Westbury, NY

Westbury fits a rail station, public square, recreation campus, and two-part public library into 2.34 square miles. The accessible Long Island Rail Road station serves the Port Jefferson Branch and has elevators, ramps, audiovisual information, ticket machines, a weekday waiting room, and connections to NICE buses. At Post and Maple avenues, the village scheduled Thursday concerts at Piazza Ernesto Strada from July through August 2026. Public recreation uses the Community Center, Recreation Center and Annex, Phipps Sports Center, the recreation-campus playground, and two village parks. The 2026 program menu includes an after-school program for ages six through 12, a daytime senior center, evening yoga, boxing, karate, bocce, and table tennis.

Westbury Memorial Public Library's adult building opens until 9 p.m. on weekdays, while a separate Children's Library maintains its own service hours. Available resources include a career room, Spanish-language materials, technology help, social-worker access, museum passes, a seed library, and meeting and study space. International ties are a substantial part of Westbury's current composition. During 2020-2024, the foreign-born share was 29.0 percent, and 44.9 percent of people age five or older spoke a language other than English at home. The same estimates identified 34.4 percent of residents as Hispanic or Latino, 17.2 percent as Black alone, and 10.6 percent as Asian alone.

Westbury's 2025 population estimate of 15,981 was close to its 2020 census count of 15,864. In 2020-2024, homeowners occupied 78.6 percent of homes, while 94.0 percent of people age one or older had remained in the same home from the previous year. Housing costs included a $626,500 median owner-occupied value, $3,471 in median monthly owner costs with a mortgage, and $1,779 median gross rent. Median household income was $145,185, and workers' mean travel time was 29.1 minutes. Within the village's compact footprint, the rail station, piazza, recreation sites, and libraries provide recurring public settings for travel, programs, events, and services.