{"id":173139,"date":"2026-03-24T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:26:08","slug":"news-12-long-island-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173139\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new list of the best places to live in New York was just released and Long Island towns are dominating the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The village of Kensington, in Nassau County, took the top spot, and Great Neck Plaza came in second place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/places-to-live\/search\/best-places-to-live\/s\/new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niche.com<\/a> bases their factors on quality of education, cost of living, and crime rates.<\/p>\n<p>Manhasset, Garden City, Lake Success, Syosset and Searingtown all ranked in the top ten, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Stony Brook was the first Suffolk community to make the list, at 42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new list of the best places to live in New York was just released and Long Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7126,75,84,83,9,24,70555,63],"class_list":["post-173139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-kensington","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-niche-com","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}