Our villages contain a substantial number of large institutions. They include:

• C. W. Post College of Long Island University
  • Tilles Center
  • Hillwood Commons
• New York Institute of Technology
• Association for the Help of Retarded Children (AHRC)

Why does the VRP only concern itself with certain institutions?

The area also includes numerous county clubs, stables, parks, arboretums, greenhouses / nurseries, elementary and secondary schools, “country day schools” or camps and so on. We don’t normally address these, since

• they are generally considered to be entirely positive assets to the community, as opposed to the “mixed blessings” that the major institutions represent
• any detrimental externalities that they do produce don’t impact the community’s quality of life to the same degree as the detrimental externalities produced by the major institutions
• they are actually used by the residents
• they are generally considered to be a fundamental component of life in Brookville