to live on long island is actually pretty simple. It comes down to certain people in the community. You see, most of the population is hard working families trying to make a living who care for their property and maintain it the best they can. Then there are the people who graffiti and think they're gangster. They do nothing for our community besides bring it down. I find it so funny that people think mastic is the "hood" It makes me laugh when people say mastic has gangsters. What makes them oh so "gangster"? Because they look like poor people stuck in the 90's wearing pants 5 sizes to big with a white tee and a fitted hat over their ears. Ha!!! If you put those so called "gangsters" in a real hood like Bedford-Stuyvesant and not in a beach community in the suburbs of long island, we all know they would cry their little way back home and realize maybe it would have been a smart idea to stay in school and contribute to society instead of constantly engrossing...

All of the people that say it's poor, or ghetto are retarded..and so are the people that say it's rich. like most places, it has it's rich and poor spots. Nobody on Long Island thinks that they're part of the city, so shut up. Long island also isn't considered "upstate" Fucking ignorant bastards. In my eyes, there is upstate, NYC, and then Long Island.

A person from the Mastic/Shirley/Mastic Beach area on Long Island in New York. Derogatory in nature. Can be used to reference an undesirable person from other areas.

more crimes happen here than in prison and shanks are sold in the school store

Large town in Suffolk county on long island, founded by Nazis, often called Lindy-which is what u call some1 from Lindenhurst. Made up of the Village of Lindenhurst, North Lindenhurst, and Venetian Shores-Do NOT confuse VENICE (which is part of Copiague, just with the 11757 Zip Code) with VENETIAN Shores (which is technically West Babylon, but with Lindenhurst Schools and ZIP Code). There are also some dumbasses who call the area of the Village south of Montauk Hwy "South Lindenhurst". Overall population is about 40-45,000. Lindenhurst is about 80% white, but don't let that fool you into thinking we're not diverse, as almost 1/3 of those whites are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants that speak polish, Ukrainian, or even Italian at home. The rest is split between white trash, upper middle class people, sk8er bois, and poor-but-prep people. Then its 10% hispanic. The remaining 10% is made-up of Haitians, Africans, Turkish, Indians, and Asians.

Lindenhurst holds the record for most bars per person of any town! We also have a lot of homes divided into apartments (especially North Lindenhurst), hence the name Swindlehurst, but it's nothing like Venice in Copiague.
Oh and we have like no SiDEWALKS!!!!