Amityville

A small-in-size but renowned-in-reputation village on the South Shore of Long Island, where you can find a plethora of lifeguards, bongs, surf-racks, and gossip. A place where you can't pee without the whole town finding out in an hour. The townies wear flip flops all year long, and beer pong is played, very competitvely, on any surface available. Everyone either owns a boat, belongs to a yacht club, swims, or at least goes to Robert Moses or Jones Beaches weekly during the summer. Everyone is athletically- or musically-inclined, and has unbeatable style. There is beef between private and public schooling, and a big distinction between the North and the South parts, but one thing about Amityville is certain either way: there is never a dull moment. So fucking cruise 80 miles an hour down Richmond, smoke down at Amityville Beach, stuff your face at Mike's and Blue T, pretend you don't drop into Brownstone's all the time, get your ass to the July 3rd Fair and the Christmas Tree Lighting, get big at Dolphin, wait in line for an hour at Better Bagel, and remember that this fucking Bay Village is a lot more than just Friendly.

Oh yeah, and there's always that house that random people stop us to look for.

"Where are you from?"
"Amityville."
"Oh, wow."

"Shit, the cops are here."
"It's okay, I'm related to like 10 police officers."

"Have you ever been inside it? Do people live there? Is it true?"
"Please shut up."

by hollaaa December 25, 2005

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Amity High School

High school in woodbridge, ct which most people from orange, woodbridge and bethany went to. all the towns are really smalll. orange is really the only average and normal town. woodbridge and bethany (aka bethwood) are full of smart, rich fucks. lots of jews. 90% white. rest of it is asian. then there's like 10 kids of other races. lots of diversity... among the white kids of course. veryyy smart school too. gpa's extend out to the thousandths place (0.000)

A: Where'd you go to high school?
B: Amity High School
A: Where'd you go to college?
B: Harvard.
A: Of-fucking-course. GPA?
B: 4.154
A: HOW THE SHIT FUCK?

by The awesome Orange kid January 9, 2011

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Amityville

North or South? There's a difference.

Also called A-ville by some people.

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North: Also referred to as 'the ghetto of Amityville'

South: South of Merrick. 'Where the white people live'

by D Dawgg September 27, 2011

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Perth Amboy

Perth Amboy is an old town, having been founded in 1693. It is one of the most historic towns in NJ, having once been the capitol of East Jersey prior to the Revolutionary War. Perth Amboy has always been a city of immigrants, with wave after wave of different ethnic groups succeeding and supplanting the ones that came before. Now it's the Dominicans who are the newest group. When I was in school there, it was the Puerto Ricans who were the new group. My mom used to talk about how the Eastern Europeans were looked down on by the Irish; my grandmother used to talk about housecleaning for the wealthy German Jewish ladies when she was 14.

Who knows a decade from now what the majority ethnic group will be? That's one of the best things about Perth Amboy - it's always evolving, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I've seen Hall Avenue go from a nice street with shops, bakeries, shoe repair shops to a drug-infested rundown dump to a street that's now living again. So it is with other parts of the town. Perth Amboy is a ghetto in the sense that it is the home of a high concentration of one ethnic group, but it's not a ghetto in the sense that people don't take pride in their families and their homes. They do; sometimes though that's not recognizable to those who have fled the urban towns of NJ for bigger homes, bigger property, and only English-speaking neighbors.

One thing about Perth Amboyans: they will fight among themselves, but they have an almost fanatic loyalty about the town when dealing with outsiders. I've never met someone from Perth Amboy with an inferiority complex, and it seems that the worse rep the town gets the prouder we are to be from here. When I was in high school, we took pride in the fact that the more suburban schools were afraid to play here (Woodbridge had cause - we tried to tip over the team bus - with the team inside it) . Reverse snobbism at its best - lol.

by DownTheShore August 10, 2010

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