Location Description
Baxter Estates, with its beautiful vista of Manhasset Bay, is known for its park-like setting, wooded parkland areas and the watershed Barbara Johnson Park and Preserve at Baxter’s Pond which lies in the center of the village. Residents pride the Village’s peaceful and friendly atmosphere and its stock of oaks and other majestic trees which give the village its special character. The Village was incorporated in 1931.
Governmental Structure
Baxter Estates is one of 30 incorporated villages in the Town of North Hempstead and one of 64 villages in the County of Nassau. It is 109 acres in size and the population was 999 as of the 2010 census. The Village is in the Third Congressional District. For the New York State Legislature, the Village is represented in the 16th Assembly District and in the 7th Senatorial District.
Some of the benefits of living in a village include: zoning control; control of construction through local building permits; road, curb, catch basin/storm sewer and sidewalk maintenance of all village owned roadways, catch basins, curbs and sidewalks; street sweeping; parkland maintenance; landscape maintenance on village owned property, and snow management. As a result of this local control, there can be greater efficiency that leads to lower taxes.
The Village of Baxter Estates is governed by a five-member Board of Trustees, all unsalaried and elected for two year terms in elections held the third Tuesday in March. The Mayor and two Trustees are elected in odd-numbered years and the other two Trustees in even-numbered years. Any resident may vote who is 18 years of age, a U.S. citizen, is registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections and has been a resident of the state and village for at least 30 days.