The Timeless Allure of Laurel Hollow Real Estate

One of the Township of Oyster Bay’s 18 villages, the serene community of Laurel Hollow is located along the west shore of Cold Spring Harbor in Nassau County, Long Island. It encompasses a hilly, bucolic area roughly three square miles in size, west of the hamlet that’s also named Cold Spring Harbor and east of the hamlet of Oyster Bay.

Due to the village’s coastal location and elevation, the Laurel Hollow real estate market includes quite a few homes with panoramic views of the harbor and of Long Island Sound. Even if your piece of Laurel Hollow real estate isn’t located on the waterfront, however, as a homeowner in the village you can enjoy beach and mooring rights to the village’s private beach.

Home to just over 2,000 people (as of 2008 U.S. Census data) whose residences lie on hills and vales where the zoning law calls for two acres of land for each new house, Laurel Hollow is an ideal place to live for those who value privacy, beautiful scenery and exceptional schools. Many of the homebuyers interested in Laurel Hollow real estate are drawn to the village’s peaceful, wooded setting, waterfront access and the exceptional education opportunities provided by the much-lauded Cold Spring Harbor Central School District. Cold Spring Harbor High School has consistently ranked among the top 100 in Newsweek’s prestigious “America’s Top Public High Schools” list.

While mostly residential, Laurel Hollow is distinguished by the presence of the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which was founded here more than a hundred years ago. CSHL is known throughout the world for its pioneering research in genetics and molecular biology and has helped produce more than half a dozen Nobel laureates.

If you’d like to know more about this outstanding North Shore community, please do feel free to contact us at Piping Rock Associates, Inc. We are pleased to be of service.